Editor's note: A tribute to humanity and courage. In our proud tradition of broadcasting excellence, CBS News' "48 Hours" is honored to have produced this powerful documentary for Showtime.

"Three Days in September" is the dramatic story of the 2004 Chechen terrorist attack and three-day siege of a school in southern Russia. When it was over, nearly 331 people lay dead - http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=lay%20dead -- many of them children.

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Throughout Russia, September 1 is an annual celebration marking the opening day of school. In Beslan, that celebration turned into a nightmare when some 30, heavily armed Chechen terrorists attacked School Number One. Nearly 1,200 teachers, parents and children were immediately taken hostage. Dariya's younger sister was one of them.

"Three Days in September" tells the story of ordinary people who found themselves at the gates of hell. Two of Russia's elite soldiers from the Spetznaz force also share their story in a rare interview with a captain and one of his key snipers. This is the inside story of an unspeakable tragedy - but it's also a story of courage - and survival - and the will to keep going by those who survived it.

While working in Beslan, filmmakers were given a remarkable tape discovered by teenagers in the rubble of the school after the siege. A video camera brought to school that September morning by a proud Beslan parent, found its way into the hands of the terrorists. The tape reveals never-before-seen details of the drama unfolding inside the besieged school. The video lets us see, first hand, the absolute horror of the takeover, including a pile of bodies dumped out of a classroom window after having been shot by the terrorists on the first day.

We witness the only face-to-face negotiations during the siege. In a dramatic breakthrough, a group of mothers are allowed to walk out of the school with their nursing babies -- in some cases forced to leave older children behind.

This tape would become a critical piece of evidence as the Kremlin investigated this act of terrorism.

Two of Russia's elite Spetznaz troops at the school tell us their story. Both served in Chechnya and both participated in the taking back of Beslan School Number One. It's a rare interview with a captain and one his key soldiers -- a sniper.

The chilling climax of "Three Days in September" is the moment when everything goes horribly wrong. An explosion in the school marks the beginning of the end. A ferocious gun battle erupts and after a 10-hour fight, the depths of this tragedy become clear. Hundreds are killed, most are children, and all but one of the terrorists is dead. There would be years of outrage toward the Kremlin over the lack of answers to many unanswered questions. The only terrorist to survive the hostage taking was sentenced to life in prison in May 2006. In July of that same year, Shamil Basayev, the Chechen terrorist leader and alleged mastermind behind the siege at Beslan, was killed by an explosion. Even today it is unclear who, in fact, killed Basayev.

Amid the tragedy the heroic acts of many stand out - empowering everyone. The strength and courage of the survivors carries on to this day. This was in deed a very real example of real life heroes.

Dariya Fadeeva, 16, a Beslan high school senior, who had just returned from a year abroad as an exchange student in the Dallas suburb of Euless, Texas. She spent three excruciating days waiting outside Beslan's School Number One for word about her younger sister, Alya, a hostage.

Elena Kosumova, 37, the assistant principal and beloved language teacher at Beslan School Number One. Just as she was about to lead the ceremonial school opening on Sept. 1, 2004, Chechen terrorists attacked the school. She found herself, along with her 9-year old son, Timor, trapped inside the gym.

Zalina Zandarova, 27, brought - http://www.51ideas.com/?s=brought her 2-year-old son, Alan, along to mark sister Alana's first day in school. On the second day, a negotiator secured the release of mothers with the youngest children and Zalina was forced into a "Sophie's Choice": allowed to walk out with her son, but forced to leave 6-year-old Alana behind.

Ruslan Aushev, 50, a retired Soviet general, decorated Afghanistan war hero, former president of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia, who arrived in Beslan at the Kremlin's request. Alone and unarmed, Aushev went into besieged School Number One, and was the only official allowed to negotiate with the Chechen terrorists.

Sergei Urmanov, 35 an electrical engineer, accompanied his wife and only child, Zalina, to her first day of first grade. Sergei has retained a detailed memory of everything the terrorists did during the three-day crisis. His wife, daughter, sister, and three nieces all died during the siege.

Dimitri Beliakov, 34, a Moscow-based photojournalist who rushed to Beslan and managed to embed himself with Russian Special Forces, the Spetznaz counter-terrorism troops. He won an Overseas Press Club Award for his brilliant pictures and aggressive reporting.

Dariya Fadeeva came to the United States to attend Texas Christian University. After graduating, she attended Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She is now working for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Her sister, Alya is currently a student at Moscow University. She is studying Economic Crisis Management at the Moscow Institute of Management.

Now his son, Luis Angel Valdivia, and union representatives are appealing to companies to take the commonsense measures that could have saved his life.

"There isn't much I can do now, but I don't want other workers to go through what I'm going through now," said Valdivia, who watched his 53-year-old father faint among the grapevines in a field outside Bakersfield, and die in his car last Wednesday, as he sped toward the hospital seeking medical help.

California's grape harvest happens in the middle of summer, when temperatures in the state's fertile Central Valley often soar past 100, and lead to frequent complaints of dizziness and nausea among workers- the symptoms of heat stroke, said Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers.

"There is not a whole lot we can do, except put pressure on the growers to give them what they need to take care of their bodies," said Rodriguez. "They just need to use common sense. If it's 100 degrees out, workers need more breaks, and more water, than the minimum required."

The state's Division of Occupational Health and Safety requires employers to give workers two 10-minute breaks in one day, plus a half-hour lunch. Cool water should also be provided. Workers confirmed there was enough water for them last Wednesday.

But there are no additional safety measures required — longer breaks, shade, salt tablets — to help workers stay hydrated when the heat reaches into the 90s and past 100, said Susan Gard, a spokeswoman for the state occupational safety program

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By Juliana Barbassa

Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer knew after reading the first scene of "The Shape of Water" that it would be "magical." She was also sure that she wanted to be a part of it.

Director Guillermo del Toro's latest film, which he also wrote and 속초출장마사지 - https://www.anmastar.com/%ec%86%8d%ec%b4%88%ec%b6%9c%ec%9e%a5%ec%83%b5%c... produced, is a fairy tale set in the 1960s about a mute woman who falls in love with a creature held captive in a government lab. Spencer's character tries to help her friend save the creature - https://www.biggerpockets.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=creature before he is dissected. 

"I'm a huge Guillermo del Toro fan. I've seen everything he's directed and just about everything he's executive produced and he's an auteur, a true auteur. The first scene when everything is underwater — I said 'Oh my God. They're gonna be doing things like this. I want to be a part of this movie,'" Spencer told "CBS This Morning."

Del Toro actually wrote the part for Spencer, but when the two first met to discuss - http://www.answers.com/topic/discuss the role, three hours passed by and they hadn't even gotten to the movie.  

"We talked about everything. Life, love, antiques, our love of antiques, dieting, I mean everything but the movie," she said.

For Spencer, an important part of the story is how it addresses the discrimination of the time – a theme that has relevance today.

"It's interesting because Guillermo is Latin American Canadian so he is also used to being considered 'the other,'" Spencer said. "He can address those political issues without pointing fingers. His two main characters can't speak so he uses marginalized people – a black female janitor, a closeted gay man in Richard Jenkins' character – to characterize the social mores of the day."

Despite Spencer's character being one of those "marginalized people," she holds a unique authority at the government lab where she works as a janitor. 

"Zelda is a woman of the times. It's 1962. Black people don't have the right to vote. So she's considered a second-class citizen within society but within her world at this facility, she's a queen. I mean she talks nonstop," Spencer said.

Her character's nonstop chatter also serves as the de facto voice for her mute friend and co-worker, Eliza, played by Sally Hawkins.

"It was a wonderful progression of friendship both in real life and on screen to get to play that opposite Sally," Spencer said.

Many have characterized the film as a love story for the romance between the sea creature and Eliza. It's also love that informed its title.

"'The Shape of Water' is the shape of love and love takes on the shape of the vessel. So if you are an ugly person, then the shape of your water going to be quite ugly, but if you're a loving person, you can see past the differences, and that's one of the beautiful things of the movie," Spencer said.

As for how Spencer is seeing herself these days, it's only getting better with age.

"In your 20s you really do spend your time wondering and caring about what other people think – and you should. And in your 30s you take a little ownership and start seeing yourself for who you are. And by your 40s – and I'm gonna say mid-40s, but the kind of latter end of it – I just I realize I don't have to care that much about what other people think because at the end of the day, if I'm being the best person that I can be, that's all I can offer and if it's not good enough, well then, honey, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it." 

"The Shape of Water" opens in select theaters nationwide on Friday.

The announcement said the potential problem, involving 36,980 pounds, was discovered when a private laboratory reported a positive result for listeria monocytogenes on Wednesday.

The recall, by KD Acquisitions I Braselton, covers 14-pound boxes of "Tyson, Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Filet Fritters with Rib Meat, 3806" and 20-pound boxes of "Spare Time, Fully Cooked, Chicken Breast Fillet Fritters with Rib Meat, 3806," the USDA said Wednesday.

The chicken was produced on July 13 and distributed to warehouses in Georgia and Arkansas, the statement said.

The company also is recalling 12-pound boxes of "America's Choice, Fully Cooked, Breaded Seasoned Chicken Nuggets, 07046" with the codes "4195P17933" and "P17933," produced on July 13 and distributed to grocery stores in Maryland and New York.

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Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said staff members are searching the state's grocery stores and distribution centers to make sure none of the recalled chicken could reach the public.

The USDA said there had been no reports of illness associated with consumption of the chicken products.

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Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking turns 76 today — an age well beyond what he was expected to reach when he was diagnosed with the incurable neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) more than 50 years ago.

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But how has Hawking lived so long with a disease that is typically fatal after just a few years?

In fact, no one knows for certain why Hawking has survived so long with ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. But researchers do know that the progression of the disease varies - https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=disease%20varies&filter.license=t... depending on the person. Although the average life expectancy after a diagnosis of ALS is about three years, about 20 percent of people live five years after their diagnosis, 10 percent live 10 years after their diagnosis and 5 percent live 20 years or more, according to The ALS Association. [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body]

One factor that likely plays a role in patients' survival time is genetics; scientists have identified over 20 different genes involved in ALS, said Dr. Anthony Geraci, director of the Neuromuscular Center at Northwell Health's Neuroscience Institute in Manhasset, New York, who is not involved in Hawking's care. "ALS is probably 20 or more different diseases when one considers the genetic underpinnings," Geraci said. Some of these genetic differences appear to affect various aspects of the disease, including survival.

For instance, a gene called SOD1, which is linked with a type of ALS that runs in families, is associated with a more rapid course of the disease, Geraci told Live Science.

Studies have also found that being diagnosed with ALS at a younger age is linked with a longer survival time. (Hawking was relatively young when he was diagnosed with ALS; the disease is most commonly diagnosed in people ages 55 to 75, according to the NINDS.)

The Food and Drug Administration has approved two drugs to treat ALS, called riluzole (Rilutek) and edaravone (Radicava). Each of these drugs can prolog survival by about six months, but the drugs likely don't account for an exceptional survival time like the one Hawking has experienced, Geraci said.

Early symptoms of ALS can include muscle weakness or slurred speech, and eventually, the disease can cause people to lose the ability to move, speak, eat or breathe on their own, according to the Mayo Clinic.

People with ALS typically die from respiratory failure, which occurs when the nerve cells controlling the breathing muscles stop working, or from malnutrition and dehydration, which can occur when the muscles that control swallowing deteriorate, Dr. Leo McCluskey, an associate professor of neurology and medical director of the ALS Center at the University of Pennsylvania, told Scientific American in 2012.

"If you don't have these two things, you could potentially live for a long time — even though you're getting worse," McCluskey said. "What's happened to [Hawking] is just astounding. He's certainly an outlier."

Original article on Live Science.

The number of infections last year -- 708,083 -- was 4 percent higher than the previous year, but Britain's Health Protection Agency said the pace of the increase appears to be slowing.

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Such infections are not reliably tracked globally, which makes it difficult to estimate how bad the problem is or to draw comparisons between countries. Britain is the only country that produces these statistics in a systematic way, the World Health Organization said.

In the most recent global report on the topic, the WHO estimated that in 1999, 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections occurred worldwide in people aged between 15 and 카지노사이트 - http://fundacjaestyma.org.pl/ 49.

Apart from being serious diseases in their own right, sexually transmitted infections make it up to 10 times easier for the AIDS virus to spread through sex.

That link is particularly worrying in developing countries hit hard by the HIV epidemic. The United Nations health agency estimates that proper control of those diseases could reduce the incidence of HIV infection by 40 percent.

Sexual health campaigners also blame Britain's problem on delays in treatment, inadequate sex education and long waiting lists at clinics. Waiting lists are an oft-repeated complaint against the British state-funded national health system.

"It is a scandal that the service we offer patients today is worse than it was 90 years ago," said Dr. James Johnson, chairman of the British Medical Association. "During the First World War, a free, rapid and totally confidential service was set up to treat sexually transmitted infections. Nearly a century later, patients ... can wait up to six weeks for an appointment. What use is that?"

Delays in treatment give the diseases more opportunity to spread.

However, health officials said the increases were also partly attributable to more people coming forward for testing.

Gay men and young people remained the groups most affected.

"These are all preventable infections and it is a cause of considerable concern that we are still seeing increases in new diagnoses of STIs across the UK and unsafe sex is undoubtedly a main contributor to this,'' said Sir William Stewart, chairman of the health agency.

"This is the time of year when many young people go on holiday and these figures are a timely reminder of how important it is for people to take responsibility for their own and their partners' sexual health, and to use a condom with new and casual sexual partners," he said.

The largest increases were seen in syphilis, with cases up by 28 percent, and chlamydia, which can cause infertility and is often called the silent infection because it can have no symptoms.

While cases of genital warts increased by 2 percent, gonorrhea went down by 3 percent, from 25,065 infections to 24,309 infections, and genital herpes also dropped by 2 percent, from 18,432 cases to 17,990 cases.

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"Any reduction in the dramatic increases in the numbers of STI cases of the past five years is to be welcomed," Dr Angela Robinson, president of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV.

But Johnson of the British Medical Association said the latest figures were nonetheless depressing.

Despite the relatively modest 4 percent increase last year, since 1995, the number of infections has increased by 57 percent. Chlamydia almost tripled, while cases of syphilis increased by more than 1,000 percent.

By Emma Ross

With outbreaks striking teenagers and adults, the government soon will decide if it's time for booster shots against the cough so violent it can break a rib. Last week, manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline sought Food and Drug Administration permission to sell a booster; competitor Aventis Pasteur isn't far behind.

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"Parents who have very young infants need to get them vaccinated as early as possible," advises Dr. Trudy Murphy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Anyone who's coughing should "avoid contact with young infants on the chance this maybe is unrecognized pertussis."

Pertussis is a bacterial infection. Initial coldlike symptoms lead to fits of 15 to 20 coughs in a row that leave patients gasping for air — often, but not always, with a high-pitched "whoop."

The incidence of pertussis plummeted in industrialized nations after vaccination began in the 1940s. It now is on the rise again globally.

Why isn't clear, but it's thought to be at least partly due to waning immunity. Children get five doses of pertussis vaccine between ages 2 months and 6 years. The protection begins to drop five to 10 years after the last shot.

In the United States, a preliminary CDC count found more than 11,000 pertussis cases last year. That's up from 9,771 the previous year, and the most recorded in three decades.

"We know that's an underestimate," Murphy said.

Experts say there may be 10 times as many cases, even more. Studies suggest almost a quarter of people with coughs that last longer than two weeks have undiagnosed pertussis, says Dr. Kathryn Edwards of Vanderbilt University.

In fact, about a third of CDC-recorded cases are among adolescents, which even health professionals may not realize. So far this year, CDC has counted outbreaks, most involving teens, in 11 states, including a Chicago-area one that has involved more than 100 cases since March.

"I really thought it was a disease of the Depression," said Monika Burke, a Philadelphia nurse who was stunned when her 15-year-old daughter, Sophia, caught whooping - https://knoji.com/search/?query=caught%20whooping cough in May.

A doctor first diagnosed a viral infection. But Sophia was having 30 or 40 coughing fits a day, occasionally so violent they'd trigger vomiting. So the doctor prescribed antibiotics and performed a blood test for pertussis. By the time test results came back a week later, her 12-year-old brother was sick, too.

Enter the booster debate. Proponents say booster shots for older ages could prevent misery and school and work absences, plus indirectly protect vulnerable infants: Since 1990, pertussis has risen 72 percent among babies younger than 4 months, the age when their vaccine protection begins to kick in.

Studies show that giving one-third of youngsters' pertussis vaccine doses to teens and adults can safely boost waning immunity. Already, boosters are offered in Canada, Germany, France and Australia.

Here, Glaxo last week asked the FDA to approve its Boostrix version for teens. The idea: People are supposed to get boosters against two other diseases, tetanus and diphtheria, every decade, including one for 11- to 18-year-olds. Boostrix simply adds a pertussis booster to the scheduled adolescent shot.

Competitor Aventis Pasteur wants to target adults, too. It is preparing to seek FDA approval to sell its Adacel pertussis-tetanus-diphtheria booster to ages 11 through 64.

Once FDA makes sales decisions, expected early next year, a CDC-appointed committee must recommend who should get whichever shots are sold. Adolescents likely will be the first candidates, noted Vanderbilt's Edwards. After all, they wouldn't require an extra doctor's visit or needle prick.

Less is known about adult pertussis risk. Still, new parents and infant caregivers and health workers are logical next choices "so we can cocoon babies," she said. "It's the babies that could die."

By Lauran Neergaard