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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Wednesday challenged Sen. Barack Obama to join him for a series of 10 town-hall debates. Calling for “no process questions from reporters” and “no spin rooms,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee … Continue reading
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Fast Food Feed Bags
New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less
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When mooning goes wrong
UTRECHT, Netherlands – Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a “mooning” that went horribly wrong. A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down … Continue reading
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Drunken-Driving Dramatization Death Hoax
OCEANSIDE – It was an elaborate hoax, but 36 students at El Camino High pulled it off with potentially life-saving consequences. The result was a soberingly realistic dramatization about the dangers of drinking and driving, delivered with surprising professionalism. Many … Continue reading
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Pizza Box Goof
I have a somewhat sick fascination with Pizza box art errors, and this one in particular keeps cropping up around here (the Northern NJ area). In an iconic example of irony, it reads “God Bless Americaâ€, and features a picture … Continue reading
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Man unearths box filled with Depression-era cash
MILWAUKEE — Dan Deming had heard the rumors about the buried treasure on his central Wisconsin farm. At first he made some halfhearted attempts to find it, and then searched in earnest for two or three years after receiving a … Continue reading
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Postmortem Photographs
Mourning is a strange thing, and different cultures deal with it in vastly different ways. But there’s a reason people associate the Victorians above all with morbidity and death, and one of them is memento mori like this: The fact … Continue reading
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In Escondido: Buy one (house), get one free
In a sign of how difficult it is to sell new homes in Southern California right now, a San Diego developer is offering a “buy one, get one free” deal, pairing million-dollar homes with less expensive homes. Full Article
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FedEx to Rename Kinko’s
FedEx Corp., the largest air-cargo shipper, will record a cost of $696 million to rename the Kinko’s unit as FedEx Office to win more large business customers. Full Article
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US marine reassigned for distributing coins bearing Bible verses
The US military confirmed yesterday that a marine in Fallujah passed out coins with Gospel verses on them to Sunni Muslims, a military spokesman in the Iraqi city said. The man was immediately removed from duty and reassigned. The coins … Continue reading
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Barbershop Locator
Barbershops are one of the last bastions of manliness today. What other place can you get a sharp haircut and good conversation with a bunch of men? Having difficulty finding a decent barbershop? Well, your troubles are over with this … Continue reading
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Leaders at UN food summit tone down menu over fears of hypocrisy
World leaders attending the UN food summit in Rome settled down today to a “modest” lunch in order not to be accused of “hypocrisy” as they were at the last world food summit six years ago. Lobster, goose and foie … Continue reading
