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`YOUNG Talent Time, the show that helped catapult Kylie and Dannii Minogue to stardom, is to make a return to television.’

I met Johnny Young once. That’s how cool I am. :)

`Diary Entry: 04-12-00

Well, it’s now been 23 days since the trepanning. I still feel very rejuvenated.

Diary Entry: 04-19-00

I have come to the frustrating conclusion that the trepanation has had no lasting effect. I mean, the effects were subtle the whole time anyway and they appear to have worn off.’

`The Bubble Baba Challenge tournament will take place in Russia for the second time. Anyone over 16, and of either sex, is allowed to take part in the competition.’

`I used to hate the water.’

Flash animation.

`One man wrote he passed two gallons of black, green, and yellow rope as hard as a rock and he lost 30 pounds in the stomach area. Another lady wrote Herbal Fiberblend caused her to pass polyps, two pulsating masses, and a gallon of black fecal matter with worms.’

`”This clearly proves that the DPRK [North Korea] was right when it commented that he is a political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality…..

“Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade and his group of such tyrants is a typical gang of political gangsters,” he said.’

`The 3-year-old Rottweiler-Doberman pinscher mix named Diablo bit the suspect after he opened the passenger door of a car stopped at a stoplight and grabbed the driver by the neck.

The dog lost its four bottom teeth in the incident [..]’

‘Fourteen search and rescue dogs who dug through the rubble of the World Trade Center have since died.

Eight of the dogs died from cancer. [..]

And the lead author of the study said the surviving dogs will need to be monitored for the rest of their lives. [..] if they begin to have health problems, there is a good chance that people who worked to clear the site could have problems as well.’

more here.

`Powerlines broke her fall and may have saved her life. She survived with a hairline fracture to her pelvis.’

`It’s still being investigated. The printer remains in critical condition. “It’s in the process of being repaired – or junked,” Drummond said. “It’s definitely broken, but we don’t know the extent of the damage.”‘

Halfway down the page.

`Michael Jackson’s nose was about to collapse until cartilage from his ear was used to rebuild it, a surgeon claims. [..]

“I think Michael Jackson wants to change from a black man to a white woman.”’

`Q: How?
A: We establish a fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund, moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you [..]’

`women and men with asymmetrical extremities – ears, fingers or feet of different sizes or shapes – were more likely to react aggressively when annoyed or provoked.’

`Faced with a ballooning national energy bill tied to global oil prices, the Government has told the biggest users of electricity such as air-conditioned department stores and hypermarkets they must close at 8pm and 10pm respectively. Petrol stations must close at midnight nationally to discourage petrol use.’

`British Prime Minister Tony Blair is refusing to fly to the US to receive a medal bestowed on him by the nation for his support over last year’s Iraq war [..]

US President George W. Bush has put huge pressure on his closest ally to pick up the Congressional Medal of Honour in person [..]’

`The Staten Island woman initially reported she was raped, but later told police she’d had consensual sex with four firefighters [..]

She also told cops she has had sex with 200 to 300 firefighters since 9/11 — and that she has herpes. She also suffers from bipolar disorder, sources said.

Police sources also said the woman acted strangely during questioning — and even asked at one time that she be interviewed by more handsome detectives.’

`A MAN who was shot by police after kidnapping two children and then shipped off to be cremated was found to be alive by funeral workers who heard him groan. Zhang Kailin, 36, was shot at point-blank range and fell to the ground from a five-storey window ledge after a tense two-hour standoff at a school in central Hebei province [..]’

also pictures.

`A house blaze that killed two firefighters started in a tangle of wires and lamps that were installed to grow marijuana in a basement closet, authorities said.

The man who police say was responsible for the drug operation was charged with third-degree murder.’

‘Lightning has the killing power to kill people and the destructive power to knock down trees! When you stand near trees, you will be knocked down by lightning and you will be killed by lightning! There is no escape. Lightning will knock down the tree and knock down your soul.’

Glossary of alchemist chemical names and the modern nomenclature.

`RUSSIAN
I want a specimen of your urine.
Ja vozjmu u vas mochu na analiz.

PORTUGUESE
Must I swallow them whole?
Devo engoli-los inteiros?

DUTCH
I’m going to prescribe some suppositories.
Ik geef u een recept voor zetpillen.’

`Police said that at 9 p.m. Friday, Pinedo put Mario Chavez, 21, of Corona, in a headlock after Pinedo purchased noodle soup at Nuevo Mexico deli in Woodside. Chavez apparently wanted some of the take-out soup [..] and Pinedo became enraged, a law enforcement source said.

The men, who had been playing handball at Frank D. O’Connor Playground near the deli, went back to the park and wrestled until Pinedo choked his friend to death, police said.’

`The panel noted that the software firms simply provide software that lets individual users to share information over the internet, regardless of whether that shared information was copyrighted.

“The technology has numerous other uses, significantly reducing the distribution costs of public domain and permissively shared art and speech, as well as reducing the centralised control of that distribution,” Thomas wrote.’

`A robot fighting contest that draws huge crowds in Japan each year has highlighted sophisticated technological trends in robotics, experts say.’

with video.

`A new machine that will generate millions of random numbers for a major monthly prize draw in the UK has been unveiled.

It uses a specialised chipset developed by Intel to generate random numbers.

Intel’s random number generating chip uses thermal noise – changes in the voltage and heat energy given off – from transistors as its source of randomness.’

`Artemisinin, a compound extracted from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), has been used for more than 1500 years in traditional Chinese medicine to treat fevers. Over the past few decades, combinations of artemisinin derivatives such as artesunate and artemether have proved highly effective against malaria.

Now, a synthetic drug, with apparently similar properties to artemisinin, has been produced [..]’

`The strained silicon process involves applying a separate material, such as Silicon Germanium, to silicon wafers. The SiGe’s atoms are more widely spaced than those in the regular silicon crystal lattice, which ‘strains’ to align itself with the wider-spaced SiGe lattice. The upshot is more room for electrons to move between the lattice-locked nuclei, improving the semiconductor’s electrical properties.’

`[..] clean, green biodegradable plastic bags made from animal excrement or food waste could replace traditional plastic at Australian supermarket checkouts [..]

Scientists with the Sydney-based Environmental Biotechnology Co-Operative Research Centre happened on a technique for turning organic waste into a green alternative to plastic bags quite by accident, the company’s executive director, David Garman said.’

`Health officials in Romania who were called to investigate a strange smell of gas by an angry 74-year-old pensioner found he was storing a dead cow in his living room. [..]

A police spokesman told the daily National: “The animal was already in putrefaction and the old man was telling us he was still eating from it from time to time and so he wanted to keep it.

“He was really angry when it was taken away.”‘

`A Danish cattle farmer lost 31 of his 85 Jersey dairy cows when lightning struck the trees under which they had sought shelter during a rain storm. [..]

The Danish Insurance Information Service said it had never heard of so many cows being killed by lightning at one time.’