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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<p><p><div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\">The people you're about to meet were face-to-face with death with just seconds to escape.<p>It seemed impossible that they could survive, and you won't believe how they did.<p>Click the links on the left to watch and listen to each story of a close call, or <a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28842139#28842139\" target=blank><b>click here to watch them all.</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Between a rock and a hard place</b><p>An exciting scramble up a 30-foot boulder landed one 11-year-old in a life-threatening trap. And the danger grew more desperate with each passing moment. <p><br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815860#28815860\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Base jump goes wrong</b><p>Basejumpers jump from a cliff top-- and glide through the air in a specially designed suit. The man you're about to meet knew that basejumping among mountain peaks can be dangerous, but he'd done it many times before. <p>This time, the flight went perfectly, until he opened his parachute. <p><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815872#28815872\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Rooftop fire rescue</b><p>For firefighters, danger comes with the job. That didn't make it any easier for some Kansas City firefighters, when they saw one of their own fall right onto a blazing rooftop. <p>Would they be able to reach him in time? <p><br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815888#28815888\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Girl trapped under concrete</b><p>A young woman's car plows into a concrete sewer pipe standing by the road. Somehow, she was thrown out of the car and  under the pipe. Amazingly, she was still alive in the rain-soaked ground. <p>But how do you move, an immovable object?   <p><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815881#28815881\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Ice rescue</b><p>A man walking his dog sees a horrifying sight in a freezing lake in winter: Some girls had fallen through the ice, and were flailing in the frigid waters. When he rushes to pull them out, he falls in himself. Rescuers can't locate him trapped under sheets of ice-- without some help from his dog. <p><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815882#28815882\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Jet engine nightmare</b><p>An aircraft carrier in wartime means crews working 24/7 in death-defying conditions. Accidents, injuries, and narrow escapes become almost routine. But no one had ever seen anything like what happened to one sailor-- and you wouldn't believe it either if we didn't have the pictures to prove it. <p><br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815883#28815883\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Cruise ship sinking</b><p>A cruise ship with hundreds of passengers goes through a violent storm, and suddenly the vessel was taking on water, fast. Many of the crew members abandoned ship in the first lifeboats, leaving chaos on board. The ship began to go down and there was little time left. What happened next was pure magic. <p><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815889#28815889\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a>";

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DTL_closecalls[i-1].body = "<div style=\"font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><class=\"textBodyBlack\"><font size=\"2\"><b>Shark attack</b><p>A man is trapped in an underwater cage, nose-to-nose with an extremely agitated great white shark?<p>It's our number one incredible close call. <p><br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28815873#28815873\" target=blank><b>Watch this story</b></a><p><i>Producer's note: Many of you wrote to Dateline inquiring whether the shark in this video survived. The shark did indeed live. The people aboard the boat turned the cage on its side and pushed the shark out so it could swim off to safety.</i>";

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