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Had a Perry moment? What causes memory lapses
No matter your political views, you probably couldn?t help but feel a little sorry for Gov. Rick Perry?s memory hiccup during Wednesday night?s CNBC Republican presidential debate. After all, memory lapses happen to the best of us. An expert explains why.

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US group: Sudan building up air bases near S.Sudan (AP)

NAIROBI, Kenya ? A U.S. satellite monitoring group said Friday that Sudan's military is upgrading air bases near the border with South Sudan and building up air resources in what could be a precursor to a widened aerial bombing campaign.

The report came one day after officials accused Sudan of bombing a refugee camp in South Sudan, which became the world's newest country only four months ago.

Four bombs fell in and around a camp called Yida in Unity State. No casualties were reported, though one bomb landed on the ground of school while 300 students were in class. That bomb did not detonate.

The U.N. refugee agency on Friday condemned the bombing of the camp, and the U.S. called the attack abhorrent and outrageous. The U.S. demanded that Sudan halt aerial bombardments immediately. Another bombing in a separate area of South Sudan earlier this week killed seven people, according to South Sudan President Salva Kiir.

Kiir said Thursday he fears the Khartoum-based Sudanese government intends to invade the south soon.

The Satellite Sentinel Project said Friday that satellite imagery appears to show the enhancement of two air bases Sudan seized in Kurmuk from rebels in Sudan's Blue Nile State. The group says the images show three helicopter gunships and an Antonov, the plane witnesses said was used in Thursday's bombing run of the Yida refugee camp.

The violence near the new border between Sudan and South Sudan is especially troubling given the history between the two. The black African tribes of South Sudan and the mainly Arab north battled two civil wars over more than five decades, and some 2 million died in the latest war, from 1983-2005.

A peace deal ended the war and South Sudan became its own country in July after a successful independence referendum. But there have been lingering disputes over border demarcation, oil-sharing revenues and all-out warfare between Sudan's military or proxies and a military force inside Sudan that aligns itself politically and culturally with the south.

Sudan has accused the south of arming those groups, and taken that accusation to the U.N. Security Council. Kiir on Thursday denied that charge.

John Prendergast a Sudan activist and the co-founder of the Enough Project, said the airfield improvements suggest that Sudan will widen its aerial campaign in border areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile in Sudan, as well as in South Sudan.

"If this buildup and bombing campaign isn't countered aggressively by the international community, it appears likely that Khartoum's actions will plunge Sudan even more deeply into internal war as well as ignite a full-scale war with South Sudan. This is threatening to explode into the largest conventional war on the face of the earth," Prendergast said.

Omer Ismail, a policy adviser for the Enough Project, said the indiscriminate bombings of refugees fleeing war is a "grave" violation of international humanitarian law.

In the buildup to South Sudan's January independence referendum and its July declaration as the world's newest country, the U.S. had indicated it would consider easing economic sanctions against Sudan if it would allow the south to break free without interference. But talk of normalizing relations has subsided as Sudan has continued military maneuvers along the border.

Twice this week the U.S. strongly condemned bombardments by Sudan against South Sudan, and it urged South Sudan to exercise restraint to prevent the further escalation of hostilities. The U.S. also called on Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North ? the military movement in Sudan that aligns itself with South Sudan ? to cease fighting and resume talks.

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Oct car sales suffer biggest fall in a decade (Reuters)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) ? Car sales in India fell 23.8 percent in October, the biggest monthly percentage decline since December 2000, an industry body said on Wednesday, as high interest rates and vehicle costs drove down sales for a fourth consecutive month.

Rising finance costs and increasing prices have deterred buyers in Asia's third-largest economy, hurting carmakers that only months ago cheered a 30 percent rise in sales over the previous financial year.

"People who have taken a loan to buy a car already have a home loan," Vishnu Mathur, director general of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). "A rise in interest rates will discourage him to take that car loan."

The industry body last month slashed its sales growth forecast for the current financial year to 2-4 percent, the second cut in estimates from an initial forecast of 16 to 18 percent.

The market is driven by a swelling aspirational middle class that mostly relies on bank financing for purchases. The Reserve Bank of India's 25 basis point increase in interest rates last month was its 13th hike since March 2010.

Indian automakers sold 138,521 cars last month, according to SIAM, with petrol car sales hit the hardest.

"There is hardly any demand for petrol cars today," said Mathur. "Demand for diesel cars is going up, but there is not so much capacity."

Sales fell 1.8 percent in September, 10.1 percent in August and 15.8 percent in July, the first slide in three years.

Carmakers had hoped for a sales boost in October, typically a bumper month due to a string of religious festivals that traditionally encourage Indians to make big-ticket purchases.

Maruti Suzuki, the country's top automaker, said last week it had sold less than half the cars in October as it did a year previously as months of labour unrest that crippled production compounded the slowdown in demand.

Strikes since August by disgruntled workers have cost the carmaker more than $500 million in lost production and slashed its market share to 40 percent from over 50 percent last year. Maruti is 54.2-percent owned by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp.

"Maruti is one of the major reasons (for the fall)," said Mathur. "There will be some kind of correction in coming months if Maruti comes up to full capacity."

Rivals Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra have benefited from Maruti's woes, with Tata sales up 5 percent last month and Mahindra sales jumping 20.3 percent, according to company data.

Domestic carmakers are seen reporting lower revenues and tighter margins in the quarter ending September. Maruti posted a 60 percent fall in profits for the quarter ending September, almost double the estimates.

However, sales of commercial vehicles, a key indicator of the country's economic activity, rose 18.5 percent to 61,800, SIAM said.

Sales of motorcycles, used as a family vehicle by millions of Indians, rose 0.7 percent to 879,883 vehicles.

(Writing by Henry Foy; Editing by Ranjit Gangadharan and Matt Driskill)

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In Ohio, SB 5's repeal buoys Dems (Politico)

COLUMBUS - Republican Gov. John Kasich warned Democrats that they needed to support a hard-edged anti-union law or get run over by ?the bus? ? but on Tuesday Ohio voters left serious tread marks on Kasich and, quite possibly, the national GOP.

Unions hung a humbling defeat on Kasich, who has fast become his party?s poster boy for conservative overreach, by rolling back Senate Bill 5, a new collective bargaining law that bars public sector strikes, curtails bargaining rights for 360,000 public employees and scraps binding arbitration of management-labor disputes.

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Democrats in Ohio and labor leaders hailed the victory - a rare win for progressives after a 2010 GOP sweep here that saw the turnover of five Democratic congressional seats - as a harbinger of national renewal and the first step in recapturing a state that has long been a national presidential bellwether.

Only time will tell if that?s fact or wishful thinking, but even Ohio Republicans conceded the fight over the legislation breathed new life into Democrats, who have borne the brunt of the state?s massive job losses and economic stagnation.

?Hey, I?m a Republican, but I?m telling you, Republican firefighters and police officers aren?t going to be voting Republican around here for a while,? said Doug Stern, a 15-year veteran of the Cincinnati fire department who joined the non-partisan ?We are Ohio? coalition that helped repeal the bill.

?We?ll see what happens in 2012, but our guys have a long memory. We?re angry and disgusted.?

The contest over SB 5 - also called Issue 2 - was among the most expensive ever waged over a ballot initiative in the state with unions and conservative groups, including Citizens United, pouring in more than $50 million collectively.

The ballot measure galvanized local progressives like nothing else since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. They staged mass rallies past the state capitol, organized tens of thousands of volunteers and vowed to turn their makeshift coalition into a political force that will reshape the balance of power in Ohio.

Kasich, for his part, argued that he was simply trying to create a sustainable path for the state budget. His effort was backed by conservative funders, farmers, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business.

But one senior state Republican blamed the governor, whose approval rating languishes in the low 30s, for ?snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? by alienating labor-friendly independents in the state.

In a statement Tuesday night, Kasich conceded defeat but vowed to continue his effort to cut government spending.

?Though I would have preferred a different outcome tonight, the people of Ohio have spoken and I respect their decision,? he said in a statement. But he said the results ?did not change the fact that Ohio?s ability to create a jobs-friendly climate is impacted by local governments? ability to reduce their costs.?

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Cave painters did see spotty horses, not just in dreams

Stone Age cave paintings of white horses with black spots may have depicted real animals, rather than spirit horses, as sometimes assumed.

Some archaeologists argue that no horses with "leopard" patterns had evolved 25,000 years ago. So spotted horses in cave murals from that time at Pech-Merle in France must be symbolic or shamanistic.

Now Arne Ludwig of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany, and colleagues have analysed DNA extracted from the remains of ancient horses in Siberia, eastern and western Europe. Six had variants of the pigment genes that produce the spotted-coat pattern. Four were from western Europe where the Pech-Merle cave is situated and the other two were found in eastern Europe.

The researchers say that their findings do not necessarily exclude religious explanations for why the spotty horses were painted. "In my opinion, a high level of natural realism in the paintings doesn't exclude a spiritual or religious dimension to them," Ludwig says.

The researchers point out that the leopard pattern probably carried an evolutionary penalty, because modern day horses with two copies of the gene variant have a pigment abnormality impairing their night vision.

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Heavy D leaves lasting final lyric: 'BE INSPIRED!' (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? It was as if Heavy D knew that it would be his last tweet.

The self-proclaimed "overweight lover" of hip hop, who became one of rap's top hit makers with his charming combination of humor and positivity, enthusiastically told his Twitter followers Tuesday morning to "BE INSPIRED!"

He later collapsed outside his Beverly Hills home following a shopping trip, unable to breathe, before he was transported to a nearby hospital where he died. He was 44. Detectives found no signs of foul play and believe his death was medically related, said police Lt. Mark Rosen.

"BE INSPIRED!" was typical of the positive tweets Heavy D would send, and as his final tweet, it was fitting for the life that Heavy D lived.

The Jamaica-born rapper, who grew up in New York, became one of the genre's most integral stars in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as it relied on new voices and star power to fuel its phenomenal growth in the mainstream. Heavy D and his crew ? Heavy D and the Boyz ? unabashedly burst onto the rap scene in 1987 with their debut album "Living Large."

The deep-voiced rapper's earliest hit, "The Overweight Lover's in the House," played up his hefty frame. But while that nickname would stick, his weight did not become his shtick like the Fat Boys. What drew people to his music was his singular style celebrating an easygoing, party vibe ? sometimes humorous, sometimes inspiring and usually positive.

Combined with the fusion of the "New Jack Swing" musical style, Heavy D was a constant presence on the charts, and a go-to figure for several performers. He collaborated with Michael Jackson on the 1991 single "Jam," rapped with a young Notorious B.I.G. in 1993 on "A Buncha N-----" and dueted with B.B. King on the 1997 tune "Keep It Coming."

Heavy D, who was never afraid to bust a move or perform as a character, also found success on the screen. He created the theme songs for the sketch comedy shows "In Living Color" and "MADtv" and acted on such TV shows as "Boston Public," "The Tracy Morgan Show" and "Law & Order: SVU," as well as in the films "Life," "Step Up" and most recently "Tower Heist."

While switching between acting and performing in the late 1990s, Heavy D wasn't as musically successful with his later Boyz-free albums. He attempted a reggae-fueled comeback in 2008 with the album "Vibes," which didn't contain any rapping, before he returned to his lyrical roots on his most recent effort, "Love Opus," which was released in September.

A lighter Heavy D ? coming in at apparently 135 pounds less than his former weight ? returned to the stage for a pair of energetic performances last month. He delivered a medley of past hits at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta, and joined La Toya Jackson on stage for a rendition of "Jam" at the tribute concert for Michael Jackson in Cardiff, Wales.

The impact of Heavy D's inspiration was omnipresent Tuesday among the hip-hop community on Twitter. His sudden death prompted "Law & Order" actor and rapper Ice T to remind everyone to "stop for a second, take a breath and realize how lucky you are to be alive," while reminding MC Hammer that Heavy D was always "part of what's good about the world."

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AP Music Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody in Los Angeles and AP Writer Mesfin Fekadu in New York contributed to this report.

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AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/derrikjlang/.

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Siri talks to Mac 512k, plays telephone with intermediary computers

Possibly fueled by the same geeky instinct that pushes our kind to build SD card readers for ancient game consoles and port Doom to just about everything, YouTube user Napabar recently bridged the 27 year gap between the Macintosh 512k and the iPhone 4S. That's right, Siri and the Fat Mac are talking. Sort of. Most of the heavy lifting is being done by a pair of intermediary machines, an iMac that's been configured to run an AppleScript upon receipt of a Siri dictated email, and a bridge computer that passes on the resulting text file to the Mac 512K's floppy drive. Result? Dictate an email to Siri, get a text file with its contents on the Mac 512k. Old and new technology, talking like old pen-pals. And to think, all it took was two middlemen.

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Stranded Everest trekkers clear out as fog lifts (AP)

KATMANDU, Nepal ? More than 2,000 foreign trekkers stranded up to a week began leaving the Mount Everest region Monday as fog lifted and flights resumed at the area's only airport.

As the visitors waited for the weather to clear, hotels in the village of Lukla were full and food supplies were running low. People slept in tents and hotel dining rooms. Some even walked down from Lukla to the nearest highway.

Trekkers on the first flights Monday were happy to reach Katmandu, Nepal's capital.

"It has been misty and cloudy for the whole week, but everyone has been fantastic keeping us fed and giving water," said Megan Freese, a travel manager from Hampshire county in southern England. "We are OK, we have made it back now."

By the weekend, more than 2,000 foreigners were stranded in Lukla since flights were grounded Oct. 31.

The village sits at an altitude of 9,200 feet (2,800 meters), and its Tenzing-Hillary Airport is the gateway for trekkers and mountaineers heading to Everest and surrounding mountains.

Autumn is prime trekking season in the Everest region, and the visitors were on the "Everest base camp trek," in which they travel by foot from Lukla for a week to reach Mount Everest's base camp at 17,400 feet (5,300 meters).

Mountaineering in Nepal is most popular in May, so the recent weather did not affect climbers.

The Lukla airport, carved on a mountainside, has one short runway and limited parking for planes. In good weather, it is still limited to small planes that carry 18 passengers.

Some 20 flights took off from Lukla airport Monday morning and more were expected throughout the day, area police Chief Ramesh Khadka said.

The trekkers, from a variety of nations, had no major health problems during their delay, he said. "Most of them were worried about expired visas, missing their scheduled flights and not making it back to their jobs on time but no other major problems," Khadka said.

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Russia issues stark warning against Iran attack

Russia and Iran warned the West against a military strike on the Islamic Republic Monday, saying an attack targeting its nuclear program would lead to civilian casualties and create new threats to global security.

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The separate remarks by foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov of Russia and Ali Akbar Salehi of Iran coincided with speculation about a potential Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites ahead of the release of a U.N. watchdog report expected to cast more light on suspected military aspects to Iran's nuclear activity.

"This would be a very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences," Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow when asked about reports that Israel was preparing for a possible pre-emptive military strike.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, Salehi said Iran "condemns any threat of military attack on independent states."

Salehi spoke alongside Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other ministers from nations in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional grouping dominated by Russia and China in which Iran has observer status.

Germany's Foreign Ministry also rejected military action against Iran, suggesting that the dispute should be resolved through diplomatic pressure instead. "This continues to be the key way to move forward in dealing with this threat to regional and international security," a spokesman said.

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New disclosures in the IAEA report provide details on an apparent secret research program that was more ambitious, more organized and more successful than commonly suspected, The Washington Post said.

The paper said the report's findings provide new details on the role played by a former Soviet weapons scientist who allegedly tutored Iranians on high-precision detonators of the kind used to trigger a nuclear chain reaction.

Technology linked to Pakistani and North Korean experts also helped Iran advance its capabilities, the officials and experts told the paper.

The report says the intelligence also supports concerns that Iran continued to conduct weapons-related nuclear research after 2003, when U.S. intelligence agencies believed Iran halted the research in response to international pressure.

"The program never really stopped," David Albright, a former IAEA official who reviewed the agency's findings, told the paper.

"After 2003, money was made available for research in areas that sure look like nuclear weapons work but were hidden within civilian institutions," Albright told the paper.

Western powers believe Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear energy program.

Tehran denies wanting atom bombs, saying it is enriching uranium only to power reactors for electricity generation.

Story: Iran's Ahmadinejad defiant as U.S. raises heat: paper

The United States, the European Union and their allies have imposed economic sanctions on Tehran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program.

The United States and Israel have repeatedly hinted at the possible use of force against Iranian nuclear sites, eliciting threats of fierce retaliation from the Islamic Republic.

Based on the intelligence the U.N. agency has concluded that Iran "has sufficient information to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device" using highly enriched uranium as its fissile core, Albright said.

Albright described some of the highlights at a private conference of intelligence professionals last week, the newspaper said, adding that it had obtained slides from the presentation and a summary of Albright's notes.

Russia and China grudgingly supported four previous rounds of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. But the two veto-wielding U.N. Security Council members have made clear any new sanctions would be an extremely tough sell.

Moscow is calling for a step-by-step process under which the existing sanctions would be eased in return for actions by Iran to dispel concerns over its nuclear program, which Tehran says is purely peaceful.

Russia, which has built Iran's first nuclear power station, has vociferously opposed any military action.

"There is no military solution to the Iranian nuclear problem as there is no military solution to any other problem in the modern world," said Lavrov.

"This is confirmed to us every day when we see how the problems of the conflicts around Iran are being resolved -- whether Iraq or Afghanistan or what is happening in other countries in the region. Military intervention only leads to many times more deaths and human suffering."

Reflecting regional fear of blowback from any attack on Iran, a government official in Kuwait said the Gulf state would not let its territory be used to launch attacks on any of its neighbors. Kuwait was a launchpad for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and lies a short distance from Iran across the Gulf.

Salehi echoed Lavrov's words hours later.

"Past experience has shown that willful, unilateral military actions by certain countries have led to instability, to the murder of innocent people and to the emergence of new threats to the world," he said at the SCO meeting.

Israeli media have been rife with talk that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to secure cabinet consensus for an attack on Iranian nuclear installations.

In Washington, Pentagon spokesman George Little said the United States remained focused on using diplomatic and economic levers to pressure Iran.

Asked whether he believed Israel would give the United States advance notice in the event of military action against Iran, Little said: "It would always of course be preferable on a matter as grave as this to work closely with the Israelis."

A military strike would likely provoke Tehran into hugely disruptive retaliatory measures in the Gulf that would sever shipping routes and disrupt the flow of oil and gas to export markets, political analysts believe.

It would sour ties between the West and Russia, where Putin is expected to return to the presidency in 2012.

Senior Russian security officials accept that the West has legitimate concerns about Iran's nuclear program. But Putin has said several times in the past that there was no clear evidence that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb

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Stranger's kindness is repaid by a fellow motorist

This frame grab from dashboard video provided Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, by The Wisconsin State Patrol shows troopers assisting Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Canada. Giesbrecht was driving near Menomonie on Saturday when he stopped to assist with a tire change. The Wisconsin State Patrol says the 61-year-old then drove away and suffered cardiac arrest. Giesbrecht's wife stopped their pickup truck and waved her arms, and the motorist whom they had just helped, Sara Berg, stopped and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Patrol)

This frame grab from dashboard video provided Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, by The Wisconsin State Patrol shows troopers assisting Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Canada. Giesbrecht was driving near Menomonie on Saturday when he stopped to assist with a tire change. The Wisconsin State Patrol says the 61-year-old then drove away and suffered cardiac arrest. Giesbrecht's wife stopped their pickup truck and waved her arms, and the motorist whom they had just helped, Sara Berg, stopped and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Patrol)

This frame grab from dashboard video provided Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, by The Wisconsin State Patrol shows troopers assisting Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Canada. Giesbrecht was driving near Menomonie on Saturday when he stopped to assist with a tire change. The Wisconsin State Patrol says the 61-year-old then drove away and suffered cardiac arrest. Giesbrecht's wife stopped their pickup truck and waved her arms, and the motorist whom they had just helped, Sara Berg, stopped and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Patrol)

This photo provided Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, by the Mayo Clinic Health System shows Sara Berg, a Wisconsin nurse's assistant. Victor Giesbrecht stopped to fix Berg's blown tire on Saturday and went into cardiac arrest shortly after he and his wife pulled back onto the highway near Menomonie, Wis. Berg and her cousin, Lisa Meier, saw Giesbrecht's wife waving for help and pulled over. They then performed CPR on the Winnipeg man until help arrived. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)

(AP) ? One good turn deserves another: A stranger stopped to help Sara Berg change a blown tire. Then, minutes later and a quarter-mile down the road, Berg and her cousin repaid the kindness, using CPR to help save the stranger's life when he went into cardiac arrest.

Victor Giesbrecht, 61, was listed in serious but stable condition Tuesday.

Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, of Winnipeg, Canada, were driving Saturday evening on Interstate 94 outside of Menomonie, about 70 miles east of Minneapolis, when they pulled over to help Berg and her cousin, Lisa Meier, with a flat. After about 15 minutes, he and his wife were done, and everyone shook hands.

"He said, 'Someone up above put me in the right place at the right time,' and I said, 'Thank God for you,'" Berg, a 40-year-old nursing assistant in the Eau Claire area, recalled Tuesday.

Giesbrecht seemed fine as he drove off, Berg said. She and her cousin followed behind, talking about how thankful they were for the couple's help, when they saw the Giesbrechts' pickup along the side of the road, Giesbrecht's wife waving her hands. He had gone into cardiac arrest, and his wife had helped bring their truck to a stop.

Berg and Meier administered CPR until emergency personnel arrived. A sheriff's deputy used an automated external defibrillator to help Giesbrecht regain a pulse and resume breathing.

"I 100 percent believe God had a huge hand in it and that God did put me and Lisa and all those people in the right place at the right time," Berg said. "I'm grateful for that."

Berg said she and her cousin felt guilty, afraid that the rigors of changing the tire contributed to Giesbrecht's heart trouble. But she said his wife assured her of just the opposite: Berg saved his life.

"We'll forever be in their debt," Ann Giesbrecht said in a statement.

She said her husband always wants to stop when he sees stranded motorists: "He's the type of person who gives you 100 percent and worries about himself later."

"There needs to be more people like that in the world," Berg said. "If everyone helped each other out more, just think, our world would be better place."

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