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Old 03-07-2008, 09:36 AM
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Die elsewhere or face severe punishment

PAU, France (AFP) - The mayor of a French village has issued a decree banning residents from dying in his territory unless they own a spot in the overcrowded cemetery.


"It is forbidden for any person not having a plot in the cemetery ... to die on the territory of the village," the mayor of the southwestern village of Sarpourenx wrote in a decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders.

Mayor Gerard Lalanne told AFP he had taken the radical measure to protest against a legal ruling preventing him from enlarging the burial ground in the village of 260 people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306...cedeathoffbeat

Too much French wine can ruin the mind.
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Old 03-12-2008, 05:36 PM
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You really can't make this sh*t up

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23595533/

Gross woman, go wash your ass.

Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
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Old 03-12-2008, 10:09 PM
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I heard about this last week on NPR.

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers
By Erin Alberty
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 02/27/2008 07:13:46 PM MST


A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

Ellis said the exercise was a dramatization of a story in which a young man asks Socrates to become his teacher. Socrates responds by plunging the student's head underwater and telling him he will learn once his desire for knowledge is as great as his desire to breathe.

However, Ellis said Christopherson explained the exercise before Hudgens volunteered, no one held Hudgens down and Hudgens was free to get up if he was uncomfortable.

"It was meant to be a team-building exercise," Ellis said. "Everybody was . . . involved and enthusiastic."
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Old 03-19-2008, 07:54 PM
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Thumbs down over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate in Heparin from China

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US FDA names contaminant in Baxter's heparin

Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:27am EDT

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said on Wednesday they had identified a contaminant found in batches of Baxter International's (BAX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) recalled blood-thinner heparin as part of their investigation into serious reactions and deaths.
Wow!! Just wow... That is NOT safe. There is an issue of immunoresponsiveness of the heparin or the ineffectiveness of the heparin--it exacerbates clotting or whatever the symptoms were... Meaning it is NOT heparin that was injected, but thioled-heparin. Just ugly!!!
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Old 03-24-2008, 07:52 PM
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Please Lord, no. Kevorkian for Congress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080324/...s_kevorkian_dc
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Old 03-24-2008, 08:14 PM
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As screwed up as this state is right now, I don't think it's screwed up enough to elect him.
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Old 03-26-2008, 12:13 PM
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A pregnant man???

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...326?hub=Health

Crazy talk!

You can also see the video news story from ABC News on yahoo.
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