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Chilean miners send letters, thoughts on moral relativism to loved-ones

it's a bit like hell down thereAs hopes rise for an earlier-than-expected rescue, the thirty-three miners trapped 700 metres below the surface in the San José copper-gold mine in northern Chile sent messages of love, hope, and meta-ethics to their families and friends above.

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Posted: Aug 29th, 2012
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Raoul Moat ‘still not suitable for quiz question’

Insufficient time has elapsed for crazed Northumbrian gunman Raoul Moat to be used as a pub quiz question, an official report has ruled.

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Posted: Dec 11th, 2010
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Last Chilean miner ‘may have left iron on’

fed the goldfish, though‘I had a list of things to do before I left – pour away the unused milk, switch-off the lights, tidy all the newspapers. But I just can’t remember if I switched the iron off.’

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Posted: Oct 14th, 2010
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Worldwide celebration as first Chilean miners’ conspiracy theory unearthed

Sociology lecturers and people with slightly too much time on their hands have expressed their deep joy at the first conspiracy theory being pulled out, unscathed, from ‘a deep well of implausibility.’

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Posted: Oct 14th, 2010
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Chilean miners told ‘send the gold up first’

33 carat goldEngineers have insisted that the miners first load the specially-designed rescue capsule with large amounts of gold.

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Posted: Oct 12th, 2010
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