Short and sweet - monkeys keep their chat concise, scientists find

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HEADLINE: Short and sweet - monkeys keep their chat concise, scientists find
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8479170.stm
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Monkeys avoid long-winded chatter, preferring to keep it brief, a new study suggests.
Scientists found that macaques use short calls far more often than lengthier vocalisations.
Humans also do this: the words that we use most often, such as "a", "of" and "the", do not take long to say.
The fact that we both share this vocal trait could shed more light on the origin of human language, the team writes in the journal Biology Letters.
The relationship between the length of a word and how often it is used is described by the "law of brevity".

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HEADLINE: California School District Bans Dictionary Over 'Oral Sex' Definition
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584010,00.html
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A California school district has added a new book to the controversial list of literature that is considered unfit for young eyes.

It's the dictionary.
The Golden State's Menifee Union School District has yanked all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its shelves and is investigating the classic American text for containing "age-inappropriate" words.
The trouble started when an inquisitive student got lost somewhere between "oralism" and "orang" and found a rather recent entry to the lexicon: "oral sex," a phrase that has been in common parlance since 1973 but still makes many parents fairly hot under the collar.

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HEADLINE: Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/international/i140829S94.DTL&tsp=1
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A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.
Hans Kurt Kubus, 58, is to be deported to Germany as soon as he is released from prison, Judge Colin Doherty ordered Tuesday.
Kubus was caught by wildlife officials at Christchurch International Airport on South Island in December, about to board an overseas flight with 44 geckos and skinks in a hand-sewn package concealed in his underwear.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/international/i140829S94.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dlMaxHtI

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HEADLINE: Mum advertises for 'new grandparents'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/mum-begins-search-for-kids-new-grandparents/story-e6frfku0-1225823849449
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A MELBOURNE mum is seeking new grandparents for her three young children.
Fiona Swan, from Caroline Springs, told the Melton Leader no previous grandparenting experience was necessary, although applicants must have a zest for life, openness, and a willingness to share their wisdom, love, and time.

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HEADLINE: Police bust nude train riders in Moscow
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/police-bust-nude-train-riders-in-moscow/story-e6frev20-1225823669389
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POLICE were forced to fine one of three men who accepted a dare to take a nude train ride as part of a bet with a group of young women.
The three men in Moscow stripped and boarded a train at the city's Novogireyevo station shortly after midnight Sunday, RIA Novosti reported Monday.
"A police detail met them at the next station, Perovo, but only managed to detain one man, as the two others got into a train and escaped," a city police spokesman said.
"The detained 20-year-old Muscovite confessed that he and his friends bet with their acquaintances, young women, that they would go on a ride in the subway naked," he said. "The girls were waiting for them at the Perovo station."

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HEADLINE: Women 'feel more guilt than men'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7079068/Women-feel-more-guilt-than-men.html
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Researchers discovered that not only do women feel the emotion more intensely but that men feel 'too little' guilt when they behave badly.
Middle-aged women tend to feel the most guilt about their actions, according to the study, by academics at the University of the Basque Country in Spain
Men aged 25 to 33 were the least sensitive, which this group displaying "comparatively low" feelings of guilt.
Itziar Etxebarria, who led the study, said: "Feelings of guilt are more intense among females, not only among adolescents but also among young and adult women.

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HEADLINE: Ear-cleaning man grounds plane
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/ear-cleaning-man-grounds-plane/story-e6frezhr-1225823675216
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ANTI-TERROR police grounded a flight after a man had a pack of matches on a plane, which he claimed were for cleaning his ears.
Police grounded the he Air India flight to Bangkok last week after they found the pack of matches on Rashid Rehman, who claimed he used them instead of Q-tips to dig the dirt out of his ears, the Croatian Times reports
The 30-year-old man told police he didn't use the cotton buds because he could get matches for free at bars and restaurants.

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HEADLINE: Earth becoming invisible to aliens
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7077464/Earth-becoming-invisible-to-aliens.html
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Dr Frank Drake said the phasing out of analogue transmissions from television, radio and radar was making our planet electronically invisible from outer space.
While old style signals used to spread out millions of miles into outer space, even reaching some distant stars, digital transmissions are much weaker and therefore are less easy to detect by extra-terrestrial life forms.

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HEADLINE: I hope my bum looks big in this
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/i-hope-my-bum-looks-big-in-this-women-snap-up-derriere-boosting-undies/story-e6freuy9-1225823749965
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IT seems bums are the big thing in western Sydney at the moment.
Flat-bottomed women trying to emulate "bootylicious" stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles are snapping up padded underwear to add centimetres to their derrieres.
Jenny Tew designs and sells the garments from her lingerie shop in Cabramatta.
"They're very popular. Everyone who walks past and sees it buys it, especially skinny people and Asian people because most of us have flat bums," said the Kimarie shop owner

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