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A Salt Lake City woman who held a Guinness World Record for her long fingernails before they broke off in a car crash says it was the most dramatic event of her life. But Lee Redmond, who lost the fingernails in February, says it's now much easier to do things and her hands seem to fly with the weight of the nails gone.
Ronaldo will be sidelined at least a month after breaking his hand in a league match over the weekend.
California's historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said.
Barack Obama was unequivocal during the campaign: As president, he would recognize the nearly century-old massacre of Armenians in Turkey as genocide.
A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash. Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident Tuesday.
Doctors from the United States who rushed to the Gaza Strip to help the war wounded quickly learned that their challenge went beyond treating shrapnel injuries.
University of Texas swimmer Dave Walters set an American record in the 200-yard freestyle at the Texas Invitational swim meet in Austin, breaking the record set by Michael Phelps.
Gadget makers love to sell us on all the things their devices can do, whether it's letting us chat with distant friends at any time or watch movies on our commute. But can anyone fix this stuff when it breaks?
Piles of broken concrete rise seven stories high, and a few buildings stand askew, knocked at odd angles. People cry out the names of missing relatives and rescue workers shout, "Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"
President Bush famously spoke of "the Internets" in 2004. Well, they're here.
A hilltop house in Los Angeles has cracked in half and a dozen people have been evacuated because of fears it may collapse onto other homes.
For nearly 40 years, Josphat Mwangi lived on his farm in western Kenya, a six-acre plot of earth with a sparkling river in the distance.
Ingrid Betancourt was smiling ear to ear. It was 1998, and she had just emerged as the biggest vote-getter in Colombia's congressional elections.
My son dislocated and broke his ankle Thursday afternoon while skate boarding. Three breaks to both bones. He had to have orthopedic surgery and is on cructhes for at least six weeks. Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be skate boarders!
Fox's "House" returned to eager fans last night with a feature-length, two-hour sixth season premiere and an unusual opening. No "Teardrop" by Massive Attack. No familiar opening sequence. Instead, in an almost black & white, dizzying screen technique, the show begins with Dr.
Brother took money for bone-marrow donation then reneged, lawsuit claims David Dreier needed a bone marrow transplant. His brother in Illinois, a perfect match, needed money. So the two reached an agreement, Dreier says
Iranian boy who defied Tehran hardliners tells of prison rape ordeal - Times The 15-year-old boy sits weeping in a safehouse in central Iran, broken in body and spirit.
"We Must Remember Those That Vote" No" Against Voters And Say "No" For Our Votes" The question is, are they, at the very least, attempting to try to be constructive with the solutions to : 1) How do we keep our kids from inheriting an America like President Obama inherit …
Following The Money: "Visualizing The Health Care Lobbyist Complex"The Finance Committee contains a high volume of lawmakers with close ties to the health and insurance industries through both campaign contributions and personal relationships.
Senators Who Signed Letter Opposing Public Health Plan Took $17.7 Million In Campaign Cash From Health Care/insurance Industries All nine Senators sit on the Senate Finance Committee, which is actively engaged in debating health care reform.
Senators Call for Health Care Delay, Receive Big Campaign ContributionsWho Benefits If They Slow Down: The senators involved include three Democrats, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Ron Wyden, two Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, and one Independent, Joe Lieberman.
House GOP Health Group Stacked With Health Sector Campaign Cashthe health sector contributions to the 21 member group comprise fully one-quarter of all health sector campaign contributions to the 178 sitting Republican House members. In combined contributions, the group has received $18.6 million from the health sector.
History of The National Debt Who Screwed Up?In the 1930s and 1940s, depression and war initiated a half-century of chronic budget deficits. Money borrowed to pay these deficits steadily increased the National Debt. Budget surpluses became increasingly rare.
Bluedog PAC Money BreakdownHere's a list of the members of the Blue Dog Coalition and the total they've received to their leadership PAC and candidate committees from the employees and PACs of various health-related industries and the health sector overall since 1989:
Blue Dog Dems Rake in Health Care Contributions, Protest Exclusion from DebateRep. Mike Ross, who is noted in the Times article as leading the Blue Dog Health Care Task Force, received nearly twice the average for a Blue Dog Dem — $259,625 — from the health sector, the most from any sector. Some other top Blue Dogs
Blue Dogs fill campaign-cash bowlsthe Blue Dog PAC more than doubled its receipts, from $1,239,516 to $2,636,273.
We are all people no matter what description you put before the word "PEOPLE" (rich,poor, happy, good, bad, silly, black, white, smart) and the list goes on and on.
Pickled chameleon in broken jar sparks chemical alert A fire brigade sent 18 officers, three engines and a specialist equipment unit to clean up after a jar containing a pickled chameleon fell off a shelf and broke.
Nursery left toddler with broken collarbone for four hours because staff thought he was sulkingA nursery came under fire today for letting a four-year-old boy sit with a broken collarbone for four hours after staff dismissed his injuries as sulking.
Broken neck can't stop Peace Corps volunteer Barrington resident Derek Johnson learned to take bucket showers, gather cow manure for bio fuel, and even dined on fried spiders during his time in the Peace Corps. Mr. Johnson, 25, spent two years in Cambodia in the corps, an experience he said was life changing.
To: United States Congress: "A SINGLE VOICE PROJECT" Is the official name of the petition sponsored by: The National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons (NPSCTAPP)
Arizona Landlord Alert... what if the AC system goes out.What options do landlords and tenants have in Arizona if the AC system breaks down... read a top landlord/tenant attorney's thoughts.
Excerpt from 'The Broken American Male' The absence of a healthy and stable father figure is destroying the American family. Men are not psychologically or emotionally at rest. They suffer convulsions of the mind and tempests of the spirit. They do not much like themselves and feel increasingly empty.
There are times in some of our lives where, like a bolt of lightning that splits a mighty mountain rock in two, we move from where we were and how we lived to a new and different place and nothing is ever the same again. And we know this in our bones.
Needle removed from bum - after 31 yearsExcerpt: A Chinese pensioner can finally sit in comfort after doctors removed a broken syringe needle which had been stuck in his bottom for 31 years.
It takes at least two voices to have a discussion. Three or more is fine, if more complex and complicated, but one voice alone is naught but introspection. To expand on an idea, two is most often better.
Oakland Man Arrested for Allegedly Breaking Legs of Pomeranian PuppyA 32-year-old man was arrested in Oakland for allegedly breaking both front legs of a 4-month-old Pomeranian puppy named Baby Chloe, an Oakland Animal Services director said today.
Gmail goes down 24 February 2009Gmail is suffering from a widespread outage this morning, with visitors to the webmail service being presented with blank screens. In a statement - issued over the telephone - Google admits it's got a problem.
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