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Some people will take anything that isn’t nailed down.  Even man’s best friend is not safe from the sticky-fingered, as Donna McPherson’s 10-year-old West Highland Terrier Lexie found out the hard way.  While out for a walk, Lexie was bundled into her green wool doggy sweater by her owner, Donna McPherson.  When Ms. McPherson stopped […]

The Chinese village of Daluo in Guangxi’s Bama County is known as a place where the residents are blessed with a long lifespan.  Indeed, with 74 centenarians from the village of 238,000, it is identified as a “hometown of longevity” by the International Natural Medicine Society.  The elders claimed their good health was due to […]

The best thing about drinking is it lowers your inhibitions.   You’re more relaxed, a little more social, and a lot more brazen.  Unfortunately, that’s also the worst thing about drinking, as one nameless drunk found out recently.  The Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area near Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, is pretty popular around this time […]

In a country with a giant gender imbalance, huge population, and highly competitive atmosphere, it’s no surprise that people have trouble finding time to socialize.  With the bar scene being sleazy and the Internet being troublesome to access in China, there has to be a better way for lonely couples to meet.  Well, why not […]

After one too many complaints, the corporate offices at Tim Hortons, the Canadian Starbucks, had enough.  Jimmy Craig, a frequent customer from St. Andrews, New Brunswick, has been on the wrong end of the banhammer after his complaints about the quality of Tim Hortons coffee.  He described it as “burnt, brown water.”  Even after staff […]

Lord Howe Island is a beautiful tropical island some 370 miles off the coast of Australia.  It was declared a World Heritage Site back in 1982 thanks to its pristine beauty and the wide variety of rare animals found there.  However, Lord Howe Island has a bit of a rat problem.  In 1918, a freighter […]

It took 27 years, but something has finally knocked the finale of MASH off the top of the TV ratings pyramid.  When the show, starring Alan Alda as a war-weary, wisecracking doctor in the Korean War, went off the air in 1982, it was watched by 105 million people throughout the United States.  Despite population […]

The ongoing soap opera surrounding the world’s tallest building just continues to swell.  The building, as you might remember, opened a month ago to great fanfare, despite not being completely booked up with tenants and not actually being finished.   Now, with the first tenants scheduled to move in this month, the building’s only officially […]

Right now, it’s snowing outside.  All day yesterday, I listened to people who were planning on running out to the stores to pick up three things:  milk, eggs, and bread.  Any time bad weather hits, or threatens, or is even suspected, the first three things anyone picks up are milk, eggs, and bread, as if […]

If you’ve always wanted to own a relic of the Cold War, a one-of-a-kind item was recently auctioned off.  The town of Skrunda, in what is now Latvia, is not on any map.  During the Cold War, it was known as Skrunda-1, and was one of Russia’s secret cities, serving as a Soviet radar base […]

Taking a page from the playbook of one Sho Kosugi, when a disgruntled former graduate student had a score to settle, he didn’t go for a gun.  No sir or ma’am, firearms are for fools.   Kshitij Shrotri went for the more civilized implement of death, the sword.  Police say he went back to Georgia […]

Thanks to my menial day job, I spend a lot of time being bored.  What I didn’t know was that being bored can kill you, according to a study from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.  A longitudinal study was made of over 7,500 civil servants, ages 35-55, who were […]