Archive for the 'World' Category
How high can you go
The Institute of Physics have devised a formula that high-heel fans can use to work out just how high they can go. Based on your shoe size, the formula tells you the maximum height of heel you can wear without toppling over or suffering agonies. Source Institute of Physics
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Scientist Thomas C Butler is in jail because he voluntarily reported to the FBI that 30 vials of the “plague” had gone missing from his Texas Tech research lab. It appears that from this act a long chain of events has lead to his imprisonment. Texas Tech geologist Thomas M. Lehmann was able to sit [...]
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World wants Bush out
World wants Bush out: poll
The world wants United States President George W Bush out of the White House, according to a poll that shows in 30 of 35 countries people preferred Democrat candidate John Kerry.
Senator Kerry was particularly favoured in traditionally strong US allies.
He beat Mr Bush on average by more than a two-to-one margin, [...]
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Looks like I will have to increase my chocolate intake.
Dark chocolate ‘helps blood flow’
Greek scientists say they have demonstrated for the first time how [dark] chocolate improves the function of blood vessels, allowing them to dilate and thereby preventing the formation of potentially damaging clots.
Source ABC News
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A Russian gangster has started filming a TV serial based on a real story of gangsters who stole a train load of Japanese cars. It was written and produced by real gangsters and stars real gangsters.
Dissatisfied with the way Russian television serials depict the underworld, real-life mobsters have shot their own show. Source ABC News
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Clean Graffiti
Moose has come up with a new way to graffiti. You clean the image you want, not paint it.
Moose, public-spirited graffiti artist, cleans up
He has devised a brand of street art which not only livens up city streets, but removes grime in the process. His method is to take any dirty inner-city wall or pavement, [...]
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Italy it trying to stop the desecration of its popular national food the Pizza.It an attempt to reign in the varieties produces for mass markets and return to the traditional varieties it has developed guidelines to pizza production.To obtain "guaranteed traditional specialty" status the pizza must conform with the following
be round
no more than 35 [...]
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Italian Police have purchase a Lamborghini to be used in high speed chases. So no more speeding away in your exotic super car. It will also be used for transport human organs in emergencies. Source ABC News
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Just Follow International Law
Two Britions release from Guantanamo Bay have written an open letter to US President George W. Bush to say that they were also abused during their detention. They have said that the abuses inflicted on them were similar to the types of abuse that was inflicted in prisoners in Iraq.So you could conclude that this [...]
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Views from a past generation
The local paper had an article about interviews with ex-POW’s. From only a few people that had been interviewed it appeared that those that had been captured by Germans thought that was is happening in Iraq currently was horrible. People that had been caught by Japanese, agreed that the abuses should not be tolerated in [...]
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