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Southern Minnesota plane crash kills eight

Thursday, July 31, 2008 At least eight people have been killed in a plane crash near the southern Minnesota town of Owatonna, the Associated Press and local media reported Thursday morning. One person, who had been listed in critical condition as of 11:40 a.m. in the Owatonna hospital has died from injuries sustained in the accident, the Associated Press reported just before 3:00 p.m. that afternoon. At least one person is unaccounted for while investigator determine whether the person boarded the plane in New Jersey, according to the Steele County Sheriff's Office. Star

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Capital One Secured Credit Cards Get Consumers Back On Track

Click Here To Know More About: Your Energy Savings Australia By Roland Jefferson Many people have viewed the Capital One credit card advertisements on television. These cards promise with enthusiasm to provide many benefits for people. Capital One secured credit cards offer some special benefits for a group of people that would not receive a normal credit card. The people who benefit from a Capital One secured credit card probably would not be eligible for most other credit cards. Capital One secured credit cards are offered to people in the United States and C

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Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series begins in Sydney

Friday, September 20, 2013 Cathedral Square, Sydney, Australia —Wikinews attended the Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series in Cathedral Square, Sydney, ongoing from Wednesday. This is the first time an international wheelchair rugby event has been held outdoors, and in this arena. Three nations are competing: the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The venue is Cathedral Square, Sydney, which is adjacent to Hyde Park. The Sydney Central Business district is on the other side of the park. An outdoor stadium has been constructed specific

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Major Effects Of Cannabis On Human Body

Click Here To Know More About: Cbd Clinicals Like other drugs, Cannabis is also a drug that people prefer to relax their mind. People experience a state of calm and relaxation when cannabis entered into the body. To consume cannabis, there are mainly three different methods for this. Smoking through cigarettes, pipes or paper joints are ideal methods of consuming it. For smoking, the dried particles of cannabis plant are wrapped into a paper. With every puff, the dose of cannabis get stronger. Consumption of this drug occasionally doesn't make any major difference to

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Food with cancer-causing dye recalled in Britain

Saturday, April 30, 2005 The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced a recall of foods containing banned dyes which increase the risk of cancer. The food products were sold at the Tesco, Waitrose, and Somerfield supermarkets. A Bristol company called "Barts Spices" found the illegal Para Red substance in their Barts Ground Paprika, which was sold in 48g and 46g jars with a "Co-op" label. The batch codes on the affected products are 5032 and 5089 (expiration Dec 2007), and 5075 (expiration February 2007). Tesco also found that their 130g package of BBQ rice cakes

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President of China lunches with Brazilian President

Saturday, November 13, 2004 Hu Jintao, the President of the People's Republic of China had lunch today with the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at the Granja do Torto, the President's country residence in the Brazilian Federal District. Lunch was a traditional Brazilian barbecue with different kinds of meat. Some Brazilian ministers were present at the event: Antonio Palocci (Economy), Eduardo Campos (Science and Technology), Roberto Rodrigues (Agriculture), Luiz Fernando Furlan (Development), Celso Amorim (Exterior Relations), Dilma Rousseff (Mines and E

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Chronic Pain After An Accident? 9 Symptoms Of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Click Here To Know More About: Motor Vehicle Insurance Quotes Online By Rex Bush Brooklyn, New York. When 51 year old school teacher Carol Brown sustained injury to her right hand from a negligently maintained heavy metal door in a New York City owned building she had little idea the injury would cause her excruciating pain for the rest of her life. Five years later a New York City jury awarded Ms. Brown $200,000 for past pain and suffering and $1,000,000 for future pain and suffering. Brown's doctors testified that Brown's hand injury had caused her reflex sympath

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First signs of recovery from horse flu outbreak

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 As of 1600 hours local time (08:00UTC) Western Australia became the first state to resume normal internal movement of horses. The decision to lift restrictions was taken after all horses known to have entered the state in the two weeks prior to the outbreak of Equine Influenza in New South Wales were tested and confirmed not to be infected. Western Australian Agriculture and Food Minister Mr Kim Chance said "The 15 imported horses from New South Wales, three from Queensland and one from South Australia have now all tested negative to equine infl

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US Senate Panel approves bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Thursday, December 6, 2007 A United States Senate committee has passed landmark legislation aimed at combating global warming by limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The vote was timed to coincide with the U.N. conference on climate change taking place in Bali, Indonesia. The bill would set caps on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from electric utility, transportation and manufacturing industries beginning in 2012 with the goal of cutting emissions 60 percent by 2050. It would create an incentive system that would give credits to industries that cut pollution. Industries that

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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. Two weeks ago Dr. Siemionow, in a 23-hour marathon surgery, replaced 80 percent of her face, by transplanting or grafting bone, nerve, blood vessels, muscles and skin harvested from a female donor's cadaver. The Clinic surgeons, in Wednesday's ne