Saddam was telling truth in missing Gulf War pilot

Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him.

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He barely escaped collapsing sand hole alive

James Boyden, 17, was digging in the sand on a Rhode Island beach when the hole he was in fell in on him, nearly smothering him. Rescuers rigged an oxygen tank to keep him breathing until they could extricate him. "It got in my mouth, it got in my lungs," the boy said.

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Beachgoers beware: Stomach bugs lurk in sand

Beach fun for most kids includes burrowing in the sand and being buried by friends and siblings. Parents figure that as long as the kids are within sight, they’re safe. But a new study shows that some pretty nasty bugs may lurk in those glistening, gleaming grains.

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Jamaican developer sues 2 Spanish hotels over sand

A developer is suing two Spanish-owned hotel groups for allegedly stealing nearly 100 truckloads of sand from a beachfront property in Jamaica.

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Report: ND candidate's crashed plane low on gas

A Republican congressional candidate's small plane had less than a quart of fuel in its tanks when he crash landed in a cornfield last month, a federal National Transportation Safety Board accident report says.

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N. Dakota candidate crashes plane in cornfield

A Republican congressional candidate escaped serious injury when he crashed his plane in a cornfield after its engine stopped.

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Sand dams: low-tech weapons against climate change

There are now 500 sand dams in the Kitui district of Kenya (Image: Jeroen Aerts)

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Mich. Boy Dies in Sand Tunnel Collapse

An 11-year-old boy died at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore after a makeshift sand tunnel collapsed on him, officials said.

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Sand Can Be Polluted Even With Clean Water

Beach sand can be teeming with bacteria even when the ocean water is clean, according to a study released on Tuesday.

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Dangerous staph bacteria have been found in sand and water for the first time at five public beaches along the coast of Washington, and scientists think the state is not the only one with this problem.

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A 17-year-old Connecticut boy is safe, after he was buried in sand for two hours at East Beach Tuesday night.

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A TEENAGER nearly died after pranksters buried him to his neck on a beach as the tide swept in. Waves crashed over the terrified 16-year-old's head as holidaymakers desperately tried to free him. But they couldn't dig fast enough as the sea compacted the sand.

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How come we are looking for skeleton's in the Indian Generals cupboard? When we should be searching our own in Pakistan. How many Captains and Subalterns have been made ''scapegoats'' by the Top Brass to hide their own incompetency?

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Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday

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Arcadia Beach: How I spent my summer vacation. part 1

Michigan is a vacationers dream, especially one who loves the beach. The state of Michigan has more than 3000 miles of shoreline.

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grains of sand present with possible 5th state of matter

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Finding a fossil in a coal mine is no big deal. Coal deposits, after all, are petrified peat swamps, and peat is made from decaying plants, which leave their imprints in mud and clay as it hardens into shale stone.

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Tiffany Toribio, 23, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was charged this week for the suffocation of her 3 year old son. She then buried him in the sand of the local playground.

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Sand sofa sculpture attracts attention at Bristol's Harbourside Development.

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Shake a metal plate covered in sand at certain frequencies and intricate patterns mysteriously appear. Jon Jacobsen, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College, explains why this 200-year-old demonstration still captivates scientists and students.

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Declining revenues in Macau and one-time charges sent Las Vegas Sands Corp. to a net loss of $111.3 million in the fourth quarter, the company said Wednesday.

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Free champagne and massage with holiday's at Rosehill Lodges in Cornwall.

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Forget about crawling. A spider discovered in the Sahara Desert moves by doing a series of hand springs across the sand -- and travels surprisingly fast. Bionics experts think the method could be used for future Mars explorer vehicles.

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And the journey continues. Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror continues to unpack the secrets in the Biblical texts. The correlation of Abraham's journey with our cyber journey goes much further and deeper.

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The FBI has filed abduction charges against a mother who remains missing with one of her two daughters. The three had been living in a dug out hole in the sand underneath a Fort Lauderdale beach playground.

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A sand sculpture on the beach somewhere in India.

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An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East.

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Jamaican police appear nowhere nearer to solving the mystery of a suspected 'theft' of a beach on the island's north coast.

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Shell on the sand.

Bright thing Stripes and color Shape of curve. Willing the water Resting in sand Being Being Being. Let me allow myself that time That time to sink in sand. To be washed by water To be just what I am. It is a spark It is a universe It is silent It calls out.

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Footprints in Silicon

We are used to finding sand on beaches and dunes, and we are just as used to seeing our footprints as we playfully flirt with the idea of entering the water or rolling down the dune. Inside our computers lies a processor which is comprised of the same stuff most sand is, silicon.

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Nearly 100 cars sank and became stuck in unusually soft sand on Daytona Beach, forcing beach patrol officers to close parts of the beach to all vehicles.

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Wow isn't the world strange. It takes around 5 hours to get from the UK to Egypt via plane, how on earth could sand come all that and mix with British rain?

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The perils of a day at the beach aren't always as easy to see as riptides, broken shells and jellyfish—the sand at the shore may harbor E. coli and other potentially dangerous disease-causing bacteria, a recent study showed.

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Reasons to visit the beach (an excuse to post fun pictures)

I love to go to the beach. I went for one day last week and took tons of pictures. These are the best photos and here are the 10 best reasons I can think of to take a visit. Everytime I go, I see someone doing something interesting.

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