Sometimes the headline just isn't adequate

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Sometimes, the contraints of headline writing, brevity being the most important, don't allow for an adequate description of the story below. Take this one, for instance:

Pregnant woman crashes car, gives birth alone

Wow! That's amazing, you say. That must be an amazing story, you think. But to really convey how amazing this story is, the headline should have been

Pregnant woman crashes car, gives birth alone in a partially submerged car, despite broken leg.

Now THAT's a story!

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