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  Did You Feel That? The Earth Just Moved

  At 1:41 pm Eastern Standard Time, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit central Canada. According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter was Val des Bois, Quebec.

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  Interview with Roberto Canessa, Andes Plane Crash Survivor

  Book of Odds speaks to Roberto Canessa, one of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571's crash into the Andes Mountains in 1972, which inspired the book and subsequent movie, Alive.

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  Fear of Flying? The Odds of a Plane Crash, and the People Who’ve Survived

  In 1908, Thomas Selfridge, a 26-year-old first lieutenant in the Army, had the dubious distinction of being the first person killed in a plane crash. Since his death, there has not been a single year without an airplane-related fatality somewhere in the world.

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  Blown Apart: When Siblings Kill Each Other

  Almost a quarter of a century after Amy Bishop shot her brother with a 12-gauge shotgun, she has been charged with his murder.

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  The Recession’s Domestic Toll

  Experts say that domestic violence has long been an epidemic in the US, but during this recession shelters and programs nationwide have noticed an upsurge of requests for help.

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  Heroin: A World of Trouble in US Schoolyards

  The prototypical heroin abuser isn’t a junkie shooting up in a back alley any more. The new stereotype? Well-groomed, well-nourished, and most often found in suburban high schools or middle class homes.

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  Summer: Paradise for Paranoids

  Summer’s here, and it's a great time to be alive—literally: June, July, August, and September are when a person is least likely to drop dead. But that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy a good ER visit or two.

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  The Grand Canyon and the Great Beyond

  Things have been dying in the Grand Canyon for a very long time. Its oldest fossils are algae, who gave up the ghost there over 1,000,000,000 years ago. To the long roster of animal and plant deaths embedded in the canyon’s layers, add almost 600 human ones.

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  Who Drowns and Why?

  According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the rate of drowning translates into roughly ten people drowned to death every day. And chances are, most of those ten people will be children. They will be male. And they won’t be white.

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  Prom Night: Take Away the Car Keys

  There are times when parents lie in bed at night and calculate the odds. Prom night is one of those times.

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  The Volcanic Eruption: How Bad Could It Get?

  The stratospheric plume of ash ejected by the 2010 eruption of Iceland’s Mt. Eyjafjallajökull has caused an unprecedented, international disruption: even as flights resume, the volcano continues to spew.

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