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From ‘I Hated His Guts’ To Saving His Life: NY Woman Gives Massachusetts Teacher Her Kidney
A Long Island woman donated a kidney to an unlikely beneficiary — her old middle school English teacher in Massachusetts, who she hated.
Montana Miller, 55, of Port Washington, learned about the plight of Mitch Grosky, 74, through social media and decided to do something, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday, May 19.
“When I was ten years old I hated his guts; now I'm giving him mine!?” Miller wrote on Facebook in April.
The two first crossed paths at The Bromfield School in Harvard, MA in the 1980s, where Miller found Grosky’s fifth-grade English class boring and later told the Globe, “I abs…
Notorious Asteroid Has A Friday The 13th Close Encounter With Earth
A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist.
NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, coming about 20,000 miles from the planet's surface.
That is closer than many satellites in geosynchronous orbit, which circle Earth at an altitude of about 22,236 miles, according to NASA.
The asteroid is large, but it is not expected to hit Earth. NASA says there is no risk of Apophis impacting the planet for at least 100 years.
Apophis is about 1,100 feet across, roughly the size of three football fields, CBS News reported. NASA classifies it as a…
