Man to give away half his life's pay

HEADLINE: Man to give away half his life's pay
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,28323,26344124-5017313,00.html
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AN AUSTRALIAN academic at Oxford University has decided living like a student isn't so bad, pledging more than half his career earnings to charity.

Dr Toby Ord, a 30-year-old ethics researcher with the Future of Humanity Institute, has agreed to give up 10 per cent of his annual salary, plus any yearly earnings above £20,000 ($35,631).

Dr Ord says if he lives like a student, he should be able to give away around £1 million ($1.78 million).

HEADLINE: World's Tallest Man Unveils Largest Cookie in Norway
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574669,00.html?test=latestnews
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OSLO — The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.

Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound biscuit. Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.

HEADLINES: Obese kids are coronary time bombs
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/12/moh.kids.cardiac.problems.obesity/index.html
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Russell Pate was driving through a neighborhood one late afternoon when he noticed something odd.

He couldn't hear the sounds of children playing. No jump rope patter. No squeals of a bike's brake. No crack of a bat -- just silence.

The streets were deserted because the neighborhood kids were cocooned in their homes, Pate says. It was a scene he's seen over and over again.

HEADLINE: People power punts pub pokies
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26339695-421,00.html
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IN a landmark Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision this morning, a rural hotel has been refused permission to install 30 gaming machines.

Romsey Hotel refused permission to install pokies due to negative social impact

Tribunal president Justice Kevin Bell said the negative social impact of pokies on the rural town of Romsey outweighed the small economic benefit to the community, The Herald Sun reported.

HEADLNE: School Reportedly Stages Murder to Teach Lesson
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British students got the shock of a lifetime when they walked into their classroom and found their teacher's bloody body on the floor, The Daily Mail reported.

The parents of the students — some as young as 5-years-old — were furious that it was all part of a problem-solving exercise.

The scene was set up to look like the teacher had been attacked, with fake blood splattered across the floor and police tape blocking off the "crime scene," The Daily Mail reported.

The school's principal told The Daily Mail that the scene was staged to cover key skills in the curriculum, from creative writing to science.

Investigators then appeared to ask the students to figure out who committed the crime and reportedly took the fingerprints of some children, the paper reported.