Sunday, January 31, 2010
And in Britain: Health Club Warns Aliens Will Eat 'Fatties' First…
One of Britain 's biggest health clubs has been criticized for putting up a sign warning "fatties" they would be eaten first by aliens. The advert was meant to encourage people to join up and lose those excess pounds put on over Christmas, reports the Daily Telegraph. The sign, which features a...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
And in Mattapan (Boston): The Benefits of Learning…
Mattapan residents spent more than a decade pushing for a public library in their neighborhood, to be an intellectual hub amid the nail salons and corner stores and to help occupy young people who might otherwise stray to the streets. Last year, they got their wish, a sparkling, $17-million...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
And in England: Chick’n Lick’n Good…
While stacking shelves at a grocery store in England, Adeel Ayub, 30, reportedly urinated in a garbage can, busted up a fire extinguisher and licked frozen chicken. The destructive pranks, which took place between 2005 and 2008 were documented on a cell phone and uploaded to YouTube, prompting his...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
And in Nebraska: Child Duct-Taped To Wall…
Two Beatrice, Nebraska, residents face child-abuse charges, accused of taping the woman's 22-month-old child to a wall. Eighteen-year-old Corde Honea was arrested this week on suspicion of felony child abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia and stolen firearms. Officers say two stolen handguns...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
And in the UK: Little-seen Men…
Earth is becoming "invisible" to aliens, the world's leading ET hunter claimed yesterday. Dr Frank Drake said transmission of signals into space was being cut by the digital revolution. As a result, any little green men on other planets would not be able to detect them. Dr Drake said Earth was...
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Monday, January 25, 2010
And in France: Airline Denies Plans for Obesity Surcharge...
Air France KLM denied media reports on Wednesday that it planned an extra charge for overweight passengers if they were unable to fit into a single seat. Instead, the national carrier said that from Feb 1. overweight passengers who had freely chosen to buy an extra seat for comfort would get their...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
And in Utah: Bill to make strangulation a felony falls short in legislature
A bill that would require a strangulation offense to be prosecuted as a felony will succumb to budget pressures once again, a state legislator told domestic violence advocates Wednesday. Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake, said the state's ongoing budget constraints have doomed a bill she has tried...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
And in New Orleans: Unnatural Sex Work…
New Orleans city police and the district attorney’s office are using a state law written for child molesters to charge hundreds of sex workers like Tabitha as sex offenders. The law, which dates back to 1805, makes it a crime against nature to engage in “unnatural copulation”—a term New Orleans cops...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
And Almost Everywhere: Marriage Benefits Men Economically Too…
If you think women still reap more economic benefit than men do from marriage, you may be living in the past. Today, men are better off economically because their wives are, too, suggests a new study on the economics of marriage by the Pew Research Center. It shows women's education and earnings...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
And in Scotland: Scots 'Drink 46 Bottles of Vodka'
Adults in Scotland are drinking the equivalent of 46 bottles of vodka each in a year, a study has suggested. The research was based on industry sales data analysed by NHS Health Scotland. It said sales for the year to September 2009 averaged 12.2 litres of pure alcohol per person over the age of 18....
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