Double life alleged: teacher, bank robber

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HEADLINE: Double life alleged: teacher, bank robber
SOURCE LINK: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/01/nh_teacher_charged_in_bank_robbery/
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She called in sick. Then, police say, she robbed a bank. Early in the afternoon of Dec. 16, the day she didn’t come to work, authorities say, a 49-year-old English teacher from Brookline, N.H., her face obscured by a multicolored scarf, showed up at Washington Savings Bank in the nearby town of Tyngsborough, handed the clerk a note on a crisp white envelope neatly folded into thirds, and left with an unspecified amount of money.

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HEADLINE: Women think fitting into old jeans is 'better than sex'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6906839/Women-think-fitting-into-old-jeans-is-better-than-sex.html
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More than a quarter of British women believe fitting into an old pair of jeans again would feel better than sex, according to research.
More than a third (35 per cent) of those surveyed admitted owning a pair of ''trophy'' jeans they used to fit into and kept in the hope they would slim down enough to wear.
Asked how managing to put them back on would feel, 29.1 per cent said it would be better than sex, 28.9 per cent thought it would beat a promotion, 20.6 per cent believed it would top a best friend's wedding, 20.3 per cent said it would feel better than a lottery win and 11.1 per cent thought it would beat a marriage proposal

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HEADLINE: Will Britons Lap Up Creamy Camel Milk?
SOURCE LINK: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Camel-Milk-Camelicious-Dairy-From-Dubai-Hoping-To-Export-White-Gold-Of-The-Desert-To-Europe/Article/200912415511568?lpos=Strange_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15511568_Camel_Milk%3A_Camelicious_Dairy_From_Dubai_Hoping_To_Export_White_Gold_Of_The_Desert_To_Europe
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Camel milk could soon be on supermarket shelves in Europe after a Dubai-based dairy applied for an export licence. Camelicious already sells its products across the Gulf region and now the company has ambitious plans to break the European market.
But it needs to convince EU officials the camel milk meets stringent health and safety tests

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HEADLINE: U.S. Flight Diverted Due to Christmas Ornament
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581719,00.html?test=latestnews
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A spokesman says a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit was briefly diverted to Tennessee after someone found a suspicious package that turned out to be a Christmas ornament.
Delta Air Lines spokesman Carlos Santos wasn't sure who found the package midway through the flight to Orlando, Florida, or why they thought it was suspicious. He says the flight was diverted "out of an abundance of caution."
The 75 passengers and five crew members on Northwest flight 2364 were taken off the plane in Nashville around 8 a.m. Friday while dogs searched it.

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HEADLINE: Pet Tarantula's Barbed Hairs Found in Owner's Eyes
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581713,00.html?test=latestnews
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Here's some advice stemming from the unusual case of a man who had spider hairs stuck in his cornea: Be sure to cover your eyes when hanging around with your pet tarantula.
Ophthalmologists at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, England, used high magnification lenses to find out what made the man's eye red, watery and light-sensitive, according to a study reported Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet.

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HEADLINE: Shoppers fuming at early Easter egg sales
SOURCE LINK:  http://www.news.com.au/world/shoppers-fuming-at-early-easter-eggs-sales/story-e6frfkz9-1225815349196
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SUPERMARKETS have begun filling shelves with chocolate eggs more than three months before Easter.
Tesco and Somerfield in the UK are accused of pressuring hard-up parents into spending more cash just days after splashing out for Christmas.
Customers furious at seeing egg promotions so far ahead of Easter Sunday on April 4 have launched a series of online attacks.
One raged: "We celebrated Jesus being born on December 25 and just days later we're being sold chocolate to celebrate Easter."
Another fumed: "If people have Easter eggs pushed into their face then they will believe they need them and will buy, buy, buy

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HEADLINE: Top weird stories of 2009
SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/life/weird+stories+2009/2388605/story.html
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BERLIN (Reuters) - From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts, the world was full of weird stories in 2009.
READ: http://www.canada.com/life/weird+stories+2009/2388605/story.html

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