Topic: STRANGE - on February 25, 2005 at 5:44:00 PM CET
Hong Kong jeweller flushed out by tourism board
A solid-gold and gem-encrusted 4.8 million dollar toilet has been flushed from Hong Kong's tourism maps after staff at the jewellery store that made it were rude to customers, officials said.
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Topic: STRANGE - on February 25, 2005 at 5:36:00 PM CET
Snake Slithers from Toliet
Shannon Scavotto was running late for work when he opened the toilet to throw out a tissue. Inside was a snake as thick as a child's wrist, its diamond-shaped head sticking 10 inches out of the toilet.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 25, 2005 at 5:34:00 PM CET
Swiss cows to come off the grass with cannabis fodder ban
Swiss farmers will no longer be allowed to produce milk or cheese that could be tainted with cannabis, after the Swiss government banned hemp, the plant used to make the drug, from animal fodder. The ban from March 1 covers all types of hemp, a fibrous plant that is also used to make rope and fabric, because the different varieties all contain the psychotropic substance THC, the federal agricultural department said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 25, 2005 at 5:29:00 PM CET
Marijuana grown atop ritzy eatery
Unwary patrons ate in dining room below
Residents of this village south of Owen Sound were in shock yesterday at the news a fine-dining restaurant in their midst housed a large-scale indoor marijuana grow operation and that police have charged the chef/owner and his estranged wife.
"Everyone is surprised, no one had any idea what was going on there," said Bob Elliot, whose hardware store is across the road from The Mill Restaurant, where police seized $600,000 worth of marijuana Tuesday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 25, 2005 at 5:13:00 PM CET
Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving
JOHN HALPERN clearly remembers what made him change his mind about psychedelic drugs. It was the early 1990s and the young medical student at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York, was getting frustrated that he could not do more to help the alcoholics and addicts in his care. He sounded off to an older psychiatrist, who mentioned that LSD and related drugs had once been considered promising treatments for addiction. "I was so fascinated that I did all this research," Halpern recalls. "I was reading all these papers from the 60s and going, whoa, wait a minute! How come nobody's talking about this?"
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on February 25, 2005 at 5:07:00 PM CET
Bite-size blockbusters
A special Salon screening of five Oscar-nominated shorts -- featuring an irascible guard dog, a little terrorist, a sleep-deprived Romeo and more.
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Topic: STRANGE - on February 25, 2005 at 4:50:00 PM CET
BIN LADEN BROTHER TRADEMARKS NAME
Swiss authorities have ruled that a Geneva-based half-brother of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has the right to use the family name as a trademark.
But businessman Yeslam Bin Ladin said he had no immediate plans to bring out any goods under the name.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 25, 2005 at 10:36:00 AM CET
New 20th anniversary edition
We had so may great entries to the Hitchhiker Adventure Game Picture Competition that we have launched two new editions.
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