Archive for October 4th, 2005

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Facial Hair Special Fair

There were men with Fu Manchu moustaches. There were contestants with
long flowing Gandalf beards. And there was the reigning world champion:
German Karl-Heinz Hille, whose gravity-defying sideburns look a bit like
an upturned [...]

Together Forever

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - A professor of English in southern
India loved his mother so much that he lived with her corpse for 20 years.
When he died, the pair were laid to rest in the same grave.
[...]

BU Tech - Converted Vacuum Cleaner Anti-Sniper Robot

IRobot Corp. of Burlington, famous for
its robotic vacuum cleaners, has teamed up with researchers at Boston
University to develop a military robot capable of spotting enemy snipers.
”You’ll actually see the sniper before the smoke [...]


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