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Sunday, December 17, 2006

By Stephen Franklin
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

LINDEN, Mich. — Some send condolences or ask how they can help. Others tell how they too lost someone in a truck crash. And then there are e-mails from truckers, some eager to talk about the dangers they also face.

Ever since Sherry and Rob Durk created a Web site about their 15-year-old daughter's death late one night last July on an Illinois highway, the notes have poured in.


Rob and Sherry Durk of Linden, Michigan, sit in their daughter Janelle's room as she left it last summer, before being killed by a truck driver in Illinois on the way back from a family reunion in Kansas. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829), often incorrectly spelled Humphrey, was an esteemed English chemist and physicist. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, and his brother, John Davy was also a noted chemist.

Read Consolations in Travel by Sir Humphry Davy, free from Project Gutenberg.


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