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Milwaukee Business Journal
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Jan 25, 08 2:15 PM CST
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Milwaukee’s about to get way cooler. Thanks to private donations and teenagers who bought “Bronze the Fonz” T-shirts, the tourist bureau has raised $85,000 to erect a permanent bronze tribute to Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker in the Milwaukee-set '70s hit sitcom “Happy Days.” But the the local art community isn't impressed; one gallery is even said to be closing in protest.
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Daily Mail (UK)
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Jan 23, 08 8:04 PM CST
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A British teenager who calls herself a "human pet" is complaining of discrimination after she and her boyfriend/owner were kicked off a public bus. "We don't let freaks and dogs like you on," the driver allegedly told Tasha Maltby, whom fiancé Dani Graves leads by a leash. "It is definitely discrimination, almost like a hate crime," Maltby told the Daily Mail .
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Dallas Morning News
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Jan 23, 08 7:32 PM CST
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Those mysterious lights flitting across the Texas sky earlier this month were military jet fighters, not alien ships, the Air Force said today. The lights prompted dozens of reports of UFO sightings, and the mystery grew when the military initially said it had no aircraft in the area. Today, the Air Force backtracked and said it made a mistake—but true believers aren't buying it, the Dallas Morning News reports.
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Military Times
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Jan 23, 08 11:30 AM CST
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It’s been called Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, the Box and, of course, Area 51. Now the US Air Force’s Groom Lake, Nev., test site—possibly the least-secret top-secret base of all time—has a new name: “Homey Airport.” The facility now pops up on aviation software and GPS as Homey Airport, or its official designation, KXTA. (Could that stand for Extra-Terrestrial Airport?)
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LiveScience
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Jan 15, 08 4:07 PM CST
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New genetic evidence gives Christopher Columbus credit for bringing back a different sort of bounty from the New World—the scourge of syphilis. Columbus and his crew returned home with a sexually transmitted form of a disease native to South America, say Emory University researchers. Soon after, the first known syphilis epidemic ravaged Europe, LiveScience reports.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Jan 15, 08 1:27 PM CST
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National Geographic is under fire for an article perceived as (gasp!) anti-North Dakota. Headlined "The Emptied Prairie," the piece refers to the state's "irreversible decline" and "sense of things ebbing." No less a personage than North Dakota's governor, John Hoeven, has lambasted it as shoddy journalism, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune .
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Boston Globe
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Jan 14, 08 3:55 PM CST
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You might have had a feeling, but ESP is not real—at least according to two Harvard researchers who used brain-scanning technology to investigate the existence of extrasensory perception. The brain registers familiar images differently than new ones, but researchers found no difference in activity when subjects processed images "sent" from another room, the Boston Globe reports.
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Summit Daily News
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Jan 14, 08 9:00 AM CST
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Who's the coldest one of all? A court will have to decide, because the battle is on between International Falls, Minn., and Fraser, Colo. Both claim the right to boast of being the "Icebox of the Nation," the Summit Daily News of Frisco, Colo., reports. Fraser sued International Falls, demanding that the town prove it had been using the name since 1956, and International Falls has countersued, demanding the same.
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LiveScience
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Jan 11, 08 2:20 PM CST
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Authorities in Indiana are hoping DNA evidence will help them close the case of a woman who killed at least 25 people in the early 20th century before possibly faking her own death. A woman's headless body was found in the burned-out basement of Belle Gunness' house in 1908, and suspicions that the body wasn't hers soon arose, LiveScience reports. She may have fled West and continued killing.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Jan 11, 08 11:35 AM CST
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A British court has annulled the marriage of a couple who learned they were twins separated at birth, the Telegraph reports. Their identities and the specifics of their romance remain secret, but a member of the House of Lords who have access to the details said the siblings had felt an “inevitable attraction.”
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Der Spiegel
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Jan 9, 08 6:30 PM CST
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German police are searching for a woman they believe hacked up her husband and flushed the pieces down the toilet, Der Spiegel reports. Neither wife nor husband have been seen since just before Christmas, when neighbors report hearing hammering, strange noises, and repeated flushing. The woman reportedly told her grown children, “You won’t see him again, I flushed him down the toilet.”
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Globe and Mail
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Jan 8, 08 12:18 PM CST
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An 85-year-old speedster has been charged with street racing after a Canadian cop clocked him going 100mph, the Globe and Mail reports. When the officer tried to pull over the rocketing Oldsmobile Intrigue, the heedless octogenarian sped up, weaving between lanes in icy conditions to maintain speed. When he finally pulled over, the lead-footed senior said he was on his way to the bank.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Jan 6, 08 5:38 PM CST
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Does he live, or lose his life to "liquid fire and bombs"? That question is keeping tens of thousands glued to a site that is posting the letters of a World War I soldier in real time, 90 years after they were written. The soldier's grandson, who collected the letters, prefers to leave readers in the dark: "That is the way it would have been at home," he said.
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Associated Press
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Jan 6, 08 2:41 PM CST
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At-home female entrepreneurs are ditching Mary Kay for Tasers, but they're keeping the pink. Taser International is marketing its user-friendly C2 "personal protector" to the public, and women with an interest in self-defense are holding independent Taser parties in states where the stun gun is legal. "It's a girl power kind of thing," said one woman. Critics, however, aren't so sure.
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Associated Press
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Jan 5, 08 9:12 PM CST
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What price for a little lovin'? Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, but only as much as necessary: They groom for longer when fewer females are around, and for less time when there are more, according to a new study. "In primate societies, grooming is the underlying fabric of it all," said the doctor who ran the study.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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Jan 5, 08 3:14 PM CST
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Philly police have arrested a 15-year-old in the case of a gentle brown dog whose disappearance led to a cruel chain of events for her owner. The youth and others called up the distraught owner after Edna's disappearance, demanded a ransom, then made a dog yelp in pain as he listened, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. Hours later, they called back to say they had killed Edna, whose fate remains unknown.
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Tucson Citizen
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Jan 5, 08 7:46 AM CST