Subsequently, she plummeted a few feet down onto the subway tracks, only to be saved by a station worker who fearlessly hopped down to rescue her SMS-focused mind (and body, too) as the oncoming train screeched to a halt just 20 meters before running her over.

ENGADGET: Woman plummets onto subway tracks while carelessly texting

Another worker at the power station is seriously ill.

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He was a blue-collar worker, worked at a pumping station in Chicago.

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When McCollum approached a Tube worker, she was told the station had a new broadcast system and it could not use the old recording anymore.

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Mr Lowe said Heaver, a factory worker, had appeared live on a local radio station and posed as the father of Ellie.

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So they frequently will not be allowed to have an appropriate adult - normally a parent, guardian or social worker - informed of their arrest and permitted to attend the police station.

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The return to the old South Ferry station didn't faze Luis Nieves, a 49-year-old Manhattan maintenance worker.

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It works like this -- a voter comes to the polling place, the poll worker cannot find his or her name, but instead of sending the voter home or to a different polling station, the voter would be given a provisional ballot and allowed to vote right then and there.

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