Topic: NEWS english - on October 1, 2004 at 1:45:00 PM CEST
Sanitation Worker Finds $22K in Trash Bin
Andrew Pritt has found some unique and valuable things while working as a trash collector, but none of them came close to the metal box he recently found under a trash bin.
Pritt, 51, of Mount Pleasant found roughly $22,000 in the box under a rollout trash receptacle while working Monday in downtown Mount Pleasant, the Morning Sun reported.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 27, 2004 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Lonely Italian pensioner gets adopted
A lonely pensioner who turned to Italy's classified pages to find someone willing to "adopt" him as a grandfather is finally heading to his new home and family in northern Italy this weekend.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 26, 2004 at 1:29:00 PM CEST
Teacher Sends Boy Home With Feces in Bag
A teacher is on paid administrative leave after sending a first-grader home with feces in his backpack because the boy soiled the classroom floor.
The teacher apparently was frustrated with the 6-year-old student's actions so she wrapped up the waste and sent it home with the boy Tuesday along with a note, Dallas school district spokesman Donald Claxton said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 25, 2004 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
The 400 Richest Americans
The U.S. economy's recovery may be a little shaky, but you wouldn't know it from looking at this year's Forbes 400. The combined net worth of the nation's wealthiest climbed to $1 trillion, up $45 billion in 12 months.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 25, 2004 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
IKEA Recalls 25,000 Glass-Door Wall Cabinets
IKEA Home Furnishings is recalling about 25,000 BERTBY glass-door wall cabinets.
IKEA says the cabinets have the wrong sized screws for the safety bracket, which can cause the cabinets to fall from the wall.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 25, 2004 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
Is there more flatulence in a vegetarian diet?
For years I've tolerated my friend's need for a strict vegan diet. I am lectured nearly daily about the benefits of veganism and the injustice of my murderous, meat-craving lifestyle. It's gotten to the point that we can't go out anywhere decent because there are few places vegan-friendly enough to suit his tastes. He has many redeeming qualities, so our friendship remains strong despite our philosophical differences. However, if there were an issue that would be a deal breaker, it would be his terrible, terrible gas. Its pure, unmitigated evil is indescribable. I'm pretty sure that in a highly concentrated form it could change laws of physics. Just god-awful. To make a dumb question long, are the rumors about vegan body odor, and specifically vegan gas, really true? Or is my friend just a naturally awful-smelling individual?
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 24, 2004 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
1 million Web users click to see beheading
There are many reasons to be profoundly disturbed about the beheading videos streaming out of Iraq -- yet people around the world are eager to watch.
Dan Klinker operates a Web site carrying Monday's video of a hooded man cutting off the head of U.S. contract worker Eugene "Jack" Armstrong. More than 1 million users had clicked those images into their personal computers, he said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 24, 2004 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
Man Catches 6-Foot, 135-Pound Bull Shark
Call it the catch of the day. Seafood merchant Richard Durrett was fishing Tuesday morning on the Red River when his catfish net dredged up something a little larger than the average catfish - a 6-foot, 135-pound bull shark.
"I've been fishing since I was 10 years old, and I've caught some strange fish, but nothing like this," the 35-year-old said Wednesday. "Things happen, but I wasn't ready for this."
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 23, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Scorpion Mezcal
WORMS ARE FOR WIMPS!
Produced in Oaxaca, Mexico, each bottle of Scorpion (double-distilled) and Caballeros (triple-distilled) Mezcal contains a real scorpion.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 23, 2004 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
Dad says school duct-taped son's pants
An outraged father of a seventh-grader says an assistant principal duct-taped his son's pants to keep them from sagging then sent him back to class.
Scott Allison told the Concord School Board on Monday that his 12-year-old son, Spencer, said last week that a teacher asked him to lift his shirt after she noticed the boy's underwear was showing above his pants, a violation of Concord Junior High School's dress code.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 22, 2004 at 10:43:00 AM CEST
First the gun, now the vodka: new Kalashnikov packs a punch
The inventor of the world's most famous combat weapon has launched a vodka in Britain under his own name: Kalashnikov. At 82 percent proof, the drink may prove as powerful as the AK-47 assault rifle that Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov conceived during World War II when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 22, 2004 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
U.S. Beer Consumption on Decline
Adams Beverage in Norwalk, Conn., said Monday the U.S. beer market contracted 0.3 percent in 2003.
The nation's beer market declined to 2.8 billion 2.25-gallon cases, having increased steadily for the past seven years.
Beer consumption clearly took a hit from the focus on low-carb diets, said Tiziana Mohorovic, spokesperson for Adams Beverage Group.
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