Study Rates Nations' Sexual Happiness
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Sex is more satisfying in countries where women and men are considered equal, according to an international study of people between the ages of 40 and 80 by researchers at the University of Chicago.
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Texas Pooch Stuck In Pipe Rescued
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
A loose pooch found herself in a predicament Wednesday afternoon in North Fort Worth, Texas. Rescue crews think the dog was chasing a rabbit when her head got stuck in a large metal pipe.
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Loose Pooch Stuck In Pipe Rescued
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Rescue crews think the dog was chasing a rabbit when her head got stuck in a large metal pipe. The curious canine was taken to animal control where vets greased her neck with baby oil and successfully removed the pipe.
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Gillespie reconsiders nude run
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Jason Gillespie elevated the humble role
of nightwatchman into the realm of the paranormal on Wednesday
with an unbeaten 201 on his 31st birthday.
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Queen Invites 99 To 80th Birthday Bash
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Queen Elizabeth II has invited 99 guests to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, and she won't need to ask anyone's age. All share the queen's birth date April 21, 1926.
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Ohio Taxpayers Late Due To Newspaper Error
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
About 400 taxpayers who mailed their returns late because of incorrect information in a newspaper will not be penalized by the federal government, an Internal Revenue Service spokesman said.
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Key West Taking Chickens Off Streets
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - Some of this island city's most beloved residents are facing eviction.
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Serbia hopes to get satisfaction on Stones gig
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Serbia hopes to convince rock legends
The Rolling Stones to hold a concert in Belgrade this summer by
offering to fund all the preparatory work for the gig.
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Danish police find heroin stash in sword blades
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Danish police said on Wednesday they
had found heroin worth more than $1 million (559,000 pounds)
that had been smuggled into the country from Pakistan in the
hollowed-out blades of 25 antique sword replicas.
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Bras for miles: the cups runneth over...
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Women on the Mediterranean island of
Cyprus hope to form the world's longest chain of bras with the
twin aims of heightening awareness of breast cancer and winning
a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Global sex survey: guess who's satisfied
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Around the world, middle-aged and
elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than
women in the same age group, a survey released on Wednesday
said.
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Steaua boss asks God for help against Middlesbrough
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 Reuters - Steaua Bucharest's owner travelled to
Greece this week to ask God to help his club win the UEFA Cup.
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Cyprus seeks fame with longest bra chain
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Women on the Mediterranean island of
Cyprus hope to form the world's longest chain of bras with the
twin aims of heightening awareness of breast cancer and winning
a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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PM would rather be a hockey player
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
says that while running the world's second largest country
isn't a bad job, he'd much rather be a hockey player.
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Japanese WW2 soldier returns home after 63 years
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - A former Japanese World War Two soldier
who recently turned up living in Ukraine set foot in his
motherland Wednesday for the first time in more than six
decades for emotional reunions with surviving relatives.
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Look Hu's promoting Starbucks
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Less than 24 hours into his
visit to Seattle, Chinese President Hu Jintao was already
serving as a pitchman for the city's homegrown Starbucks Corp.
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B'Stard drops Tories for Blair
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 Reuters - The most self-serving and principle-free
parliamentarian ever to disgrace the House of Commons is back
and he'll do whatever it takes to keep Prime Minister Tony
Blair in power.
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B'Stard drops Conservatives for Blair
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - The most self-serving and principle-free
parliamentarian ever to disgrace the House of Commons is back
and he'll do whatever it takes to keep Prime Minister Tony
Blair in power.
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Cockadoodle-Who? Hen Changes Sex
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
A hen which changed sex and became a rooster has got experts in a flap.The bird - aptly named Freaky - began life as a special breed Silver Laced Wyandotte hen more than a year ago.
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China's Hu turns Starbucks promoter
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Less than 24 hours into his
visit to Seattle, Chinese President Hu Jintao was already
serving as a pitchman for the city's homegrown Starbucks Corp.
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Today In History - April 19, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Today is Wednesday, April 19th, the 109th day of 2005. There are 256 days left in the year.
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US comedian called world's 'unsexiest' man
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of
the Aflac Inc. duck in television commercials for the insurer,
was crowned "unsexiest man in the world" by an alternative
newspaper on Tuesday.
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Manila's Estrada marks birthday on witness stand
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Deposed Philippine president Joseph
Estrada celebrated his 69th birthday with a fiesta at a Manila
church on Wednesday before returning to the witness stand to
deny charges he salted away up to $80 million (45 million
pounds) while in office.
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Hunter Turns Rufus the Turkey Into Dinner
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - For six months, Rufus the wild turkey beguiled area residents and served as unofficial greeter, pet and tourist attraction at the Jacques Spur Junction Cafe. But someone decided to turn him into dinner on the opening day of turkey hunting season Saturday.
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Club forces players to take lie detector tests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Players at a Romanian first division soccer club will be forced to take lie detector tests after losing two matches.
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Jacob The Coyote Spotted In N.Y. Park
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another one of the animals was spotted in a Bronx park on Tuesday and was given a much more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.
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Idaho Man Finally Reaches 100-Pound Mark
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day two and a half times the average intake for an adult male has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound mark:
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Man Rediscovers Gift Fruitcake From 1962
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic. Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
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Idaho Man Finally Reaches 100-Pound Mark
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day — two and a half times the average intake for an adult male — has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound mark:
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Man Accused of Repeated Flashing Arrested
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - A man accused of repeatedly exposing himself to the same woman has been arrested after the woman took a picture of him naked standing on a highway and called police.
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Easter Bunny Accused of Hitting Customer
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - The Easter Bunny has been fired — for losing his head. Arthur J. McClure, 22, who had been hired to play the Easter Bunny at a local mall has been accused of removing the head of the costume and hitting a customer, authorities said.
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Jacob the Coyote Spotted in N.Y. Park
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
 AP - Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another one of the animals was spotted in a Bronx park on Tuesday and was given a much more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.
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Woman gives birth on road again
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
A woman in northern Portugal has given birth for the second time while being driven to a hospital delivery room, a daily newspaper reports.
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Gottfried Tops Unsexiest Men List
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the AFLAC duck, has been named the Unsexiest Man in the World from a mix of entertainers, sports stars, even terrorists. Osama bin Laden is number eight on the list.
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Restaurateur Pleads Guilty to Lewdness
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - A restaurateur who admitted he exposed himself to a woman in a subway car, an act the woman captured with her cellular telephone camera, was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation and ordered to undergo counseling.
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Police: Reported Carjacking a Drug Deal
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - A man who reported he was carjacked cooked up his story after he later regretted selling his car to a teenager in exchange for a $150 bag of cocaine, police said.
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Police Rescue Alleged 'Backhoe Bandit'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
A man who tried to steal an ATM with a backhoe was arrested when he asked police officers who were chasing him for help after he jumped into the Kansas River, police said.
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Driver Caught Using Traffic Light Switcher
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
A Colorado man who said he bought a device that let him change traffic lights from red to green has received a $50 ticket on suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.
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Man Rediscovers Gift Fruitcake From 1962
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake — he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic. Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
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Hawaii May Honor Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Fish
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
The humuhumunukunukuapuaa officially lost its title as the state fish of Hawaii more than a decade ago but is set to reclaim the honor.
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Hundreds Of Rhode Islanders Watch Bridge Fall
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
After much anticipation, demolition day finally came and went for the Jamestown Bridge. Crews used explosives to bring it down as hundreds of Rhode Islanders watched.
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Labour brands Cameron "Dave the Chameleon"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
 Reuters - Tony Blair's Labour Party branded
Conservative leader David Cameron a chameleon on Tuesday and
unveiled an image of a multi-coloured reptile on a bicycle in a
party broadcast for next month's local elections.
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Hunter Blasts Pet Turkey As Owners Watch
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Rufus the wild turkey ate well the last six months as a pet and unofficial greeter at a Lewiston, Idaho, diner. But an unidentified hunter shot Rufus on opening day, tossed the still-flapping turkey into his truck and drove off while stunned diners watched.
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Canada's PM would rather be an ice hockey player
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
says that while running the world's second largest country
isn't a bad job, he'd much rather be an ice hockey player.
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Cops Nab $1M Car Crash Suspect
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
The mystery behind the high-speed crash of a rare Ferrari on a coastal highway took another strange turn as prosecutors filed embezzlement, grand theft, drunken driving and weapons charges against a Swedish businessman.
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Pious "vandals" get stick over Cyprus tree felling
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Reuters - The Cypriot tradition of cutting down
trees at Easter to make bonfires for effigies of Judas Iscariot
is being attacked by the island's Green party, who say it
damages the environment.
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Police find antiquities haul on remote island
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Reuters - Greek authorities have found a hoard of
ancient Mediterranean art in a villa on a remote island in what
they suspect is one of the most important cases of antiquities
smuggling for years.
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Leave the Cyprus cypress alone..
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Reuters - The Cypriot tradition of cutting down
trees at Easter to make bonfires for effigies of Judas Iscariot
is being attacked by the island's Green party, which says it
damages the environment.
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Clinical web site may be target of porn seekers
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Reuters - It seems that online
dermatological images, intended as a references for doctors,
are sometimes being used pruriently.
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Where's the Sheriff of Nottingham?
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Reuters - Nottingham is the most burglary-prone
city in Britain, according to a survey published Tuesday.
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