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Minnesota Family Plans Tank Obstacle Course

April 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm » Comments (0)

A family’s plan to open an obstacle course for tanks and other armored vehicles on the outskirts of Waseca has some neighbors concerned.



Teens Demand Streaming Video

April 3rd, 2007 at 11:21 pm » Comments (0)

Three-fourths of US Internet users ages 12-24 have streamed digital content online, according to a new study by Ipsos Insight.



Zoo’s New ‘Touch the Sharks’ Exhibit

April 3rd, 2007 at 11:18 pm » Comments (0)

Petting zoos typically are a matter of goats and sheep, but the Indianapolis Zoo has something else in mind for its Oceans exhibit: shark touching.



Today’s Youth Get Credit Online

April 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm » Comments (0)

Over 40% of online 18-to-21-year-olds now own a credit card, according to a new report by Forrester Research.



Panda Poo Postcards

April 3rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm » Comments (0)

If you love sending one-of-a-kind postcards to your loved ones while on vacation, Panda Poop Postcards may be for you!



Was the Great Pyramid Built From the Inside Out?

April 3rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm » Comments (0)

A French architect says he has cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt’s Great Pyramid, claiming that it was built from the inside out.  He has released 3-D data to support his unconventional claim.



Relationship Selling Boot Camp

April 3rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm » Comments (0)

In practice, business owners and salespeople often have monthly goals that they need to meet and as a result feel enormous amounts of pressure to make things happen. This is a dangerous practice because it can seriously damage personal & professional relationships and destroy the reputation of an individual company.



Britons Don’t Trust Their Love Partners

April 3rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm » Comments (0)

Britons are a nation of spies, rifling through their partners’ text messages, tapping phone conversations and even tailing loved ones with webcams and satellite navigation systems, a survey reveals
Most favoured way of keeping tabs on a partner is checking their text messages, with more than half (53 per cent) of those questioned admitting sneaking a […]



102 Year Old Man Gets 25-year Mortgage

April 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm » Comments (0)

What Default Rates?!
A 102-year-old has been granted a 25-year, £200,000 mortgage. It will run until he is 127.

The pensioner, from East Sussex, is believed to be the oldest person in the UK to be granted a mortgage. The revelation was greeted with alarm by debt advisors.

He faces repayments of £958 a month on the interest-only […]



Big Profits With Panda Poo

April 3rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm » Comments (0)

They are notoriously picky about their food and suffer from an exceptionally low sex drive. But when it comes to poo, pandas have few peers.

Entrepreneurial Chinese are looking for ways to make a profit from the 44lb (20kg) of excrement produced each day by a single adult male, and help the endangered animals to pay […]



Russians Reject Satanic Bar Codes

April 3rd, 2007 at 2:14 pm » Comments (0)

A hundred residents of a Russian village have refused to switch to new passports because they believe the documents’ bar codes contain satanic symbols, state television reports.



Men Vie For Facial Hair Crown

April 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm » Comments (0)

More than 200 men sporting weird and wild facial hair have gathered in the German village of Schoemberg for the International Beard Championship.



Over 1 Billion Cellphones in Asia-Pacific Market

April 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 am » Comments (0)

The Asia-Pacific mobile subscriber base is estimated to reach 1.14 billion by the end of 2007, up from 0.95 billion in 2006.