Topic: SEX - on November 10, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Teacher suspended for giving 'self-pleasure' reading to students
The first rule about having an edgy English teacher is don't talk about your edgy English teacher.
A beloved city schoolteacher has been suspended by the Department of Education after giving his 11th-grade students a copy of a graphic short story about masturbation written by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk.
Greg Van Voorhis, 30, handed out copies of Palahniuk's "Guts" late last month to about 100 students studying for the English Regents exam at The Bronx School of Law and Finance in Marble Hill.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 9, 2009 at 11:49:00 AM CET
50,000 dead starfish found on Irish beach
Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach.
A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo.
The adult starfish, measuring between 7cm and 20cm in diameter and estimated to be up to 50,000 in number, stretched along 150 metres of the strand.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 7, 2009 at 12:11:00 PM CET
Who's taken my fur coat? Vets baffled by bald bears with mystery condition
You'd have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity.
But not for the unfortunate Dolores who has lost all her body hair and has just been left with a few tufts around her head.
Vets have been left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear, who lives at a zoo in Leipzig.
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Topic: FUN - on November 7, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Crappy Bootleg DVD-Covers
Ein Flickr-Pool voller unglaublicher Photoshop Disasters und noch schlimmeren Übersetzungs-Katastrophen auf Bootleg-DVDs von sonstwoher.
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Topic: SPORT - on November 7, 2009 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Albiquerque Balloon Fiesta
This amazing shot by Mike Jones, capturing the scene from this year’s Albiquerque Balloon Fiesta.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 7, 2009 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Das Leben des Seltsamen
Claude Shannon war Pionier des Computerzeitalters - und genialer Heimwerker. Eine Ausstellung in Paderborn zeigt erstmals in Deutschland seine skurrilen Apparate.
Sein Aufstieg begann mit einem erotischen Fiasko. Zunächst wollte seine erste Ehefrau in dem Eigenbrötler noch einen "sehr süßen Kerl" erkannt haben. Rasch wurde ihr jedoch jene Eigenschaft gewahr, die ihren Gatten sein ganzes Leben lang auszeichnete: Am liebsten verbarrikadierte sich der Sonderling in der eigenen Wohnung, um vor allem an Schaltern, Motoren und Kondensatoren herumzufummeln. Irritiert nahm die Schöne Reißaus.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 6, 2009 at 11:24:00 AM CET
Mash-up video culled from 99 classic albums
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 6, 2009 at 11:22:00 AM CET
Kollektivschuld des schlechten Geschmacks - Hasselhoff in Berlin
David Hasselhoff ist Deutschlands beliebtester Sänger - dieses Vorurteil hat eine Generation von Deutschen im Ausland verfolgt. Fast schien es in Vergessenheit geraten zu sein, doch jetzt lässt MTV den gefallenen Star wieder in Berlin auftreten.
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Topic: health - on November 6, 2009 at 11:20:00 AM CET
15 österreichische Apotheken verkaufen Fisch
Fisch aus der Apotheke: Was absurd klingt, ist in Österreich schon bald Realität. Ab 9. November wird in 15 Apotheken im ganzen Land kalt-geräucherter Kavalierlachs verkauft. Dieser enthalte viele Omega-3-Fettsäuren und gelte daher als besonders gesund, begründeten die Apotheken diesen Schritt.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 6, 2009 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Large Hadron Collider: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2009 at 5:16:00 PM CET
On the quiet, the US is legalising marijuana
The humble joint can save lives. We look forward to the end of senseless prohibition
You know things are shifting in America when Fortune magazine, the bible for business journalism, runs a cover story titled “Is pot already legal?”. You also know it when Barack Obama’s Department of Justice publishes a long-expected memo signalling that the federal government will no longer raid medical marijuana dispensaries if they are legal under state law. That happened formally this month.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 2, 2009 at 12:09:00 PM CET
Mexico's National Museum of Death
Dead men may tell no tales, but death itself — well, in Mexico, the subject fills an entire museum.
The National Museum of Death, founded two years ago, explores the country's macabre interest in death and dying, from the mass human sacrifices of the Aztecs to modern-day Day of the Dead celebrations, which begin Sunday.
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