NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Rep. Lois DeBerry, one of the longest-serving women lawmakers in the nation and a powerful influence in state politics, died Sunday after a nearly five-year bout with pancreatic cancer. She was 68.
The Memphis Democrat was surrounded by family and friends when she died at a Memphis hospital, her nephew, Gary DeBerry, told The Associated Press.
The average human lifespan is a lot longer than it used to be. But we’re barely into triple digits here and if we individually want to see anything awesome we’re gonna have to stick around for a few degrees of magnitude longer. That immortality thing or whatever. Why haven’t we done that again?
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ROME — Rescuers are saying that at least 24 bodies have been pulled out of the mangled wreckage of a tour bus that plunged dozens of yards (meters ) off a major highway in southern Italy after slamming into several cars. The bus landed in a ravine.
The Italian news agency ANSA quoted firefighters among the rescuers as also saying at least 11 people were injured in the crash Sunday night on the 116 autostrada near Avellino, some 160 miles (250 kilometers) south of Rome. Italian TV quoted people at the scene as saying about 49 people were on the bus, which was reportedly filled with Italian pilgrims returning from an excursion elsewhere in the south.
Qing Chen may insist that anyone would have done what he did to save a baby girl on Friday — but it’s clear a father’s instinct played some role in the New Yorker’s heroic act.
The dad says he was alarmed to notice an 18-month old crawling around on an awning across the street from Pure Health Pharmacy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where he works, according to local station PIX11. The baby appeared to have escaped a second-story apartment through a vent meant for an air conditioning unit.
“I was shaking. I started screaming, and the baby was crying and screaming — everybody was like, ‘Oh my god, what are we gonna do?’” witness Amy Vaccaro told local CBS affiliate CBS 2.
By Mike Slane, Goal.com
CHICAGO — Jurgen Klinsmann helped get them there, and a young American squad did the rest to get their coach his first trophy with the United States.
With Klinsmann sitting in a booth high above the playing field at Soldier Field, the Stars and Stripes overcame their coach’s suspension and dominated Panama to walk away with a 1-0 victory and a Gold Cup title in front of a crowd 57,900 on Sunday afternoon.
Some people are champs about having blood drawn and even go back as often as they’re allowed to donate blood. If you’re one of those people that’s frickin great. Go pat yourself on the back. If not you are probably thinking that you don’t want a robot coming anywhere near you with a needle. But the robot might actually be the better bet.
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CHICAGO — It took Brek Shea less than a minute to give the United States a goal.
And the Gold Cup title.
Space may be the final frontier, but it seems that it is
mostly going to be explored by robots, at least for the time being. Some of you
may be aware of the Curiosity rover. Curiosity is currently on the surface of
the planet Mars, but what you may not know is that the rover is coming up on a
very big anniversary.
WASHINGTON — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume long-stalled direct peace talks on Monday following six months of frenetic shuttle diplomacy by Secretary of State John Kerry.
The State Department announced Sunday that the two sides had accepted invitations from Kerry to come to Washington “to formally resume direct final status negotiations.” In a statement, department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the initial meetings would begin Monday evening and continue Tuesday.
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
At the launch of the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 — the first hardware devices to run on the long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system — there seemed to be a silver lining for the renamed company’s struggling PlayBook tablet. Confirming speculation, CEO Thorsten Heins promised a cheering crowd that the PlayBook would receive an update to a new OS. This would open the door to signature features, a more polished user interface and a vastly expanded app library.
But something was amiss. The company had also announced that, to simplify app development, BlackBerry 10 would support two screen resolutions: the Z10’s 1,280 x 768 and the Q10’s 720 x 720. In contrast, the PlayBook resolution is 1,024 x 600. Late last month, the other shoe dropped as BlackBerry confirmed that the PlayBook would not receive the promised update, leaving it with an abandoned OS and marking the effective exit of BlackBerry from the tablet market.
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