Sergei Belov, Star Guard Who Led Soviet Upset of US, Dies at 69
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/sports/basketball/sergei-belov-69-star-guard-who-led-soviet-upset-of-us-dies.html
Published: October 3, 2013. Sergei Belov, a Russian basketball star who led the Soviet national team in its controversial gold medal victory over the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, died on Thursday in Perm, Russia. He was 69.
Vietnamese General Who Led Fight Against US, France, Dies
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/04/229192117/vietnamese-general-who-led-fight-against-u-s-france-dies
Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded the defeat of French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu and the Tet Offensive that turned many Americans against the Vietnam War, has died at 102. Giap, whose legacy in Vietnam is second only to ...
Man who spent 4 decades in prison dies week after release
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/04/freed-prisoner-dies/2923529/
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A 71-year-old man who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement in Louisiana died Friday, less than a week after a judge freed him and granted him a new trial. Herman Wallace's attorneys said he died at a supporter's ...
Satellite Maps Reveal Who's to Blame for the Sinking of Venice
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/satellites-map-sinking-venice/
The portion of sinking in Venice from 2008-2011 attributed to present human activity. Red areas indicate increased sinking and green areas show where human activity has worked to reduce the natural sinking. Blue box inset detail below. Map composed in ...
NY mom who killed her 3 kids wants part of their estate
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57606016/n.y-mom-who-killed-her-3-kids-wants-part-of-their-estate/
Now the 33-year-old suburban New York woman who was found not guilty because of mental disease or defect in the deaths of her children, ages 1, 5 and 6, wants a portion of their $350,000 estate. Her attorneys say she shouldn't be subject to laws that ...
Va. Man Who Set up Fund Meets Boston Homeless Man
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/va-man-set-fund-meets-boston-homeless-man-20475948
The honesty of a homeless man who handed a lost, cash-filled backpack over to police has inspired more than $150,000 in donations to a fund set up in his honor, the fund's organizer said Friday. Ethan Whittington, of Midlothian, Va., traveled to Boston ...
The docs who keep zoo's baby gorilla in the pink
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-docs-who-keep-zoo-s-baby-gorilla-in-the-pink-4867808.php
Dr. Elizabeth Rogers handled the infant like a pro: tapping her ankles to check her reflexes, testing her grip when she wrapped a tiny fist around the doctor's finger, tickling the little one to elicit a laugh. Even when the baby pooped on Rogers' arm ...
Irish cadets who performed at JFK funeral to offer final salute
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57606089/irish-cadets-who-performed-at-jfk-funeral-to-offer-final-salute/
The cadets were from Ireland, fresh-faced 18- and 19-year-olds who, just a day earlier, had been whisked from their barracks on a remote, wind-swept plain in County Kildare to travel, along with Irish President Eamon de Valera, to Washington for the ...
