Man dies after shark attack at Cape Cod
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Shark attacks, hurricanes, and typhoons are facts of life on this fallen planet. Today's podcast focuses on a way to live in this broken world with hope, courage, and joy. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily article from Monday, September 17, 2018. |
| 0:08.3 | Arthur was a very happy young man. He loved life. He was an active member of a Christian church, |
| 0:13.5 | devoting his life to the Lord. He was happily engaged to a smart, kind-hearted medical student with the bright future. |
| 0:20.1 | This is how the family and friends of |
| 0:21.8 | Arthur Medici described the 26-year-old after he was attacked by a shark on Saturday off the Cape Cod |
| 0:27.7 | Beach and later died at a hospital. In other news, Typhoon Mancout described as the world's strongest |
| 0:33.9 | storm this year, reached mainland China yesterday after pummeling Hong Kong and killing |
| 0:38.9 | at least 54 people in the Philippines. More than 2.5 million people have been evacuated in |
| 0:44.5 | southern China. Meanwhile, tropical depression Florence has, quote, slowly ravaged the south with rain |
| 0:50.7 | and wind. As of this morning, 17 deaths have been confirmed as a result of the storm. |
| 0:56.1 | Officials warn that flooding, quote, is only going to get worse. Even after the storm is over, |
| 1:01.6 | lingering floodwaters will be extremely dangerous. Chemical and biological contamination are a |
| 1:06.8 | continuing threat, including bacteria that can pollute drinking water and cause life-threatening |
| 1:12.3 | infections. One fact these stories have in common is that humans do not control nature. We face threats |
| 1:19.2 | as frightening as sharks, as massive as typhoons and hurricanes, and as microscopic as bacteria. |
| 1:25.1 | I make this point today, because you and I live in an age of such technological |
| 1:29.2 | advancement that we can delude ourselves into thinking more more powerful than we really are. Consider some |
| 1:35.2 | examples. Every minute on the internet, 2.78 million YouTube videos are downloaded, |
| 1:41.4 | 2.4 million Google searches are initiated, 347,22 new tweets are sent, |
| 1:48.4 | 527,760 photos are shared on Snapchat, 150 million emails are sent, and Amazon registers |
| 1:56.8 | $203,596 in sales. An iPhone has more computing power than all of NASA had when it flew |
| 2:05.4 | Neil Armstrong to the moon. Earbuds can now translate between 15 different languages in real time. |
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