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| Autism and genetic accidents |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 1:34 pm |
| Tags: Metaphor, Cause, Genetics, Classics, Accidents, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Disasters, Dna, Education, Family, Genes, Genetics, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Train Wrecks |
| cases due to genetic accidents and, indeed, “freak genetic accidents,” in a Zee News (India Edition) article about the recently published study on spontaneous genetic mutations and autism. Autism compared to a freak accident? Sounds a bit in the category of referring to autism as, for example, a train wreck. To some degree, one |
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| Video: Stunt Plane Crashes at Ohio Dayton Air Show |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 11:11 pm |
| Tags: Accidents |
| The award-winning stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed when his biplane crashed at a runway of Dayton International Airport in front of thousands of people at Vectren Dayton Air Show in Dayton, Ohio. LeRoy, 46, of Billings, Montana, was then in one of two planes making loop-to-loops with smoke trailing at the show. His S2S Bulldog |
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| Two News Helicopters Crashed in Indian Steele Park of Central Phoenix |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 12:26 pm |
| Tags: Vehicles, Accidents |
| The accident happened at noon 0f July 27 when two single-engine Aerospatiale helicopters respectively belonging to KNXV and KTVK TV stations were covering a live news report that police were chasing carjacker Christopher Jones. Both choppers went down in the Indian Steele Park of Central Phoenix, killing Craig Smith and Rick Krolak of Channel 3 |
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| Californian Mojave Desert Air and Space Port Explosion |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:49 am |
| Tags: Space, Places, Accidents |
| The deadly explosion happened at the rocket-testing facilities of Mojave Desert Air and Space Port, killing three of six employees of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites were testing components of a new rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo, a spaceship being built for Sir Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic. The |
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| Kim Jong-Il's Favorite Stuntwoman Seriously Injured by Swords during Performance |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:52 am |
| Tags: Health, Accidents |
| Japanese magician Princess Tenko, who has once been gifted a rare dog by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, was seriously injured when metal swords trapped her in a box during a performance in the central Japanese city of Sabae recently. During "the spike illusion in the face of death" show, the doll-looking magician was supposed to escape |
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| The Interstate 35w Minneapolis Bridge Collapse to Mississippi River |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:55 pm |
| Tags: Places, Accidents |
| The entire span of the Interstate 35W Bridge loaded with rush-hour traffics in downtown Minneapolis collapsed about 6:05 p.m. today, sending at least 50 vehicles and passengers into the water below. The early news report from Minneapolis was said to at least six persons killed already. The 1967-built eight-lane Interstate 35 bridge which is a |
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| Britney Spears Car Crash Photos |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 3:05 pm |
| Tags: Vehicles, Health, Folks, Celebrity Odds, Lifestyle, Accidents |
| Luckily, neither of her two son, Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 11 months were in Britney Spears's black convertible at the time of the incident, otherwise her mothering skills would be further questioned. Britney Spears strikes again! The disaster-prone pop singer has left yet another mess in her wake - this time |
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| M 4.5 Earthquake Shakes Los Angeles! |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 6:27 am |
| Tags: Nature, Environments, Accidents |
| A magnitude-4.5 earthquake hit the Greater Los Angeles area at 12:58:49 AM (PDT) on Thursday, August 9, 2007. The epicenter (see the earthquake map below) of the temblor, was 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Los Angeles Civic Center and seven kilometers north-northwest of Chatsworth. Early reports says that residents in the Los Angeles |
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| Our Crumbling Nation Dept.: Parking Garage Tragedy Claims the Lives of Four Cars |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 5:10 pm |
| Tags: Accidents, Our Crumbling Nation Dept, State Department |
| Not only are bridges across the nation crumbling, but now our government buildings are collapsing in the middle of the day. The courtyard of Columbia Plaza leads to the State Department’s SA-1... |
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| Our Crumbling Nation Dept.: Parking Garage Tragedy Claims the Lives of Four Cars |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 5:10 pm |
| Tags: Accidents, Our Crumbling Nation Dept, State Department |
| Not only are bridges across the nation crumbling, but now our government buildings are collapsing in the middle of the day. The courtyard of Columbia Plaza leads to the State Department’s SA-1 building, and yesterday afternoon its outdoor ceiling collapsed onto panicked drivers below. No one was hurt, but several cars were damaged and the |
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| Good to know. |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 1:15 pm |
| Tags: Animals, Accidents |
| Beheaded rattlesnake sends man to hospital'PROSSER, Wash. - Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous.That's what 53-year-old Danny Anderson learned as he was feeding his horses Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property, about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.Anderson and his 27-year-old son, |
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| Tahiti plane crash voice recorder located |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Air Space Accidents, Vic, French Polynesia |
| Search teams have located the cockpit flight recorder of a passenger aircraft that crashed last week killing at least 14 people, after taking off from the island of Moorea off French Polynesia. |
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| Worker dies in cherry picker accident |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 6:29 pm |
| Tags: Disasters Accidents, Workplace Accidents, Brisbane 4000, Indooroopilly 4068 |
| A 55-year-old road maintenance worker has been crushed to death while working with a cherry picker under Brisbane's Western Freeway. |
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| House explosion kills Sunshine Coast woman |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 6:28 pm |
| Tags: Disasters Accidents, Home Accidents, Residential Fires, Pomona 4568 |
| A woman has been killed when two explosions ripped through her unit on the Sunshine Coast overnight. |
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| Oxfam fears worsening Asian floods defences |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Disasters Accidents, Floods, Bangladesh, Nepal |
| Aid agency Oxfam says badly designed flood defences may have worsened during the recent south Asian flooding. |
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