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List of Top 5 Most Famous Brothels

A list of the most famous houses of ill repute from WorldSexWiki. One in Prague allows you to sleep with women for free, but there’s a catch…

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ABC, CBS, CNN aired Bush’s "cut and run", ignored Democratic Response

On September 28, ABC, CBS, and CNN all aired President Bush’s attack on Democrats as “the party of cut and run” but did not include a Democratic response, in contrast to NBC.

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Doctor lashes out after being convicted of growing 50,000 Cannabis plants

When the jury handed down its decision, Katelaris told them: “Regrettably the next generation will suffer from your ignorance”. He later described the jury to the media as sheep. Outside court following his conviction, Katelaris said the courts and police had “behaved very poorly”, while holding up a sign with the name of a pro-cannabis website.

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Journalism on Drugs - Exploring Legal Highs

New Scientist paid one lucky journalist to take a variety of legal high drugs and write up her experiences for the magazine. The article is pretty thorough, and explores the legal, social, political and health issues that surround the sale of these products. Many of them are banned in some countries.

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The Top Ten College Pranks of All Time

The staff at the Museum of Hoaxes studied hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of the genre of the college prank to find the ten most worthy of immortal fame. The pranks were judged according to three criteria: creativity, fame, and shock value. A must read.

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Dems Fear Torture More Than Terrorists

ScrappleFace:

(2006-09-29) — According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 89 percent of Democrats believe it’s more likely that they will personally be subjected to NSA wiretaps and CIA waterboarding, than it is that Islamic terrorists will attempt another attack on U.S. soil.

The results come in the wake of Congressional passage of President Bush’s terrorist detainee and NSA wiretap proposals designed to prevent future attacks.

“The only thing we have to fear,” said one unnamed Democrat Senator, “is Bush himself.”

The source noted that al Qaeda is not a “legitimate threat”, since the so-called terror group has mounted only one successful operation on U.S. soil in the past six years.

“In that same time, Bush has ordered many wiretaps and the CIA has tortured lots of detainees,” he said. Then he asked rhetorically, “Which one presents a clear and present danger: Bush or Bin Laden?”

The anonymous senator also noted that the al Qaeda leader’s effectiveness has been neutralized because, “Bin Laden has been virtually dead since President Clinton nearly killed him years ago.” - Scott Ott / ScrappleFace

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Christopher Walken talks with Conan about running for President.

Christopher Walken on Conan O’Brien remarking on http://www.walken2008.com/ his US Presidential Campaign website that was made by Gen[M]ay.com members.

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1918 Flu Virus Reveals It’s Secrets

BBC NEWS:

An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918 flu virus has given a new insight into how the infection took hold.

Scientists discovered a severe immune system reaction was triggered when mice were infected with the recreated virus.

The US team believes the extreme immune response could have provoked the body to begin killing its own cells, making the flu even deadlier.

The study, published in Nature, may aid the hunt for new treatments. The 1918 pandemic took about 50 million lives.

“The host’s immune system may be overreacting and killing off too many cells”
– Dr John Kash University of Washington

The devastating infection, which is thought to have originated in birds, left young adults worst hit.

Scientists in the US have reconstructed the H1N1 virus in a bid to better understand how it became such an effective killer - and to also bolster knowledge in the face of the current H5N1 bird flu threat.

The researchers infected mice with the recreated influenza virus.

Through functional genomic analysis, they discovered that the mice immune systems responded fiercely to the infection and remained active until the animals’ deaths several days later.

At the same time, the animals also suffered the severe lung disease that is characteristic of the virus.

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19 Year Old Diebold Technician Wins U.S. Presidency

In a dramatic development that has come as a surprise to pundits and the public alike, a youthful technician with Diebold, Inc. has emerged as the unlikely winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. The president-elect, 19 year old Billy Pustule of Green, Ohio, was reached via SMS at the garage apartment by his mother’s house.

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