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Scruggs was the man who made it cool to sound like that.
Our obit of banjo player Earl Scruggs, dead, this week, at 88.
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I think the reports of my survival may be exaggerated. I’m in Babo Amr. Sickening, trying to understand how the world can stand by and I should be hardened by now. Watched a baby die today. Shrapnel, doctors could do nothing. His little tummy just heaved and heaved until it stopped. Feeling helpless. As well as cold! Will keep trying to get out the information.
Slain reporter Marie Colvin’s last dispatch, posted to a Facebook group for conflict journalists and rights reporters. She was killed this morning in a mortar attack.
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A video profile of the french journalist Gilles Jacquier, who was killed today while covering a pro-government rally in Syria. Jacqueir was one of many journalists in a pack being led by government representatives, and they were allegedly interviewing people when mortar shells began to fall around them. The majority ran into a nearby house. Jacquier didn’t make it. This video is in French, so we don’t know what they’re saying. If anyone speaks French, feel free to reblog with a quick one-line translation so we can get to know a bit more about him.
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The AP reports: “Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, “The Wizard of Oz,” has died. He was 93.” Above, the five surviving actors who played Munchkins in 1939’s Wizard of Oz—celebrating its 70th anniversary in October 2009, reveal set secrets and reflect on their roles in the Oscar-nominated film.
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(Source: jessbennett)
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OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
Steve Jobs’s final words.
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As long as I can find some speed and keep up with the pack, I’ll do everything I can to put on a show.
Dan Wheldon wrote this yesterday in USA Today previewing today’s Izod IndyCar World Championships. Wheldon died from injuries sustained in a 15-car pile-up that occured at the race.
