Topic: POLITIK - on September 10, 2004 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Memos state Bush failed to meet standards, refused direct order
Addressing questions that have lingered for years, newly unearthed memos state that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, that he refused a direct order and that his superiors were in a state of turmoil over how to evaluate his performance after he was suspended from flying.
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Topic: STRANGE - on September 10, 2004 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
Chances 'slim' for survival of two-headed baby
AN Afghan woman has given birth in Iran to twin boys whose heads share the same body, doctors said today.
The babies stood little chance of survival, they added. "I've seen twin attached by the head or stomach but never a baby with two heads," a female doctor at the Ghaem hospital in the north-western city of Mashhad told AFP by telephone.
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Topic: ROBOT - on September 10, 2004 at 9:58:00 AM CEST
Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water
It could be called a mechanical miracle — a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 10, 2004 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
Guy picks up pot-packed teddy, now life's no picnic
What's soft and cuddly and the perfect hiding place for a stash of marijuana? Tokey the Bear. What one Worcester man didn't count on was an alert employee at a delivery company who became suspicious when he tried to deliver the teddy bear to the man and was told he no longer lived at the same address.
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Topic: NEWS - on September 10, 2004 at 9:46:00 AM CEST
Med student mix-up basically bastes woman in olive oil
Oops! A medical intern at a western Austria hospital goofed. Instead of injecting an elderly patient with antibiotics, he shot her up with olive oil. The woman was in the hospital to get her appendix removed. Officials at Steyr Hospital say vials of the medicine and oil had been left at the bedside and the intern picked up the wrong one. The olive oil was supposed to have been used for a massage.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 10, 2004 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Hippo alert in Cape Town
A hippo had Cape Town conservation officials on high alert after it escaped from the city's only reserve and wandered near a popular recreational area, apparently in search of female company.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Oregon Hay Fire to Burn for Days
A massive hay fire in Oregon was expected to burn itself out over the next few days.
Fire officials in Salem said the fire that broke out overnight consumed more than 300 tons of hay by daybreak Thursday and was too large to be snuffed by firefighters.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 10, 2004 at 9:41:00 AM CEST
Vintage albums by bad, obscure band are selling for big bucks
You have probably never heard of a band called the Electras. But their vintage LP's are now going for big bucks. It's all because of the bass player, a young guy by the name of John Kerry.
The Electras recorded just one album in 1961, when Kerry was at a New Hampshire boarding school. One copy of the LP recently sold for about $2,500.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on September 10, 2004 at 9:40:00 AM CEST
A "big arse" is no handicap, says actress
Hollywood's leading ladies may complain that it's hard to get a job after a certain age, but in Britain not even a large derriere gets in the way, acclaimed stage and film actress Imelda Staunton says.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
Acupuncturist Relieves Camel's Arthritis
Traditional medicine wasn't working to relieve the arthritis in Jewel's front legs. Brookfield Zoo chief veterinarian Tom Meehan said keepers had tried everything they could think of to help the aging Bactrian camel's condition. But in January 2003, a former colleague suggested another, less traditional approach: acupuncture.
The staff saw an improvement in Jewel's condition a few days after the first treatment.
"I hadn't seen this camel run for more than two years, she'd gotten so lame," said Mary Schollhamer, Jewel's chief keeper. "But when she saw me that morning, she ran all the way to the fence to greet me. I was so moved, I started to cry."
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Topic: NATURE - on September 10, 2004 at 9:37:00 AM CEST
Hungry bear blamed for ruining apple tree
A family is mourning the loss of a beloved apple tree but they believe they know who the culprit was: a hungry brown bear. "There is a bear out there that will rip a tree down," Lavena Sargent said Tuesday morning, a day after returning from a caribou hunting trip.
"It wasn't the world's best apple tree," she said. But at the end of a warm and sunny summer, it was bearing full-size apples for the first time and she was looking forward to picking them.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:36:00 AM CEST
Mystery man has Japanese island abuzz
Hidekazu Kakoi was looking for a fishing spot about six miles off shore when he noticed something bobbing on the horizon. He pulled his boat closer and discovered a man, grasping a duffel bag.
That was just the start of the mystery.
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