Amazon.com Jumps Gun on NCAA Winner
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
 AP - College basketball fans may have been surprised to turn on their computers Monday morning and find an e-mail from Amazon.com Inc. proclaiming, "UCLA Wins."
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Girl Wins Spelling Bee After 41 Rounds
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - After 41 rounds and 4 1/2 hours, Anna Rose Wright won the Treasure State Spelling Bee Saturday. "I have never seen a bee go this long," said round judge Lynn Schwanke of Missoula, a previous state bee director for more than 20 years. "It was really remarkable."
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Court rejects challenge to NY dancing licence law
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - New York City may be known as a centre
of artistic expression, but a judge on Monday dismissed a
lawsuit that argued people have a constitutional right to dance
in any bar or restaurant.
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Mouth Grills Become Flashy Fashion Trend
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - The hip-hop culture is sinking its teeth into a new fashion trend. Individual gold-capped teeth have given way to grills and fronts — removable mouthpieces made of gold, platinum or silver and sometimes studded with jewels.
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N.C. Castration Suspects Given Lawyers
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - Three men arrested last week on charges they castrated people at a sadomasochistic "dungeon" in the western North Carolina mountains were given court-appointed lawyers at a brief hearing Monday.
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Calif. Coach Sued For Belittling Players
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
When Michael Oddenino's teenage daughter complained that her softball coach was insulting her teammates, he took the dispute off the diamond and into a court.
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Judge Censured for Mocking Victim
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - A municipal judge has accepted censure as punishment for mocking an assault victim by comparing him to a lying character on "Saturday Night Live."
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Feuding Owners in Court Over Lewd Web Site
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - Two feuding businessmen are headed to court, after one man created lewd images of the other and posted them on the Internet, using his rival's business name in the Web site address.
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The Condi Rice and Jack Straw road show
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - When it came time to grab a few hours
rest before landing on a secret mission in Baghdad last
weekend, Condoleezza Rice insisted that Jack Straw take the bed
in the private cabin in her aircraft.
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McDonald's Sets 'Online Casting Call'
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - Want to get your face in front of 50 million people? Here's your big chance — have it featured on a McDonald's cup or bag.
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Lawmakers turn to stunts to get elected
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - In Peru's congressional election
campaign, every day can seem like April Fool's Day.
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Sexy media a siren call to promiscuity?
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
 Reuters - Sexually charged music, magazines, TV
and movies push youngsters into intercourse at an earlier age,
perhaps by acting as kind of virtual peer that tells them
everyone else is doing it, a study said Monday.
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Lack of women turns tables on suitable boys
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - Long, twirling moustaches and bejewelled
daggers are no longer enough for a man seeking to marry in
India's desert state of Rajasthan, long considered a land of
fearless warriors.
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Tired of male domination, 5 Saudi women change sex
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - Tired of playing second fiddle to men in
conservative Saudi Arabia, five women decided if you can't beat
them, join them.
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Bermuda bans smoking in bars and restaurants
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - A smoking ban in Bermuda's
bars and restaurants began on Saturday with drinkers who sneak
an illegal puff eventually facing fines of $250.
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Nuke plant gets new locks after keys lost
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - German authorities are changing 150
locks at a nuclear power plant after its owner said they had
lost keys to a security area, a ministry spokesman in the south
western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said on Monday.
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Spider Shock For Australian Nudist
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
An Australian nudist who tried to kill a spider has burnt himself in a place most of us would have kept covered up.The 56-year-old man poured petrol into what he thought was the nest of a deadly funnel web spider.
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Lawyer Parent Sues Daughter's Coach For Being Mean
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
When Michael Oddenino's teenage daughter complained that her softball coach was insulting her teammates, he took the dispute off the diamond and into a California court. The judge ruled coaches have the right to be tough on their players.
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Printer Rejects 'Jesus Loves Porn Stars' Bibles
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Two California pastors who minister to the adult film industry have hit a roadblock in their crusade. Their publishing company is refusing to print bibles with the brand "Jesus Loves Porn Stars" emblazoned on the cover.
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Maine Couple's Home Concrete Sweet Concrete
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Termites wouldn't like the house that Mike Mercier of Auburn, Maine, has built: a 2,300-square-foot ranch-style home made of concrete, including floors, windowsills, countertops and end tables.
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Iranian police get stranglehold on fake wrestlers
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - Iranian police have caught seven young
men who were trying to emigrate to Hungary by masquerading as
members of the national wrestling team, the official Iran
newspaper reported on Monday.
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Maine Man Builds a House Out of Concrete
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - Termites wouldn't like the house that Mike Mercier has built. Mercier built his house out of concrete — 85 yards of it. From the outside, the new 2,300-square-foot ranch-style home doesn't look a lot different from most. The basement and foot-thick exterior walls are made of concrete — but so are the floors, windowsills, countertops and end tables.
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Calif. Coach Sued for Belittling Players
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
AP - When Michael Oddenino's teenage daughter complained that her softball coach was insulting her teammates, he took the dispute off the diamond and into a court.
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Spider-hunting nudist ends with ring of fire
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
 Reuters - A red-faced Australian nudist who tried
to set fire to what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider's
nest ended up with badly burnt buttocks, emergency officials
said on Monday.
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5 Saudi women change sex
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - Tired of being second to men in
conservative Saudi Arabia, five women decided if you can't beat
them, join them.
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Tomb Raider Star Inspires Uni Degree
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
A university has launched a new degree in computer game animation in a bid to create the next Lara Croft.
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Today In History - April 3, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Today is Monday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2006. There are 272 days left in the year.
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Lost An IPod Or Wallet? Look For It Online
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Maureen Silliman felt her empty pocket and gulped: Her new $300 iPod must have bounced out as she ran to catch a train. While she sobbed, her boyfriend suggested a message on the lost-and-found section of Craigslist, an online bazaar of classified ads.
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Mike Tyson goes in swinging for Mao
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Reuters - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike
Tyson visited Mao Zedong's mausoleum in a token of respect to
add to the Mao tattoo on his arm and his personal book
collection of the late Great Helmsman.
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Bono feels "exploited" by Berlusconi magazine
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
 Reuters - Bono has written to Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi to complain about how his picture was used in
a magazine listing the government's achievements ahead of
elections next week.
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Age no barrier to competitive wood chopping
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
Competitive wood chopping might be considered a young bloke's game but an 84-year-old Tasmanian has shown age is no barrier.
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Couple Shares Love Of Fishing In Wedding
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,03
A couple brought together by a passion for fishing was married at the Tippy Dam boat ramp, with family members observing the ceremony from a dock rather than church pews.
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Tokyo asks sneezing citizens to cough up for trees
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
Reuters - Tokyo's city government is trying to
persuade allergy sufferers to sponsor a campaign to replace the
pollen-rich cedar trees that cause misery for many Japanese
each spring.
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April Fool's Day A Serious Joke In Europe
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
When it comes to April Fool's Day, Europe's media are having the last laugh. Britain's Daily Mail reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair repainted the traditionally black front door of his Downing Street office "socialist red" to match his Labour party colors. The Times ran a story about a new song-activated credit card security system called "Chip 'n' Sing."
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Late Grateful Dead Leader's Toilet Stolen
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet, The Press Democrat newspaper reported Saturday.
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Publican trains apprentice beer-drinking pig
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
The Pub In the Paddock at Pyengana in north-east Tasmania has a new tourist drawcard.
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Thief gets away with Grateful Dead leader's toilet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently ...
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Late Grateful Dead Leader's Toilet Stolen
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
AP - The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet, The Press Democrat newspaper reported Saturday.
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Puppy Swallows Tent Peg - And Lives
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
A three-month-old puppy survived after swallowing a metal tent peg that was almost as long as its body.Disa the Staffordshire bull terrier was taken to a local vets with a suspected stomach upset.
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Lack of women turns tables on India's suitable boys
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,02
Reuters - Long, twirling moustaches and bejewelled
daggers are no longer enough for a man seeking to marry in
India's desert state of Rajasthan, long considered a land of
fearless warriors.
( read more )
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April Fool's Day a Serious Joke in Europe
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
AP - When it comes to April Fool's Day, Europe's media are having the last laugh.
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'Wandering Wanda' Still On The Loose
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
"Wandering Wanda" the wild turkey just doesn't want to get caught. The bird is still on the loose within city limits in this northern Kentucky suburb of Cincinnati despite efforts by net-wielding residents and city officials.
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Judge: Move Sexy Billboards Away From Road
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
A federal judge agrees: Sexy signs just have no place near the highway.
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Couple Shares Love of Fishing in Wedding
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
AP - A couple brought together by a passion for fishing was married at the Tippy Dam boat ramp, with family members observing the ceremony from a dock rather than church pews.
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Isabella -- A Retriever That Likes To Fish
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
The golden retriever prowls the edge of the pond -- then in she goes. Isabella, the sushi-loving pooch, is an avid fisherman and a popular attraction at the Garden District nursery in Baton Rouge.
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'Wandering Wanda' Still on the Loose
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
AP - "Wandering Wanda" the wild turkey just doesn't want to get caught. The bird is still on the loose within city limits in this northern Kentucky suburb of Cincinnati despite efforts by net-wielding residents and city officials.
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Conservative Coldplay? Biscuit roads? Ha. April Fool
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
 Reuters - Rock star Chris Martin has joined forces
with the Conservatives to unseat Prime Minister Tony Blair,
after his Hollywood wife Gwyneth Paltrow met the Tory leader's
wife at yoga class.
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Man Helps Nab Bank Robber Who Dropped Cash
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
AP - A Detroit man is in custody after a witness saw him drop a large wad of cash in the street and called police.
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Belgian wins near record sum in lottery
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
Reuters - A lucky Belgian won the jackpot of
75,753,123 euros (53 million pounds) in the European lottery
EuroMillions on Friday, Belgian La Derniere Heure tabloid said
on Saturday.
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Judge: Move Sexy Billboards Away From Road
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,01
AP - A federal judge agrees: Sexy signs just have no place near the highway.
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