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Wearing only street clothes and a parka, Kirk Jones climbed a guard rail, slid into the Niagara River and plummeted headfirst over the 173-ft. Horseshoe Falls — becoming the first known person to survive the drop with no protection. He acknowledged that depression may have driven him to do it, but enthused, "I feel that I have reached out and touched the face of God. And he smiled."

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TOMMY WARD, whose family has been harvesting oysters from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1920s, on the FDA's plan to ban the sale of raw oysters that are harvested in warm months; about 15 people die each year due to raw-oyster contamination
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TOMMY WARD, whose family has been harvesting oysters from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1920s, on the FDA's plan to ban the sale of raw oysters that are harvested in warm months; about 15 people die each year due to raw-oyster contamination

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