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http://news.yahoo.com/oddlyenough/ Get the latest odd news headlines from Yahoo! News. Find breaking odd news, including analysis and opinion on top odd stories.en-USCopyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reservedFri, 17 Aug 2012 19:12:53 -04005http://news.yahoo.com/oddlyenough/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gifA new animated video shows the evolution of the universe, from Big Bang to now in a little over a minute. Wired's UK site picked up on the realistic computer simulation that was developed by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in collaboration with researchers at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/evolution-universe-short-video-231253753.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 19:12:53 -0400blogs/sideshow/evolution-universe-short-video-231253753<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pigs-squatters-threaten-perus-nazca-lines-212134533.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oZ7WKLVJ1nUuY4HHDcV6lA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-17T212134Z_1_CBRE87G1NCA00_RTROPTP_2_WORLD-MONUMENTS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The geoglyph of a monkey is seen on the plains of the Nazca desert in southern Peru" align="left" title="The geoglyph of a monkey is seen on the plains of the Nazca desert in southern Peru" border="0" /></a>LIMA (Reuters) - Squatters have started raising pigs on the site of Peru&#039;s Nazca lines - the giant designs best seen from an airplane that were mysteriously etched into the desert more than 1,500 years ago. The squatters have destroyed a Nazca-era cemetery and the 50 shacks they have built border Nazca figures, said Blanca Alva, a director at Peru&#039;s culture ministry. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/pigs-squatters-threaten-perus-nazca-lines-212134533.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 17:21:34 -0400Reuterspigs-squatters-threaten-perus-nazca-lines-212134533<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pigs-squatters-threaten-perus-nazca-lines-212134533.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oZ7WKLVJ1nUuY4HHDcV6lA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-17T212134Z_1_CBRE87G1NCA00_RTROPTP_2_WORLD-MONUMENTS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The geoglyph of a monkey is seen on the plains of the Nazca desert in southern Peru" align="left" title="The geoglyph of a monkey is seen on the plains of the Nazca desert in southern Peru" border="0" /></a>LIMA (Reuters) - Squatters have started raising pigs on the site of Peru&#039;s Nazca lines - the giant designs best seen from an airplane that were mysteriously etched into the desert more than 1,500 years ago. The squatters have destroyed a Nazca-era cemetery and the 50 shacks they have built border Nazca figures, said Blanca Alva, a director at Peru&#039;s culture ministry. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brazilian-worker-survives-iron-bar-piercing-skull-204440717.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wXFlXbdw2cfaPDyfQobUsA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ad28c9ec26bb8c17180f6a7067009ac5.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, shows the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" align="left" title="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, shows the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" border="0" /></a>A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/brazilian-worker-survives-iron-bar-piercing-skull-204440717.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 16:54:13 -0400Associated Pressbrazilian-worker-survives-iron-bar-piercing-skull-204440717<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brazilian-worker-survives-iron-bar-piercing-skull-204440717.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wXFlXbdw2cfaPDyfQobUsA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ad28c9ec26bb8c17180f6a7067009ac5.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, shows the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" align="left" title="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, shows the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" border="0" /></a>A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>In some parts of Europe the debate over climate change has moved on to a debate over who gets to predict a change in the summer climate. The mayor of a Belgian seaside resort says his town may sue a private weather service after the station predicted bad summer weather. "We all know we're not [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tourist-towns-threatening-sue-weather-bad-forecasts-185834555.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 14:58:34 -0400blogs/sideshow/tourist-towns-threatening-sue-weather-bad-forecasts-185834555<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-worker-survives-bar-skull-144059296.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.mb1VDr3zEoR4omu_XOv1w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8b677029258c8717180f6a7067005f45.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, show the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" align="left" title="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, show the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" border="0" /></a>A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-worker-survives-bar-skull-144059296.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 14:07:13 -0400Associated Pressbrazil-worker-survives-bar-skull-144059296<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-worker-survives-bar-skull-144059296.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.mb1VDr3zEoR4omu_XOv1w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8b677029258c8717180f6a7067005f45.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, show the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" align="left" title="This tomography scan released Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, show the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro&#039;s Miguel Couto Hospital Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor&#039;s successfully withdrew the iron bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)" border="0" /></a>A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/conn-town-settles-dispute-over-girls-pet-bunny-154850722.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/K4O.sIp5gr1qYSCeR0i2.w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/5c23976326168917180f6a706700f0af.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 photo, Kayden Lidsky, left, poses with her father Josh, and sister Madison, and Sandy, the family bunny, in North Haven, Conn., after town officials settled a zoning dispute allowing the 20-pound Flemish giant to stay. An ordinance put in place about 50 years ago, when the town was a large farming community, barred people from raising and selling rabbits and other livestock on less than 2-acres in competition with farmers. The town&#039;s zoning enforcement officer had previously issued the cease-and-desist order while investigating a neighbor&#039;s blight complaint against the Lidsky family, whose property is less than 2-acres. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, VM Williams)" align="left" title="In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 photo, Kayden Lidsky, left, poses with her father Josh, and sister Madison, and Sandy, the family bunny, in North Haven, Conn., after town officials settled a zoning dispute allowing the 20-pound Flemish giant to stay. An ordinance put in place about 50 years ago, when the town was a large farming community, barred people from raising and selling rabbits and other livestock on less than 2-acres in competition with farmers. The town&#039;s zoning enforcement officer had previously issued the cease-and-desist order while investigating a neighbor&#039;s blight complaint against the Lidsky family, whose property is less than 2-acres. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, VM Williams)" border="0" /></a>Officials in a Connecticut town have settled a zoning dispute over a local girl&#039;s 20-pound pet bunny after receiving calls and emails from across the country demanding that the rabbit be allowed to stay.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/conn-town-settles-dispute-over-girls-pet-bunny-154850722.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 13:44:37 -0400Associated Pressconn-town-settles-dispute-over-girls-pet-bunny-154850722<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/conn-town-settles-dispute-over-girls-pet-bunny-154850722.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/K4O.sIp5gr1qYSCeR0i2.w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/5c23976326168917180f6a706700f0af.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 photo, Kayden Lidsky, left, poses with her father Josh, and sister Madison, and Sandy, the family bunny, in North Haven, Conn., after town officials settled a zoning dispute allowing the 20-pound Flemish giant to stay. An ordinance put in place about 50 years ago, when the town was a large farming community, barred people from raising and selling rabbits and other livestock on less than 2-acres in competition with farmers. The town&#039;s zoning enforcement officer had previously issued the cease-and-desist order while investigating a neighbor&#039;s blight complaint against the Lidsky family, whose property is less than 2-acres. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, VM Williams)" align="left" title="In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 photo, Kayden Lidsky, left, poses with her father Josh, and sister Madison, and Sandy, the family bunny, in North Haven, Conn., after town officials settled a zoning dispute allowing the 20-pound Flemish giant to stay. An ordinance put in place about 50 years ago, when the town was a large farming community, barred people from raising and selling rabbits and other livestock on less than 2-acres in competition with farmers. The town&#039;s zoning enforcement officer had previously issued the cease-and-desist order while investigating a neighbor&#039;s blight complaint against the Lidsky family, whose property is less than 2-acres. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, VM Williams)" border="0" /></a>Officials in a Connecticut town have settled a zoning dispute over a local girl&#039;s 20-pound pet bunny after receiving calls and emails from across the country demanding that the rabbit be allowed to stay.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ore-rider-gets-stolen-bike-back-puts-youtube-233104222.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qu7X31Nviighg50tC9dyJA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/cd7a8ca522ad7917180f6a706700ba45.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This image taken from YouTube shows Jake Gillum, of Portland, Ore. after he recovered his stolen bike, in Seattle. After the bike was stolen in Portland while Gillum was on a date, he tracked it down via Craigslist, confronted the accused thief, recorded the sting operation and then posted it to YouTube. (AP Photo/YouTube)" align="left" title="This image taken from YouTube shows Jake Gillum, of Portland, Ore. after he recovered his stolen bike, in Seattle. After the bike was stolen in Portland while Gillum was on a date, he tracked it down via Craigslist, confronted the accused thief, recorded the sting operation and then posted it to YouTube. (AP Photo/YouTube)" border="0" /></a>Jake Gillum loves his bike. So when it got stolen in Portland, Ore., while he was on a date, he was determined to get it back.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/ore-rider-gets-stolen-bike-back-puts-youtube-233104222.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 09:57:08 -0400Associated Pressore-rider-gets-stolen-bike-back-puts-youtube-233104222<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ore-rider-gets-stolen-bike-back-puts-youtube-233104222.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qu7X31Nviighg50tC9dyJA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/cd7a8ca522ad7917180f6a706700ba45.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This image taken from YouTube shows Jake Gillum, of Portland, Ore. after he recovered his stolen bike, in Seattle. After the bike was stolen in Portland while Gillum was on a date, he tracked it down via Craigslist, confronted the accused thief, recorded the sting operation and then posted it to YouTube. (AP Photo/YouTube)" align="left" title="This image taken from YouTube shows Jake Gillum, of Portland, Ore. after he recovered his stolen bike, in Seattle. After the bike was stolen in Portland while Gillum was on a date, he tracked it down via Craigslist, confronted the accused thief, recorded the sting operation and then posted it to YouTube. (AP Photo/YouTube)" border="0" /></a>Jake Gillum loves his bike. So when it got stolen in Portland, Ore., while he was on a date, he was determined to get it back.</p><br clear="all"/>When a store clerk gave a Massachusetts man a different kind of scratch-off lottery ticket than he asked for, he didn't make a big deal about the mistake; he said he just "rolled with it."http://news.yahoo.com/mass-man-gets-wrong-lottery-ticket-wins-1m-130601246.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 09:06:01 -0400Associated Pressmass-man-gets-wrong-lottery-ticket-wins-1m-130601246A man who shares the same name with television's most noted meth dealer is wanted by authorities in Alabama for allegedly violating his probation for a past meth conviction.http://news.yahoo.com/real-life-walter-white-sought-meth-charge-050724086.htmlFri, 17 Aug 2012 01:43:45 -0400Associated Pressreal-life-walter-white-sought-meth-charge-050724086A man sharing the name and alleged profession of one of TV's most popular characters is wanted on meth charges. Walter White is accused of violating his probation in a methamphetamine manufacturing case. And as noted by Alabama.com, he has shot to the top of Tuscaloosa County's most wanted list. White, 55, shares a name, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/police-seeking-walter-white-meth-charges-004431135.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 20:44:31 -0400blogs/sideshow/police-seeking-walter-white-meth-charges-004431135NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owner of a Brooklyn bar is suing New York City after police emptied the bar's entire stock of alcohol down the drain in a liquor license dispute, according to court papers. David Kelleran, 51, claimed in his lawsuit that the police's Prohibition-style tactics violated state law and trampled on his rights. And, in any case, the police got the wrong address. Kelleran, who owns the restaurant called 68, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages for the loss of alcohol worth "thousands of thousands" of dollars, his attorney Craig Trainor said on Thursday. ...http://news.yahoo.com/brooklyn-bar-owner-accuses-police-draining-liquor-stock-231817921.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 19:18:17 -0400Reutersbrooklyn-bar-owner-accuses-police-draining-liquor-stock-231817921This news might bug Democrats: In the 16th running of New Jersey's Cockroach Derby, Romney defeats Obama. As reported by NJ.com, two hissing Madagascar cockroaches, each two-and-a-half inches long, faced off?with the paper cutouts of the presumed Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney, and the incumbent, Barack Obama, glued to their bodies. The competitors scuttled [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/romney-defeats-obama-roach-race-205030035.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 16:50:30 -0400blogs/sideshow/romney-defeats-obama-roach-race-205030035First they came for the Simpsons and now they want SpongeBob Squarepants. The Ukraine is considering a move to censor several children's shows after a new study from a conservative commission labeled the shows "a real threat" to the country's youth. The Ukraine's National Expert Commission for Protecting Public Morality released the report, which attacks [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/ukrainian-commission-wants-ban-gay-spongebob-teletubbie-losers-204737552.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 16:47:37 -0400blogs/sideshow/ukrainian-commission-wants-ban-gay-spongebob-teletubbie-losers-204737552<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/plaque-marks-chicago-obamas-1st-kiss-175940438.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FXVFoDeLmCiP40XelAjpgg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/715a85120c767217180f6a7067009f56.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A 3,000-pound granite marker sits at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets where President Barack Obama first kissed first lady Michele Obama, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Chicago. The Obamas will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this October. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" align="left" title="A 3,000-pound granite marker sits at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets where President Barack Obama first kissed first lady Michele Obama, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Chicago. The Obamas will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this October. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" border="0" /></a>Barack Obama first kissed the woman who would become his wife outside a Chicago ice cream shop ? and now there&#039;s a plaque to prove it.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/plaque-marks-chicago-obamas-1st-kiss-175940438.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 15:34:36 -0400Associated Pressplaque-marks-chicago-obamas-1st-kiss-175940438<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/plaque-marks-chicago-obamas-1st-kiss-175940438.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FXVFoDeLmCiP40XelAjpgg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/715a85120c767217180f6a7067009f56.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A 3,000-pound granite marker sits at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets where President Barack Obama first kissed first lady Michele Obama, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Chicago. The Obamas will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this October. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" align="left" title="A 3,000-pound granite marker sits at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets where President Barack Obama first kissed first lady Michele Obama, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Chicago. The Obamas will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this October. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" border="0" /></a>Barack Obama first kissed the woman who would become his wife outside a Chicago ice cream shop ? and now there&#039;s a plaque to prove it.</p><br clear="all"/>BERNE (Reuters) - A Swiss second division player has been banned for 10 league matches after telling the referee he would kill him after being sent off in a game. The Swiss Football League (SFL) said in a statement that FC Wil's Adis Jahovic, furious at being dismissed in the first half, told the official: "If I see you after, I kill you." The incident happened against FC Biel on August 5. The SFL said Macedonian Jahovic had been guilty of "threatening the referee and serious unsporting conduct." (Writing by Brian Homewood; Editing by Ken Ferris)http://news.yahoo.com/see-kill-swiss-league-player-tells-referee-192627730--sow.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 15:26:27 -0400Reuterssee-kill-swiss-league-player-tells-referee-192627730--sowThe federal government has more than 400,000 pages of evidence against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, taking up some two terabytes of digital space. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty solid case. But at the urging of prosecutors, charges were dropped against the doctor because the evidence is simply taking up too much [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/federal-charges-dropped-against-fugitive-doctor-because-too-184830159.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 14:48:30 -0400blogs/sideshow/federal-charges-dropped-against-fugitive-doctor-because-too-184830159<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/smoke-donkey-mascot-u-marines-iraq-dies-nebraska-170423696.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/f_lFtF33X1EDUJP6os8BpA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-16T192707Z_1_CBRE87F1I1900_RTROPTP_2_USA-IRAQ-DONKEY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout photo of Smoke the donkey in Iraq" align="left" title="Handout photo of Smoke the donkey in Iraq" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Smoke, the Iraqi donkey whose journey from a desert battleground to a peaceful retirement in the United States captured the attention of the world, has died in Nebraska. Smoke became lethargic and died this week after frolicking with miniature horses at Miracle Hills Ranch and Stable north of Omaha. Smoke had served as an equine therapy animal to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Smoke&#039;s Facebook page has friends from around the world. Smoke was taken in by U.S. Marines after he showed up malnourished and wounded at Camp Taqaddum in Anbar province in 2008. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/smoke-donkey-mascot-u-marines-iraq-dies-nebraska-170423696.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 13:04:23 -0400Reuterssmoke-donkey-mascot-u-marines-iraq-dies-nebraska-170423696<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/smoke-donkey-mascot-u-marines-iraq-dies-nebraska-170423696.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/f_lFtF33X1EDUJP6os8BpA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-16T192707Z_1_CBRE87F1I1900_RTROPTP_2_USA-IRAQ-DONKEY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout photo of Smoke the donkey in Iraq" align="left" title="Handout photo of Smoke the donkey in Iraq" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Smoke, the Iraqi donkey whose journey from a desert battleground to a peaceful retirement in the United States captured the attention of the world, has died in Nebraska. Smoke became lethargic and died this week after frolicking with miniature horses at Miracle Hills Ranch and Stable north of Omaha. Smoke had served as an equine therapy animal to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Smoke&#039;s Facebook page has friends from around the world. Smoke was taken in by U.S. Marines after he showed up malnourished and wounded at Camp Taqaddum in Anbar province in 2008. ...</p><br clear="all"/>PARIS (Reuters) - An inmate in a French jail has mailed part of his own severed finger to the justice minister hoping the desperate gesture would help his plea to be moved to another prison, officials said on Thursday. An envelope containing the chunk of finger was delivered on Thursday to the offices of Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, accompanied by a letter arguing for a transfer to a jail nearer to the inmate's family, a police official said. A Justice Ministry spokesman confirmed a piece of finger had been delivered. ...http://news.yahoo.com/inmate-mails-own-severed-finger-french-minister-155306911.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 11:53:06 -0400Reutersinmate-mails-own-severed-finger-french-minister-155306911OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian driver who swerved his car on a rural road to avoid running into a moose hit a bear instead, authorities said on Thursday. The driver spotted the moose on a country road near Hanestad, 225 kilometers north of Oslo, around midnight on Wednesday, and tried to go around the animal, not realizing that a bear was also nearby. "The driver had lost a bit of speed as he tried to avoid the moose before hitting the bear," said Svein Erik Bjorke of the local wildlife authority, who was out in the forest searching for the wounded animal. ...http://news.yahoo.com/driver-swerves-avoid-moose-hits-bear-instead-123824946.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 08:38:24 -0400Reutersdriver-swerves-avoid-moose-hits-bear-instead-123824946A Los Angeles restaurant is offering a deal to customers who agree to look at their fellow diners instead of their phone screens.http://news.yahoo.com/la-restaurant-offers-discount-phone-free-diners-030504871--finance.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 23:05:18 -0400Associated Pressla-restaurant-offers-discount-phone-free-diners-030504871--financeDouble bacon corn dogs aren't the only porkers that can be dangerous to your health at state fairs around the country. A new study led by University of Minnesota veterinarian Dr. Jeff Bender warns that many of the seemingly healthy pigs on display at state fairs this summer may in fact be carrying the swine [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/study-finds-state-fair-pigs-may-carry-swine-234608045.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 19:46:08 -0400blogs/sideshow/study-finds-state-fair-pigs-may-carry-swine-234608045Police are looking for two people they say stole more than 500 canaries from the home of an 87-year-old Florida man.http://news.yahoo.com/fla-police-look-thieves-took-500-canaries-232242535.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 19:22:42 -0400Associated Pressfla-police-look-thieves-took-500-canaries-232242535Police in Roseburg, Ore., say a man who robbed a restaurant was armed with a can of bug spray.http://news.yahoo.com/man-fires-insect-repellent-oregon-robbery-220618982.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 18:06:18 -0400Associated Pressman-fires-insect-repellent-oregon-robbery-220618982WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Tax Court has ruled against a San Francisco medical marijuana seller, snuffing out his business expense deductions, in a decision highlighting the cannabis business's legal limbo. The court ruled two weeks ago, in only its second decision on the medical marijuana issue, that Martin Olive, sole proprietor of the Vapor Room Herbal Centre, could not claim business expense tax deductions. Under a 1982 U.S. Tax Code rule, marijuana businesses - legal in 17 states and part of an industry with estimated annual revenues of $1.7 billion (1. ...http://news.yahoo.com/ganjapreneur-loses-u-tax-court-over-marijuana-business-153643575--sector.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 11:36:43 -0400Reutersganjapreneur-loses-u-tax-court-over-marijuana-business-153643575--sector<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-toilet-challenge-spills-forth-071550616.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9M7UGLXVKl_COvyRUtPMng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c49bcc10eeee4816180f6a7067004e5d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Marcos Fiovavanti, of the Ecuador-based &quot;Fundacion In Terris&quot; group, talks about the &quot;Earth Auger Toliet,&quot; which is operated by a mechanical pedal and chain system, on display at the &quot;Reinventing the Toliet&quot; Fair, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Seattle, which is part of a Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.6 billion people around the world who don&#039;t have access to modern sanitation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)" align="left" title="Marcos Fiovavanti, of the Ecuador-based &quot;Fundacion In Terris&quot; group, talks about the &quot;Earth Auger Toliet,&quot; which is operated by a mechanical pedal and chain system, on display at the &quot;Reinventing the Toliet&quot; Fair, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Seattle, which is part of a Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.6 billion people around the world who don&#039;t have access to modern sanitation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)" border="0" /></a>These aren&#039;t your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-toilet-challenge-spills-forth-071550616.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 11:16:56 -0400Associated Pressbill-gates-toilet-challenge-spills-forth-071550616<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-toilet-challenge-spills-forth-071550616.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9M7UGLXVKl_COvyRUtPMng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c49bcc10eeee4816180f6a7067004e5d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Marcos Fiovavanti, of the Ecuador-based &quot;Fundacion In Terris&quot; group, talks about the &quot;Earth Auger Toliet,&quot; which is operated by a mechanical pedal and chain system, on display at the &quot;Reinventing the Toliet&quot; Fair, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Seattle, which is part of a Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.6 billion people around the world who don&#039;t have access to modern sanitation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)" align="left" title="Marcos Fiovavanti, of the Ecuador-based &quot;Fundacion In Terris&quot; group, talks about the &quot;Earth Auger Toliet,&quot; which is operated by a mechanical pedal and chain system, on display at the &quot;Reinventing the Toliet&quot; Fair, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Seattle, which is part of a Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.6 billion people around the world who don&#039;t have access to modern sanitation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)" border="0" /></a>These aren&#039;t your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-finally-beats-bieber-klout-score-admits-real-051436335--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/W4gYcb1h2dzt8IHk7AjGHg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-15T053151Z_1_CBRE87E0FD500_RTROPTP_2_OBAMA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. President Obama smiles during campaign event at Rollins College in Orlando" align="left" title="U.S. President Obama smiles during campaign event at Rollins College in Orlando" border="0" /></a>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Until recently, Justin Bieber was more influential than Barack Obama -- at least in the world of Klout, the controversial Web startup that claims to measure people&#039;s online influence using an algorithm. Not anymore. Klout said it has overhauled its website and rejigged its algorithms, mostly by pulling in data from Wikipedia entries, to better reflect a person&#039;s status in the real world. The move toward calculating offline influence is a tricky but expected step for a company that divides opinion, and gets tongues wagging, like practically no other in Silicon Valley. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/obama-finally-beats-bieber-klout-score-admits-real-051436335--sector.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 10:47:27 -0400Reutersobama-finally-beats-bieber-klout-score-admits-real-051436335--sector<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-finally-beats-bieber-klout-score-admits-real-051436335--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/W4gYcb1h2dzt8IHk7AjGHg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-15T053151Z_1_CBRE87E0FD500_RTROPTP_2_OBAMA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. President Obama smiles during campaign event at Rollins College in Orlando" align="left" title="U.S. President Obama smiles during campaign event at Rollins College in Orlando" border="0" /></a>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Until recently, Justin Bieber was more influential than Barack Obama -- at least in the world of Klout, the controversial Web startup that claims to measure people&#039;s online influence using an algorithm. Not anymore. Klout said it has overhauled its website and rejigged its algorithms, mostly by pulling in data from Wikipedia entries, to better reflect a person&#039;s status in the real world. The move toward calculating offline influence is a tricky but expected step for a company that divides opinion, and gets tongues wagging, like practically no other in Silicon Valley. ...</p><br clear="all"/>JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African province home to thousands of elephants is planning a birth control campaign for the pachyderms to prevent a population explosion that could threaten plants and wildlife. Unlike other parts of Africa where elephant stocks have dwindled to dangerously low levels due to poaching and a loss of habitat, South Africa has seen its populations steadily grow through conservation, with the country pressed for room to house the massive animals with hefty diets. ...http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-goes-big-birth-control-elephants-112106118.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 07:23:17 -0400Reuterssouth-africa-goes-big-birth-control-elephants-112106118Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theater during a showing of "The Bourne Legacy."http://news.yahoo.com/man-accidentally-shoots-self-nevada-theater-053240527.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 01:32:40 -0400Associated Pressman-accidentally-shoots-self-nevada-theater-053240527Police say a man accidently shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theater during a showing of "The Bourne Legacy."http://news.yahoo.com/man-accidently-shoots-self-nevada-theater-052552414.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 01:25:52 -0400Associated Pressman-accidently-shoots-self-nevada-theater-052552414Despite devoting his life to science, Charles Darwin had a long and reportedly happy marriage, fathering 10 children after proposing to his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1838. But the naturalist and father of modern evolutionary theory wasn't always sold on matrimony, writing out a list of pros and cons on marriage in a journal entry [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/charles-darwin-notes-marriage-discovered-better-dog-anyhow-230308581.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 19:03:08 -0400blogs/sideshow/charles-darwin-notes-marriage-discovered-better-dog-anyhow-230308581Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, wants to talk poop. Literally. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is hosting a "Reinvent the Toilet Fair" on August 14 and 15, is on a mission to build a better crapper. Why? Poop is a worldwide problem. Here are the dirty details: Four out of every [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bill-gates-gets-potty-mouth-foundation-holds-toilet-220847363.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 18:08:47 -0400blogs/sideshow/bill-gates-gets-potty-mouth-foundation-holds-toilet-220847363A cute, humorous and largely accurate 1995 video made by a class of Helena, Montana, 5th graders attempts to predict what the Internet will be used for by the time they get to college (roughly 2003). And you know what? They pretty much got everything right. Yes, even in 1995, 5th graders knew that the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/1995-class-5th-graders-accurately-predicted-internet-future-211919477.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 17:19:19 -0400blogs/sideshow/1995-class-5th-graders-accurately-predicted-internet-future-211919477Austin Chapman says he was "born profoundly deaf" and has never understood music--or the people moved by it. But that changed two weeks ago, when he tried a new pair of hearing aids for the first time in years. "[It] was the hardest thing for me to wrap my head around," Chapman, a 23-year-old filmmaker, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/austin-chapman-deaf-man-hears-music-literally-could-211022699.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 17:10:22 -0400blogs/sideshow/austin-chapman-deaf-man-hears-music-literally-could-211022699<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/giant-burmese-python-sets-florida-record-size-fertility-163228437.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bLpbJSjITqLwQZK_tgnL.g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-14T193604Z_1_CBRE87D1IG900_RTROPTP_2_USA-PYTHON.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout photo of USGS researchers recapturing a Burmese python in the Everglades National Park" align="left" title="Handout photo of USGS researchers recapturing a Burmese python in the Everglades National Park" border="0" /></a>ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Burmese python found in Florida set records as the largest such snake ever captured in the state at 17-feet, 7-inches and the most prolific reproducer carrying a record load of 87 eggs, according to researchers. The previous Florida record setters were a 16-foot, 8-inch python and 85 eggs. &quot;It was huge,&quot; said Paul Ramey, spokesman for the Florida Natural History Museum at the University of Florida in Gainesville. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/giant-burmese-python-sets-florida-record-size-fertility-163228437.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 15:36:04 -0400Reutersgiant-burmese-python-sets-florida-record-size-fertility-163228437<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/giant-burmese-python-sets-florida-record-size-fertility-163228437.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bLpbJSjITqLwQZK_tgnL.g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-14T193604Z_1_CBRE87D1IG900_RTROPTP_2_USA-PYTHON.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout photo of USGS researchers recapturing a Burmese python in the Everglades National Park" align="left" title="Handout photo of USGS researchers recapturing a Burmese python in the Everglades National Park" border="0" /></a>ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Burmese python found in Florida set records as the largest such snake ever captured in the state at 17-feet, 7-inches and the most prolific reproducer carrying a record load of 87 eggs, according to researchers. The previous Florida record setters were a 16-foot, 8-inch python and 85 eggs. &quot;It was huge,&quot; said Paul Ramey, spokesman for the Florida Natural History Museum at the University of Florida in Gainesville. ...</p><br clear="all"/>Yes, you do look fat in that dress, Mississippi. A new study analyzing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the nation. But even with 34.9 percent of its residents clocking in as obese, The Hospitality State is hardly alone. Twelve states [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mississippi-fattest-state-land-according-statistical-analysis-192426230.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 15:24:26 -0400blogs/sideshow/mississippi-fattest-state-land-according-statistical-analysis-192426230

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