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Glen Carbon thrift shop gets anonymous gift
A good deed by an employee at the Goodwill store in the Madison County town of Glen Carbon has apparently come full circle. On the day before Thanksgiving, an envelope containing nothing but an anonymous check for $7,500 arrived at the store. Goodwill...Tags: Employees
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China coal mine blast kills 15 miners; 3 rescuers die in cave-in
BEIJING (AP) _ A coal mine blast in northern China killed 15 miners and three rescuers died in a cave-in Monday morning. China's coal mines are the world's deadliest. Coal is hugely important in China, feeding two-thirds of the economy's energy demand....Tags: Mining, Landforms, Caves and Caverns, Explosions, Metal and Mineral
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Sweat Shop: Personal Trainers' Pick Favorite Fitness DVDs, Books
Los Angeles TimesPersonal trainers don't always pluck their ideas out of thin air. Sometimes they're inspired by books and videos. We asked a group of local trainers to recommend books and DVDs they found motivating. George Padilla, Group exercise coordinator, Los...Tags: Santa Monica, Clubs and Associations, Physical Exercise, Bob Greene, Physical Fitness
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Haiti president vows to raze unsafe buildings, improve urban planning
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Haiti President Rene Preval says authorities will demolish unsafe buildings and improve urban planning following a school collapse that killed nearly 100 people. Radio Metropole is reporting that Preval will hold three days...Tags: National Government, Church and State Relations, Government
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Worker dies, patrons injured in stampede at Wal-Mart
joseph.mallia@newsday.comand matthew.chayes@newsday.comA stampede of shoppers in a Valley Stream Wal-Mart on Friday morning left one worker dead and at least three patrons injured after an impatient crowd broke down the store doors and trampled the seasonal employee, Nassau police said. Jdimytai Damour of...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Far Rockaway, Employees, National Government, Hospitals and Clinics
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For two widows, a soldier's trial is their battlefield
Day after day, the widows sit silently in court, a few feet from the soldier accused of murdering their husbands. They listen as their husbands' violent deaths play out again and again in witness testimony. Sometimes, they say, the defendant stares at...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Murder, Prosecution, Court Administration, New Year's
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The markets in 60 seconds
Time-share firm to close offices, lay off 182 Bluegreen Corp., a time-share company based in Boca Raton, plans to close two sales and marketing facilities in Orlando and substantially reduce staff at three other Orlando locations. A total of 182 employees...Tags: Bluegreen Corporation, Daimler AG, Boca Raton, Walt Disney, Walt Disney World Resort
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After rubble from deadly school collapse is cleared, many dangerous buildings remain in Haiti
Associated Press WriterPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ The rumor shot like electricity through the Haitian capital: Another school was falling. Desperate parents and would-be rescuers ran through alleys, leaped over walls and wrestled with police to reach the scene. Emergency...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Injuries, Metal and Mineral, Homes, Building Material
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WAR UPDATE
A U.S. missile strike might have killed a Pakistani-British man who was implicated in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, Pakistani intelligence officials said yesterday. Rashid Rauf, who has been a fugitive since escaping from Pakistani custody...Tags: NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, Injuries, Religious Conflicts, Civil Unrest
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Chinese officials' shifting quake tolls anger parents of children who died
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterReporting from Beijing — Jiang Xujun felt the stab of his daughter's death all over again Friday when Chinese officials acknowledged for the first time that 19,000 students perished in May's deadly earthquake – and then immediately backed off the...Tags: News Agency, Earthquakes, Local Authority, Death and Dying, Family
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Hollywood fighting $1.2 million liability award in public works truck crash
South Florida Sun-SentinelHe asked for $85,000, just enough to cover the medical bills piling up after a public works truck cut him off and crashed into his pickup six years ago. But Hollywood attorneys decided to fight the self-employed landscaper who had no health insurance,...Tags: Government Health Care, Public Officials, Lawyers, Private Health Care, Broward County
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Running indoors is still running
/Chicago TribuneFall is an ideal time to run outside; it's cool, but there's no ice or threat of cold-air-induced asthma. Your body naturally adapts to the terrain and weather conditions (hills, head winds or slippery surfaces), which can help prevent overuse injuries....Tags: Medicine, Clubs and Associations
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