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The $1b new town where nobody’s home

May 10, 2012
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An artist rendering showing the $US1 billion scientific ghost town that will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, New Mexico. Photo: AP A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology – but no people. A $US1 billion city without residents...
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Injecting our guts with fecal bacteria from ancient mummies could cure obesity

April 7, 2012
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Antibiotics have depleted our gut flora and possibly made us fatter. Researchers look for answers in the flora of humans who lived in an era before modern medicine. By Bryan NelsonThu, Mar 29 2012 at 9:19 PM EST Photo: ZUMA Press It sounds outrageous, but King Tut’s stomach bacteria might hold the cure for obesity. Researchers...
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Austrian man saws off own foot to avoid work

March 29, 2012
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VIENNA (Reuters) – An unemployed Austrian man sawed his foot off, apparently to avoid being found fit to go back to work. Hours before an appointment on Monday for the labor office to check on his health, the 56-year-old man held his left leg against an electric saw in his home workshop and severed...
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You’ve won billions! Ah … sorry, no you haven’t

March 23, 2012
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THREE hundred Danes believed a dream lifestyle of champagne and caviar awaited them this week after they were announced billionaire lottery winners – until they discovered it was a mistake. All 300 had received an email from the head of the Danish state-run lottery company, Danske Spil, congratulating them on the astronomical sums they...
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Employers asking interviewees for facebook passwords

March 21, 2012
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When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to...
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Homeless people turned into WiFi hotspots

March 14, 2012
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A marketing project aimed at modernising street newspapers is turning homeless people into walking internet hotspots. The brainchild of branding company BBH New York, the Homeless Hotspots ‘initiative’ was spotted at a music and technology conference in Texas by a New York Times reporter, the Daily Mail reports. Homeless people dressed in T-shirts proclaiming...
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New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paper

March 13, 2012
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New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paperSome Trenton residents tried to force a recall election of the citys mayor over his hiring practicesPublic buildings in the capital of the US state of New Jersey face running out of toilet paper following a row. Trentons city council has refused to approve a $42,000...
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Bearded Lady Vivian Wheeler Finds Her Son After 33 Years

March 13, 2012
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Marc Hartzman Contributor Every adopted child wonders who his biological mother is. Movie star? Rock star? Maybe a big-shot CEO? For Richard Lorenc, she turned out to be the last thing he ever imagined: a sideshow bearded lady.The 33-year-old Kansas man had always been curious about his birth parents, but with a wife and two...
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TV show that interviews death row prisoners a hit in China

March 4, 2012
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It was meant to deter potential criminals but China’s latest TV show that interviews prisoners on death row has become a prime time hit. Interviews Before Execution, a show that airs every Saturday night in China, has millions of people gathering around their televisions to watch those condemned to die opening up their hearts....
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Pervert who sold semen-soiled yoghurt samples gets his comeuppance

March 3, 2012
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From correspondents in New Mexico From: NewsCore March 02, 2012 10:08PM A bowl of Greek yoghurt yesterday. A NEW Mexico grocery store worker who misled shoppers into tasting a yogurt sample tainted with his semen will spend the next two years in prison. Anthony Garcia, 32, tricked four women into sampling the contaminated food in January...
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