Canadian loads college hopes on "Brokeback" truck
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - A half-ton pick-up truck used in the
award-winning gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" is up for sale,
and the seller, a Canadian high school student, hopes the
proceeds will help pay his way through college.
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Wis. Couple Lose 125 Pounds and Win $1,200
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - Tim and Molly Haack are a combined 125 pounds lighter and their wallets are $1,200 fatter after winning a weight loss contest. The contest, sponsored by radio station WTCX-FM of Fond du Lac, encouraged pairs or partners to lose weight together and rewarded those who lost the greatest percentage of body weight in 12 weeks.
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Lawyer in midst of divorce sues dating service
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - A California man in the process
of getting a divorce said on Monday he was suing a popular
online dating service that barred him from joining until his
marriage is officially over.
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Man Is Charged $4,300 for Four Burgers
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - Four burgers at his neighborhood Burger King cost George Beane a whopping $4,334.33.
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Libya's Gaddafi lectures U.S. on democracy
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lectured
a U.S. audience on democracy on Thursday and said Libya is the
only real democracy in the world.
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'No work please,' it's basketball time
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - Relax, don't work so hard. These days
no one else in America does, and that might not be such a bad
thing for an employer's bottom line.
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Monet fans get a chance to make big Impression
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - A London hotel is offering art fans a
chance to emulate Impressionist Claude Monet in the room where
he painted his classic studies of the Thames skyline.
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Is it a football? No, it's an enormous Cypriot lemon
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - Lemon trees in a village in
Cyprus have stunned their owners by suddenly bearing fruit so
huge they're almost as large as footballs. One tree has clumps
of lemons with diameters ranging from four to eight inches,
making visitors wonder if there's something in the water. But
the owners say it's all organic.
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Professor charged with swindling students
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - A business professor at the
University of Southern California was arrested on Friday by the
FBI on charges of swindling students and others in a real
estate fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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Chancellor's apartment caught on museum camera
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - A 24-hour security camera on top of
Berlin's Pergamon Museum was able to film German Chancellor
Angela Merkel's Berlin apartment for several years before
authorities realized, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Look who's more likely to have risky sex
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - Young men who feel good about
their looks are more likely than their peers with a less
positive body image to engage in risky sexual behavior, a new
study of college students shows.
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Drunkard kills himself over meatless dinner
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - A jobless alcoholic burned
himself to death after his wife refused to serve him meat for
dinner, Indian police said Sunday.
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Dial N for naked
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - Up to a third of telephone users in
Britain make calls in the nude, with men more prone to do it
without clothes than women, a survey revealed on Thursday.
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Go to bed married, wake up divorced
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 Reuters - A Muslim couple in India has been
told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the
husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of
India reported.
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Winemakers Pitch Macho Merlot For Men
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
They're making macho merlot in California wine country. Hot on the stiletto heels of last year's wines-for-women trend, new releases from Ray's Station Vineyards in Sonoma County are being pitched to the Y-chromosome set as "Hearty Red Wines for Men."
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Today In History - March 27, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Today is Monday, March 27th, the 86th day of 2006. There are 279 days left in the year.
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Images Of Virgin Mary Appearing
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Images of the Virgin Mary mysteriously appearing are being reported by believers in Moline, Illinois and by a woman nearly 1,200 miles away, in Mexico, Maine. In Moline, more than 200 people gathered under a bridge to see the apparition.
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Elvis' Graceland To Be Named Historic Landmark
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Graceland, the one-time home of Elvis Presley which now hosts more than 600,000 tourists a year, will join the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, the White House and Mt. Vernon as a National Historic Landmark.
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New York City Sinkhole Swallows SUV
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
The street collapsed Brooklyn, swallowing an SUV and causing a water main break. The flooding and collapsed street caused the "R" trains to be suspended in both directions from 95th and 36th street.
( read more )
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Wis. Couple Lose 125 Pounds And Win $1,200
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Tim and Molly Haack are a combined 125 pounds lighter and their wallets are $1,200 fatter after winning a weight loss contest. The contest, sponsored by radio station WTCX-FM of Fond du Lac, encouraged pairs or partners to lose weight together and rewarded those who lost the greatest percentage of body weight in 12 weeks.
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Malaysia Opens Drive-In Massage Parlor
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Stressed out during a long drive? Road hogs driving you up the wall? The Malaysian government is only too happy to help. The country's first highway drive-in massage parlor opened Monday, with the aim of reducing accidents by easing tense muscles of stressed-out drivers. The parlors will be equipped with automatic massage chairs.
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Wyo. Mayor Launches Pothole Patrol Contest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
People tired of rattling over potholes on their street are getting an opportunity to rattle their keyboards and, possibly, shake City Hall into action.
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Today In History - March 28, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Today is Tuesday, March 28th, the 87th day of 2006. There are 278 days left in the year.
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Man Pays Whopping $4,300 For Burgers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Think Kobe beef is expensive? Four burgers at his neighborhood Burger King cost a California man $4,300.33.
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