SEATTLE — An aspiring ninja learned the hard way that he isn’t able to jump a 5-foot fence. Seattle police said an officer checking out a report of an assault in the 600 block of 7th Avenue late Monday came across a man impaled on top of a metal fence, screaming for help. Firefighters pulled [...]
November 17, 2009
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic [...]
November 17, 2009
PHOENIX — A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago, along with a $1,000 money order to cover the fines. Camelback High School librarian Georgette Bordine says the two Audubon Society books checked out in 1959 and the money order were [...]
November 16, 2009
SHORELINE, Wash. – It was a bizarre set of events in the Shoreline area today, with two potential crime scenes. Shoreline Police say a woman driving a pickup truck ran into a rock retaining wall. Police say a man was thrown from the vehicle. He suffered serious head injuries; the woman was not injured. When [...]
November 16, 2009
Move over, red wine. Make room for chocolate milk. A new study suggests that regular consumption of skim milk with flavonoid-rich cocoa may reduce inflammation, potentially slowing or preventing development of atherosclerosis. Researchers noted, however, that the effect was not as pronounced as that seen with red wine. Scientists in Barcelona, Spain, recruited 47 volunteers [...]
November 16, 2009
Quick! Click on the link above to see if you are perhaps one of the co-authors listed on this article from Astroparticle Physics, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 89–99, entitled ”Erratum to ‘Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory‘.” Or perhaps your name was inadvertently [...]
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