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The Golden Gate Bridge,
besides being a wonderful piece of architecture and a real landmark for San
Francisco, also has the reputation for being a place
where people with suicidal intentions go to jump. Since its opening in 1937,
approximately 2,000 people have jumped to their death from the iconic bridge.
Finally, San Francisco
officials decided to do something about this issue and their decision was
building a $50 million net around the bridge. This net would make the act of
suicide impossible as anyone who would jump or fall would entangle in the
stainless steel net and be...
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Tropical Storm Nana, the 14 named storm of the 2008 Atlantic
Hurricane Season, formed on Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean, to the east of the Caribbean islands, warns the U.S. National Hurricane
Center.
According to the warning, the storm is not likely to last
for a significant amount of time. Neither is it likely to hit the Caribbean
islands or the U.S.
mainland at it has curved to the west-northwest into open water, traveling at 7
mph.
As of 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) Nana was spotted 925 miles west
off of the Cape Verde Islands, at latitude 16.4 north, longitude 37.9 west....
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About 2,500 residents of four Butler County communities in western Pennsylvania were evacuated from their homes on Saturday night following a dangerous leak of a corrosive material at the Indspec Chemical Corp. plant in Petrolia. The plant is about 64 kilometers northeast of Pittsburgh. The leak involved a material called oleum, which is similar to sulfuric acid. The plant uses the chemical during its production process for its ability to absorb water. Three residents were taken to a local hospital with apparent respiratory problems, but officials said it was not clear whether they were...
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The U.S. Presidential candidates have not given up on the fight, and neither have their respective chosen Vice Presidents, Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden. Their performances on the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates have been fierce and have shown the American citizens how committed the candidates are on winning the elections and improving the American system. Obama’s campaign has been one of the most powerful and convincing in the U.S. history and it is quite surprising how many white Americans support the African-American candidate. At least it was very surprising to...
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On Friday, the
World Health Organization (WHO), which is an United Nations health agency, has informed
they were conducting an investigation into an unknown disease that had already
killed three people in Johannesburg, South
Africa.
The mysterious disease, which might be related to the Ebola
virus, seems to be a form of hemorrhagic fever, a condition that spreads very
rapidly and leads, in most cases, to shock and death.
So far, WHO have performed test for Ebola, Lassa fever, Rift
Valley fever, Marburg fever and various other types of hemorrhagic fever, all
of which have been...
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After three months of incertitude and speculations surrounding the health condition of Cuban...
A few days after a shootout involving Blackwater employees left behind 11 dead civilians, the...
Earlier this month Israeli planes allegedly violated Syrian airspace and launched an airstrike in...
Police officers arrested a 19-year-old student at Boston’s Logan International Airport after she...
Envoys from Britain, China, Russia, France, Germany and the United States met Friday in Washington...
Most Pakistani opposition parties threatened to pull their members out of the parliament in the...
A bill that would have brought most of the US troops home from Iraq was rejected once again by the...
Pope Benedict affirmed his support for Beijing's new state-approved Catholic bishop a few hours...
Chile’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori must be sent...
Buddhist monks defied the harsh weather and Myanmar’s military junta on Friday and staged another...
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