| December 18, 2012 | - President George W. Bush announced a $13.4 billion bailout for General Motors and Chrysler. The bailout, which will make use of funds authorized by Congress in October for the rescue of U.S. financial institutions, requires among other things that the automakers sell their fleets of private aircraft. “I've abandoned free-market principles,” said Bush, “to save the free-market system.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Breitbart
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| May 31, 2009 | -
General Motors filed for bankruptcy, and President Obama unveiled his plan to save the former industrial giant by nationalizing it, closing plants, and firing workers.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 6, 2009 | - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 651,000 jobs were lost in February (making it the third straight month in which more than 650,000 jobs have been lost) thus increasing the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, the highest level since 1983. The Obama Administration pointed to 60 new highway-paving jobs in Maryland as proof that the $787 billion stimulus package was succeeding. “That's how we're going to get the country back on its feet,” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The White House hopes that the stimulus package will generate 3.5 million jobs; 4.4 million have been lost since the recession began in December 2007, and a total of 12.5 million people are unemployed, a number greater than the combined populations of Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming, Washington, D.C., and both Dakotas. Economists predicted that by the summer one in ten Americans would be out of work.
| Source 1:
The Labor Department
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
Washington Post
Source 4:
CNN.com
Source 5:
U.S. Census Bureau
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| January 16, 2009 | - In New York City, a plane collided with a flock of “big, dark-brown” birds and crashed into the Hudson River. All 155 people on board were successfully rescued. One passenger cried with relief as he imagined reuniting with his daughter. “When I get home, I am going to take my nose and put it by her ear, her little warm body and give her a nice kiss from Daddy. I'm alive.”
| Source 1:
All 155 safe after pilot ditches jet in NYC river
Source 2:
Bird strike confirmed in US crash
Source 3:
U.S. Airways crash: survivor accounts in their own words
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| December 12, 2008 | -
Republican
senators killed a plan to loan $14 billion to American automakers, and the White House said it would consider other options to save the industry and as many as three million auto-related jobs, such as diverting some of the $700 billion reserved for bailing out the finance industry.
| Source 1:
WSJ
Source 2:
NYT
Source 3:
AP via Yahoo
Source 4:
NPR
Source 5:
Kalamazoo Gazette
Source 6:
AP via Yahoo
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| November 8, 2008 | -
General Motors warned that it would run out of cash early next year without a merger or a government bail-out.
| Source:
We'll go bust without bail-out of merger, says General Motors
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| September 26, 2008 | - A man flew across the English Channel using a homemade jet-propelled wing.
| Source:
CNN
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| September 19, 2008 | - At a Ford factory in Macomb County, Michigan, Senator Joe Biden jumped in a red Mustang convertible and revved the engine. “I like muscle cars,” he said, as factory workers whooped. ”I tell you, man, this is nice."
| Source 1:
Newsweek
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| September 14, 2008 | - At least 25 people were killed and another 140 injured when a Metrolink commuter train crashed head-on into a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| August 29, 2008 | - Hip-hop mogul P. Diddy announced that the rising price of fuel had forced him to give up private-jet travel. “Can you believe this, I'm actually flying commercial!” he said. “Gas prices are too motherfuckin' high. I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil. If y'all could please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.”
| Source:
E!Online
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| October 29, 2007 | - A Scottish man was placed on a sex offenders registry for raping a bicycle.
| Source:
The Telegraph
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| September 23, 2007 | -
General Motors workers went on strike.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 29, 2007 | - U.S. transportation horticulturalists were seeding the nation's roadsides with asters, amsonia, and flowering white thoroughwort, among other wildflowers.
| Source:
NY Times
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| August 21, 2007 | - Vacationers aboard a Taiwanese
airliner in Okinawa slid down escape chutes and sprinted to safety moments before the plane exploded. “I ran so hard,” one passenger said, “my sock tore.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 7, 2007 | - Al Gore Jr. was arrested for possessing both pills and pot after he was pulled over for driving 100mph in his hybrid car. At Gore's father's 24-hour, seven-continent Live Earth concert for the environment, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon addressed the crowd. “Everyone who did not arrive on a private jet,” he said, “put your hands in the air.” Le Bon then put his hand in the air.
| Source 1:
Reuters
Source 2:
NME
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| May 21, 2007 | - For the first time since the Korean War a train traveled between North and South Korea and a North Korean cargo ship docked in a South Korean port.
| Source:
ABC Radio Australia
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| April 17, 2007 | - A report detailing the effects of global warming in North America predicted the end of “a reliable snowmobile season” by mid-century.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| March 30, 2007 | - In Germany, a black Australian swan named Petra was in love with a paddleboat.
| Source:
Ananova
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| March 24, 2007 | -
Taiwan's
freeway bureau closed 600 yards of highway in Yunlin County in preparation for a massive migration of milkweed butterflies.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| February 8, 2007 | - Sinkholes were endangering the nation's roads.
| Source:
NY Times
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| February 1, 2007 | - Elephants in Thailand were head-butting and robbing trucks.
| Source:
Reuters via iol.co.za
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| January 26, 2007 | -
Ford
posted a loss of $12.7 billion for 2006, the largest in its 103-year history, and equivalent to the GDP of Jordan. Asked about his plans for the company, CEO Alan R. Mulally said, “At the top of the list, I would put dealing with reality.”
| Source 1:
USA Today
Source 2:
NYT
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| December 13, 2006 | - The governor of Alaska announced she would sell a private jet that had been used for state business on eBay.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| December 13, 2006 | - Federal investigators announced that airline pilots should follow procedures to make sure their airplanes take off on the right runway.
| Source:
NYT
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| December 10, 2006 | -
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed fourteen Christmas trees after a local rabbi threatened a lawsuit if officials did not add an eight-foot menorah to the arrangement.
| Source:
Seattle Times
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| December 5, 2006 | - A plane bound for Texas made an emergency landing after a female passenger lit matches to mask the odor of her fart.
| Source:
WKMG Local News
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| November 6, 2006 | - Officials in Sydney, Australia, refused to allow a cargo ship to dock until a rogue monkey on board was captured or killed; the ship's crew later said that the monkey--a “small brown blur”--had probably been blown overboard during a typhoon.
| Source 1:
The Age
Source 2:
SMH.com.au
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| October 25, 2006 | -
Daimler Chrysler also lost $1.5 billion during the same time period.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 25, 2006 | - Scientists concluded that fat people lower the fuel efficiency of automobiles.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| October 24, 2006 | -
Ford Motor Company announced $7.6 billion in third quarter losses.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| October 11, 2006 | - Two trains collided while traveling in opposite directions between the French city of Nancy and the grand duchy of Luxembourg, killing six people.
| Source:
AFX via Hemscott.com
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| September 25, 2006 | - A Mitsubishi dealership in Columbus, Ohio, withdrew a radio ad proclaiming “jihad” on the U.S. auto market.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 14, 2006 | -
Chicago prosecutors dropped all charges against a man who, after security guards mistook his penis pump for a bomb, was detained at O'Hare International Airport. “Humiliation aside,” said the man's attorney, “the system worked.”
| Source:
MSNBC
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| September 5, 2006 | - An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada
flight because his praying made other passengers nervous.
| Source:
CBC
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| August 30, 2006 | - A woman in Hohhot, China, crashed her car into another vehicle while allowing her dog to drive.
| Source:
Guardian
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| August 24, 2006 | - A Northwest Airlines flight out of Amsterdam landed twenty minutes after takeoff when several passengers were observed exchanging cell phones and unbuckling their seat belts.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 10, 2006 | - Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
BBC News
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| August 2, 2006 | - In New Delhi, the commuter rail authority was using a black-faced langur monkey to frighten other monkeys.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 19, 2006 | - One thousand Americans were evacuated from Beirut aboard a 38-year-old cruise ship named the Orient Queen.
| Source 1:
BBC via Google News
Source 2:
Washington Post and Cruises.about.com
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| July 10, 2006 | -
Airliners crashed in Russia and Pakistan, killing hundreds.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 3, 2006 | - A subway derailment near Jesus station in Valencia, Spain, killed 34 people.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
680 News
Source 3:
Scotsman
Source 4:
Scotsman
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| June 27, 2006 | -
Rush Limbaugh was detained at an airport when authorities found Viagra in his luggage.
| Source 1:
Hamilton Spectator
Source 2:
local6.com
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| June 19, 2006 | - In Iraq an Islamic militant group claimed that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers, 23-year-old Kristian Menchaca and 25-year-old Thomas L. Tucker. The Army sent 8,000 Iraqi and U.S. troops, supported by fighter jets and drones, to search for the missing soldiers.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 2, 2006 | - Two people died when a plane owned by Pat Robertson crashed off the coast of Connecticut.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| May 30, 2006 | - The European Court of Justice ruled that E.U. airlines are not required to provide passenger data to the United States.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 29, 2006 | - In Germany, at the official opening of the Hauptbahnhof, the largest railway station in Europe, a man went on a rampage and stabbed 35 people. Because one of the first people he stabbed was HIV positive, concerns were raised that some of the subsequently stabbed may also become infected.
| Source:
The Independent
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| May 14, 2006 | - A small plane carrying Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) landed safely after being struck by lightning.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 12, 2006 | - and a British
inventor claimed to have created a car that gets 8,000 miles per gallon, improving on his previous record of 6,603 miles per gallon.
| Source:
AFP via Yahoo! News
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| May 4, 2006 | - In New York City, an Italian tourist was attacked and suffered a broken arm after he sat down on a motorcycle that was parked outside the local Hells Angels clubhouse.
| Source:
The New York Post
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| May 3, 2006 | - A plane flying from Armenia to Russia crashed into the Black Sea, killing 113 people.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 27, 2006 | - It was reported that lobbyists had once provided former (now imprisoned) Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham with free limousine service, free access to hotel suites, and the services of prostitutes; it was also reported that the limousine service that was used to ferry the prostitutes had received a contract worth $21 million from the Department of Homeland Security.
| Source 1:
The Wall Street Journal
Source 2:
Sign On San Diego
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| March 15, 2006 | - Miss Deaf Texas was struck and killed by a train. "They sounded the horn," said a police detective, "and got no response."
| Source:
Seattle PI
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| February 3, 2006 | - About 1,300 people drowned when an Egyptian
ferry, the al-Salam Boccaccio '98, sank in the Red Sea.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 16, 2006 | - In El Paso, Texas, a mechanic was sucked into a jet engine. "It doesn't happen very often," said a Boeing spokeswoman.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| January 9, 2006 | - A fuel truck in Boise, Idaho, ran into a jet.
| Source:
SeattlePI.com
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| January 8, 2006 | - The FAA took steps to lower the risk of space
terrorism.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 5, 2006 | - In San Francisco an air passenger was arrested for having the words “suicide bomber” in his journal; it turned out that the words referred to the name of a band or a song.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 24, 2005 | - 4,000 London
Tube workers voted to hold a 24-hour walkout on December 31.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 23, 2005 | - Workers for the New York City
Mass Transit Authority went on strike for three days.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 4, 2005 | - In Fremont, California, Iron Crotch Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng pulled a rental truck several yards with his penis. “He's very special,” said student Shawnee Wang.
| Source:
Tri-Valley Herald
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| December 2, 2005 | - The U.S. Transportation Safety Administration decided that screwdrivers under seven inches long and scissors with blades under four inches long will again be permitted on airplanes.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 25, 2005 | - An Amtrak train struck a bald eagle in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
| Source:
Fredericksburg.com
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| November 25, 2005 | - Seventy-seven people died in India when two passenger buses were swept away by floods.
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 19, 2005 | - A Florida woman was run over by ten different cars while attempting to walk across a highway. Police marked parts of her body with traffic cones. “It is crazy out here,” said a trooper, “to try to cross the median.”
| Source:
Florida Today
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| November 15, 2005 | - The U.K. was building a database that will track the movements of every vehicle on its roads.
| Source:
The Register
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| November 5, 2005 | - Off the Somali coast, pirates fired a rocket launcher at a cruise ship filled with American and British tourists. The ship's crew scared the pirates off with loud noises, and no one was injured.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 31, 2005 | - A Ford Escort once owned by Pope John Paul II sold for $680,000.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 24, 2005 | - A new Swedish passenger train was being praised because it runs on the entrails of dead cows.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 23, 2005 | - A jet crashed in Nigeria, killing all 117 people aboard.
| Source:
AP
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| October 20, 2005 | - A 93-year-old Florida man driving a Chevy Malibu struck and killed a pedestrian, then drove three miles with the body on his windshield. "Obviously," said a traffic investigator, "he was confused."
| Source:
St. Petersburg Times
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| September 24, 2005 | -
Hurricane Rita, the third-most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, struck Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, killing 36 people and causing flooding, tornadoes, and storm surges, and re-flooding parts of New Orleans. Hurricane evacuations caused miles of traffic jams in Texas, and a bus filled with elderly people exploded when an oxygen tank caught fire, incinerating at least 24 passengers.
| Source 1:
Wikipedia
Source 2:
Houston Chronicle
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| September 24, 2005 | - In Poland an 18-month-old child ran over three family members with a car.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 15, 2005 | -
Delta and Northwest both filed for bankruptcy.
| Source:
Forbes
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| August 26, 2005 | - A German man was arrested for scratching penis drawings on up to 330 vehicles.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 14, 2005 | - A toad infestation struck Big Sandy, Montana, and made the roads sticky.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| August 14, 2005 | - President George W. Bush approved a $286.4 billion transportation bill containing 6,371 separate projects.
| Source:
KansasCity.com
|
| August 13, 2005 | - In Victoria, Canada, methamphetamine addicts were stealing large numbers of bicycles because disassembling the bikes soothes them while they tweak.
| Source:
Canada.com
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| August 9, 2005 | - Police in New Hampshire found 10 stolen Segway scooters in a garage; apparently the thieves had been unable to sell them.
| Source:
TheWMURChannel.com
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| July 26, 2005 | -
Ukraine fired all of its traffic policemen; traffic was not noticeably affected.
| Source:
Motoring.co.za
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| July 22, 2005 | - In New York City, police began random bag checks of subway passengers.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| July 6, 2005 | - Visiting Scotland for the G8 summit, President George W. Bush fell off his bicycle after running into a policeman. Bush was hurt, but not badly. The policeman hurt his ankle. “I should act my age,” said Bush.
| Source 1:
AP
Source 2:
IOL.co.za
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| July 4, 2005 | -
Toyota announced that it would open a new $800 million plant in Ontario. The company turned down hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies in the United States because, when compared to Canadians, U.S. workers are too hard to train, often illiterate, and expensive to insure.
| Source:
CBC News
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| June 29, 2005 | -
China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation was planning to buy
Huffy Bikes.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 7, 2005 | -
General Motors announced that it will eliminate the jobs of 25,000 blue-collar workers in the United States by the end of 2008; the cuts amount to 22 percent of the company's hourly work force.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 7, 2005 | - Body parts, including a leg and part of a spine, fell from a plane approaching JFK International Airport in New York City. The parts came from a stowaway who had hidden himself in the plane's wheel well. "[I] heard pounding," said the plane's pilot, "but nothing appeared wrong."
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 2, 2005 | -
Saudi Arabia was considering whether women should be allowed to drive.
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 31, 2005 | - The CIA was running its own fleet of twenty-six airplanes, owned by seven shell companies.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| May 23, 2005 | - In Britain, Ford Motor Company suspended seven workers when they were caught looking at woman-on-octopus pornography on company computers. “Management,” said an employee, “didn't see the funny side.”
| Source:
The Sun
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| May 15, 2005 | - More than one hundred people died when a ferry sank off the shores of southern Bangladesh.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 6, 2005 | - An online casino bought the pope's old Volkswagen for $244,800.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 25, 2005 | - In Japan, a commuter train derailed and smashed into an apartment building, killing at least seventy-one people and injuring hundreds.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 24, 2005 | -
New Yorkers were bothered by the delays in their subway service, which are often announced via old, half-broken loudspeakers making pronouncements like: "Ladies and gentlemen, because of a brflig fraptail at 116th Street, the uptown 6 train will frip deet brak croob.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 21, 2005 | -
Bobby Short died, as did John DeLorean.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 14, 2005 | - A Wisconsin woman rammed her car into a Catholic church after deciding that God does not exist; her car was destroyed, but the church was unharmed.
| Source:
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
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| March 13, 2005 | - According to a confidential government report, the American aviation system was still vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 7, 2005 | -
Bill Clinton slept on the floor of an airplane so that George H.W. Bush could have a nice soft bed.
| Source:
CNN
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| March 4, 2005 | - A very rich man flew
solo around the world in sixty-seven hours.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| February 11, 2005 | - A report showed that, between April and September 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration received fifty-two reports about Al Qaeda's plans to hijack airplanes.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| December 25, 2004 | - On Christmas day, 30,000 air passengers were stranded across the United States because of a computer crash.
| Source:
Fox News
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| November 23, 2004 | - A buck was captured and euthanized after running through Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
| Source:
ABC 7 Chicago
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| November 17, 2004 | - An experimental jet flew at 6,600 miles an hour.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 26, 2004 | - David Koresh's 1968 Camaro was sold at auction to a car wash owner from San Antonio, Texas, for $37,500.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| September 20, 2004 | - It was discovered that Israeli
traffic fatalities rise by 35 percent in the days following a terrorist attack.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 23, 2004 | - A railway station exploded in North Korea soon after Kim Jong Il, on his way home from China, passed through in his special armored train, which was a gift to his father from Joseph Stalin; much of the surrounding community was damaged or destroyed.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 21, 2004 | - King Carl Gustav of Sweden, who is exempt from prosecution, was seen driving his yellow Porsche around in southern Sweden at speeds well over 100 mph.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 20, 2004 | - There was a train wreck under New York City near Penn Station.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 15, 2004 | -
George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, told the 9/11 commission that he received a briefing in August 2001 entitled "Islamic
Extremist Learns to Fly" but failed to act on the information.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 12, 2004 | - Ten bombs blew up four commuter trains in Madrid during the morning rush hour on March 11, killing 200 people and wounding about 1,500. The Spanish government initially blamed Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the Basque separatist group.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 4, 2004 | - A self-described "pressure-group with a terrorist character" was threatening to bomb French
trains unless it receives a $5 million ransom; French investigators speculated that the group has anarchist or left-wing or right-wing tendencies.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 27, 2004 | - It was reported that the U.S. government plans to order airlines to provide background information on all passengers for a new screening system.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 9, 2004 | - Another U.S. helicopter was apparently shot down in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 8, 2004 | - The Department of Homeland Security handed out three $2 million contracts to build a missile-defense system to prevent civilian aircraft from being shot down by surface-to-air missiles.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| January 8, 2004 | - There was a 50-car pileup in Pennsylvania.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 7, 2004 | - The United States Transportation Security Administration decreed that passengers may no longer line up to use the toilet on airplanes.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| January 5, 2004 | - Almost a dozen commercial flights were cancelled because of security concerns,
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| January 5, 2004 | -
Britain's transportation minister warned that terrorism-related delays could be expected "for many years to come."
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 3, 2004 | - Another U.S. helicopter was shot down in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 3, 2004 | - The American spacecraft Stardust got very close to the Wild 2 comet and managed to photograph its nucleus and to capture some of its dust.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 2, 2004 | - A small plane fell from the sky and crashed into two houses near Dallas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 27, 2003 | - At least 138 passengers died on Christmas Day when an airliner hit a building on takeoff in Cotonou, Benin, and then crashed into the sea.
| Source:
Voice of America
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| December 9, 2003 | - Scientists were studying the bombardier beetle, which can fire liquid at its enemies from its rear end at up to 300 squirts per second, in the hope of building a better airplane engine.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 1, 2003 | - Shoko Asahara, the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, claimed that he had lost control of his followers shortly before they released nerve gas in the Tokyo
subway eight years ago.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 16, 2003 | - The Staten Island Ferry crashed in New York City; of the 10 people who died, two were decapitated and some were cut in half. Several people lost limbs. The captain, who apparently passed out, left the scene immediately, slashed his wrists and shot himself twice in the chest with a pellet gun.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 22, 2003 | - Eight hundred piglets blocked traffic for several hours on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 18, 2003 | - A truck driver stopped in the middle of Interstate 65 in Knoxville, Tennessee, took off his clothes, and ran around naked.
| Source:
Undernews
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| June 7, 2003 | - A small airplane
dropped from the sky over Los Angeles and landed on an apartment building.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 20, 2001 | - A deranged homeless man pushed a woman in front of a No. 6 subway train in New York.
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| November 6, 2001 | - Manolo Blahnik removed a pair of titanium-heeled sandals from his fall collection because they have 3.5 inch heels that narrow to a point so sharp that they damage floors and could be used as a terrorist weapon on an airplane.
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| October 30, 2001 | - In New Orleans, a man accidentally carried a loaded handgun through checkpoints and onto an airplane, whereupon he gave the weapon to a stewardess.
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| September 11, 2001 | - All nonmilitary air traffic in the United States was suspended.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - A young elk got drunk eating fermented apples and caused traffic jams in Sweden.
| |
| August 28, 2001 | - The first of 400 defunct New York City
subway cars were dumped off the Delaware coast, where they will serve as artificial reefs.
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| August 28, 2001 | - A thousand mink were missing after being released from a Dutch farm by animal-rights activists; 200 were killed in traffic.
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| August 14, 2001 | - Scottish traffic cops were using “shamanic meditation” to cope with stress.
| |
| August 14, 2001 | - The man, who wore no shoes, apparently stowed away on an airplane that took off in London, and hid among the landing gear, where temperatures at cruising altitude can reach minus 80 degrees centigrade and oxygen becomes quite scarce.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | - After two weeks of flying lessons, a Pizza Hut employee took off in an airplane from the Florida Keys on his first solo flight and ended up in Cuba, where he suffered a “hard landing” and was hospitalized.
| |
| July 10, 2001 | - An Australian was issued a patent for a “circular transportation facilitation device,” also known as the wheel.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Police in Cincinnati, Ohio, shot dead an unarmed black youth who had a number of outstanding traffic tickets; enraged residents ran amok.
| |
| April 17, 2001 | - Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that carried out the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo
subway in 1995, grew by 10 percent last year.
| |
| March 20, 2001 | - Forty-six thousand pounds of chicken blocked traffic on a Houston freeway after a truck turned over; the driver lost control while lighting a cigarette; dozens of drivers stuffed boxes of processed chicken products into their cars, ignoring warnings about contamination.
| |
| January 23, 2001 | - Investigators raided a Marine unit in North Carolina after they received a tip that the unit was falsifying maintenance records on the experimental Osprey airplane to help ensure its approval by the Pentagon.
| |
| January 9, 2001 | - Department of Transportation, which has used the metal to balance aircraft, warns personnel that the material is extremely hazardous if particles are ingested or inhaled, something particularly likely after a bombing, which produces large quantities of depleted-uranium dust.
| |
| November 21, 2000 | - A small airplane dropped leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City that said: “We bow our heads, Communists sit on our necks. We stand up, Communists fall.” It was signed by the “Global Alliance for the Total Uprising Against Communists.”
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| November 21, 2000 | - An Air Force F-16 fighter plane collided with a little Cessna airplane in Florida; part of the Cessna landed on a golf course.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Irish republican
terrorists put a bomb in a traffic cone that blew the leg off a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer when he picked it up.
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| November 0, 2000 | -
General Motors was talking to Chrysler about a merger.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Traffic was snarled in Sweden, Ireland, Spain, and Germany because of fuel-tax protests.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Thirty-three runners in the Berlin Marathon were disqualified for using the subway.
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| September 19, 2000 | - A TWA pilot at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City aborted a takeoff after he realized that a cockpit window was open.
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| September 12, 2000 | - One hundred and forty-nine world leaders disrupted traffic in New York City; United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan warned that disease, poverty, war, hunger, and pollution were difficult problems that required cooperation among nations.
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| September 0, 2000 | - A yachtmaker in Snohomish, Washington, announced it would lay off 780 employees and close its doors.
| Source:
Komonews.com
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| August 1, 2000 | - A Concorde airplane crashed in Paris; two amateur Hungarian photographers snapped a picture of the doomed plane with flames shooting from its engines, which were manufactured by Rolls Royce, just before it destroyed a small hotel near the airport.
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| July 25, 2000 | - Two Japanese
terrorists were sentenced to die for releasing nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995.
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