Published on Friday, August 15, 2003 by the Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Wash)

Radioactive Nests of Hanford Wasps are Science Fact

by John Stang   These wasps use their stingers mostly to paralyze spiders to stuff one each into a mud tube before implanting an egg on that spider. At H Reactor, these 1Ú2- to 3Ú4-inch-long wasps are picking up their mud from the complex's contaminated spent nuclear fuel basin.   In the past, Hanford has faced hordes of radioactive ants, hunted marauding radioactive fruit flies in 1998 and constantly combats tumbling radioactive tumbleweeds. Unfound radioactive nests will shelter larvae hibernating with their dead spiders through the fall and winter. When spring comes, the larvae will awaken.

Police: Woman Chased, Stabbed 6 Times By Panhandler

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- A woman who refused to give a  panhandler money was chased from her car by him and stabbed six times. . .

A man who drove into the lot during the attack used his sport utility vehicle to strike the alleged assailant as he attempted to leave on a bicycle.

Sad Times, and Rainbow Bridges
"I've been reluctant to post this because I know it may be met with misunderstanding and outrage, but I think it's important and might make some of you view how to handle the loss of a loved pet from a new, life-affirming perspective."

http://www.livejournal.com/users/siamang/43717.html

Frog Costume Package - Price: 3,800 Yen (Tax excluded)

New fashion of this Spring! It's gonna hit big! She's kind of froggy... A very cute and humorous package to transform your cat into a frog!  >> Size available(head circumference): 22 to 28 cm Frog Costume Package "I am a frog

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$64/pair

Crazy Eyes contact lenses let you go from a cat to an wolf in a blink of an eye. 

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Oversexed Arnold Schwarzenegger Gets A handful Of British Talk Hosts! "Riot Fuel" by Eightheadz, creator of 8BM.com

During his promotional visit to Britain this week Arnold Schwarzenegger groped Denise Van Outen on the Big Breakfast and behaved in a similarly oversexed and over here fashion with a clearly panicked Melanie Sykes on ITV's Celebrity. Big Screen presenter Anna Richardson also claims that Arnold actually groped her breast during an interview . . .

AP - Feature Stories

Man Eats Burger in Every Kansas County Fri Aug 22, 9:49 AM ET

STERLING, Kan. - . . .Bunyan, a retired teacher, had completed his effort to eat a hamburger in every one of the state's 105 counties.

Bunyan's wife, Susan, made hamburger-shaped invitations and sent them to all the friends who'd helped Bunyan eat his way across the state.

Chinese ROTC Training

HANOI (Reuters) -Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15 but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral. . .

"I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving."

The Fighting Whites basketball team was organized in early February (2002) by a group of Native American and non-Indian students of the University of Northern Colorado with the intent of playing intramural basketball.

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