Articles Archive for September 2009
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Lisa Snyder, a stay-at-home mom in rural Michigan, says she was doing her neighbors a favor by watching their kids for about 20 to 30 minutes each morning before the school bus arrived.
One by one each morning a different group of kids would arrive at her Middleville, Mich., house to wait wit... read more
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Word on the street is former couple Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman recorded a 15-minute sex romp while on vacation several years ago, but forgot the camera in the resort room — leaving Silverman, the star of The Sarah Silverman Program, and Kimmel, the face of ABC late night in quite a pickle. S... read more
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Canadian billionaire Guy LaLiberte became the 7th paying tourist –and the first clown– in space when he blasted off early today to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft.
LaLiberte, founder of Cirque de Soliel, says he plans to crack jokes and tickle the other astro... read more
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One of the largest, high quality diamonds discovered to date has been found at a mine in South Africa, mining group Petra Diamonds has revealed.
The 507 carat stone, which could be worth in excess of $20m (£12.5m), was found with three other large diamonds.
They were discovered at the... read more
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A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.
Abdul Mouti Bayoumi said supplying the item was akin to spreading vice in society, a crime punishable by death in Islamic Sharia law.
Th... read more
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Actor Tom Cruise, 47, and wife Katie Holmes, 30, have commissioned the world’s top fashion names to custom-make outfits for their toddler Suri.
An insider said: “They really splurg... read more
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The reason why many creative people like Vincent Van Gogh show self-destructive tendencies is in the genes, researchers have discovered.
Scientists in a new study found that volunteers identified as the most creative also had the highest levels of a gene variant associated with psychosis and ... read more
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The koala, Australia’s star symbol, is dying of stress.
Koalas live in the rolling hills and flat plains where eucalyptus trees grow, because they need the leaves for both food and water. But as people move in, koalas are finding themselves with fewer trees, researchers say. The stress ... read more
