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Who shot bin Laden? Former SEALs fill in the blank

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Manuel Roig-Franzia, - May. 11 (Investigative Report) - Who shot Osama? He’s out there somewhere, an instant icon in the annals of American conflict, the ultimate big-game hunter. But an enigma, too, his identity cloaked for now, and maybe forever.

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Leicester boy turns 10 at 1010 BST on 10/10/10

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Oct. 10 (News Report) - George is a keen golfer and will celebrate with a cake in the shape of the 10th-hole A Leicester boy is hoping for a perfect 10, as he celebrates a very special birthday. George Lippitt, from Thurcaston, will turn 10 at exactly 1010 BST on 10/10/2010.

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Court Rules Stolen Valor Act Unconstitutional

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 18 (News Report) - A three-year-old federal law that makes it a crime to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military is unconstitutional, an appeals court panel in California ruled Tuesday. The decision involves the case of Xavier Alvarez of Pomona, Calif., a water district board member who said at a public meeting in 2007 that he was a retired Marine who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration. Alvarez was indicted in 2007. He pleaded guilty on condition that he be allowed to appeal on First Amendment grounds. He was sentenced under the Stolen Valor Act to more than 400 hours of community service at a veterans hospital and fined $5,000.

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The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bruce Fleming - May. 20 (Opinion) - THE idea of a football star receiving lenient treatment after testing positive for drug use would raise no eyebrows at most colleges. But the United States Naval Academy “holds itself to a higher standard,” as its administrators are fond of saying. According to policy set by the chief of naval operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, himself a former commandant of midshipmen at the academy, we have a “zero tolerance” policy for drug use. Yet, according to Navy Times, a running back was allowed to remain at Annapolis this term because the administration accepted his claim that he smoked a cigar that he didn’t know contained marijuana. (He was later kicked off the team for a different infraction, and has now left the academy.)

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Hawaii Limits Requests on Obama’s Birth Records

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Cooper - May. 13 (News Report) - The conspiracy theorists who cling to the false belief that President Obama was born outside the United States outrage many Democrats and embarrass many Republicans. But to a group of state workers who toil away in a long building across from the Capitol, they represent something else: a headache and a waste of time.

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A tree is born | Stanford Daily

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Stanford Daily - Mar. 01 (News) - His neck and his arms are tinged green with remnants of paint from his initiation, “Sprout Night,” the night before. His left forearm is blotted with a huge bruise near the crook of his elbow–a watercolor of purple and dark green.

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Europeans introduce avalanche air bags in Utah

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By Paul Foy - Feb. 28 (News Report) - A Swiss engineer and leading avalanche-safety expert Manuel Genswein was at a Wasatch ski resort east of Salt Lake City this weekend to show off a device meant for surviving a deadly snow slide — a set of air bags designed into a backpack for floating atop avalanche debris. Skiers hit a rip cord to activate the air bags. Genswein said the $1,000 air bag system is making its introduction in North America after years of use around Europe, where he says it has proven 98 percent effective.

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You Can Get A DUI Without Driving Your Car

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

autos.aol.com - By Dan Roth - Feb. 06 (Investigative Report) - It seems like it could be a storyline out Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie, Minority Report: a Minnesota man was convicted of a DUI offense in a car that wasn't moving. What's even more surprising: the car wouldn't start at all. As it turns out, getting a bit tipsy and stumbling out of the house to sleep it off in the car may make you a felon. It happened to Daryl Fleck.

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You Know You're A Conservative When... -

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

airamerica.com - By Ken Kupchik - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - Since almost no one is willing to identify with the GOP these days, it can be difficult to diagnose conservatism. Here are some tips to help determine if you are a conservative: 10) You refused to share your toys in kindergarten, saying it would put you on a dangerous path to socialism.

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Tiger Woods crash jokes: the best on the web - Telegraph

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - Nov. 30 (Comedy News) - What's the difference between a car and a golf ball? Tiger can drive a ball 400 yards.

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"Surreal" Vegetarian Spider Found -- A First

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Geographic - By Matt Kaplan - Oct. 12 (News Report) - A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study says--making it the only known vegetarian out of some 40,000 spider species. A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study

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From the Desk of David Pogue - A Better Way to Manage Receipts for Business Travel - NYTimes.com

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Pogue - Aug. 20 (Comment) - Usually when I review products, I'm testing them out just for the purpose of reviewing them. This week, I'm going to write about something I bought for myself without any intention of writing about it.

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Naked girls plow fields for rain | U.S.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Jul. 23 (News Report) - hPATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday

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Canada forest fire continues to rage

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jul. 20 (News) - KELOWNA, British Columbia -- Firefighters and air tankers in southern British Columbia continue to battle a forest fire that has forced the evacuation of 11,000 residents.

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Brooks: GOP senator touched "my inner thigh"

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush - Jul. 11 (Interview) - Times columnist David Brooks says he has first-hand knowledge of senatorial libidos — referencing an unnamed, presumably male Republican Senator who planted a hand near his personal no-fly zone. Brooks had MSNBC's John Harwood leaping out of his seat earlier today:

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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mike Ahlers - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A preliminary report on the mysterious deployment of an evacuation chute aboard a Barack Obama campaign plane last summer appears to close the book on one potentially embarrassing possibility — that Secret Service agents inadvertently tampered with the chute mechanism during preflight security checks. "An internal (Secret Service) investigation … revealed that no (Secret Service) personnel or … support personnel interfered with or altered the aircraft's … tailcone evacuation slide," a National Transportation Safety Board report says.

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More airlines embracing furry travelers - CNN.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A few weeks ago, Tony Hoard, a 57-year-old manufacturing worker in Indiana, boarded a flight on Midwest Airlines to Las Vegas, Nevada, with his Australian Shepherd. The flight attendant smiled at the two and said, "Welcome aboard." Midwest Airlines allows some of its canine customers to be seated in cabin Hoard has flown with Rory, his furry 40-pound companion, in coach more than 15 times on Midwest, the Wisconsin-based airline that boasts "The Best Care in the Air." Each time they fly, Rory wears a harness and sits strapped into a seat.

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Making It

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Elizabeth Chang - Jun. 14 (Interview) - A creator of artistic walking canes offers her customers a little support

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Reports: NKorea Kim’s youngest son named successor

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jae Soon Chang - Jun. 02 (Breaking News) - SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Jong Il’s youngest son _ a 26-year-old who reportedly enjoys skiing and studied English, German and French at a Swiss boarding school _ was named North Korea’s next leader in an announcement to top ruling party, government and military officials, a South Korean lawmaker and...

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Political storm in Britain, as speaker resigns

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Goldfrab - May. 20 (Breaking News) - LONDON — The scandal of British members of Parliament fiddling with their expenses started almost two weeks ago as a joke, but has become more serious by the day. This afternoon, it claimed its first high-profile victim as the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, resigned.

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How much do you know about Brazil?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Seth Kugel - Apr. 24 (Editorial) - Brazilians don't think much of Americans' knowledge of their country. Many Brazilians are still convinced that American textbooks show the Amazon under United States and United Nations control, even though that hoax was disproved years ago. And every Brazilian knows someone who has come home from Florida or Texas or Nebraska with a story — the same story — about the American who was surprised to hear Brazilians wear shoes.

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Pekingese dog paints abstract art - Telegraph

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Apr. 03 (Entertainment) - Unlike many struggling artists three-year-old Ziggy is doing a roaring trade, having no problem selling his paintings for as much as £171 each.

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Putin takes a chance

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Kevin O'Flynn - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - Vladimir Putin appears worried that a performance by an ABBA tribute band could be his Waterloo......Although it may sound like harmless gossip, there are serious questions about who paid for the concert and whether a prime minister should accept such largesse in a country where billions of dollars have been stolen, where the press is heavily controlled, and where it would be naive to think there would ever be much scandal over a private concert.

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“World’s unluckiest tourists” or the “luckiest tourists” to witness three major terrorist attacks

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

allvoices.com - Dec. 27 (Opinion) - I don’t know if they deserve to be called the unluckiest tourist couple who witnessed three separate major terrorist attacks in the world, or the luckies

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globeandmail.com: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Globe and Mail - By Dean Beeby - Nov. 27 (News Report) - The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany. The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

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