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  • Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child

    2008-05-10 14:10

    It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child.

  • New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye

    2008-05-09 10:53

    Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest -- dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

  • World's strangest creature? Part mammal, part reptile

    2008-05-08 16:41

    The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile.

  • Man finds check from 1971

    2008-05-08 15:12

    Tornadoes that tore through Arkansas last week picked up homes, cars and everything in between - including a check from 1971.

  • Mystery deepens over German poet Schiller's skull

    2008-05-07 14:59

    A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging a 180-year-old mystery over the celebrated German poet's remains.

  • Ex male model weighes only 40 kg

    2008-05-07 10:47

    Ex-model Frail Jeremy Gillitzer has suffered from anorexia for 25 years. He now weights only 41.275 kg. [Ic.eastday.com]

  • Teen accused of trying to rob undercover officers

    2008-05-06 11:29

    A Westchester County teenager is facing a long list of charges after allegedly trying to rob two men and finding out they were undercover police officers.

  • Man asks court to change his name to 'In God We Trust'

    2008-05-05 11:47

    Steve Kreuscher wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name. He wants to be known as "In God We Trust."

  • Colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms

    2008-05-04 13:13

    Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.

  • Official surfs porn at work

    2008-05-04 09:55

    A city bureaucrat in western Japan was suspended from his job after officials discovered he visited porn websites at work almost every day.

  • Man tries to cash $360b check

    2008-05-02 14:28

    Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business.

  • Swiss uses da Vinci-designed parachute

    2008-04-28 15:20

    A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-metre drop Saturday using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci.

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