[font=Arial]Passengers fume as sleepy crew delays flight
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Passengers on a British Airways flight from New Delhi to London faced a 13-hour delay as the pilot felt he was too sleepy after a noisy night in a New Delhi hotel, newspapers reported on Monday.
Angry passengers were offloaded from the plane early Sunday morning after the pilot refused to fly until he caught up with his sleep.
"The crew hadn't had enough rest...the entire crew had a disturbed night," Radhika Raikhy, spokeswoman for BA, was quoted in the Hindustan Times as saying, adding the airline's safety rules do not allow its crew to operate in such conditions.
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So who got it bad, the passengers or the crew?
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Beijing says no red hair for cabbies
BEIJING (AP) - Red hair and the big earrings are out for women Beijing cab drivers in the run-up to next summer's Olympic Games, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday.
The bans were part of a 12-item self-improvement list given to cab drivers by the city's transport management bureau, the Beijing News said.
The list includes the usual pleas to be polite and not to smoke, spit or overcharge, plus the hair and jewelry tips for women. Men were told not to have long hair.
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Man, the rules get stricter and stricter every year.
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Oh, and I'm supposed to take the ring back, too...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Business is booming for a Berlin entrepreneur's unique service -- delivering break-up messages for a fee.
Bernd Dressler, who charges 50 euros ($68) to tell people they have been dumped, says he has helped end 200 relationships in the last 11 months.
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Whatever happen to tell them in their faces themselves?
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Wisconsin law hinders lewd library case
NEENAH, Wis. (AP) - A law protecting library records' confidentiality has hamstrung officials pursuing a man who reportedly masturbated among the books at the Neenah Public Library earlier this month. City Attorney James Godlewski said the library can't turn a surveillance video of the man over to police without a court order.
"That is state law," Godlewski said Monday. "The library is merely following what state law says."
The Wisconsin attorney general's office said in a Nov. 27 opinion that library surveillance videos fall under the state's public library records confidentiality law. The law prevents libraries from releasing records that indicate a library user's identity unless someone's life or safety is at risk.
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SHHH!![/font]
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[font=Arial]Polar bear cub Knut receives death threat
By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's celebrity polar bear cub Knut has received an anonymous death threat, causing alarm at Berlin Zoo Thursday and prompting heightened security.
"We were contacted by the zoo about a (threatening) letter it had received," said a police spokeswoman, adding officers had investigated but they did not believe it was serious.
Top-selling Bild newspaper said the zoo had received a hand-written fax from a suspected animal hater with the words: "Knut is dead! Thursday midday."
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Whoever did the death threat is a "Nutcase".
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Donkey becomes witness in Dallas dispute
DALLAS, Texas (AP) - The first witness in a lawsuit Wednesday between two neighbors was a real ass. Buddy the donkey walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
The donkey was at the center of a dispute between oilman John Cantrell and attorney Gregory Shamoun that began after Cantrell complained about a storage shed Shamoun was building in his backyard in Dallas.
He said Shamoun retaliated by bringing Buddy from his ranch in Midlothian and putting him in the backyard.
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Stop being a "jackass" about it and settle your differences.
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Marijuana lab explosion injures man
MIAMI (Reuters) - An explosion set fire to a Miami house being used to grow marijuana hydroponically on Wednesday and the force of the blast sent the occupant flying into the yard, police said.
The man, identified by police as Edel Mesa, 40, was badly burned on the chest, arms and legs and was in critical condition at a trauma hospital, investigators said.
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That's one way to get rid of a drug house.
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Semi driver checks on doughnuts, crashes
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A semi driver whose truck rolled on its side, dumping a load of specialty sunflower seeds, says it happened when he tried to check on a couple of doughnuts.
Merv Bontrager of Milo said he looked away briefly from an off-ramp on which he was driving Tuesday morning and ended up rolling his rig on the southeast edge of Minot.
It seemed to happen in slow motion, he said.
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Now his truck is gonna be needing donuts...for wheels.[/font]
By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's celebrity polar bear cub Knut has received an anonymous death threat, causing alarm at Berlin Zoo Thursday and prompting heightened security.
"We were contacted by the zoo about a (threatening) letter it had received," said a police spokeswoman, adding officers had investigated but they did not believe it was serious.
Top-selling Bild newspaper said the zoo had received a hand-written fax from a suspected animal hater with the words: "Knut is dead! Thursday midday."
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Whoever did the death threat is a "Nutcase".
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Donkey becomes witness in Dallas dispute
DALLAS, Texas (AP) - The first witness in a lawsuit Wednesday between two neighbors was a real ass. Buddy the donkey walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
The donkey was at the center of a dispute between oilman John Cantrell and attorney Gregory Shamoun that began after Cantrell complained about a storage shed Shamoun was building in his backyard in Dallas.
He said Shamoun retaliated by bringing Buddy from his ranch in Midlothian and putting him in the backyard.
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Stop being a "jackass" about it and settle your differences.
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Marijuana lab explosion injures man
MIAMI (Reuters) - An explosion set fire to a Miami house being used to grow marijuana hydroponically on Wednesday and the force of the blast sent the occupant flying into the yard, police said.
The man, identified by police as Edel Mesa, 40, was badly burned on the chest, arms and legs and was in critical condition at a trauma hospital, investigators said.
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That's one way to get rid of a drug house.
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Semi driver checks on doughnuts, crashes
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A semi driver whose truck rolled on its side, dumping a load of specialty sunflower seeds, says it happened when he tried to check on a couple of doughnuts.
Merv Bontrager of Milo said he looked away briefly from an off-ramp on which he was driving Tuesday morning and ended up rolling his rig on the southeast edge of Minot.
It seemed to happen in slow motion, he said.
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Now his truck is gonna be needing donuts...for wheels.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Love at first bite?
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli woman accidentally bit off part of her boyfriend's tongue during a heated French kiss, an Israeli hospital that reattached the tongue said Thursday.
Nahariya Hospital said in a statement the man, injured while "passionately kissing his girlfriend," was discharged after the operation and advised to sip iced drinks and "avoid wet kisses" until the stitched wound healed.
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I never thought kisses were tasty.
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Mom, daughter give birth within minutes
MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) - They may be uncle and nephew, but two newborns may feel more like brothers after being born just minutes apart.
Theresa Crouse, 39, gave birth to a son at MedCentral/Mansfield Hospital at 11:20 a.m. Monday. At 11:27, her daughter, Carrie Gresh, had her own baby boy at the same hospital — and delivered by the same doctor.
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That's an unforgetful event.
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Dad makes son wear sign for using drugs
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs."
"I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son," the father told WATE-TV as the teenager walked up and down the sidewalk Wednesday in front of Cedar Bluff Middle School.
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If there's one thing a parent here is teaching, it's "tough love".
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Ark. school to have port-a-potty prom
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) - Plumbing problems at an armory that will host the Magnolia High School prom Saturday night has prompted organizers to arrange for portable toilets outside.
The National Guard is debating whether to repair or replace sewer lines leading from the armory at Southern Arkansas University. The high school was notified about the problem last week and decided to leave the prom at the armory, which has air conditioning and adequate parking.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli woman accidentally bit off part of her boyfriend's tongue during a heated French kiss, an Israeli hospital that reattached the tongue said Thursday.
Nahariya Hospital said in a statement the man, injured while "passionately kissing his girlfriend," was discharged after the operation and advised to sip iced drinks and "avoid wet kisses" until the stitched wound healed.
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I never thought kisses were tasty.
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Mom, daughter give birth within minutes
MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) - They may be uncle and nephew, but two newborns may feel more like brothers after being born just minutes apart.
Theresa Crouse, 39, gave birth to a son at MedCentral/Mansfield Hospital at 11:20 a.m. Monday. At 11:27, her daughter, Carrie Gresh, had her own baby boy at the same hospital — and delivered by the same doctor.
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That's an unforgetful event.
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Dad makes son wear sign for using drugs
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs."
"I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son," the father told WATE-TV as the teenager walked up and down the sidewalk Wednesday in front of Cedar Bluff Middle School.
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If there's one thing a parent here is teaching, it's "tough love".
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Ark. school to have port-a-potty prom
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) - Plumbing problems at an armory that will host the Magnolia High School prom Saturday night has prompted organizers to arrange for portable toilets outside.
The National Guard is debating whether to repair or replace sewer lines leading from the armory at Southern Arkansas University. The high school was notified about the problem last week and decided to leave the prom at the armory, which has air conditioning and adequate parking.
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[font=Arial]Teachers "purify" students with cow urine
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian teachers sprinkled cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil, reports said on Saturday, in a country where millions of people remain oppressed at the bottom of the ancient Hindu caste system.
Upper-caste headteacher Sharad Kaithade ordered the ritual after taking over from a lower-caste predecessor at a school in a remote village in the western state of Maharashtra earlier this month, the Times of India reported.
He told an upper-caste colleague to spray cow urine in a cleansing ceremony as the students were taking an examination, wetting their faces and their answer sheets, the newspaper said.
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I just pray that it doesn't attract mosquitos.
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Man gets 5,000 calls for YouTube posting
SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.
Fitzgerald said he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care," a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said into the camera on his YouTube posting.
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I wonder how many of those callers were telemarketers.
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Dutch coffee shops say cannabis smoke here to stay
By Sabine Fiedler
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Could a smoking ban spell the end of Amsterdam's world famous coffee shops, where smoking cannabis is one of the main attractions?
No chance, says local conservative politician and coffee shop owner Michael Veling.
The Dutch may well follow other European countries in banning tobacco smoking in restaurants, cafes and bars, but Veling says it should still be possible to smoke dope.
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Here in Irving, smoking is not allowed in coffee shops or other restaurants...cannabis or otherwise.
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Teen pockets $25,000 in texting contest
NEW YORK (AP) - OMG! Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.
"I'm going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes," the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG.
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IOIWTEZ (If only it were that easy)
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Bar lets diners tipple from IV tubes
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taipei restaurant-bar is letting visitors order "medicine" from a menu and dripping it into their glasses from a transparent ceiling-suspended vat, becoming the latest oddball themed restaurant in Taiwan's capital.
As many as 10 visitors can sit around each bed at the D.S. Music Restaurant, a hospital-themed eatery, and watch showgirls dance on weekend nights or chat up "nurses" whose rabbit-ears complement their starched white uniforms.
The 130-seat restaurant, which features crutches hung from the walls and a wheelchair parked in the lobby, is the only one with a hospital theme in Taiwan.
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That's one way to get your meds.[/font]
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian teachers sprinkled cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil, reports said on Saturday, in a country where millions of people remain oppressed at the bottom of the ancient Hindu caste system.
Upper-caste headteacher Sharad Kaithade ordered the ritual after taking over from a lower-caste predecessor at a school in a remote village in the western state of Maharashtra earlier this month, the Times of India reported.
He told an upper-caste colleague to spray cow urine in a cleansing ceremony as the students were taking an examination, wetting their faces and their answer sheets, the newspaper said.
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I just pray that it doesn't attract mosquitos.
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Man gets 5,000 calls for YouTube posting
SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.
Fitzgerald said he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care," a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said into the camera on his YouTube posting.
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I wonder how many of those callers were telemarketers.
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Dutch coffee shops say cannabis smoke here to stay
By Sabine Fiedler
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Could a smoking ban spell the end of Amsterdam's world famous coffee shops, where smoking cannabis is one of the main attractions?
No chance, says local conservative politician and coffee shop owner Michael Veling.
The Dutch may well follow other European countries in banning tobacco smoking in restaurants, cafes and bars, but Veling says it should still be possible to smoke dope.
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Here in Irving, smoking is not allowed in coffee shops or other restaurants...cannabis or otherwise.
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Teen pockets $25,000 in texting contest
NEW YORK (AP) - OMG! Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.
"I'm going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes," the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG.
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IOIWTEZ (If only it were that easy)
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Bar lets diners tipple from IV tubes
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taipei restaurant-bar is letting visitors order "medicine" from a menu and dripping it into their glasses from a transparent ceiling-suspended vat, becoming the latest oddball themed restaurant in Taiwan's capital.
As many as 10 visitors can sit around each bed at the D.S. Music Restaurant, a hospital-themed eatery, and watch showgirls dance on weekend nights or chat up "nurses" whose rabbit-ears complement their starched white uniforms.
The 130-seat restaurant, which features crutches hung from the walls and a wheelchair parked in the lobby, is the only one with a hospital theme in Taiwan.
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That's one way to get your meds.[/font]
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[font=Arial]See loins in the fountain...
ROME (Reuters) - A 40-year-old office clerk made a splash at Rome's Trevi fountain when she went for a swim, naked, in the Renaissance masterpiece in front of a crowd of tourists.
"The water is everyone's. I was hot," Roberta, who did not give her last name, said, as snapshots of her appeared in all Italy's major newspapers on Monday.
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She could've at least worn a bathing suit...and NO, not the suit & tie kind either.
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Riggs named most 'Beautiful Bulldog'
By LUKE MEREDITH, AP Sports Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa - Riggs hardly looks or acts like a beauty king. A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.
Fortunately for the canine from Prairie City, Iowa, those traits endeared him to judges Monday in the "Beautiful Bulldog" contest, an annual event held to draw attention to the 98th running of the Drake Relays. The relays, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious track and field events, will attract nearly 8,000 athletes.
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Riggs, the Dog could be the next "Lethal Weapon" star.
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Two of world's oldest women meet in Ind.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Two of the oldest people in the United States met Saturday. A relative drove 113-year-old Bertha Fry of Muncie to a Shelbyville nursing home to visit Edna Parker, who celebrated her 114th birthday Friday.
Members of both families attended the meeting along with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who presented Parker with a Sagamore of the Wabash. The award recognizes Hoosiers who have endeared themselves to the people of Indiana.
A representative of Guinness World Records also was on hand to confirm the event.
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WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING?[/font]
ROME (Reuters) - A 40-year-old office clerk made a splash at Rome's Trevi fountain when she went for a swim, naked, in the Renaissance masterpiece in front of a crowd of tourists.
"The water is everyone's. I was hot," Roberta, who did not give her last name, said, as snapshots of her appeared in all Italy's major newspapers on Monday.
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She could've at least worn a bathing suit...and NO, not the suit & tie kind either.
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Riggs named most 'Beautiful Bulldog'
By LUKE MEREDITH, AP Sports Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa - Riggs hardly looks or acts like a beauty king. A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.
Fortunately for the canine from Prairie City, Iowa, those traits endeared him to judges Monday in the "Beautiful Bulldog" contest, an annual event held to draw attention to the 98th running of the Drake Relays. The relays, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious track and field events, will attract nearly 8,000 athletes.
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Riggs, the Dog could be the next "Lethal Weapon" star.
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Two of world's oldest women meet in Ind.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Two of the oldest people in the United States met Saturday. A relative drove 113-year-old Bertha Fry of Muncie to a Shelbyville nursing home to visit Edna Parker, who celebrated her 114th birthday Friday.
Members of both families attended the meeting along with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who presented Parker with a Sagamore of the Wabash. The award recognizes Hoosiers who have endeared themselves to the people of Indiana.
A representative of Guinness World Records also was on hand to confirm the event.
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[font=Arial]Man beats bookmakers by turning 100
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man celebrated his 100th birthday with 25,000 pounds ($50,000) in winnings on Tuesday after he beat the bookmakers with a wager that he would live for a century.
Alec Holden, from Epsom, south west of London, had placed a 100 pound bet with bookmaker William Hill almost 10 years ago that he would live to be 100 years old.
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Well what do you know, he DID live to be 100! I thought it was a figure of speech.
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Miss America helps cops in sex sting
By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY - Miss America can add crime fighter to her resume. Lauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators. Officers with Suffolk County's computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.
"I got to chat online with the predators and made phone calls, too," Nelson said by phone from Atlantic City, N.J. "The Suffolk County Police Department was there the whole time."
The operation was filmed for a segment of "America's Most Wanted" that will air Saturday on Fox. Police spokesman Tim Motz said the operation was ongoing and declined to comment Tuesday evening.
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After all, we DO want "world peace".
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Pregnant cow runs riot across city
BERLIN (Reuters) - A pregnant cow being chased by police and fire fighters caused 25,000 euros ($33,900) of damage on a three-hour rampage through the German city of Hanover.
Uschi escaped from a farm late Monday and became increasingly violent as she encountered shocked drivers and pedestrians in the city.
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Oh, my! That cow is making a Kamikazi mooooove!
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Wyoming woman keeps goat in minivan
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - Shirley Weidt says people should stop complaining about the goat in her minivan. After all, there's plenty of room in the ba-a-a-ack with the seats removed.
Despite protests from some residents, city animal control officer Ray Buhr said Weidt isn't violating any laws or treating the animal cruelly.
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Hopw the windows are slightly rolled down, otherwise, the goat will roast in the van on hot summer days, and that's a ba-a-a-a-ad thing.[/font]
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man celebrated his 100th birthday with 25,000 pounds ($50,000) in winnings on Tuesday after he beat the bookmakers with a wager that he would live for a century.
Alec Holden, from Epsom, south west of London, had placed a 100 pound bet with bookmaker William Hill almost 10 years ago that he would live to be 100 years old.
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Well what do you know, he DID live to be 100! I thought it was a figure of speech.
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Miss America helps cops in sex sting
By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY - Miss America can add crime fighter to her resume. Lauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators. Officers with Suffolk County's computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.
"I got to chat online with the predators and made phone calls, too," Nelson said by phone from Atlantic City, N.J. "The Suffolk County Police Department was there the whole time."
The operation was filmed for a segment of "America's Most Wanted" that will air Saturday on Fox. Police spokesman Tim Motz said the operation was ongoing and declined to comment Tuesday evening.
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After all, we DO want "world peace".
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Pregnant cow runs riot across city
BERLIN (Reuters) - A pregnant cow being chased by police and fire fighters caused 25,000 euros ($33,900) of damage on a three-hour rampage through the German city of Hanover.
Uschi escaped from a farm late Monday and became increasingly violent as she encountered shocked drivers and pedestrians in the city.
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Oh, my! That cow is making a Kamikazi mooooove!
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Wyoming woman keeps goat in minivan
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - Shirley Weidt says people should stop complaining about the goat in her minivan. After all, there's plenty of room in the ba-a-a-ack with the seats removed.
Despite protests from some residents, city animal control officer Ray Buhr said Weidt isn't violating any laws or treating the animal cruelly.
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[font=Arial]Boy gets toilet seat stuck on his head
LONDON (Reuters) - British firefighters said on Wednesday they had come to a boy's rescue after he got a toilet seat stuck on his head.
The toddler, aged two-and-a-half, and his mother walked into a fire station in Braintree, Essex, Tuesday saying the boy had put his head through a small trainer seat for the toilet and now could not remove it.
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Man accused of dental work in garage
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man was held Wednesday on charges that he performed dental work on customers without a license in his "filthy" garage, authorities said. Roger Bean, 60, was arrested Tuesday and held on $6,000 bond.
Bean performed denture fittings and made false teeth in his garage, charging just $200 for a full set of dentures, a procedure that typically costs more than $2,000, authorities said. But he was not licensed to practice in Florida.
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Choose your dentists carefully.
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Superman "S" stands for Serbia?
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serb media responded on Wednesday with a sense of pride and patriotism that a new mineral had been found in Serbia closely resembling the makeup of fictional "kryptonite," which rendered Superman helpless.
Reacting to the discovery of the real new mineral in western Serbia, they pointed out that "kryptonite" was created from the remains of Superman's home planet Krypton, destroyed in a fireball.
"Superman is a Serb!" was the conclusion drawn in headlines favored by several newspapers. The daily Kurir said: "Finally we have scientific proof that we are God's own people!"
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LONDON (Reuters) - British firefighters said on Wednesday they had come to a boy's rescue after he got a toilet seat stuck on his head.
The toddler, aged two-and-a-half, and his mother walked into a fire station in Braintree, Essex, Tuesday saying the boy had put his head through a small trainer seat for the toilet and now could not remove it.
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Man accused of dental work in garage
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man was held Wednesday on charges that he performed dental work on customers without a license in his "filthy" garage, authorities said. Roger Bean, 60, was arrested Tuesday and held on $6,000 bond.
Bean performed denture fittings and made false teeth in his garage, charging just $200 for a full set of dentures, a procedure that typically costs more than $2,000, authorities said. But he was not licensed to practice in Florida.
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Choose your dentists carefully.
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Superman "S" stands for Serbia?
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serb media responded on Wednesday with a sense of pride and patriotism that a new mineral had been found in Serbia closely resembling the makeup of fictional "kryptonite," which rendered Superman helpless.
Reacting to the discovery of the real new mineral in western Serbia, they pointed out that "kryptonite" was created from the remains of Superman's home planet Krypton, destroyed in a fireball.
"Superman is a Serb!" was the conclusion drawn in headlines favored by several newspapers. The daily Kurir said: "Finally we have scientific proof that we are God's own people!"
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[font=Arial]"Women's town" to put men in their place
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction -- the world's first "women's town," where men get punished for disobedience, an official said Thursday.
The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as "women's town," was based on the local traditional concept of "women rule and men obey," a tourism official told Reuters.
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I thought this "women's town" is where men go to meet women.
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Dead man travels unnoticed on train
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A dead passenger traveled unnoticed for at least half a day on an executive passenger train, an Indonesian newspaper reported Friday.
Anxious family members found the body of Edy Haryanto, 55, sitting in a locked lavatory on Thursday afternoon, more than a day after he had boarded with a group of friends in the central Javanese town of Tegal, the Warta Kota newspaper reported.
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Tell the train conductor "I see dead people!"
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Maturing cheese becomes Internet star
LONDON (Reuters) - A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.
First placed in front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers leaped to public attention in early February and has since attracted viewers from 119 countries.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction -- the world's first "women's town," where men get punished for disobedience, an official said Thursday.
The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as "women's town," was based on the local traditional concept of "women rule and men obey," a tourism official told Reuters.
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I thought this "women's town" is where men go to meet women.
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Dead man travels unnoticed on train
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A dead passenger traveled unnoticed for at least half a day on an executive passenger train, an Indonesian newspaper reported Friday.
Anxious family members found the body of Edy Haryanto, 55, sitting in a locked lavatory on Thursday afternoon, more than a day after he had boarded with a group of friends in the central Javanese town of Tegal, the Warta Kota newspaper reported.
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Tell the train conductor "I see dead people!"
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Maturing cheese becomes Internet star
LONDON (Reuters) - A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.
First placed in front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers leaped to public attention in early February and has since attracted viewers from 119 countries.
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Coming up next: "The Stinky Cheese Man".[/font]
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[font=Arial]Brother, can you spare a bride?
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom's more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
"The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride's family and local villagers chased him away," Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday's marriage in a village in Bihar state's Arwal district.
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He's also too drunk to go on a honeymoon.
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Postmen find poison snakes in express mail
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Postal workers in a Brazilian border town knew there was something suspicious about the shipments from Argentina and were stunned to find scorpions and poisonous snakes in the express mail.
The contraband animals, which also included iguanas, tortoises and lizards, were discovered when the workers had the boxes X-rayed.
A spokesman for the federal police in Foz do Iguacu, the town on the border with Argentina and Paraguay where the incident occurred, said animals shipped into the country often end up in Europe "where they charge three, four, five times as much."
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Oh geez, more Snakes In The Mail?
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Blind pilot flies from London to Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A blind British adventurer touched down in Sydney Monday to end an epic 13,500-mile flight by microlight aircraft from London.
Miles Hilton-Barber braved snowstorms, freezing temperatures and torrential downpours during his 59-day journey under the supervision of sighted co-pilot Richard Meredith-Hardy.
"It's the fulfillment of an amazing dream," Hilton-Barber, 58, told reporters at Sydney's Bankstown airport. "I've wanted to be a pilot since I was a kid. Now I'm totally blind and I've had the privilege of flying more than halfway around the world."
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Amazing!!!
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Photographer plans Mexico nude shoot
By ISTRA PACHECO, Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY - American photographer Spencer Tunick said Sunday he was hoping to draw his largest crowd of nude people for a shoot next month in Mexico City's enormous Zocalo plaza.
Tunick, famous for photographing crowds of nude people around the world, said the May 6 shoot could be bigger than one he did in 2003 with 7,000 volunteer models in Barcelona, Spain.
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Glad I'm not going anywhere for a while.[/font]
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom's more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
"The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride's family and local villagers chased him away," Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday's marriage in a village in Bihar state's Arwal district.
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He's also too drunk to go on a honeymoon.
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Postmen find poison snakes in express mail
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Postal workers in a Brazilian border town knew there was something suspicious about the shipments from Argentina and were stunned to find scorpions and poisonous snakes in the express mail.
The contraband animals, which also included iguanas, tortoises and lizards, were discovered when the workers had the boxes X-rayed.
A spokesman for the federal police in Foz do Iguacu, the town on the border with Argentina and Paraguay where the incident occurred, said animals shipped into the country often end up in Europe "where they charge three, four, five times as much."
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Oh geez, more Snakes In The Mail?
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Blind pilot flies from London to Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A blind British adventurer touched down in Sydney Monday to end an epic 13,500-mile flight by microlight aircraft from London.
Miles Hilton-Barber braved snowstorms, freezing temperatures and torrential downpours during his 59-day journey under the supervision of sighted co-pilot Richard Meredith-Hardy.
"It's the fulfillment of an amazing dream," Hilton-Barber, 58, told reporters at Sydney's Bankstown airport. "I've wanted to be a pilot since I was a kid. Now I'm totally blind and I've had the privilege of flying more than halfway around the world."
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Amazing!!!
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Photographer plans Mexico nude shoot
By ISTRA PACHECO, Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY - American photographer Spencer Tunick said Sunday he was hoping to draw his largest crowd of nude people for a shoot next month in Mexico City's enormous Zocalo plaza.
Tunick, famous for photographing crowds of nude people around the world, said the May 6 shoot could be bigger than one he did in 2003 with 7,000 volunteer models in Barcelona, Spain.
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Glad I'm not going anywhere for a while.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Barbers warned against Western haircuts
By Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN (Reuters Life!) - Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said on Sunday.
The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to be another sign of the authorities cracking down on clothing and other fashion deemed to be against Islamic values.
"Western hair styles ... have been banned," the newspaper Etemad said in a frontpage headline.
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Even Spaghetti western style haircuts? LOL!!
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'Reggie' the alligator reappears in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reggie the alligator reappeared Monday after vanishing for 1 1/2 years in an urban lake where the reptile turned up in 2005 and repeatedly skunked would-be 'gator wranglers.
"After 18 months of hibernation or just eluding us, Reggie has decided to show himself," City Councilwoman Janice Hahn told a press conference next to Harbor Regional Park's Lake Machado.
Hahn said she had asked the Parks and Recreation Department to put a fence back up around the lake.
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Man, if only Steve Irwin would've seen this.
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Honey bun used to catch bear in West Va.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Ending a 200-pound bear's nightly ramblings through a subdivision required just a trap and some tempting bait: a honey bun and bacon grease.
For three nights, the bear rummaged through garbage cans, climbed on porches and tore down bird feeders in the subdivision outside Clarksburg, said Gary Foster, a wildlife biologist with the state Division of Natural Resources.
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What a way to find a bear's weakness.
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Inmates take swipe at toilet paper cuts
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Toilet paper is becoming a sought after commodity at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility after officials began limiting inmates to one roll at a time to trim costs.
Officials say the prison has long had a limit, but they learned recently that it hadn't been enforced. Increased enforcement began this month.
Under the prison policy, inmates are restricted to four rolls of toilet paper each month or on an "as-needed" basis.
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I said it before, and I'll say it again:[/font]
By Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN (Reuters Life!) - Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said on Sunday.
The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to be another sign of the authorities cracking down on clothing and other fashion deemed to be against Islamic values.
"Western hair styles ... have been banned," the newspaper Etemad said in a frontpage headline.
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Even Spaghetti western style haircuts? LOL!!
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'Reggie' the alligator reappears in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reggie the alligator reappeared Monday after vanishing for 1 1/2 years in an urban lake where the reptile turned up in 2005 and repeatedly skunked would-be 'gator wranglers.
"After 18 months of hibernation or just eluding us, Reggie has decided to show himself," City Councilwoman Janice Hahn told a press conference next to Harbor Regional Park's Lake Machado.
Hahn said she had asked the Parks and Recreation Department to put a fence back up around the lake.
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Man, if only Steve Irwin would've seen this.
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Honey bun used to catch bear in West Va.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Ending a 200-pound bear's nightly ramblings through a subdivision required just a trap and some tempting bait: a honey bun and bacon grease.
For three nights, the bear rummaged through garbage cans, climbed on porches and tore down bird feeders in the subdivision outside Clarksburg, said Gary Foster, a wildlife biologist with the state Division of Natural Resources.
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What a way to find a bear's weakness.
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Inmates take swipe at toilet paper cuts
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Toilet paper is becoming a sought after commodity at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility after officials began limiting inmates to one roll at a time to trim costs.
Officials say the prison has long had a limit, but they learned recently that it hadn't been enforced. Increased enforcement began this month.
Under the prison policy, inmates are restricted to four rolls of toilet paper each month or on an "as-needed" basis.
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I said it before, and I'll say it again:
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[font=Arial]Confused by your neighbors? Then Ask a Mexican!
By Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Why do Mexicans use their car horns as a doorbell? Why is Mexican television so obsessed with dwarfs and transvestites? Why do they park their cars on the front lawn?
Do Mexican children get tamales at Christmas so that they have something to unwrap? What is it about the word "illegal" that Mexicans don't understand?
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Why do I keep saying "I need a lift in your el trucko...to the next town-o."
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Visitors told: Bring own toilet paper
WALKERSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Bring your own toilet paper if you're visiting a park in Walkersville. Last week, vandals set some paper on fire in a men's bathroom at the Walkersville Community Park.
On Monday, Town Manager Gloria Long Rollins announced that all paper products have been removed from bathrooms at the town's four parks.
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Must I come up with that same toilet joke over and over again?
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Beer-loving Aussies are turning to a softer brew
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Australians, long regarded as a nation of beer drinkers rivaled only by the Germans, seem to be turning soft, or sober.
After 113 years, the country's biggest selling beer, Victoria Bitter, or VB, is to be produced in a mid-strength version to keep pace with the country's fast-changing beer tastes.
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I'm a Texan, I have Aussie pals, but I don't drink beer.
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Couple touring home find woman's body
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - This real estate agent will likely do a house check before letting her prospective customers tour on their own from now on, after a couple happened upon a homeowner dead in bed.
Linda Chabucos-Galow, a real estate agent with Shorewest, stood in the dining room while Justin and Colleen McKeen walked through a house Monday night.
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Musicians unlock mystery melody in chapel
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish church which featured in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years.
A father and son who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in them.
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Let's hope they're not "Lost In Translation" with this one.[/font]
By Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Why do Mexicans use their car horns as a doorbell? Why is Mexican television so obsessed with dwarfs and transvestites? Why do they park their cars on the front lawn?
Do Mexican children get tamales at Christmas so that they have something to unwrap? What is it about the word "illegal" that Mexicans don't understand?
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Why do I keep saying "I need a lift in your el trucko...to the next town-o."
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Visitors told: Bring own toilet paper
WALKERSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Bring your own toilet paper if you're visiting a park in Walkersville. Last week, vandals set some paper on fire in a men's bathroom at the Walkersville Community Park.
On Monday, Town Manager Gloria Long Rollins announced that all paper products have been removed from bathrooms at the town's four parks.
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Must I come up with that same toilet joke over and over again?
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Beer-loving Aussies are turning to a softer brew
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Australians, long regarded as a nation of beer drinkers rivaled only by the Germans, seem to be turning soft, or sober.
After 113 years, the country's biggest selling beer, Victoria Bitter, or VB, is to be produced in a mid-strength version to keep pace with the country's fast-changing beer tastes.
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I'm a Texan, I have Aussie pals, but I don't drink beer.
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Couple touring home find woman's body
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - This real estate agent will likely do a house check before letting her prospective customers tour on their own from now on, after a couple happened upon a homeowner dead in bed.
Linda Chabucos-Galow, a real estate agent with Shorewest, stood in the dining room while Justin and Colleen McKeen walked through a house Monday night.
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Musicians unlock mystery melody in chapel
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish church which featured in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years.
A father and son who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in them.
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Let's hope they're not "Lost In Translation" with this one.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Police call locksmith to break into jail
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in Germany had to call in a locksmith to break into jail when the lock on a cell broke, trapping a prisoner inside, authorities said Wednesday.
Police in the Bavarian town of Zwiesel near the Czech border locked up the 18-year-old at the police station after he was accused of smashing a car window during May day festivities on Tuesday.
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Gives a whole new meaning to "Locked up".
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4 skulls found in Chicago home
CHICAGO (AP) - Four human skulls were discovered in a man's apartment, one boiling in a pot of water, but authorities said charges aren't likely.
"It doesn't seem to be anything nefarious at this time," police Lt. Perry Nigro said. The 26-year-old owner of the skulls makes anatomical models for a living and appeared to be using them for medical purposes, Nigro said.
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Looks like a job for Mulder and Skully.
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Wandering dog spray-painted 'Go Home'
CHUBBUCK, Idaho (AP) - Animal control officers had to decide if they were investigating vandalism or animal mistreatment after someone spray-painted a dog. A resident reported that he found the words "Go Home" spray-painted on the sides of his large white dog late last month.
The animal had been allowed to roam freely, Capt. Mike Sanders said.
"An animal like that is domestic property, so technically that's vandalism," Sanders said. "It's really not the dog's fault. He's just doing what dogs do."
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How would that painter like it if someone did it to him?
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Teacher accused of selling kid's jacket
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) - A Hillsboro mother found her daughter's missing winter coat on eBay, and now a teacher at the girl's elementary school faces charges of theft and computer crimes.
Elizabeth Logan, 41,is on paid administrative leave from Jackson Elementary. She denies stealing the coat, saying she got it from a lost-and-found, Cmdr. Chris Skinner said.
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Tell me we don't have another eBay addict in the world.
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Fat Brit kids hunt Australia's outback and viewers
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Britain used to ship convicts to Australia. Now it is about to send overweight youths.
New reality television series "Fat Teens Can't Hunt" -- a kind of "Survivor" meets "The Biggest Loser" -- will see 10 overweight British teenagers sent to Australia's outback to live and eat with remote Aboriginal communities.
They will survive for a month on "bush tucker" including witchetty grubs, local berries and grasses, or go hungry in a program "Big Brother" producer Endemol says is aimed at helping overweight children tackle overeating.
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Now, if the US will be able to do the same thing .[/font]
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in Germany had to call in a locksmith to break into jail when the lock on a cell broke, trapping a prisoner inside, authorities said Wednesday.
Police in the Bavarian town of Zwiesel near the Czech border locked up the 18-year-old at the police station after he was accused of smashing a car window during May day festivities on Tuesday.
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Gives a whole new meaning to "Locked up".
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4 skulls found in Chicago home
CHICAGO (AP) - Four human skulls were discovered in a man's apartment, one boiling in a pot of water, but authorities said charges aren't likely.
"It doesn't seem to be anything nefarious at this time," police Lt. Perry Nigro said. The 26-year-old owner of the skulls makes anatomical models for a living and appeared to be using them for medical purposes, Nigro said.
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Looks like a job for Mulder and Skully.
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Wandering dog spray-painted 'Go Home'
CHUBBUCK, Idaho (AP) - Animal control officers had to decide if they were investigating vandalism or animal mistreatment after someone spray-painted a dog. A resident reported that he found the words "Go Home" spray-painted on the sides of his large white dog late last month.
The animal had been allowed to roam freely, Capt. Mike Sanders said.
"An animal like that is domestic property, so technically that's vandalism," Sanders said. "It's really not the dog's fault. He's just doing what dogs do."
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How would that painter like it if someone did it to him?
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Teacher accused of selling kid's jacket
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) - A Hillsboro mother found her daughter's missing winter coat on eBay, and now a teacher at the girl's elementary school faces charges of theft and computer crimes.
Elizabeth Logan, 41,is on paid administrative leave from Jackson Elementary. She denies stealing the coat, saying she got it from a lost-and-found, Cmdr. Chris Skinner said.
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Tell me we don't have another eBay addict in the world.
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Fat Brit kids hunt Australia's outback and viewers
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Britain used to ship convicts to Australia. Now it is about to send overweight youths.
New reality television series "Fat Teens Can't Hunt" -- a kind of "Survivor" meets "The Biggest Loser" -- will see 10 overweight British teenagers sent to Australia's outback to live and eat with remote Aboriginal communities.
They will survive for a month on "bush tucker" including witchetty grubs, local berries and grasses, or go hungry in a program "Big Brother" producer Endemol says is aimed at helping overweight children tackle overeating.
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Now, if the US will be able to do the same thing .[/font]
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[font=Arial]Mourning man lies in own grave, and waits to die
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said.
Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave and lying in it. Belonging to a Hindu caste who bury their dead, Roy dug his grave close to his wife's after she died in the late 1990s.
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That's no way to go.
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Calf born with 6 legs on Nebraska farm
LITCHFIELD, Neb. - A days-old black Angus calf romps about a central Nebraska farm just like any other — only this one romps with six legs. "He's a real freak," said Brian Slocum, who said the calf was born Sunday to one of his cows. "I've never seen anything like this before."
The two extra appendages — one a front leg, the other a back — extend from the calf's pelvic area. The longer of the two extra legs doesn't quite reach the ground, and they don't interfere with the calf's mobility.
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So that's where the mystery meat came from...
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U.S. spouses cheat like the French, but feel worse
By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men in South Africa say they cheat instead of taking second or third wives, Americans lament that love has died in their marriages, and the Japanese believe ex-marital sex isn't adultery if they pay for it.
These are just a few of the cultural excuses for cheating on one's spouse as recorded by Pamela Druckerman, author of a new comparative look at infidelity titled "Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee."
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Let's all settle this and go on "Maury".
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Library janitor finds missing snake
CEDAR FALL, Iowa (AP) - Time flies when you're curled up with a good book. Maybe that's what happened to Skeeze, a pet corn snake who escaped from his cage at the Cedar Falls library more than a month ago and hadn't been seen until this week when he turned up near the adult fiction section.
"Everyone had been looking for him," said Dick VanBesien, a library janitor. "I was just the lucky one to find him."
VanBesien said he doesn't mind snakes, but he was a bit surprised when he stumbled upon the 2-foot-long Skeeze.
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I thought I said no more "Snakes" jokes.[/font]
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said.
Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave and lying in it. Belonging to a Hindu caste who bury their dead, Roy dug his grave close to his wife's after she died in the late 1990s.
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That's no way to go.
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Calf born with 6 legs on Nebraska farm
LITCHFIELD, Neb. - A days-old black Angus calf romps about a central Nebraska farm just like any other — only this one romps with six legs. "He's a real freak," said Brian Slocum, who said the calf was born Sunday to one of his cows. "I've never seen anything like this before."
The two extra appendages — one a front leg, the other a back — extend from the calf's pelvic area. The longer of the two extra legs doesn't quite reach the ground, and they don't interfere with the calf's mobility.
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So that's where the mystery meat came from...
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U.S. spouses cheat like the French, but feel worse
By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men in South Africa say they cheat instead of taking second or third wives, Americans lament that love has died in their marriages, and the Japanese believe ex-marital sex isn't adultery if they pay for it.
These are just a few of the cultural excuses for cheating on one's spouse as recorded by Pamela Druckerman, author of a new comparative look at infidelity titled "Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee."
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Let's all settle this and go on "Maury".
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Library janitor finds missing snake
CEDAR FALL, Iowa (AP) - Time flies when you're curled up with a good book. Maybe that's what happened to Skeeze, a pet corn snake who escaped from his cage at the Cedar Falls library more than a month ago and hadn't been seen until this week when he turned up near the adult fiction section.
"Everyone had been looking for him," said Dick VanBesien, a library janitor. "I was just the lucky one to find him."
VanBesien said he doesn't mind snakes, but he was a bit surprised when he stumbled upon the 2-foot-long Skeeze.
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[font=Arial]Doctor finds spiders in boy's ear
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) - These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — "like Rice Krispies."
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Itsy Bitsy Spider is back in the news again!
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Brewer must pay alcoholic beer taster
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay 100,000 reals (US$49,400; euro36,400) to an alcoholic beer taster who drank about a liter and a half (3.2 pints) of beer each day.
The unidentified employee alleged that the company did not provide the health measures needed to keep him from developing alcoholism, a labor court in the Rio Grande do Sul state said in a statement Friday.
The employee said in his lawsuit that for more than a decade, he drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during his eight-hour shifts at the company.
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Hope that beer taster isn't driving.
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Couple engaged on zero-gravity flight
NEW YORK (AP) - Alexander Loucopoulos wasn't afraid he would drop the ring when he proposed to his girlfriend, but he did have another fear.
"I was afraid the ring would float really far away," said Loucopoulos, 32, of New York City.
When he proposed Saturday to Graciela Asturias, a 27-year-old space enthusiast, they were on a 90-minute zero-gravity flight aboard a Boeing 727.
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I like my future wedding to be on the ground in church.
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Bar patrons get tow-truck taxis in Ill.
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - This new taxi service doesn't come cheap, but it may be a bargain compared to the price of a drunk-driving arrest.
Smith Cos. plans to launch a towing taxi service called NDUIT (No DUI Tonight) this week in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago. It will allow intoxicated drinkers to call for a ride home in a tow truck that will also haul their cars.
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I like the same thing to start in Texas.[/font]
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) - These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — "like Rice Krispies."
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Itsy Bitsy Spider is back in the news again!
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Brewer must pay alcoholic beer taster
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay 100,000 reals (US$49,400; euro36,400) to an alcoholic beer taster who drank about a liter and a half (3.2 pints) of beer each day.
The unidentified employee alleged that the company did not provide the health measures needed to keep him from developing alcoholism, a labor court in the Rio Grande do Sul state said in a statement Friday.
The employee said in his lawsuit that for more than a decade, he drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during his eight-hour shifts at the company.
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Hope that beer taster isn't driving.
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Couple engaged on zero-gravity flight
NEW YORK (AP) - Alexander Loucopoulos wasn't afraid he would drop the ring when he proposed to his girlfriend, but he did have another fear.
"I was afraid the ring would float really far away," said Loucopoulos, 32, of New York City.
When he proposed Saturday to Graciela Asturias, a 27-year-old space enthusiast, they were on a 90-minute zero-gravity flight aboard a Boeing 727.
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I like my future wedding to be on the ground in church.
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Bar patrons get tow-truck taxis in Ill.
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - This new taxi service doesn't come cheap, but it may be a bargain compared to the price of a drunk-driving arrest.
Smith Cos. plans to launch a towing taxi service called NDUIT (No DUI Tonight) this week in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago. It will allow intoxicated drinkers to call for a ride home in a tow truck that will also haul their cars.
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I like the same thing to start in Texas.[/font]
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[font=Arial]What do you MEAN I'm not going to die?
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man who went on a wild spending spree after doctors said he only had a short time to live wants compensation because the diagnosis was wrong and he is now healthy -- but broke.
John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told that he would probably die within a year.
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This kinda reminds me of this "Ed, Edd, N Eddy" episode called "A Case Of Ed"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-e8EK0iUaU[/youtube]
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'Cocaine' drink is pulled from shelves
By CARA RUBINSKY, Associated Press Writer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An energy drink called Cocaine has been pulled from stores nationwide amid concerns about its name, the company that produces it said Monday.
Clegg Ivey, a partner in Redux Beverages LLC of Las Vegas, said the company plans to sell the drink under a new name for now.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter last month that said Redux was illegally marketing the drink as a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement. May 4 was the deadline for the company to respond.
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Considering the "Cheese" and "Strawberry Quick" drugs that are now in North Texas, I'm not surprised.
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Prosecutors to go easy on speeding drivers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the Belgian capital, overwhelmed by the number of speeding fines imposed since fixed radar traps were installed, have asked police to let off all but the worst offenders -- angering local mayors.
The prosecutor's office, grappling with a backlog of 10,000 cases, has asked Brussels police not to fine drivers unless they are motoring at 87 kph (54 mph), or 67 kph (42 mph) near schools, the daily La Derniere Heure reported Saturday.
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I'd be angered too if I was one of the mayors there.
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Customers try to put $1 over on blind
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) - Don't try to dupe Kent Parker just because he's blind and operates a deli in the Hamilton County Courthouse.
Every once in a while, somebody tries to cheat him despite the security cameras trained on the cash register and about a dozen sheriff's deputies a few steps away.
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Just because he's blind, doesn't mean he can't sense cheating.
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Forget it, Jake... It's Chinatown
ROME (Reuters) - The local government in Treviso has ordered the northern Italian city's Chinese restaurants to remove red lanterns from their windows because they look too "oriental."
"It's spoiling the appearance of the city," the head of the council's town planning department, Sergio Marton, told Corriere della Sera daily.
"The Chinese put up all sorts of stuff: lanterns, lions, dragons, there's even one (establishment) that did its whole front in oriental style."
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So what if it's too oriental.[/font]
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man who went on a wild spending spree after doctors said he only had a short time to live wants compensation because the diagnosis was wrong and he is now healthy -- but broke.
John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told that he would probably die within a year.
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This kinda reminds me of this "Ed, Edd, N Eddy" episode called "A Case Of Ed"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-e8EK0iUaU[/youtube]
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'Cocaine' drink is pulled from shelves
By CARA RUBINSKY, Associated Press Writer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An energy drink called Cocaine has been pulled from stores nationwide amid concerns about its name, the company that produces it said Monday.
Clegg Ivey, a partner in Redux Beverages LLC of Las Vegas, said the company plans to sell the drink under a new name for now.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter last month that said Redux was illegally marketing the drink as a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement. May 4 was the deadline for the company to respond.
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Considering the "Cheese" and "Strawberry Quick" drugs that are now in North Texas, I'm not surprised.
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Prosecutors to go easy on speeding drivers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the Belgian capital, overwhelmed by the number of speeding fines imposed since fixed radar traps were installed, have asked police to let off all but the worst offenders -- angering local mayors.
The prosecutor's office, grappling with a backlog of 10,000 cases, has asked Brussels police not to fine drivers unless they are motoring at 87 kph (54 mph), or 67 kph (42 mph) near schools, the daily La Derniere Heure reported Saturday.
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I'd be angered too if I was one of the mayors there.
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Customers try to put $1 over on blind
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) - Don't try to dupe Kent Parker just because he's blind and operates a deli in the Hamilton County Courthouse.
Every once in a while, somebody tries to cheat him despite the security cameras trained on the cash register and about a dozen sheriff's deputies a few steps away.
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Just because he's blind, doesn't mean he can't sense cheating.
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Forget it, Jake... It's Chinatown
ROME (Reuters) - The local government in Treviso has ordered the northern Italian city's Chinese restaurants to remove red lanterns from their windows because they look too "oriental."
"It's spoiling the appearance of the city," the head of the council's town planning department, Sergio Marton, told Corriere della Sera daily.
"The Chinese put up all sorts of stuff: lanterns, lions, dragons, there's even one (establishment) that did its whole front in oriental style."
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So what if it's too oriental.[/font]
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[font=Arial]South Korea county cans award for drinking workers
SEOUL (Reuters) - On second thoughts, maybe it was not a good idea to give an award for drinking to local government officials.
The South Korean county of Koesan has decided it will discontinue giving out its "Drinking Culture Prize" after being flooded with complaints that the award promotes drunkenness among municipal employees and encouraged binge drinking.
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The last thing they wanna hear was "And the winner for most likely person to be drunk in public is..........Ron White!!"
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Gas station owner told to raise prices
MERRILL, Wis. (AP) - A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.
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The next day, he's gonna get criticized for raising the gas prices. Go figure.
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Motorists drove around dead body on road
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists maneuvered around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera.
In footage broadcast by Israeli television stations on Monday and in a series of photographs on newspaper front pages, motorcyclist Moshe Yisraeli was seen trying to squeeze between two trucks at a junction on a highway near Tel Aviv Sunday.
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Another day, another hit-and-run case.
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Giraffe teaches students a lesson at zoo
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Climbing into a giraffe's cage at the local zoo seemed a good idea after a few drinks. But the prank went wrong when the 1.3 ton animal flew into a rage and attacked the three student trespassers at a zoo in Lithuania on Monday night.
Ruta Greiciute, a 22-year-old student at Kaunas Technology University, was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose after the nine-year-old male giraffe, named Solut, attacked her.
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I can think of better victims to "Punk'd".
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Men go for luxury when choosing handbags: survey
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Men are more likely than women to opt for a luxury brand when buying handbags -- and it's the label, not the price, that counts, according to a survey of wealthy shoppers.
The Luxury Institute on Tuesday said the demand for luxury bags remains strong, with about one third of 1,500 wealthy American shoppers surveyed buying a branded bag in the last 12 months.
"The luxury handbag is the accessory that defines the wealthy woman and is a major profit driver for luxury fashion brands," said Milton Pedraza, chief executive of the New York-based researcher focused on wealthy consumers.
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100% of the time, they go for Louis Vvuiton ones.[/font]
SEOUL (Reuters) - On second thoughts, maybe it was not a good idea to give an award for drinking to local government officials.
The South Korean county of Koesan has decided it will discontinue giving out its "Drinking Culture Prize" after being flooded with complaints that the award promotes drunkenness among municipal employees and encouraged binge drinking.
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The last thing they wanna hear was "And the winner for most likely person to be drunk in public is..........Ron White!!"
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Gas station owner told to raise prices
MERRILL, Wis. (AP) - A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.
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The next day, he's gonna get criticized for raising the gas prices. Go figure.
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Motorists drove around dead body on road
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists maneuvered around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera.
In footage broadcast by Israeli television stations on Monday and in a series of photographs on newspaper front pages, motorcyclist Moshe Yisraeli was seen trying to squeeze between two trucks at a junction on a highway near Tel Aviv Sunday.
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Another day, another hit-and-run case.
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Giraffe teaches students a lesson at zoo
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Climbing into a giraffe's cage at the local zoo seemed a good idea after a few drinks. But the prank went wrong when the 1.3 ton animal flew into a rage and attacked the three student trespassers at a zoo in Lithuania on Monday night.
Ruta Greiciute, a 22-year-old student at Kaunas Technology University, was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose after the nine-year-old male giraffe, named Solut, attacked her.
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I can think of better victims to "Punk'd".
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Men go for luxury when choosing handbags: survey
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Men are more likely than women to opt for a luxury brand when buying handbags -- and it's the label, not the price, that counts, according to a survey of wealthy shoppers.
The Luxury Institute on Tuesday said the demand for luxury bags remains strong, with about one third of 1,500 wealthy American shoppers surveyed buying a branded bag in the last 12 months.
"The luxury handbag is the accessory that defines the wealthy woman and is a major profit driver for luxury fashion brands," said Milton Pedraza, chief executive of the New York-based researcher focused on wealthy consumers.
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100% of the time, they go for Louis Vvuiton ones.[/font]
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[font=Arial]Jerry Garcia's guitars spur Grateful Dead auction
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Forty years after the Summer of Love celebrated the free-living ways of the 1960s counterculture, bidders paid more than $1.1 million at auction Tuesday for Grateful Dead memorabilia.
A cream-colored 1975 Travis Bean electric guitar belonging to the band's legendary, late lead guitar player, Jerry Garcia, brought in $312,000 in a brisk sale, auction house said.
Enthusiasts also bid $102,000 for an acoustic guitar and $39,000 for a Gibson electric guitar played by Garcia.
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This gotes out to all the Grateful Dead fans.
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Minn. man has close run-in with a wolf
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (AP) - Mike Olson had been working under his dad's deck for about 20 minutes when he realized he wasn't alone. "I cocked my head back, and I saw those two eyes looking at me," Olson said of the Monday encounter. "I got out real fast."
Olson had seen what he thought was a gray wolf. "It was probably 6 feet away," he said. "It was just laying down. It had its head up and was just looking at me."
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Well, he's not exactly cryin' wolf.
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Fight breaks out at Boston Pops
BOSTON, Mass. (AP) - Concert-goers, and even Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, were caught off-guard on Thursday night when a fight broke out on opening night at usually sedate Symphony Hall.
Television video of the fight showed two men struggling in the balcony — one having his shirt pulled off — as several people stood around them.
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This calls for the "Anvil Chorus".
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Rescue units called in to save a dummy
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Police responding to a report of a body hanging from a utility pole found a mannequin left from a power company's training exercise.
Allegheny Energy Inc. was using the mannequin for exercises on pole climbing, said Martinsburg police Sgt. B.L. Yost.
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Now which dummy placed that dummy there?[/font]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Forty years after the Summer of Love celebrated the free-living ways of the 1960s counterculture, bidders paid more than $1.1 million at auction Tuesday for Grateful Dead memorabilia.
A cream-colored 1975 Travis Bean electric guitar belonging to the band's legendary, late lead guitar player, Jerry Garcia, brought in $312,000 in a brisk sale, auction house said.
Enthusiasts also bid $102,000 for an acoustic guitar and $39,000 for a Gibson electric guitar played by Garcia.
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This gotes out to all the Grateful Dead fans.
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Minn. man has close run-in with a wolf
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (AP) - Mike Olson had been working under his dad's deck for about 20 minutes when he realized he wasn't alone. "I cocked my head back, and I saw those two eyes looking at me," Olson said of the Monday encounter. "I got out real fast."
Olson had seen what he thought was a gray wolf. "It was probably 6 feet away," he said. "It was just laying down. It had its head up and was just looking at me."
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Well, he's not exactly cryin' wolf.
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Fight breaks out at Boston Pops
BOSTON, Mass. (AP) - Concert-goers, and even Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, were caught off-guard on Thursday night when a fight broke out on opening night at usually sedate Symphony Hall.
Television video of the fight showed two men struggling in the balcony — one having his shirt pulled off — as several people stood around them.
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This calls for the "Anvil Chorus".
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Rescue units called in to save a dummy
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Police responding to a report of a body hanging from a utility pole found a mannequin left from a power company's training exercise.
Allegheny Energy Inc. was using the mannequin for exercises on pole climbing, said Martinsburg police Sgt. B.L. Yost.
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Now which dummy placed that dummy there?[/font]
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[font=Arial]Executed man gets last meal wish after he dies
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A convicted murderer put to death in Tennessee this week got his last meal wish after he died.
Philip Workman had turned down the usual final meal of his choice traditionally offered the condemned, asking instead that a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person.
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That's the only good thing he did before he died.
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Dressed up dead fawn left near theater
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - The police log entry said it all: "Deceased fawn was dressed up like an infant and abandoned at the Pantages" Theater. Why would anyone dress up a dead newborn deer, lay it in a basket and leave it outside an ornate downtown landmark?
"Your guess is as good as mine," said Tom Sayre, a spokesman of The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County.
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That's a little disturbing, especially after I've seen a scary movie.
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Indian man chained for defying father in marriage
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Police in eastern India have rescued a Muslim man who had been shackled in chains for a month for marrying his childhood lover against the wishes of his father and village clerics, authorities said Friday.
Raghu Amin, 21, was locked in a dingy room by his father in a village in the state of West Bengal after he publicly announced his marriage to 18-year-old Sehnaaz Khatoon, who came from a poorer and lower class family, police said.
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Coming soon: "'Til Chains Do Us Part".
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Rescue team saves woman, dog and stew
WALTERS, Okla. - A rescue team navigated flooded farmland in a boat to save a 70-year-old woman and her dog from rising floodwaters and made another critical rescue — a pot of stew from the woman's stove.
Geneva Taptto frantically began calling for help Wednesday when she realized her rural home near Walters was surrounded by floodwaters.
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That's a nice rescue effort!![/font]
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A convicted murderer put to death in Tennessee this week got his last meal wish after he died.
Philip Workman had turned down the usual final meal of his choice traditionally offered the condemned, asking instead that a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person.
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That's the only good thing he did before he died.
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Dressed up dead fawn left near theater
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - The police log entry said it all: "Deceased fawn was dressed up like an infant and abandoned at the Pantages" Theater. Why would anyone dress up a dead newborn deer, lay it in a basket and leave it outside an ornate downtown landmark?
"Your guess is as good as mine," said Tom Sayre, a spokesman of The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County.
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That's a little disturbing, especially after I've seen a scary movie.
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Indian man chained for defying father in marriage
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Police in eastern India have rescued a Muslim man who had been shackled in chains for a month for marrying his childhood lover against the wishes of his father and village clerics, authorities said Friday.
Raghu Amin, 21, was locked in a dingy room by his father in a village in the state of West Bengal after he publicly announced his marriage to 18-year-old Sehnaaz Khatoon, who came from a poorer and lower class family, police said.
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Coming soon: "'Til Chains Do Us Part".
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Rescue team saves woman, dog and stew
WALTERS, Okla. - A rescue team navigated flooded farmland in a boat to save a 70-year-old woman and her dog from rising floodwaters and made another critical rescue — a pot of stew from the woman's stove.
Geneva Taptto frantically began calling for help Wednesday when she realized her rural home near Walters was surrounded by floodwaters.
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[font=Arial]Map of Virgin's shrine offers pilgrims sex ads
LISBON (Reuters) - Pilgrims to a holy shrine in Portugal are being given free maps of the site that show the Virgin Mary on one side and adverts for sex objects and aphrodisiacs on the other.
The maps, thought up by an advertising company, have raised eyebrows among the Catholic faithful and ire from the authorities at the popular Sanctuary of Fatima.
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Uhh...
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Wis. festival sells deep-fried testicles
ELDERON, Wis. (AP) - Around here, it may be tough to pass up anything deep-fried.
Wisconsinites have deep-fried cheese curds, candy bars and Twinkies. They now have deep-fried livestock testicles, too.
More than 300 people paid $5 for all-you-can-eat goat, lamb and bull testicles Saturday at the ninth annual Testicle Festival at Mama's Place Bar and Grill in Elderon in central Wisconsin.
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I'd rather eat deep fried Halapenos at the State Fair of Texas, y'all can take the Deep Fried Hamwinkies.
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Soccer stars win sex toy suit
BERLIN (Reuters) - German sex shop chain Beate Uhse must pay German soccer stars Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn 50,000 euros ($67,380) each for using their names for vibrators without permission, the company said Monday.
The company had marketed the sex toys, dubbed "Michael B." and "Olli K.," before Germany hosted the World Cup in 2006.
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Why do you think I don't go to Adult shops?
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Sea lion joins walk-a-thon in Calif.
CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) - He has flippers instead of feet — and certainly no sneakers or hiking boots. But that didn't stop a sea lion from joining schoolchildren on a walk-a-thon.
The marine mammal apparently noticed children doing laps Friday morning around a course they had set up at the Marin Country Day School next to the shores of the San Francisco Bay. The 185-pound Steller sea lion waddled ashore, shocking students and teachers.
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Animals are people too. Why wouldn't they join in the marathon run?
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Pollution threatens national liquor
BEIJING (Reuters) - The water purity of a river tapped to make China's national liquor is being threatened by uncontrolled building of other drinks factories along its banks, the official Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
Kweichow Moutai, maker of the fiery Maotai drink served at Chinese state banquets and used to toast guests ranging from Margaret Thatcher to Kim Il-sung, draws water for the brew from the Chishui River in remote southwest Guizhou province.
But authorities are investigating how 39 illegal alcoholic drinks plants have sprung up by the river, polluting both the air and water, Xinhua said.
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Maybe people will be drinking less of that stuff.[/font]
LISBON (Reuters) - Pilgrims to a holy shrine in Portugal are being given free maps of the site that show the Virgin Mary on one side and adverts for sex objects and aphrodisiacs on the other.
The maps, thought up by an advertising company, have raised eyebrows among the Catholic faithful and ire from the authorities at the popular Sanctuary of Fatima.
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Uhh...
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Wis. festival sells deep-fried testicles
ELDERON, Wis. (AP) - Around here, it may be tough to pass up anything deep-fried.
Wisconsinites have deep-fried cheese curds, candy bars and Twinkies. They now have deep-fried livestock testicles, too.
More than 300 people paid $5 for all-you-can-eat goat, lamb and bull testicles Saturday at the ninth annual Testicle Festival at Mama's Place Bar and Grill in Elderon in central Wisconsin.
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I'd rather eat deep fried Halapenos at the State Fair of Texas, y'all can take the Deep Fried Hamwinkies.
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Soccer stars win sex toy suit
BERLIN (Reuters) - German sex shop chain Beate Uhse must pay German soccer stars Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn 50,000 euros ($67,380) each for using their names for vibrators without permission, the company said Monday.
The company had marketed the sex toys, dubbed "Michael B." and "Olli K.," before Germany hosted the World Cup in 2006.
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Why do you think I don't go to Adult shops?
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Sea lion joins walk-a-thon in Calif.
CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) - He has flippers instead of feet — and certainly no sneakers or hiking boots. But that didn't stop a sea lion from joining schoolchildren on a walk-a-thon.
The marine mammal apparently noticed children doing laps Friday morning around a course they had set up at the Marin Country Day School next to the shores of the San Francisco Bay. The 185-pound Steller sea lion waddled ashore, shocking students and teachers.
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Animals are people too. Why wouldn't they join in the marathon run?
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Pollution threatens national liquor
BEIJING (Reuters) - The water purity of a river tapped to make China's national liquor is being threatened by uncontrolled building of other drinks factories along its banks, the official Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
Kweichow Moutai, maker of the fiery Maotai drink served at Chinese state banquets and used to toast guests ranging from Margaret Thatcher to Kim Il-sung, draws water for the brew from the Chishui River in remote southwest Guizhou province.
But authorities are investigating how 39 illegal alcoholic drinks plants have sprung up by the river, polluting both the air and water, Xinhua said.
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[font=Arial]Taekwondo championship to allow hijab
By Randall Palmer
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Muslim hijab, banned at a taekwondo tournament in Quebec last month, will be allowed at the 2007 World Championship in Quebec City later this month, the International Taekwon-Do Federation announced on Friday.
The decision by a Quebec federation last month to bar a team of Muslim girls from taking part with their hijabs at the regional tournament had prompted protests of discrimination, but Quebec federation officials said it was a matter of safety.
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I wonder what has prompted the protests of discrimination...
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Firefighters lift Maggie the elephant
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Firefighters had to use straps and a winch to lift Alaska's only elephant, 7,500-pound Maggie, after she had been lying down for several hours at a zoo.
The compressed weight of the 25-year-old African elephant's bulk could have caused breathing and other problems, or even killed her, officials at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage said. She had lain down for 10 to 19 hours and was lifted Sunday.
The situation renewed calls for the animal to be transferred to a warmer climate where she can exercise more and be around other elephants.
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I'm glad that Maggie is saved.
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Cyclist OK after truck runs over head
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A delivery truck ran over a cyclist's head, leaving him only with a concussion and a mangled helmet. Ryan Lipscomb, 26, was shaken up, especially after he saw the condition of his helmet.
"I didn't see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head," he said. "It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head."
Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding swiftly down a bike path in Madison Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection where he said he had a green light, he noticed the truck preparing to make a right turn in front of him.
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I hate to see the same thing happen with marathon bikers.
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Teen hurt whacking bullets with hammer
LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. (AP) - A teenager who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit, according to Warren County deputies.
Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer, deputies said.
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Is he trying to test them to see if they're duds or not?[/font]
By Randall Palmer
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Muslim hijab, banned at a taekwondo tournament in Quebec last month, will be allowed at the 2007 World Championship in Quebec City later this month, the International Taekwon-Do Federation announced on Friday.
The decision by a Quebec federation last month to bar a team of Muslim girls from taking part with their hijabs at the regional tournament had prompted protests of discrimination, but Quebec federation officials said it was a matter of safety.
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I wonder what has prompted the protests of discrimination...
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Firefighters lift Maggie the elephant
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Firefighters had to use straps and a winch to lift Alaska's only elephant, 7,500-pound Maggie, after she had been lying down for several hours at a zoo.
The compressed weight of the 25-year-old African elephant's bulk could have caused breathing and other problems, or even killed her, officials at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage said. She had lain down for 10 to 19 hours and was lifted Sunday.
The situation renewed calls for the animal to be transferred to a warmer climate where she can exercise more and be around other elephants.
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I'm glad that Maggie is saved.
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Cyclist OK after truck runs over head
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A delivery truck ran over a cyclist's head, leaving him only with a concussion and a mangled helmet. Ryan Lipscomb, 26, was shaken up, especially after he saw the condition of his helmet.
"I didn't see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head," he said. "It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head."
Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding swiftly down a bike path in Madison Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection where he said he had a green light, he noticed the truck preparing to make a right turn in front of him.
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I hate to see the same thing happen with marathon bikers.
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Teen hurt whacking bullets with hammer
LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. (AP) - A teenager who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit, according to Warren County deputies.
Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer, deputies said.
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Is he trying to test them to see if they're duds or not?[/font]
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