Some coats may have fur from dogs
By KASIE HUNT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - That fur trim on your jacket that you think is fake? Tell it to Fido. An animal advocacy group says its investigation has turned up coats — some with designer labels, some at higher-end retailers — with fur from man's best friend. Some retailers were set scrambling to pull the coats from shelves, take them off Web sites and even offer refunds to consumers.
The Humane Society of the United States said it purchased coats from reputable outlets, such as upscale Nordstrom, with designer labels — Andrew Marc, Tommy Hilfiger, for example — and found them trimmed with fur from domestic dogs, even though the fur was advertised as fake.
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(Pulls out dog tag from pocket of fur coat)
"Pavvi?" (Gasps) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
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1st Beaver spotted in NYC in 200 years
NEW YORK (AP) - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years — until this week.
Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal itself.
"It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably going to see more of them in the future."
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Leave it to Beaver to be spotted in NYC.
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Man sentenced to prison, gets married
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - With help from a judge, David Kite got five years in prison and a life partner.
After sentencing Kite on Wednesday to prison for stealing a lawnmower from a home, St. Clair County Circuit Judge John Baricevic obliged the 23-year-old man's request and married him to girlfriend Victoria Smith in the same courtroom.
The groom sported an orange jumpsuit, shackles and handcuffs during the five-minute civil ceremony; the bride had on a T-shirt and sweat pants.
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It's a marriage made...in a jail cell.
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U.S. tourist in Costa Rica kills mugger
By MARIANELA JIMENEZ, Associate Press Writer
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his traveling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.
The American, who is about 70 years old and retired from the military, put the 20-year-old in a head lock and broke his clavicle after the suspect and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus, said Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose. The suspect, Warner Segura, was later declared dead, apparently from asphyxiation.
The two other men fled when the 12 senior citizens started defending themselves during the Wednesday attack. Afterward, the tourists drove Segura to the Red Cross where he was declared dead. The Red Cross also treated one of the tourists for an anxiety attack, Hernandez said Thursday.
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Don't want your vacation ruined? Get rid of the mugger yourself.
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Man does 40 squat thrusts on elephant
By JERRY HARMER, Associated Press Writer
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - New Yorker Ashrita Furman looked around for a record he could break, and settled on doing the most squat thrusts in one minute. Then he decided on a place — the back of an elephant in northern Thailand.
He achieved both goals Thursday as he climbed onto a platform on the back of an obliging pachyderm in blazing heat and powered through 40 of the vigorous kicks in a minute. The previous squat thrust record — achieved on level ground in Britain without an elephant in sight — was 30.
Furman, 52, is accustomed to setting bizarre records. By his own count, he holds 54, and has held 144 in total. These include the record for the fastest 11 yards on a space hopper — a heavy rubber balloon on which children bounce — and the fastest mile balancing a cue pool on his finger.
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Now That takes guts!!
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Dog store sign angers Seattle residents
SEATTLE (AP) - A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance mean lady.
The third word in the sign is widely visible at North 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue North, one of the main intersections in the Wallingford neighborhood business west of Interstate 5 and north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
"I am probably the most progressive liberal person in the world and I am personally offended by the sign," said Janet Stillman, executive director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office. "It's so blatant and so in your face."
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I'm wondering if they're talking about New York from "Flavor of Love".
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Stand-in mistress sought to take wife's abuse
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday.
"When the woman found out her husband had a mistress, she insisted on beating her up," the Beijing Youth Daily said, citing the advertisement posted on a popular online jobs forum on sina.com.
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I don't blame him.
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N.J. town to set time limit on barking
CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) - The city of Clifton is not going to the dogs. At least not if the City Council has anything to do about it. Later this month, the council is expected to introduce an ordinance setting a limit on how long dogs can bark.
Noisy canines will be defined as those that bark for more than 30 minutes on two consecutive days.
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At least this town may be getting some peace and quiet at night...if any.
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Vatican's soccer tourney kicks off
By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer
ROME - The fans were pious. The players bound for glory. And the victory? A miracle. Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St. Peter's Basilica Saturday for the first match of the Clericus Cup, a tournament fielding 16 teams from Catholic institutes in Rome.
"You are playing in view of St. Peter's cupola, so behave well," admonished Cardinal Pio Laghi before giving the official kickoff at a small arena on a hill overlooking the Vatican.
In Italy soccer is a hallowed game, taken almost as seriously as Catholicism, and the players were all business once the whistle was blown.
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Wishing their teams the best of luck!
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Thrift store book holds $1,300 in cash
MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) - Rhiannon Barnes may be the luckiest 15-month-old ever. Or maybe her baby sitter is the fortunate one.
While playing with a thrift store book bought earlier in the day for 25 cents, Rhiannon uncovered $1,300 in cash stuck between the pages. Her baby sitter Sheila Laughridge said she only bought the book at Rhiannon's insistence and was surprised when the toddler found a brown paper bag full of $100s, $50s, $20s and $10s.
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If only I was THAT lucky...
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Rats run wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y.
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell — still smarting from last year's E. coli scare — has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor.
As health inspectors descended on a KFC and Taco Bell eatery in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Friday, Yum Brands Inc. hastened to show that it also was taking the rodents seriously.
"Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our customers. This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standards," Yum Brands said in a statement.
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Alright, who's the dirty rat?!
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New York feasts on pricey Kobe beef food fight
By Christopher Michaud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-priced food fight has erupted in New York, with the owner of a high-end eatery seeking revenge on the city's top food critic, who dished out a brutal review complaining of rubbery pork and limp lettuce.
The spat is playing out in the newspapers, with restaurant titan Jeffrey Chodorow buying a defensive full-page ad in The New York Times after its food critic, Frank Bruni, trashed Chodorow's Kobe Club with a rare rating of "no stars."
Two weeks ago, Bruni's review blasted the Kobe Club for its "insipid or insulting dishes at prices that draw blood." Entrees cost as much as $150.
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I love the taste of a Kobe food fight in the morning.
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Farmer wants a wife: Village hosts love-in
By Elisabeth O'Leary
HOYOCASERO, Spain (Reuters) - Cupid can always use a little encouragement, especially in a remote Spanish village.
With that in mind, about 150 women traveled by bus to Hoyocasero on Saturday in response to an Internet plea from men tired of being alone.
Commonly known as "una caravana de mujeres" (a caravan of women), the travelers were met with flowers by cheering men eager for a love match -- or at least a good party.
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The cupid's convertin'!
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday.
"When the woman found out her husband had a mistress, she insisted on beating her up," the Beijing Youth Daily said, citing the advertisement posted on a popular online jobs forum on sina.com.
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I don't blame him.
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N.J. town to set time limit on barking
CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) - The city of Clifton is not going to the dogs. At least not if the City Council has anything to do about it. Later this month, the council is expected to introduce an ordinance setting a limit on how long dogs can bark.
Noisy canines will be defined as those that bark for more than 30 minutes on two consecutive days.
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At least this town may be getting some peace and quiet at night...if any.
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Vatican's soccer tourney kicks off
By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer
ROME - The fans were pious. The players bound for glory. And the victory? A miracle. Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St. Peter's Basilica Saturday for the first match of the Clericus Cup, a tournament fielding 16 teams from Catholic institutes in Rome.
"You are playing in view of St. Peter's cupola, so behave well," admonished Cardinal Pio Laghi before giving the official kickoff at a small arena on a hill overlooking the Vatican.
In Italy soccer is a hallowed game, taken almost as seriously as Catholicism, and the players were all business once the whistle was blown.
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Wishing their teams the best of luck!
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Thrift store book holds $1,300 in cash
MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) - Rhiannon Barnes may be the luckiest 15-month-old ever. Or maybe her baby sitter is the fortunate one.
While playing with a thrift store book bought earlier in the day for 25 cents, Rhiannon uncovered $1,300 in cash stuck between the pages. Her baby sitter Sheila Laughridge said she only bought the book at Rhiannon's insistence and was surprised when the toddler found a brown paper bag full of $100s, $50s, $20s and $10s.
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If only I was THAT lucky...
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Rats run wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y.
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell — still smarting from last year's E. coli scare — has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor.
As health inspectors descended on a KFC and Taco Bell eatery in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Friday, Yum Brands Inc. hastened to show that it also was taking the rodents seriously.
"Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our customers. This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standards," Yum Brands said in a statement.
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Alright, who's the dirty rat?!
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New York feasts on pricey Kobe beef food fight
By Christopher Michaud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-priced food fight has erupted in New York, with the owner of a high-end eatery seeking revenge on the city's top food critic, who dished out a brutal review complaining of rubbery pork and limp lettuce.
The spat is playing out in the newspapers, with restaurant titan Jeffrey Chodorow buying a defensive full-page ad in The New York Times after its food critic, Frank Bruni, trashed Chodorow's Kobe Club with a rare rating of "no stars."
Two weeks ago, Bruni's review blasted the Kobe Club for its "insipid or insulting dishes at prices that draw blood." Entrees cost as much as $150.
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I love the taste of a Kobe food fight in the morning.
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Farmer wants a wife: Village hosts love-in
By Elisabeth O'Leary
HOYOCASERO, Spain (Reuters) - Cupid can always use a little encouragement, especially in a remote Spanish village.
With that in mind, about 150 women traveled by bus to Hoyocasero on Saturday in response to an Internet plea from men tired of being alone.
Commonly known as "una caravana de mujeres" (a caravan of women), the travelers were met with flowers by cheering men eager for a love match -- or at least a good party.
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The cupid's convertin'!
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Tourists indulge in aphrodisiac at Chile song fest
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Tourists visiting Chile's picturesque port town of Valparaiso have cleaned the town out of a herbal aphrodisiac called palwen, an indigenous remedy also known as "Mapuche viagra," according to local media.
The Internet news service Alfa Chile said tourists and performers visiting the world famous Vina del Mar song festival at the Pacific beach resort have exhausted supplies of the sexual energizer produced by the ethnic Mapuches.
The Mapuches from Chile's south are famous for the fierce resistance they put up against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.
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That's a little more than what I needed to know
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Would you vote for someone with a face like yours?
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish voters searching for trustworthy politicians to elect in March polls can now use an Internet Web site to summon up photographs of candidates who resemble themselves.
The Intopii computer firm says its Web site was inspired by studies suggesting people are more likely to trust those with similar features to their own; but it is being offered largely for fun and to demonstrate its software.
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If I was you, I'd vote for me too!
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Newspaper says it fell for fake Gucci ad
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Some people will do anything to appear in the papers. But few have the audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country's biggest media companies into publishing a two-page ad he created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
The man, who claimed to represent the Italian fashion giant, called up the Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung last week to book the expensive color spread in Sunday's edition, a spokesman for the paper said.
Christoph Zimmer told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the man asked for the 60,000-Swiss-franc (about $50,000) bill to be sent to Gucci.
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Next, they fell for a fake Louis Vuitton ad.
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Pa. restaurant creates 123-pound burger
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) - The newest addition to the menu at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub is one whopper of a burger. The Beer Barrel Main Event Charity Burger weighs in at 123 pounds, a meaty monstrosity that its cooks maintain shatters the world record of 105 pounds shared by two restaurants in New Jersey and Thailand.
The sizable sandwich features an 80-pound beef patty, along with a pound each of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayonnaise, 160 slices of cheese, up to five onions and 12 tomatoes.
It's topped with a couple of pounds of banana peppers, then sandwiched into a 30-pound bun. Don't forget the garnish of 33 pickles.
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I like to order me one of those. MMMMM-MMM!!!
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Tourists visiting Chile's picturesque port town of Valparaiso have cleaned the town out of a herbal aphrodisiac called palwen, an indigenous remedy also known as "Mapuche viagra," according to local media.
The Internet news service Alfa Chile said tourists and performers visiting the world famous Vina del Mar song festival at the Pacific beach resort have exhausted supplies of the sexual energizer produced by the ethnic Mapuches.
The Mapuches from Chile's south are famous for the fierce resistance they put up against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.
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That's a little more than what I needed to know
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Would you vote for someone with a face like yours?
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish voters searching for trustworthy politicians to elect in March polls can now use an Internet Web site to summon up photographs of candidates who resemble themselves.
The Intopii computer firm says its Web site was inspired by studies suggesting people are more likely to trust those with similar features to their own; but it is being offered largely for fun and to demonstrate its software.
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If I was you, I'd vote for me too!
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Newspaper says it fell for fake Gucci ad
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Some people will do anything to appear in the papers. But few have the audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country's biggest media companies into publishing a two-page ad he created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
The man, who claimed to represent the Italian fashion giant, called up the Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung last week to book the expensive color spread in Sunday's edition, a spokesman for the paper said.
Christoph Zimmer told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the man asked for the 60,000-Swiss-franc (about $50,000) bill to be sent to Gucci.
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Next, they fell for a fake Louis Vuitton ad.
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Pa. restaurant creates 123-pound burger
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) - The newest addition to the menu at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub is one whopper of a burger. The Beer Barrel Main Event Charity Burger weighs in at 123 pounds, a meaty monstrosity that its cooks maintain shatters the world record of 105 pounds shared by two restaurants in New Jersey and Thailand.
The sizable sandwich features an 80-pound beef patty, along with a pound each of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayonnaise, 160 slices of cheese, up to five onions and 12 tomatoes.
It's topped with a couple of pounds of banana peppers, then sandwiched into a 30-pound bun. Don't forget the garnish of 33 pickles.
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I like to order me one of those. MMMMM-MMM!!!
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Scuffle for organs sparks donor debate in Singapore
By Koh Gui Qing
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As members of Sim Tee Hua's family sat at his bedside to pray for his recovery, they were horrified to learn that the hospital staff were about to turn off his life-support machine and use his organs for transplants.
The scenes that followed have shocked and upset not just Sim's family but many other Singaporeans, sparking a debate over the country's organ donor policy, which assumes that all citizens are willing donors, unless they have registered with the government that they wish to opt out.
Doctors at Singapore General Hospital had declared Sim brain-dead and said they could not delay switching off life support any longer because of the risk of damage to Sim's organs.
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This is not "Grey's Anatomy".
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Teacher cuts pupil's tongue with scissors
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan teacher cut a unruly 7-year-old pupil's tongue with scissors to silence him, police and school officials said on Tuesday.
The child, of North African origin, needed to go to hospital for five stitches to close the wound.
The boy's family has filed suit against the teacher, who has been suspended after last week's incident.
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UGGHH!!
Cruel and unusual consequences not to be used in school.
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Audrey Hepburn's gown auction money to aid children
ZAGREB (Reuters) - About $800,000 in proceeds from the auction of an evening gown worn by Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" will be donated to build 15 schools for destitute Indian children.
"The actor devoted the last part of her life for destitutes and it is only befitting that the auction money be used for a great cause," author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre told Reuters in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
The black Italian silk dress which Hepburn, who was also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, wore in the Academy-award-winning film in 1961, was auctioned at Christie's in London last December for 410,000 pounds ($800,000), around seven times its pre-sale estimate.
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Sounds good...but who bought it and who's gonna wear it?
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Record amount paid for rare baseball card
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million.
The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is considered the most valuable baseball card in existence, according to SCP Auctions, the new minority owners of the card. SCP said on Tuesday the primary purchaser, a Southern California collector, wished to remain anonymous.
Honus Wagner, a former Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Just slide it in a 10 cent cover.
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Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
By NINIEK KARMINI, Associated Press Writer
CISARUA, Indonesia (AP) - Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.
The friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and cubs Dema and Manis, has blossomed at the Taman Safari zoo where they share a room in the nursery.
After being abandoned by their mothers shortly after birth, the four play fight, nipping and teasing each other, and cuddling up for a shared nap when they are worn out.
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AWW!
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Man blows whistle on pigeon-shooters
BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) - A city worker was awarded $660,000 over claims he was unfairly punished after reporting that fellow employees were shooting pigeons for fun on department grounds.
William M. Lakes, 46, who worked for the Department of Public Works, reported the pigeon shooting to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2003.
A local radio station later reported that police were investigating the shootings.
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If they guy said he saw the pigeon shootings, why didn't they believe him at firtst? Do-doh birds!
By Koh Gui Qing
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As members of Sim Tee Hua's family sat at his bedside to pray for his recovery, they were horrified to learn that the hospital staff were about to turn off his life-support machine and use his organs for transplants.
The scenes that followed have shocked and upset not just Sim's family but many other Singaporeans, sparking a debate over the country's organ donor policy, which assumes that all citizens are willing donors, unless they have registered with the government that they wish to opt out.
Doctors at Singapore General Hospital had declared Sim brain-dead and said they could not delay switching off life support any longer because of the risk of damage to Sim's organs.
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This is not "Grey's Anatomy".
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Teacher cuts pupil's tongue with scissors
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan teacher cut a unruly 7-year-old pupil's tongue with scissors to silence him, police and school officials said on Tuesday.
The child, of North African origin, needed to go to hospital for five stitches to close the wound.
The boy's family has filed suit against the teacher, who has been suspended after last week's incident.
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UGGHH!!
Cruel and unusual consequences not to be used in school.
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Audrey Hepburn's gown auction money to aid children
ZAGREB (Reuters) - About $800,000 in proceeds from the auction of an evening gown worn by Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" will be donated to build 15 schools for destitute Indian children.
"The actor devoted the last part of her life for destitutes and it is only befitting that the auction money be used for a great cause," author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre told Reuters in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
The black Italian silk dress which Hepburn, who was also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, wore in the Academy-award-winning film in 1961, was auctioned at Christie's in London last December for 410,000 pounds ($800,000), around seven times its pre-sale estimate.
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Sounds good...but who bought it and who's gonna wear it?
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Record amount paid for rare baseball card
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million.
The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is considered the most valuable baseball card in existence, according to SCP Auctions, the new minority owners of the card. SCP said on Tuesday the primary purchaser, a Southern California collector, wished to remain anonymous.
Honus Wagner, a former Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Just slide it in a 10 cent cover.
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Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
By NINIEK KARMINI, Associated Press Writer
CISARUA, Indonesia (AP) - Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.
The friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and cubs Dema and Manis, has blossomed at the Taman Safari zoo where they share a room in the nursery.
After being abandoned by their mothers shortly after birth, the four play fight, nipping and teasing each other, and cuddling up for a shared nap when they are worn out.
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AWW!
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Man blows whistle on pigeon-shooters
BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) - A city worker was awarded $660,000 over claims he was unfairly punished after reporting that fellow employees were shooting pigeons for fun on department grounds.
William M. Lakes, 46, who worked for the Department of Public Works, reported the pigeon shooting to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2003.
A local radio station later reported that police were investigating the shootings.
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If they guy said he saw the pigeon shootings, why didn't they believe him at firtst? Do-doh birds!
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Rules force man to urinate in bottle in exam
BERLIN (Reuters) - Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet.
Overseers at the University of Freiburg in southwestern Germany told the 27-year-old, whose bladder control was impaired in an accident that left him on crutches, that he would be failed if he left the room during the exam.
None of the three supervisors would accompany the man to the toilet despite other students' protests.
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Well, ya gotta do what ya goota do in order not to fail.
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Superstition sparks toilet cleaning craze
TOKYO (Reuters) - Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.
"Cleaning the toilet to attract luck" published this month is the latest in a series of books advising readers on how to attract good fortune using a brush and an array of cleaning fluids.
"Don't just wipe the floor, polish it," the book instructs. "It's important to maintain a positive mood while cleaning."
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Uhh....don't know if that'll work.
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Leave me be, 98-year-old woman tells young admirer
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A 98-year-old Mexican woman has filed a legal complaint against a suitor 50 years her junior who she said tried to kiss her and threatened to kill her if she didn't let him move in with her.
Maria de Jesus Flores, a widow for the past half century with four grown children in the United States, got to know Manuel Martinez, 48, when he started delivering her groceries.
But he began propositioning her to the point of harassment, Flores told the daily Reforma.
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Stay tuned when NBC "Dateline" shows "To Catch A Suitor".
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Dog with college degree called to court
FOSTORIA, Ohio (AP) - An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school.
The issue gives "one pause, if not paws, for concern" about what it takes to get the degrees from the school based in the Virgin Islands, Gene Murray wrote in a court document filed Monday.
Murray is seeking to have a drug charge against a client dismissed by arguing that police Chief John McGuire — who is accused of lying on his job application — was not legally employed and had no authority as an officer.
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Call Sue Thomas and her dog then.
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Woman finds WWII grenade in potatoes
ROME (AP) - A woman in a town near Naples got an unwelcome surprise when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put them into water to peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently left over from World War II.
Olga Mauriello had put the potatoes in a vat of water and had just begun peeling them Tuesday when she found the explosive, covered in dirt, police said Wednesday.
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Now THAT'S Scary! I wouldn't want an exploding potato in my system.
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Indiana gas station dispenses water
HOBART, Ind (AP) - Jeffrey Crane got something unexpected when he stopped to gas up his pickup truck — a tank full of water. Crane, who filled up at a Marathon Station in Hobart on Saturday, had his pickup towed to a repair shop when it failed to start Monday. He was surprised to discover what the problem was. "I have a tank full of water," Crane said.
Ahmad Mochtar, owner of the Marathon station, said a cracked seal on a mechanical probe allowed ground water to seep into the northwest Indiana station's gasoline supply late Saturday.
"It was an accident. It was beyond our control," Mochtar said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet.
Overseers at the University of Freiburg in southwestern Germany told the 27-year-old, whose bladder control was impaired in an accident that left him on crutches, that he would be failed if he left the room during the exam.
None of the three supervisors would accompany the man to the toilet despite other students' protests.
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Well, ya gotta do what ya goota do in order not to fail.
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Superstition sparks toilet cleaning craze
TOKYO (Reuters) - Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.
"Cleaning the toilet to attract luck" published this month is the latest in a series of books advising readers on how to attract good fortune using a brush and an array of cleaning fluids.
"Don't just wipe the floor, polish it," the book instructs. "It's important to maintain a positive mood while cleaning."
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Uhh....don't know if that'll work.
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Leave me be, 98-year-old woman tells young admirer
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A 98-year-old Mexican woman has filed a legal complaint against a suitor 50 years her junior who she said tried to kiss her and threatened to kill her if she didn't let him move in with her.
Maria de Jesus Flores, a widow for the past half century with four grown children in the United States, got to know Manuel Martinez, 48, when he started delivering her groceries.
But he began propositioning her to the point of harassment, Flores told the daily Reforma.
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Stay tuned when NBC "Dateline" shows "To Catch A Suitor".
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Dog with college degree called to court
FOSTORIA, Ohio (AP) - An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school.
The issue gives "one pause, if not paws, for concern" about what it takes to get the degrees from the school based in the Virgin Islands, Gene Murray wrote in a court document filed Monday.
Murray is seeking to have a drug charge against a client dismissed by arguing that police Chief John McGuire — who is accused of lying on his job application — was not legally employed and had no authority as an officer.
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Call Sue Thomas and her dog then.
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Woman finds WWII grenade in potatoes
ROME (AP) - A woman in a town near Naples got an unwelcome surprise when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put them into water to peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently left over from World War II.
Olga Mauriello had put the potatoes in a vat of water and had just begun peeling them Tuesday when she found the explosive, covered in dirt, police said Wednesday.
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Now THAT'S Scary! I wouldn't want an exploding potato in my system.
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Indiana gas station dispenses water
HOBART, Ind (AP) - Jeffrey Crane got something unexpected when he stopped to gas up his pickup truck — a tank full of water. Crane, who filled up at a Marathon Station in Hobart on Saturday, had his pickup towed to a repair shop when it failed to start Monday. He was surprised to discover what the problem was. "I have a tank full of water," Crane said.
Ahmad Mochtar, owner of the Marathon station, said a cracked seal on a mechanical probe allowed ground water to seep into the northwest Indiana station's gasoline supply late Saturday.
"It was an accident. It was beyond our control," Mochtar said.
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Gives a whole new meaning to flushed out system.
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Girl's 5 weeks of hiccups finally end
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - She sipped pickle juice, held her breath, breathed into a bag, even went to a neurologist, but for more than five weeks nothing would stop a 15-year-old girl's rapid hiccups — until they finally just stopped on their own.
After trying countless remedies and attracting national media attention, Jennifer Mee said her hiccups suddenly stopped around 5 p.m. Wednesday. No one is certain why.
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You know (hiccup) the thing I (hiccup) hate in the world (hiccup) is (hiccup) hiccups.
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Teacher allegedly cuts boy's tongue
ROME (AP) - A novice teacher in Milan is under criminal investigation for allegedly using scissors to cut the tongue of a second-grader for talking in class, Italian news agencies said Thursday. The 7-year-old boy, who has not been publicly identified, needed six stitches in his tongue from the Feb. 20 incident, said Piero Porciani, a lawyer for the child's parents, a Tunisian couple.
The teacher, 22, was being investigated for suspected voluntary harm of the boy, the ANSA news agency said.
The office of Milan prosecutor Marco Ghezzi said he wasn't there and couldn't give out any information about an investigation.
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After reading further into this story, the teacher said it was all a joke. Some sick joke.
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Landlord sentenced for spying on tenants
ONEIDA, N.Y. (AP) - A central New York man was sentenced Thursday for installing hidden cameras in his tenants' apartments so he could spy on them while they had sex.
Patrick Kaiser, 49, of Oneida, was sentenced to two to six years in state prison. He was convicted in December of four felony counts of unlawful surveillance.
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That's another sick-o in the world today.
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Man saves nun, badge saves NYPD officer
NEW YORK (AP) - An emotionally disturbed man driving his car on a sidewalk nearly ran over a nun on Thursday before trying to stab a rookie policeman in the chest and breaking his knife on the officer's shield, authorities said.
The unusual string of events started in Queens about 5 p.m., when the man left the scene of an accident and started barreling down a sidewalk where the nun was walking, police said.
Another man pushed the nun out of the way of the oncoming car, which struck a tree and a wall before coming to a stop, the New York Police Department said. When the driver tried to run away, two people tried to stop him, but they backed off when he threatened them with a kitchen knife, police said.
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Oh my...we have another crazed man!!
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TV host charged for attacking plane staff
PARIS (Reuters) - A French television host, accused of attacking and sexually harassing Air France cabin staff while under the influence of alcohol, will appear in court next month, a court official said on Monday.
Jean-Luc Delarue, who presents a show called "Let's talk about it" on which guests discuss personal issues such as family relations and teenage pregnancies, was detained on Sunday after returning from a visit to South Africa.
The court official said he was accused of "violent offences against persons exercising a public duty, sexual assault and interfering with air traffic."
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No, it's more like "Let's Fight About It".
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - She sipped pickle juice, held her breath, breathed into a bag, even went to a neurologist, but for more than five weeks nothing would stop a 15-year-old girl's rapid hiccups — until they finally just stopped on their own.
After trying countless remedies and attracting national media attention, Jennifer Mee said her hiccups suddenly stopped around 5 p.m. Wednesday. No one is certain why.
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You know (hiccup) the thing I (hiccup) hate in the world (hiccup) is (hiccup) hiccups.
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Teacher allegedly cuts boy's tongue
ROME (AP) - A novice teacher in Milan is under criminal investigation for allegedly using scissors to cut the tongue of a second-grader for talking in class, Italian news agencies said Thursday. The 7-year-old boy, who has not been publicly identified, needed six stitches in his tongue from the Feb. 20 incident, said Piero Porciani, a lawyer for the child's parents, a Tunisian couple.
The teacher, 22, was being investigated for suspected voluntary harm of the boy, the ANSA news agency said.
The office of Milan prosecutor Marco Ghezzi said he wasn't there and couldn't give out any information about an investigation.
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After reading further into this story, the teacher said it was all a joke. Some sick joke.
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Landlord sentenced for spying on tenants
ONEIDA, N.Y. (AP) - A central New York man was sentenced Thursday for installing hidden cameras in his tenants' apartments so he could spy on them while they had sex.
Patrick Kaiser, 49, of Oneida, was sentenced to two to six years in state prison. He was convicted in December of four felony counts of unlawful surveillance.
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That's another sick-o in the world today.
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Man saves nun, badge saves NYPD officer
NEW YORK (AP) - An emotionally disturbed man driving his car on a sidewalk nearly ran over a nun on Thursday before trying to stab a rookie policeman in the chest and breaking his knife on the officer's shield, authorities said.
The unusual string of events started in Queens about 5 p.m., when the man left the scene of an accident and started barreling down a sidewalk where the nun was walking, police said.
Another man pushed the nun out of the way of the oncoming car, which struck a tree and a wall before coming to a stop, the New York Police Department said. When the driver tried to run away, two people tried to stop him, but they backed off when he threatened them with a kitchen knife, police said.
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Oh my...we have another crazed man!!
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TV host charged for attacking plane staff
PARIS (Reuters) - A French television host, accused of attacking and sexually harassing Air France cabin staff while under the influence of alcohol, will appear in court next month, a court official said on Monday.
Jean-Luc Delarue, who presents a show called "Let's talk about it" on which guests discuss personal issues such as family relations and teenage pregnancies, was detained on Sunday after returning from a visit to South Africa.
The court official said he was accused of "violent offences against persons exercising a public duty, sexual assault and interfering with air traffic."
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No, it's more like "Let's Fight About It".
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[font=Arial]Topless wife photo ends man's pole protest
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 72-foot-tall pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife -- who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.
Fred Gregor, 45, was bidding to have his 15-month conviction for fraud overturned by squatting in his tiny cubicle atop a converted television mast. He told Reuters in a telephone interview last week that he wanted a new trial.
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I can think of better ways to protest, but leave me out of that one!!
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Hotels with no condoms get fined
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese province has taken the unusual step of fining hotels and bars more than $600 if they do not provide condoms, part of efforts to fight the spread of AIDS, a newspaper said on Friday.
The booming eastern province of Zhejiang, with 1,859 recorded infections by the end of last year, started enforcing the rules on Thursday, the Beijing News said.
"Condoms or condom-vending machines must be placed in hotels, bars and designated public places, or the managers will be fined 5,000 yuan ($650)," the report said.
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Well duh!
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 72-foot-tall pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife -- who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.
Fred Gregor, 45, was bidding to have his 15-month conviction for fraud overturned by squatting in his tiny cubicle atop a converted television mast. He told Reuters in a telephone interview last week that he wanted a new trial.
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I can think of better ways to protest, but leave me out of that one!!
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Hotels with no condoms get fined
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese province has taken the unusual step of fining hotels and bars more than $600 if they do not provide condoms, part of efforts to fight the spread of AIDS, a newspaper said on Friday.
The booming eastern province of Zhejiang, with 1,859 recorded infections by the end of last year, started enforcing the rules on Thursday, the Beijing News said.
"Condoms or condom-vending machines must be placed in hotels, bars and designated public places, or the managers will be fined 5,000 yuan ($650)," the report said.
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Well duh!
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[font=Arial]Nudists sweat it out at Dutch gym
By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer
HETEREN, Netherlands - A dozen middle-age and elderly men were game enough for a Dutch gym's invitation to work out nude. But they were vastly outnumbered by the dozens of journalists watching them lift, row and cycle in the buff.
Fitworld owner Patrick de Man allowed the media in for the first session of "Naked Sunday" after receiving inquiries from as far away as Russia and Australia.
The response from nudists was more lukewarm.
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That could only happen in Barfsville.
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Body parts delivered to Michigan home
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Two packages containing human body parts — including a liver and part of a head — meant for a medical research lab instead were delivered to a home.
The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table.
"My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,'" Ludivine Larmande said. "He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.
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Moving on from Barfsville...
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Taiwanese set off 8.1-mile firecracker
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Organizers lit up a 8.1-mile string of explosives in a southern Taiwanese county Sunday, hoping to create the world's longest firecracker in a record-setting attempt expected to last two hours.
TV footage of the Chinese New Year celebration in Tainan County, dubbed "Legend of the Fire Dragon," showed rapid flashes of bright red explosions that created huge wafts of white smoke.
Throngs that had gathered to witness the spectacle wore masks, goggles, and even motorcycle helmets to protect themselves from the pollution.
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DANG!! The roads are really brought to life with those firecrackers. Just hope nobody got their tires blown up.
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Girl stops car after mom faints at wheel
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Emily Lineberger missed her gymnastics class this week, but thanks to the 11-year-old's heroics, she and her mother survived what could have been a tragic car wreck.
Emily was riding in the back seat of the family car Tuesday when her mother, Dayna Lineberger, started feeling lightheaded. Ulcerative colitis had caused Lineberger to feel faint before, so she decided to get food at a nearby restaurant.
"Then it just hit me," said Lineberger, 40. "The last thing I remember is screaming to her, `Tell me where to turn,' because I couldn't see. ..."
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Another life saved!
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Trickster put shark in Austrian river
LINZ, Austria (AP) - Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water — well, it is, actually.
A mystery triggered this week by the bizarre discovery of the carcass of a 3-foot-long shark in a freshwater river in northern Austria ended Saturday when a man confessed he had put it there as a joke.
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WHAT?! Back in Barfsville again?!?!?!?!?![/font]
By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer
HETEREN, Netherlands - A dozen middle-age and elderly men were game enough for a Dutch gym's invitation to work out nude. But they were vastly outnumbered by the dozens of journalists watching them lift, row and cycle in the buff.
Fitworld owner Patrick de Man allowed the media in for the first session of "Naked Sunday" after receiving inquiries from as far away as Russia and Australia.
The response from nudists was more lukewarm.
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That could only happen in Barfsville.
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Body parts delivered to Michigan home
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Two packages containing human body parts — including a liver and part of a head — meant for a medical research lab instead were delivered to a home.
The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table.
"My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,'" Ludivine Larmande said. "He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.
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Moving on from Barfsville...
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Taiwanese set off 8.1-mile firecracker
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Organizers lit up a 8.1-mile string of explosives in a southern Taiwanese county Sunday, hoping to create the world's longest firecracker in a record-setting attempt expected to last two hours.
TV footage of the Chinese New Year celebration in Tainan County, dubbed "Legend of the Fire Dragon," showed rapid flashes of bright red explosions that created huge wafts of white smoke.
Throngs that had gathered to witness the spectacle wore masks, goggles, and even motorcycle helmets to protect themselves from the pollution.
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DANG!! The roads are really brought to life with those firecrackers. Just hope nobody got their tires blown up.
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Girl stops car after mom faints at wheel
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Emily Lineberger missed her gymnastics class this week, but thanks to the 11-year-old's heroics, she and her mother survived what could have been a tragic car wreck.
Emily was riding in the back seat of the family car Tuesday when her mother, Dayna Lineberger, started feeling lightheaded. Ulcerative colitis had caused Lineberger to feel faint before, so she decided to get food at a nearby restaurant.
"Then it just hit me," said Lineberger, 40. "The last thing I remember is screaming to her, `Tell me where to turn,' because I couldn't see. ..."
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Another life saved!
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Trickster put shark in Austrian river
LINZ, Austria (AP) - Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water — well, it is, actually.
A mystery triggered this week by the bizarre discovery of the carcass of a 3-foot-long shark in a freshwater river in northern Austria ended Saturday when a man confessed he had put it there as a joke.
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WHAT?! Back in Barfsville again?!?!?!?!?![/font]
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[font=Arial]Parents beat up principal over grades
BARI, Italy (Reuters) - An irate Italian family beat up a principal because they were unhappy with the grades a young relative had received and a ban on cell phones at school.
Three male relatives, including the father and grandfather of the student, punched and pushed principal Ugo Castorina at the Lombardi middle school in Bari on Saturday, police said.
They were angered by grades on the latest report card and by a recent ban by Castorina on cell phones at the school he has run for the past 22 years.
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All that over bad grades
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Man wanted for trying to revive father's corpse
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police are hunting a man who dug up his father's two-year old corpse and took it home in a hijacked ambulance to try to bring him back to life.
Abdul Rehman's family say he is mentally ill and has never been able to cope with his father's death, police said on Saturday.
"He dug up the corpse on Thursday night after he had hijacked an ambulance and its driver at gunpoint and took it to his home," Ghulam Murtaza, a duty officer at Ferozabad police station in the southern city of Karachi, told Reuters.
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I'm stuck in Barfsville!!!
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All shook up by Elvis ghost voters
PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - The late Elvis Presley plans to be a ghost voter at the 2007 national elections in the jungle-clad South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea -- if you believe the nation's electoral rolls.
In 2006 almost half of Papua New Guinea's 4.9 million registered voters were regarded by the electoral commission as ghost voters and did not exist.
The commission has been trying for a year to update voter registration ahead of June 30 elections, but admits voter rolls in remote, rugged highland electorates remain vastly inaccurate.
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No pun intended, but I'm "all shook up".
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Starbucks steams at 'Starstrucks' coffee chain
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp. is opposing Indian entrepreneur Shahnaz Husain's plans to start a chain of coffee shops called Starstrucks, the Mint business paper reported.
The U.S. coffee shop chain has told India's Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademark that the name is deceptively similar to its own name, the paper said.
Husain, an herbal beauty specialist who has a range of skincare and haircare products and salons named after her, is not willing to give up the name, the paper said.
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No need to get "steamed" over this issue.[/font]
BARI, Italy (Reuters) - An irate Italian family beat up a principal because they were unhappy with the grades a young relative had received and a ban on cell phones at school.
Three male relatives, including the father and grandfather of the student, punched and pushed principal Ugo Castorina at the Lombardi middle school in Bari on Saturday, police said.
They were angered by grades on the latest report card and by a recent ban by Castorina on cell phones at the school he has run for the past 22 years.
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All that over bad grades
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Man wanted for trying to revive father's corpse
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police are hunting a man who dug up his father's two-year old corpse and took it home in a hijacked ambulance to try to bring him back to life.
Abdul Rehman's family say he is mentally ill and has never been able to cope with his father's death, police said on Saturday.
"He dug up the corpse on Thursday night after he had hijacked an ambulance and its driver at gunpoint and took it to his home," Ghulam Murtaza, a duty officer at Ferozabad police station in the southern city of Karachi, told Reuters.
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I'm stuck in Barfsville!!!
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All shook up by Elvis ghost voters
PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - The late Elvis Presley plans to be a ghost voter at the 2007 national elections in the jungle-clad South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea -- if you believe the nation's electoral rolls.
In 2006 almost half of Papua New Guinea's 4.9 million registered voters were regarded by the electoral commission as ghost voters and did not exist.
The commission has been trying for a year to update voter registration ahead of June 30 elections, but admits voter rolls in remote, rugged highland electorates remain vastly inaccurate.
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No pun intended, but I'm "all shook up".
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Starbucks steams at 'Starstrucks' coffee chain
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp. is opposing Indian entrepreneur Shahnaz Husain's plans to start a chain of coffee shops called Starstrucks, the Mint business paper reported.
The U.S. coffee shop chain has told India's Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademark that the name is deceptively similar to its own name, the paper said.
Husain, an herbal beauty specialist who has a range of skincare and haircare products and salons named after her, is not willing to give up the name, the paper said.
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No need to get "steamed" over this issue.[/font]
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[font=Arial]R-rated movies lure white teens into smoking?
CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters Life!) - White U.S. teenagers who watch a lot of R-rated movies or have unsupervised access to TV shows appear more likely than similar black youths to start smoking cigarettes, a study found on Monday.
Researchers found that white adolescents with the most exposure to R-rated movies were nearly seven times more likely to have started smoking compared to those with less exposure.
Even after taking into account such things as having a friend who smoked, lack of parental guidance or doing poorly in school, those who watched more R-rated movies were still three times more likely to start smoking, the study found. In theaters, anyone age 16 or younger who attends an R-rated movie must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.
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That's profiling, but good point nonetheless.
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Man, 76, charged in 'Lend-a-Hand' attack
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - An elderly man was arrested at his retirement home Monday after allegedly striking a fellow resident in the head with a hammer. Richard Edison Johnson, 76, is charged with attempted murder. He is accused of striking Elizabeth Alwine, 81, who was hospitalized in serious but stable condition, officials said.
Both were residents of the Lend-a-Hand retirement home in Davenport.
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They said "Lend a hand", not "Attack Me".
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Fear of man-eaters stalks tiger widows
By Bappa Majumdar
SATJELIA, India (Reuters) - Savitri Mondol shivers every time she hears a tiger roaring somewhere in the vast mangrove forests surrounding her mud hut, the world's largest habitat of the wild cat.
It reminds her of the day a man-eater pounced on her husband, dragging him into the undergrowth and mauling him to death.
"I could sense the tiger watching him as he went into the creek to catch fish two years ago," said Savitri, at her home in Satjelia, one of 48 islands dotting the vast marshy forests of the Sunderbans on India's eastern coast.
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I wouldn't blame her, I'd too fear for my life if anything like thsat ever happens to me, but I won't be like these next group of teens:
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Teens accused of making ostrich impotent
BERLIN (AP) - Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty fine if a court decides that their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav.
Rico Gabel, a farmer in Lohsa, northeast of Dresden, is claiming $6,450 in damages for the alleged antics of the three youths, ages 17-18, between Dec. 27 and 29, 2005.
According to his lawsuit, the farmer claims that fireworks set off by the boys made the previously lustful Gustav both apathetic and depressed, and thus unable to perform for a half-a-year with his two female breeding partners.
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You won't see "Jacka**" on Animal Planet, trust me.
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Inmate suspected in plot to kill police chief
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prisoner in New York sought to assassinate police Commissioner Ray Kelly, offering an undercover officer posing as a hit man $65,000 to decapitate Kelly and blow up police headquarters, police said on Monday.
The inmate, David Brown, 47, wanted revenge for the police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day in November, police said in a statement. Brown was arrested at Rikers Island prison on Monday on suspicion of criminal solicitation.
While in jail Brown had asked someone to contact a contract killer, leading police to send an undercover officer to meet Brown, who offered the officer $15,000 to decapitate Kelly and $50,000 to blow up police headquarters in downtown Manhattan, the police statement said.
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If you don't like the food, stay out of the cafeteria.
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Alaska moose brings down helicopter
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry moose. Instead of lying down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground.
Neither the pilot nor the biologist was injured, but the moose was maimed by the spinning rotor and had to be euthanized, wildlife officials said.
"It just had to be one of those quirky circumstance. Even dealing with bears and goats and moose and wolves, this is pretty unusual and truly a very unique situation," said Doug Larsen, regional supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Conservation.
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CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters Life!) - White U.S. teenagers who watch a lot of R-rated movies or have unsupervised access to TV shows appear more likely than similar black youths to start smoking cigarettes, a study found on Monday.
Researchers found that white adolescents with the most exposure to R-rated movies were nearly seven times more likely to have started smoking compared to those with less exposure.
Even after taking into account such things as having a friend who smoked, lack of parental guidance or doing poorly in school, those who watched more R-rated movies were still three times more likely to start smoking, the study found. In theaters, anyone age 16 or younger who attends an R-rated movie must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.
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That's profiling, but good point nonetheless.
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Man, 76, charged in 'Lend-a-Hand' attack
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - An elderly man was arrested at his retirement home Monday after allegedly striking a fellow resident in the head with a hammer. Richard Edison Johnson, 76, is charged with attempted murder. He is accused of striking Elizabeth Alwine, 81, who was hospitalized in serious but stable condition, officials said.
Both were residents of the Lend-a-Hand retirement home in Davenport.
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They said "Lend a hand", not "Attack Me".
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Fear of man-eaters stalks tiger widows
By Bappa Majumdar
SATJELIA, India (Reuters) - Savitri Mondol shivers every time she hears a tiger roaring somewhere in the vast mangrove forests surrounding her mud hut, the world's largest habitat of the wild cat.
It reminds her of the day a man-eater pounced on her husband, dragging him into the undergrowth and mauling him to death.
"I could sense the tiger watching him as he went into the creek to catch fish two years ago," said Savitri, at her home in Satjelia, one of 48 islands dotting the vast marshy forests of the Sunderbans on India's eastern coast.
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I wouldn't blame her, I'd too fear for my life if anything like thsat ever happens to me, but I won't be like these next group of teens:
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Teens accused of making ostrich impotent
BERLIN (AP) - Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty fine if a court decides that their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav.
Rico Gabel, a farmer in Lohsa, northeast of Dresden, is claiming $6,450 in damages for the alleged antics of the three youths, ages 17-18, between Dec. 27 and 29, 2005.
According to his lawsuit, the farmer claims that fireworks set off by the boys made the previously lustful Gustav both apathetic and depressed, and thus unable to perform for a half-a-year with his two female breeding partners.
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You won't see "Jacka**" on Animal Planet, trust me.
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Inmate suspected in plot to kill police chief
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prisoner in New York sought to assassinate police Commissioner Ray Kelly, offering an undercover officer posing as a hit man $65,000 to decapitate Kelly and blow up police headquarters, police said on Monday.
The inmate, David Brown, 47, wanted revenge for the police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day in November, police said in a statement. Brown was arrested at Rikers Island prison on Monday on suspicion of criminal solicitation.
While in jail Brown had asked someone to contact a contract killer, leading police to send an undercover officer to meet Brown, who offered the officer $15,000 to decapitate Kelly and $50,000 to blow up police headquarters in downtown Manhattan, the police statement said.
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If you don't like the food, stay out of the cafeteria.
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Alaska moose brings down helicopter
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry moose. Instead of lying down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground.
Neither the pilot nor the biologist was injured, but the moose was maimed by the spinning rotor and had to be euthanized, wildlife officials said.
"It just had to be one of those quirky circumstance. Even dealing with bears and goats and moose and wolves, this is pretty unusual and truly a very unique situation," said Doug Larsen, regional supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Conservation.
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(As Bullwinkle) "Hey Rocky! I brought down Boris and Nastasha's helicopter!"[/font]
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[font=Arial]Meat-loving calf eats chickens
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - When dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighborhood dogs.
But Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, eventually solved the puzzle when he caught his cow -- a sacred animal for the Hindu family -- gobbling up several of them at night.
"We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive," Ghosh told Reuters by phone from Chandpur village.
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It's a meat-loving cow. What do ya expect?
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No grisly food details, please.
LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers increasingly take animal welfare into account in food purchases, but they don't want to know the gory details, a report said on Tuesday.
"We are a nation of animal lovers and concerns over welfare standards are helping to shape the content of our shopping baskets," Julie Starck, senior consultant with international food and grocery research body IGD, said in a statement.
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Want Hamwinkies instead?
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Risk-taking kiwis protest looming "party pill" ban
By Gyles Beckford and Gillian Murdoch
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Skiing down active volcanoes is perfectly alright, so is bungy-jumping off canyons and "zorbing" down mountains in massive inflatable plastic balls.
But should risk-taking New Zealanders be allowed to pop the legal stimulants they call "party pills?"
Frenzy, Torque and D-lite may not be New Zealand's best-known inventions, but kiwi fans fighting a proposed government ban argue their legal highs are safer than many of the small country's dangerous pastimes.
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Wouldn't you rather take Hamwinkies?[/font]
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - When dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighborhood dogs.
But Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, eventually solved the puzzle when he caught his cow -- a sacred animal for the Hindu family -- gobbling up several of them at night.
"We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive," Ghosh told Reuters by phone from Chandpur village.
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It's a meat-loving cow. What do ya expect?
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No grisly food details, please.
LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers increasingly take animal welfare into account in food purchases, but they don't want to know the gory details, a report said on Tuesday.
"We are a nation of animal lovers and concerns over welfare standards are helping to shape the content of our shopping baskets," Julie Starck, senior consultant with international food and grocery research body IGD, said in a statement.
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Want Hamwinkies instead?
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Risk-taking kiwis protest looming "party pill" ban
By Gyles Beckford and Gillian Murdoch
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Skiing down active volcanoes is perfectly alright, so is bungy-jumping off canyons and "zorbing" down mountains in massive inflatable plastic balls.
But should risk-taking New Zealanders be allowed to pop the legal stimulants they call "party pills?"
Frenzy, Torque and D-lite may not be New Zealand's best-known inventions, but kiwi fans fighting a proposed government ban argue their legal highs are safer than many of the small country's dangerous pastimes.
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Wouldn't you rather take Hamwinkies?[/font]
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[font=Arial]School for skewers? Shish!
By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, home to some 2.5 million people of Turkish descent, has started offering courses in doner kebab production as part of an initiative to train unskilled workers.
If they pass their exams, the first class of 16 students -- all of Turkish descent -- will qualify with a certificate in "Meat Processing with Doner Kebab Production Specialization" at Hamburg's Vocational School for Gastronomy and Nutrition.
"Getting a qualification in kebab production should help me stay in the branch in the long term and that is what I want to do," student Dursun Atekin, 25, told Reuters.
Full Story Here about how to attend "Skewer 101".
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Refrigerator will toss you can of beer
By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. - When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
"I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
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I gotta get me one of those, except I'm a fill it with sodas instead.
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Soccer fan punishes child's foul with karate
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 42-year-old German man was so enraged by a foul during a boys' soccer match that he invaded the pitch and felled the 8-year-old culprit with a karate kick, then jumped on him, police said on Wednesday.
"It seems likely the man was related to the player who was fouled, but it's not entirely clear at this point," said a spokesman for police in the southwestern town of Hassloch.
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Tune into ABC's "20/20" special, "When Spectators Attack"*.
*Not really a special
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Half ton man continues weight loss
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
SAN NICOLAS DE LOS GARZA, Mexico - A man who once weighed well over a half ton left his house for the first time in five years Wednesday — wheeled outside on his bed to greet neighbors and see a mariachi band. "The sky is beautiful and blue and what I want is to enjoy the sun," said Manuel Uribe, who had once been certified by doctors as weighing 1,235 pounds. Though still unable to leave his bed, Uribe has lost 395 pounds since he began a high-protein diet a year ago. He now weights about 840 pounds.
To celebrate the milestone, six people pushed Uribe's wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street as a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered. Then, a forklift lifted him onto a truck and the 41-year-old rode through the streets of San Nicolas de los Garza, a Monterrey suburb.
With dozens of reporters and photographers in tow, Uribe traveled along, passing the town's plaza and church and waving at clusters of people eager to get a glimpse of him.
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Keep it up!!
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Missing words on new $1 coins mystify U.S. Mint
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In God We Trust. In machines? Not so much.
An unknown number of new U.S. $1 coins bearing the image of George Washington are missing the words "In God We Trust" and other lettering along the edges, the U.S. Mint said on Wednesday.
The Mint released more than 300 million gold-colored, George Washington $1 coins last month, but it recently discovered a problem. The coins, made by the Philadelphia Mint, were supposed to have the inscriptions "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," the date and the mint mark around the edge.
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Very few coins would say "In Gob We Trust".
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Man burns genitals in 'Jackass' stunt
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) - Attempts to do a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges. The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the "Jackass" movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
Jared W. Anderson, 20, suffered serious burns to his hands and genitals, according to the criminal complaint. Randell D. Peterson, 43, who sprayed lighter fluid on Anderson and lit him on fire, was charged with felony battery and first-degree reckless endangerment Tuesday in Eau Claire County Court.
Witnesses told police that Anderson, who was drunk, volunteered to do the stunt Sunday after watching the movie, the complaint said.
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"Jackass", the show of people who will never have children.[/font]
By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, home to some 2.5 million people of Turkish descent, has started offering courses in doner kebab production as part of an initiative to train unskilled workers.
If they pass their exams, the first class of 16 students -- all of Turkish descent -- will qualify with a certificate in "Meat Processing with Doner Kebab Production Specialization" at Hamburg's Vocational School for Gastronomy and Nutrition.
"Getting a qualification in kebab production should help me stay in the branch in the long term and that is what I want to do," student Dursun Atekin, 25, told Reuters.
Full Story Here about how to attend "Skewer 101".
[hr]
Refrigerator will toss you can of beer
By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. - When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
"I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
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I gotta get me one of those, except I'm a fill it with sodas instead.
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Soccer fan punishes child's foul with karate
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 42-year-old German man was so enraged by a foul during a boys' soccer match that he invaded the pitch and felled the 8-year-old culprit with a karate kick, then jumped on him, police said on Wednesday.
"It seems likely the man was related to the player who was fouled, but it's not entirely clear at this point," said a spokesman for police in the southwestern town of Hassloch.
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Tune into ABC's "20/20" special, "When Spectators Attack"*.
*Not really a special
[hr]
Half ton man continues weight loss
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
SAN NICOLAS DE LOS GARZA, Mexico - A man who once weighed well over a half ton left his house for the first time in five years Wednesday — wheeled outside on his bed to greet neighbors and see a mariachi band. "The sky is beautiful and blue and what I want is to enjoy the sun," said Manuel Uribe, who had once been certified by doctors as weighing 1,235 pounds. Though still unable to leave his bed, Uribe has lost 395 pounds since he began a high-protein diet a year ago. He now weights about 840 pounds.
To celebrate the milestone, six people pushed Uribe's wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street as a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered. Then, a forklift lifted him onto a truck and the 41-year-old rode through the streets of San Nicolas de los Garza, a Monterrey suburb.
With dozens of reporters and photographers in tow, Uribe traveled along, passing the town's plaza and church and waving at clusters of people eager to get a glimpse of him.
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Keep it up!!
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Missing words on new $1 coins mystify U.S. Mint
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In God We Trust. In machines? Not so much.
An unknown number of new U.S. $1 coins bearing the image of George Washington are missing the words "In God We Trust" and other lettering along the edges, the U.S. Mint said on Wednesday.
The Mint released more than 300 million gold-colored, George Washington $1 coins last month, but it recently discovered a problem. The coins, made by the Philadelphia Mint, were supposed to have the inscriptions "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," the date and the mint mark around the edge.
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Very few coins would say "In Gob We Trust".
[hr]
Man burns genitals in 'Jackass' stunt
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) - Attempts to do a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges. The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the "Jackass" movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
Jared W. Anderson, 20, suffered serious burns to his hands and genitals, according to the criminal complaint. Randell D. Peterson, 43, who sprayed lighter fluid on Anderson and lit him on fire, was charged with felony battery and first-degree reckless endangerment Tuesday in Eau Claire County Court.
Witnesses told police that Anderson, who was drunk, volunteered to do the stunt Sunday after watching the movie, the complaint said.
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"Jackass", the show of people who will never have children.[/font]
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[font=Arial]German man chainsaws house in two in divorce split
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house -- which was some 8 meters (26 feet) long and 6 meters wide -- before chainsawing through the wooden roof and walls.
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There are too many people taking this Prenupt thing too seriously.
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Invasion of the body-snatchers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed into a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the buried corpse of a suspected drug gang hitman killed days earlier in a shootout, local officials said on Thursday.
The four armed men broke into the graveyard in the town of Poza Rica, Veracruz state, on Tuesday night, tied up a security guard, smashed Roberto Carlos Carmona's gravestone with hammers and made off with the coffin containing his corpse.
The bodysnatchers have not been identified, a spokeswoman for the local attorney general's office said.
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Disgusting!!
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Google Earth urged to remove "Mount Hitler" name
BERLIN (Reuters) - The mayor of a small town in Germany on Thursday called on Google Earth to delete a reference to a nearby "Mount Hitler" from its geographic image service, saying it was misleading.
Andreas Wiedemann, mayor of Bad Toelz, south of Munich, said the peak near the Bavarian town had been known as Mount Hitler for a short time during the Third Reich but had been given back its original name of Heigelkopf after World War Two.
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They shouldn't have named it as such in the first place.
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Pope opposed Bob Dylan singing to John Paul in 1997
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.
Benedict, who was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the time of the concert in Bologna, Italy, makes the disclosure in a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, who died in 2005.
"There was reason to be skeptical, -- I was, and in a certain sense I still am, -- to doubt if it was really right to let these types of prophets intervene," Benedict writes, only mentioning Dylan among the stars who appeared.
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Why can't they say everything's bad for evryone and get it over with?
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Mo. man shares golf cart with bobcat
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - It's best not to get between a predator and its prey — especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart.
Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.
As Walter was inspecting the Cape Rock Water Treatment Plant property Tuesday night, a rabbit leaped into his golf cart — followed by a 25-pound bobcat. The rabbit then jumped back out, leaving Walter alone with a large, frightened feline.
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Nobody shares anything with wild bobcats...could they?
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Priests to purify site after Bush visit
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer
GUATEMALA CITY - Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
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Hire an exorcist for Pres. Bush if you're that bad off.[/font]
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house -- which was some 8 meters (26 feet) long and 6 meters wide -- before chainsawing through the wooden roof and walls.
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There are too many people taking this Prenupt thing too seriously.
[hr]
Invasion of the body-snatchers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed into a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the buried corpse of a suspected drug gang hitman killed days earlier in a shootout, local officials said on Thursday.
The four armed men broke into the graveyard in the town of Poza Rica, Veracruz state, on Tuesday night, tied up a security guard, smashed Roberto Carlos Carmona's gravestone with hammers and made off with the coffin containing his corpse.
The bodysnatchers have not been identified, a spokeswoman for the local attorney general's office said.
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Disgusting!!
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Google Earth urged to remove "Mount Hitler" name
BERLIN (Reuters) - The mayor of a small town in Germany on Thursday called on Google Earth to delete a reference to a nearby "Mount Hitler" from its geographic image service, saying it was misleading.
Andreas Wiedemann, mayor of Bad Toelz, south of Munich, said the peak near the Bavarian town had been known as Mount Hitler for a short time during the Third Reich but had been given back its original name of Heigelkopf after World War Two.
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They shouldn't have named it as such in the first place.
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Pope opposed Bob Dylan singing to John Paul in 1997
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.
Benedict, who was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the time of the concert in Bologna, Italy, makes the disclosure in a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, who died in 2005.
"There was reason to be skeptical, -- I was, and in a certain sense I still am, -- to doubt if it was really right to let these types of prophets intervene," Benedict writes, only mentioning Dylan among the stars who appeared.
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Why can't they say everything's bad for evryone and get it over with?
[hr]
Mo. man shares golf cart with bobcat
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - It's best not to get between a predator and its prey — especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart.
Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.
As Walter was inspecting the Cape Rock Water Treatment Plant property Tuesday night, a rabbit leaped into his golf cart — followed by a 25-pound bobcat. The rabbit then jumped back out, leaving Walter alone with a large, frightened feline.
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Nobody shares anything with wild bobcats...could they?
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Priests to purify site after Bush visit
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer
GUATEMALA CITY - Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
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Hire an exorcist for Pres. Bush if you're that bad off.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Woman weds corpse...
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - An Indian woman, despairing over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
"It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow," K.M. Kapadia, a police officer in the town of Anand in western Gujarat state, said on Saturday.
Wedding attendees sat the corpse up by a fire, the traditional center of Hindu wedding ceremonies, and chanted some marriage prayers before cremating the body, police said.
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I've attended better wedding ceremonies.
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Pi fans to meet March 14 (3.14, get it?)
By ERIN McCLAM, AP National Writer
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.
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Nothing like a "Pi" in your face to start that day. This story should be in the "GROAN" thread.
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Security forces defuse bomb in chip bag
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces defused a bomb hidden in a potato chip packet and arrested the man who was carrying it, police said in a statement.
A security patrol had stopped the man on Sunday night in the southern city of Sidon when he aroused suspicion.
"When he was searched an explosive device was found which he had placed inside a potato chip bag," the statement said.
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Those must be the "Flavor Blasted" kind of chips.
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Americans increasingly medicating pets
By JEFF DONN, Associated Press Writer
WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. - With aging, it's become a routine faithfully endured by the Guffords. Each day starts with a blood sugar check and a shot of insulin. Then a couple of pills, maybe mashed into a bowl of tuna and canned carrots. Mixed with dry chow. All for their 12-year-old dog.
Brownie takes more drugs than his human companions put together. He has been medicated in recent months for diabetes, infections, high blood pressure, and his finicky gut that rebels at red meat. Since 2005, he has taken drugs for everything from anemia to a spider bite.
"He's our baby, he's a family member, I would want somebody to do that for me," explains Ann Gufford.
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Just be sure not to give them the wrong meds.
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Texas snake roundup rattles ecologists
By Ed Stoddard
SWEETWATER, Texas (Reuters) - When Chris Soles says he works in a snake pit, he's not kidding.
The lanky Texan stands among hundreds of slithering rattlesnakes and prods them with special tongs that allow him to snatch the reptiles at arm's length.
"I'm sorting out the dead snakes," said Soles, wearing protective pants as he occasionally picks up a lifeless rattler from the bundle and throws it into a bucket outside the pit.
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He'd fot the parts to the sequels to "Snakes On The Plane" and "Black Snake Moan".[/font]
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - An Indian woman, despairing over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
"It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow," K.M. Kapadia, a police officer in the town of Anand in western Gujarat state, said on Saturday.
Wedding attendees sat the corpse up by a fire, the traditional center of Hindu wedding ceremonies, and chanted some marriage prayers before cremating the body, police said.
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I've attended better wedding ceremonies.
[hr]
Pi fans to meet March 14 (3.14, get it?)
By ERIN McCLAM, AP National Writer
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.
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Nothing like a "Pi" in your face to start that day. This story should be in the "GROAN" thread.
[hr]
Security forces defuse bomb in chip bag
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces defused a bomb hidden in a potato chip packet and arrested the man who was carrying it, police said in a statement.
A security patrol had stopped the man on Sunday night in the southern city of Sidon when he aroused suspicion.
"When he was searched an explosive device was found which he had placed inside a potato chip bag," the statement said.
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Those must be the "Flavor Blasted" kind of chips.
[hr]
Americans increasingly medicating pets
By JEFF DONN, Associated Press Writer
WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. - With aging, it's become a routine faithfully endured by the Guffords. Each day starts with a blood sugar check and a shot of insulin. Then a couple of pills, maybe mashed into a bowl of tuna and canned carrots. Mixed with dry chow. All for their 12-year-old dog.
Brownie takes more drugs than his human companions put together. He has been medicated in recent months for diabetes, infections, high blood pressure, and his finicky gut that rebels at red meat. Since 2005, he has taken drugs for everything from anemia to a spider bite.
"He's our baby, he's a family member, I would want somebody to do that for me," explains Ann Gufford.
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Just be sure not to give them the wrong meds.
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Texas snake roundup rattles ecologists
By Ed Stoddard
SWEETWATER, Texas (Reuters) - When Chris Soles says he works in a snake pit, he's not kidding.
The lanky Texan stands among hundreds of slithering rattlesnakes and prods them with special tongs that allow him to snatch the reptiles at arm's length.
"I'm sorting out the dead snakes," said Soles, wearing protective pants as he occasionally picks up a lifeless rattler from the bundle and throws it into a bucket outside the pit.
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He'd fot the parts to the sequels to "Snakes On The Plane" and "Black Snake Moan".[/font]
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[font=Arial]Police hot on the scent of crime
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Police in India's Western state of Gujarat are to wear new uniforms impregnated with the fragrance of flowers and citrus to help improve their image.
"Most policemen look hassled, drenched in sweat after coming from any scene of crime," said Somesh Singh, a designer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad that drew up the uniforms on request of the state government.
"They are surely not the best person one would like to meet, but if they smell good and fresh one might as well approach them," said Singh.
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Just be glad it's not "Au De Skunk".
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Whale kills would-be rescuer in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese fisherman drowned on Tuesday after a whale he was trying to rescue capsized his small fishing boat, a coastguard official said.
Three fishermen tried to rescue the sperm whale, about 10-meter (yard) long, after it strayed into a bay off the southwestern island of Shikoku, about 800 km (500 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
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Oh, my!! The story of "Moby Dick" will never be the same.
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Journalist fined for Pope water theft stunt
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German journalist has been fined 100 euros ($131) after he filmed three artists stealing water from Pope Benedict's garden hose in Bavaria to sell on Internet auction site EBay.
The three men, clad in overalls and wearing masks, broke into the garden of the Pope's house in Pentling, a suburb of Regensburg, in August armed with as many as 20 old lemonade bottles, the journalist's lawyer, Jan Bockemuehl, told Reuters.
They were filmed in the act by freelance journalist Hubertus Wiendl, who was caught when the caretaker noted down his car registration number, he said. Wiendl denied any knowledge of the plan to enter the garden. The artists have not been tracked down.
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If your auctioneers are that thirsty, let them get their water themselves.
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Stop surfing, make friends, students told
By Krittivas Mukherjee
MUMBAI (AP) - One of India's top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its hostels, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students' performance, making them reclusive and even suicidal.
Authorities at the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them.
"Now, a student doesn't even know who lives two doors away from him because he is so busy on the Internet," said Prakash Gopalan, dean of student affairs.
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Good point there. The intyernet can be an addiction.
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Party seeks to strip Hitler of citizenship
By Dave Graham
BERLIN (AP) - A regional branch of one of Germany's main political parties is planning a legal bid to have Adolf Hitler posthumously stripped of his German citizenship.
Some 75 years after Braunschweig (Brunswick) enabled the then stateless Hitler to get German citizenship, Social Democrats (SPD) in the state that now incorporates the former statelet want to strip the Nazi dictator of his nationality.
"It's meant as a symbolic gesture," said Simon Kopelke, parliamentary spokesman for the SPD in the state of Lower Saxony, on Monday. "But it's also what Braunschweig wants."
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If I was them, I'd join that party too.
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U. of Illinois retires Indian mascot
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois swept aside the last vestiges of Chief Illiniwek Tuesday, voting to retire the mascot's name, regalia and image.
The resolution lets Chancellor Richard Herman decide how and when the Chief Illiniwek name and image would stop being used and licensed to apparel makers and others.
The school would continue to call its sports teams the Fighting Illini under the resolution.
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To this day, the Chicago Blackhawks are still existing...so far.[/font]
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Police in India's Western state of Gujarat are to wear new uniforms impregnated with the fragrance of flowers and citrus to help improve their image.
"Most policemen look hassled, drenched in sweat after coming from any scene of crime," said Somesh Singh, a designer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad that drew up the uniforms on request of the state government.
"They are surely not the best person one would like to meet, but if they smell good and fresh one might as well approach them," said Singh.
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Just be glad it's not "Au De Skunk".
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Whale kills would-be rescuer in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese fisherman drowned on Tuesday after a whale he was trying to rescue capsized his small fishing boat, a coastguard official said.
Three fishermen tried to rescue the sperm whale, about 10-meter (yard) long, after it strayed into a bay off the southwestern island of Shikoku, about 800 km (500 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
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Oh, my!! The story of "Moby Dick" will never be the same.
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Journalist fined for Pope water theft stunt
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German journalist has been fined 100 euros ($131) after he filmed three artists stealing water from Pope Benedict's garden hose in Bavaria to sell on Internet auction site EBay.
The three men, clad in overalls and wearing masks, broke into the garden of the Pope's house in Pentling, a suburb of Regensburg, in August armed with as many as 20 old lemonade bottles, the journalist's lawyer, Jan Bockemuehl, told Reuters.
They were filmed in the act by freelance journalist Hubertus Wiendl, who was caught when the caretaker noted down his car registration number, he said. Wiendl denied any knowledge of the plan to enter the garden. The artists have not been tracked down.
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If your auctioneers are that thirsty, let them get their water themselves.
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Stop surfing, make friends, students told
By Krittivas Mukherjee
MUMBAI (AP) - One of India's top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its hostels, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students' performance, making them reclusive and even suicidal.
Authorities at the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them.
"Now, a student doesn't even know who lives two doors away from him because he is so busy on the Internet," said Prakash Gopalan, dean of student affairs.
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Good point there. The intyernet can be an addiction.
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Party seeks to strip Hitler of citizenship
By Dave Graham
BERLIN (AP) - A regional branch of one of Germany's main political parties is planning a legal bid to have Adolf Hitler posthumously stripped of his German citizenship.
Some 75 years after Braunschweig (Brunswick) enabled the then stateless Hitler to get German citizenship, Social Democrats (SPD) in the state that now incorporates the former statelet want to strip the Nazi dictator of his nationality.
"It's meant as a symbolic gesture," said Simon Kopelke, parliamentary spokesman for the SPD in the state of Lower Saxony, on Monday. "But it's also what Braunschweig wants."
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If I was them, I'd join that party too.
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U. of Illinois retires Indian mascot
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois swept aside the last vestiges of Chief Illiniwek Tuesday, voting to retire the mascot's name, regalia and image.
The resolution lets Chancellor Richard Herman decide how and when the Chief Illiniwek name and image would stop being used and licensed to apparel makers and others.
The school would continue to call its sports teams the Fighting Illini under the resolution.
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To this day, the Chicago Blackhawks are still existing...so far.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Woman's brush with death
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong woman somehow swallowed her toothbrush but still managed to dial 999 and call for an ambulance, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old woman's brush with disaster happened on Tuesday morning when she slipped, jamming the offending 15-cm implement down her throat, the South China Morning Post said.
The woman was still able to call 999 without choking and request an ambulance, the paper reported.
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That's the whole "tooth".
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Colo. couple find faceless dollar coin
By CHASE SQUIRES, Associated Press Writer
DENVER - Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either. A week after the revelation that some of the coins slipped out of the U.S. Mint without "In God We Trust" stamped on the edge, the Smiths said Tuesday they found one with nothing stamped on either flat side.
It does have "In God We Trust" on the edge. What's missing is the image of George Washington on the front and the Statue of Liberty on the back. Instead, the Smiths' coin is just smooth, shiny metal.
"We're just so excited," Mary Smith told The Associated Press. "I'm just dumbfounded that we actually found something significant."
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How many times has that happened?
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Jailbird eyes fight for freedom
By Martin Petty
PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - When convicted Thai drugs dealer Samson Sor Siriporn enters the ring at the notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison next month, her freedom as well as a world title will be on the line.
Jailed seven years ago for selling "ya ba" (crazy drug) methamphetamine pills, the 24-year-old prison pugilist could be released on parole three years early as a reward for winning the WBC light-flyweight title.
Siriporn, who will face Japan's Ayaka Miyano, says she took up boxing two years ago to forget her criminal past. She dreams of winning her freedom and opening a small shop in her home province of Lop Buri.
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Wishing him the best of luck and hope he doesn't screw up again.
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Police rescue 91-year-old man glued to roof
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 91-year-old German sparked a rescue operation when he slipped mending his roof and got stuck fast in tar "like a beetle on its back," police said on Tuesday.
Passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman working on the roof they first thought he was planning to commit suicide, according to police in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
"In fact he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen. But then he slipped," said a spokesman for police.
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You've gotta be kidding me![/font]
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong woman somehow swallowed her toothbrush but still managed to dial 999 and call for an ambulance, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old woman's brush with disaster happened on Tuesday morning when she slipped, jamming the offending 15-cm implement down her throat, the South China Morning Post said.
The woman was still able to call 999 without choking and request an ambulance, the paper reported.
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That's the whole "tooth".
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Colo. couple find faceless dollar coin
By CHASE SQUIRES, Associated Press Writer
DENVER - Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either. A week after the revelation that some of the coins slipped out of the U.S. Mint without "In God We Trust" stamped on the edge, the Smiths said Tuesday they found one with nothing stamped on either flat side.
It does have "In God We Trust" on the edge. What's missing is the image of George Washington on the front and the Statue of Liberty on the back. Instead, the Smiths' coin is just smooth, shiny metal.
"We're just so excited," Mary Smith told The Associated Press. "I'm just dumbfounded that we actually found something significant."
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How many times has that happened?
[hr]
Jailbird eyes fight for freedom
By Martin Petty
PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - When convicted Thai drugs dealer Samson Sor Siriporn enters the ring at the notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison next month, her freedom as well as a world title will be on the line.
Jailed seven years ago for selling "ya ba" (crazy drug) methamphetamine pills, the 24-year-old prison pugilist could be released on parole three years early as a reward for winning the WBC light-flyweight title.
Siriporn, who will face Japan's Ayaka Miyano, says she took up boxing two years ago to forget her criminal past. She dreams of winning her freedom and opening a small shop in her home province of Lop Buri.
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Wishing him the best of luck and hope he doesn't screw up again.
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Police rescue 91-year-old man glued to roof
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 91-year-old German sparked a rescue operation when he slipped mending his roof and got stuck fast in tar "like a beetle on its back," police said on Tuesday.
Passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman working on the roof they first thought he was planning to commit suicide, according to police in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
"In fact he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen. But then he slipped," said a spokesman for police.
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You've gotta be kidding me![/font]
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[font=Arial]Meet the $1,000 pizza
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York restaurateur has cooked up the most world's most extravagant pizza -- a $1,000 pizza topped with six sorts of caviar and fresh lobster.
Nino Selimaj, who runs six pizza restaurants in New York, on Wednesday unveiled his Luxury Pizza, a 12 inch (30 cms), thin crust topped with caviar, lobster, creme fraiche and chives. Cut into eight, it works out at $125 a slice.
"I know this won't be for everyone but there are people in New York who can afford it and once tried, they'll be back for more. It is delicious," said Selimaj, who moved to New York from Albania about 29 years ago.
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Now, top it off with a 99 Cent bag of shredded cheese.
I still prefer Pepperoni Pizza, thanks.
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Matador's chances of fatherhood hurt by goring
MADRID (Reuters) - If Spanish matador Fernando Cruz ever has children, he'll have doctors at the Valencia bullring to thank after he suffered a double goring.
Cruz, 25, is recovering in hospital after the second bull of Tuesday's corrida caught him in the upper thigh, throwing him into the air, and gored him in the groin once he hit the ground.
Newspapers reproduced the eye-watering bulletin issued by surgeons at the bullring after a two-hour operation and film of the incident was played on the main evening news.
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Bullfighting is for those who don't ever want children.
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Stray cats enter home, attack women, boy
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Two stray cats attacked three people after they got into a house in North Platte. "I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said Tuesday. A call for help Monday took animal control officer John Pettit to the home of Melissa Breva, Gutschenritter said. Breva told Pettit she had captured two cats in a bedroom.
"She said the cats had gotten into the house when the front door was open," Gutschenritter said, then attacked two women who were visiting Breva.
One, Wendy Holliday, suffered scratches, the chief said, and she was bitten on both ankles, both knees and on her left calf.
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That's no domesticated cat.
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Swords into plowshares, mortars into Frappuccinos
By Andrew Cawthorne
MEKELE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - In the shadows of his dingy workshop in a northern Ethiopian town, Azemeraw Zeleke stoops over a baffling array of cylinders, tubes and handles.
The 54-year-old inventor and repairman supplies Mekele, and indeed the whole of the hilly Tigray region, with coffee machines. But it is his choice of materials that makes Azemeraw's trade truly unique.
"The farmers bring me mortar shells from the old battlefield," he says, gesturing north where Ethiopia borders Eritrea and the two nations fought a 1998-2000 war.
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He'll probably be selling Hamwinkies as well.[/font]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York restaurateur has cooked up the most world's most extravagant pizza -- a $1,000 pizza topped with six sorts of caviar and fresh lobster.
Nino Selimaj, who runs six pizza restaurants in New York, on Wednesday unveiled his Luxury Pizza, a 12 inch (30 cms), thin crust topped with caviar, lobster, creme fraiche and chives. Cut into eight, it works out at $125 a slice.
"I know this won't be for everyone but there are people in New York who can afford it and once tried, they'll be back for more. It is delicious," said Selimaj, who moved to New York from Albania about 29 years ago.
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Now, top it off with a 99 Cent bag of shredded cheese.
I still prefer Pepperoni Pizza, thanks.
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Matador's chances of fatherhood hurt by goring
MADRID (Reuters) - If Spanish matador Fernando Cruz ever has children, he'll have doctors at the Valencia bullring to thank after he suffered a double goring.
Cruz, 25, is recovering in hospital after the second bull of Tuesday's corrida caught him in the upper thigh, throwing him into the air, and gored him in the groin once he hit the ground.
Newspapers reproduced the eye-watering bulletin issued by surgeons at the bullring after a two-hour operation and film of the incident was played on the main evening news.
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Bullfighting is for those who don't ever want children.
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Stray cats enter home, attack women, boy
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Two stray cats attacked three people after they got into a house in North Platte. "I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said Tuesday. A call for help Monday took animal control officer John Pettit to the home of Melissa Breva, Gutschenritter said. Breva told Pettit she had captured two cats in a bedroom.
"She said the cats had gotten into the house when the front door was open," Gutschenritter said, then attacked two women who were visiting Breva.
One, Wendy Holliday, suffered scratches, the chief said, and she was bitten on both ankles, both knees and on her left calf.
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That's no domesticated cat.
[hr]
Swords into plowshares, mortars into Frappuccinos
By Andrew Cawthorne
MEKELE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - In the shadows of his dingy workshop in a northern Ethiopian town, Azemeraw Zeleke stoops over a baffling array of cylinders, tubes and handles.
The 54-year-old inventor and repairman supplies Mekele, and indeed the whole of the hilly Tigray region, with coffee machines. But it is his choice of materials that makes Azemeraw's trade truly unique.
"The farmers bring me mortar shells from the old battlefield," he says, gesturing north where Ethiopia borders Eritrea and the two nations fought a 1998-2000 war.
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He'll probably be selling Hamwinkies as well.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Most Germans want speed limit on autobahn?
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly two in three Germans believe a speed limit should be introduced on the car-loving nation's notoriously fast autobahns, according to a new poll.
The European Union's environment commissioner Stavros Dimas and environmental activists in Germany have said speeding on the autobahn wastes energy and called for a speed limit. German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee has rejected the idea.
The poll for ZDF television published on Friday showed 54 percent of Germans favor a speed limit of 130 kph (80 mph) while another 10 percent would like a limit below that level. Some 35 percent said they did not want any speed limit.
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Why do ya think they call it the autobahn?
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3 sentenced in castration 'dungeon'
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Three men accused of operating what police described as a sadomasochistic "dungeon" that included castrations have been sentenced to jail time. Richard Peter "Master Rick" Sciara, his partner of 20 years Michael Mendez, and the man they called their slave, Danny Carroll Reeves, pleaded guilty to felony castration and maiming. Superior Court Judge Dennis Winner said it was difficult to call the dungeon's willing patients "victims," but he said six castrations performed there were certainly a crime.
"I think this is a type of perversion that cannot be tolerated by society," Winner said during a sentencing hearing Thursday.
In plea bargains, Sciara, 62, was sentenced to a year in prison, though he has served all but two weeks of that time. Reeves, 50, was sentenced to eight months in prison, and Mendez, 61, received four months. Reeves and Mendez have already served their sentences and will enter four and two months of house arrest, respectively, and three years of supervised probation.
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I only got one thing to say about that dongeon....
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Begging for free speech
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court struck down a 19th century law against begging on Thursday, ruling in favor of a beggar who had argued that his arrest violated a right to free speech, broadcaster RTE reported.
Justice Eamon De Valera rejected the argument made by Niall Dillon that the law discriminated between rich and poor.
But the judge agreed that a section of the Vagrancy Act of 1847, enacted during the Great Famine, was unconstitutional because it interfered with the rights of freedom of expression and freedom to communicate with other people.
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Now if only the Dallas Mayor would do the same thing with her recent "no panhandling" law.
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Florida girl is hiccuping again
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A 15-year-old girl who hiccuped her way through part of January and all of February is hiccuping once again. Jennifer Mee, who hiccuped close to 50 times each waking minute for more than five weeks starting Jan. 23, began hiccuping again Thursday morning after a nose bleed, said her mother, Rachel Robidoux. It occured during Mee's second day back at school since her first bout of hiccups stopped Feb. 28, said Robidoux.
"I'm at my wit's end," Robidoux said.
Mee was taken to the emergency room earlier this month when her hiccups returned. They stopped, though, and Mee felt it was safe to go back to school.
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It's alike a disease all around the world, you can call it "hiccup-itis".
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Soccer fans in trouble for "stalking"
LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea warned their fans on Friday against throwing celery during matches, saying it was a criminal offence and that anyone caught lobbing the popular salad vegetable could be banned.
The unlikely warning follows referee reports which mention celery-throwing at two recent Chelsea matches and which are being investigated by the Football Association, the club said on its Web site (http://www.chelseafc.com).
The FA's investigation could result in sanctions being taken against the club, who said "the throwing of anything at a football match, including celery, is a criminal offence for which you can be arrested and end up with a criminal record.
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Almost anything you can do is a crime nowadays.
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Malaysian police detain 'midget' gang
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian police detained an eight-member gang of small-sized robbers dubbed the "midget gang," who allegedly confessed to committing 14 break-ins over the past three months, a news report said Thursday.
All the gang members, aged between 14 and 23 years, were diminutive, The Star newspaper said without saying whether they were dwarfs or just small.
Some of them who were less than 5 feet tall would be picked to squeeze through small openings into the houses they robbed in central Malaysia, The Star said.
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They're definitely not joining the lollipop guild.[/font]
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly two in three Germans believe a speed limit should be introduced on the car-loving nation's notoriously fast autobahns, according to a new poll.
The European Union's environment commissioner Stavros Dimas and environmental activists in Germany have said speeding on the autobahn wastes energy and called for a speed limit. German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee has rejected the idea.
The poll for ZDF television published on Friday showed 54 percent of Germans favor a speed limit of 130 kph (80 mph) while another 10 percent would like a limit below that level. Some 35 percent said they did not want any speed limit.
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Why do ya think they call it the autobahn?
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3 sentenced in castration 'dungeon'
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Three men accused of operating what police described as a sadomasochistic "dungeon" that included castrations have been sentenced to jail time. Richard Peter "Master Rick" Sciara, his partner of 20 years Michael Mendez, and the man they called their slave, Danny Carroll Reeves, pleaded guilty to felony castration and maiming. Superior Court Judge Dennis Winner said it was difficult to call the dungeon's willing patients "victims," but he said six castrations performed there were certainly a crime.
"I think this is a type of perversion that cannot be tolerated by society," Winner said during a sentencing hearing Thursday.
In plea bargains, Sciara, 62, was sentenced to a year in prison, though he has served all but two weeks of that time. Reeves, 50, was sentenced to eight months in prison, and Mendez, 61, received four months. Reeves and Mendez have already served their sentences and will enter four and two months of house arrest, respectively, and three years of supervised probation.
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I only got one thing to say about that dongeon....
[hr]
Begging for free speech
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court struck down a 19th century law against begging on Thursday, ruling in favor of a beggar who had argued that his arrest violated a right to free speech, broadcaster RTE reported.
Justice Eamon De Valera rejected the argument made by Niall Dillon that the law discriminated between rich and poor.
But the judge agreed that a section of the Vagrancy Act of 1847, enacted during the Great Famine, was unconstitutional because it interfered with the rights of freedom of expression and freedom to communicate with other people.
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Now if only the Dallas Mayor would do the same thing with her recent "no panhandling" law.
[hr]
Florida girl is hiccuping again
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A 15-year-old girl who hiccuped her way through part of January and all of February is hiccuping once again. Jennifer Mee, who hiccuped close to 50 times each waking minute for more than five weeks starting Jan. 23, began hiccuping again Thursday morning after a nose bleed, said her mother, Rachel Robidoux. It occured during Mee's second day back at school since her first bout of hiccups stopped Feb. 28, said Robidoux.
"I'm at my wit's end," Robidoux said.
Mee was taken to the emergency room earlier this month when her hiccups returned. They stopped, though, and Mee felt it was safe to go back to school.
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It's alike a disease all around the world, you can call it "hiccup-itis".
[hr]
Soccer fans in trouble for "stalking"
LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea warned their fans on Friday against throwing celery during matches, saying it was a criminal offence and that anyone caught lobbing the popular salad vegetable could be banned.
The unlikely warning follows referee reports which mention celery-throwing at two recent Chelsea matches and which are being investigated by the Football Association, the club said on its Web site (http://www.chelseafc.com).
The FA's investigation could result in sanctions being taken against the club, who said "the throwing of anything at a football match, including celery, is a criminal offence for which you can be arrested and end up with a criminal record.
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Almost anything you can do is a crime nowadays.
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Malaysian police detain 'midget' gang
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian police detained an eight-member gang of small-sized robbers dubbed the "midget gang," who allegedly confessed to committing 14 break-ins over the past three months, a news report said Thursday.
All the gang members, aged between 14 and 23 years, were diminutive, The Star newspaper said without saying whether they were dwarfs or just small.
Some of them who were less than 5 feet tall would be picked to squeeze through small openings into the houses they robbed in central Malaysia, The Star said.
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They're definitely not joining the lollipop guild.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Chefs to prepare feast at Egypt pyramids
By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand - From the creators of the $25,000 dinner, there's another pricey gourmet feast on the horizon.
Wealthy foodies can mark their calendars for Dec. 12, 2008, when top chefs from around the world will be flown to Egypt to cook a dinner in front of the ancient Pyramids of Giza, organizer Deepak Ohri said Monday.
This dinner will be a bargain, at least compared to the one in Bangkok last month that was billed as the meal of a lifetime and cooked by six 3-star Michelin chefs for $25,000 a head. High-rolling food lovers flew in from the United States, Europe, the Middle East and across Asia for the 40-seat dinner.
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This better not be raw beef.
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Man tells of first class flight with corpse
LONDON (Reuters) - A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, newspapers reported on Monday.
Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off, the Mirror and Sun said.
"The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."
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And I thought "Snakes On A Plane" was scary.
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Mich. man gets $122,400 for cat bite
FLUSHING, Mich. (AP) - A nasty bite on the hand that a man got from his sister's Siamese cat is worth $122,400.
A jury on Friday awarded Michael Sabo, 57, the money for an injury he got when the cat, Randy, bit his right hand in March 2004.
Sabo's fingers swelled so much that they looked like "plump hot dogs," his attorney, Tom Pabst, told The Flint Journal, and an infection put Sabo in a hospital for three weeks. He had to pay thousands in medical bills.
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If it were that easy, I would sue the downstairs neighbor for cussing out the entire neighborhood for no reason.
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Cop's Internet breasts prompt investigation
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A photograph of a young Australian policewoman's breasts, sent to her boyfriend as a get well message on her mobile phone, has sparked an investigation after it was circulated on internal police e-mail.
The Victoria state police constable was in her police uniform with her name badge visible, her shirt undone and her breasts exposed when she was photographed, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported Monday.
The image was circulated widely through the force's internal e-mail, landing in the inboxes of top-ranking officers and ethical standards department detectives.
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By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand - From the creators of the $25,000 dinner, there's another pricey gourmet feast on the horizon.
Wealthy foodies can mark their calendars for Dec. 12, 2008, when top chefs from around the world will be flown to Egypt to cook a dinner in front of the ancient Pyramids of Giza, organizer Deepak Ohri said Monday.
This dinner will be a bargain, at least compared to the one in Bangkok last month that was billed as the meal of a lifetime and cooked by six 3-star Michelin chefs for $25,000 a head. High-rolling food lovers flew in from the United States, Europe, the Middle East and across Asia for the 40-seat dinner.
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This better not be raw beef.
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Man tells of first class flight with corpse
LONDON (Reuters) - A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, newspapers reported on Monday.
Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off, the Mirror and Sun said.
"The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."
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And I thought "Snakes On A Plane" was scary.
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Mich. man gets $122,400 for cat bite
FLUSHING, Mich. (AP) - A nasty bite on the hand that a man got from his sister's Siamese cat is worth $122,400.
A jury on Friday awarded Michael Sabo, 57, the money for an injury he got when the cat, Randy, bit his right hand in March 2004.
Sabo's fingers swelled so much that they looked like "plump hot dogs," his attorney, Tom Pabst, told The Flint Journal, and an infection put Sabo in a hospital for three weeks. He had to pay thousands in medical bills.
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If it were that easy, I would sue the downstairs neighbor for cussing out the entire neighborhood for no reason.
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Cop's Internet breasts prompt investigation
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A photograph of a young Australian policewoman's breasts, sent to her boyfriend as a get well message on her mobile phone, has sparked an investigation after it was circulated on internal police e-mail.
The Victoria state police constable was in her police uniform with her name badge visible, her shirt undone and her breasts exposed when she was photographed, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported Monday.
The image was circulated widely through the force's internal e-mail, landing in the inboxes of top-ranking officers and ethical standards department detectives.
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[font=Arial]Brothers jailed for dodgy eye surgery scam
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has upheld jail terms for two brothers, acting as surgeons, whose cataract laser treatments resulted in nine people having their eyes surgically removed, Xinhua news agency said Monday.
Judges at Suzhou Intermediate People's Court, in eastern Anhui province, issued a final ruling that the two had been rightly convicted of illegally practicing medicine and should serve their jail terms of five and six years.
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These guys don't have an "eye" for detail, but the deaf assistant in this next story does.
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Blind auto mechanic hires deaf assistant
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) - Cars have been Larry Woody's life for more than 30 years. He fixed them, he raced them, he restored them. But five years ago on Interstate 5 a truck blew across the median and drove over his tiny Toyota Celica. He almost died, and he was blinded.
But Woody, 46, still works on his 1968 El Camino, dabbles in racing and recently bought his own shop, D & D Foreign Automotive, in Cottage Grove. And he has hired a deaf assistant.
His red-tipped cane stands idle. He walks without hesitation through his shop. He handles the paperwork and billing with the help of a talking computer. He still changes fuel lines, hoists cars and changes filters.
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That's one way to keep your hobby alive.
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Singapore woman jailed for online dating scam
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A married Singaporean woman who met a man in an online chatroom and conned him into giving her about $45,000 after she promised to marry him, was jailed for six months on Monday, court documents showed.
Maliha Ramu, 36, used a false name and photographs of Bollywood actress Gayatri Joshi when she began an online relationship with Bharani Indran, an Indian national living in the United States, according to the Straits Times newspaper.
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That's one of the reasons why I don't trust online dating.
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Pair sentenced for sex in front of girl
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A mother and her boyfriend were sentenced to three years probation on Monday for having intercourse in front of the woman's 9-year-old daughter to teach the girl about sex.
Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. sentenced Rebecca Arnold of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, to probation and a three-year suspended sentence after they pleaded no contest to a felony child neglect charge.
The judge said he wanted to spare the young girl, now 11, from testifying, according to Michael Healey, a spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch.
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I don't know whoelse to blame for those teenage pregnancies.
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Man charged in arson of 6 million wine bottles
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a California man Monday with stealing fine wine he stored for upscale clients and then burning down a warehouse holding 6 million bottles worth $200 million to $250 million to hide the scam.
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California charged Mark Anderson with 19 criminal counts including arson, transporting fraudulently obtained property, mail fraud and tax evasion following the 2005 fire of the Wines Central warehouse in Vallejo.
The warehouse was south of Napa, one of the nation's best known and most expensive wine-growing regions, and the crime shocked the area where wine is big business.
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That's burning money...literally.
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Frito-Lay: Mouse got into bag at school
MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - A dead mouse that an eighth-grader found in a bag of potato chips probably chewed its way in after the snack was delivered to the school, a company spokeswoman said Monday.
An pupil at Lewis-Palmer Middle School found the mouse Wednesday after buying the chips in the lunch line. School officials said at the time his claim appeared credible.
The bag and the mouse were sent to Frito Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas, where employees found a "chew hole" in the bag, company spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said.
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Now we solved the mystery of today's tainted food.[/font]
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has upheld jail terms for two brothers, acting as surgeons, whose cataract laser treatments resulted in nine people having their eyes surgically removed, Xinhua news agency said Monday.
Judges at Suzhou Intermediate People's Court, in eastern Anhui province, issued a final ruling that the two had been rightly convicted of illegally practicing medicine and should serve their jail terms of five and six years.
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These guys don't have an "eye" for detail, but the deaf assistant in this next story does.
[hr]
Blind auto mechanic hires deaf assistant
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) - Cars have been Larry Woody's life for more than 30 years. He fixed them, he raced them, he restored them. But five years ago on Interstate 5 a truck blew across the median and drove over his tiny Toyota Celica. He almost died, and he was blinded.
But Woody, 46, still works on his 1968 El Camino, dabbles in racing and recently bought his own shop, D & D Foreign Automotive, in Cottage Grove. And he has hired a deaf assistant.
His red-tipped cane stands idle. He walks without hesitation through his shop. He handles the paperwork and billing with the help of a talking computer. He still changes fuel lines, hoists cars and changes filters.
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That's one way to keep your hobby alive.
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Singapore woman jailed for online dating scam
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A married Singaporean woman who met a man in an online chatroom and conned him into giving her about $45,000 after she promised to marry him, was jailed for six months on Monday, court documents showed.
Maliha Ramu, 36, used a false name and photographs of Bollywood actress Gayatri Joshi when she began an online relationship with Bharani Indran, an Indian national living in the United States, according to the Straits Times newspaper.
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That's one of the reasons why I don't trust online dating.
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Pair sentenced for sex in front of girl
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A mother and her boyfriend were sentenced to three years probation on Monday for having intercourse in front of the woman's 9-year-old daughter to teach the girl about sex.
Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. sentenced Rebecca Arnold of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, to probation and a three-year suspended sentence after they pleaded no contest to a felony child neglect charge.
The judge said he wanted to spare the young girl, now 11, from testifying, according to Michael Healey, a spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch.
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I don't know whoelse to blame for those teenage pregnancies.
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Man charged in arson of 6 million wine bottles
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a California man Monday with stealing fine wine he stored for upscale clients and then burning down a warehouse holding 6 million bottles worth $200 million to $250 million to hide the scam.
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California charged Mark Anderson with 19 criminal counts including arson, transporting fraudulently obtained property, mail fraud and tax evasion following the 2005 fire of the Wines Central warehouse in Vallejo.
The warehouse was south of Napa, one of the nation's best known and most expensive wine-growing regions, and the crime shocked the area where wine is big business.
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That's burning money...literally.
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Frito-Lay: Mouse got into bag at school
MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - A dead mouse that an eighth-grader found in a bag of potato chips probably chewed its way in after the snack was delivered to the school, a company spokeswoman said Monday.
An pupil at Lewis-Palmer Middle School found the mouse Wednesday after buying the chips in the lunch line. School officials said at the time his claim appeared credible.
The bag and the mouse were sent to Frito Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas, where employees found a "chew hole" in the bag, company spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said.
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Now we solved the mystery of today's tainted food.[/font]
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