LIKE many adopted children, Matthew Roberts set about finding his biological parents with a mix of nerves and excitement. In particular, he hoped that discovering his father’s identity would help him to work out what made him the man he had become. But nothing could have prepared him for being told his dad is… serial [...]
November 28, 2009
Compelling new data that chemical and fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars was carried to Earth in a Martian meteorite is being elevated to a higher plane by the same NASA team which made the initial discovery 13 years ago. Sources tell Spaceflight Now that the new data are providing a powerful new [...]
November 27, 2009
Sometimes wrongdoers outsmart police. And then there are those suspects who make cops’ jobs a whole lot easier. Here are seven recent examples of how to do that: 1. Wear a stolen state trooper’s watch. OK, Angel Cruz, 54, of Philadelphia, couldn’t have known he was breaking into a trooper’s personal car at a T.G.I.Friday’s [...]
November 26, 2009
The saga of Tammy the Turnpike Turkey may have a romantic epilogue. Finally captured at Exit 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike, Tammy may be pleased with her new home at the Popcorn Park Zoo in Lacy Township, New Jersey. That happy ending is a long way from the place Tammy had called home since [...]
November 26, 2009
REHOBOTH, Mass. – A Massachusetts woman is seeking donations from fellow pet lovers to help pay for eye surgery for her turkey named Jerry. Lyndsey Medeiros and her husband adopted three-year-old Jerry and another turkey from a Rhode Island farm last week. But Jerry has cataracts, and the eye problems mean he can’t eat independently [...]
November 26, 2009
Eating turkey might make you sleepy, but most Americans are not napping on Thanksgiving, according to a recent survey. Instead, they are sleeping in the next morning and eluding Black Friday discounts. The telephone poll of 1,001 Americans found that 71 percent stay awake on the holiday despite turkey’s legendary soporific power while, curiously, more [...]
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