Archive for June, 2006

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Segui Denies Bizarre Side Effects of HGH

NEW YORK — Former major leaguer David
Segui admitted yesterday in an ESPN interview that he used human growth
hormone and was among the players mentioned by ex-teammate Jason Grimsley
to federal investigators. Segui [...]

Comic of the Day


Coming Soon to a Campus Near You

Students in Chile have staged a naked protest against
poor quality education.
A group of 25 college students in Valparaiso stripped off in the main
Sotomayor Square, Las Ultimas Noticias reports.
The students painted their [...]

Chefs Deny Lobsters Suffer

A day after Whole Foods Market stopped
the sale of live lobsters in its stores, local chefs and wholesalers
brushed off worries that New England’s iconic crustacean would go the
way of fur
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Run on Home Depot Stock After Finds

SOUTHWICK,
Mass. –For the fifth time in a week, a stash of drugs was found in
a cabinet purchased at a Home Depot store in Massachusetts.
A plumber in Southwick discovered 40 [...]

A Face with No Name

People with face-blindness, known as prosopagnosia, have trouble
identifying which of the three faces on the bottom row is the same
as the person shown in the three photos on the top row

New findings from [...]

English as an Insulting Language

They
say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love
or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the
Dowbrigade out of business, one [...]

Can’t Stand the Sight of You

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say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love
or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the
Dowbrigade out [...]

The Government We Deserve

Here in Boston, the majority of the local political
attention is going to the burgeoning Governors
race to replace "Catchers"
Mitt Romney, who has come as close to declaring his candidacy for President
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Comic of the Day


Oye, Pedro, We Have You Surrounded

EL PASO, June 8 (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has announced
a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras along the
Mexican border and to put the live video on the Internet, so that anyone
[...]

Get a Life or Get Ahead

Although the Dowbrigade has sworn a blood oath not
to blog about the institution for which we work, or any of the people
we work with, or any of the students we teach, have taught in the past
[...]


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