'13' in the news

Thirteen is enough for this new mom
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Forget twins, triplets, quadruplets or even sextuplets.

One new dog mom here in town has a lot of work ahead with 13 newborns to raise.


Thirteen cats saved from Grand Blanc Township house fire
Fire ripped through the small, one-story Reid Road home, and firefighters rushed inside to save lives.

Still, this was a little different. The homeowner at 3200 Reid Road made it out of the burning home unscathed. Her 15 cats were trapped inside. Firefighters managed to get the cats out of the house, but two died of smoke inhalation.


Ever wonder what the thirteen greatest error messages of all times are?
In principle, 404 File Not Found should be one of the dreariest of errors; in fact, many sites take it as an opportunity to be creative. For instance, check out Hulu's page. And The New Yorker's. And this one. And this one. There's even 404 poetry.


Theater Reviews: ... 'Thirteen the Musical'
Jason Robert Brown can't catch a break. He may be the only composer of the 40-ish generation who can take pop and rock sounds and fashion them into a genuine, musically original and downright catchy show tune. But somehow his shows, for all their virtues, sink rather than swim with the New York critics, and thus the public.

In Thirteen, he and librettists Dan Elish and Robert Horn have fashioned an unpretentious tale about Evan, a New York boy about to turn 13.While he's planning a big bar mitzvah, his parents divorce, and his mother moves him to Indiana. In trying to fit in, he betrays the two real friends he makes.


Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
With a political changing of the guard in progress and recent reason to focus more keenly on domestic issues, there is no better time than now to read Jay Parini's Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America. Parini's book about books explores the way literature has shaped American culture and sparked important political and social change.

Parini explains how he decided to write Promised Land after attending a lecture in London, titled “Twelve Books that Changed the World.” All of the chosen books were English books, a fact that got Parini considering which books have been the most influential in American history. He explains that he wasn't concerned with writing a book about the “greatest” American books. Rather, he sought out the books that “played a role in shaping the nation's idea of itself or that consolidated and defined a major trend.”


Thirteen-Plus and Thirty-one-Plus
The Sri Lankan Government's decision to proscribe the LTTE after a six-year gap comes in the wake of a similar ban existing already in 31 other countries, starting with the immediate Indian neighbour. Accompanied by the oft-repeated promises that the Government would simultaneously work on a power-devolution package based on the Thirteenth Amendment, the ban raises both questions and hopes of a political solution to end the ethnic war and violence.

The ban comes a year after the Government unilaterally abrogated the Norwegian-facilitated ceasefire agreement (CFA). Post-ban, the Government has reiterated willingness to talk if the LTTE surrendered arms and renounced terrorism.


Alcoa to cut 13 pct of global work force
Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. is cutting roughly 13 percent of its global work force by the end of the year as it slashes costs in the face of a deteriorating world economy.


How Hannah, 13, fought off a shark
"It brought her up to the top again and I paddled over to her and tried to push it with the board and tried to hit it but I don't think it felt it really. It was a pretty big shark - a monster.

"It would have had two goes at her. She's lucky she didn't lose her leg.


Nigeria: Nasarawa's 13-Point Agenda Needs Liver - AC Guber Candidate
Now, taking the issues you have raised, at the federal level, we have a 7-point agenda, and the Nasarawa State government has 13-point agenda, all these should be geared around development, creating opportunities, creating the atmosphere and providing services to the people. So, if you look back at them within the state, they centre towards education, agriculture, employment, empowerment of youths and women and the rest.

Taking them one at a time, you will see that in the field of development, for instance, or creating opportunities for employment, what has the government done towards that direction? That is the way to analyse the remaining points.


More charged in alleged Turkish coup plot, 13 freed
They formed part of a group of 33 people detained Wednesday in a nationwide swoop as part of an investigation into the "Ergenekon" network, suspected of laying the groundwork for a putsch to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Thirteen other people held in the operation Wednesday were released. Among them were two retired four star generals and a former senior official in the national security council.


No. 13 California routs Washington 62-34
Ashley Walker scored 14 of her 20 points in the first half and pulled down 10 rebounds and No. 13 California won its fifth straight game with a lackluster 62-34 victory over Washington on Sunday.


Phoenix airport traffic plunged 13% in November
Passenger traffic at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix plunged nearly 13% in November due to the weak economy and dramatic flight cutbacks by airlines.