Archive for July, 2005

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US Nukes in Iran

Iran may have the weapons-grade uranium out of three
nuclear warheads dumped out of a B-52 back in 1991. Or so at least the
US government might have some reason to believe, according to a seemingly
[…]

Quote of the Day

”Morneau should have cut it. Joe should have caught it. Silva should have ate it. Rodriguez shouldn’t have hit the guy in the head.”
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, after Johnny Damon hit a single and went all the way around to score in a bizarre sequence featuring two Twins errors and a throw to the plate […]

Beserk Inmates Destroy Prisons

Chronically violent prison inmates, who officials
were forced to relocate when doors in their Walpole cellblock began mysteriously
opening without cause, lashed out in two other prisons where they were
transferred this week, prison […]

Cash for Class - Paying Students to Study

CHELSEA — The high school here will try a new way
this fall to make students show up for school: Pay them.
Under a privately funded program, students will get up to $125 a year for
perfect attendance […]

Suicide by Lion

JOHANNESBURG — A man was eaten by lions after running
past guards into Kruger National Park at dusk just as the gates were
closing, park officials said yesterday.
Park spokesman Raymond Travers
[…]

Scientists Find New Planet - Name It “Deja Vu”

LOS ANGELES — Astronomers announced yesterday that
they have discovered a new planet larger than Pluto in orbit around the
sun.
The unnamed planet would be the 10th in the solar system, although there
[…]

Comics of the Day (part one)

Today’s comics page features two quite different ways
of dealing with the old cat-on-our-favorite-chair conundrum….

As opposed to….

Payola - an American Tradition

THIS
is not a pretty picture," declared Eliot Spitzer,
the New York attorney general, at a press conference on Monday to trumpet
his office’s yearlong investigation into corrupt dealings between big
[…]

Comic of the Day

According to news
reports, this particular strip has
been pulled from a number of papers.  We aren’t really sure why,
except that parents in the heartland may not want to explain to […]

Germanic Sex Rites Planned for World Cup

60
Bed Brothel and Drive-in Sex Sheds Planned in Shadow of Stadium
BERLIN
(Reuters) - A German company is looking to cash in on an expected boom
in the sex trade during next year’s soccer […]

And This Year’s Winner Is

"As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of
the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly
functional
yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
[…]

Lazy Man’s Lament

Our coverage of two stories
in the last week, one extremely local and the other international,
have brought up important and thorny questions concerning the fine
line between […]


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