Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:35:49 PM CET
Turkeys run for their lives
TWELVE Christmas turkeys are getting the chance to run for their lives on a greyhound track.
The plucky winner of the first Gobble Cup race will be spared the Yuletide chop.
But the 11 losers will be served up as roast turkey with all the trimmings on Christmas Day.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:30:59 PM CET
New ape population found
A secret population of orang-utans has been discovered in the forests of the island of Borneo. Conservationists believe about 2,000 rare apes are living out of sight in a remote lowland region of East Kalimantan. The find, if confirmed, will raise the number of known orang-utans in the world by about 10%.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:27:39 PM CET
A Little Egg Music: Mozart for chickens
A Mozart festival in the western German city of Mannheim is to put on events for chickens to test whether the music helps them lay eggs.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 3:52:34 AM CET
Haider Backers Attack Austria Moderates
Heartened by his pledge stay in politics, backers of Joerg Haider on Tuesday struck at moderate colleagues who blamed the rightist leader for their party's disastrous election showing. Haider backers quickly moved to exclude five prominent figures from their Freedom Party. "An iron fist will be necessary," said Leopold Schoeggl.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 3:50:37 AM CET
Haider does U-turn on post-defeat resignation
THE far-Right Austrian politician Jörg Haider yesterday said he would stay on as a provincial governor and member of the Freedom Party, just hours after promising to resign in the wake of his party’s humiliating electoral defeat.
Haider, whose resignation as governor of his power base Carinthia was the sixth of his political career, said he had been "rash" in announcing his exit so quickly.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 3:48:34 AM CET
Analysis: Austria, rejoining the east-I
Harry Potter would surely have enrolled. A school for wizardry has just opened in Austria in the forbidding mountains around Klagenfurt. The apprentices will be granted a sorcerer's diploma upon completion of their studies. This is a wise move. Austria may need all the witchcraft it can master in the next few years.
Chancellor's Wolfgang Schoessel's conservative People's Party convincingly won the elections on Sunday with more than 42 percent of all votes cast. In the process, it trounced Jorg Haider's much-decried far right outfit, the misnamed Freedom Party, which lost a staggering two-thirds of all its supporters. Schoessel may now feel that, thus humbled, the Freedom Party may constitute a more reliable and less erratic partner in a future coalition government.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 2:31:24 AM CET
S-11 Redux
G R E A T video G R E AT music (if you like the early 90s & older & brainwork) G R E A T massage
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 2:17:29 AM CET
Italian Doctor Says Cloned Baby Due in January
Controversial Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori said on Tuesday a woman pregnant with a cloned embryo was due to give birth in January, but declined to give any details about her. "It's going well. There are no problems," Antinori told a news conference, adding he had made a "scientific and cultural contribution" to the project but was not personally in charge.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 2:13:44 AM CET
SF Supervisors Ban Segway Scooters on City Sidewalks
San Francisco supervisors have voted to ban the use of the Segway people mover on city sidewalks. KCBS reporter Barbara Taylor in the San Francisco City Hall Bureau says elderly and disabled advocates are happy with the ban, but Segway manufacturers are not.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 2:10:47 AM CET
Last 3 of rarest bird on Earth found living within 1 mile of eachother.
Still no word on Osama's location
The last three po`ouli birds known to exist will be taken into captivity in a last-ditch effort to save the species from extinction. "If we do not bring them in now, they may never be seen again," said Michael Buck, administrator of the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 2:02:59 AM CET
Clinton shows mercy to turkey
An enormous turkey breathed a sigh of relief on the eve of Thanksgiving after President Clinton granted the bird an official presidential pardon, sparing it from the dinner table.
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The other one & his turkey
Please let me B(p)ush the red button
U.S. President George W. Bush pets 'Katie' at the annual turkey pardoning in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:56:18 AM CET
Fireplace Falls on Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer is recovering after a bizarre accident. A fireplace fell on the supermodel at a party in London and crushed three of her toes.
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