Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 19, 2003 at 3:26:04 PM CET
It's yellow, but not French
The company that makes French's mustard wants Americans to know the spicy condiment isn't French. It's British, but that's beside the point. Reckitt Benckiser PLC — the British behemoth that manufactures Lysol, Spray 'n Wash and French's mustard — issued a press release yesterday through a New Jersey subsidiary to remind reporters of the condiment's American seeds.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 19, 2003 at 10:43:23 AM CET
Prostitute board game hits the streets
A new Italian board game lets players take on the role of immigrant prostitutes enslaved by the mafia.
It has been launched by an organisation which works for the civil rights of prostitutes.
Puttanopoly players must dodge police raids, avoid turf wars and escape serial killers just to earn a living.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 18, 2003 at 12:59:27 PM CET
Neue "Pooh-Bags" getestet
Nach dem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch im Vorjahr werden heuer neu entwickelte "Pooh-Bags" freiwillig von vielen Fiaker-Unternehmern getestet. Sie sollen das Pferdeäpfel-Problem in der Stadt endgültig lösen.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 17, 2003 at 6:18:30 PM CET
Techno sniffer dog debuts at Heathrow
The world's busiest international airport, London Heathrow, unveiled a new electronic "sniffer dog" Monday, becoming the first in the world to trial the new screening technology.
The "Sentinel II" portal "sniffs" passengers as they pass through a detection arch, analyzing air that is blown across their bodies for particles of explosives or other banned substances, according to airport operator BAA.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 17, 2003 at 2:04:30 PM CET
Pastor's car stolen seven times
Pastor Stig Laegdene knows the Ten Commandments, including No. 8: "Thou shalt not steal."
Car thieves in his neighborhood, however, seemed to have skipped it.
Laegdene, a Lutheran pastor who preaches to small-time criminals and others on the streets of Tromsoe, 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) north of the capital, Oslo, had his car stolen twice last week.
"I know hundreds of criminals, but I don't know if it was 'my criminals' who stole my car this time," Laegdene told The Associated Press Sunday.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 16, 2003 at 1:34:38 PM CET
HIGH TECH DENTISTRY: Open wide
"Anything to improve the patients' visit is all right with me" Dr. Steve ErlandsonGrand Forks dentist
"I hate it," the East Grand Forks woman said. "That's my mouth, and people shouldn't be digging around it."
After Wednesday's visit to the Grand Forks office of Dr. Steve Erlandson, however, she's having less dread about her next appointment.
That's because, while waiting for the Novocain to kick in, she played computer solitaire. And, while Erlandson was filling a cavity, she watched country music videos on CMT and a World War II documentary on the History Channel.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 16, 2003 at 1:27:07 PM CET
Die eingebildete Weltmacht
DER SPIEGEL 12/2003
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 16, 2003 at 1:13:30 PM CET
Bin Laden niece envisions career as pop singer
A niece of Osama bin Laden is launching a career as a pop singer after rejecting her Muslim background and throwing herself into the London party scene.
Waffa bin Laden, whose father Yeslam is a brother of the world's most wanted man, hopes to release a single by the end of the year after being told that she has the looks and voice to become a star.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 16, 2003 at 12:30:30 PM CET
Foot licker can't resist his sole temptation
A foot fetisher running rampant in southern New Hampshire has struck again, lavishing compliments on a school administrator about her ``beautiful legs'' and then trying to run his lips along her size 5 feet.
``He asked what size feet I had and then he said, `Can I touch them?' '' said the archvillain's latest victim, 38-year-old Catherine, who didn't want her last name used.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 16, 2003 at 12:24:25 PM CET
Talking fish stuns New York
A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed.
Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, says co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Christian, was about to kill a carp to be made into gelfilte fish in the city's New Square Fish Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew.
"It said 'Tzaruch shemirah' and 'Hasof bah'," Mr Rosen later told the New York Times newspaper.
"[It] essentially means [in Hebrew] that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is nigh."
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 15, 2003 at 7:30:49 PM CET
Girl hit by 'fish odour syndrome'
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A four-year-old girl has been diagnosed as having a rare inherited condition where sufferers constantly smell of rotten fish.
The child's condition was triggered when fish was included in her diet from the age of nine months.
According to the journal Medicina Clinica, it is the first genetic case of 'Fish Odour Syndrome' to be documented in Spain.
It is estimated there have been just 200 cases seen worldwide since the condition was first observed in the 1970s.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 15, 2003 at 12:46:31 PM CET
Horny hound takes a leap of faith for love
Taipei - A lusty dog was so excited to find a female partner that it jumped from the balcony of its home, ignoring the five-floor drop, local media reported on Friday.
But the dog was not seriously hurt and landed on top of an expensive car parked below.
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