Category: disaster
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Sad State of Affairs
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/13/npreg13.xml"> Pregnant at 11 and 'happy to be a mum'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 12-year-old girl will become Britain's youngest mother when she gives birth next month.<br />n<br />nShe became pregnant at the age of 11 when she lost her virginity to a 15-year-old boy during a drunken night out.<br />n<br />n…..<br />n<br />nThe girl, from…
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Large Loss of Life
The scale of stories like the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EGYPT_SHIP_SINKS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Egyptian ferry</a> disaster always awe me. It might seem odd that I say "awe me" but that's just what it does. They are saying probably more than 1000 lives were lost in this accident. Do you know, the large majority of Montana towns have less than that number…