A last chance at saving 'Earl' falls through

A last chance at saving "My Name Is Earl" has fallen through.

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Australian doctor uses household drill to save boy

A doctor in rural Australia used a handyman's power drill to bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, saving his life.

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MP3 player lights rescuers' way to missing skiers

Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.

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Easily cut 100, 250 and 500-plus calories

We often think of sautéing as a lowfat cooking method, but some vegetables, such as eggplant, mushrooms, and greens, tend to soak up the majority of the fat that’s added to the pan. Dean Rucker, executive chef at the Golden Door Spa in Escondido, California, suggests steaming your veggies instead, then tossing them with a few teaspoons of extra-virgin olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, and a pinch of red pepper flakes and sea salt.

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Disposable diaper breaks fall, saves child's life

A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.

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Fisherman hooks drowning man and reels him in

A man who was drowning in a Maine river is recovering after someone reeled him in with a fishing rod.

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News agency says survivor found after 139 hours

A man has been found alive after being trapped for 139 hours in a collapsed hospital in Sichuan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday.

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Woman, 77, Saves Mail Carrier From Dog

A 77-year-old woman used her car to drive off a large dog that was attacking a mail carrier, saving the woman from more bite wounds.

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Woman Saves 55,000 Pennies in 19 Years

It took Vicki Armstrong almost 19 years to save $550, which isn't much of an accomplishment — except that she did it one penny at a time.

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Woman to Take 55,000 Pennies to the Bank

Vicki Armstrong has been saving her pennies for almost 19 years and she was making plans this week to cash them in at a bank — all 55,000 of them.

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Dog's Warning Saves Woman From Fire

Woman's best friend? A dog who saves her from a fire. Cathy Minnig was exercising on her basement treadmill Wednesday night, wearing music headphones, when her Labrador puppy, Riley, began jumping on and off the couch and otherwise acting strange.

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Violin Case Music to Boy's Safety

Now there's at least one 10-year-old boy who doesn't mind taking violin lessons. Police said the boy was walking to school holding his violin case when a vehicle sped through a crosswalk and hit him.

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Firefighter Revives Cat After House Fire

A southern Illinois firefighter is proof that saving lives doesn't just involve people. Firefighter Dave Chambers helped rescue several animals during a house fire last week, including a kitten that wasn't breathing when it was carried out of the home.

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Smoke Break Saves S.C. Woman From Tree

Smoking just might have saved Brenda Comer's life. She said she had just finished washing dishes Monday and stepped outside to smoke a cigarette when an 80-foot oak tree crashed through her roof, landing across the sink where she had been standing just seconds before.

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Man Saves Nun, Badge Saves NYPD Officer

An emotionally disturbed man driving his car on a sidewalk nearly ran over a nun on Thursday before trying to stab a rookie policeman in the chest and breaking his knife on the officer's shield, authorities said.

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Dog Rescued After Being Buried Alive

Whimpers a man heard while doing yard work turned out to be a dog buried alive in a neighbor's backyard. Robbie Wilson said he peaked over his fence and saw the dog's nose poking out of the ground Sunday, a day after he first heard the cries for help. It was not known how long the dog was buried.

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Scientists Say Pollution May Be Helpful

If the sun warms the Earth too dangerously, the time may come to draw the shade. The "shade" would be a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere to help cool the planet. This over-the-top idea comes from prominent scientists, among them a Nobel laureate. The reaction here at the U.N. conference on climate change is a mix of caution, curiosity and some resignation to such "massive and drastic" operations, as the chief U.N. climatologist describes them.

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A nice interactive map that displays the erroneous reports of jobs saved or created by the stimulus.

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Many people today have real difficulty with the fact that Jesus claimed to be God, some going so far as to say Jesus never claimed this himself (even in the Bible), but that it was invented much later by his followers.

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A woman who was in an induced coma after contracting E. coli says the sound of her baby's voice helped to pull her through her ordeal.

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There are times when a Biblical text requires explanation or interpretation for it to be fully understood today. There are other times when the text is so crystal clear that no commentary is needed.

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A Vienna cop used his raincoat to save a drowning man after he fell into the Danube.

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For any number of reasons, the term "born-again Christian" brings up a wide variety of images, from Billy Graham's evangelistic campaigns to Jimmy Swaggart to the guy in the end zone with the multi-colored afro and the "John 3:16" sign.

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When Bibi the tiny Maltese-@!$%#zu cross was blown off a pier in gale-force winds, his despairing owner Sue Drummond feared the worst.

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Andrew Williams who was sleeping when fire began in his home on August 1, 2009, was awakened by "his neighbor's cat Hugo."

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Co-Workers Dog Convinced her to seek medical treatment

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Alert passers-by have rescued a man from drowning after forming a human chain. More than 40 people united to save the 19-year-old who fell into the Inn River in Schärding, Upper Austria, last night (Thurs).

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Where are we headed?

The deaths of persons of fame, power and riches should cause all of us to ask the ever popular question, "Where am I going after I die?" Interestingly enough, my husband and I have been introduced slowly to the answers about the Rapture, Marriage Feast of the Lamb, the Tribulatio …

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As one mum came to terms with her toddler son's death, another got the gift of life with new kidneys from him. Now they have formed a remarkable bond, thanks to a special little boy.

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Three months after the collapse of Cologne's city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.

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Two schoolboys used an Ordnance Survey map to find the wreckage of a crashed microlight and save the lives of the pilot and his passenger.

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HOUSTON -- A couple of good Samaritans came to the rescue of a woman stranded in high water near the Galleria area Tuesday. Laura Hamid was driving in the pouring rain and misjudged the depth of the water near the 610 West Loop feeder road and Highway 59.

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A bus driver in the German city of Regensburg has lost her job after she stopped her vehicle to save a toad in the road and a passenger complained to her boss about the delay. Animal rights activists have come out in support of the driver.

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- A former police officer suffered a heart attack and died at a Michigan gas station where he saved his future wife's life nearly 15 years ago

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A young girl in Ohio who suffered the same brain injury as Natasha Richardson is alive today because her parents took her to the hospital after hearing about Richardson's brain injury and death.

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CYPRESS - Sam Barrera could see his teacher was in trouble. He knew how to help. So he jumped into action. No big deal, he thought. Turns out, people across the country saw it another way.

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Excerpt: He doesn't know her name, and he's not even sure what she looks like. But he wants to thank the woman who told him his car was on fire Monday morning.

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A teenage twin believes that her sixth sense helped her to save her sister's life as she was drowning in a bath.

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(WXYZ)- A Grosse Pointe Park police officer is being hailed a hero for pulling a toddler out of the street. The rescue was captured on the officer's patrol car Dash Cam video.

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More than two-dozen first-graders were squealing and bouncing balls that mid-February morning in the gym at East Boston Central Catholic School when 6-year-old Olivia Quigley suddenly collapsed. No one saw it coming.

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A 30-year-old man from western Ontario is the first person in at least a century to have tried suicide by plunging over Niagara Falls — and lived to tell the tale.

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Hours after Heather McNamara charmed millions of television viewers with her eagerness to go home and "play with my dog, Angel, and my big sister," the 7-year-old left a New York hospital where she spent a month recovering from an operation in which doctors took out six vital org …

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