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Living Without China
“U.S. family tries living without China”
By Cynthia Osterman
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.
In “A Year Without ‘Made in China,’” (Wiley, $24.95) Bongiorni tells how [...]
Full swimming pool stolen
Burglary at a whole new level….
“PATERSON, New Jersey (AP) — Daisy Valdivia is annoyed that someone stole her backyard pool — and baffled at how they did it without leaving behind a splash, drip or trace of the 1,000 gallons of water it contained.
Valdivia awoke to find her family’s hip-high, inflatable, 10-foot diameter swimming pool [...]
World’s longest tongue
Here’s a world record to set tongues wagging.
German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue.
“My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day,” said Annika.
The twelve-year-old from Tangstedt, near Hamburg, [...]
Got Guano ?
BALLSTON SPA, New York (AP) - An upstate New York couple didn’t think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer.
Months later, they found out how wrong they were - when they discovered more than a ton-and-a-half of bat droppings up there.
Nick LaBoda and [...]
Mystery Cat
Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week.
The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings - he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a [...]
World’s Biggest Bunny
Herman could be ‘world’s biggest bunny’
A man has been showing off his gigantic rabbit named Herman.
The mighty bunny weighs a massive 7.7kg, and his ears are a lengthy 21cm - almost as long as most pet rabbits are tall. And he is almost 1m tall.
The German Giant is even big for his breed, which usually [...]
Remote Controlled Birds
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird’s flight, state media said.
Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro electrodes to command the bird [...]
Britney Spears Bald
Britney Spears now sporting shaved head
Britney Spears has once again changed her look and it has nothing to do with her wardrobe this time.
KABC-TV in Los Angeles spotted Spears Friday night in a Sherman Oaks tatoo parlor with a shaved head.
Video on KABC-TV showed the newly shorn Spears with tiny tattoos on the back of [...]
Orange Snow
Orange snow with rotten smell in Omsk Region, Siberia
It snowed orange in five districts of the Omsk Region Wednesday, January 31st 2007. The snow area was 1,500 sq. m, 100 km in length. The snow ranged from light yellow to orange shades, ITAR-TASS reported. Moreover, the snow was covered with oil slicks and smelled rotten.
It [...]
Drug for Obese Dogs
FDA Approves the First Drug for Obese Dogs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today is announcing the approval of Slentrol (dirlotapide), a prescription drug for the management of obesity in dogs. Slentrol reduces appetite and fat absorption to produce weight loss. A veterinarian will determine whether the dog should be treated, based on the dog’s [...]