Topic: NEWS english - on August 18, 2004 at 10:31:00 PM CEST
Great-grandmother has lucky escape from very unlucky mishap
Most people would think they were supremely unlucky to be struck by a falling meteorite while out in their back garden. Yet great-grandmother Pauline Aguss is just grateful the rock only grazed her arm.
The 76-year-old was hit by a swiftly-falling fragment of rock while hanging out washing in her garden in the county of Suffolk, the Sun newspaper reported in its Wednesday edition.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 18, 2004 at 10:28:00 PM CEST
Man runs out of interview to chase thief
One guy knows how to make a first impression. He bolted from his job interview to chase a woman stealing his pickup, with his sleeping six-month-old daughter inside.
The man, who hasn't been named, was applying for a cook's job at Big Nick's Pizza and Pasta in Tacoma, Washington. Owners John Delgado and Nick Delin were talking to him when he flew out the door.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 18, 2004 at 10:20:00 PM CEST
Alaska man grows record-breaking cantaloupe
A Palmer man has done the impossible in any other Alaska summer: growing a record-breaking cantaloupe, a fruit that craves heat and founders in rain.
In a season marked by hotter and dryer weather than usual, Scott Robb has produced a 64.8-pound muskmelon — an unofficial world record. He plans to enter the colossal fruit in the Alaska State Fair in Palmer next week.
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Topic: FUN - on August 18, 2004 at 7:43:00 PM CEST
Urban asshole notification cards
Urban life is fraught with daily challenges. We're beset on all sides -- by thoughtless co-workers, oblivious roommates, and even regular strangers on the street -- with the flagrant flouting of the simple rules that govern mundane transactions in society. One such rule, however, is that we don't confront those who transgress against the social order -- and that's a rule Glarkware feels was made to be broken.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 18, 2004 at 6:52:00 PM CEST
Naked man arrested in break-in
Hallucinogenic mushrooms may have played a role in a bizarre incident Sunday that left a Mechanicsburg-area man naked, bloody and jailed on a burglary charge, state police said.
It also gave a South Middleton Twp. homeowner quite a surprise.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 18, 2004 at 6:51:00 PM CEST
Nightmare on Web Street
New Spyware Uses Virus Tricks to Make Removal Difficult
Online security experts say there is a new type of sneaky software floating around in cyberspace. And like its namesake, Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror movie franchise, it's an online threat that just won't die.
The new scourge of the online world is a particularly nasty form of spyware — programs that are secretively downloaded when a Web surfer visits a particular site. Once installed on the unsuspecting user's computer, the program will gather information on users as they surf the Net.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 18, 2004 at 6:45:00 PM CEST
China's "hairboy" aspires to be rock star
mao hai er
He is an aspiring rock star, but Yu Zhenhuan's claim to fame for now is that he is the hairiest man in all of China.
Hair covers 96 percent of Yu's body. He may be surpassed only by a pair of Mexican brothers -- Victor "Larry" and Gabriel "Danny" Ramos Gomez -- listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having 98 percent hair cover.
The 26-year-old Yu is candid and unembarrassed about a condition that has made him a phenomenon in China since he was born.
reuters Homepage World's Hairiest Man Has Ear Hair Removed to Hear
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 18, 2004 at 6:44:00 PM CEST
Arctic teenagers lasso polar bear
Four Greenland youths who lassoed a swimming polar bear so an impoverished hunter could kill it may have to forfeit the paws and claws he gave them as a trophy, Greenland's KNR radio has reported.
Police are investigating whether the youths broke the law when they caught the bear offshore near the south Greenland village of Saarloq on Sunday, KNR said on its Internet Web site on Wednesday.
Hunting rules in Greenland, which belongs to Denmark, prohibit the use of snares to catch polar bears.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 18, 2004 at 6:42:00 PM CEST
Canadian who jumped into pool gets five months in prison, appeals decision
The Canadian who caused a furor by jumping into an Olympic swimming pool was released Wednesday after paying a fine of 2,000 euros ($3,225 Cdn).
Convicted of interrupting the Olympics, Ron Bensimhon was actually sentenced to five months in prison, but the sentence was dropped in place of the fine.
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Topic: Terror - on August 18, 2004 at 6:40:00 PM CEST
Bombs found on Blair holiday isle
Police defused a bomb near Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's villa in Sardinia shortly after Tony and Cherie Blair ended a visit to the Italian leader.
Bomb-disposal experts found and defused a device containing dynamite, a fuse and a timer close to a rubbish bin in nearby Porto Rotondo, according to police spokesman Giovanni Lopresto.
News agency Ansa said the bomb was set to explode at 4:30 a.m. local time (0330 BST).
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 18, 2004 at 6:36:00 PM CEST
Singing Minister Disowns 'Die, Bush' Call
Brazil's culture minister and singing superstar Gilberto Gil is not calling for the death of President Bush, whatever concert-goers might have thought. During "Soy Loco Por Ti America" (I'm Crazy About You, America) -- a song from the 1960s about Latin American dreams of liberation -- the visual display behind the band flashed up an image of the U.S. leader with a noose around his neck and the slogan "Morra, Bush, Morra" (Die, Bush, Die).
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Topic: NATURE - on August 18, 2004 at 6:33:00 PM CEST
Piranha Fished from Canal - and Thrown Back!
A fisherman caught a South American Piranha in a Dutch canal -- and then threw it back, local media reported Wednesday.
"Due to its bright red belly, I first thought it was a rock-bass," Patrick Scholte told daily De Telegraaf. A fellow angler was quick to point out it was a piranha.
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