May 18, 2013
INDIA TIMES - 60 Injured as US Commuter Trains Collide | Americas, May 18, 2013
"A spokesman for the Metro North commuter train line said the incident involved a train headed into the city and one traveling in the opposite direction toward New Haven, Connecticut. "Sixty people have been taken to the hospital," Connecticut governor Dan Malloy said on Twitter. "There are five people in critical condition, one in very critical condition." The accident happened at the Connecticut city of Bridgeport at around 6:00pm (2200 GMT). Alex Cohen, a passenger on the train headed to New York, said it pulled to a sudden halt and then suddenly jerked forward. "There was smoke. People were screaming, people were really nervous. We were pretty shaken up. They had to smash a window to get us out," Cohen told NBC Connecticut. Malloy told reporters the collision was a very serious incident but there was "no reason to believe that this was anything but accidental." "We're most concerned about the injured and ultimately reopening the system," he added."
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SKY - Moon Rocked By Biggest Meteorite Explosion, May 18, 2013
"A meteorite has slammed into the surface of the Moon, creating a flash of light so bright it could be seen without a telescope. Scientists say the space rock was travelling at around 56,000mph when it crashed into the Moon's Mare Imbrium region. It is believed to have measured no more than 40cm across but experts say the force of the impact - equivalent to setting off four tons (4,500kg) of TNT - would have made a crater up to 20m wide."
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WATCH: NASA Spots Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever Recorded, May 18, 2013
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NASA scientists say they witnessed an extremely bright lunar explosion this past March. In fact, it is the biggest explosion they've seen since they started keeping track of such events in 2005.
"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," Bill Cooke, of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said in a press release. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before."
What's cool is if you had been looking at the moon at just the right time, you would have seen a one-second flash caused by the impact of a nearly-90 pound meteoroid that was traveling at 56,000 mph. The impact was picked up by one of the Meteoroid Environment Office's 14-inch telescopes.
One intriguing question is how a meteoroid can cause an explosion on the Moon, which has no oxygen atmosphere."
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TIMES LIVE - Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon, May 18, 2013
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YAHOO NEWS - Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands, May 18, 2013
"ATLANTA (AP) — A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands. Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of "bionic" hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father, Andy, told the Associated Press. Copeland, of Snellville, contracted a rare infection called necrotizing fasciitis in May 2012 after falling from a zip line and gashing her leg. She spent two months at the Shepherd Center, a rehabilitation clinic in Atlanta, learning to move, eat and bathe without prosthetics."
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BEYONCE`News, May 18, 2013
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LA TIMES - Ken Venturi dies at 82; golfer had dramatic win in 1964 U.S. Open, May 18, 2013
"Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82. Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, died at Eisenhower Medical Center after battling a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection, his son Matt said. The U.S. Open victory was one of Venturi's 14 tournament wins as a pro. Though he suffered from a severe stutter as a youth, he worked as the lead analyst for CBS Sports from 1968 to 2002."
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