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News & Features,
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Oct 19, 2006
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By Chuck Shepherd
Most of the year, civil aviation engineer Joseph Ngoupou and his wife (a budget officer at the World Bank) live the life of a suburban Washington, D.C., couple taking up golf on weekends...
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News & Features,
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Oct 12, 2006
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By Chuck Shepherd
At the York Crown Court in England in September, Antonia Pearson-Gaballonie, 36, was convicted of having enslaved a 26-year-old housekeeper from 1997 to 2005 despite her defense that the woman had actually been earning the equivalent of about $55 a week..
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News & Features,
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Oct 5, 2006
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By Chuck Shepherd
Adam Sutton’s elaborate plan to propose to Erika Brussee in July on a small chartered plane near Rome, Ga., didn’t work out, as the engine stalled and the plane crashed (causing minor injuries) near their friends on the ground...
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News & Features,
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Sep 28, 2006
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By Chuck Shepherd
In September, police in New Zealand dropped the dangerous-driving charge against the armless driver...
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News & Features,
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Sep 21, 2006
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By Chuck Shepherd
Just after the Aug. 10 restrictions were imposed, British Airways refused to allow disabled New Zealand runner Kate Horan (on her way to the Paralympics world championships in the Netherlands) to carry on her prosthetic leg, as she had long been allowed..
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