This Week in Death brings you: Notes from around the pool! We already stuck our toe in and the water is perfect... So come on in as we take you from the shallow to the deep end, and catch you up on all the news you need to know to be an educated death pool competitor.
We at TWID are pro health-care. That's correct, we care about health...
He Lives Downstairs and It's Understood.... Castro in Charge of Me!
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday his friend and political ally Fidel Castro is "in charge" again nearly nine months after undergoing intestinal surgery. The Cuban leader has not been seen in public since before July 31, when he announced he had undergone surgery and provisionally ceded power to his younger brother Raul.
[CBS 4]
Not Simply a Lean Mean Gryllsing Machine
Bear Grylls has been plagued with back pain for over ten years - for which he only recently found an effective treatment. More worryingly, he also suffers from high levels of cholesterol, caused by a genetic disease which killed his father and grandfather - and which poses as much of a danger to him as his Boys' Own exploits.
[Daily Mail]
The Best bin Laden Plans of Mice and Men
A Taliban military commander says Osama bin Laden helped plan the deadly suicide car bombing outside Bagram Air Base targeting a "very important American official," apparently referring to Vice President Dick Cheney. Referring to bin Laden, Dadullah told the Arab-language network al-Jazeera, "Praise be to God he is still alive, and we have information about him and praise be to God he orchestrates plans in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
We at TWID are pro health-care. That's correct, we care about health...
He Lives Downstairs and It's Understood.... Castro in Charge of Me!
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday his friend and political ally Fidel Castro is "in charge" again nearly nine months after undergoing intestinal surgery. The Cuban leader has not been seen in public since before July 31, when he announced he had undergone surgery and provisionally ceded power to his younger brother Raul.
[CBS 4]
Not Simply a Lean Mean Gryllsing Machine
Bear Grylls has been plagued with back pain for over ten years - for which he only recently found an effective treatment. More worryingly, he also suffers from high levels of cholesterol, caused by a genetic disease which killed his father and grandfather - and which poses as much of a danger to him as his Boys' Own exploits.
[Daily Mail]
The Best bin Laden Plans of Mice and Men
A Taliban military commander says Osama bin Laden helped plan the deadly suicide car bombing outside Bagram Air Base targeting a "very important American official," apparently referring to Vice President Dick Cheney. Referring to bin Laden, Dadullah told the Arab-language network al-Jazeera, "Praise be to God he is still alive, and we have information about him and praise be to God he orchestrates plans in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
[CNN]
Red symbolizes? Death.
He Picked Avis, but God Still Picked Him Up
Warren E. Avis, a Michigan car dealership owner who, frustrated at waiting for taxis outside airports, founded a chain of car rental agencies and turned it into the nation's second biggest, died yesterday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 92.
[New York Times]
... It's HERBIE Hancock
Josh Hancock, a relief pitcher who helped the team win the World Series last season, died early Sunday when his sport utility vehicle slammed into the back of a tow truck. "There's a big hole that's going to be there," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said. "This is brutal to go through."
[ESPN]
Valenti's Death was Rated R for Strong Violent Content and Disturbing Images
Jack Valenti was not just Hollywood's top lobbyist. He was one of its biggest stars. The 85-year-old Valenti, who died Thursday of complications from a stroke in March, led the movie industry out of the prudishness of old Hollywood and into an age of freer expression with the creation of the film rating system that has endured nearly 40 years.
[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
He Doesn't Do the Monster Mash; Ipso Facto It is Not a Smash
Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69.
[CNN]
Pulitzer Prize Possessor Painfully Pulverized
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam has died in a car accident in Menlo Park, California, near San Francisco, the San Mateo County coroner's office said Monday. The driver is a student at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where Halberstam had spoken Saturday about the craft of journalism, the Associated Press reported.
[CNN]
He was an Oscar Mayer Wiener and Everyone was in Love with Him
Harold Max Mayer, former chairman of Oscar Mayer and Company, who helped oversee the company's sale in 1981, died Friday at his home here. He was 90. He died in his sleep, according to Donnellan Family Funeral Services.
[New York Times]
Oh... What a Feeling, When We're Dying on the Ceiling
The Commissioner's Council
Red symbolizes? Death.
He Picked Avis, but God Still Picked Him Up
Warren E. Avis, a Michigan car dealership owner who, frustrated at waiting for taxis outside airports, founded a chain of car rental agencies and turned it into the nation's second biggest, died yesterday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 92.
[New York Times]
... It's HERBIE Hancock
Josh Hancock, a relief pitcher who helped the team win the World Series last season, died early Sunday when his sport utility vehicle slammed into the back of a tow truck. "There's a big hole that's going to be there," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said. "This is brutal to go through."
[ESPN]
Valenti's Death was Rated R for Strong Violent Content and Disturbing Images
Jack Valenti was not just Hollywood's top lobbyist. He was one of its biggest stars. The 85-year-old Valenti, who died Thursday of complications from a stroke in March, led the movie industry out of the prudishness of old Hollywood and into an age of freer expression with the creation of the film rating system that has endured nearly 40 years.
[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
He Doesn't Do the Monster Mash; Ipso Facto It is Not a Smash
Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69.
[CNN]
Pulitzer Prize Possessor Painfully Pulverized
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam has died in a car accident in Menlo Park, California, near San Francisco, the San Mateo County coroner's office said Monday. The driver is a student at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where Halberstam had spoken Saturday about the craft of journalism, the Associated Press reported.
[CNN]
He was an Oscar Mayer Wiener and Everyone was in Love with Him
Harold Max Mayer, former chairman of Oscar Mayer and Company, who helped oversee the company's sale in 1981, died Friday at his home here. He was 90. He died in his sleep, according to Donnellan Family Funeral Services.
[New York Times]
Oh... What a Feeling, When We're Dying on the Ceiling
The Commissioner's Council
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