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...high heap of bricks, zinc roofing and chunks of cement in less than five minutes. "When the quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy when the earth's plates will shift, triggering a quake. All the same, seismologist McCloskey believes the omens aren't good. He says the stress that brought about the two massive convulsions of the past three months has still not been relieved and has simply shifted farther south...
Last Friday, the feeding tube sustaining Terri Schiavo was removed, and doctors predict that she will die within the next week if it is not re-inserted. Schiavo has used a feeding tube for sustenance since 1990, when a heart attack left her unable to care for herself. Since then, Schiavo’s husband, her legal guardian, has campaigned to have her feeding tube removed, claiming that Schiavo had previously told him that she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Her parents, who are devout Catholics, refuse to give up hope that their daughter...
Finally, there is the human-interest hot-button issue: family disagreement. It has become fashionable to vilify Michael Schiavo as an uncaring husband who cohabits with and has children with another woman. Juxtapose that image against the photos of weeping parents and siblings, and it is easy to predict the winner of the sympathy vote...
...fraud, conspiracy and false regulatory filings, Ebbers, 63, is the highest-profile chief executive to be found guilty in the recent wave of accounting scandals. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he faces up to 85 years in prison, and even if he receives about 20 years, as some legal analysts predict, when he's scheduled to be sentenced in June, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. That's a bad omen for four other prominent execs facing criminal charges: Richard Scrushy, the former chief of HealthSouth being tried for fraud in Alabama; the top two Enron guys...
...predict a man's health, check his belt size. Among 27,000 men, those with 40-in.-to-62-in. waistlines were 12 times as likely to develop diabetes as 29-to-34-inchers...