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Friday, July 15, 2011

Oregon Professor to File Suit for Being Fired for Snapping at Student to Stop Talking Or He’ll Shoot

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Oregon Professor to File Suit for Being Fired for Snapping at Student to Stop Talking Or He’ll Shoot

He was fired for a sarcastic comment he made about shooting a student in the head for speaking out in class.
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Georgia Police Close Girls' Lemonade Stand
Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.
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Women play computer games just as much as men - and they prefer gaming to sex, survey reveals
The study, carried out by Doritos, found that while 50 per cent of men readily admit to frequent online gaming, a surprising 49 per cent of women confess that they too are addicted to Internet games.
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YouTube artist makes £1.7m on first night
An artist who funds his own shows and promotes himself on YouTube sold £1.75million of art on the opening night of his new exhibition.
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Balloon boy 'flying saucer' sells for $2,500
Richard Heene's "flying saucer" didn't fetch the $1 million he had hoped.
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Wreck of 1853 schooner discovered in Lake Ontario

Undersea explorers have discovered a 19th-century, three-masted Canadian schooner that sank with a cargo of coal in Lake Ontario in 1906.
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Urge to binge on fatty food dates back to the Ice Age
British scientists have discovered a DNA switch in the brain that they believe makes Europeans far more likely to binge on fatty food than those living in the East.
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Doctor Sets Out to 'Cure' Bad Driving
Dr. Jin Huiqing has spent nearly three decades trying to figure out why some motorists seem more accident prone than others.
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Man Stabs Himself After Tripping Over Cat
A Freemansburg, Pa. man is recovering after stabbing himself late Thursday because he tripped over his cat.
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U.K. woman ordered not to breastfeed in public
A woman at a town hall in England was ordered not to breastfeed her baby because she was in a "multicultural building."
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Free circumcision makes good politics
As an exercise in good governance, the mass circumcision ceremony for some 100 boys from disadvantaged families in an old Istanbul square ticks a lot of boxes for Turkey’s ruling AK Party and its voters.
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Love letter delayed 53 years wending its way to recipient in US
The long-lost love letter to a U.S. college student is on its way to him after a delay of more than 50 years.
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Lawsuit says grandma illegally downloaded porn
Jane is in her 70s, a retired widow who spends her days doing volunteer work in the East Bay and fussing over her grandchildren. She also downloads porn illegally.
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Owling - is it the new planking
Forget planking – 'owling' is the new online picture craze that is turning heads across the world.
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Angry bull butts naked reveller
This is the moment an angry bull decided to take revenge on a naked reveller.
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Scientists crack code on Thomas Edison's 123-year-old attempt at creating a recording star
Scientists have recovered a 123-year-old recording made by Thomas Edison that is believed to be the world's first attempt at a talking doll.
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Meet the 10-year-old sake expert
A 10-year-old has become the youngest certified sake expert in Japanese history.
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Running of the lambs event sparks outrage in New Zealand
Running of the lambs, a tamer version of Spain's running of the bulls festival, has sparked outrage among animal lovers in New Zealand.
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Extreme kayak fisherman dragged into sea by shark

David Saldamando and pal Scotty Westgaard, who describe themselves as hard-core kayak anglers, caught the beast while fishing off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and decided to take a picture with it.
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