Hope Fades For Survivors In 1999 Turkish Earthquake
IZMIT, TURKEY—Rescuers acknowledged that hope is fading in the search for additional survivors of the massive earthquake that hit the area Tuesday, Aug. 17 ...
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Man Trapped Under Boulder Braces For Possible Good Morning America Interview
YOSEMITE VILLAGE, CA—Rock climber Scott Prichard, 31, who has spent the last 48 hours with his legs pinned under a boulder on Glacier Point ...
Just A Stay-In-Bed Kind Of Day, Fire Department Declares
ALBANY, NY–Citing inclement weather and a general "blah" feeling among the firefighters, Albany fire chief Martin Brundle declared Monday "just a lazy, stay-in-bed kind ...
Best-Laid Plans Of Mice And Men Faulted In 747 Crash
WASHINGTON, DC—The National Transportation Safety Board cited "fate's cruel hand" as the cause of a 747 crash.
57 Lawmakers Feared Dead In Senate Mine Disaster
WASHINGTON, DC—Despite bipartisan struggles, there has been nothing but brotherhood to help find the senators who disappeared down the mine shaft.
Salvadoran Earthquake Registers 0.2 On Local Man's Consciousness
PORTAGE, MI–A massive earthquake in El Salvador did not rock Walt Grella's world Saturday, measuring 0.2 on the Portage man's consciousness ...
Media Suffering Through Record Normal Temperatures
KNOXVILLE, TN–Across the U.S., the news media are coping with another week of cripplingly typical temperatures. "It's awful," said Jim Moore, editor ...
Congress Allocates Some Serious Do-Re-Mi To Drought Relief
WASHINGTON, DC–With drought conditions approaching critical levels in the Deep South, Great Plains, and Southwest, Congress allocated some major moolah toward relief efforts in ...
Quaking All Over
In the past five weeks, two massive earthquakes have killed thousands in Turkey and Taiwan. What do you think about this sudden spate of pre-millennial ...
Planet Explodes
EARTH—All Earth lifeforms are feared dead in Monday's explosion of the four-billion-year-old planet, sources report. "We are still searching through the rubble for ...
Post-Modern Condition Upgraded To Pre-Apocalyptic
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—The "postmodern" condition of alienated, disjointed late-20th-century humanity was officially upgraded to "pre-apocalyptic" Monday, when new findings from leading postmodernist theorist Richard Rorty ...
Tornado Violence: Are Tornadic Images In The Media To Blame?
DEL CITY, OK—It's been almost two weeks now, but life still hasn't returned to normal for the residents of this central Oklahoma ...
Global-Warming Crisis Makes For Delightful Mid-February Afternoon
EDINA, MN—Impending global ecological disaster resulted in a delightful, balmy mid-February afternoon Monday. "Oooh, this is nice," said Edina resident Todd Crimmons, enjoying a ...
