Obama Speech: ‘A More Perfect Union’

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Oregon Transgender Man Is Five Months Pregnant

Thomas Beatie, a woman who changed her sex and now calls herself a man, is five months pregnant with a baby girl.
The Oregon resident said in an article of “The Advocate”, a national magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender readers, that he went through a sex change but reconstructed only his chest and had [...]

Lights Out For One Hour, 8 PM Tonight Could Improve Life on Earth

Houses across the world are switching off their lights for one hour at 8 p.m., on Saturday, March 29, to make a statement about the greatest factor of global warming – coal-fired electricity.
The Earth Hour is a project started last year by the World Wildlife Federation.
“It’s largely symbolic,” said Monica Echeverria, a spokeswoman for the [...]

Arrest warrant issued for ‘God’

 

A MAGISTRATE has issued an arrest warrant for a man who failed to turn up to court because he is “God” and above the law.
Richard James Howarth was remanded to appear in the Ipswich Magistrate’s Court to answer a string of traffic offences, including four counts of driving with a blood alcohol content more than [...]

TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings For Flight

“The last time that I checked a nipple was not a dangerous weapon,” well-known L.A. attorney Gloria Alred said.
A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday [...]

Ancient Petroglyph May be Key to Christmas Legend

This year, Santa can’t wait for Christmas. A small, but dedicated group of rock art preservationists in Utah - the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, and their allies - are fighting to preserve what may be the original Santa Claus.
Nine Mile Canyon: Located high on the side of a sheer cliff in a rugged place [...]

Science behind the Antarctic ice shelf collapse (2008.03.26)

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Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctic break-up! (2008.03.25)

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$10 Million X Prize Offered for 100-MPG Car

Competition has a way of bringing out the best in people. If there is a gauntlet that you think needs picking up, start by throwing it down. The Automotive X Prize has done just that.In 1919, hotelier Raymond Orteig offered a $25,000 prize for the first nonstop solo flight from New York to [...]

Asparagus sauce accused of killing diner + Food Safety Video

WILLIAM Hodgins died just hours after being served up a sauce with fatally high levels of the toxic pathogen bacillus cerus by an award-winning Sydney restaurant, an inquest heard yesterday. A coronial inquest into the death of the 81-year-old heard he had eaten fish of the day with an asparagus cream-based sauce at the Tables [...]