> >Darwin Awards............
> >
> >These are nearly always granted posthumously. This citation is
> >bestowed upon those individuals, who through
> >single-minded self-sacrifice, have done the most to remove  "their"
> >undesirable elements from the human gene pool.
> >
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> >     [San Jose Mercury News]
> >
> >     An unidentified man, using a shotgun like
> >     a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot
> >     himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
> >
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> >     [UPI, Toronto]
> >
> >    Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a
> >    downtown  Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his
> >    shoulder and  plunged 24 floors to his death.
> >
> >    A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the
> >    Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining
> >    the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students.
> >
> >    Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength
> >    according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the
> >    firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was
> >     ``one of the best and brightest'' members of the 200-man association.
> >
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> >     [AP, Cairo, Egypt, 31 Aug 1995] CAIRO, Egypt (AP) --
> >
> >     Six people  drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had
> >     fallen into a well in southern Egypt.
> >
> >     An 18-year-old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well.
> >     He drowned, apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled him
> >     down, police said.
> >
> >     His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in
> >     one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came
> >     to  help, but they apparently were pulled down by the same undercurrent.
> >
> >     The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the
> >     village  of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo.
> >
> >     The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
> >
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