Japanese barbers wage war on speedy haircuts

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HEADLINE: Japanese barbers wage war on speedy haircuts
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6960913.ece
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On the platform of Shinagawa station a salaryman checks his watch and strolls through the brightly lit door of QB Net. He is seated immediately, pays 1,000 yen (£7) and emerges, nine minutes and 45 seconds later, with a smart haircut and a smile... To the belligerent barbers of Old Japan, this simple transaction is economic Armageddon, an abhorrence to be crushed with the might of the law. Across the country, battle lines are being drawn between innovators and Luddites — or slow and pricey against cheap and quick. Ultimately, say local government officials, the fate of the modern gents’ haircut in Japan hangs on the complex legal status of a shampoo and rinse.

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HEADLINE: Mom Tweeted Her Toddler's Death
SOURCE LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/shellie-ross-twitter-mom-tweets-son-death-pool/story?id=9353490
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Amid tweets about the weather and her pets, mommy blogger Shellie Ross shocked many of her 5,000 followers with a message on Twitter they weren't expecting to read.
"Fog is rolling in thick scared the birds back in the coop," Ross tweeted at 5:22 p.m. on Monday.
At 5:23 p.m., her son called 911 to report that his brother, 2-year-old Bryson, was floating unconscious in the pool. Records show that the Brevard County Fire-Rescue paramedics arrived at Ross' Mirrett Island, Fla., home at 5:38 p.m.
And 34 minutes later, at 6:12 p.m., Ross tweeted again. "Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool."
Nearly five hours later, after her son had been pronounced dead, Ross tweeted again....

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HEADLINE: Boy, 4, Caught Downing Beer, Wearing Dress
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/17/ap/strange/main5991675.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.1
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Mom Says He Got Drunk, Stole Girl's Dress Because He "Wants to Go to Jail" to Be with His Father
Tennessee investigators say a 4-year-old boy was found roaming his neighborhood in the night, drinking beer and wearing a little girl's dress taken from under a neighbor's Christmas tree.
The child's mother, 21-year-old April Wright, tells WTVC-TV the boy "wants to go to jail because that's where his daddy is." Wright says she and the boy's father are going though a divorce.
The boy, found outside his house in Chatanooga on Tuesday, was taken to a hospital and treated for alcohol consumption.

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