28 May 2003
Respect for Clinton
rebounds among Americans.
The inside story of how U.S. terrorist hunters
are going after al Qaeda.
Infrared light shows us the heat radiated by the world around us.
By viewing animals with a thermal
infrared camera, we can actually "see" the differences between warm and
cold-blooded animals.
Saddam's nastiest biological weapons may have been his sons Uday and
Qusay.
THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution
chamber.
Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at
"neutralizing"—through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic
torture—the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South
Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution" that violated the Geneva
Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality.
Hurricane
season starts on June 1st.
Shocking, just shocking.
Lisa Marie
likes rough sex, Jacko didn't deliver.
Noisy sex turns off
neighbours.
Writing term
papers has become a lost art.
BERLIN — A German flasher
exposing himself to a woman in a forest was forced to run for cover when she set her three
small pug dogs on him, police said on Friday.
25 May 2003
Memorial Day is much more
than a three-day weekend that marks the beginning of summer.
Spiders
have infested a county jail in northeast Arkansas, biting at least 15 inmates and
confounding the exterminator.
Did Cooked
Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains?
Jason Burke, a
world expert on international terrorism, says those leading the war against the bombers
misunderstand the true nature of al-Qaeda.
How do we communicate?
The prospect of being able to emulate a gecko and walk up a
wall and across the ceiling has come a step closer to reality.
One month after the fall of Baghdad, the US has successfully liberated the people of Iraq
from meaningful involvement in decisions about their own future.
Put another civet
on the barbie.
A new anti-assault device
for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock.
21 May 2003
Mad
cow disease case diagnosed in Canada.
Chimpanzees
are more closely related to people than to gorillas or other monkeys.
Dog too demanding? Allergic to cats? Then how about coming home to
a lovable, giant cockroach?
20 May 2003
The Department of Homeland
Security in consultation with the Homeland Security Council, has made the decision to
raise the national threat level from an Elevated to High risk of terrorist attack or Level
Orange.
Terror Alert Levels Explained
Red--Severe: Terrorists have killed you.
Orange--High: Terrorists will kill you soon.
Yellow--Elevated: Terrorists are trying to kill you.
Blue--Guarded: Terrorists are planning to kill you.
Green--Low: Forget it. It will never happen.
Priest
accused of groping two male deputies and a female hotel clerk has pleaded no contest in
Erie County to misdemeanor charges of indecency and sexual imposition.
19-year-old Bronx man got a summons Sunday - for simply sitting on a milk crate
on the Grand Concourse.
There's nothing like a beer-sipping
swine to lure visitors to Alabama.
A high school newspaper article that claims 40 percent of the
students have had oral
sex has stirred controversy in Montrose, Colo.
It's not easy being followed around the clock by the FBI.
UC Berkeley professor studies how the stigma of
masturbation has evolved.
Meet Brenda Orme and John Meyers.
MONROE, Mich. - Tourism officials are pondering whether
4-foot-tall dudded up muskrats
would attract more visitors and spark interest in local history.
Maybe you think there is no reason why a straight girl should ever
go to a strip
club and watch naked women.
Beagle
Makes Incredible, 800-Mile Journey.
The traditionally "weaker"
sex may be hardier after all.
15 May 2003
Cool card trick.
Early modern humans and Neanderthals probably did
not interbreed, according to evidence collected by Italian scientists. So how do they
explain my buddy Ray?
Several Oklahomans who ran to a convenience store last week hoping
to find safety instead were locked out.
Dog Becomes Owner's Golf
Caddy.
After years of scholarly legal arguments, the Utah Supreme Court
has ruled that cats
are not dogs.
California children can rejoice. They won't have to smuggle Oreo
cookies into the state after all.
Smell good, look svelte.
Traffic
kills four times as many people as wars and far more people commit suicide than are
murdered.
A Florida policeman
has resigned after a teenager complained that he made her do jumping jacks while topless
to avoid arrest.
North Korea is mass producing a "stone"
it has developed that when heated emits "infrared rays" that are good for the
human body.
They're hiring sorcerers. Lighting firecrackers. Following advice
reputed to be from a mystical talking baby. Across China, thousands of people are turning
to the supernatural to
fight SARS.
11 May 2003
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when
they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." - Laurens Van der Post
Warning:
this salmon may contain fish.
Are you down with the lingo that kids use today?
Star Trek fans fluent in Klingon take note -- there's a job opening
in Oregon for you.
(Thanks to Jim)
A squirrel snatched an American flag from an Exeter garden two
weeks ago and redecorated his nest in patriotic chic.
A person feels very uncomfortable during prayers because he gets
recurrent thoughts that he might have discharged wind and invalidated his ablution, or
wudhu. This happens very frequently, almost in every prayer. And it is all without sound
or smell. This person often wonders whether he actually discharged wind or it was merely a
bowel movement. Please advise.
Typing
Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare.
9 May 2003
Chinese peasants, lacking the medical know-how and funds to fight
the deadly SARS virus, are lighting firecrackers to scare off the "god of plague."
The pictures purporting to show a Cameroonian man eaten whole by a
snake appear to be a
hoax.
Husband says he believes
his wife, also believes in the tooth fairy and Easter bunny.
South Africa's environment ministry is trying to get rid of the
country's "national
flower".
Out of Masks and Scared of SARS? Try a Bra.
Hookers
Out Of Control In Houston.
Alligators also
out of control.
6 May 2003
Egypt produces comedy film about Iraq's spin
doctor.
A masked
and caped do-gooder has been sweeping through an English town, performing good deeds
and scattering terrified bad guys.
A cat named Tinker,
once a homeless stray, is today the lucky heir of a house in London worth over half a
million dollars.
It turns out that President George
W. Bush was intent on landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln by jet plane even though the
aircraft carrier was well within helicopter range.
What makes things glow
in the dark?
When the Food Workers Union stages an impromptu walkout at the
U.N., the diplomats
start looting for lunch and booze.
France
helped Iraqis escape.
Elayne Bennett, wife of conservative virtues maven William
Bennett, says her husband is "not addicted" to gambling.
Indonesians have a new idol - a hip-swinging singer
who's gyrated her way into fame, fortune, and a whole lot of trouble.
Build your own cruise missile.
4 May 2003
The SARS virus
apparently can survive on common surfaces at room temperature for hours or even days.
Scientists may have discovered why the brain’s higher
information-processing center slows down in old
age.
Drug Raid Turns Up Cocaine, Ecstasy -- And A Crocodile.
Transcript of the
original 1942 United States Department of Agriculture Film, Hemp
for Victory, extolling some of the many uses of this ancient plant and premier world
resource.
2 May 2003
Marijuana, pornography and illegal labor have created a hidden market in the
United States which now accounts for as much as 10% of the American economy.
1 May 2003
X-Ray Glasses
Mr. T
Some of my photographs.
So who came up with the idea of honoring mothers nation-wide
on the second Sunday in May?
PUEBLA, Mexico - Thirty-five schools near the Popocatepetl
volcano canceled classes Wednesday as officials warned a new eruption could rock the
spectacular peak overlooking Mexico City.
PARIS (Reuters) - Select guests gathered at a top Paris restaurant
on Tuesday to sample the one millionth duck to be
snatched from grassy marshland, carefully strangled and ritually cooked with its own
blood.
Breaking News: Fish are capable of experiencing pain.
Alabama Votes Against Legalizing Sex
Toys.
The Polly
Baker Case: Don't believe everything you read.
Traffic
pollution damages sperm and may reduce fertility in young and middle-aged men.
Hundreds of worms being used in
a science experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia have been found alive in the
wreckage.
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