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May 10, 2006
Topics rock, free, knight, dirty, bare, gold, hands, led, feet, water, life and men
Two Australian miners who were freed after 14 days being trapped deep underground survived by drinking dirty run-off water, digging through rock and rubble with their bare hands, and joking about their fight for life, rescuers said. Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, walked free of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine on Tuesday after a cave-in on April 25 killed a third miner, Larry Knight.
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May 5, 2006
Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl has a sent a message of support to two Australian gold miners who have been stuck underground for days, inviting them for a beer once they are rescued. Grohl, who was once a former drummer with grunge group Nirvana, sent a fax to the miners in Australia after one of them requested to listen to his music on an iPod through a food chute while waiting to be rescued.
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May 2, 2006
A caddy wins a sexual harassment suit against the former owner of a golf club who made fun of him for losing two matches to a woman. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ordered Delalio Associates to pay Eugene Palumbo $34,000 for the public ridicule.
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April 11, 2006
Divers returned to port Monday with two gold bars and 15 silver coins they discovered. They are believed to be from the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off Key West in 1622. It is estimated they had were buried beneath the ocean floor for almost 400 years.
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April 7, 2006
Topics lawyers, teeth, gold, emily, rap, dentist, seattle, stars, germany, dead, office, men and car
Prosecutors attempted to force the removal of gold tooth caps from two drug suspects, saying the "grills" were seizable assets. The Associated Press reports that Flenard T. Neal Jr. and Donald Jamar Lewis were in a car heading to the dentist when defense attorney convinced a judge to stop the procedure.
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