Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. “Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific [...]
March 3, 2010
Condoms in ‘extra small’ for boys age 12 set for Britain’s shelves soon Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 could soon be on our shelves. The Hotshot condoms are going on sale in Switzerland after research found that not enough 12 to 14-year-old boys were having protected sex. The condoms are likely to end up [...]
Read Full PostMarch 3, 2010
TWO Russian men died in a sauna after jumping into a plunge pool that had accidentally been heated to boiling point, investigators and media said. The two men jumped into the pool to cool down after sweating in a steam room. A third man tried to save the victims but was unable to pull the men out [...]
Read Full PostMarch 2, 2010
Brrrrrrr. Man, it is cold out there. And that snow is deep. The “snowicane” that’s dumped 3 feet of the white stuff on the Northeast has our one-man Pittsburgh bureau dreaming of a vacation someplace a little more hospitable — like, say, Nome, Alaska. And our man in Denver? We haven’t heard from him in days. He [...]
Read Full PostMarch 2, 2010
Laws are generally good for society. You know, the ones that prevent looting and killing sprees and general anarchy? But in many states there are laws still in effect that either ban something no sane person would ever do, or show their age with regards to women, controlled substances, or the separation of Church and [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 25, 2010
We know eye witnesses aren’t always reliable, but police composite sketches almost never really look like the perpetrator. Remember the Unabomber? He looked nothing like the stylish, mustachioed, aviator-wearing hoodlum he was made out to be. All kidding aside, these are some of the worst police sketches we have ever seen. Whether they look like [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 24, 2010
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering an Atlantic City bar. Samantha Lynn Frazier said she heard two pops when she walked into Herman’s Place early Saturday. The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed her left [...]
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