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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:47 AM |
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As protesters gathered at colleges around the country to criticize federal budget cutbacks that would raise the price of subsidized birth control at student health services, one University of New Mexico student described the imminent horror to Albuquerque's KFRQ-TV: "(Students shouldn't) have to make a choice between their birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership ..." [KRQE-TV, 11-12-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:49 AM |
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In November, two mid-level bureaucrats in the District of Columbia tax office were charged with stealing $16 million over three years (since raised by investigators to more than $20 million) by granting tax "refunds" to phony companies run by their friends and relatives. Authorities said six-figure refund checks were routinely issued to companies no one had ever heard of, yet the scam was not discovered by supervisors or auditors until an employee of a bank branch located in a grocery store got suspicious. [Washington Post, 11-8-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:49 AM |
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A November Washington Post investigation found an almost complete lack of oversight of the often-bountiful "activities funds" of D.C. public schools, which were looted by some administrators and teachers for personal travel, meals and even strip-club tabs. [Washington Post, 11-9-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:50 AM |
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Paul Keith, 75, was arrested in Framingham, Mass., in November after he had allegedly driven aggressively into the car stopped in front of him waiting for a traffic light to change. Keith earnestly explained to police that the other driver had failed to move once the light turned green. "(S)o I drove into the back of him. When the light turns green, you're supposed to go." (Keith demolished the front end of his car.) [Metro West Daily News (Framingham), 11-4-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:54 AM |
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In October, Shannon Whisnant innocently bought a meat smoker at auction when owner John Wood of Maiden, N.C., fell behind in storage payments, but then Whisnant discovered Wood's amputated leg inside (where Wood had been keeping it for posterity). Whisnant claimed ownership and then suggested a joint money-making project with Wood after the story made worldwide news, but Wood insisted on getting his leg back, and in November, a judge ruled in his favor. [Greenville (S.C.) News, 10-3-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:55 AM |
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A 66-year-old man was hospitalized in South Kitsap, Wash., in November after accidentally shooting himself in both legs. Police said he had become frustrated with a stuck lug nut on his Lincoln Continental's wheel and fired his 12-gauge shotgun at it, resulting in buckshot wounds from his feet to mid-abdomen. [Kitsap Sun, 11-10-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 10:30 PM |
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Sylvan69
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Lots of morons in the news. 
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| Dec 12, 2007 @ 7:06 PM |
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA on Sunday delayed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis until January after a gauge in the fuel tank failed for the second time in four days.
With only a few days remaining in the launch window for the shuttle's mission to the international space station, senior managers decided to stand down until next month in hopes of better understanding the perplexing and persistent fuel gauge problem.
"We're determined to get to the bottom of this," said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team.
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| Dec 12, 2007 @ 7:08 PM |
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Sylvan69
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Top-secret US labs penetrated by phishers
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco ? More by this author
7 Dec 2007 21:35
Coordinated attack
One of the most sensitive science and technology labs in the US has been hacked as part of what it called "a sophisticated cyber attack that now appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country."
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/national_labs_breached/
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| Dec 12, 2007 @ 7:11 PM |
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Sylvan69
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Chimps Beat Humans on Memory Tasks
Young Chimps' Photographic Memory Better than Adult Humans
In a memory competition of man versus chimp, Japanese researchers found that chimpanzees performed better than humans.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3948256&page=1
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:24 PM |
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Mayor Ken Williams resigned in Centerton, Ark. (pop. 2,146), in November and revealed that he is actually Don LaRose, an Indiana preacher who abruptly abandoned his family in 1980 because, he said, satanists had abducted and threatened him, and brainwashed him to rub out details of a murder he supposedly knew about. He said his memory returned only recently, thanks to truth serum. [WSBT-TV (South Bend, Ind.), 11-22-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:25 PM |
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Mayor Lino Donato of Poteet, Texas (pop. 3,500), said in November that he would remain in office despite his inability to set foot in city hall. That building is less than 1,000 feet from a youth recreation center and therefore off-limits to Donato, who was adjudicated a sex offender in October. [St. Petersburg Times-AP, 11-23-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:26 PM |
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The Texas Board of Education announced in November that it had made its selections of approved math textbooks for the next school year, even though the group of chosen books contained a total of 109,263 errors. Books of the industry giant Houghton Mifflin accounted for about 86,000. All publishers have guaranteed to correct the errors by the time the books are shipped. [Dallas Morning News, 11-16-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:27 PM |
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In October, rescue crews in Pittsburgh freed a woman who had become stuck underneath an SUV in front of another woman's house. She told police that she suspected her husband was having an affair with the woman and had crawled around to get a better vantage point for spying. She said she inadvertently fell asleep and, when she awoke, could not crawl out. [WPXI-TV (Pittsburgh), 10-17-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:28 PM |
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In November, a 77-year-old man in Jacksonville, Fla., intending to help his daughter by riding his bicycle to Long Branch Elementary School to pick up her 4-year-old son (his grandson), arrived back home with a kid on the bike but did not realize that he had picked up the wrong boy. Said the picked-up kid's frantic mother, "(The two boys) don't even look alike." [WMTW-TV (Auburn, Me.), 11-8-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:28 PM |
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The Rhode Island Department of Health fined Rhode Island Hospital $50,000 in November because three doctors so far this year have performed neurosurgery on the wrong side of the patients' brains. (Two patients survived.) [San Francisco Chronicle-AP, 11-27-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:29 PM |
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In November the Food and Drug Administration told Smiling Hill Farm of Westbrook, Maine, that it would have to recall all of its egg nog because it did not list "egg" as an ingredient on the label. Federal law requires the listing to protect people with egg allergies from inadvertently consuming foods that they might not have realized contain egg (even products called "egg nog"). [Portland Press Herald, 11-18-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:31 PM |
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Jesse Rodriguez, 33, was scheduled to testify in December in Redwood City, Calif., against the man who ordered him to shoot another to death in 1989, even though triggerman Rodriguez has been, and is, exempt from any prison time. Rodriguez was 14 when he killed the man, and state law at the time prohibited authorities from holding him beyond his 25th birthday. Since Rodriguez went on the lam after the crime and did not surface until he was 31, the state would have to let him go even if he were tried and convicted. [San Francisco Chronicle, 11-26-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:35 PM |
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Washington state Rep. Jim Dunn, responding in October to a reprimand by colleagues about unwanted sexual remarks made to a female staff member, said he couldn't recall exactly what he told her, but that he was "sure it was very inappropriate, because I do that kind of thing." [KOMO-TV (Seattle), 11-6-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:35 PM |
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Russia's checkerboard serial killer (who said he aimed to commit 64 murders even though only charged with 49), explained in court in October how he got started, at age 18, by killing a classmate: "A first killing is like your first love. You never forget it." [Tampa Tribune-AP, 10-10-07]
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