Girl Survives 14-Storey Chimney Fall

A twelve-year-old girl fell down 14 storeys' worth of chimney, lanidng in a heap of soot. Sh eemerged with only an injured hip. The incident took place as the girl was showing off the rooftop view that her building boasted, and fell into the chimney after climbing a service...

China evacuates 160,000 over quake lake fears

" Tons of earth-moving equipment and explosives have been flown to the site of the quake-created dam in southwestern China's Beichuan county. Engineers are attempting to create a spillway to relieve water pressure as the Jianjiang River fills in behind the massive pile of...

Freeganism: A Better Green !!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI have to admit I never heard of Freegan, though most of us practise it in part when we hit garage sales.Freegans, are "Hard Core Environmentalists", unlike the rest of...

Birkin buyer says he cracked the code for Hermes "it" bag

I think that Birkin bags are somewhat ugly in appearance, but they represent something else in the world of fashion and celebrity - they represent status. If you have a Birkin hanging on your arm, you are...

Smart ideas on Vancouver's condo future

Trevor Boddy looks at a condo development in Vancouver that takes a different approach to density:  "In the worlds of real estate and architecture, it is nearly always mistaken to extrapolate the future from...

Millionaire 'beaten to death by ID thief who raided bank accounts'

"A reclusive millionaire was battered to death in his Hampstead home by a conman who raided his bank accounts, the Old Bailey has heard. Allan Chappelow, 86, was a world expert on playwright George Bernard Shaw but had become "rather eccentric" in his old age, the jury was...

House hidden in the hay in UK

"City folk driving through the countryside in the southern English county of Surrey will now look twice when they see a large pile of hay bales - after all you never know what could be hiding in amongst it!...

Behind the Scenes: How Oscar Nominees Are Selected

If you're down on the Golden Globes cancellation and looking to make up for it with extra-enthusiasm for this year's Oscars, here's an inside view on the Oscar nomination process. The nominees will be announced...

Vancouver: Young, poor, nowhere to live

This young man says it best " All I want to do is wake up in my own place, make a coffee" instead of waking up in an alley and going to a Mission at 10am and waiting 20 minutes for a coffee.  I am not...

‘Miracle Baby’ Found Buried Under Wreckage of Home Destroyed

Child discovered about 25 feet away from house"From Tuscola County comes an incredible story of survival after storms roared through the area late last night and early this morning. As the storms approached the...

Trade Center Debris Pile Was a Chemical Factory, Says New Study

Trade Center Debris Pile Was a Chemical Factory, Says New Study September 10, 2003 At Ground Zero in New York City, UC Davis Professor Emeritus Thomas...

*Update2* Foot and mouth disease found in cattle on UK farm

**Update 2** Just in! British livestock exports banned Officials scramble to contain new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease; 2001 epidemic led to mass slaughter of animals ...

$700 Worth of Dog Poop

I honestly wish I could make stuff up that was this cool. An elderly woman was dogsitting for her granddaughter, and her friend left her purse unattended... the first hundred bucks were easily found, chewed up and strewn about the house. The other $700, though, was a...

Boortz: "I don't care if Mexicans pile up against that fence ... [J]ust run a...

I have issues with immigration as well, but I never heard a progressive express his or her's opposition like this. To deny anti-Latino racism in this issue is to deny the reality of life for non-Europeans in the...

Burning Pile Of Recycled Tires Keeps Firefighters Busy

" May 17, 2007 Georgia - It took several hours for firefighters to control a Jackson fire that burned a pile of tires the size of half a football field and put two people in the hospital this week. The fire at Greenman Technologies, a recycling facility, began about 5 p.m....

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