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Those are interesting. I only have a few remarks:

'Finally, and after 14 days,' sounds a tad unusual; perhaps you should change it to the normal 'finally, after fourteen days,' getting rid of that and.

You could do with a little change in your leading words, 'on ____,' 'in _____' and 'in _____' sound somewhat familiar. Perhaps you could use 'On a day in April, 2004,' to establish a more 'casual reporting' style.

'As a bad luck' is rarely, if ever, used; you'd use 'unfortunately' or 'tragically.'

'He laid there, pinned, for about four days' looks like the way that I would right that, but you would be best to get rid of the commas, so that things lead miore naturally into what he decided to do.

Over here, 'then' isn't much used at the start of a sentence, especially in a newspaper. Most would write, 'he then hiked.'

14000-- in writing anything but prices or years, the number should be written in letters-- as fourteen thousand. (If you are writing a price, in the future, don't forget the comma between the thousands and the hundreds (14,000).

'Usually, fire-ant isn't a good thing--' an article should follow most words, unless they're in the plural. Maybe 'fire-ants are not good things on which to land,' or, if you want to be more casual, 'fire-ants are not good things to land on.'

Later is usually before the verb and after the people carrying out that verb-- 'the doctors later said'-- especially in newspapers and reportage...

Ants stings-- the stings are posessed by the ants, so 'ants' stings.'

'A gain' means something different when split up; again should be used.

You are cool , I mean smart ofcourse.

Drom has made some good points. I would add a few more changes, little things really, that might make these paragraphs a bit more readable. Rather than go through them one by one, I'll do a rewrite incorporating both my changes as Drom's.

In June of 2004, a Vietnamese fisherman was fishing for (no 'a') squid when he was swept by a strong current 640 miles away (no space) from shore. While drifting at sea, in order to survive (just to clarify things), the man began drinking his urine (more formal). He also caught a turtle, which he ate. Finally, after 14 days, he was rescued by a big ship and (no need for another 'was') rushed to hospital.

On a day in April, 2004, Aron was climbing in a National Park in Utah when, tragically, a boulder fell (no need to say down, we can assume it didn't fall up!) on him and pinned his right arm. He laid there pinned for about four days before he decided to take some serious, painful action. He took out his trusty (more commonly said) pocket-knife and amputated his arm below the elbow. He then hiked down the stream (did he hike downstream or down the stream itself?) where a Public Safety Helicopter spotted him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital. Aron is now left-handed.

In 1999, Joan was (no need for 'doing a') sky-diving in South California. When she was at fourteen thousand feet, her parachute failed to open. She managed to pull out the backup chute but it deflated at seven hundred feet from the ground. Joan (at least that's what I assume!) crashed and landed on a fire-ant mound. Usually fire-ants are not good things on which to land but doctors later said that she was lucky because the ants' stings kept her heart beating and saved her life. Joan took up sky-diving again in 2001.