TIMELINESS- sarah palinPalin is expected to address "her past hunting experiences and how politics affects the current state of hunting and fishing."

RELEVANCE-micheal steele..... basicly this is a guy that is loosing something that is important to him....read the article

MAGNITUDE-   tornado in nebraskaThe top ten killer tornadoes in Nebraska history may surprise you. Most people from Nebraska have vivid memories of the Omaha tornado on May 6, 1975, or the Grand Island tornadoes of June 6, 1980. While these tornadoes did significant amounts of damage, they are not the a part of the top ten killer tornadoes. In fact, there has been only one tornado in Nebraska history that has killed 100 or more people. Since 1953, there has not been a tornado that has killed over 10 people.

UNEXPECTEDNESS- the craigslist killer basicly this is a guy that killed many women for certain reasons and he had the perfect life so he honestly didnt even need to kill anyone but he did it because he could. he was a streight A student in college and he was going to be a doctor and he was getting married and had like the perfect life but read why he killed people by finding them through a sex sight.

IMPACT-stories told from jail basicly these are stories from people that were in jail and what they had to experience and what they went throught and the people that they had to deal with are they guilty or not?

ODDITY- martial artsWomen, including teenage girls, are undergoing basic martial arts training like judo and karate here, to counter chain snatchers, robbers and eve-teasers.Housewives and young girls at... .

CONFLICT- FUNERAL PROTESTINGS so basicly people are starting to protest at funerals and this is WRONG!  i dont care what you did or what you didnt do. a funeral is a place for your family and this is caused conflict between people because it isnt right...read this article.

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EMOTIONS-  mining in chillenyone else fascinated by the mine rescue going on in Chile?  Everytime I see the coverage I get tears in my eyes, it is so moving.  Can you imagine a loved one trapped down in the mine for so long and finally being reunited with them?!?!?  The ones with young kids are the images that really get me going.

I just have to say that with all the bad news we hear every day it is nice to turn on the TV to good news!

PROGRESS- progress in iranMy local paper hadn't reported on this, and it caught me completely by surprise. I know very little about Tunisia, except that it is known to be especially repressive toward speech and journalists, and like many North African countries, has very high youth unemployment (even for university graduates). Apparently, Tunisia and the US have quite good relations. How do you think this will turn out? Will this reach a level of publicity similar to the protests/democratic movement in Iran?