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According to an alarming new Department of Defense report combining civilian, military, and calendric evidence, Iran may be as few as nine years away from the year 2016.
NYC Grocery Store Advertises Hams As 'Delicious for Chanukah'
This was REALLY not kosher. A grocery store in Manhattan made a food faux pas, advertising hams as "Delicious for Chanukah."
Rumours continue to spread that documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock, of
Super Size Me fame, has found Osama bin Laden.
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| Did Morgan Spurlock find Osama bin Laden?
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Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, researchers say.
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| When asked for comment, the kangaroos did not seem to understand what all the fuss was about.
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Comment: They are cute, they are fit - and they are quite tasty. Now Australian kangaroos are on a mission to save the planet with their marvelous rear wind. The fun never stops...
...Sanity refused to comment.
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| The toddler with some of his creations: Freddie is said to favour the 'spot and blotch' technique
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To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are. But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.
The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.
A dog that inherited $12m (£5.8m) from late New York hotelier Leona Helmsley is in hiding after it was targeted by death threats, US media say.
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| The sun shines though the distinctively shaped leaves of marijuana plants May 24, 2005.
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Two convicts on day-release from a German prison were caught tending their illegal cannabis crop in an empty warehouse nearby, German authorities said on Monday.
MADISON, Wis. - A man accused of stealing several blow-up dolls from an adult novelty store says the burglary was a "drunken, stupid thing."
A Moscow university student has sent a letter to Ded Moroz, Russia's version of Santa Claus, asking him to freeze all his lecturers, a source in Santa's official residence said on Tuesday.
Ded Moroz, whose official residence is near the Russian town of Veliky Ustyug, about 800 kms (500 miles) northeast of Moscow, comes to his temporary residence in Moscow's Kuzminskiy Park every November. This year he has so far received a total of 4,500 e-mails and 1,500 letters.
"A Moscow university student asked the New Year wizard to freeze all his lecturers for the period of mid-year exams," the source said.
Bill Blakemore
ABC NewsTue, 04 Dec 2007 07:40 UTC
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| This photo provided by the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, show a chimpanzee named Ayumu as he performs the second stage of a memory test. The chimp must recall the location on a touch sensitive monitor of numerals that have changed to squares.
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In a memory competition of man versus chimp, Japanese researchers found that chimpanzees performed better than humans.
Comment: They are cute, they are fit - and they are quite tasty. Now Australian kangaroos are on a mission to save the planet with their marvelous rear wind. The fun never stops...
...Sanity refused to comment.