"4 quake survivors pulled out alive in Turkey" reads an AP headline for a story that ran on the North State home page. I remember a joke about a plane crashing on the USA/Canadian border. On which side of the border were the survivors buried? was the question. "You can't bury survivors" is the punch line. I guess AP didn't think about that when the above headline was written and the proofreader (if they have them anynore) missed it. Spell check is not going to catch such mistakes.
The headline could have been written "Four Quake Victims Pulled Out Alive in Turkey"
or "Four Quake Survivors Pulled Out of Ruble in Turkey". It should have been obvious that the survivors were alive. If they weren't, they would not have been survivors.
Give a person a college education and a job and he still is ignorant. What a waste.
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