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November 20, 2007
A Salinas sobriety checkpoint is reportedly scheduled to give away turkeys on Tuesday to drivers who pass the DUI test. The Salinas Police Department, in league with the Safe Teens Empowerment Project in Salinas (STEPS), will be distributing from 150 to 300 turkeys to motorists who pass the sobriety test that will be given at the checkpoint.
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October 13, 2007
A Chinese teenager, who said he wanted to test his quickness in dodging a rushing train while sitting on railway tracks, failed in his stunt on Friday. The incident happened at a railway in Fengxian District in Shanghai, China. The alert train driver stepped on the brakes and managed to stop before the locomotive could hit the fearless teen, according to the Shanghai Daily.
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October 9, 2007
Topics police, boy, school, philippines, shoes, money, city, maria, dollar, construction, owned, books, teens, boys, fish, paper, student, body, help, children, people, man and gifts
n a country where most people live on just a dollar or less a day, an 11-year-old boy who gathers discarded plastic bottles for money returned the equivalent of over $400 USD that he found on the road. Gicoven Abarquez is penniless, malnourished and has never owned a pair of shoes. He works the streets of Dagupan City in northern Philippines to help his parents make ends meet. He is one of the thousands of Filipino boys, some barely in their teens, who go to school and also work collecting discarded plastic containers to sell back to recycling centers.
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September 11, 2007
Frustrated that they hadn't shot any deer during the archery deer hunt, two teenagers in Orem, Utah, have admitted to hunting nine cows last month. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officer Paul Davis said in a statement the boys, whose names have not been released, confessed to shooting the cows repeatedly with arrows over a two-week period.
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September 5, 2007
A 23-year-old heart transplant patient has finally seen her old heart at a London exhibition. Heart transplant patient Jennifer Sutton suffered from restrictive cardiomyophathy since her late teens and donated her old heart to the Wellcome Collection after she received a transplant. "It was slightly surreal but amazing at the same time to see the object that had caused me so much pain and anguish," Sutton said. "I was really curious and excited to see it but at the same time I am trying to love the heart I have now. "
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