Dating Study: Women Are Choosier Than Men
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,04
Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks. And guys won't be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
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Malaysian Taxi Drivers Issued Dress Code
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,03
Authorities are warning taxi drivers of hefty fines if they are caught without socks, shoes and the other proper attire prescribed by a licensing board, an official said Monday.
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Today In History - Sept. 3, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,03
Today is Monday, September 3, the 246 day of 2007. There are 119 days left in the year. This is Labor Day.
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Shark Found Dead On Queens Beach
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,03
The parks department believes the same shark that frightened beachgoers Saturday, washed ashore Sunday in Queens, only this time it could not be saved.
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World's Best Whiskers Vie For Honors
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,03
One contestant had a mustache twisted into the shape of London's Tower Bridge; others sported bushy beards that would make Grizzly Adams envious. In the end, Beard Team USA nabbed four of the top honors -- by a whisker -- at the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
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NYC Beachgoers Avoid Water After Shark Sighting
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Sep,02
A beautiful Saturday in the sun took a terrifying turn after a six-foot shark surfaced on the sands of Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York.
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Maine Sand Castle Builders Seek Record
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Sep,02
The creator of a sand castle built nearly 32 feet high to raise funds for terminally ill children and their families hopes the structure will be named the world's tallest.
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Today In History - Sept. 2, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Sep,02
Today is Sunday, September 2, the 245 day of 2007. There are 120 days left in the year.
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N.H. Vandal Targets 'McMansion' With Harsh Message
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Sep,01
A vandal with a can of red spray paint has hit a new home going up in a scenic section of Concord, N.H.
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Mythical Beast Turns Up In Texas
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Sep,01
Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
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Today In History - Sept. 1, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Sep,01
Today is Saturday, September 1, the 244th day of 2007. There are 121 days left in the year.
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Forbes: Germany's Merkel Most Powerful Woman
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tops Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful women for the second year in a row, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slipped to fourth from second last year.
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Shrimp Boat Captain Delivers Baby At Sea
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore, captain Ed Kiesel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could.
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Bull Gains Fatal Freedom At Minnesota State Fair
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
A bull escaped from its handlers at the Minnesota State Fair on Friday, running loose for about a block before it rammed a fire hydrant and died, witnesses said. No people were injured in the incident.
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Actor Playing Brutus In 'Julius Caesar' Stabs Self
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
Julius Caesar lay dead and Brutus was talking to his co-conspirators about swords and blood when he paused and excused himself, saying "I seem to have stabbed myself." Actor/director Kent Hudson Reed was taken to the hospital for stitches and promised to be back onstage.
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Kiwi Burglar's Guilt Gets The Best Of Him
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
A burglar visited Graeme Glass' home in New Zealand twice in one day first to steal some goods and later to return them, along with a heartfelt apology note. The thief returned the goods later in the day, along with a new basketball and two pairs of gloves bought on the stolen credit card.
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'Virgin Chicken' Off The Menu In Beijing
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
Hungry visitors to next summer's Beijing Olympics won't have to choose between oddly titles menu items such as "virgin chicken" if Chinese authorities succeed in ridding restaurant menus of mangled English translations. It's the latest effort by organizers to ensure that the best image is presented to the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected next summer.
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Colorado School Bans Tag On Playgrounds
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will. Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other.
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Ohio Student Puts 'Ultimate' Trick Over Rival Fans
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,31
An Ohio high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, "We Suck," was suspended for the prank, students said.
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More People Leaving Money To Their Pets
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
Leona Helmsley's decision to leave $12 million to her dog so it could live out its life in luxury proved once and for all that she was not one of the little people.
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Massive Spider Web Engulfs Texas Park Trail
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.
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Naked Beer Thief Strikes Store In Missouri
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
The naked truth: Three eastern Missouri men were willing to go to extreme lengths to get some beer. That's the accusation after an incident in the early hours of Aug. 18 at Fish's Quick Stop in De Soto. Store clerk Vicky Gaines says a masked man walked in and began doing the hula dance.
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Woman Arrested For Stealing From Dallas Children
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
Police say a woman has torn jewelry off the necks of children as young at 3-years-old. There were at least four attacks in the past month in the area around Dallas.
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Brit Worker Union: Let Employees 'Poke' Each Other
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
Employers should allow their workers to befriend, chat and "poke" each other through online networking sites while at work, Britain's largest labor federation said Thursday. Bans on sites like Facebook and MySpace "may be something of an overreaction," the group stated on its Web site.
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Man Caught When Allegedly Poses As Doctor
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
A Dallas-area man is accused of posing as a doctor and trying to scam an Edmond, Okla., woman out of a $30,000 Rolex watch.
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AT&T Stops 'Time' In California, Nevada
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
The first number many Californians have dialed for generations after a blackout - the seven digits that spell "popcorn" - is going out of service in September, AT&T announced in a mailing to customers. A company spokesman said the proliferation of other ways to find out the exact time made the service, offered by the company since the 1920s, redundant.
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Questions Surround Discovery Of Really Big Diamond
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
A man who claimed to be a shareholder in a mining company said Tuesday the firm had unearthed a diamond twice the size of the world's largest - a claim that set off excitement and skepticism. Industry experts said the report still needed to be verified.
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Chewed Up Vick Cards Sell For $7,400
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Aug,30
The eBay auction for 22 Michael Vick football cards, chewed up and slobbered on by two Missouri dogs, ended Wednesday as the winning bidder dished out $7,400 - with the money expected to be donated to the Humane Society.
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Brooklyn Baby Born With 12 Fingers, 12 Toes
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
Something was different about newborn Jeshuah Fuller, but his proud parents in New York couldn't quite put their finger on it. Then his doctors, always on their toes, figured it out: Jeshuah was born with a few extra digits -- six fingers on each hand, six toes on each foot.
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Chicago Building Blown-Up For Batman Movie
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
A huge explosion and fireball rocked the the West Side of Chicago on Wednesday afternoon--but it was all scripted for Hollywood, a scene for the new Batman movie being filmed in Chicago.
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Anti-Suicide Telephones Put On Infamous Bridge
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
Suicide prevention telephones have been activated on the approaches to New York's Tappan Zee bridge, one of the country's largest bridges, in hopes that people intent on jumping to their deaths can be dissuaded by one last human voice.
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Pranksters Wrap Rove's Car, Adorn It With Eagles
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
White House pranksters wrapped Rove's Jaguar in plastic wrap on the private driveway next to the West Wing. Rove's car is now easily recognizable because of its "I love Barack Obama" bumper sticker and the twin stuffed-animal eagles on the trunk. Oh, and there's a stuffed-animal elephant on the hood.
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Artist Arrested For Torching 'Burning Man' Early
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday, and a San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert.
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Helmsley Will: Dog Gets Millions; 2 Grandkids, Zip
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
Leona Helmsley's dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley's grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire's estate.
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Atlanta May Fine People Sporting Baggy Pants
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Aug,29
Droopy drawers will be the topic of a big public debate in Atlanta.
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Wayward Emu Corralled In Parking Lot
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,28
Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers: The emu in the parking lot is not for sale. Employees of a Wal-Mart Supercenter used shopping carts to corral a wayward emu outside the store Monday about 6 a.m., West Bend police said.
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Missing German Kangaroo Captured
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,28
Skippi, a wily kangaroo on the run since early August was returned to his home at a petting zoo Monday in southern Germany, but not after a chase through the German Alps that left the animal with a strained leg.
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China To Launch Virtual Web Patrols
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,28
Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
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Passenger Left Clinging To Mirror On Moving Bus
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,28
The city of Madison has fired a bus driver who drove a city bus with a passenger clinging to the side-view mirror for more than a minute.
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Astronauts To Toss Jedi Lightsaber Into Space
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,28
The Discovery astronauts will have a little something extra in their gear when the space shuttle blasts off in October: Luke Skywalker's original Jedi Lightsaber. As part of the "Star Wars"' 30th anniversary celebration, NASA has agreed to carry the prop weapon into orbit and jettison it in space.
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Teen's Hacked iPhone Nets Him 'Sweet' New Car
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Aug,28
The teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.
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Fake Money Doesn't Fool Tenn. Strippers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Aug,27
A man who authorities say used his computer to make fake $100 bills to buy lap dances at a strip club has pleaded guilty to counterfeiting charges, federal prosecutors said.
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Fossilized Penis Sells For $8,000 At Auction
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Aug,27
A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus went for a whopping $8,000 at a Beverly Hills auction Sunday. The 4.5-foot-long bone was sold to the company that runs the Ripley's Believe It or Not museums. The price will top out at $9,600 when auction fees are included.
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U.S. To See Total Lunar Eclipse Early Tuesday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Aug,27
The Earth's shadow will creep across the moon's surface early Tuesday, slowly eclipsing it and turning it to shades of orange and red. The total lunar eclipse, the second this year, will be visible in North and South America, especially in the West. People in the Pacific islands, eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand also will be able to view it if skies are clear.
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Cork Debate Pits Wine Vs. Environment
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Aug,26
It's the main event in the battle over how to close a bottle of wine: Cork vs. screw cap. To some, it's a matter of style. To others, it's an issue of quality. And now, it's a question of what is best for the environment.
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Naked Man Arrested in Dallas Court Building
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Aug,26
A man stripped naked inside a Dallas County courthouse and tried to grab a weapon from an officer who attempted to subdue him, officials said.
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Ben Franklin's $100 Bill Gets Some High-Tech Help
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Aug,26
After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.
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93-Year-Old Charged With Drug Dealing
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Aug,25
A 93-year-old man was charged with cocaine-trafficking Thursday, the same day police netted three other people on charges of possessing heroine, opium and a slew of prescription drugs, police said Friday.
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Woman Gets 16 Years In Prison For 'Knife-Hug'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,24
Jee-Hyun Song, a former theology student at Bethesda Christian University who testified that she accidentally stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife when he came up from behind and hugged her, was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.
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Missing World War II Sub Found After 65 Years
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Aug,24
The mangled remains of a World War II submarine were found in the Bering Sea on Wednesday night, more than six decades after the U.S. Navy vessel disappeared with a crew of 70 off the Aleutian Island of Kiska.
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