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PROM NIGHT: TAKE AWAY THE CAR KEYS
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ODGREN FOUND GUILTY
On April 29th, John Odgren was convicted in the stabbing death of 15-year-old James Alenson, a classmate at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, near Boston.
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WATCH OUT! SNAKES ARE EVERYWHERE
The vast majority of Americans don’t live in the same areas as dangerous snakes. But in three heavily populated states—Florida, Texas, and California—changing snake populations are altering how—and how often—we encounter our legless reptilian friends.
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THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION: HOW BAD COULD IT GET?
The stratospheric plume of ash ejected by the 2010 eruption of Iceland’s Mt. Eyjafjallajökull has caused an unprecedented, international disruption: even as flights resume, the volcano continues to spew.
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FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME: KNOCK KNOCK, WHO'S THERE?
Croatian doctors report that a 13-year-old girl, who recently suffered a brain injury, awoke from her a coma unable to speak her native tongue, but fluent in German, a language she had just began to study.
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SUICIDE AND THE TITANIC SURVIVORS
Eight of the approximately 705 people who survived the sinking of the Titanic committed suicide.
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THE DEAD OF THE TITANIC
On the afternoon of April 20, 1912, passengers on the German ship Bremen were told they were passing by the iceberg that had sunk the Titanic five days earlier. Those who rushed to the rails were horrified to realize that the hundred or so white dots in the ocean were frozen bodies, held aloft by life vests.
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LIFEBOATS ON THE TITANIC
The Titanic carried far too few lifeboats to accommodate its passengers and crew, which totalled 2,207.
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OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY
On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before: the RMS Titanic.
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“WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST” AND THE DEBATE OVER WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Of the 2,207 people aboard the Titanic when it hit the iceberg, 1,664 were male passengers or crew members and only 438 were female passengers or crew members. Yet the odds a male passenger would survive the accident were 1 in 5.91 (16.9%) while the odds a female passenger would survive were 1 in 1.37 (73%).
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