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US woman dies of water intoxication .... SMHonline A 28-year-old woman has died of water intoxication after taking part in a Californian radio station's water drinking contest. She was in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" competition trying to win a Nintendo Wii video game system. Assistant Sacramento County Coroner Ed Smith said a preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death". Jennifer Strange's mother found her daughter's body at her home on Friday in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova, California, after Strange called her supervisor at her job to say she was heading home in terrible pain. "She said to one of our super…
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Parasite makes men dumb, women sexy! A common parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says. About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians. Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat. The parasite is known to be dangerous to pregnant women as it can cause disability or abortion of the unborn child, and can also kill people whose immune systems are weakened. Unt…
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Afghan heroin's surge poses danger in U.S. The world's purest form can kill more addicts, as seen in L.A. County. By Garrett Therolf, Times Staff Writer December 26, 2006 Supplies of highly potent Afghan heroin in the United States are growing so fast that the pure white powder is rapidly overtaking lower-quality Mexican heroin, prompting fears of increased addiction and overdoses. Heroin-related deaths in Los Angeles County soared from 137 in 2002 to 239 in 2005, a jump of nearly 75% in three years, a period when other factors contributing to overdose deaths remained unchanged, experts said. The jump in deaths was especially prevalent among users older than 40, who l…
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A woman was arrested after she complained to a police officer in Florida about a batch of "bad" crack cocaine she had bought. Eloise Reaves, 50, approached a police officer last Friday in the carpar of a convenience store in the town of Hawthorne. She told him she had been sold poor quality crack and wanted his help getting her money back, police said in a statement. "She then took the crack from out of her mouth and placed it on the trunk of Deputy (Jeffery) Pedrick's patrol car," the police said. The Deputy Pedrick warned Reaves that if the substance tested positive, she would be arrested. After a test came back positive, Reaves said the crack was a poor mix o…
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Where do people find out about this? I am a right-winger gone left and would like to participate but how does everyone know when a march is on?
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The article This has some very large ramifications as with water the usage of introduced organisms could actually speed up the creation of oxygen ..... Or is it just another planet for us to rape???
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Woman in indecent act with horse, say police A NSW North Coast woman has been charged with bestiality and offensive conduct after allegedly being involved in an indecent act with a horse. Police said they found the naked woman with the horse when they were called to a paddock in Wilson Street, Lismore, at 9am (AEDT) on Monday. "Police will allege a 35-year-old Casino woman was engaged in an indecent act with a horse," a NSW police spokesman said. "The woman was arrested and charged with bestiality and behaving in an offensive manner." The woman was granted conditional bail and is due to face Lismore Local Court on December 18. AAP Source : SMH online http:/…
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just felt like some cones so i go to my room oprah is on a bill oreily is on it. he is a right wing prick the first thing i heard him say was about how he isnt biased and he isnt right wing he isnt lidrel either he sits on the fence followed by "you know why traditionalists are going to win the culture war, because there is more of us"(paraphrased) then he beat down bush bashers whilst singing out bush praise then five minutes later was bush bashing himself then trying to claim he wasnt bush bashing even though he was :S its funny cause his the number one watched news show in america :S thats really sad cause his a prick
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If marijuana were to be legalized and regulated, what would be the economic impact of such a change? Fred Crowley, a research economist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, created an input/output model of the marijuana business at the request of 'The Colorado Springs Business Journal'. Crowley commented briefly on the model, "“[My] analysis is based on the assumption the money from the sale of marijuana is spent in the local community. It was assumed $80,000,000 income is made from the sale of marijuana. “It was assumed the income is earned by a cross section of households selling the drug from lower to higher income levels. “Needless to say, the anal…
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/aceau/gumball1.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/aceau/gumball2.jpg These gumballs are not your typical candy-coated chewing gum but instead are packed with as much as 1 gram of high-grade marijuana. Following the recent discovery and seizure by Maryland police of two weed-packed yellow gumballs imprinted with a happy face, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in May of 2006, released an Intelligence Alert Bulletin titled, "Greenades" (Marijuana Gumballs) in Howard County, Maryland. According to the DEA and the Maryland State Police-Forensic Sciences Division Laboratory, each gumball is bright yellow with a happy face on…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from...ent/5371500.stm When will these people learn to eat normal food!!
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hey there all just thought this was a good read its about the Guatemalan Prison thats has been run by the inmates for the past 10 years there was luxury homes, drugs, jacuzzi's and some of the inmates houses were gaurded by trained dogs now this place sounds like my kind of prison not now though cheerz :Dj:
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News from the abc news website. Australian motor-sport legend Peter Brock is dead after his car hit a tree east of Perth today. Brock was competing on the first day of the Targa West Rally when his vehicle hit a tree near the small community of Gidgegannup. His co-driver has been taken to hospital but his condition is not known. Brock was 61 years old. No other cars are believed to have been involved. Known as 'Peter Perfect' and the 'King of the Mountain', Brock won the Bathurst 1000 nine times in the 1970s and 1980s and won the 1979 race by a record six laps. That is 2 well knowen aussies in the last week dead, it just goes to show it can happen to any o…
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Author: News.com.au Staff writers Date: September 04, 2006 02:14pm Source: News.com.au Copyright: Copyright 2006 News Limited. R.I.P Steve
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Howards attack on the rights of the Australian people continues, this time focusing on traditional land owners. This is an email I received from www.getup.org.au. Please visit the website and register your concern over this issue. There are also lists of your state Senators phone numbers there, so call them up and tell them that you're not happy with the Governments continued abuse of power.
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