30 million bank cards hit by late Y2K bug

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HEADLINE: 30 million bank cards hit by late Y2K bug
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/millionbank-cards-hit-by-2010-bug/story-e6frfkui-1225816476089
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AROUND 30 million high-tech German bank cards could leave owners high and dry, bank associations warned as the feared Y2K computer bug struck 10 years later than expected.
The problem that hit cardholders trying to use cash machines or make payments throughout Germany and abroad stems from computer chips unable to recognise the year 2010, and could take up to a week to resolve, the DSGV savings and regional banking association said in a statement.
A global alert went out 10 years ago amid widespread fears of a similar problem, dubbed Y2K for the year 2000.

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HEADLINE: Bottles of Honey Caused Calif. Airport Shutdown
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582094,00.html?test=latestnews
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Authorities say the suspicious material inside luggage that prompted the shutdown of a California airport turns out to be five soft drink bottles filled with honey.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the bottles, found inside a checked bag at Bakersfield's Meadows Field, had tested positive for traces of an explosive.
Youngblood says investigators are trying to determine whether there was something in the honey or on the bag that caused security alarms to go off shortly before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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HEADLINE: Men Know When They're Aroused, Women May Not
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581974,00.html?test=latestnews
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When it comes to sexual arousal, a woman's mind and body are less in sync than a man's, a review of research finds.

Men who reported feeling turned on tended to also sport an erection, while a matchup between the mind and body wasn't so consistent for women, according to the review published online Jan. 4 in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
"We wanted to discover how closely people's subjective experience of sexual arousal mirrors their physiological genital response — and whether this differs between men and women," said researcher Meredith Chivers, a psychology professor at Queen's University in Canada.
Chivers and colleagues reviewed more than 130 studies published between 1969 and 2007 involving participants' arousal responses. In total, the review included more than 2,500 women and 1,900 men.
Men's subjective ratings of arousal were in agreement with their body's level of sexual arousal about 66 percent of the time, while women's were in line only about 26 percent of the time.
"The general pattern that I have seen in my laboratory is that women experience a genital response but do not report feeling sexually aroused," Chivers told LiveScience.

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HEADLINE: Wrinkly Dog Gets Full Face Lift, Double Eye Lift
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581978,00.html?test=latestnews
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A wrinkly dog has received a full face lift and a double eye lift costing $897 so he won’t go blind.
The abandoned shar pei, named Roland, from Australia, is highly prized for his wrinkly skin. But the breed suffers from entropion, a painful condition in which his wrinkles cause his eyelashes to turn inward and rub against his eyeballs, The Daily Telegraph in Sydney reported.

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HEADLINE: Giant bluefin tuna sells for £111,000
SOURCE: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6976664.ece
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A mighty bluefin tuna, representing 16,000 slices of the world’s most expensive sashimi, has sold in Japan’s first auction of the year for Y16.28 million (£111,000) - a price that no buyer has come close to for nearly a decade.
The 232.6 kilogram monster went under the hammer for 60 per cent more than the most expensive fish at sold at last year’s auction - a sign that Asia at least may be putting the financial crisis behind it and descending once again on its high-end sushi bars

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HEADLINE: Battle Brews Over Davy Crockett's Marriage License
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581973,00.html?test=latestnews
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TAMPA, Fla. — It's not exactly the Alamo, but Davy Crockett is at the center of a battle here.
Officials in Tennessee want a Hillsborough County judge to enforce a Tennessee order that 90-year-old Margaret V. Smith turn over Crockett's original marriage license application, which the Tampa woman says she inherited.
Lura Hinchey, archive director for Jefferson County, Tenn., said the county has repeatedly asked Smith for the license application of Crockett and Margaret Elder. Officials learned years ago that Smith had the document when she wrote the county clerk asking how to preserve it.

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HEADLINE: Woman sues church over pencil injury
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/national/lutheran-church-sued-for-100000-over-12-year-old-pencil-injury/story-e6frfkvr-1225816412534
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being sued for almost $100,000 after a girl's finger was pierced by a pencil at one of its schools more than a decade ago.

Carly Alvisio, 21, filed the lawsuit in the District Court of Queensland on Christmas Eve, demanding $95,500 in damages from the Queensland Division of the Lutheran Church of Australia, The Australian reports.

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