MOSCOW — Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house. Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, [...]
November 19, 2009
NEW YORK — What word sums up 2009? How about “unfriend?” That’s the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word [...]
November 19, 2009
BRIDGETON, N.J. — No one is complaining about a $100,000 mistake made by a southern New Jersey store clerk. Indian Fields Market owner Domenic Galle says a man walked into the Bridgeton store and asked for a Deuces Wild scratch-off lottery ticket Monday night. Galle says the clerk gave him an Aces High ticket instead. [...]
November 18, 2009
NASA, the same organization that sends sundry items into space (Wikipedia list of NASA missions), has a separate department—Orbital Debris Program Office, located at the Johnson Space Center—devoted to researching orbital debris. This department is recognized world-wide for its initiative in addressing orbital debris issues, and has taken the international lead in conducting measurements of [...]
November 18, 2009
ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR ST. LOUIS — With his sparkling blue eyes, salty demeanor and pure river grit, Chad Pregracke, 34, could pass for a real-life Garret Blake, the role played by Kevin Costner in the 1999 movie Message in a Bottle, in which a man devastated by the death of his wife sends [...]
November 18, 2009
A woman who was given a self portrait by Andy Warhol in the 1960s but stashed it in a closet for 40 years, has sold it at auction for £2.4 million. Cathy Naso had worked as a receptionist for Warhol at The Factory in New York when she was a teenager, and as a gift [...]
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