Topic: NATURE - on December 12, 2006 at 5:39:00 PM CET
A turtle can survive for centuries because its organs do not gradually break down over time, unlike nearly every other animal
This was no euphemistic brushoff, no reptilian version of “Sorry, I’ll be busy that night washing my hair.” Paddling around in a tropically appointed pool at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the husky female Gibba turtle from South America made all too palpable her disdain for the petite male Gibba that pursued her. He crawled onto the parqueted hump of her bark-brown shell. She shrugged and wriggled until he slipped off. He looped around to show her his best courtship maneuvers, bobbing his head, quivering his neck. She kicked him aside like a clot of algae and kept swimming.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 12, 2006 at 5:35:00 PM CET
Bush - “I’ll be dead when they get it right.”
In 72 hours last week, a bipartisan commission harshly repudiated Bush's Iraq policy. Incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told senators the U.S. isn't winning the war. Then a British journalist snarkily asked at a White House press conference if Bush weren't "in denial" about Iraq.
For good measure, a new poll found only 27% of Americans back his Iraq policy, a new low. And a moderate GOP senator termed the policy "absurd" and possibly criminal.
"He'll be fine but he can't be doing very good," said a well-placed Bush source who talks with the President often. "It's been a terrible year, and it keeps getting worse."
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 12, 2006 at 5:29:00 PM CET
Eddie Van Halen confirms asking David Lee Roth to rejoin Van Halen
Guitar legend Eddie Van Halen is saying that former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth has definitely been asked to rejoin the group, and that they are awaiting his decision.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 12, 2006 at 4:11:00 PM CET
Man survived 24 days on mountain by sipping barbecue sauce
A civil servant recovering in hospital from an ordeal in which he was stranded for 24 days on a mountain here said he survived by sipping barbecue sauce and water from a bottle.
The rescued man, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, reportedly told his boss who visited him in hospital that the water and sauce had prevented him from starving to death. At the time of his discovery at the end of October, he was barely conscious, and he is still in hospital, but is reportedly making a good recovery.
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Topic: SCAM - on December 12, 2006 at 4:02:00 PM CET
Top 10 Scams of 2006
As 2006 draws to a close, a review of ConsumerAffairs.com's Scam Alerts archive shows that scammers have had a busy and -- we suspect -- lucrative year.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 12, 2006 at 3:56:00 PM CET
Paris by night
Cliquez sur la flèche en bas à droite pour faire défiler Paris sous vos yeux...
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on December 12, 2006 at 1:14:00 PM CET
Paris defends Britney's ‘partying ethics’ - Plus: Does Richard Gere blame Sly Stallone for gerbil rumor?
Paris Hilton is defending her new best friend Britney Spears on her MySpace site.
“Lately, you’ve been seeing pics of me and Britney partying (blah blah) [sic] and she knows that some of her fans are very upset about what they call her ‘behavior’ and sadly they’re blaming the issue on her being friends with me,” Hilton wrote. “For people to call out her parenting skills on behalf of her partying ethics is appalling. Britney loves her kids to death, and I know for a fact that it truly hurts her when she sees these cruel things being written about her. She goes home every night to her babies and partying has not come in the way of her parenting.
Gere and the gerbil Did Sylvester Stallone start that bizarre urban myth about Richard Gere and a gerbil?
The “Rocky” star says Gere thinks he does. As Stallone tells it, he and Gere had a falling-out on the set of the 1974 flick “The Lords of Flatbush.”
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Topic: SEX - on December 12, 2006 at 12:35:00 PM CET
Paris Hilton Gets A Little Too Close To Her Sister
Incest is not best! On a visit to the Playboy mansion a few months ago, Parasite Hilton and her sister, Nicky Hilton, posted for photographs looking like a couple of used-up hookers. I mean…I expect this sort of behavior from Paris, but Nicky?!
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2006 at 11:52:00 AM CET
1,000 Words
Believe it or not, there was a time when people would have doubted a picture like this could have been taken in America. No one would believe it -- probably some third-world despot or Eastern European dictatorship.
In fact, it was taken in Durham, North Carolina by a college photojournalist, and recently won in the "Spot News" category of the College Photographer of the Year competition.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 12, 2006 at 11:46:00 AM CET
Sky Diver Almost Gets Hit By A Plane
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Topic: LOST - on December 12, 2006 at 11:21:00 AM CET
World's oldest person dies at 116
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bolden died at a nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee.
Born in 1890, she married at 19 and was widowed in the 1950s. She suffered a stroke in 2004 and spoke little after that.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 12, 2006 at 11:15:00 AM CET
Reiser wants speedy trial
Hans Reiser pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murdering his wife, Nina Reiser, and invoked his right for a speedy trial, which will force the district attorney to present its case within weeks.
Reiser, a computer programmer who founded a software company, Namesys, appeared in court shackled and wearing red jail clothes. His mother, Beverly Palmer, and father, Ramon Reiser, watched the brief hearing with no noticeable emotion.
insidebayarea.com SADOMASOCHISM, SPIES INJECTED INTO REISER HEARING Preliminary Hearing For Hans Reiser Begins Today author of ReiserFS. wikipedia.org old shit
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