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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 155 weeks 3 days 7 hours 10 minutes ago
"Chemistry look what you've done to me," Donna Summer crooned in Science of Love, and so, it seems, she was right. Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns...(more)
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submitted by owen for team Batboy's revenge! 219 weeks 1 day 11 hours 28 minutes ago
A mysterious box of letters, memos and legal documents pertaining to the White Sox team accused of throwing the 1919 World Series -- some of the papers thought to be lost since the middle of the last century -- is bound for the auction block this...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 167 weeks 4 days 8 hours 31 minutes ago
A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
The...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Batboy's revenge! 88 weeks 3 days 22 hours 5 minutes ago
Franz Reichelt was a tailor who designed what he promised was a "parachute jacket." He decided to unveil it to the public by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Pathe filmed it. The also filmed officials measuring the size of the crater he made when he...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost for team Batboy's revenge! 196 weeks 1 day 14 hours 9 minutes ago
The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own.
Plagued in the early, low-tech years of the war by dangerous afflictions such as altitude and decompression sickness, pilots got some...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 90 weeks 1 day 22 hours 49 minutes ago
Want to know if the blouse you're trying on at Bloomingdale's can be snagged on the cheap at Ross? Curious whether that painting is a genuine Jackson Pollock or the inspired effort of a kindergartener? Wondering how much the restaurant gouged you on that bottle of...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 231 weeks 21 hours 45 minutes ago
Australians have come up with a novel solution to the millions of feral cats roaming the outback - eat them.
The felines are the descendants of domestic pets and kill millions of small native animals each year.
A recent Alice Springs contest featured wild cat casserole. The meat...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 78 weeks 6 days 12 hours 4 minutes ago
Officials at California’s state pension fund became aware four years ago of the exorbitant pay raises being given to administrators in the city of Bell and did nothing to stop them, according to an internal memo obtained by The Times.
The memo, which pension staff sent to...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 67 weeks 1 day 23 hours 46 minutes ago
It had to be the first pitch. It just had to be. Could anyone in his right mind picture Juan Uribe letting a half dozen go by before delivering his team a pennant?
Ryan Madson threw a slider, and not a very good one. Uribe pounced. That's...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 230 weeks 19 hours 49 minutes ago
Sen. Larry Craig filed court papers Monday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting, arguing that he entered the plea under stress caused by media inquiries into his sexuality.
Craig, an Idaho Republican, pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct following his June...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 50 weeks 2 days 20 hours 35 minutes ago
Nothing puts a damper on a serene afternoon's kayaking like the sight of a primeval sea monster.
That was the rude lesson for Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington, who'd taken their watercraft out on the foggy waters of Lake Windermere, only to encounter what appeared to be "an...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown for team Batboy's revenge! 248 weeks 8 hours 25 minutes ago
The sea, a thing of infinite mystery, was up to its mysterious ways Monday on San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
At high noon, in the middle of low tide, two large pieces of a wrecked 19th century clipper ship decided to poke out above the sand and reveal...(more)
