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	Inmate loses weight, escapes through jail vent
Associated Press Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:51 EDT
HEMPSTEAD, Texas - A man charged with murder escaped from jail early Saturday by climbing through an air conditioner vent, authorities said. The vent was less than a foot wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing weight since arriving at the Waller County Jail in April.
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	Australia: Pilgrims boom Sydney sex trade
Australian Associated Press Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:49 EDT
Pilgrims have increased business in an unlikely area, the city's brothels. Adult Business Association spokesman Chris Seage said the boom in business had taken brothel owners by surprise.
Comment: Does this really surprise anyone? Read more

Pathocratic Circus: Emotions of G8 summit (photo)

RIA Novosti
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:34 EDT

©RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President George W. Bush meeting at the Windsor Hotel, Toyako resort village, Hokkaido, Japan. After the meeting, President Bush called President Medvedev a "smart guy."

He ain't heavy... Italy's metal brother

Marie-Louise Gumuchian
Reuters
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:49 EDT

©REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

Friar Cesare Bonizzi (or Fratello Metallo, "Metal Friar") (C) poses with his group for a Reuters photo after a rehearsal session in downtown Milan, July 10 2008.

Dressed in his traditional brown robe, sandals and twirling the rope around his waist, 62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

But as guitarists around him grind out heavy notes, the long-white-bearded Capuchin, a former missionary in Ivory Coast, has no qualms bobbing his head and shouting lyrics about alcohol, sex, tobacco and life in general into his microphone.

	Jim Smiths gather to honor Jim Smiths
Chris Togneri Pittsburg Tribune-Review Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58 EDT
The best thing about the Jim Smith Society is Jim Smith, according to Jim Smith. "I've never met a Jim Smith I didn't like," said Smith, 71, of Vancouver. "I'm still looking." Here's his chance. A baseball roster of Jim Smiths -- 25, plus relatives -- converged on Pittsburgh on Thursday for the Jim Smith Society Fun Fest, which runs through Sunday.
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	UK: Armed robbers swept away by grandma with a broom
Mark Hughes The Independent Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:16 EDT
A gang of would-be robbers armed with hammers was sent packing by a grandmother wielding a broom. Anne Withers, 55, attacked three hooded men with her 4ft brush when they raided the convenience store where she works. The thieves, carrying claw hammers, burst into Premier News in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, as Mrs Withers was opening up the shop with her boss, Guljinder Hayer. They began beating Mr Hayer and demanding cash.
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North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" wakes from its coma

Jon Herskovitz
Reuters
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:03 EDT

©Reuters

The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel splits the sky over Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Picture taken April 24, 2002.

Seoul - North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's most reclusive and destitute countries.

	Satire to Sue New Yorker
Steve Young Steve Young on Politics Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:30 EDT
In an unprecedented legal move that should shakeup the dictionary industry already under siege by critics and linguists, Satire - the word and its definition - has filed suit against The New Yorker for classifying its cartoon depiction of Barack and Michele Obama as satire. "Words can no longer stand by and let the media abuse them without retribution," said Satire's lawyer, Noah Webster VI. "Words have rights too. But more importantly, they have real meaning and represent to people the truth. The courts have said so."
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	Chile: Activist stripper arrested for subway pole dances
Pav Jordan Reuters Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:25 EDT
A stripper who danced on the poles of Santiago subway trains to challenge the prudishness of Chilean society was arrested on Thursday during one of her lightning performances. Monserrat Morilles, 26, surprised subway riders all week stripping to skimpy underwear, but she refused tips.
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A Betty Ford clinic for jihadis

Shiraz Maher
Times Online
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:01 EDT

PlayStations, new kitchens and art classes are part of Saudi Arabia's softly, softly approach to rehabilitating terrorists

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