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There were times I couldn't bear to watch. But then there were others when his exuberance - physical and spiritual - made it easy to convince myself it would never happen, and so I would call up Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube and watch it with my children, receive the gift he was giving us and reject the idea that it would come at an ultimate price: that Pausch would indeed die one day of pancreatic cancer, as he did this morning...
Without question, the rapid decompression of the Qantas Boeing 747 that landed in Manila on July 25 was bizarre. Fortunately, large gashes do not often appear in passenger jets. When they do, they tend to happen where there is structural strain (like at door hatches), not in the forward cargo compartment, as in this case with Qantas. (The cause of the accident remains a mystery, and the U.S. is sending a team from the National Transportation Safety Board to assist in the investigation in the Philippines...
...think that is so good for football, because if we ever got to the point where we knew what was going to happen, and it happened all the time, we wouldn?t have to play the game. And the fact that we don?t know what?s going to happen-and it was proven and it was proven in the biggest game of the year-I think just stamps this game as the great game that...
...there?s going to be a day when that?s going to happen, I don?t know when it will be. The regular season game had more impact than pre-season, and when they get a team it?ll have a lot more impact when they have their own team...
...karma, though, that caused Karadzic's arrest to happen when it did. For years, prosecutors at the Hague have considered the Serbian government more interested in protecting Karadzic and Mladic than in finding them. That changed in early July when the coalition government led by President Boris Tadic took power in Belgrade. Tadic had narrowly defeated hard-line nationalists at the polls on May 11, aided by promises from European Union leaders that Brussels wanted to open the door to Serbia's eventual accession - provided Belgrade cooperated in bringing Karadzic and Mladic to justice...