Every day, the same, again
Woman accused of faking cancer to avoid work.
Lab technician admits necrophilia.
A drunken man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, attacked the founder of a group calling itself the Jedi church.
Sushi restaurant owners accused of holding Korean workers in “indentured servitude” and making them work without pay for years.
Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of cookies.
Chicago reverses foie gras ban.
A growing number of communities across the USA are moving to prevent sexual predators from becoming ice cream truck drivers.
A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door.
NYC cabbie is fined $1,000 for foul-mouthed tirade.
About 30 buses are being redesigned as part of an experiment to improve bus service and congestion in NYC. The bluish polka-dot design is actually a pattern known as Pear.
California could become the second state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Why the liver is so important [video].
Alaska first state to hit $4 a gallon gasoline.
On May 13, the price of a barrel of oil briefly hit a record of $126.98 on the New York Mercantile Exchange The reason was ostensibly that Iran was cutting oil production. But there is no gas shortage. So why are prices still going up?
Wages fall behind inflation for seventh month.
‘Encouraging’ consumer resilience.
Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.
Mr. Navaro, a lawyer from Denver, shares his two-bedroom apartment in the Marais neighborhood of Paris with several other owners.
Alcohol makes us blind to the meaning of facial expressions.
Auditory illusion proves that the visual cue of moving lips plays an important role in accurately hearing what people say.
Non-musicians can identify minor-key tunes, but only when labeled “sad”.
Check out the built-in GPS that gives the direction if you’re going east.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
`most universities forbid students to use wikipedia’? isn’t that claim a bit… strong? i would be surprised if five universities forbade their students use wikipedia. many professors, at many universities, will be concerned about students’ uncritical use of wikipedia—but that’s not really an interesting statement, since professors are paid to be concerned about students’ uncritical use of information.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
(and i know, those were the AFP’s words, not yours….)