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Level -> And now.... the news. (6/23/2007 5:33:41 AM)
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HELEN, Ga. - A former Marine killed a bear with a single blow — by tossing a log at its head.
The bear had snatched the family's cooler from their campsite in a national forest in northern Georgia. The 300-pound black bear was taking its loot back into the woods when Chris Everhart's 6-year-old son threw a shovel at it.
Everhart says the bear started charging, so he grabbed the first thing he could find, which happened to be a log from the family's firewood.
Everhart lobbed the chunk of wood, hitting the bear in the head and killing it.
"(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."
The close call earned Everhart bragging rights — and a ticket. Park authorities say he didn't properly secure his campsite.
© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
AUSTIN, Texas - A court has exonerated a man who spent 10 years in prison for a gang rape that DNA evidence later proved he did not commit.
The state Court of Criminal Appeals granted James Curtis Giles a writ of habeas corpus — a right to protest one's detention — making him the 13th Dallas County man cleared of a crime since 2001 with the help of DNA evidence.
The court ruled that "no rational jury" would have convicted Giles in light of new evidence indicating it was "another individual ... who committed the offense."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19374637
Bloomberg could have a shot, says Ralph Nader
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg could be the first modern independent candidate to break the stranglehold the two major parties have on the White House, two-time candidate Ralph Nader said Thursday.
Nader predicted in an interview on MSNBC’s “Hardball” that Bloomberg would join the race and would immediately start out with the support of at least 15 percent of voters.
“He’s running,” Nader told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, but he said Bloomberg, a billionaire media magnate, probably wouldn’t announce for several months because “when you have that kind of money, you can start late.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19355342
SHANGHAI, China - When financial crisis devastated its Asian neighbors a decade ago, China sat safely on the sidelines, its own markets and banks largely closed off from the world and insulated from the upheavals wracking more open economies.
But today, China could be ripe for a crisis of its own that might resemble the collapse of Japan’s “Bubble Economy” in the early 1990s — and have enormous global impact, analysts warn.
Just as in Japan at that time, stock and property prices here are soaring. Banks have lent billions to build malls, office towers and apartment buildings — although many remain unfilled.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19295719
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