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Oct 9th
Belgium downplays breakup concerns
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgium has sent an unusual memo to its embassies around the world: If anyone asks whether the country's Dutch- and French-speaking parts are splitting up, say "No."
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Car Sliced In Half During 100 MPH Central Fla. Street Race; 3 Killed
Police said a Mitsubishi Eclipse and an Oldsmobile sedan were racing on Colonial Drive in Orange County near Good Holmes Road at about 3 a.m. when the Oldsmobile slammed into a Penske rental truck heading in the opposite direction.
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Beauty teenager is pretty silly
Wannabe model Chelsea Gledhill, 14, sent nearly 2,000 texts in a month, costing 60p each.
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U.S. worked on secret Cold War weapon
WASHINGTON - In one of the longest-held secrets of the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate "important individuals" such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Minnesota woman to appeal $220,000 RIAA award
Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who last week was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for copyright violations related to sharing songs, has decided to appeal the verdict.
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Man wins contest with 1,524-lb. pumpkin
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - An Oregon man won the annual pumpkin weigh-off here, presenting a gigantic gourd that came it at 1,524 pounds. Thad Starr, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., set a contest record with the pumpkin. He'll get $6 a pound, bringing his winnings to $9,144.
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Oct 8th
Background checks at NASA lab blocked
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court on Friday approved a request by some NASA workers to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information that they allege amounts to an invasion of privacy.
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Are U.S. Troops Being Force-Fed Christianity?
At Speicher base in Iraq, U.S. Army Spec. Jeremy Hall got permission from a chaplain in August to post fliers announcing a meeting for atheists and other nonbelievers. When the group gathered, Hall alleges, his Army major supervisor disrupted the meeting and threatened to retaliate against him, including blocking his reenlistment in the Army.
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Melting ice pack displaces Alaska walrus
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.
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EPA approves 1-year use of pesticide
The Environmental Protection Agency gave the go-ahead for one-year use of a new agricultural pesticide Friday, saying its own scientific review overrides health concerns expressed by more than 50 chemists and other scientists.
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NYPD: Shirtless Man Stabs Elderly Woman In Manhattan
A shirtless maniac armed with a fistful of long-handled kitchen knives savagely stabbed an elderly dog-walker and a restaurant worker Saturday during a random Manhattan rampage that ended when an off-duty police officer shot the attacker from point-blank range.
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Oct 5th
Pit Bull Terriers Kill Owner in Florida
MIDDLEBURG, Fla. — Two pit bull terriers fatally attacked their owner who had raised them since birth, authorities said Tuesday.
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76% - Contented Mexicans
While wealthier nations tend to have more contented citizens overall, living in a less wealthy nation does not preclude a high level of personal satisfaction; indeed, Mexicans emerge as the most personally satisfied public in the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey -- 76% rate their current life at least a seven on a scale of 10
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Solar Telescope Falls From Sky, Lands On Texas Farm
A couple in Texas was shocked to discover a large satellite-like object on their farm after it fell from the sky Wednesday night.
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'Gay bomb' among Ig Nobel winners
THE inventor of a method to extract vanilla fragrance from cow dung, military developers of chemical "gay bomb" and a team that researched how sheets become wrinkled won Ig Nobel prizes for 2007.
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Bird flu mutating to infect people more easily
NEW YORK - The H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily, although it still has not transformed into a pandemic strain, researchers said on Thursday.
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Oct 4th
Lab Error Led To Healthy Woman's Double Mastectomy
(CBS) NEW YORK Diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of breast cancer, 35-year-old Darrie Eason did all the right things:
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Gorilla-Masked Robbers Terrorize ATM Customers
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Two robbers wearing gorilla masks held up and pistol-whipped a man at a Orlando ATM early Wednesday and are believed to be responsible for another nearby robbery, according to police.
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Anne Frank’s chestnut tree is granted a reprieve
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The diseased chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II has been granted a reprieve.
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Some reactions to President Bush's veto of a bill expanding health insurance coverage for poor children.
` Wednesday October 3, 2007 7:01 PM By The Associated Press Some reactions to President Bush's veto of a bill expanding health insurance coverage for poor children. ^--- ``It's very sad that the president has chosen to veto a bill that would provide health care for 10 million American children for the next five years. ... I don't think the president wants to say to the American people that he as the decider, the self-proclaimed decider, wants to decide what children get health care and which children do not.'' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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Texas Student Booted From School for Wearing John Edwards T-Shirt
A Texas high school sophomore's parents might sue after the school booted the student from campus for wearing a John Edwards for 2008 president T-shirt.
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34% - America's "Have-Nots"
The number of Americans who see themselves among the "have-nots" of society has doubled over the past two decades, from 17% in 1988 to 34% today. In 1988, far more Americans said that, if they had to choose, they probably were among the "haves" (59%) rather than the "have-nots" (17%). Today this gap is far narrower (45% "haves" vs. 34% "have-nots").
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Oct 3rd
Female Athletes Bear Brunt of Concussions
Female Athletes Bear Brunt of Concussions
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Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative Christians and still home to many sexual taboos.
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Fans sabotaging scalpers' auctions
Music fans, incensed at the apparent inaction by governments, event promoters and eBay in preventing ticket scalping, are taking matters into their own hands.
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Pilot said 'this is fun' before fatal Blackwater crash
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 2004 crash that killed everyone on board -- three crew members and three U.S. troops -- was caused by pilots from a Blackwater plane taking a low-level run through a mountain canyon in Afghanistan, testimony revealed Tuesday.
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Homeless man stays warm by setting another homeless man on fire
A MAN has been charged after a homeless man was set alight in a Sydney park yesterday.
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Oct 2nd
Iraqi deaths fall by 50 percent
BAGHDAD - The number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than a year. The U.S. military said the lower count was at least partly a result of new strategies and 30,000 additional U.S. forces deployed this year.
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Biologists aim to wipe out Alaska's "Rat Island"
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Two centuries after rats first landed on a remote Aleutian island from a shipwreck, wildlife managers in Alaska are plotting how to evict the non-native rodent from the island that bears their name.
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TSA to scrutinize remote-controlled toys
WASHINGTON - Airport screeners will be taking a closer look at remote control toys in carry-on luggage due to concerns they could be used to detonate bombs, U.S. officials said Monday.
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