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Court: TV show's sex jokes not harassment (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21

The cast of the popular comedy television series 'Friends,' which ended its ten year run on May 6, 2004, are pictured on a giant billboard promoting the series finale, at the NBC television network office in Burbank, California, May 3, 2004. Sexually explicit jokes and off-color language by writers of the series did not create a hostile work environment, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Sexually explicit jokes and off-color language by writers of the hit TV comedy series "Friends" did not create a hostile work environment, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.


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"Mrs Noisy" gets year in prison (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - A woman who made herself a minor celebrity in Japan by constantly screaming insults at passers-by and blaring out music while beating bedding on her balcony, was sentenced to a year in jail Friday for causing physical harm. ( read more )

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Britain's Queen Celebrates 80th Birthday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Cheering crowds, red-jacketed bandsmen in bearskin hats and ceremonial gunfire saluted Queen Elizabeth II on her 80th birthday Friday, but stubborn clouds denied the monarch her wish for sunshine. ( read more )

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Woman's Mass Bird Feedings Spark Protests (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - Hollywood officials say they want to stop a mysterious bird lady who hauls 25-pound sacks of feed and draws flocks of messy pigeons whose droppings have fouled cars, sidewalks and buildings. ( read more )

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Daughter of Kazakhstan's leader defends "Borat" (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen who angered many Kazakhs with his satirical portrayal of their nation has found an unexpected ally in the Central Asian state -- the president's daughter. ( read more )

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Prison Doc Fired for Sleeping With Inmate (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - A psychologist with the Arkansas Correction Department has been fired for allegedly having sex with an inmate, officials said. ( read more )

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Colombian Police Train Rats to Find Mines (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - Watch out Fido, your days on the force may be numbered. Police in Colombia are training Lola and Espejo, two whiskered, red-eyed rats, to sniff out bombs and land mines. ( read more )

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Rescue Team Gets Sea Lion Back To Ocean
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A sea lion that settled in, at least for one night, in an Irvine, Calif., waterway is now back out to sea after being captured by a rescue team that loaded him in a cage and trucked him out to the ocean. ( read more )

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German Flushes Fortune Down The Pan
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A German pensioner flushed a fortune in banknotes down the toilet - because he mistakenly thought they were worthless.The man had thousands of deutschmarks which he thought he could no longer change into euros. ( read more )

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German Flushes Fortune Down Toilet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A German pensioner flushed a fortune in banknotes down the toilet - because he mistakenly thought they were worthless.The man had thousands of deutschmarks which he thought he could no longer change into euros, which became the official national currency in 2002. ( read more )

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New York doormen strike averted with contract deal (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - A threatened strike by New York doormen and apartment workers was averted on Friday, sparing hundreds of thousands of city residents from having to hail their own taxis or take their trash to the curb. ( read more )

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Today In History - April 21, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Today is Friday, April 21st, the 111th day of 2006. There are 254 days left in the year.
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Rocking round-the-clock lands Japanese woman in prison
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A Japanese woman was sentenced to one year in prison for bombarding her neighbours with loud music day and night for two and a half years. ( read more )

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Teen Gets Boot Camp For Angering Judge
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
An Oakland County judge has had enough of one 17-year-old. Cameron D. Wells, was accused of vandalizing a court office and stealing a judge's gavel, and repeatedly angered Circuit Court Judge Gene Schnelz with his behavior. ( read more )

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Woman's Mass Bird Feedings Spark Protests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Hollywood officials say they want to stop a mysterious bird lady who hauls 25-pound sacks of feed and draws flocks of messy pigeons whose droppings have fouled cars, sidewalks and buildings. ( read more )

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Ala. Students Expelled for Showing Porno (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
AP - Three eighth-graders have been expelled from Bay Minette Middle School for showing a pornographic movie in their classroom while the teacher's back was turned. ( read more )

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Ohio Restaurant Wins Best Restroom Award (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
AP - They're flushed with pride at an Ohio restaurant that has an annual search for America's tidiest toilets, beating out an East Lansing, Mich., bistro. ( read more )

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Woman Tosses 150 Pounds of Bird Seed a Day (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
AP - Hollywood officials say they want to stop a mysterious bird lady who hauls 25-pound sacks of feed and draws flocks of messy pigeons whose droppings have fouled cars, sidewalks and buildings. ( read more )

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Teen Gets Boot Camp for Angering Judge (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
AP - An Oakland County judge has had enough of one 17-year-old. Cameron D. Wells, was accused of vandalizing a court office and stealing a judge's gavel, and repeatedly angered Circuit Court Judge Gene Schnelz with his behavior. ( read more )

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Americans commute longer, farther than ever (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

Traffic sits at a stand still on Lexington Avenue during the morning commute in New York, December 21, 2005. Studies show Americans spend more time than ever commuting and for a growing number, getting to work takes more than an hour. In the most recent Census Bureau study, 2.8 million people have so-called extreme commutes, topping 90 minutes. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - Dave Givens drives 370 miles


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Age Of Wet Mars Ended 3.5 Billion Years Ago
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Today's cold, dry climate on Mars evolved about 3.5 billion years ago, ending a period when that planet had seen moist conditions, research indicates. ( read more )

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More Americans Millionaires Than Ever
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A record 8.3 million American households had a net worth of $1 million or more in 2005, an increase of 800,000 or 11 percent from 2004, according to data released Wednesday. ( read more )

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Ex-Enron CEO Skilling Reiterates Innocence (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, right, and his attorney Daniel Petrocelli, left, speak to journalists as they leave the federal courthouse for lunch on Thursday afternoon, April 20, 2006 in Houston. Skilling and Enron founder Ken Lay are facing fraud and conspiracy charges. (AP Photo/Jessica Kourkounis)AP - Former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, back in the hands of his own lawyer after three days of cross-examination by the prosecution, reiterated his innocence Thursday on charges related to Enron Corp.'s collapse.


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Lawmaker: 'I Think You're An %!*$&@#'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Nobody expects to get a letter from a member of Congress that ends with an expletive. But that's what happened when Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., recently corresponded with a resident of her southeast Missouri district.
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Widow, 84, Wins Record $10M Slot Jackpot (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

Josephine Crawford, 84, of Galloway Township, N.J., talks to reporters Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at Harrah's Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Crawford made Atlantic City casino history Tuesday when she won more than $10 million on Megabucks, a progressive slot machine linked to hundreds of others in Atlantic City's 12 casinos. She is standing in front of the winning machine. (AP Photo/Jose F. Moreno)AP - For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. About to call it quits after a night playing slot machines, the Galloway Township widow hit a $10 million jackpot late Tuesday, the biggest in the history of casino gambling here.


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Retiree Flushes Money Down Toilet (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
AP - A retiree in northern Germany flushed some 30,000 marks (euro15,300, US$18,900) down the toilet, believing the old bank notes were worthless, police said. ( read more )

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College bars students from posing for Playboy (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

A Playboy model candidate poses in lingerie during a contest in Seoul February 10, 2006. Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has threatened to discipline female students if they pose for Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the college. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)Reuters - Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has threatened to discipline female students if they pose for Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the college.


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Phony doctor gives free breast exams (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

Philip Winikoff is seen in an undated police photograph. Winikoff, claiming to be a doctor, went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday. (Broward County Sheriff/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday.


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Third-Grader Steal's Teacher's Van For Ride
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said. ( read more )

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Company Offers Escapes From Bad Dates
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Secure Networks USA LLC says it has just the escape route for painful dates: A plea you can prearrange online before your encounter. ( read more )

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Retiree flushes fortune down the toilet (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

A toilet is seen in an undated file photo. A German pensioner flushed bundles of old banknotes worth a small fortune down the toilet because he thought they were now worthless, police in the northern city of Kiel said Thursday. (PRNewsFoto/Kohler Co./Reuters)Reuters - A German pensioner flushed bundles of old banknotes worth a small fortune down the toilet because he thought they were now worthless, police in the northern city of Kiel said Thursday.


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Pensioner's 'worthless' banknotes block sewers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A German pensioner flushed bundles of old banknotes worth a small fortune down the toilet because he thought they were now worthless. ( read more )

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Media circus comes to Africa in Jolie baby race (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

Actress Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt are seen in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2006. Hollywood heavyweights Jolie and Pitt, who are expecting a baby within weeks, remain holed up in a bleak coastal resort in the African country of Namibia, playing an edgy cat-and-mouse game with photographers eager for pictures that could earn them a fortune. (Sebastian Derungs/Reuters)Reuters - One superstar birth out the way, one to go.


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Envoy recalled but refuses to go home (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Reuters - India has recalled its top envoy in New Zealand, officials from the two countries said on Thursday, but the diplomat is apparently refusing to return home. ( read more )

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Heroin stash found in sword blades (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Reuters - Danish police said on Wednesday they had found heroin worth more than $1 million that had been smuggled into the country from Pakistan in the hollowed-out blades of 25 antique sword replicas. ( read more )

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Tamagotchis seek second wave of virtual pet owners (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

'Returned Tamagotchi Plus' are seen in this February 4, 2004 file photo. With straps loaded with tamagotchis around their necks, siblings Takumi and Ayaka Mochizuki travelled an hour to a Tokyo store so their virtual pets could interact with a giant tamagotchi that was on tour. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - With straps loaded with tamagotchis around their necks, siblings Takumi and Ayaka Mochizuki traveled an hour to a Tokyo store so their virtual pets could interact with a giant tamagotchi that was on tour.


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Crackdown on boozy stag parties abroad (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Reuters - The Foreign Office is planning to crack down on the "appalling" behavior of some British stag party tourists abroad, according to a report Thursday. ( read more )

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Man says politics pushed him to try suicide (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Reuters - A Kenyan man who jumped into a river because he was sick of his country's chaotic politics has been convicted of trying to commit suicide. ( read more )

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Football Fans Urged To Sing In German
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
English football fans are being urged to learn the German versions of well-known football chants ahead of this year's World Cup.It comes as the official England supporters' club calls on fans not to sing potentially offensive war-related songs at this summer's tournament, such as the Dambusters theme. ( read more )

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Squirrel Goes Nuts Over Big Game
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A hairy pitch invader showed some nifty footwork during a Champions League match.A grey squirrel dashed on to the Highbury pitch when Arsenal played the Spanish side Villarreal. ( read more )

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England fans urged to chant in German (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Reuters - England fans are being encouraged to learn the German versions of well known football chants before the World Cup. ( read more )

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Today In History - April 20, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Today is Thursday, April 20th, the 110th day of 2006. There are 255 days left in the year. ( read more )

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Texas college bars students from posing for Playboy (Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20

A Playboy model candidate poses in lingerie during a contest in Seoul February 10, 2006. Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has threatened to discipline female students if they pose for Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the college. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has threatened to discipline female students if they pose for Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the college.


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Woman Allegedly Smuggles Grenade Into Jail
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A Salvadoran woman was detained after she tried to smuggle a military grenade and marijuana hidden in her vagina into the country's main prison, authorities said Wednesday.
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Third-Grader Takes Teacher's Van For Ride
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said.
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Wis. Man Pleads No Contest Over Showerhead
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A man accused of forcing a removable showerhead into his girlfriend's mouth and turning on the water pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges of false imprisonment and disorderly conduct. ( read more )

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Cougar Bites Man Playing Fetch With Dog
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A state wildlife agent believes a cougar was being playful when it bit a man on the leg as he was playing stick-toss with his dog at his home near Leavenworth.
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Hardee's Sandwich Piles Meat On More Meat
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
As if the Hardee's family of Monster Thickburgers didn't offer enough meat, the company's latest version adds steak meat on top of an already large slab of beef.
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Cougar Bites Man Playing Fetch With Dog (AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - A state wildlife agent believes a cougar was being playful when it bit a man on the leg as he was playing stick-toss with his dog at his home near Leavenworth. ( read more )

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Fake 'Doctor' Offers Door-To-Door Breast Exams
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
People are often annoyed at door-to-door sales people, but they were downright offended at what one man was offering to women who answered his knock. Police say the man went door-to-door carrying a doctor’s bag and offering free breast examinations, and actually got two women to take him up on his offer. ( read more )

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