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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","She survived tree branch that impaled her neck ","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090918/tdy_norah_branch_090918.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b> She survived tree branch that impaled her neck </b><p>Michelle Childers, 20, was enjoying a weekend drive with her husband when a tree branch, more than an inch thick and 18 inches long, came through the window and lodged in her neck. Surgeons took six hour to remove it. \"I don't know how I'm still alive,\" she said Friday.<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32911824/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"   http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32912382#32912382\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","After 8 days adrift, rescuers seemed like illusion","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090831/tdy_vieira_boaters_090831.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>After 8 days adrift, rescuers seemed like illusion</b><p>Tressel Hawkins, one of three Texas boaters who spent eight days clinging to their capsized catamaran, said they experienced hallucinations before a boater spotted them. When one finally did, \"My first reaction was, is this really real?\" Hawkins said.<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32624883/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"   http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32625059#32625059\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","He was trapped in a sand dune","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/__NEW/tdy_lauer_sand_090828.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>He barely escaped collapsing sand hole alive</b><p>James Boyden, 17, was digging in the sand on a Rhode Island beach when the hole he was in fell in on him, nearly smothering him. Rescuers rigged an oxygen tank to keep him breathing until they could extricate him. \"It got in my mouth, it got in my lungs,\" the boy said.<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21083802/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"   http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32594189#32594189\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Woman: I was held hostage by my ex-husband","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090720/tdy_vieira_wife_090720.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Woman: I was held hostage by my ex-husband</b><p>\"The only way this marriage was going to end was by death,\" is what Nancy Tyler said her ex-husband, Richard Shenkman, told her as she described a terrifying hostage ordeal in which he abducted her at gunpoint, handcuffed her to a wall, and set the house on fire.<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32006409/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"   http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32006780#32006780\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Hero brothers pulled boy, 4, out of burning SUV</b><p>\"It was horrific\" is how Joel Rechlitz described the scene when he and his brother, fellow off-duty firefighter John Rechlitz, helped pull a 4-year-old boy out of a blazing, overturned SUV that had also trapped the child's mother and 2-year-old brother. The brothers burned their hands on melting metal freeing the child, who is expected to recover.<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32006584/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32006843#32006843\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Boy okay after tree branch skewered his neck","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090617/tdy_gregory_boy_090617.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Boy is OK after tree branch skewered his neck</b><p>Garret Mullikin, 12, was riding a dirt bike for the first time when he fell off it - and onto a thick tree branch that drove into his neck and through his lung. Now recovering after emergency surgery, he said he feels \"a lot better than when I got the stick in my neck.\"<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31403630/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\" http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/31403763#31403763\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Boy, 10, impaled on bike handle","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090610/tdy_lauer_bike2_090610.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Boy, 10, OK after being impaled on bike handle</b><p>Alex Romero was riding his bike in the rain when he hopped off a curb and fell - right on the brake handle, which lodged itself 6 inches inside him. \"At first I thought it just poked me,\" he said. \"Then I looked down, and I started to freak out.\"<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31202355/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/31203660#31203660\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","He lost fingers saving his dog from gator attack","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-tdy-090723-gator-5a.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "289", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>He lost fingers saving his dog from gator attack</b><p>Mandy, a 45-pound Wheaten terrier, was snatched by a 7-foot alligator at the edge of a backyard pond in Florida. Her owner, David Grounds, rushed in and pried the alligator's jaws open. He next jabbed the alligator in the eye to get the gator to release Mandy -- a tactic that worked -- and then the gator grabbed Grounds' right hand and snapped off parts of his index and ring fingers. \"It wasn't a bad trade,\" said Grounds, 66. \"Mandy for two fingers.\"<p><b><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32101001/\" target=\"blank\">Read the story</a><br><a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32101779#32101779\" target=\"blank\">Watch the video</a></b>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Boy, 14, survives lightning strike to head ","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090608/tdy_lauer_lightning_090608.hlarge.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Boy, 14, survives lightning strike to head </b><p>\"What's the worst that could happen?\" Austin Melton, 14, recalls saying before walking out across an Oregon high school playground during a storm. Then he survived a direct hit from a lightning bolt. \"Some people are calling me Miracle Boy, but I kind of like Sparky,\" he joked.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31165312/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/> <br><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('31165830','5b33b54f-7c0e-4227-9ff4-39e0456483a5')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>She pulled her husband from jaws of a shark</b><p>Luis Hernandez was spearfishing on vacation in the Bahamas when a shark grabbed him by the arm and wouldn't let go. Though he outweighs his wife Marlene by 50 pounds, she pulled him out of the water and into their boat. \"God came from heaven and gave her strength,\" Hernandez said.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30883955/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/> <br><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('30884490','94904c28-0f47-433c-a616-c52c63027248')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Toddler OK after pencil lodges through his neck","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090513/tdy_vieira_pencil_090513.hlarge.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Toddler OK after pencil lodges through his neck</b><p>Auston Banks, 18 months old, picked up a pencil on a playground, then collided with a girl on a swing. The collision jammed the pencil into the back of his throat, but miraculously, he survived. \"It's the best thing I could ask for with the worst thing that could happen to me,\" the tot's mother said.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30718479//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/> <br><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('30720371','45bd5461-267d-4372-967b-a2c0f642707e')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Fleeing a bear, pregnant woman is hit by car","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090429/tdy_vieira_bear_090429.hlarge.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "TODAY", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Fleeing a bear, pregnant woman is hit by car</b><p>Talk about a bad day: First Ashley Swendsen was chased by a 225-pound bear. Then, as she fled, the mother-to-be was hit by a car that didn't even stop. Fortunately, she and her baby are OK - but some blame her for the bear's being euthanized.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30476218/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><br><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('30473559','cbb7ad1d-b0b7-4e26-88c9-546eda91e616')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>'Miracle mom' home after waking from coma</b><p>With his wife in a seemingly irreversible coma, Michael Smith brought his children to the hospital  to say goodbye. But when Lori Smith's 8-year-old daughter Megan said, \"Mom, move your eyes,\" the \"miracle mom\" responded.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29462994//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('29464662','39dde9cc-1f0e-4b14-93cc-a661ec1b6de4')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","He survived after bungee cord broke","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090220/tdy_morales_bungee2_090220.hlarge.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>He survived broken bungee cord, river plunge</b><p>An extreme sport had an extreme result for Mark Afforde: His cord broke when he bungee-jumped 300 feet from the Canyon Creek Bridge in Washington state and he fell another 25 feet into the water. Amazingly, he waded out under his own power.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29298586//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('29298064','93f7f67d-c100-4dd1-b986-28633e2e4d4b')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>&#145;Call him Officer Lazarus: Cop survives flatlining twice</b><p>Fifty-two-year-old Ken Kirby, a South Carolina police officer, suffered a massive heart attack on Dec. 27. Doctors worked feverishly to revive him, but he flatlined twice and they thought he was dead &#151; until a nurse detected a pulse. Now they call him &#147;Officer Lazarus.&#148;<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28871606//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('28871834','2fde79d1-f599-4973-9f23-02789dd575d7')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Miracle on Hudson survivors","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090116/tdy_lauer_family_090116.hlarge.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Survivors of Flight 1549:&#145;It&#146;s great to be alive today&#146;</b><p>As federal investigators continued their probe into whether a flock of birds caused the pilot of a passenger jetliner to ditch the plane into the icy Hudson River, survivors of Flight 1549 were only too happy Friday to share their stories of survival and thank the heroic crew and rescuers.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28689913//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('28689401','557575fa-5773-42fa-83b6-0698a3871c73')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>&#145;Rage in a cage: Divers recount shark attack</b><p>Two divers off the coast of Mexico thought they were safe inside their protective cage &#151; until a great white shark invaded the enclosure snout-first and began tearing it apart. &#147;I definitely thought it was over,&#148; one said.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28174468//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('28174089','038a1d4c-d3b6-434f-8a54-8bb2d8174819')\"> Watch the video</a><b/><p><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28179133//\"target=\"_blank\">View photos from their dangerous dive</a><b/>";

tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i++] = new Array("","Teen cougar attack","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/081124/tdy_lauer_cougar_081124.hlarge.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "273", "364", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>&#145;It&#146;s biting me!&#146; Teen recalls cougar attack</b><p>Amanda Gomez, 16, displayed the 23 staples doctors used to put her scalp together after she was attacked by a cougar that was supposedly tame. A neighbor and her mother helped get the cat off her: &#147;It happened really fast.&#148; <br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27888057//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('27887667','ee6583fe-dec2-449d-bf7c-1d4cb117fee5')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Snorkeler, 5, tells how he nearly &#145;drown-ded&#146;</b><p>Nicholas Rilling went into a three-day coma after spending some 8 minutes underwater without oxygen during a snorkeling mishap on a family vacation: &#147;That thing that helps you breathe was under water ... and I was at the bottom of the ocean.&#148;<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27696364//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><br><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('27696479','ea1f44bc-863d-472f-bf63-07701dcfef92')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'> <b>Climber: 'Dying never entered my mind'</b><p>Derek Mamoyac, who survived five days on a mountain in Washington state with a broken ankle by eating insects, credited willpower and instinct for keeping him alive: &#147;Me sitting there dying never, ever entered the back of my mind.&#148;<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27318016//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('27318601','69077eaf-7a5b-4def-9ea9-2dc3b4014b95')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>  <b>Bear attack victim: 'I scared it'</b><p>Petra Davis doesn&#146;t remember much about the bear attack that nearly took her life during an Alaska bike race last July. Though she's mostly recovered from her terrible injuries, she admits, &#147;I don&#146;t know about riding my bike in the dark again.\"<p><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27276527//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('27276957','516c8277-6a9f-4eeb-9c0d-cbc4f04500a5')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'><b>Gator victim gets new high-tech hand</b><p>&#147;Getting a helping hand&#148; took on a whole new meaning for Kasey Edwards Monday when he received a new, high-tech hand to replace the one he lost to a hungry alligator in June. &#147;That&#146;s awesome,&#148; he said as he flexed the new, lifelike prosthesis.<br><b><a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27160516//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('27159903','425ba6e1-7dfa-4d28-97ce-cf871e9efd68')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'><b>Shock! He survived lightning at gas pump</b><p>A dramatic surveillance video captured the vivid flash of lightning that shocked William Hall just as he was pumping gasoline:  \"I couldn&#146;t move ... it was very scary.&#148; But he came away with a bump on his head and a bruised elbow.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27045628//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('27046130','074bed5e-8432-4696-b322-6439b0ade420')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'><b>Man cut in two by train: 'Life is good'</b><p>Cut in half under a moving rail car, Truman Duncan survived massive injuries and even called 911. Today he has returned to a full life and has a message for soldiers and others who have survived traumatic injuries like his: \"Life is good. Life goes on.\"<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26834245//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('26834810','7eef1d2e-15f3-421a-a9d6-b5e226d2e4e4')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'><b>'Angels' helped 6-year-old who lost hand</b><p><p><p>A year after 6-year-old Erica Rix lost her hand in an accident, she appeared on TODAY to show that she is doing well. She can now use her hand, which was surgically reattached last year. \"Scar tissue is our biggest struggle these days,\" said her mom Allison Rix.<p>Last year, the accident cut off her hand, and at that time, passers-by quickly stepped in to recover the severed hand and save the child's life. <p><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26850113//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href= http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32731725#32731725\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video</a>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'><b>Thinking of kids kept pinned mom alive</b><p>Amber Pennell said it was her children and her husband that kept her alive during five days pinned in a mangled truck at the bottom of a hidden ravine: &#147;The thoughts of them is what kept me going.&#148;<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26640289//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('26638169','8f6362a6-c632-48ef-b12e-c7295df8e40a')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'><b>Disney motto saved dad, son in sea</b><p>Swept out to sea with his 12-year-old autistic son Christopher, Walter Marino relied on phrases from Disney movies to help them both survive in the pitch-dark waters overnight. &#147;I kept screaming, &#145;To infinity ...  and beyond!&#146; &#148; Marino said.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26639098//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('26638206','4f419152-bf4b-4bf6-99cb-5015e4234128')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>Shot in the back of the head during a robbery at a Manning, S.C., laundry just two weeks ago, clerk Heather Brammer is convinced that it&#146;s a miracle she is alive today: &#147;I don't know any other way to describe it,&#148; she said.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26604942//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('26605359','f8b76204-9ab1-48f0-bd2a-2b6a91d9ffef')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>Kenny Anderson was at his usual dining spot in Wilkesboro, N.C., when an out-of-control minivan smashed through the window he was sitting by and sent him and his booth flying. Mostly unhurt, he said, &#147;All of a sudden, everything was on top of me.&#148;<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25782743//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('25780363','8c92352c-d992-4256-be97-aa544bcff9f0')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>George Chandler, 60, chuckled about a friend's accidentally firing a 2 1/2-inch nail into his head during a home fix-it job on Friday &#151; but doctors who pulled it out with a claw hammer say a millimeter&#146;s difference would have made it no laughing matter.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25091319//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('25092487','cf18dc77-06de-4d74-926f-b2013c26af7f')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>One-month-old Macie Hope McCartney is aptly named: Given only a one-in-10 chance of surviving surgery to remove a grapefruit-size tumor stealing her life in the womb, she was taken out, operated on, and returned safely &#151; and born again 10 weeks later.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24999650//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('25000117','37ed72f2-127c-47e4-9cbf-6565ba1c1b2e')\"> Watch the video</a><b/><p><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25004390//target=&#148;_blank&#148;>View photos</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>In the history of weaponry, the dull-edged butter knife hasn&#146;t ranked high on the list of weapons of choice. But don&#146;t tell that to Tyler Hemmert, an 11-year-old Vancouver boy who needed doctors to remove a butter knife from his head.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24156848//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('24155381','994b8c39-92dd-445d-b831-7456f0b444d2')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>Rookie NASCAR driver Michael McDowell might have seen his young life flash before his eyes. There just wasn't any time.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23993907//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('23990776','e49d441a-ed26-46ea-b914-ed539528cb37')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>Zack Dunlap doesn&#146;t remember much from the day he died, but he does remember hearing a doctor declare him brain-dead. And he remembers being incredibly ticked off.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23775873//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('23775698','4107c400-ab32-411e-a360-7b007be9d193')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>Paul John Schalow is a 10-year-old who loves riding ATVs in the wilds of Arizona, and he&#146;s not going to stop just because the last time he went he was attacked by a rabid mountain lion.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23592238//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('23588190','d4f1293a-d745-4671-81fb-82329ee427c4')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>Students describe what it was like during the monster storm that ravaged their Tennessee university campus, causing an estimated $30 million in damage but sparing human life.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23047574//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('23046154','1aad1905-4815-4022-b7d6-e6e8fe359197')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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tdy_TalesOfSurvival[i-1].body = "<div style='font-family : Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;'><class='textBodyBlack'><font size='2'>A Washington State man was driving along Interstate 90 with his wife when he spotted a wall of snow steamrolling off a rock wall and heading right for their vehicle. He said it was a case of being at the wrong place at the right time.<br><b><a href=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22931447//\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story</a><b/><p><b><a href=\"javascript:vPlayer('22932065','f8701f59-ec02-4f4e-ab82-c91bc01c38b5')\"> Watch the video</a><b/>";

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