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"Using in vitro fertilization to create a baby that might cure sick siblings was ruled legally acceptable by Britain's highest appeal court on Thursday." Link [http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/04/29/createbabies0430.html]. The Canadians gotta be pretty envious that they didn&

We're gonna live forever! > A total of 20 000 fliers outlining the health benefits of drinking up to two bottles of beer per day will be handed out to patrons arriving at gyms in Lisbon and Oporto, the nation's second-largest city, by Friday, according to

Towns have all sorts of ways to attract tourists. The most popular way is to concoct some sort of festival. We've seen the Potato Festival, the River Fest, White Pigeon Days, Old Fashioned Days, Covered Bridge Days. And now: Whorehouse Days, to be held in Gilbert, Minnesota. Registration-required

Bowlers will have something to say about its claim to be the sport of drunks, but Mrs. Scheske has played Whirlyball and says it's a blast. Link [http://clevescene.com/issues/2005-04-27/news/news.html]. Excerpt: > WhirlyBall can be called a sport in the same tenuous way

We're gonna hurl! > Some house-hunters insist on gourmet kitchens, others on antique moldings or sprawling backyards. Now comes a new, even more ostentatious status symbol for the condo, townhouse and suburban home: the passenger elevator. > This isn't just for the very old or the

We voted for the man, twice, but his embrace of big government makes us shudder. An excerpt from last night's Q&A regarding No Child Left Behind: > But we spend a lot of money here at the federal level and have increased the money we spend

This out of London: > Dog-lovers have taken 2.7 million working days off to care for their sick pets over the last two years, according to a survey on Thursday. > Ten percent of owners missed five days of work, with half of these taking up to two weeks

Posting should be light today. Eric Scheske is on assignment, going undercover as a Vatican agent of B16 to undermine democracy in the Midwest in order to clear the way for a B-Squared (Bush-Benedict) theocracy. His assignment today is to penetrate public libraries and tear the Bill of Rights from

The first Saturday of May is National Homebrew Day. It's eight days away, but there's no reason you can't start drinking now in anticipatory celebration. Link [http://news.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-467.htm]. Excerpt: > In 1979, the American Homebrewers Association named the first

They got themselves a dilemma in Oregon. Salmon are an endangered species. They're bottle-necked somewhere along the Columbia River. Sea lions--carrying substantial clout as protected species under the federal 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act--are eating them like popcorn. Authorities don't know how to stop the slaughter.