"Octomom" files for bankruptcy in California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California mother of octuplets, dubbed “Octomom,” filed for bankruptcy on Monday, after previously admitting she was on public assistance to support herself and her 14 children. Nadya Suleman, 36, gave birth to eight babies as a single mother in 2009. But goodwill turned to anger in the media after it was revealed Suleman had undergone fertility treatments when she already had six children, and questions were raised about her ability to provide for her family. Her children became only the second set of octuplets known to have survived birth in the United States. …
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"Octomom" files for bankruptcy in California
Man sues BMW, alleging motorcycle seat gave him two-year erection
Commercials for erectile dysfunction medications like Cialis end with a warning that an individual should contact their doctor if they have an erection that lasts for more than four hours. After 20 months, Henry Wolf decided to contact a lawyer instead, claiming that the seat on his BMW motorcycle gave him an erection lasting nearly
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Getting married in South Korea? Bring a lot of cash!
SEOUL (Reuters) – The Beatles may have sung “all you need is love,” but in South Korea a couple wanting to get married also needs cash, a lot of it – nearly $200,000 (122,925 pounds), or more than four times the average annual income. The sky-high costs stem from a combination of cultural traditions that mandate expensive pre-wedding gifts between families, such as mink coats and diamond rings, along with a decades-old custom that the groom must fork over money to provide a home. …
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New York woman fired after donating kidney to help boss
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York woman who donated a kidney so her ailing boss would move up the transplant waiting list says she was fired shortly after the operation, according to a complaint she filed with the New York State Division of Human Rights. Deborah Stevens said her former employer, Atlantic Automotive Group, discriminated against her over disabilities brought about by complications from the surgery, and she plans to sue the company for lost earnings and damages. The company, which runs car dealerships on Long Island, said Stevens’s complaint is groundless. …
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Most-liked cities: Seattle and Portland tops, Detroit dead last (poll)
New research from Public Policy Polling finds that Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., are America’s most favorably viewed cities. Conversely, Detroit is the nation’s least favorably viewed city. The report found that 57 percent of respondents in the poll view Seattle favorably, compared with 14 percent who view it unfavorably. Similarly, Portland has a favorability
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Most-liked cities: Seattle and Portland tops, Detroit dead last (poll)
Philippine runners race to survive zombie horde
LAGUNA PROVINCE, Philippines (Reuters) – Natural and man-made obstacles studded the course of a Philippine race, but the real danger to the thousands of runners came from the hordes of “zombies”. About five thousand people dashed along the five km (three mile) course of the survival-themed race in Laguna Province, about 38 km south of Manila, dodging an assortment of the walking undead in the contest based on a popular U.S. race. …
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Shooting zombies is the fad among gun enthusiasts
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – One of Patrick Flanagan’s favorite movies as a kid was “Night of the Living Dead,” a 1968 horror film about a family trapped in a rural Pennsylvania house and attacked by zombies. “I really dug zombie stuff since then,” said Flanagan, 23, an unemployed concrete worker from Alton, in southern Illinois. So Flanagan combined his interest in zombies with another hobby – guns. …
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Argentina’s "Miracle Baby" takes turn for the worse
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A baby declared stillborn and then later found alive by her parents at a morgue in Argentina was in critical condition on Friday after taking a turn for the worse overnight, a hospital official said. Doctors told Analia Bouter that her baby was stillborn when she gave birth in Argentina’s northern Chaco province at the start of the month. But 12 hours after her birth, when Bouter and her husband pried open the wooden coffin inside the refrigerated morgue to see her one last time, they found the baby not only breathing but yawning and stretching her arms. …
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Unwelcome visitor leaves teeth wounds on Louisiana motel guest
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A six-foot alligator which showed up at the front door of a Baton Rouge-area motel on Wednesday might have departed without incident had it not been for an overly helpful guest, who later checked out of the motel with puncture wounds. A housekeeper at the Super 8 Motel just off Interstate 10 in Port Allen, Louisiana, spotted the gator as it crossed the driveway toward the motel at about 3 p.m. She called a maintenance worker, who called the hotel manager to come take a look. “He came up right by our front door to the lobby,” Assistant Manager Tiffany Dunnam said. …
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Taste testers enlisted to sample fish exposed to Scottish gas leak
Scotland’s government has brought in a team of taste testers to ensure the safety of fish potentially affected by an ongoing gas leak emanating from a North Sea oil platform owned by French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. The government brought to the Marine Scotland Science organization “specially trained sensory testers” who tasted
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