Topic: NEWS - on June 15, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3
An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 14, 2007 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
How not to handle Pilsner Urquell
Pilsner Urquell is a bottom-fermenting beer produced since 1842 in Pilsen, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). The beer is today the flagship brand of global brewing empire SABMiller, which has controversially also started brewing Pilsner Urquell in Poland.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 14, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Beer for flooded Australian town
A flood-isolated Australian town was in danger of running out of beer this week until emergency volunteers came to their rescue.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 8, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
PARIS HILTON OUT OF JAIL: Spotted at Beach! Exclusive Video
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Topic: NEWS - on June 5, 2007 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Platform International Animation Festival
I’m looking forward to this one. The Platform International Animation Festival is gearing up to be a rather interesting event, set to take place later on this month, from June 25-30 in Portland, Oregon.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 4, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
One Hundred Percent Off
This Faberge egg from amazon is too good a deal to pass up.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 4, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
Porn king offers $1m for US political sex scandal
Larry Flynt, who once ran for the White House under the slogan "a smut peddler who cares", yesterday sought to spread his own brand of love around in Washington by offering cash rewards for tales of sexual scandal.
In a full-page advertisement in yesterday's Washington Post, Mr Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, offered a $1m (£500,000) reward for anyone willing to tell all about their affair with an elected official - and provide proof.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 1, 2007 at 3:27:00 PM CEST
Snake-like Green Pepper
This green pepper from Shanxi,China does resemble a snake-like creature with its tongue sticking out!
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Topic: NEWS - on May 26, 2007 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children
Won’t somebody, please, think of the children? Three weeks ago I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. “I’ve just had to ask a BBC Panorama film crew not to film in my school or in my class because of the bad science they were trying to carry out,” it began, describing in perfect detail the Panorama which aired this week.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 22, 2007 at 5:01:00 PM CEST
Viagra reduces jet lag in hamsters
Argentinian reseachers have rather unaccountably discovered that Viagra helps ameliorate the effects of "jet lag" in hamsters, and might do the same for humans.
According to New Scientist, hamsters who were favoured with small doses of sildenafil, punted as Viagra, coped better with a simulated six-hour time-zone shift than their non-chemical-hardened chums - adapting to the jet lag up to 50 per cent faster.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 22, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
The Magnetic Brain Stimulator Will See You Now
The next time you visit a psychiatrist, don't be put off by the helmet-shaped device crawling with electrodes in the corner of the office. It's there to help.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation, a technique for treating clinical depression, uses a device placed on a patient's head that delivers a pulse to the gray matter. Psychiatrists at the American Psychiatric Association meeting here are unabashedly optimistic about its potential for treating tough cases. It's in the final stages of FDA review, and could come to market as soon as the end of the year.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 18, 2007 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
Pair of Melons sell for 2 Million
A pair of melons from the Japanese city of Yubari — better known lately for going bankrupt than for its farm produce — fetched a record 2 million yen at the season’s first auction on Tuesday.
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