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Mum tells Westwood to say sorry for swearing (Reuters)

elegant — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:27:50 +0000

Reuters – Lee Westwood was forced to apologize after his mum caught him swearing on live television at last week’s Qatar Masters, the world number three said on Tuesday.

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Anfield cat becomes Internet hit (Reuters)

elegant — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:43:16 +0000

Reuters – A cat that invaded the famous Anfield turf for three minutes during Liverpool’s 0-0 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday has become an internet celebrity.

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Magnetic soap: New tool for oil spill cleanup? – Mother Nature Network

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:41:01 +0000

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Priests, farmers, lesbian truckers tweet for Sweden (Reuters)

elegant — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:08:37 +0000

Reuters – Sweden is tweeting to the world, and this week she is Hanna, “just your average lesbian truck driver.”

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Women are a mystery to British physicist Hawking (Reuters)

creative — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:07:01 +0000

Reuters – The biggest mystery in the universe perplexing one of the world’s best known scientists is — women.

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Year in Review: What Yahoo! readers remember about 2011 (The Newsroom)

creative — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:28:39 +0000

The Newsroom – We rounded up the biggest news stories of 2011, and Casey Anthony’s trial came out on top. But what do Yahoo! readers remember about a year that also saw a wave of protests around the world, the death of Osama bin Laden and a royal wedding?

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Whale sperm, orgasmic feet top 2011 bad science list (Reuters)

publisher — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:11:28 +0000

Reuters – From whale sperm to colon cleansers to the shape of a woman’s foot when she has an orgasm, celebrities did not disappoint during 2011 with their penchant for peddling suspect science in the world’s media.

Crime scene cleanup ad lifts Handel’s Messiah (Reuters)

publisher — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:26:12 +0000

Reuters – Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can’t go together.

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Professor is dumpster-diving urban Robin Hood (Reuters)

creative — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:57:03 +0000

Reuters – University professor Jeff Ferrell is something of a U.S. urban Robin Hood, although what he gives away is not stolen but the result of dumpster diving.

Mayans never predicted world to end in 2012? (Reuters)

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:55:57 +0000

Reuters – If you are worried the world will end next year based on the Mayan calendar, relax: the end of time is still far off.

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