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Berkeley County Sheriff's spokesman Blair Jennings said there were no signs of foul play and no suicide note. Coroner Glenn Rhoad said they're investigating the possibility that the child flew out of her mother's arms when she was hit by the train, but they don't know for sure. Officials said it's possible the child floated downstream from where her mother was hit. "I don't think we'll ever know for sure," Rhoad said. Salisbury said they hope to determine the exact cause of death following autopsies today. "We're determined to try to get a better indication of what was going on in her life," Jennings said. Investigators were talking with Major's husband and parents to determine what happened leading up to the deaths. Jennings said Major was last seen around 8:30 p.m.
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Still, traditional American acoustic music isn't what one would call trendy. Mason jokes that she and Ungar tell people that they are each 172 years old at heart. But people are still responding to this music, some of which is two centuries old. They respond to the implicit historical connection and the social side to it all since playing music - in an age before radio and television were even conceivable - was a way families bonded and communities came together.Mason and Ungar took different musical paths to American acoustic music. Mason grew up in Washington state, just north of Portland, Ore. Her father played the mandolin, her uncle the fiddle. She took piano lessons in fourth grade, but was excited to switch to guitar at age 12, inspired by cowboy shows on television. In her teens, Mason started going to fiddle contests on the West Coast.
Religious bigotry factor in politics
In South Carolina, the conservatives couldn't decide whether it was better to vote their religion or their politics, giving McCain the win.Florida came up. The press had anointed McCain the man, a winner, a hero. Giuliani, who expected to come into Florida as the press's favorite child, had now been eclipsed by McCain. He was now "the loser," who miscalculated. Even though Huckabee got less than half the votes of Romney, if Romney could have just picked up 37 percent of Huckabee's voters, he would have beaten McCain. Remember the surveys which found that about half of Protestants had an unfavorable view of Mormons, and Huckabee already had shown a talent for exploiting this bigotry.On Super Tuesday, West Virginia was reported early. Romney won the popular vote, but didn't get enough to take the state by primary rule.McCain and Huckabee's campaigns huddled behind closed doors and McCain threw his voters over to Huckabee, giving him the state.Why? Because they both despise Romney.
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After a chance subway platform meeting, a young woman (Erin Fisher) from Atlanta spends a day with a Brooklyn depressive (Chris Lankenau) in this reportedly refreshing and convincing "mumblecore" movie from New York writer-director Aaron Katz. ("Mumblecore" is a word coined to refer to a recent spate of low-budget, home-grown, and often improvisational movies that typically focus on insecure, artistically inclined young people.) 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Tickets: $7, or $5 for museum members. Visit brooksmuseum.org or call 544-6208. Roving Mars: The in-depth IMAX adventure follows the "careers" of Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's robotic Exploration Rovers, from their development to their manufacture to their six-month, 10,000-mile-per-hour flight through cold space to their landing and deployment on the surface of Mars, where they searched for evidence of past and present life and gathered information to help pave the way for future visits by man.
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As the series celebrates its 50th ever race on Sunday afternoon, championship defender Germany take on a new driver in Michael Ammermller while Switzerland demonstrate the growing role of women in motorsport by naming Rahel Frey as its rookie for the weekend. When she takes to the track on Friday, the 21-year-old will become the fifth female to drive an A1GP car during a race weekend. Home nation Malaysia's Alex Yoong is the most experienced driver in A1GP and, despite a tough start to the season, the 31-year-old from Kuala Lumpur remains upbeat about his team's chances at his home race. Malaysian rookie Aaron Lim, who knows the Sepang circuit well, will get his first taste of his home circuit in an A1GP car when he takes to the track this weekend. Current championship leader New Zealand will have its sights firmly set on extending its one-point advantage over South Africa while Oliver Jarvis will be aiming to keep Great Britain, currently lying third, in title contention.
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