SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 27.6.9
CAPTION: FILL IT UP WITH CRAP
A Connecticut man has outfitted a pickup truck to run on wood, leaves and compost and has traveled as far as 600 miles on a truckload of the burnable fuel.
Dave Nichols of Killingly says the idea goes back to when he first saw a modified car running on garbage in the "Back to the Future" movies two decades ago. But the gasification process he uses for his 1989 Ford F150 pickup truck relies on science more than 100 years old.
HEADLINE: Snake found after eating tracked animal
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 26.6.9
CAPTION: Rat reports snake that ate it
A STOLEN two-metre carpet python has been recovered after authorities homed in on a tracking device attached to an endangered animal which the snake had devoured.
The snake was taken from the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation's Woodvale Research Centre sometime between June 19 and 22.
The python ate the woylie, which is a small mammal, in the wild at Narrogin, complete with transmitter, and was brought to the centre so the tracking device could be removed from the snake.
HEADLINE: Women 'happiest at 28'
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: telegraph.co.uk 26.6.9
CAPTION:
Researchers discovered women feel most confident and happy with their love life and body shape shortly before they reach 30.
It is also the period in their life when they enjoy the best sex – but the happiness is relatively shortlived.
Because by the time they have turned 30 they start worrying about growing old and developing grey hair and wrinkles.
A spokesman for home hair colour brand Clairol Perfect 10, which carried out the study of 4,000 women, said: "Everything in life hits its peak at some point, and nearly reaching your thirties isn't so bad now.
HEADLINE: Doctors Baffled: Girl, 16, Has Baby's Body
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 25.6.9
CAPTION: ODDLY CUTE
Brooke Greenberg continues to baffle her family and doctors.
At 16-years-old, Brooke weighs 16 pounds and stands 2 feet, 6 inches tall, MyFOXChicago reported. She can’t speak, but she can express frustration and happiness.
In other words, Brooke’s body and mind are that of a toddler.
“Why doesn’t she age?” Brooke’s father, Howard Greenberg said on ABC News. “Is she the fountain of youth?"
HEADLINE: Woman Pleads No Contest to Chips-for-Sex Charges
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 25.6.9
CAPTION: RATHER CHIPPY
OKLAHOMA CITY — A woman has been fined $1,142 after pleading no contest to prostitution charges after she was accused of accepting a box of chips for sex.
Police say they arrested 36-year-old Lahoma Sue Smith in southeast Oklahoma City after finding her in her car with a man who told officers he knew he could find a prostitute in the area.
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