Happy Halloween, candy-lovers! Each year dentists warn parents not let their kids eat too much candy, but a new warning from the FDA is aimed directly at parents:
But when the 5-year-old Norwegian forest cat, with long orange hair and copper eyes, fell through the ceiling in the customs area in Terminal 8 at Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday night, he achieved what was starting to seem impossible: giving this tale of a natural disaster, missing-pet posters and airline bureaucracy a happy ending.
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But Jack may be in for a surprise when he reaches home. As the search seemed to stall, Ms. Pascoe adopted another cat, Milly, to prevent Barry from becoming lonely.
Fed false logic, campus eats up a hoax and revolts Living Education - Edgar Allan - 5 Comments Tags:hoax, vegetarians, Smith College, locavores, logic 11/01/11 - - - (Link) ll last week, students at Smith College were buzzing over a rumor that the school was going completely vegetarian and locavore. There were protests and counter-protests, with slogans chalked on walkways. There was a Twitter feed that caught the attention of VegNews, “America’s premier vegan lifestyle magazine.’’ At a student government meeting, the dining services manager came under attack: How did she expect students to pass their midterms without coffee?
The Sea Voyager, swiftly steaming its way down the St, Lawrence River, is scheduled to dock at St. Mary's City Friday morning. Starting Monday, the 286-foot ship will house more than 200 students while the college's Prince George and Caroline residence halls are stripped and carefully cleaned.
During the run-up to its annual Halloween gala, the Magic Castle in Hollywood announced its theme for the night's shows: "For the last week in October, the Magic Castle will be ON FIRE with the spirit of Halloween!" said the website's special events calendar.
Rebecca Zahau’s body was exhumed at her family's request last week in St. Joseph, Missouri, and will soon be examined by renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht in Pennsylvania, Zahau family attorney Anne Bremner said Thursday. Bremner last month hired Wecht, who has publicly questioned the suicide ruling based on his reading of the official autopsy report, to consult in the case.
An 84-year-old man was napping in a recliner at his home in Temple, Pennsylvania, on Saturday afternoon when part of a large, snow-filled tree fell into his house and killed him "instantly," according to a state police report. With numerous downed trees in the area, rescue crews took two hours to "safely remove the victim."
Fears that New Zealand could face a large-scale environmental crisis have escalated as the oil leaking from the container ship Rena into the sea off the Tauranga coast increased by as much as ten-fold.
The company announced Wednesday that it had earned its first permit to drill for oil in the Gulf since last year's oil spill disaster, and says that a resumption of drilling is imminent.
The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists.
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"The skeptics raised valid points and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago," Muller said in a telephone interview. "And now we have confidence that the temperature rise that had previously been reported had been done without bias."
Lynda Garibaldi, who founded the Cat’s Cradle rescue organization in North Carolina, said in a press release that black cats are prime targets for animal cruelty during the month of October because of Halloween.
Julie Widner was terrified — afraid her husband would do something reckless, even disfigure himself.
"We had come so far," she says. "We had left the movement, had created a good family life. We had so much to live for. I just thought there has to be someone out there who will help us."
The drug ring is connected to the Sinaloa cartel and is suspected of transporting more than $33 million a month in marijuana, cocaine and heroin from Mexico through Arizona’s western desert, according to a statement released today by local, state and federal authorities.
Heralded in the German-speaking press as a David-versus-Goliath struggle, what started off as a university paper by an Austrian law student has become an Irish privacy challenge against Facebook that could affect up to 600 million users across Europe.The complaints against Facebook have their origin in a request made under European law by Max Schrems, a 24-year-old Austrian law student, for access to the data Facebook holds on him. He eventually received a CD containing 1,222 pages of information that the social network retained about him.
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“We’re not trying to kill Facebook . . . I’m still a Facebook user,” Schrems says. “I am actually a big fan of Facebook, or let’s say social networking in general. I think it’s a cool technology.”
Acting under a legal requirement to cut U.S. funds to any U.N. agency that recognizes a Palestinian state, the State Department on Monday announced that the United States has stopped funding the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization because of the vote. Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the Obama administration would not make a planned $60 million payment to the agency due this month.
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Cain said he was "unaware" of any settlement that had been reached. "I hope it wasn't for much because I didn't do anything," he said.
But several hours later, Cain changed his explanation in an interview with Fox News, saying he did not know a second woman had filed a complaint and that one woman received "maybe three months salary."
"I don't remember. It might have been two months'," Cain told Fox News, according to a Washington Examiner article. "I do remember my general counsel saying we didn't pay all of the money they demanded."
Capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun focused onto a speck smaller than a tip of a pin, scientists claim it could allow them boil the very fabric of space – the vacuum.
The story has captivated Russia ever since the families learned recently about the switch after the former husband of Yuliya Belyayeva refused to support their daughter, Irina, because she did not look like him.
Smith, contacted in Illinois where she has been living since she was allowed to leave her parole hold in California last year, broke down in tears at the news that she may have to return to prison.
Without the procedure, San Jose conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco -- fused at their liver -- would face a troubled future, with curved spines, muscle problems and the emotional challenges of intimately shared lives.
October, said the calendar. Before Halloween. And the 2.5 million trees occupying New York City’s open spaces confirmed it was fall — not winter — with glorious canopies of leaves stretching along their boughs.
According to the FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, fans of the rap/rock group Insane Clown Posse - who paint their faces with clown make-up and call themselves "Juggalos" - are now classified as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang" that are "forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity."
Joann Davis, 74, wanted to sell a tiny piece of moon rock dust that she's owned for nearly four decades. By some estimates, the dust could be worth more than $1 million. But when she tried to make a deal in May, she was taken down by government agents.
Evangeline and Eric Vigil of Alcalde filed the lawsuit Tuesday, saying they found a hole in the wall by the shower faucet and saw someone’s eye looking at them after hearing noises while showering at a Ramada Inn in April 2010.
Among the 25 fiends collared during what authorities called “Operation Spyglass” was Bill Blankinship, an editor who once toiled on the TLC show, “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” according to Radaronline.
Heavy monsoon rains have been drenching Southeast Asia since mid-July, causing mudslides and widespread flooding. The deluge has now reached Bangkok, with rising water and associated problems affecting most of the city's 10 million residents. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said that parts of the capital could be inundated by up to 1.5 meters of water and remain flooded for up to a month. Around Bangkok, the second-largest airport has closed, food prices are soaring, clean water is becoming scarce, and the country is declaring a holiday from Thursday until Monday to allow people to evacuate. The Chao Phraya river is predicted to overflow its banks in the city sometime today, and authorities say that if the protective dikes fail to hold the water, all parts of Bangkok will be vulnerable to the floodwater.
At 3.5%, North Dakota's unemployment rate is the lowest in the country. (Nationwide, the average is 9.1%). But among the small towns that lie along the Bakken oil formation, like Williston, Watford City and Belfield, unemployment is just 1.5%.
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