Backyard intruder more than retiree can bear
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
More used to dealing with stranded kittens, authorities in one New Jersey suburb found something more substantial stuck up a tree over the weekend - a 95 kilogram black bear.
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NYC Teen's Miracle Heart Beats Again
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
Daniel Walker was on his final lap jogging in his high school gym class when he collapsed, his flawed heart giving out on him. Days later, his heart at a standstill, kept alive by a bypass machine, it began beating again.
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'I Love NY' Campaign Could Go High-Tech
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
The famed "I Love New York" campaign may get a new media facelift in the near future. The state is launching an ad campaign Monday seeking marketers to help energize and reinvigorate the brand.
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Study: Body Odor Boosts Sexual Arousal In Women
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found that a compound in male perspiration changes hormonal levels in heterosexual women and boosts their sexual arousal.
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Vivi, Come Home: Dog Show Opens Without One Winner
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
There are 2,628 entries in the Westminster Kennel Club show, yet chances are none of them will attract as much attention as the one dog that's missing.
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Today In History - Feb. 12, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
Today is Monday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2007. There are 322 days left in the year.
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Florida Restaurant Holds Benefit For Lisa Nowak
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,12
About 70 diners attended a fundraiser at an Italian restaurant Sunday night for a NASA astronaut charged with attempted murder.
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Bear Eludes Authorities By Climbing Up Tree
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Feb,11
A bear wandered into a backyard in a North Jersey suburb Sunday morning and eluded state and local authorities for several hours by shimmying up a high tree.
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Today In History - Feb. 11, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Feb,11
Today is Sunday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2007. There are 323 days left in the year.
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Indiana Cat Freezes In Water Trough
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Feb,11
A cat found half-frozen in a water trough is recovering, but may lose his tail.
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Toronto Man Charged With Assaulting Reporter, 75
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
A Toronto optician has been charged with assaulting a 75-year-old CityTV reporter in Toronto, Canada, according to CityTV. The reporter was attacked by the optician on Wednesday while investigating allegations that the optician sold fake designer glasses.
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Study: Body Oder Boosts Sexual Arousal In Women
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
Researchers at U-C Berkeley found that a compound in male perspiration changes hormonal levels in heterosexual women and boosts their sexual arousal.
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Dead pets give birth to diamond ring
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
Englishwoman Sue Rogers will never be without her dead dogs and cat after having a diamond ring made from their ashes.
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Students Accused Of Posting Fake Snow-Day Notice
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
Two teenage girls posted a fake announcement on their school districts Web site that said school was closed for the day due to winter weather, police said.
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Cruise Ship Hit by Barge In Mississippi River
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
A barge struck a cruise ship Saturday morning on the Mississippi River, leaving a 30-foot gash on the ship.
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Couples pucker up for world record
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
More than 6,000 Philippine couples kissed simultaneously in a Manila parking lot overnight, setting a world record in what organisers called the Lovapalooza event.
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Gum-Sharing Exercise Disgusts Parents
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
Parents of some Maryland school students are disgusted after learning their children participated in a gum-sharing exercise.
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Engineer Makes Sneakers With GPS Chip
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he's embedded into a line of sneakers "peace of mind." He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school in 2002 saying the boy was missing.
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Chefs In Bangkok Prepare $25,000 Meal
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
It's been billed as the "meal of a lifetime," a 10-course dinner concocted by world-renowned chefs for the most discriminating palates and at $25,000 a head the fattest wallets.
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Today In History - Feb. 10, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Feb,10
Today is Saturday, February 10, the 41st day of 2007. There are 324 days left in the year.
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CA Motorcycle Chase Ends At Shopping Mall
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,09
Police in El Monte, California spotted a motorcyclist doing wheelies Friday and attempted to pull him over. But the motorcyclist took off, and led police on a long, dangerous chase.
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Brazilian pries grandson from anaconda's death grip
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,09
A 66-year-old Brazilian man wrestled with a five-metre anaconda for nearly half-an-hour to free his grandson from the snake's crushing death grip, local media reported overnight.
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Snorkeler Shooter Says He Thought Man Was A Nutria
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,09
An Oregon man accused of shooting a snorkeler in the head has told investigators that he mistook the swimmer for a water-dwelling rodent.
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Tasered Woman Fined For Resisting Arrest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,09
A 69-year-old woman who was Tasered by police two years ago in a scuffle after honking her horn at a patrol car has been convicted of shoving an officer and resisting arrest.
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Police Track Prank 9-1-1 Calls To Third-Grader
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,09
Police in upstate New York turned the tables on a pint-sized prankster who flooded them with fake 9-1-1 calls.
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Today In History - Feb. 9, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,09
Today is Friday, February 9, the 40th day of 2007. There are 325 days left in the year.
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NYC: Teacher Billed For Tutoring Dead Student
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
A public school teacher collected almost $6,000 in city money for tutoring a pupil who had died, a city schools investigator said.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
A Chinese zoo is running a Big Brother-style competition with a difference - the contestants have to live in a monkey enclosure.
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Italians To Play Soccer With No Fans
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
Only six soccer stadiums in Italy meet security requirements, meaning that league games in other arenas will be played without fans following last week's death of a police officer during riots at a game in Sicily.
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MIT Rocket Scientist Helps Make Heels Comfortable
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
A New Hampshire company is claiming a footwear breakthrough: comfortable high heels. And it only took an MIT-trained rocket scientist to get that done.
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Non-Austrian Becomes Honorary Austrian Consul
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
Toby Unwin was an unlikely choice as Austria's newest honorary consul. He has never been to Austria, has no Austrian heritage, and doesn't speak German, the country's official language. But he is a successful businessman with a clean background, and he did ask nicely.
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Today In History - Feb. 8, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
Today is Thursday, February 8, the 39th day of 2007. There are 326 days left in the year.
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Dog Wins Bite Fight With Robbery Suspect
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
Man bites dog; dog bites back. That was the sequence when Alsatian police dog Edge cornered two suspects on a cliff side after a grocery store robbery in Napier, New Zealand, police said on Thursday.
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China cracks down on poisonous mascots
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
Police in the Chinese capital Beijing have seized nearly 30,000 counterfeit versions of the 2008 Olympic mascots known as 'Fuwa' amid fears they are poisonous.
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Man Posed As Cop, Made Bogus Arrests, D.A. Says
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
A 24-year-old man who the district attorney says posed as a police officer and made bogus arrests on Long Island and in New York City faces arraignment Wednesday.
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Honest Cab Driver Returns Bag Of Diamond Rings
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
A New York City cab driver returned 31 diamond rings he found in his cab after dropping off the passenger, who had left him with a 30-cent tip on a $10.70 fare.
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Luxury toilet made for modern kings and queens
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
A plumbing firm has created a luxury toilet equipped with laptop computer and flat-screen TV that it plans to give away in an online sweepstake.
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Prehistoric Rome Lovers Found In Embrace
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of "Romeo and Juliet."
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'Booze Bracelet' Monitors DUI Defendants, Convicts
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
Your sweat says a lot about you and now it's being used to monitor defendants who are charged or convicted of DUIs, using "booze bracelets."
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N.Y. May Ban iPods, Cell Phones In Crosswalks
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
We all seem to have one -- an iPod, a BlackBerry, a cell phone -- taking up more and more of our time, but can they make us too distracted to walk safely? Some people think so.
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Marriage Proposal On TV Works; She Says 'I Do'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
When Rand Fishkin's plans to propose to his girlfriend in a Super Bowl commercial fell through, he opted for the next best thing: an ad during her favorite show.
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Bears Fan Changes Name To Peyton Manning
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
Scotte Wiese had told friends that if his beloved team didn't win the Super Bowl, he'd take the name of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback.
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NYC Cabbie Returns Lost Diamonds, Gets $100 Reward
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.
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Today In History - Feb. 7, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
Today is Wednesday, February seventh, the 38th day of 2007. There are 327 days left in the year.
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S.F. Man Gets Second Chance At Space Ride
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
A 31-year-old software consultant from the San Francisco Bay area, Brian Emmett, has signed on to become a consultant to a space tourism upstart in exchange for a chance to experience weightlessness some 60 miles above Earth.
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Boy With Cerebral Palsy Saves Mom's Life
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,07
An 11-year-old boy overcame some big challenges in order to save his mom's life last weekend. The young man from Fountain, Colo. is now being called a hero.
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Keith Urban sues Keith Urban over website
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,06
Country singer Keith Urban has filed a lawsuit against a painter of the same name, claiming the lesser-known Keith Urban's website infringes on trademark and cyber-squatting laws.
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Fleeing Suspect's Car Nearly Hits Pedestrians
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,06
A very high-speed police pursuit met a dramatic end in Los Angeles as a fleeing suspect's car nearly hit two pedestrians.
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Dinosaur Eggs Reportedly Found In India
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,06
Three Indian explorers have recovered more than 100 fossilized eggs of dinosaurs in a remote area in a central Indian state, a news report said Monday.
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