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Pew News IQ
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Three years ago this week.
Issue of August 8, 2005
So one afternoon in mid-July … I’m struggling to get an enormous air-conditioner into the west window of the living room. It’s 95 degrees with a heat index of 105 and there are nasty storms coming on the radar, but so far there’s only spotty rain and very distant [...] -
Signs the Apocalypse has already happened.
Chess boxers slug it out | NEWS.com.au
A RUSSIAN man has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing, a game that requires equal skill at moving pawns and throwing punches.
Mathematics student Nikolai Sazhin, 19, competing under the name “The President” knocked out a 37-year-old German policeman Frank Stoldt, who served as a [...] -
A bad idea gets much worse.
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis | The Guardian
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an [...] -
Wait a minute. Your thumb is on the other side?
George W Bush does a fist bump with USA Freedom Corps volunteer Robbie Powell as he arrives at Adams Field in Little Rock, Arkansas (Reuters photo).
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Convenient, but the croutons taste funny.
EPA: Salad dressing runoff floods Ohio homes
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio EPA official says creamy ranch dressing mixed with sewage and storm runoff in the flooded basements of at least 10 Columbus homes.
Sewage from T. Marzetti Co., a Columbus-based salad dressing maker, overwhelmed the Columbus storm-sewer system during heavy rains last week. A [...]