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Monday, January 25, 2010

Priest accused of shoplifting butter, sofa cover

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HEADLINE: Priest accused of shoplifting butter, sofa cover
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/25/national/a135312S32.DTL&tsp=1
CLIP:
A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He's charged with two felony theft counts. Investigators said Poole failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self-checkout. Poole then allegedly went to the store's bedding section, picked up a memory foam mattress and switched the pricing bar code. That caused the $145 item to be scanned for $31.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/25/national/a135312S32.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dfbsJvdo

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HEADLINE: Polish man found still alive in coffin
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7002357.ece
CLIP:
As the lid of his coffin was about to be sealed, Josef Guzy’s grieving widow made one last request for her late husband’s necklace.
The 76-year-old Polish beekeeper had collapsed earlier in the day and been pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor.
When the undertaker reached into the coffin for the last time, he thought that he detected a faint pulse. On closer inspection, Mr Guzy was still breathing.
The same ambulance that had been called to the pensioner’s home near the southern city of Katowice and found no sign of life now raced to the undertakers to discover that their patient was still alive.

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HEADLINE: Woman discovers husband's secret wives
SOURCE LINK: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-three-wives24-2010jan24,0,2469788.story
CLIP:
Reporting from Detroit - During a single week in August, Faye Miller's comfortable world vanished.
That's when Miller, 51, a homemaker in Rochester Hills, Mich., took her therapist's advice and started to examine her marriage.
Through Google and phone records, she learned:
* Her husband of 10 years, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, already had a wife in California when he married Miller.
* In 2003 he married another woman in Quebec.
* And Mitchell, 48, who attended Lutheran church with Miller, had converted to Islam in 2002, taken the Arabic name Mustafa and traveled twice to Saudi Arabia on religious pilgrimages, according to court records.

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HEADLINE: Woman falls on Picasso painting
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8478347.stm
CLIP:
A woman who was taking an art class at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it.
The painting called The Actor sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner.
But the damage did not affect the "focal point of the composition" and should be repaired for an exhibition later this year, the museum said.
The work from the Rose period was painted in the winter of 1904-1905.

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HEADLINE: Montana Authorities Take Down Dinosaur Thief
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/25/taking-dinosaur-thieves/?test=latestnews
CLIP:
GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana and stored in an evidence locker for more than two years has been turned over to researchers.
Scientists at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota say the 70-million-year-old turkey-sized predator could be a new species of raptor.
"It's a mean and nasty little dinosaur," said Peter Larson, president of the institute. "Even though it's not very big, you wouldn't want to meet it in a dark alleyway."
Researchers say it's unusual to find the skeleton of a meat-eating dinosaur, and especially one that's so small
"So many things can happen to a small-bodied animal," Larson said.

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HEADLINE: Movie made by chimps shown on TV
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8472000/8472831.stm
CLIP:
The world's first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary.
The apes created the movie using a specially designed chimp-proof camera given to them by primatologists.
The film-making exercise is part of a scientific study into how chimpanzees perceive the world and each other.
It will be screened within the Natural World programme "Chimpcam" shown on BBC Two at 2000GMT on Wednesday 27 January.
Making the movie was the brainchild of primatologist Ms Betsy Herrelko, who is studying for a PhD in primate behaviour at the University of Stirling, UK.

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HEADLINE: Elderly Man, 2 Horses Injured in Stage Coach Accident
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583762,00.html?test=latestnews
CLIP:
An Arizona man and his two horses are seriously injured after the man's out-of-control stage coach tore through the streets of Mesa Fire, Ariz., MyFoxPhoenix.com reported.

Dave Johnson of Mesa Fire told the site that a 75-year-old man hitched four horses to a carriage and was taking a ride when a barking dog spooked the horses, MyFoxPhoenix.com reported.
The front two horses began galloping, dragging the two horses in the rear along with the stage coach for a distance of 75 feet, the site reported.
The elderly man driving the coach suffered serious road rash injuries, some going as deep as the bone, Johnson told MyFoxPhoenix.com. He was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.

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HEADLINE: Oh deer! 10-to-12 point buck breaks into Ill. home
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/24/national/a125637S20.DTL&tsp=1
CLIP:
An Illinois man says it didn't take him long to decide not to mess with the uninvited, antlered guest he found in his kitchen.
Belleville resident Mark Page and his wife were sleeping Saturday when the sound of breaking glass and — was that hooves? — woke them up.

Page went downstairs to find a 10-to-12 point buck in the kitchen with its head in the sink.

He says he looked at the animal for "not even a fraction of a second" before turning tail and heading back upstairs. He says he doesn't mess with deer, especially big ones.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/24/national/a125637S20.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0da0rVq62

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HEADLINE: Stuck on the phone, literally
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/stuck-on-the-phone-literally/story-e6frflri-1225823139351
CLIP:
WHEN Gye Gardner heard about a Darwin woman who made headlines for getting pulled over by police for a breath test wearing little but her undies, the 43-year-old had a big laugh - but didn't think he would be the next in line for the funniest mishap of the week.
"I hit my ear on the boom of my truck and broke the headset of my phone," Mr Gardner told the Northern Territory News.

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HEADLINE: Untidy beds may keep us healthy
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4181629.stm
CLIP:
Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.
Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.
A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed.
The average bed could be home to up to 1.5 million house dust mites

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HEADLINE: Experts: Exhume da Vinci to Solve Mona Lisa Mystery
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/24/scientists-want-exhume-leonardo-da-vinci-solve-mona-lisa-mystery/?test=latestnews
CLIP:
Scientists seeking permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci plan to reconstruct his face to discover whether his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is a disguised self-portrait.
A team from Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, has asked to open the tomb in which the Renaissance painter and polymath is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67.
Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist, said the project could throw new light on Leonardo’s most famous work. “If we manage to find his skull, we could rebuild Leonardo’s face and compare it with the Mona Lisa,” he said.

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