Bottles of Honey Caused Calif. Airport Shutdown

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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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HEADLINE: Mr Bean replaces Spanish Prime Minister
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/world/mr-bean-replaces-spanish-prime-minister-jose-luis-rodriguez-zapatero/story-e6frfkz9-1225816231943
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A PHOTO of comedian Mr Bean was published on Spain’s official government website today replacing a photo of the country’s prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Hackers posted a smiling photo of Mr Bean, the TV and movie character played by actor Rowan Atkinson, saying “Hi there”, Sky News reported.
The apparent resemblance between Mr Bean and the prime minister has been a running joke in Spain for several years.
An official at Mr Zapatero's office confirmed a security breach had affected the page specifically set up to mark Spain's six-month presidency of the European Union.

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HEADLINE: NRL star 'leaves man with singed scrotum'
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/national/league-star-set-mans-pants-on-fire/story-e6frfkvr-1225816061557
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RUGBY league player Todd Carney reportedly injured a man by setting his pants on fire in an incident on New Year's Eve.
Carney's claims of being the NRL's reformed bad boy have been damaged by the fresh accusations.
A man suffered burns to his buttock, scrotum and upper thighs after allegedly having his pants set alight while on holiday at Airlie Beach in Queensland, The Daily Telegraph reports.

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HEADLINE: Squirrel invasion! Call in the falcons!
SOURCE: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/04/BAMN1B2GPD.DTL&tsp=1
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The rampaging ground squirrel population in Contra Costa County is truly for the birds, according to agricultural officials.
The county recently put up 20 raptor perches on land in Concord and Walnut Creek where gangs of the rascally rodents have been devouring fruit trees, digging up lawns, invading homes and taking over schools.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/04/BAMN1B2GPD.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0bgJrJtP5

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HEADLINE: Police give left-footed shoe thieves the boot
SOURCE: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6975638.ece
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For a while the thieves were one step ahead of the detectives.
And for Swedish police and shoeshop owners, that was exactly the problem: why were people stealing the left shoes of designer footwear from Stockholm boutiques?
Perhaps it was a case for Slipper of the Yard, but eventually the clues pointed only one way — to Denmark, where shops traditionally display the right shoe in their racks. Police were therefore able to announce yesterday that they had foiled a criminal masterplan to match up stolen left shoes from Malmö with the corresponding right shoes pilfered in Copenhagen.

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HEADLINE: New HDTVs to Be Obsolete? Thanks a Lot, 3-D
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/04/high-definition-television-goes-dimensional/?test=latestnews
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Just bought a new flat-panel HDTV for Christmas? Enjoying that new Blu-ray disc player? Guess what? They're already obsolete. Everything may be going 3D.
Later this week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a slew of companies will be pushing what they hope will be the next big thing in TV: 3D movies and games — even new 3D HDTV broadcasts.
The only problem is that none of the equipment currently in stores and living rooms will be able to display, say, a 3D Blu-ray disc of "Avatar" or any of the forthcoming 3D broadcasts. Consequently, it will likely be several years before the technology becomes popular — if at all.

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HEADLINE: Dating site axes 5,000 members - for gaining weight over holiday
SOURCE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8439495.stm
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Dating and social network site BeautifulPeople.com has axed some 5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight.
The members were singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period.

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HEADLINE: Next Up From Auto Industry: Tobacco-Powered Cars
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/04/tobacco-powered-autos/?test=latestnews
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Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have identified a way to increase the oil in tobacco plant leaves, which may be the next step in using the plants for biofuel. Their paper was published online in Plant Biotechnology Journal.
According to Vyacheslav Andrianov, assistant professor of Cancer Biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, tobacco can generate biofuel more efficiently than other agricultural crops. However, most of the oil is typically found in the seeds: Tobacco seeds are composed of about 40 percent oil per dry weight.
Although the seed oil has been tested for use as fuel for diesel engines, tobacco plants yield a modest amount of seeds, at only about 1,325 pounds of seeds per acre. Andrianov and his colleagues sought to find ways to engineer tobacco plants, so that their leaves expressed the oil.

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