Best-tasting sausages from the store
These six won top honors in a test of more than 100 store-brand links.
These six won top honors in a test of more than 100 store-brand links.
That's a 10' rock python trying to eat an entire deer. Photo: Alex Griffiths via flickr.
Brian just reminded us that Florida's ongoing problem with invasive and dangerous pythons has some people worried that a new hybrid constrictor might come out of their interbreeding. But as the Christian Science Monitor reports, recent cold weather may help quell those fears:
“She’s a criminal genius,” says Jon Campbell, the South Carolina police detective who eventually exposed her trail of deceit. “She was manipulative, controlling, brilliant. We didn’t know what to make of her.” With so many unanswered questions, authorities treated Esther Reed’s disappearance as an all-out emergency, suspecting her not only of fraud but of murder and international espionage. The tabloids had a field day with this brazen girl who had conned her way into the Ivy League; front-page headlines worried over her whereabouts and wondered what dangerous secrets she might be keeping.
No one guessed the truth, which was simpler, and therefore stranger, than their wildest theories: that the scared young woman so hotly pursued by South Carolina police, the Secret Service, federal marshals and even the U.S. Army was actually on a bizarre and misguided journey of self-discovery. A 28-year-old high school dropout from Montana, Esther Reed just wanted to stop being Esther Reed and to embark on a new, better life of her own design. She was pursuing the American Dream, with a twist: Rather than forge a new identity from scratch, she would steal someone else’s and remake it to suit her own needs. Reed never imagined that her ill-conceived self-help program would land her on America’s Most Wanted and brand her as a threat to national security — or that for one brokenhearted family in South Carolina, the fulfillment of her hopes and dreams would mean the end of their own.
From Treehugger:
Photo via Paul Hamilton / RAEI
One look at a newly discovered species of gecko, small enough at its full-grown size to rest comfortably on the eraser of a pencil, and it's difficult not to be mesmerized by the seemingly boundless forms of biological diversity--while simultaneously reminded of its fragility. For the last seven years, the Ecuadorian Biodiversity Project has scoured the Amazon to observe and record the rainforest's unique wildlife, and to draw attention to the imperiled ecosystem in which they live. So far, the organization has catalogued almost 6,000 species, taking roughly 25,000 photographs. Recently, 30 new species of reptiles and amphibians have been discovered, though sadly they could all become extinct due to the various factors that have long threatened the region.
Oh, and he built a swing set for the girls outside the Oval Office!
Despite a firestorm of criticism, the talk show host reaffirms his dig at President Obama's relief efforts.
Patrick Gottsch built a 24-hour cable network that attracts 13 million weekly viewers.
Create more closet space by tossing these tired and goofy-looking items.
Rescue teams work quickly while the quake-ravaged nation faces new threats.
Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams flew to this devastated land of dazed, dead and dying people Thursday, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and without a control tower.
Full StoryA stunning eclipse that swept across Africa and Asia won't be matched for more than 1,000 years.
The threat of "skimming" has made typing your PIN at the pump a bad idea.
A once-elegant hotel leaves its doors open and operates a hospital in its front entrance.
The first American reported killed by the earthquake in Haiti was a foreign service officer crushed when her home collapsed.
Full StoryPresident Obama wants to recoup every taxpayer dollar spent on the bailouts.
As aid pours in from around the world, banks and credit-card companies stand to make millions.
Food and water shortages add a layer of danger to rescue efforts as the search for survivors continues.
Lush Dimbulb's remarks about the Haiti disaster and Obama have stunned many.
Minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang Chen, said that online pornography, fraud and "rumors" were a menace. He said Internet media must help "guide public opinion" in China, which has the world's biggest number of Internet users at 360 million. He did not mention Google.
Wang's comments suggested little room for compromise in the Internet dispute that could stoke tensions between China and the United States, already at odds over the yuan currency, trade, climate change, and Taiwan.
This idiot is astounding. He ranks up there on the asinine scale with Pat Robertson saying that Haiti made a pact with the devil and that's why all these bad things are happening.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
What will be their response to Dimbulb?Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager's mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.
Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs.
"One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,'' Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, "my phone was seized, and I was arrested.''
The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.
Probably the best-known exhibit is the life-size diorama of a grower in the countryside guarding his crop. Montane flips a switch and a cassette player begins a bouncy narco-corrida, the popular ballads honoring the derring-dos of drug outlaws. In the corner, a mannequin lounges in his dark shades, a shotgun across his lap, beside a pile of empty Tecate beer cans. In front are beans on the stove and a bust of Jesús Malverde, a highwayman who legend has it was killed by authorities in 1909 and is revered as a patron saint of traffickers and a Robin Hood for the poor.Around the corner, the exhibits show how drugs are smuggled, and here human ingenuity is on full display. There is dope hidden inside picture frames, logs, gas tanks, clay pots, tamales, concrete blocks, truck tires, soda cans, car bumpers, shoes, stuffed armadillos and a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
There is a kind of James Bond or Dr. Evil quality to some exhibits. An attache case confiscated from an outlaw surveillance team holds computer boards and other gadgetry to monitor cellphone calls. The cartels now employ their own fleets of semi-submersible submarines. On display is a large sea buoy with a coded beacon device the traffickers attach to huge payloads of drugs they can dump into the sea and pick up later. Also, apparently, the narcos now have their own line of clothes. There are dark blue polo shirts sporting a kind of family crest for the Zetas, a notorious cartel founded by former special forces soldiers that controls vast swaths along the Gulf of Mexico from Brownsville, Tex., to Cancun. The shirts, which appear to be 100 percent cotton, are emblazoned with a Z and the words: "Cartel del Golfo."
A new way of counting dying eye cells could allow Alzheimer's disease to be diagnosed before other symptoms show up.
A major Antarctic glacier has passed its tipping point – it is poised to collapse in a catastrophe that could raise global sea levels by 24 centimeters.
Geography isn't the only factor behind the island nation's unending string of catastrophes.
These companies will tell you where your credit rating stands — without costing you a dime.
Find thousands of dollars in your budget by answering these basic questions.
A simple phone call to your insurance company can help shave up to $400 off your premiums.
Careers in these fields will allow you to learn while your pay and responsibilities increase.
In some areas, prices are still falling, and houses sit on the market for more than half a year.
Eating an egg a day can keep the weight away, and so can a delicious plate of pasta.
If any of these four scenarios happen, it could stop the current recovery — and scare off hiring.
A search dog fell through a camouflaged trap door leading down to a full-length school bus buried eight feet under a backyard tool shed.
Mikey Hicks was first patted down at 2 years old.
At 8, he is still aggressively frisked.