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SHOCKED six-year-old Leah Lowland checked out a mystery bulge on her
Incredible Hulk doll and uncovered a giant green WILLY .
Curious Leah noticed a lump after winning the monster, catchphrase

BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney jumped on his Jet
Ski over the holiday weekend to help save six people and a Scottish terrier
as their boat rapidly sank on a New Hampshire lake.
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The sense of touch can
be significantly improved using drug therapy, new research suggests.
According to a report published in the current issue of the journal Science,
amphetamines [...]

The United States moved up to 7th place in the just-released UN Quality of Life Index. The UN rankings include life expectancy, education, health, income, poverty and the environment.
Norway ranked first, followed by Iceland, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States.
Among the 175 countries ranked, the bottom 25 are in Africa. [...]

MONTPELLIER, France (AFP) – According to police, a 22-year-old shopper
fabricated barcode labels on his home computer, and by using them to
replace the originals was
able to acquire goods [...]

Once
again, the department of defense is on the cutting edge of 21st
century democracy. After the debacle in Florida, it was
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Explanation: Dramatic prominences can sometimes be seen looming just beyond the edge of the sun.
A solar prominence is a cloud of solar gas held just above the surface by the
Sun’s magnetic field. The Earth would easily
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Every year, 2,000 to 10,000 trailer-sized containers fall off cargo ships
and into the ocean. As container ships get larger, insurers and scientists
are investigating whether design flaws cause them to roll out of control
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During the week, Redcar’s Seacroft Hotel is a conventional bed and
breakfast, its 13 centrally-heatedrooms offering colour TV, tea and
coffee making facilities and wash basins.
But on certain weekends, it becomes the Sexcroft – advertising itself
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As a result of the RIAA’s heavily publicized lawsuits against users of file-swapping software — illegal downloading has increased!
“Anytime you get media attention, you get people interested to try it out,” said Michael Weiss, chief executive of Streamcast Networks Inc., which developed Morpheus.
by Leslie Walker in the Washington Post

Adobe Systems Inc. has begun testing online activation of its Photoshop 7.0 application in Australia as a way of stemming the illegal use of its software. If the pilot is successful, and so far it is, the developer plans to begin using software activation in the United States later this year or early next, beginning [...]

Seems the latest rage in Japan is full re-enactments of scenes from
The Matrix: Reloaded. They love getting dressed up as their favorite
characters, especially the quirky "Agent Smith".
How odd that they all want to emulate American [...]