Wash clothes, not body, wacky warning advises
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jan,06
A warning label advising against climbing into a washing machine has won the 10th annual Wacky Warning Label contest.
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FDA approves drug for plump pups
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
The first diet pill for dogs will soon be available by prescription in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced.
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Police hunt pub urinal thief
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
Police in the English city of Southampton are seeking a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.
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FDA Approves 1st Drug For Obese Dogs
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
Is your hound round? Too much flab on your Lab? Is your husky, well, husky? A new drug may provide some help.
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Kashmiris Protest Saddam's Execution
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators burning the American flag during a second day of street protests on Friday in the streets of Srinagar, the main city in Jammu-Kashmir state, the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
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Bride's Joke Breaks Off Austrian Wedding
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
When a bride in Austria jokingly answered "no" instead of "yes" when asked if she wanted to marry her husband-to-be, the official performing the civil wedding promptly broke off the ceremony.
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Today In History - Jan. 5, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
Today is Friday, January 5, the fifth day of 2007. There are 360 days left in the year.
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3 caught drink-driving same car
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jan,05
Three people were arrested for drink-driving the same vehicle in three separate incidents in the Northern Territory this morning.
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Passer-by catches falling child
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
New York police say a three-year-old boy who fell from the fourth floor window of an apartment was caught by a passer-by.
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Passerby catches falling child
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
New York police say a three-year-old boy who fell from the fourth floor window of an apartment was caught by a passerby.
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Alleged Burglar Has Booze, Passes Out
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A burglar who smashed a glass door to break into a house couldn't quite find his way back out after treating himself to some beans and booze, then passing out.
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Suspected Mouse Remains Found In Beans
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
No child became sick, but the thought of finding mouse remains in cooked green beans at a preschool lunch has officials feeling ill.
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Calf With Two Faces Born At Va. Farm
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
One of the newest arrivals at Kirk Heldreth's dairy farm is drawing crowds. A calf with two faces was born Dec. 27 at Heldreth Dairy Farm, and word has spread in southwest Virginia as residents flock to his farm.
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Dog Lost In Colorado Found In Tennessee
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
Seven months after disappearing from her yard in Colorado, a little rat terrier named Daisy walked into the arms of Tracie Crass in Knoxville, some 1,300 miles away, and got an airplane ride home.
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Welshman's 65,000 pennies refused as court payment
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A Welsh man who was banned from paying a 650 pound ($1,600) court debt in bronze one pence pieces says he will pay up, but he will use silver five pence pieces instead.
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N.Y. Cops: Guard Smuggled Pot Into Jail In Cannoli
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A New York corrections officer was arrested and due in court Thursday on charges he tried to smuggle marijuana into the jail - stashed inside a box of the Italian pastries.
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Cops: DMV Inspector Passes Driver For Stripping
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A license inspector for the state Department of Motor Vehicles has been charged with persuading a woman to strip off some of her clothing in exchange for passing her driver's test.
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Elephants At German Zoo Eat Unsold Christmas Trees
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
Elephants at a German zoo were treated to a post-Christmas feast on Thursday. The animals at the Berlin Zoo were fed Christmas trees that traders had not been able to sell.
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NORAD: Burning Debris In Sky Was Russian Rocket
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
The brilliant streak of light that raced across the sky west of Denver Thursday morning was a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere, NORAD and U.S. Northern Command reported.
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Meteor Shower Provides Early Show In CO
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
Early risers in Colorado were treated to an incredible sight as what appears to be a meteor shot across the morning sky Thursday.
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Cruise Line Pays $1M To Estate Of Man Who Vanished
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
Royal Caribbean Cruises has agreed to pay more than $1 million to the estate of a Connecticut man who vanished from his honeymoon cruise in 2005 according settlement papers to be filed Thursday.
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Pro Eater Devours Cheesesteak Record
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A profressional eater took a bite out of a Philadelphia record that stood for almost six years Wednesday.
With his highly trained appetite, "Humble Bob" Stoudt attacked the record of 12 cheesesteaks eaten in an hour and a half.
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$1M Sculpture Of 'Fragile' Earth Collapses In Ga.
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth's fragility, made its point a bit early - just three months after it's unveiling, it collapsed.
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Pakistan Lifts Kite-Flying Ban
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
Authorities on Thursday lifted a ban on kite-flying in a Pakistan province after the sport was forbidden last year following a series of deaths caused by reinforced kite strings, an official said.
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Today In History - Jan. 4, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
Today is Thursday, January 4, the fourth day of 2007. There are 361 days left in the year.
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Settlement Reached In Flour-Filled Condoms Lawsuit
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jan,04
A woman who was jailed for three weeks on drug charges for what turned out to be flour-filled condoms has settled a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia.
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Calf Saves His Hide, Escapes Slaughter
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A 2-year-old calf saved his own hide on New Year's Day when he refused to be led into a Mumbai slaughterhouse, an animal activist said Wednesday.
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Metal Object Crashes Through N.J. Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County, N.J. home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was.
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Conservationists, carpenters save Mawson's Hut
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A team of conservationists and carpenters believe they have saved Mawson's Hut in Antarctica after re-cladding its roof on a recent expedition.
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Festival-goers to use melon in record smashing attempt
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
Visitors to next month's Chinchilla Melon Festival, in southern Queensland, will have the chance to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Bank red-faced after cat gets credit card
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
The Bank of Queensland has apologised after granting a credit card to pet cat in Melbourne.
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British teen sails into record books
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A 14-year-old British boy has sailed into the record books as the youngest person to make a solo voyage across the Atlantic.
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British Teen Sails Ocean Solo, Breaks Record
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A British teen on Wednesday became the youngest person to sail solo across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Caribbean island of Antigua after a six-week voyage.
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Longtime Red Sox Fan Dies At 112
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
Kathryn Gemme, a lifelong Red Sox fan who followed the team since the days of Babe Ruth, has died. She was 112.
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Oiled Prisoner Slips Out Of Norway Jail
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody - literally - by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday.
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Cops: Woman Used Dog's Name For Prescriptions
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
A Conneticut woman has been charged with trying to get obtain painkillers from a drug store by using her dog's name.
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Oops! Kidnappers Nab, Ditch The Wrong Victim
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
In what was apparently a case of mistaken identity, a woman was kidnapped, bound and abandoned in her car. Authorities found the victim in North Hollywood on Tuesday night.
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Manhattan Apartment Prices Top $1.1M
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
While the national home market languished, already expensive Manhattan became pricier still in the final quarter of last year, compared to the year before, according to two new real estate reports.
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Sticky Fingers At The Houston Airport
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,03
Five men have been arrested on felony organized crime charges in the recent thefts of hundreds of pieces of luggage from George Bush Intercontinental Airport, police said Tuesday.
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Cherry Blossoms Bloom In New York City
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, it hardly seems like the dead of winter. Most cherry blossoms don't bloom until the beginning of spring when the winter chill finally begins to warm up. But there hasn't been a winter chill for most of the season, and for that reason, a cherry blossom tree was in practically full bloom on this the second day of January.
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Creepy art increases heart patients' blood pressure
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
Works of art meant to hearten patients at a Canadian cardiac hospital as part of a study have been removed after complaints they made people feel tense and increased their blood pressure, a doctor says.
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Inventor Creates Ping Pong For Three
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
Secil Boyd keeps dreaming up new ideas from remote control flying gadgets to new table games and even space-matter theories. "My mind doesn't seem to turn off so easily," the 53-year-old inventor joked at his Holualoa art gallery.
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Hotel Chain Offers Massages For Dogs
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
Dogs are now getting the white glove treatment at Ritz- Carlton hotels.
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Today In History - Jan. 2, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
Today is Tuesday, January 2, the second day of 2007. There are 363 days left in the year.
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Humans ape nature at Adelaide Zoo
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
The launch of the Human Zoo exhibit at the Adelaide Zoo has blurred the line between human and ape.
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Study: 2 Of 5 Bosses Don't Keep Word
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,02
For most people, it's back to work Tuesday after a holiday weekend with family and friends. And for many, a new study shows, it will be under a bad boss. Nearly two of five bosses don't keep their word and more than a fourth bad mouth those they supervise to co-workers, the Florida State University study shows.
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United Airlines Employees Report UFO In Chicago
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,01
Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall.
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Four In Grueling 'Couch-Potato' Contest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,01
Putting in long, grueling hours of couch-potato training just to win a TV sports-viewing marathon is simply not feasible, according to Jason Pisarik, who should know. At least not without incurring substantial personal risk.
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Man With Mannequin Fetish Could Get Life For Theft
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,01
A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest.
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Head, Heart At Issue For 'Greatest Thinker' Search
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,01
They've popped the question for the 15th Great American Think-Off: Which should you trust more - your head or heart? The Great American Think-Off, sponsored by the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, is a national philosophy competition designed to provide ordinary people a chance to voice their opinions on some of life's more perplexing questions.
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