Reeves, Robert.(Capital Region)

EAST GREENBUSH Dr. Robert Richard Reeves, D.C. died on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at Saratoga Hospital. He was a resident at Wesley Health Care Center in Saratoga Springs for 21 years, but his home was in East Green-bush, N.Y. Robert was a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa and practiced chiropractic in Rensselaer and East Greenbush. He had also served as a corporal in the US Army prior to attending college. Dr. Reeves was the son of the late Dr. Ernest and Martha (Dill) Reeves, and the beloved husband for 50 years of Marilyn (Mader) Reeves. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sister, Betty (John) Rosenberger; his sister-in-law, Emily …

`TITANIC' FALL GUY VOORHEESVILLE NATIVE WAS A STUNT MAN FOR THE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE BY PAUL GRONDAHL STAFF WRITER.(LIFE & LEISURE)

As a stunt man working six weeks on the blockbuster film ``Titanic'' at a colossal shoreline studio in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, Voorheesville native Bobby Burns quickly learned to avoid the bottom of the pile.

Burns was one of dozens of stunt specialists who slid and did free falls down the decks during the ship's final, cataclysmic moments after it broke in half, causing the rear section to pitch sharply and bob stern-up before disappearing into the deep.

``I was sliding down the deck, which was pitched very steeply, maybe 40 degrees, and I just started going faster and faster, picking up speed,'' Burns said recently by telephone from his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

``There were so many people sliding down in such a small area, you just knew it was going to be a wreck at the bottom and you're doing your best not to crash into somebody else or a railing or a bench,'' Burns said. ``I ended up on the bottom of the pile just once. It was a serious thumper. I was bruised and banged up …

Iran marks anniversary of failed US rescue attempt

Hundreds of Iranians on Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of a failed U.S. military operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran, with prayers and words of defiance for Washington.

The 1980 rescue attempt _ called Operation Eagle Claw _ turned into a major embarrassment for the U.S. when an American helicopter collided with a C-130 transport plane at a desert landing spot during a sandstorm. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed.

As in years past, hundreds of hardline Iranians, many of them members of the paramilitary Basij volunteers, gathered at the crash site, some 370 miles (600 kilometers) southeast of Tehran, to celebrate the failed rescue.

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Talking about shopping

GOD, MONEY AND ME

In the retail shopping world, the dog days of summer are no longer known as "August," but rather "back-to-school." This has become the year's second largest seasonal shopping event behind "winter holidays" (not "Christmas"). Advertising campaigns have made the link between these high seasons of shopping, suggesting that back-to-school for parents is "the most wonderful time of the year."

When Statistics Canada reported that sales edged up slightly in May, retailers anticipated a stronger back-to-school shopping season. This wasn't the case in the United States, where the National Retail Federation (NRF) predicted a slight dip in back-to-school …

HITS tackles `unwired' markets. (Upfront: latest news and insight).(AT&T Broadband's Headend The Sky)(Brief Article)

Giving rural, operators a new weapon for a war with DBS, WSNet and AT&T Broadband's Headend In The Sky (HITS) have teamed to enable cable operators to offer digital, programming via …

Study results from Brigham and Women's Hospital in the area of colon cancer published.

"Lynch syndrome (also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer) is associated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer, which can arise despite frequent colonoscopic exams. We evaluated the adenoma miss rate of conventional colonoscopy in patients with Lynch syndrome, and compared the sensitivity of chromoendoscopy versus intensive inspection for detecting polyps missed by conventional colonoscopy," researchers in the United States report (see also Colon Cancer).

"Fifty-four subjects with Lynch syndrome underwent tandem colonoscopies at four centers of the Great Lakes- New U.K. Clinical Epidemiology and Validation Center of the Early Detection Research …

Spa Catholic honor roll.(Capital Region)

The following students received honors during the second quarter at Saratoga Central Catholic High School in Saratoga Springs.

HIGHEST HONORS

90 or above quarterly average and having no course grade lower than 90:

Kaelan Anderson, Melissa Angelini, Katherine Bedard, David Bedard, Irene Benton, Tara Britton, Jenna Carson, Erin Cook, Benjamin Curtin-Phillips, Elisa DiMauro, Athena Drellos, Christopher Flinton, Katherine Horgan, Jeremy Kelly, Ryan Kramer, Julia Larson, Rebecca Lavoie, Katherine Lenz, Shao Bo Ma, Nicole Martin, Meghan Michael, Brendan Michael, Sophia Monroe, Ashley Morere, Jeffrey Pompa, Deanna Schwarz, Maxwell Sergovich, Kyle Stevens, …