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December 30, 2006
A personal account of queuing for King's Lessons and Carols service
Also, the programme for the service itself is well-worth reading.
While others are frantically tearing around the shops, Neil Hallows is one of a small but loyal group who spend the final days before Christmas braving the cold and damp to queue for the King's College carol service.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Queuing for King's
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Kofi Annan's farewell speech
Today I want to talk particularly about five lessons I have learnt in the last ten years, during which I have had the difficult but exhilarating role of secretary general.
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December 28, 2006
How to survive a plane crash
Most people believe that if they're in a plane crash their time is up. In fact the truth is surprisingly different. In the US alone, between 1983 and 2000, there were 568 plane crashes. Out of the collective 53,487 people onboard, 51,207 survived.
The advances in science and technology now mean over 90% of plane crashes have survivors. And there are many things you might consider to increase your chances of surviving such as:
• how to survive the moment of impact
• the life and death decisions you should make during the evacuation
• what to do if there is a fire onboard
• how to survive if your plane ditches into water
• statistically where you should sit to increase your chances of surviving.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | How to survive a plane crash
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December 27, 2006
Pastoring soldiers
The Reverend Andrew Martlew adds: "This is quite a difficult thing to say and an even more difficult thing to think, but almost by taking the Queen's Shilling we're putting elements of our consciences into cold storage.
"In order to help the guys we might be not necessarily economical with the truth, but we might want to give them encouragement and help rather than pull them down."
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | An army Christmas in Iraq
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December 16, 2006
TV cliches defined and cross-referenced
A team of characters build something that will pull everyone's bacon out of the fire. A montage is used to show each person exercising their speciality (usually without lines) in the pursuit of this goal.
The true "A Team Montage" will often include large quantities of Stock Footage. This can lead to humorous mistakes, such as an obvious set of black hands building the superweapon, even though Mr. T had been captured by bad guys.
Named after the 80's series The A Team, which had one such montage in every episode.
Special case of the Hard Work Montage, and similar to the Lock And Load Montage.
A Team Montage - Television Tropes & Idioms
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December 7, 2006
Tragedy and hope in the Solomons
With a reputation as peacemakers, the brotherhood were an obvious choice as mediators when the Solomon Islands became riven with violent ethnic rivalries in the late 1990s.
It was in that role that the brotherhood suffered its most tragic episode. Seven colleagues were killed at the hands of warlord Harold Keke.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tragedy and hope in the Solomons
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