WW2 files show schoolgirl VD "menace"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,31
 Reuters - World War Two was at its height and
officials worried about a menace loose on the streets of London
-- runaway schoolgirls infecting American GIs with venereal
disease.
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Rolling Stone hits China hurdle
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,31
Reuters - The fate of Rolling Stone in China
hangs in the balance weeks after the highly popular release of
the first issue, as a press watchdog cited problems with the
magazine's trade practices rather than controversial content.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,31
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,31
Fishermen are flocking to Portland in Victoria's south-west.
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Brazil's World Cup secret: plenty of sex
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,31
Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira wants his team to play with a smile on their faces at this year's football World Cup, so he has ruled out imposing a sex ban.
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South Korea having problems printing its own currency
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - While North Korea has been accused of
making almost flawless counterfeit U.S. $100 (57 pound) notes,
neighbouring South Korea has been having trouble printing its
new and perfectly legal 5,000 won ($5.13) note.
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Humble goldfish make splash for LA river project
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - They're only two humble goldfish
but their four-week adventure has captured more attention than
years of efforts to beautify the trash-strewn concrete channel
otherwise known as the Los Angeles River.
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Six suffocate in Mexican well rescue attempt
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - A Mexican man and his son were
killed when a well they were cleaning filled with carbon
monoxide, and a neighbour, two soldiers and a policeman died in
a botched attempt to save them, police said on Thursday.
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Drug ring smuggled cocaine in Virgin Mary statues
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - Two men suspected of helping smuggle
cocaine to New York from Mexico inside statues of the Virgin
Mary were arrested on Thursday, U.S. authorities said.
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'Sketch Pad' Nude Club Owner Pleads Guilty
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - The owner of a strip club that made international news with its "art night" promotion has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges that he violated Boise's anti-nudity law.
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Clerk Faces Jail for Urinating in Soda
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - A convenience store clerk pleaded no contest Thursday to felony charges of tampering after he urinated in a bottle of soda that was later drunk by a customer who became violently sick.
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Philly Plumbers Upset by Waterless Urinals
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - This city's hoped-for bragging rights as home of America's tallest environmentally friendly building could go down the toilet.
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Misspelled Street Sign Confuses Police
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
When State Police were slow to find her home when she called to report a suspicious car, Connie Wojtyca wondered why. She found out that the delay was because her road was misspelled on street signs put up by the St. Clair County Road Commission.
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Special Ambulance Transporting Obese In Vegas
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
An ambulance company has responded to oversize needs in southern Nevada by providing an ambulance equipped to handle patients weighing 500 pounds or more.
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Winner Named For 'Home Office From Hell'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
If you work from an office in your home, you probably have a pretty good idea of the meaning of the word "frustrating." Jason Welshonse does. He runs a computer support and consulting firm and has just won a competition called the "Home Office From Hell Contest."
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Cop Wrestles Pot Bags Out Of Dog's Mouth
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
This Prada's bag was no designer purse. A Boston detective searching the apartment of a drug suspect wound up wrestling a sack containing 108 bags of marijuana out of the clenched jaws of a pitbull named Prada.
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Police Chase Ends At Drive-Thru
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
A police chase of a suspected carjacker ended abruptly when the suspect took a wrong turn: into a Burger King drive-thru.
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Cat Stuck In Wall Waves Paw For Help
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
A cat stuck in a wall at a house under construction initiated his rescue when he caught the attention of a prospective buyer by meowing and waving his paw out a small hole.
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Man Crashes Car After Snake Attacks Him
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
A man crashed his car after a pet snake he had wrapped around his neck began attacking him, authorities said.
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Police Chase Ends at the Drive-Thru
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - A police chase of a suspected carjacker ended abruptly when the suspect took a wrong turn: into a Burger King drive-thru.
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Family Members Charged in Explosives Bust
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - Three family members were charged Thursday after authorities found 114 explosive devices and more than 20 pounds of explosives at their home near the Iowa border on Tuesday.
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Man Crashes Car After Snake Attacks Him
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - A man crashed his car after a pet snake he had wrapped around his neck began attacking him, authorities said.
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Slovenia changes euro spelling ahead of adoption
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - The Slovenian parliament unanimously
passed legislation on Thursday which changes the official name
of the European single currency to the euro from the 'evro'
used by the country until now.
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Online bidders vie for wartime Enigma machine
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - Bidders in an internet auction are
offering over 13,000 euros ($15,600) for a wartime German
encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked
by British code breakers in World War Two.
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Planned Mother Teresa statue irks Albania Muslims
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - Muslims in Albania's northern
city of Shkoder are opposing plans to erect a statue to Mother
Teresa, the ethnic Albanian Catholic nun in line for elevation
to sainthood by the Vatican.
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Princess Diana's dressmaker loses fight over name
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - Princess Diana's wedding dressmaker,
Elizabeth Emanuel, has no right to regain her own name as a
trademark, Europe's highest court ruled Thursday.
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My kingdom for a horse...Well, at least a car..
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - A Kazakh farmer is offering a brand-new
Japanese off-roader as a reward for his missing herd of horses,
media reported Thursday.
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Army relaxes tattoo rules to attract recruits
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - The U.S. Army, which missed its
recruiting goal last year, has relaxed its policy banning
certain types of tattoos in a bid to attract new soldiers who
otherwise would have been barred from serving.
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Prostitutes retrain as nurses, tele-marketers
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - German prostitutes are signing up for a
career change, training to become nurses to tend to the
country's aging population or working phones as tele-marketers.
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Winner Named for 'Home Office From Hell'
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
AP - If you work from an office in your home, you probably have a pretty good idea of the meaning of the word "frustrating." Jason Welshonse does. He runs a computer support and consulting firm and has just won a competition called the "Home Office From Hell Contest."
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Ryanair flight landed at wrong airport
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
 Reuters - A Ryanair flight landed at the wrong
airport in Northern Ireland after a pilot appeared to have made
"a stupid mistake," Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary
said on Thursday.
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After 173 years, court considers raja's will
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Reuters - An Indian court is set to reopen
the country's oldest pending case 173 years after it was first
lodged in the eastern city of Calcutta, then the administrative
and commercial capital of British colonial rule.
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Diana's dressmaker loses fight over name
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
 Reuters - Princess Diana's wedding dressmaker,
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'Aliens Will Talk To Us By 2025'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Aliens will be talking to us within the next 20 years, according to space boffins.Dr Seth Shostak of the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence group said they may have even already landed.
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Today In History - March 30, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
Today is Thursday, March 30th, the 89th day of 2006. There are 276 days left in the year.
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China may put Mao back on the map -- in Antarctica
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,30
 Reuters - Amundsen and Scott may have to share
billing with Confucius and Mao Zedong when China publishes a
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School Sends Boy With Spiked Hair Home
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
AP - All 7-year-old Dallas Saenz wants to do is express his personality, but school officials in this Panhandle town have countered that the first-grader's Mohawk hairdo is disruptive.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
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Watch Out: Park Infested With Bird Poop
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
 AP - The area around Lake Eola has it all — a sparkling fountain, waterside cafe, swan boat rides and a bevy of bird droppings.
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Stolen Bird's Squawks Lead to Return
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
AP - Squawks heard by smokers on break led to the end of a purloined cockatoo caper with the $2,000 bird back on its perch at a New Jersey pet store.
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Cop Wrestles Pot Bags Out of Dog's Mouth
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
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Cat Stuck in Wall Waves Paw for Help
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
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U.S. Army relaxes tattoo rules to attract recruits
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
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Special Ambulance Handling Obese in Vegas
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
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Watch Out Below: Park White With Bird Poop
(AP)
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Snail slows down pace of New Zealand coal mine
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,29
Reuters - In the latest battle between
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west coast of New Zealand hangs in the balance.
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Fla. Judge Blames ADHD for Hasty Arrests
(AP)
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