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    Boy Hailed As Hero For Saving Sister’s Life
    After a bad crash on Highway 26 near Government Camp the boy saw his sister bleeding from her head and grabbed some towels to put pressure on the wound.

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    Farewell to a hero
    For generations of peace activists, Al Fishman seemed somehow indestructible. It was easy to sort of imagine that he would always be on the job, trying to make this a better, more just and less violent world.

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    Majors’ Flick the game-winning hero
    Just like that, the St. Michael’s Majors shoved a potentially difficult situation to the curb.

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    Time Magazine ‘Hero of the Planet’ to give free lecture Monday in Pleasanton
    Dr. L. Hunter Lovins, named Time magazine’s Millenium “Hero of the Planet” for her efforts to promote sustainable development, will speak Monday at the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton.

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    Pet Pointers: Hero dogs
    Just about every pet parent believes their pet is special and it’s probably true. But is your dog a hero? Today I’ll tell you more about the first annual Hero dog awards in this edition of Pet Pointers.

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    Family of Fallen Hero Gives Back
    A local restaurant served up some not-so-ordinary cuisine for an extraordinary cause.

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    McDonald 11th-inning hero for Jays
    A little more than a month ago, Toronto Blue Jays fans were luxuriating in the pre-season hype about the club’s starting rotation: young, robust and bound for glory.

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    New hero will delight Preston, Child fans
    GIDEON’S SWORD, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, New York, Grand Central Publishing, 2011, hardcover, 352 pages, $26.99. The writing team of Douglas Preston, who lives in midcoast Maine, and Lincoln Child have returned with a brand-new hero. Actually, make that an anti-hero. Gideon Crew spent his formative years developing …

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    Keokuk deputy heralded as selfless hero
    SIGOURNEY, Iowa – In What Cheer Saturday morning, people got dressed in their best to go pay him their respects. In Garrett Cemetery a few miles south, a man in a backhoe dug his grave. In Sigourney that afternoon, thousands of people packed the gym of the high school in one of the communities he [...]

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    At Auction, the Treasures of a Tycoon War Hero
    A Parisian’s haute bourgeois aspirations led him to buy a commode said to be Catherine the Great’s, and furnishings you might spot in Versailles.

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