US worker survives 47-storey fall
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A New York window cleaner who survived a 500ft (150m) fall is making a "miracle recovery", doctors say.
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By Jon Schubin, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 21--Relying on their brains, brawn   Six firefighters tried Wednesday to lower a 4,400-pound slab of concrete called the Rock down an improvised ramp, slowly and under control. They didn't make it.
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HOUSTON - An explosion at a rubber maker's warehouse killed a man and blew out the building's windows and walls on Thursday, authorities said.  No other injuries were reported in the midday blast inside the American Elastomer Products warehouse in southeastern Houston.
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A champion German paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm in eastern Australia.
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PALMETTO, Fla. - Mark Giorgio figured a 50-foot fall was worth $20. Giorgio, 47, was counting his money Monday while walking across the U.S. 41 bridge over the Manatee River when a $20 bill blew out of his hand and flew over the rail. He followed. And plummeted 50 feet into the river.
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By Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post Foreign Service  GLASGOW, Scotland -- At 2:42 p.m. on Oct. 11, Dean Collins heard a thunderous explosion as he worked at his computer in his 30th-floor apartment in Manhattan.
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A 12-year-old US girl survives a plane crash in Panama which killed a US man, his daughter and the local pilot.
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Firefighters freed a construction worker trapped for hours under tons of concrete Tuesday in a collapsed parking garage.
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CHICAGO - Lessons learned in a deadly 2003 Chicago high-rise fire may have saved lives this week when a fire broke out on the 29th floor of a downtown skyscraper, fire officials said Tuesday.
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The building-materials specialist bears the brunt of the downturn.
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An astronaut collapsed twice Friday, a day after she returned to Earth in the shuttle Atlantis, and officials attributed her wobbles to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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All 47 passengers and the six crew members on board the China Eastern flight MU-5210 died apparently after a blast caused the aircraft to fall out of the sky shortly after take-off.
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Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again.
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Politics: 29 December 2004, Wednesday. A 24-aged worker found his death pressed down under a wall that collapsed during demolition works in the old part of Plovdiv, south Bulgaria.
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A German paragliding champion survives being sucked into a thunderstorm that pulled her higher than Mount Everest.
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NAIROBI (Kenya): Two people have been injured after the roof of the departure terminal at Nairobi&#39;s Wilson airport caved in after an explosion.
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Sixteen workers were injured, three critically, this morning when a portion of a roof of a high-rise building under construction in downtown Rosslyn collapsed after workers began pouring concrete, fire officials said. A firefighter was also injured in the rescue, officials said.