Topic: FUN - on December 14, 2006 at 10:13:00 AM CET
THE X-RATED XMAS TREE
Al's proud 10ft conifer upsets the neighbours
JOKER Alan Parkin put the willies up his neighbours - with this naughty 10ft Christmas tree.
Not content with adding just a couple of baubles, Alan, 47, decorated the fir with red and white fairy lights outside his home in aptly named Penistone.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:57:00 AM CET
Drugs: why we should medicalise, not criminalise
If you are a desperate drug addict and you are neither a trust fund babe nor a doctor with a prescription pad, you really have only three ways to pay for your habit: you steal, you deal or you sell your body. For those poor young women who have too many scruples to steal or deal, prostitution is often the only answer. Some 95 per cent of prostitutes, according to a Home Office study, are what they call “problematic drug users”.
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Topic: NATURE - on December 14, 2006 at 9:56:00 AM CET
Rare White Dolphin Declared As Extinct
A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.
The baiji would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting and overfishing killed off the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s.
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Topic: born rich - on December 14, 2006 at 9:49:00 AM CET
Book a room at the world's first $500 million dollar underwater hotel
Bruce Jones has spent much of his career designing underwater toys for the rich and famous. The 50-year-old president of U.S. Submarines is best known for building ultraluxe custom subs, $80-million vessels that feature private staterooms, paneled interiors made from exotic hardwoods, plush carpeting, and enough onboard oxygen to keep you and 10 friends breathing easy for three weeks of cruising at depths of nearly 1,000 feet. Now Jones is redirecting his expertise in undersea opulence toward the hotel industry. His plan: to open the Poseidon Mystery Island, the world’s first major resort at the bottom of the ocean, by September 2008.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on December 14, 2006 at 9:43:00 AM CET
Google Patent Search
As part of Google ’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we’re constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.
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Topic: SPORT - on December 14, 2006 at 9:42:00 AM CET
Chainsaws can power motorcycles?
Engineering "Made in Germany" compared with a Norther-German Comic Star created her: The DOLMETTE. A wired bike with 24 DOLMAR chainsaw-engines.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 14, 2006 at 9:41:00 AM CET
Evel Knievel sues rapper Kanye West over video
Veteran daredevil Evel Knievel is suing rap star Kanye West for trademark infringement over a music video that depicts the recording artist as "Evel Kanyevel" trying to jump a canyon on a rocket vehicle.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida, says Knievel's image was tarnished by the "vulgar, sexual and racially charged nature" of West's video for his hit single "Touch the Sky," which co-stars actress Pamela Anderson.
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Topic: SPORT - on December 14, 2006 at 9:33:00 AM CET
Winter is No Excuse to Not Ride Your Bike
The KTrak Snowcycle Conversion Kit takes your mountain bike and turns it into a tracked, human-powered snow (or sand) machine, complete with a front ski.
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Topic: MAKE - on December 14, 2006 at 9:13:00 AM CET
Run out of toilet paper 1/12th as often
Have a big wall next to your toilet and don't like running out of toilet paper? Mounting more toilet paper holders on the wall is a simple way to keep it from happening.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:07:00 AM CET
This is no life for anyone
For women like me, prostitution is about a lot more than drugs, and getting out isn't easy.
I've been selling sex since I was 18 and I'm 41 now. I ran away from home when I was 14 because I was terrified my mum was going to put me in care, and ended up living with fairground people for three years. Like so many girls in my situation, I drifted to London. Having no skills, I ended up working in a hostess bar, then moved down the prostitution food chain and worked for an escort agency.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:05:00 AM CET
Plot to smuggle drugs in lollipops foiled
Spanish police foiled an attempt to smuggle cocaine into the country inside confectionery lollipops, a regional government official said Tuesday.
Gang members in Colombia packed the drug into 55 lollipops and sent them by airmail via Madrid's Barajas Airport, Vicente Ripa Gonzalez, governor of the northern region of Navarra, told a news conference in Pamplona.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:03:00 AM CET
11 Common Misconceptions About Marijuana
While conducting further research on marijuana use in the United States and its implications, I came across this little gem of misinformation on the Drug Free America Foundation’s website. It is a fine example of arrogantly scripted works of anti-marijuana propaganda. Of all the facts they present, only a select few cite sources in any way, and these facts tend largely to be red herrings, as I will explain below. I have conducted a line-by-line analysis of all of their marijuana “facts.”
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