Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 1, 2004 at 4:20:00 PM CEST
Schlimme Früchtchen?
Das katholische Internat in St. Blasien im Schwarzwald und der deutsche Süßwarenhersteller Haribo können im Augenblick unter Zuschriften nicht klagen. Grund ist ein Schülerscherz zur neuen Maoam-Verpackung. In einem Brief hatten sich drei Schüler über die sexuellen Anzüglichkeiten auf der neuen Maoam-Verpackung empört.
"Wir sind schockiert über die schamlose Darstellung von sexuellen Praktiken auf der Verpackung. Hier werden unter anderem der Coitus, Fellatio und Cunnilingus angedeutet."
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Topic: e-bay - on September 1, 2004 at 1:50:00 PM CEST
Drei Zentimeter zu viel:
Vinyl-Versender zahlen 166 Prozent mehr
Dank eBay und florierender Webshops laufen die Geschäfte bei Post und DHL bestens. Trotzdem erhöhte die Post die Preise für bestimmte Warensendungen - Schallplatten-Läden wurden regelrecht überrumpelt. Alles ganz legal, meint die Regulierungsbehörde.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 1, 2004 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
Fruity sweet wrappers spark complaint
A Catholic college has complained about new Haribo sweet wrappers which it claims portray fruit in sexual positions.
"We are shocked at the shameless presentation of sexual practices on the wrapping, which includes not only sexual intercourse but also fellatio and cunnilingus," wrote the St Blasien Jesuit College near Bonn.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 1, 2004 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Bear Escapes in Latest Breakout
An Andean spectacled bear escaped from its enclosure in Berlin zoo and roamed around a children's playground -- the second breakout since June, when a gorilla leapt over its fence, the zoo's deputy director said on Monday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 1, 2004 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Man who smuggled pot with squid shipment sentenced
A man who drove a trailer-truck loaded with more than 6,700 pounds of marijuana mixed with 30,000 pounds of frozen squid across the Otay Mesa border was sentenced today to 121 months in federal custody.
A jury on May 28 convicted Roberto Armenta-Orozco, 37, of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and importation of marijuana.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 1, 2004 at 10:50:00 AM CEST
Festival keeping cat-killer film
Documentary on local torture case horrifies activists Screening video `just as cruel' as the crime itself. Toronto International Film Festival organizers have no intention of pulling a controversial film from the 2004 program, despite the outcry from local animal-rights activists.
"This is about freedom of expression of the filmmaker to make a intelligent, responsible film about a difficult subject," said festival programmer Sean Farnel of his decision to schedule Casuistry: The Art Of Killing A Cat. "That's what the festival is all about, setting the terms for debate, not stifling them."
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Topic: NATURE - on September 1, 2004 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Newspaper carrier finds snake in delivery tube
James Fletcher was delivering newspapers when he came very close to a large Western Diamondback rattle snake.
The snake was in a newspaper delivery tube. Fletcher was about to put the newspaper in the tube last Thursday when he saw the venomous snake.
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Topic: * - on September 1, 2004 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Record-attempt burrito stretches 8,000 feet long
It's a brute of a burrito. Take more than 8,200 flour tortillas, ladle on a ton of refried beans, than add truck-loads of sour cream, cheese and salsa - and you've got the world's biggest burrito.
Officials of the Nevada State Fair are claiming a new Guinness burrito record.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 1, 2004 at 10:19:00 AM CEST
Farmer creates cornfield maze of U.S.
There's something corny about Ted Johnson's plan to help educate schoolchildren about America's geography.
Johnson has cut a maze in the shape of the continental United States into a 12-acre cornfield on his Autauga County farm. He's toyed with the idea of a cornfield maze for some time, but all the ones he had ever seen had a Halloween theme.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 1, 2004 at 10:16:00 AM CEST
Couple holds "beer, brat and bra bust"
Frank Cooper and Shirley Cleary have their bras back.
About 20 bras and lacy underthings were seized by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The unmentionables had been hanging from a barb wire fence on the couple's property. Officials said some people might find the bra fence offensive and that it was a nuisance near a state managed fishing site along the Missouri River.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 1, 2004 at 10:14:00 AM CEST
Curvy Shop Mannequins Must Cover Up
Iran's moral crackdown has widened its focus from stylishly dressed women to curvaceous shop-window mannequins, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Morals police have banned shopkeepers from showing unveiled dummies and lingerie in their windows.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 1, 2004 at 10:11:00 AM CEST
Scores Arrested in Anti-Bush Protests in New York
Police arrested more than 125 people on Tuesday as protesters opposed to Bush administration policies marched near the World Trade Center site and blocked streets in the city's financial district on the second day of the Republican political convention.
More than 100 people were put in plastic handcuffs and led to police vans after the War Resisters League began a march from the trade center site -- destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks -- to a planned "die-in" near Madison Square Garden, where Republicans were holding their convention to nominate President Bush to a second term in office.
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