Woman's will leaves $3m kitty for stray cats

HEADLINE: Woman's will leaves $3m kitty for stray cats
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,28323,26348230-5017313,00.html
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IT WAS stray cats and dogs she loved, so in the end Daina Silins gave them her $3 million estate.

The former dentist from Newport, in Sydney's north, was found slumped in her armchair three days after her death last November.

The first sign she had died was when a neighbour's dog, which she used to feed, was found scratching at her door, The Daily Telegraph reports

HEADLINE: Man to give away half his life's pay
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,28323,26344124-5017313,00.html
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AN AUSTRALIAN academic at Oxford University has decided living like a student isn't so bad, pledging more than half his career earnings to charity.

Dr Toby Ord, a 30-year-old ethics researcher with the Future of Humanity Institute, has agreed to give up 10 per cent of his annual salary, plus any yearly earnings above £20,000 ($35,631).

Dr Ord says if he lives like a student, he should be able to give away around £1 million ($1.78 million).

HEADLINE: World's Tallest Man Unveils Largest Cookie in Norway
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574669,00.html?test=latestnews
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OSLO — The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.

Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound biscuit. Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.

HEADLINES: Obese kids are coronary time bombs
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/12/moh.kids.cardiac.problems.obesity/index.html
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Russell Pate was driving through a neighborhood one late afternoon when he noticed something odd.

He couldn't hear the sounds of children playing. No jump rope patter. No squeals of a bike's brake. No crack of a bat -- just silence.

The streets were deserted because the neighborhood kids were cocooned in their homes, Pate says. It was a scene he's seen over and over again.