This report says a scientist predicted a major quake would strike the region, but he was allegedly muzzled:
Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger.
Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet.
The death toll is now at least 92.
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Driver fatigue is suspected in the fatal employee crash near Floriston, California, which killed one passenger and injured many others.
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Farrah Fawcett is not at death's door, according to a friend:
"She's doing fantastic," producer Craig Nevius told the Associated Press. "Her fight goes on. ... She's not going anywhere anytime soon."
Fawcett was hospitalized because of a blood clot that was a side effect of a treatment she recently had in Germany, her rep said.
AP said the cancer has spread to her liver, but she is expected to leave the hospital in a few days:
After the procedure in Germany, Piro said Fawcett flew back to Los Angeles because she was eager to go home. In a statement released earlier, Piro said Fawcett was using a wheelchair because it was painful for her to walk. “That pain, which was coming from the hematoma, had nothing directly to do with the cancer,” Piro said.
“She remains in good spirits with her usual sense of humour,” he added. “She’s been in great shape her whole life and has an incredible resolve and an incredible resilience.”
Nevius said Fawcett is expected to leave the hospital in a few days. He said her support system includes former partner Ryan O’Neal, her father and “Charlie’s Angels” co-stars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith.
“Let me tell you what she’s not,” Nevius said. “As previously reported by everybody, she’s not unconscious. She is not on death’s door. The family has not gathered to say goodbye.”
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Why should anybody be surprised PETA kills animals? They don't believe in animal domestication, period.
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