Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 10:05:25 PM CEST
Students to test ride condoms
Hard-up students are being recruited to test condoms, rating them for their pleasure, comfort and performance qualities. The 100-150 successful job applicants will be paid 100 pounds per academic term as they road-test a range of condoms from German manufacturer Condomi.
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 3:42:58 PM CEST
Woman sets world record by living with 3,400 scorpions
A woman in Thailand has set a world record after living with 3,400 scorpions for 32 days. She was allowed to leave the 130 sq ft room for 15 minutes every eight hours.
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 2:25:17 AM CEST
Giant Ronald McDonald goes missing in Wales
A eight-metre (25-foot) tall inflatable Ronald McDonald is on the loose in South Wales after it escaped from its roof-top home. The brightly-coloured plastic clown, mascot of the McDonalds fast food chain, had been anchored to the roof of an outlet near the town of Newport, but when staff went to inflate it in the morning they found it had blown off.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 10:33:25 PM CEST
Strange Sighting over Albany Airport
FOX23
ONE OF OUR VIDEOGRAPHERS WAS SHOOTING A PLANE TAKING OFF FROM THE ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - AT THE SAME TIME THE STRANGE OBJECT STREAKED THROUGH THE SKY - IT WAS MOVING SO FAST, HE DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT, UNTIL HE PLAYED HIS TAPE IN SLOW MOTION.
Overwhelming demand has crashed our video servers, so in the meantime here are stills from that video.
a close up of the object
enhanced to better
define the object
¬> <a href="fox23news.com"target="_blank">FOX23
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 10:21:10 PM CEST
'Italian Stonehenge' found on mountain
A series of prehistoric stone structures, reminiscent of Stonehenge but taller and possibly earlier, have been located 3,500ft above sea level on a mountain in Calabria, southern Italy.
The structures - now largely in ruins as a result of earthquakes - are mainly made up of two columns of large, square granite blocks, topped by a lintel.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 9:49:51 PM CEST
'Watch for Deer' signs go high-tech
An experimental system is being tried in Yellowstone National Park that uses radar to detect large animals. If an animal like a bison, elk, deer or moose enters the radar beam, the system triggers flashing lights on a road warning sign.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:29:15 PM CEST
The Hoax files
Click on the links below to read about some of the greatest hoaxes in sports, science, art, and the Internet.
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Topic: - on October 21, 2002 at 11:13:16 PM CEST
Ka-POW! goes the pumpkin
Mechanic develops grand gourd gun
Jim Bristoe is getting a blast out of his pumpkin cannon.
Bristoe figures his 30-foot-long, two-ton contraption can fire the orange orbs up to five miles. On Saturday, he entered his launcher in the Pumpkin Propulsion Contest, where the cannon far outclassed the competition.
¬> <a href="www.cnn.com"target="_blank">CNN
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Topic: - on October 21, 2002 at 9:34:19 PM CEST
The Scales of Good and Evil
Below is a list of the "Top Ten" evil people of all time followed by a list of the "Top Ten" good people of all time -- sorted in order of evilness and goodness. Please add your votes. Who would you like to see added to the list? What alterations would you make to the list or the ordering? Do the scales of good and evil balance? If I may have permission to quote you in a manuscript, please give permission in your note to me.
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Topic: - on October 20, 2002 at 8:34:54 PM CEST
Be a hippie
Make your own lava lamp
Here's my home made lava lamp. The container is simply a gallon jug wine bottle. Because of this, a friend once referred to it as the "White Trash Lava Lamp." The wine was Ernest and Julio Gallo, if I remember correctly. I do remember that it stank to high heavens when I poured it down the sink. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
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Topic: - on October 20, 2002 at 8:25:28 PM CEST
Japan: The Missing Million
Teenage boys in Japan's cities are turning into modern hermits - never leaving their rooms. Pressure from schools and an inability to talk to their families are suggested causes. Phil Rees visits the country to see what the "hikikomori" condition is all about.
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Topic: - on October 20, 2002 at 1:07:56 PM CEST
David Beckham Pepsi
Japan can't get enough of British soccer superstar David Beckham. Pepsi has jumped on the bandwagon by selling aluminum cans with Beckham's picture, handwritten signature and the message, "I Love Japan," on it.
¬> Japan Today
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