FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Authorities suspected foul play when a body surfaced near a South Florida beach. Turns out 48-year-old Scott Lasky died from Lou Gehrig’s Disease on Sept. 8. A fisherman spotted the body about four miles offshore in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday after his burial at sea went awry. Sheriff’s deputies solved the mystery [...]
September 20, 2010
It is instantly recognizable as a sign of peace, but what is the symbolism behind the peace sign? The olive branch came from ancient Greece, the dove from the bible…but where did that circle with the chicken-footprint come from?! Rewind back to 1958 when London textile designer, Gerald Holtom, wanted to create a symbol for marchers [...]
September 20, 2010
You may have dabbled with a foreign accent just for fun, or for a performance of some kind. But in very rare cases, a person’s voice takes on a dramatically different sound without his or her permission, and the original accent may be totally lost. The phenomenon is called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and it’s gotten [...]
September 17, 2010
An Ohio mother has been accused of teaching her 2-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana after prosecutors said she e-mailed to friends a video of the child puffing on a joint. Jessica Gamble is charged with child endangerment, evidence tampering and “corrupting another with drugs,” according to an indictment returned by a grand jury in Cincinnati. [...]
September 14, 2010
The government of North Korea claims it has fashioned a mind-expanding, liquid brain juice dubbed the ‘Super Drink’ that can supposedly multiply brain cells and halt skin aging. Leave it to the world’s most bizarre and out-of-date regime to produce an anti-oxidation drink that, according to the secretive Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), “protects skin from [...]
September 14, 2010
A German supermarket chain which fired a long-standing employee for taking home some stale bread that was no longer fit for sale was wrong to dismiss her, a court in Leipzig has ruled. The 44-year-old cashier had been asked to dispose of the bread in a bio-waste container in March this year, but it was [...]
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