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A 48-year-old gas station owner from Bend, Oregon triumphed Saturday on his third attempt in making a 235-mile (378km) ride
in a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled party balloons. Kent Couch flew
across the Oregon desert to the nearby state of Idaho in a trip that lasted around
nine hours.
Couch covered the distance after lifting off at dawn from
his gas station riding in a green armchair held aloft by more than 150 giant
party balloons. To control the elevation of its flying device, Kent Couch used an air gun .
On his first attempt, in 2006, he had to bail out by...
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The Food and Drugs Administration agency has recently reached the conclusion that tomatoes might eventually not be the cause of the salmonella outbreak that has made more than 900 victims nationwide since it was first discovered in late May. CDC said that even though tomatoes remain the number one suspect, the investigations will start to focus on the components found in salsa. Officials have reached this conclusion after finding out that many of the persons who became ill ate at Mexican restaurants. Even though tomatoes are core components of other specific country dishes, only a very few...
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President George W. Bush made his first visit to Monticello
in Charlottesville, Va,
on his last Fourth of July as president. The purpose of the visit to the home
of Thomas Jefferson, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was
to welcome 72 men and women from 30 countries, including one from Burma,
as they prepared to take the oath of citizenship at the annual Independence Day
ceremony. Addressing the honorees, the U.S.
president discoursed about the passage to citizenship, Jefferson’s
heritage and the goals and principles deriving from the Declaration...
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James Taylor, 36, the only survivor of the tragic medical helicopter collision near Flagstaff, has died. He was a registered nurse at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City and was flying in a patient to the Flagstaff Medical Center. Thus the death toll is now up to seven. The accident occurred just east of Flagstaff Medical Center, near a mesa, at approximately 3:45 p.m. local time on June 30, according to Ian Gregor, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration. The first medical helicopter was operated by Air Methods Corp, an air medical service provider headquartered in...
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Mourners gathered Sunday at a memorial service in Brooklyn
for Betty Wright, who died Friday evening in a car crash that has left her
husband, the beloved Rev. Timothy Wright, in critical condition at Geisinger Medical
Center in Danville.
The couple’s 14-year-old grandson was also seriously injured
and passed away Saturday night.
Timothy Wright, accompanied by his wife and grandson, had
attended a Church of God in Christ conference in Detroit, Leroy Johnson, a trustee at Grace
Tabernacle, said.
They were returning home, to Roosevelt, Long Island, when a
terrible accident...
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At least five police officers were killed in Iraq by a powerful explosion, as the heavily-guarded...
Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski decided to dismiss ministers from two junior coalition...
The African Union (AU) announced it is prepared to provide all the troops necessary for the Darfur...
The political advisor of US President George W Bush and deputy chief of staff Karl Rove said in an...
Clashes between government troops and Tamil Tigers took place in Sri Lanka both on land and sea, at...
A tragic accident took the lives of 19 people in northern Malaysia on Monday morning, the police...
Three people were killed and several others injured after a
gunman opened fire in a church in ...
Two journalists were killed by gunmen and a roadside bomb in the volatile capital of Somalia, media...
Torrential rains wreaked havoc in Bangladesh, causing floods and landslides that killed 256 people...
The United States military reported the death of five soldiers on Sunday, saying they were killed...
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