Every day, the same, again
Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the “body shops”—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the “expertise” behind the Iraq war.
An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin.
Man trying to cash $360 billion check arrested in Texas.
Former ‘Mr Gay UK’ charged with murder and canibalism.
South Carolina teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus.
40 drowning victims may have been murdered by ‘Smiley Face Gang’.
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington. Gnome appears on Mount St. Helens, Washington.
Employees at a popular fast food restaurant decided it was okay to store buns for their hamburgers inside the men’s room.
Genetically engineered rice plants that resist the uptake of toxic metals could boost production and ease the shortage of this staple crop in Asia, India and Bangladesh, where irrigation with contaminated groundwater has created soils with toxic levels of arsenic.
Enterovirus threatens Beijing Olympics: “The virus shows no symptoms in some people, but sometimes it is like cold, and in other rarer cases it becomes very serious and develops into meningitis, encephalitis or paralysis.”
When her lawyer, Dale Cendali, spoke Lord Voldemort’s name — known to everyone who has ever read a Potter book as “he who must not be named” — she quickly said, “Forgive me for speaking the name.”
A Long Island music shop owner accused of selling knockoff Gibson Les Paul guitars has been arraigned in a pickup truck in a courthouse parking lot after his lawyer said the 500-pound defendant couldn’t walk into the courthouse.
If you’re a married woman living in the New York City area, there’s a better than 50 percent chance that you don’t work.
New Yorkers are on the hook to hand over $321 million to Goldman Sachs, America’s richest investment bank, because the Port Authority failed to rebuild the World Trade Center as fast as promised.
The pile of dinosaur dung sold for nearly $1,000.
Venice bans pigeon feeding in St. Mark’s Square.
“Spheres of ice are preferred by serious on the rocks drinkers.”
