If you'd just quit and said leverage was getting excessive, you'd have been a hero.

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He'd previously been declared a hero, the last person winched off the ship, but he's now accused of failing in his duties to help with the evacuation.

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That press conference in 2006 turned Alemseged, who was just 31 when he'd discovered Selam, into a hero in the world of science.

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