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Leroy Sievers, the journalist who worked at ABC News’
“Nightline” for 14 years and at CBS News for 10 years, died of colon cancer
Friday at his home in Maryland.
He was 53. The National Public Radio announced his death in a statement.
Leroy Sievers was also a National Public Radio commentator
and the author of a popular blog describing his battle with cancer. He was
diagnosed with the deadly disease in 2001. The disease had spread resulting in
a brain tumor and lung cancer. Sievers began writing about this experience in
2001. Since then, he shared his open thoughts about the...
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The saying What goes up must come down perfectly applies to people's enthusiasm with regard to the Bigfoot story. The subject has caused an incredible frenzy last week. As Friday’s press conference in Palo Alto, Calif. stirred things up even more and intensified the public’s anticipation, everything collapsed the moment an independent investigator discovered it was in fact a hoax. Tom Biscardi, owner of SearchingforBigfoot.com, wanted to be the first to see the body and therefore paid an "undisclosed sum", which, is probably safe to say, must have been substantial, to the finders -...
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Authorities have evacuated dozens of tourists and Hualapai Tribe members who were endangered by floods in the Grand Canyon area, with some still unaccounted for. Evacuations may continue today if the weather allows for helicopter flights. Several hikers were rescued after being separated from their supplies and gear by the floods, as northern Arizona got 3 to 6 inches of rain Friday and Saturday and about 2 inches more on Sunday. Early Sunday, the Redlands Earthen Dam broke, but the structure is considered minor by officials. Those rescued were set up in special shelters at an American Red...
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On Tuesday, a report describing a Stone Age
graveyard in Niger was released. Although the ancient site was discovered back
in 2000, according to Paul Sereno, a paleontologist of the University of Chicago,
all this time was required for putting together all the information.
The team came across skeletons of humans and
animals while engaged in a project focused on dinosaur fossils. Strangely
enough, the site contains about two hundred graves that seem to have dug by two
distinct civilizations at a time difference of possibly 1,000 years.
The people from one of the groups were...
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Tokyo - Tokyo police sought arrest warrants on Monday against three members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who interfered with Japan's research whaling mission in February last year.
In the first-ever attempt by Japanese authorities to press criminal charges for obstruction of its whaling programme, the Metropolitan Police Department plans to list two US nationals and one British citizen on an international wanted list, according to media reports.
A 41-year-old US environmental activist allegedly interfered with Japan's whaling in the Antarctic Ocean on February 12 last...
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