Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 12:37:13 PM CET
Eddy Marnay 82 Dies
Mr. Marnay wrote more than 100 songs, working with such performers as Dalida, an Egyptian-born singer and actress; Claude François, a French singer; Nana Mouskouri, a Greek singer; and Barbra Streisand.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 1:09:21 AM CET
Latest trend on the net
Bonsai Potato
Your work will be inspected by a panel of Bonsai Potato artisans who will rate it based on originality, visual presentation, and the amount of your "optional" donation to the Judges' Early Retirement Fund.
After your work is reviewed it will be put up on the web site, because I will pretty much put up any image that is even halfway decipherable. Bonsai Potato is about the potatoes, not the photographs. You can click most of the images below to see a larger version of each potato.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 12:51:20 AM CET
Husband's sperm kills woman
A Romanian woman has died from an allergy to her husband's sperm. He told doctors they knew about her allergy to proteins in semen but didn't always use a condom when they had sex.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 12:17:06 AM CET
What's worse than a clone? How about five of them?
The doctor who says she has produced two cloned babies in the past weeks has told the BBC three more cloned children will be born by February.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 1:21:37 PM CET
Second hoax to be born by Sunday
The head of the company that claims to have produced the first human clone says a second baby is expected to be born somewhere in Europe in the next few days.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 1:18:11 PM CET
Beekeeper survives 300,000 stings
A man trapped in his wrecked truck survived an attack by up to 300,000 bees searching for their hives after the truck crashed near Auckland. Chris Robinson had developed partial immunity to bee stings since he began beekeeping in 1982. "The rescuers would have been under more threat than Chris," his wife Laine said yesterday. "He was covered in stings all over his body and neck. "Most people would have died from that much venom."
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:46:03 AM CET
Polar Weather Takes Wind Out of Expedition
Two Irishmen have abandoned their attempt to cross Antarctica on sledges pulled by large kites after the wind let them down.
Brian Cunningham, 59, and Jamie Young, 52, said in notice on their expedition Web site that their pioneering attempt had been "frustrated by almost windless conditions."
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:41:15 AM CET
Sex disease 'created to sell new drugs'
Drugs companies have invented a new disease, "female sexual dysfunction", to sell their new products, a paper in the British Medical Journal claims today.
Over the past six years, researchers with ties to the pharmaceutical industry have developed and defined the new disorder, the report says.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 8:43:48 PM CET
Holiday Rice Cakes Prove Deadly
Three men, ages 87, 88 and 89, died Thursday after suffocating from the traditional New Year's fare. An 85-year-old man and a 92-year-old woman died Wednesday and an 86-year-old man died Sunday under similar circumstances, Tokyo Fire Department official Yuichi Yokomizo said.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 6:18:39 PM CET
Twins "Separated" at Birth
One Born New Year's Eve, One New Year's Day
The first girl, Caleigh James Johnson, was born at 11:25 p.m. Tuesday and weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces. Her sister, Emily Paige Johnson, was delivered 54 minutes later and was the first baby born in Ocean County in 2003. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and was born at 12:19 a.m. Wednesday.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 12:11:32 PM CET
After Famed Calaveras Jumping Contest, What to Do With All Those Frogs?
For years, organizers of the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jumping Jubilee urged participants to carefully put the frogs back where they got them after the annual contest.
Last summer, they found out the practice is illegal in California.
It's not against the law to catch the bullfrogs that compete in the contest - but it's illegal to put them back, said Ed Pert, the California Department of Fish and Game's fisheries programs chief. Technically, violators could face a $5,000 fine and a year in jail.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 1:13:53 AM CET
Second Ship collides with submerged tanker
A ship carrying 70,000 tonnes of highly flammable gas oil has struck the submerged car transporter The Tricolor off the Kent coast.
However, The Vicky, which became stuck on the Tricolor in the English Channel at 1930 GMT on Wednesday, has since come free.
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