A 2-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother were pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building on Tuesday in a dramatic rescue, nearly 48 hours after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake toppled some 2,000 buildings in eastern Turkey. Weary rescuers clapped and cheered as the baby was removed from the wreckage.
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A group of New York firefighters have always credited bookkeeper Josephine Harris with saving their lives after the World Trade Center attack. Nine years later they would return the favor, as a final salute.
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A man was incredibly lucky to be alive after his car flipped into a river near the Idaho-Washington border. The 20 year-old squeezed through the rear seats and into the trunk of his two-door Hyundai Tiburon as chill, fast-flowing waters engulfed all but 6 inches of head room, creating a life-saving air pocket.
Two social psychologists from UC-Berkeley, both avid basketball players themselves, recently analyzed 90 hours of televised pro basketball play. They looked at every team and every player in the league and concluded the teams that touch the most win the most -- and the individual players who touch the most perform the best.
Japanese soldiers discovered a crying 4-month-old baby buried beneath the rubble. She was swept from the arms of her parents by the tsunami but reunited with them shortly after her rescue.
Local police rescued an 80-year-old woman and her grandson from their collapsed home nine days after they became trapped following an earthquake-tsunami. The rescue is giving hope to people around the world.
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