ROME — An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu — an electronic holy water dispenser. The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like an automatic soap dispenser [...]
November 12, 2009
A good cook views ice cream much as a painter views a blank canvas, as pure potential, bursting with tempting possibilities. Once you get the basic recipe down—a handful of ingredients added to milk or cream—you’re free to flavor it with just about anything you like. Nearly anything can be used as an ice cream [...]
November 11, 2009
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee Army reservist’s military identification earned him some street cred Tuesday, when he says four men who mugged him at gunpoint returned his belongings and thanked him for his service after finding the ID. The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student said he was walking home from work about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when [...]
November 10, 2009
As everybody knows, the first thing you do if you want a close look at one of England’s most important historical churches is hop a flight to…Osaka? Believe it or not, that’s been the case since Osaka’s Monterey Hotel saw fit to grace its premises with a detailed, three-quarter-size replica of All Saints Church Brockhampton. [...]
November 10, 2009
LONDON — A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down. South Wales Police had issued media with the photo of Matthew Maynard, wanted by officers investigating [...]
November 10, 2009
Procter & Gamble announced in October that it will once again create and host a public restroom for the holiday season in New York City’s Times Square as a promotion for Charmin tissue. Last year’s installation was merely specially outfitted toilet facilities, but this year P&G will upgrade by hiring five bloggers (“Charmin Ambassadors”) to [...]
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