At least 16 teenage Afghan girls are recuperating at a hospital after they were poisoned and lost consciousness during school Tuesday, officials said.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Chinese mutiny
A group of young Chinese web addicts staged a mutiny at an internet "boot camp", tying up their instructor and fleeing the facility over its tough military-like techniques, state media says.
Chrysler recalls nearly 700K vehicles
Five models have potential problems, including doors that could catch fire, regulators say.
Also: Charge Your Gadgets With Your Boots?
Image via Orange
Orange and GotWind is a partnership known for coming up with some interesting new ways of generating power for off-grid charging. They've created everything from solar- and wind-powered tents to foot pumps . But now they want to attach that foot-powered action to boots themselves. Orange and GotWind are unveiling a pair of wellies that generate electricity as you walk. Article continues: Charge Your Gadgets With Your Boots? Orange Unveils Power-Generating Wellies
"I'm not a crook"
Straight from the crook's mouth ...
He was a politician so we all knew he was lying ... and history proved us correct.
Glenn Beck's favorite Nazi
Other than himself we mean.
From Joe Conason:
Glenn Beck's latest excursion to the farthest fringes of the old American right, which occurred on his radio show last Friday when he endorsed "The Red Network" by the late Nazi author and activist Elizabeth Dilling, revealed much about his own weird outlook. According to the Fox News star, Dilling's book, a racist and anti-Semitic tract published in 1935 as an "exposé of Communism," strongly resembles the patriotic service that he performs today.
It is of course true that Dilling, and every other Nazi, Silver Shirt, Bundist and fascist of that era, promoted their ideology as "patriotic," "Constitutionalist" and devoutly "Christian," much as Beck does.
What McCarthy was "right" about, Beck didn't say specifically, and in fact "Red Network" has little bearing on McCarthy's later claims concerning Communists in the State Department and the United States Army. But he went on to blurb the Dilling book as "the who's who and handbook of radicalism for patriots, documenting who are the Communists in America ... Who were the overwhelming number of Communists? Labor unions!" Still cackling, he closes with what he clearly considers a note of contemporary relevance. Dilling had discovered that "there's this teachers union thing ... You want to know who the real radical Communists are? The NEA!" Evidently Beck believes that since this woman, a wildly anti-Semitic nutcase, charged that the National Education Association was somehow Communist in the 1930s, we should assume, with Beck, that the NEA is a hotbed of Marxism in 2010.
Hockey player fighting for her life
Mandi Schwartz's battle against leukemia is inspiring thousands of people to help.
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Soccer glory
The actor steps up for a game-deciding penalty kick in front of more than 65,000 fans in England.
Also: Culinary DeLites
Culinary DeLites
Jalapeno peppers are combined with tomatoes and cilantro to spice up this salmon dish.
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Elephant causes traffic jam in Zurich
An elephant brought commuter traffic to a halt when she went for a stroll through a Swiss city center.
Sabu the elephant escaped from her circus home when she broke free while being loaded into her trailer. The four tonne animal then went for a dip in Lake Zurich, before walking into the nearby city center.
Startled motorists gave Sabu, 26, a wide berth as she strolled across Zurich's six lane one way system.
She was eventually recaptured by animal welfare experts and keepers from her home at the Circus Knie after two hours on the loose. Circus spokesman Nik Leuenberger, 36, said: "Sabu took a bath in Lake Zurich. We are relieved that nothing happened. She didn't mean any harm."
Sabu the elephant escaped from her circus home when she broke free while being loaded into her trailer. The four tonne animal then went for a dip in Lake Zurich, before walking into the nearby city center.
Startled motorists gave Sabu, 26, a wide berth as she strolled across Zurich's six lane one way system.
She was eventually recaptured by animal welfare experts and keepers from her home at the Circus Knie after two hours on the loose. Circus spokesman Nik Leuenberger, 36, said: "Sabu took a bath in Lake Zurich. We are relieved that nothing happened. She didn't mean any harm."
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Headlines:
- New Web Site Launches: OurAmazingPlanet OurAmazingPlanet explores Earth and its oceans.
- Revealed: How Tibetans Survive Thin Air Tibetans are genetically adapted to high altitude.
Discovery leads to speculation of alien life
Repost of an earlier story from a different source:
Scientists find tantalizing hints of what could be very basic life on one of Saturn's moons.
Also: Uncanny coincidence
A couple looking through old pictures discovers they crossed paths 30 years before they met.
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