CORRECTED: College bars students from posing for Playboy
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
 Reuters - Please read in first paragraph ... to discipline students
... instead of ... to discipline female students ... and in
third paragraph ... sent an e-mail to students ... instead of
... sent an e-mail to women students
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Texas Police Officer's Beating Caught On Tape
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A police officer from McKinney, near Dallas, got the beating of his life -- and it was caught on tape.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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.
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Prison Doc Fired For Sleeping With Inmate
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A psychologist with the Arkansas Correction Department has been fired for allegedly having sex with an inmate, officials said.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
For years, a dilapidated restroom at the foot of the town pier has provided relief for beachgoers. That will end if the town gets its wish to raze the building near the site of the $20 million Grand Victorian condominium and retail project.
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Beachgoers' Restroom Endangered
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - For years, a dilapidated restroom at the foot of the town pier has provided relief for beachgoers. That will end if the town gets its wish to raze the building near the site of the $20 million Grand Victorian condominium and retail project.
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"Baby bonus" turns into PR headache
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - It all started with a pre-election letter
by Italy's prime minister to more than 600,000 newborns.
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Daughter of Kazakhstan's leader defends comic
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - A British comedian 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.
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Italy owes wine legacy to Celts, history buffs say
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - Wine conjures up the image of
cultured drinkers sipping their way delicately through a
full-bodied vintage.
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Woman, 84, wins $10 mln on slot machine
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - An 84-year-old New Jersey woman
won $10 million on a nickel slot machine in an Atlantic City
casino in what the operator said Thursday was the largest prize
in the city's gambling history.
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Schools may ban hurtful T-shirt slogans
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - Public schools can bar clothing
with slogans that are hurtful, a U.S. appeals court ruled
Thursday in the case of a student who wore a T-shirt saying
"Homosexuality is shameful."
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Court: TV show's sex jokes not harassment
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
 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
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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
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passers-by and blaring out music while beating bedding on her
balcony, was sentenced to a year in jail Friday for causing
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Daughter of Kazakhstan's leader defends "Borat"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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(AP)
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(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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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.
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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.
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Ala. Students Expelled for Showing Porno
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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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.
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(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.
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Teen Gets Boot Camp for Angering Judge
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
 Reuters - Dave Givens drives 370 miles
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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.
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Ex-Enron CEO Skilling Reiterates Innocence
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
 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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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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(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
 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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(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.
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College bars students from posing for Playboy
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
 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
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Phony doctor gives free breast exams
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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Third-Grader Steal's Teacher's Van For Ride
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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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Secure Networks USA LLC says it has just the escape route for painful dates: A plea you can prearrange online before your encounter.
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Retiree flushes fortune down the toilet
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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old banknotes worth a small fortune down the toilet because he
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Kiel said Thursday.
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Pensioner's 'worthless' banknotes block sewers
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A German pensioner flushed bundles of old banknotes worth a small fortune down the toilet because he thought they were now worthless.
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Media circus comes to Africa in Jolie baby race
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
 Reuters - One superstar birth out the way, one
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Envoy recalled but refuses to go home
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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New Zealand, officials from the two countries said on Thursday,
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smuggled into the country from Pakistan in the hollowed-out
blades of 25 antique sword replicas.
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(Reuters)
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 Reuters - With straps loaded with tamagotchis
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traveled an hour to a Tokyo store so their virtual pets could
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(Reuters)
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