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According to Riley, one of the four acutely intoxicated students transported by ambulance that day nearly died when the thick mud on the intramural fields trapped an ambulance, a tow truck and a police cruiser that were all sent in to rescue the convulsing student...
...future. Charity Bell is one of the exceptions, a 28-year-old student at the Kennedy School of Government and an emergency foster care parent. Bell has cared for 45 babies in the past five years, and can regularly be seen around campus with a baby in tow, who she brings to class. “It was most stunning for me to get to the Kennedy School and realize how little people knew about foster care, that there are kids out there with no place to go,” she says. “For us, for future...
...Prestige sink? Theories include the extreme weather conditions, a collision with floating debris, structural problems, metal fatigue and miscalculations in the salvage effort. The Dutch salvage firm Smit, which handled the attempted rescue of the ship, is locked in a battle of words with Spain. "We asked to tow the ship to a safe place on the Spanish coast, where we could repair it in calm waters," says a Smit spokesman. "But the Spanish authorities refused." The Spanish say they feared damage would be greater if the leaking vessel - chartered by Swiss-based Crown Resources AG, part of the Russian...
...carrying 77,000 tons of fuel began to leak in rough seas 50 km off Galicia. As the Prestige drifted to within 5 km of the coast, 24 crew members were airlifted to safety. The captain, who stayed on board with two officers, reportedly refused to allow tugboats to tow the stalled ship. He was arrested for disobeying official orders and endangering the environment. Tugs eventually tried to tow the tanker 200 km out into the Atlantic as authorities used barriers to keep a 37-km-long oil slick from the ecologically sensitive coast. BRITAIN Cyanide Plot Foiled Police charged...
...from the rest of the Central in the late ’90s, and the Killer B’s became regular playoff contenders (who inevitably choked in the first round, but that’s not the point). The heinous Bud Adams left town with the Oilers in tow, and we have a brand spankin’ new team with the coolest logo...