A special headset designed by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. can control human movement.
Japan developing remote control for humans
By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press
…
Speaking of Halloween [POSTED BY SHANNON LARRATT]
Here's a gallery of Halloween-themed tattoos...
It's the bestest night of the year!
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Lauren Hutton: The
Beautiful Persists
Oct. 21, 2005 — The entire upcoming issue of Big magazine, "Lauren Hutton: The
Beautiful Persists," is dedicated to Hutton's career and includes eight
pages of nude photo…
39 YEARS AGO TODAY
Oct 31 1966
The Acid Test Graduation! Ken Kesey hosts, among others. "The question
is no longer CAN you pass the Acid Test, but DID you pass the Acid Test."
The Pranksters were mad…
The man who killed Halloween
BY DAVID J. KRAJICEK SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Thirty-one year…
Texas pastor electrocuted during baptism
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO, Texas -- A pastor performing a
baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after
grabbing a microphone whil…
What identical twins teach us about religion
In
the United States during the 50s and 60s,it was considered best to
separate at birth twins who were to be adopted. This led to a number of
these childre…
Naked woman drops through ceiling
Rozalia Valiakhmetova had been relaxing in the bath when the floor gave way, dropping her and the bath tub into the flat below.
…
Three teenage girls beheaded in Indonesia
By Tomi Soetjipto and Telly Nathalia
Sat Oct 29, 2:30 PM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Me…
Governmental
and Humanitarian Reports Disclose Violations of the Rights of Iraqi
Female Detainees at Iraqi Interior Ministry Stations
Baghdad
– Reports prepared b…
Bar Owner Sent To Prison After Drink Kills Patron
October 28,
2005
HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- The
former owner of a bar in Kansas has been sentenced to nearly four years
in prison, for t…
'Experts' pluck Turkish chicken farmers
October 27 2005 at 12:52PM
Istanbu…
South
Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu is covered by bees in Daegu, south of
Seoul. Ahn, a local bee farmer, released over 260,000 bees and
attracted them to his body to celebrate the opening of a new subw…
Pyramid found - in the heart of Bosnia!!Nearthe city of Visoko, 30 km north of Sarajevo, there is a stone pyramidof monumental size, claims the Bos…
Image of pope seen in pancake
By Brad Edwards
Jackson - One Sunday morning, Myrna Kincaid's life changed with the flip of a pancake.
"Look at my pancake," she reflects. "It looks like, looks l…
Why do we believe in God?
Thursday October 13, 2005 The Guardian
Religion and mental
ill-health have long been linked. The disturbed individual who believes
hims…
Cat ran off with severed toe
Udo
Ried, 41, was slicing bread in his kitchen when he
dropped a large kitchen knife onto his bare foot, chopping off his
second toe.
…
A
company in Spokane, Wash., has developed a plant that releases text
messages during the seven- to 10-day germination process that shows up
on the plant's bud, according to a Local 6 News report. The…
Boy waited while doctor rode unicycle
A
hospital has apologised after a six-month-old boy waited two hours for
treatment while a doctor rode up and down a ward on a unicy…
Doctor tells jurors about teen's death
By ASHLEY COOK, The Lufkin Daily News
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
…
Pensioner swallowed false teeth
A policeman saved a pensioner's life after she swallowed her false teeth whole eating a sandwich.
Dmitar
Tomasevic, 25, was walking …
Artist paid to drink beer and fall over
A Japanese artist has been paid £5,000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam.
An arts …
Paper to print only good news
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Newark City Council has awarded the Newark Weekly News a $100,000
US no-bid contract to publish positive news about the city.
"Do we have…
Mighty Mice Regrow Organs
By Kristen Philipkoski
Mice discovered accidentally at the Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania
have the seemingly miraculous ability to regenerate like a salamander,
a…
A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks
taken Feb 22, 1956
Kids Find Dogs Chewing On Human Infant's Corpse
UPDATED: 10:18 am EDT October 27,
2005
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- Investigators
said the badly-mauled body of a newborn infant was foun…
Why we don't like vacationing with men:
…
Quake kids sold to sex trade
Dean Nelson, Islamabad
October 24, 2005
SIX-YEAR-OLD Aisha loves the orange blouse and jeans given to her by
the kind woman who rescued her …
Australian shoots woman, not cow
When Rudolf Stadler offered to help his friend get rid of a troublesome cow, he could have had no idea of the consequences.
The court heard how, on 17 April …
23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:
Karl Rove
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby
…
Karim Ben Khelifa
Manadel al-Jamadi's wife and son hold a photo of an American GI grinning over his corpse.
-http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4977986
School District to Stop Reusing Cutlery
Thu Oct 27, 5:05 PM ET
LANSDALE, Pa. - After students objected to using utensils th…
Actor George Takei greets the crowd with the Vulcan greeting as he
arrives at the 'Star Trek; 30 Years and Beyond' tribute.
George Takei Discloses His Homosexuality
…
Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration
FREDERICA, Del. - The
apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported
for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween…
Man Convicted of Sprinkling Fecal Matter on Pastries
Oct 27, 2005, 04:36 AM
A Dallas man will likely be sentenced
today, one day after a jury convicted him of sprinkling feces on
pastries at a…
Ramdulary Shah's brother Budhan Kumar Shah was
kidnapped in Iraq. A recruiter had assured him that working with
Americans wasn't dangerous. Jose More/Chicago Tribune
Deception, Risks Bes…
-New Yorker
Mom puts tot on tracks; train stops
UNION-TRIBUNE
October 26, 2005
MARINA – A woman shoved her 2-year-old son onto railroad tracks last night in front of an oncoming train, which …
Patrick Fitzgerald
Prosecutor secures indictment in CIA outing case, lawyers say
Jason Leopold
The
prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie
Plame Wilson has secured a…
Ayman al-Zawahri
Pentagon releases text of al-Zawahri letter
WASHINGTON
(AP) — In a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader
said the United States ‘‘ran and left their agents’’ in Vi…
Fake doo-doo a no-no, councilman says
By William J. Kemble, Correspondent
RHINECLIFF - Town Board members are warning pranksters that they
could face criminal penalties for leaving phony dog dr…
RICHARD R. RADTKE/SOUTH O'BRIEN NEWS
Fred Schuknecht shows off the 11-foot python he found in a field.
Farmer unearths 11-foot python in his field
By
JARED STRONG…
FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations
By Dan EggenWashington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 24, 2005; Page A01
The
FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for
as …
'Amanda' runs between the Swedish cities of Linkoping and Vastervik
Cows make fuel for biogas train
…
Office boss Tony Price said he watches 'a lot of television'
Boss threatens DNA tests over gum
An office boss threatened his staff with DNA tests after chewing gum got stuck on a dir…
School Orders Students to Remove Blogs
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 26, 7:42 PM ET
NEWARK, N.J. - A Roman Ca…
Enough already with calling Iraq a “mistake”
By Meteor Blades
Someone said it again today. Invading Iraq was a mistake.
Every time it gets said, I grind another layer of enamel off m…
Author's 'crap, poo, fart and bogey' earns expulsion from school
LONDON:
A top-selling British children's author - also a minister of religion
into the bargain - has been thrown out of school …
Police scramble to squash pumpkin threat
Tue Oct 25, 9:58 AM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan security services…
Rome bans goldfish bowls seen as cruel
Tue Oct 25,12:28 PM ET
ROME (Reuters) - The city of Rome has banned goldfish
bowls, wh…
Judge allows Bush plot confession
…
Len Dresslar 1925 - 2005
By Joseph Sjostrom
Tribune staff reporter
Posted
October 25 2005
Len Dresslar was
familiar in Chicago-area entertainment circles a…
U.S. blows $1 million on 7 lemon cars in Iraq
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
K…
China school crush kills children
At least seven children have died and 37 injured in a stampede at a primary school in south-western China.
The incident occurred as the children were stre…
Stones tour with heart machine
The Rolling Stones have a heart machine reportedly backstage in case one collapses on their US tour.
Organisers have brought in a d…
Traffic violators face ID theft check
Judi Villa
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 20, 2005 12:00 AM
Motorists
cited for criminal traffic violations will have to give the…
You'll never squawk alone
By Nigel Bunyan (Filed: 25/10/2005)
They
love to grieve in Liverpool. So when a passer-by found what looked like a human foetus in an alleyway they assumed the worst.
…
10.23.2005
If You're a Christian, Muslim or Jew - You are Wrong
Cenk Uygur
We
live in a twisted world, where right is wrong and wrong re…
U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq War has
reached 2,000.
CNN's count of U.S. fatalities reflects
reports from military…
Kiss of Death
October 23,2005
Richard Moore
Outdoors Writer
Some
call it the "assassin bug" and others know it as …
Kentucky lands grant to protect bingo halls from terrorists
FRANKFORT,
Ky. -- Kentucky has been awarded a federal Homeland Security grant
aimed at keeping terrorists from …
White House Seeks Exception in Abuse Ban
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: October …
What Happened to the Revolt Black Athlete?
A Look Back Thirty Years Later
An Interview with Harry Edwards
by David Leonard
From RaiseYaFis…
Six-fingered cursed androgyne swills vodka
10/20/2005 23:54
In the
Russian settlement of Barashevo lives an 11-year-old girl named Zhenya,
but the looks of the child suggest that Zhenya is a boy. Zhe…
Boy, 9, charged with threatening to kill teacher
The Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla. -- A 9-year-old boy was arrested on a felony charge of
making a written threat to kill his teacher, …
STINKY PANTS IN THE PAST
Stinky underwear could soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Thanks
to the invention of what manufacturers claim are the first "pong-pro…
Halloween Do's and Don't's
When it appears that you have killed the monster, never check to see if it's really dead.
If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery,
was once a church used…
The Haidl 3, praying for a miracle.
No Juvie for Haidl 3
…
U.S. soldiers near Baghdad can be bolstered by the release of enemy body counts, a Marine spokesman said.
Enemy Body Counts Revived
By Bradley GrahamWashington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 24, …
Cultural clash thwarts effort to fend off polio virus
Maura Lerner, Star Tribune
October 19, 2005 at 10:03 PM
A
fifth Amish child in central Minnesota has been infected …
Fate of Iraqi charter in balance
…
45 YEARS AGO TODAY
Catastrophic explosion of the R-16
Oct 24 1960
At the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, an R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad.
The new R-16 ICBM was de…
Man Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Dog
ONTARIO, Calif.
Ubaldo Vasquez Huizar, 39, was arrested after neighbors reported seeing him se…
Prison Employee Ringer Lands in Prison
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
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From idealistic_idiot
Scientists unable to re-create ancient death ray
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) - It wasn't exactly the ancient siege of Syracuse, but
rather a curious quest for scientific validation.
According
to sp…
Brian, the world's leading expert on European wasps and the sounds that they make, is taking a stroll down his local high street. As he passes by the record shop, a sign catches his eye. "Just Released …
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Divine intervention axes school station
By Jaclyn Pelletier/ Beacon Villager Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Maynard
High School's radio frequency, 91.7 FM, is being seized by a network of
Christ…
Two wheels: better than none
ARRESTED FOR WALKING
A woman has been detained under anti-terror laws for walking - rather than cycling - past a Scottish harbour.
Sally Camer…
A chalk mark shows the place where the woman was slashed on the Shinjuku Station platform.
Slasher attacks Tokyo train commuters' bottoms
Two people had their buttocks slashed on heavily …
NEW HEAD JUGGLING RECORD
A former Cuban football player has set a new world record for juggling a football with his head.
Erich Hernandez reportedly made 146 consecutive he…
Corpse Involved in Mexico Motorcycle Crash
Fri Oct 21,10:32 PM ET
MEXICO CITY - Police discovered on Friday that a passenger …
Westlake
police are investigating the case of a
2-year-old's arm getting stuck in a meat grinder
Police: 2-Year-Old's Arm Stuck In Meat Grinder
5:13 pm EDT October 20,
2005
WES…
N.D. Man Asks: 'Will You Mary Me?'
His tractor didn't come with spellcheck. Photo by Tom Mueller via Grand Forks Herald
…
Out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions
17:42 21 October 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Maggie McKee
…
U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq's border
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Dan Simpson
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
U.S. military and
Bush administration civilian officia…
War's toll on troops revealed in survey
October 19, 2005
By Gregg Zoroya
USA Today
More than one in four U.S. troops have come home
from Iraq with health problems that require medical…
Gasoline-Doused Man Recovers From Burns After Being Hit By Taser Gun
October 20,
2005
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.C. -- Cumberland
County deputies said a man wanted on kidnapping and robber…
Starbucks to serve up God with a skinny cappuccino
Gary Younge in New York Saturday October 22, 2005 The Guardian
Coffee
drinkers in the US cou…
