Panda Gives Birth To Cub At Austria Zoo
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,23
A giant panda on loan from China gave her Austrian zookeepers a surprise Thursday: the first panda cub born in Europe in 25 years. Caretakers at the Schoenbrunn Zoo detected the cub on a surveillance camera after hearing little squeals coming from an enclosed compound where the mother, Yang Yang, had retreated. Zookeepers had not been certain Yang Yang was pregnant.
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Scientists Study Out-Of-Body Experiences
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,23
Researchers in England and Switzerland have figured out ways to confuse the sensory signals received by the brain, allowing people to seem to be standing aside and watching themselves.
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Feds Seize Cocaine-Packed Submarine
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,23
A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, U.S. officials said.
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Utah Woman, 70, Charged For Ugly Lawn
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,23
The mayor and City Council have apologized to a 70-year-old woman arrested after a dispute with a police officer over her brown lawn - but she has still been charged in the case.
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Witch Accused Of Leaving Dead Raccoon At Shops
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
A woman claiming to be a Salem witch and her housemate have been charged with mutilating a dead raccoon and leaving the remains on the doorsteps of two businesses.
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Google Earth Launches Into Space
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
The heavens are only a few mouse clicks away with Google Inc.'s latest free tool. A new feature in Google Earth, the company's satellite imagery-based mapping software, allows users to view the sky from their computers.
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Vermont Town Drops Bid To Ban Public Nudity
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
Vermont's clothing-optional capital is stripping off its temporary ban on public nudity. A month after passing the temporary ban, the Brattleboro Selectboard voted to reject a proposed ordinance that would have made the ban permanent. When the emergency temporary ordinance expires next month, public nudity will no longer be illegal.
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Gutsy Thief Arrested After High-Priced Jewel Heist
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
This is one of those only in South Florida stories where a gutsy thief made off with a two point five million dollar diamond and ruby necklace just by simply asking for it.
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Tourism Official Quits Job Amid Oprah Scandal
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
A Massachusetts man who falsely claimed his latest novel made Oprah's Book Club is now out of a job.
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Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled For Breaking Arms
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm. Luckily for Americans, the machine is not distributed outside of Japan.
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Bird Grilled, But Lives To Tell Tale
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,22
A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's front end. "Oh, I love grilled poultry. But I usually buy it at the store," she said.
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W. Va. University Ranked Top Party School
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
To the disappointment of school administrators -- and the pride of some students -- West Virginia University is No. 1 on The Princeton's Review's annual list of the top 20 party schools.
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Blind Woman Hits Historic Hole-In-One
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
Sheila Drummond, blinded by diabetes 26 years ago, experienced the highlight of her golfing career Sunday, recording an ace on the 144-yard, par-3 fourth hole at Mahoning Valley Country Club.
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Man On Mule Takes Six-Week Trek To Find Work
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
A Minnesota man who lost his driver's license 10 years ago took two mules on the road in search of work in Wyoming. On arrival, he did not get the welcome he anticipated.
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Woman Finds Camera Attached To Public Toilet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
A woman who had just used a public bathroom at a Spanish Fork gas station discovered that a camera was hidden on the toilet tank and her restroom visit was allegedly caught on video by a voyeur.
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Family Ties Makes Young People Happiest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
You're between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock 'n' roll. Maybe some cash. Turns out the real answer is quite different.
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Janitor Poisoned By LSD-Laced Pizza
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
A New York school custodian is alleging in a lawsuit that his co-workers laced his pizza with the hallucinogen LSD in an attempt to poison him at an office party in 2005.
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Alaska Man Gets 'Mauled' Into Marriage
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
A man mauled by a grizzly bear last month married his longtime girlfriend, a health aide who help keep him alive when he was rushed to her clinic in Shaktoolik. Shawn Evan, 32, married Lydia Jackson, 31, on Friday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
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Shoppers Check New Jeans With Butt Cam
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
Worried that new pair of high-fashion jeans may just make your butt look fat? Now shoppers in one upscale Scottsdale store can check it out for themselves before someone else makes the observation -- using the Butt Cam, a camera positioned just so that's connected to a video screen on a dressing room wall.
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Charges Dropped Against 'Bottom Slappers'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,21
An Oregon judge dismissed criminal sexual harassment charges against two 13-year-old boys accused of slapping female classmates' bottoms and poking their breasts, ending a six-month-long case that has drawn attention across the United States.
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Artificial Life Likely In 3 To 10 Years
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Aug,20
Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
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Men Accused Of Murder-By-Snake Plot
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Aug,20
Two men who allegedly tried to use rattlesnakes as deadly weapons to collect on a debt have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, authorities said.
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Whale Calf 'Moby' Being Cared For In Galveston
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Aug,19
A stranded infant whale named 'Moby' has become the obsession of rescuers trying to save the calf.
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Hundreds Pose Nude On Swiss Glacier
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Aug,19
Hundreds of naked people formed a "living sculpture" on Switzerland's Aletsch glacier Saturday, hoping to raise awareness about climate change. The photo shoot was photographed by Spencer Tunick, a New York artist famous for his pictures of nude gatherings in public settings worldwide.
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Foodies To Go Into Hock For Costly Spanish Ham
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Aug,18
Spanish cuisine tickles the palate in a thousand ways. Now, hard-core foodies are drooling over the prospect of something truly superlative from Spain, at least in price: a salt-cured ham costing about $2,100 per leg, or a cruel $160 per pound. It's a price believed to make it the most expensive ham in the world.
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Tortured Tortoise Returns Home After Rehab
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Aug,18
A 42-pound pet tortoise that was slashed and mutilated after being stolen from a family's yard is home following more than a month in a rehabilitation center. The 25-year-old African spurred tortoise was snatched from the yard July 7 and tortured. An 18-year-old suspect has been charged with animal cruelty.
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Bank Accidentally Locks California Woman In Vault
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Aug,18
A 73-year-old woman became trapped in a bank when employees accidentally locked her in the building while she was looking over the contents of a safe deposit box.
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Man Exchanges Missle Launcher For Sneakers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Aug,18
Police were hoping for a good turnout at their "Kicks for Guns" sneaker exchange, but they weren't expecting a surface-to-air missile launcher. An Ocoee man showed up and exchanged the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter, the Orlando Sentinel reported Friday.
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Today In History - August 18, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Aug,18
Today is Saturday, August 18, the 230th day of 2007. There are 135 days left in the year.
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2 Attacked By Rabid Beaver At Loch Raven Reservoir
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
A warning from the Baltimore County Health Department following last weekend's attacks on two swimmers by a rabid beaver. A 14-year-old boy and an adult woman were attacked north of Loch Raven Dam while swimming in the reservoir.
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'Hurricane' Girl Tries To Ride To Ohio
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
An 8-year-old girl who recently moved to Florida caused a panic when she tried to ride back home to Ohio on her bicycle out of fear of hurricanes. A sheriff's helicopter, search dogs and neighbors found the girl after an hour-long search Wednesday night.
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Shoe Store In New York Opens With New Zip Code
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
It's so much more than just a department store now. It's a postal code.Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled it's new shoe department Friday, moving from the fourth floor to the eighth floor. And it's so big, it's even got its own zip code: 10022-SHOE.
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Arkansas Law Error Allows Tiny Tots To Marry
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
Thanks to one little misplaced word, it appears that people of any age can legally be married in Arkansas, with parental consent.
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Slot Machine Mistakenly Doubled Gamblers' Money
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
A malfunctioning video lottery terminal at a Rhode Island gambling parlor gave gamblers credit for twice as much money as they had inserted, erroneously paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of two months.
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Dentist Buys Elvis Presley's Crown
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
A dentist has purchased an unusual bit of Elvis memorabilia _ a porcelain crown that covered a gap in the King's teeth and the plaster mold used to make it.
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Seat Belt 'Heimlich' Saves Choking Man
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
A seat belt saved a driver, police say, but not in the usual way. Steven Earp was eating a fast-food sandwich Wednesday morning when he choked and blacked out. His 1997 Honda sedan hit a parked car. After the wreck, Earp came to.
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Woman Gives Birth To Rare Identical Quadruplets
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls hospital said Thursday. The four girls were breathing without ventilators and listed in good condition.
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Today In History - August 17, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
Today is Friday, August 17, the 229th day of 2007. There are 136 days left in the year.
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Cremated Human Remains Found In Mailbox
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
Cremated human remains were found Tuesday inside a package placed in a mail collection box, police said. "In my 19 years of police work, never has something like this occurred," Pottstown police Capt. F. Richard Drumheller said.
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45 Parrots Missing From N.Y. Pet Shop
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,17
Polly want a rescue: Forty-five parrots worth more than $1,000 each were abducted from a pet store.
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Councilor: Puppies Good For Dog Soup
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,16
New Delhi's stray dogs lead a difficult life. But if it was up to one city councilor, they would find themselves in more hot water - soup to be precise. Shipping the thousands of strays to Korea, where dog meat is widely consumed in soup, was one of the more outlandish ideas proposed at a city council meeting to deal with the problem on Thursday.
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Thieves Find Strange Use For Oven Doors
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,16
Crafty thieves on the West Coast have found a strange use for an everyday object. Police in Richmond, California said there has been an increase in the thefts of oven doors recently.
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Man Tries To Rob Nun Who Took Vow Of Poverty
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,16
A would-be thief came up empty-handed after trying to rob a nun who had taken a vow of poverty. Madison police arrested the man later in the day.
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Today In History - August 16, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,16
Today is Thursday, August 16, the 228th day of 2007. There are 137 days left in the year.
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Kevlar-Lined School Uniforms Coming To U.S.
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,16
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stab-proof vests? It doesn't sound like your usual back to school list, but some British families are shelling out hundreds of dollars for the protective uniforms, all due to a danger that has parents concerned. Casual clothes are getting the treatment too. And Internet orders have been flooding in, including hundreds from the U.S.
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Hungary Zoo Shows Rare Persian Leopard Triplets
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,15
Persian leopard triplets born in June were presented Tuesday at the Budapest Zoo. The cubs - a male and two females - were born at the zoo on June 19 and are doing well, said zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga.
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Lawn Mower Fireball Burns Georgia Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,15
Danny Fendley started more than just his lawn mower when he tugged at its pull cord - he started a fire that destroyed his home.
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Glass Sink Explodes In Mass. Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,15
A Framingham couple hasn't been able to use their bathroom lately - because their new blue glass sink exploded. It reportedly blew up over the weekend and no one seems to know why.
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Mom Sentenced For Posing As Son's Wife In Court
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,15
A woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for claiming in court that she was her son's wife. Christopher Crowe, 25, was in court recently to plead guilty to four felony counts including residential entry and domestic battery.
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Man Climbs In Drive-Thru Window Over Wrong Order
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,15
A man is cooling his heels in jail and served handcuffs on the house after climbing through a Dallas McDonald's drive-thru window to confront an employee for getting his order wrong.
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