Dutch PM admits to being "a bit boring"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
 Reuters - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter
Balkenende has admitted to being "maybe a bit boring", news
agency ANP reported on Saturday.
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Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has acknowledged defeat with a song, instead of the customary phone call to the victor.
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Cruise baby name has many meanings, expert says
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
 Reuters - It's a Nubian tribe, the word for
"rose" in Persian, the "sun" in Sanskrit and, oh yes, it's also
an obscure variation on the Hebrew name Sarah and refers to
form of an Alpaca's wool.
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Modern building rises in heart of ancient Rome
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
 Reuters - After years of controversy, Rome on Friday
unveiled the first modern building to rise in its ancient
centre since dictator Benito Mussolini ruled Italy more than
half a century ago.
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Today In History - April 22, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
Today is Saturday, April 22nd, the 112th day of 2006. There are 253 days left in the year.
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Oregon Man Survives 12 Nails To The Head
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
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Cat Nurses Rejected Pug Puppy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
A pug puppy rejected by his mother has found a new, more welcoming family a cat and her three kittens.
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Texas Woman, 76, Faces Heroin Charges
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
A 76-year-old woman accused of producing and selling heroin from her home has been arrested. Esther Gomez had allegedly been selling black-tar heroin out of her home for years, according to Bexar County Sheriff's Lt. Darrell Sanders.
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Air Force One Subject Of Internet Hoax
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.
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Man Tried To Sell Daughter For Home Improvements
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
A man raising his 18-month-old daughter alone tried to sell the little girl for $7,000 so he could make improvements to his house, police said Friday.
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Castro addresses audience in Caracas by cell phone
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - When Cuba's Fidel Castro
couldn't honour an invitation to join Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez in a speech on Friday, Chavez called Castro on a cell
phone from a packed Caracas theatre and broadcast the
conversation through the microphone.
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TV seance claims to have reached John Lennon
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
 Reuters - A controversial television seance
airing on Monday will claim it has reached the spirit of John
Lennon, but viewers will have to pay $9.95 (5.58 pounds) to
find out what the peace-loving Beatle has to say.
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California man glues hands and mouths of hostages
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - A Southern California man took two
men hostage at gunpoint, stripped them naked, bound their hands
together with super glue and poured glue into their mouths,
police said on Friday.
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Oregon Man Survives 12 Nails to the Head
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
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Air Force One Subject of Internet Hoax
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
 AP - A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.
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Boys Allegedly Take Car, Flag Down Deputy
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - Two boys who stranded a car they allegedly took without permission flagged down another car for help — and realized too late that it was a marked sheriff's cruiser.
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Texas Woman, 76, Faces Heroin Charges
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - A 76-year-old woman accused of producing and selling heroin from her home has been arrested. Esther Gomez had allegedly been selling black-tar heroin out of her home for years, according to Bexar County Sheriff's Lt. Darrell Sanders.
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House Blasted by 3,000 Gallons of Sewage
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - Utility workers trying to blast out a grease clog from a sewer line forced 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a couple's home, forcing them to abandon their house while hoping that the city makes good on a promise to clean up and repair the damage.
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Pa. Cat Nurses Rejected Pug Puppy
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - A pug puppy rejected by his mother has found a new, more welcoming family — a cat and her three kittens.
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Carpenter Who Works Naked Is Arrested
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
AP - A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff.
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Ben & Jerry's sorry for Irish "Black & Tan" upset
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - Ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's have
apologized for causing offence by calling a new flavor "Black &
Tan" -- the nickname of a notoriously violent British militia
that operated during Ireland's war of independence.
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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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Colombian Police Train Rats To Find Mines
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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Beachgoers' Restroom Endangered
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
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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
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
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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.
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Woman's Mass Bird Feedings Spark Protests
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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Daughter of Kazakhstan's leader defends "Borat"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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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.
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(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Today In History - April 21, 2006
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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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Woman's Mass Bird Feedings Spark Protests
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Ala. Students Expelled for Showing Porno
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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Ohio Restaurant Wins Best Restroom Award
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
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