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The Independent (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
It was an agonising 100 hours from the moment the quake struck until rescuers pulled Liu Deyun from the rubble of a fertiliser factory yesterday. Little did he think as went to work on that fateful Monday morning that he would spend the next week entombed in the concertina ruins of his workplace, pinned down under toppled masonry and only able to be freed after sacrificing his left leg in a precarious...
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The IESB (Free subscription) | yesterday
The trailer for the third installment of The Mummy franchise is now online!
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/Film (Free subscription) | yesterday
Universal has released the official teaser trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. (...) Comment on this now or read more at slashfilm.com . Tags: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
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The IESB (Free subscription) | yesterday
Universal Pictures has released a bunch of new images from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor starring Brendan Fraser and Jet Li.
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Pruned (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
(Photo by Gustau Nacarino/Reuters. Source .) The ruins of a medieval village above Barcelona, under 150 feet of water at the bottom of a reservoir since the 1960s, has “re-emerged into the light,” we read. An 11th-century church spire, entombed in the murky depths for decades, towers once again over dry ground. And that is because “in a year that so far ranks as Spain's driest since records began 60...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The world is getting smaller or maybe we are growing out of our adolesence...maturing into a brave young adult....
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sichuan Province China - More than 50,000 people were dead, missing or buried under rubble in China’s southwest, officials said Wednesday, as the full horror of its devastating earthquake began to emerge. Rescue teams who punched into the quake’s stricken epicentre reported whole towns all but wiped off the map, spurring frantic efforts to bring emergency [...]
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Helicopters drop aid to earthquake survivors; remarkable rescue buoys searchers.
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Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Less than 24 hours after conceding the 2007-08 Premier League crown to Manchester United, runners-up Chelsea have fired the first Summertime salvo in the battle for next's seasons title report the Guardian's Barry Glendenning and Sean Ingle : Chelsea didn't wait long to stick it to the champions, and this morning beat them in the race [...]
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aidan maconachy blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter, has made a frank confession to Austrian prosecutors . He asked for the confession to be released to the media. Fritzl is upset. He thinks the media portrayal of him as a monster is one-sided. He claims he was driven to incarcerate his daughter for 24 years in the basement of his house because of "an addiction". The same...
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ellipses.elliott.org (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
I'm baffled by Expedia's latest marketing campaign, a tie-in to the upcoming film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . The other day, my friends over at the online travel agency sent me a fedora in a box along with a note that promised I could "Travel like Indiana Jones, starting today."
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
WASHINGTON - The U.S. attorney for Utah said he will review a congressional request for a criminal investigation into whether the Crandall Canyon mine general manager "willfully misled" federal officials.
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Dissolving remains is possible, but public acceptance uncertain Since they first walked the planet, humans have either burned, buried or entombed their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the syrupy residue down the drain.
