Archive for July 9th, 2003

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Colorado and Mass Leanest States

According to annual survey done by the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Colorado and Massachusetts are the "leanness"
states in the union. They defined "leanness" as the lowest percentage
of obese citizens, [...]

Armed Avocado Outlaws

BONSALL, Calif. — Rising avocado prices may
be leading thieves of the prized fruit to become more brazen, according
to investigators.
A group of thieves who were confronted by grove workers over the weekend
fired [...]

Sports Metaphor

Hey, is it just me or does anyone else find the Miller Time military preening of the Administration more than a bit unseemly? I can understand the prestidigitation on WMD’s – hell, politics and sleight of hand are practically synonymous, and Americans have always been suckers for a slick sell.
But the Holleywoodesque victory in Iraq [...]

Spam Plus Sex Makes Money

The fact that penile enlargement products were the single most common
genre of spam in my mailbox, and I assume in the mailboxes at least
of everybody with a masculine name (or am I being specifically targeted
[...]

Robotic ‘Semi-Living Artist’

Atlanta (July 8,2003)—Working from their university labs in two different
corners of the world, U.S. and Australian researchers have created what
they call a new class of creative beings, “the semi-living artist” –
[...]


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