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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Carnival cruise ship 'like Gilligan's island'

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“It was horrible,” 36-year old Marquis Horace, one of the first passengers off the ship, told KNSD-TV. "It felt like Gilligan's Island or something," he said.
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Employees in the Dublin offices of accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers are in hot water after an email rating the attractiveness of some of the firm’s new female recruits went viral.
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Grumpy the clown won election in a laugher, getting more votes than any other candidate for Brazil's Congress. Now he has to prove that he can read and write.
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As Japan hosts a Asia-Pacific summit this week, a women’s underwear maker Wednesday unveiled a bra that is meant to lift spirits as well as bust lines and support the country’s tourism sector.
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Grace Etherington Is Dancing Again, Less Than a Year After Guillain-Barre Syndrome Left Her Paralyzed
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Home video apparently shows Miss. basketball coach hitting player with a paddle
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High School Coach Caught Whipping Players

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Ohio demolition goes awry, 275-foot tower tumbles wrong direction, knocks out power to 4,000
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The wife of a suburban mayor testified Wednesday that he once petrified her by placing a large caged cockroach against her face after a fight.
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A Japanese man has committed suicide live on the internet after being egged on by users of an online chat room.
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Police say a 25-year-old Connecticut man who was shot twice after buying a sandwich at a New Haven deli went home and ate his lunch before going to the hospital.
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.. a laid-off attorney ... started the Butch Bakery to make cupcakes for men.
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LYNDA Carter is embroiled in a bitter feud with Megan Fox over her trashing of Wonder Woman.
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RAYMOND McLaren believes in "better late than never"- even when "late" means more than 50 years.
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A DAD-of-two had a brain tumour the size of a penny removed — after doctors pulled it out through his NOSE.
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THE Earth faces a new environmental threat, scientists have warned - global DIMMING.
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Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group.
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AN underwater photographer got the fright of his life when a shark snatched the camera from his hands.
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Three Murrah High School basketball players have sued their coach and the school system over alleged whippings.
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The world's highest-flying paper plane: British team send homemade aircraft to the edge of space before it flies back to Earth
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Scientists have created a ‘Mighty Mouse’ with muscles that stay powerful as it grows old.
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THE 19-year-old "Barefoot Bandit," who is accused of a two-year string of thefts from America to the Caribbean, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle.
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Two sisters on the Central Oklahoma golf team are celebrating holes-in-one recorded in the same round.
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AMAZON.com Inc is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to paedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the internet and threats to boycott the retailer.
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A BRITISH bar has been fined £1600 ($2562) for letting customers dance.
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Images of corpses, cancer patients, and diseased lungs are just some of whats in store in graphic new warning labels.
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THE Queen's Facebook page has attracted nearly 200,000 visitors — in the TWO DAYS since its launch.
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