Mystery Disease Terrifies Sudan Officials

A Philadelphia police chief has been suspended after his detectives staking out a brothel allegedly caught him leaving the building while he was off-duty.

Runnymede Borough officials say Police Chief James Martin Leason has been suspended without pay and charged with promoting prostitution.

Leason has also been charged with misconduct in office. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

 "The mayor and council are shocked."

      

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish hospital staff are hunting for a fingertip that disappeared hours before it was due to be sewn on to a man's finger.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's judicial establishment demanded an investigation into the practice of criminals paying stand-ins to serve their prison sentences.

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That I am an agent, but also a plant; that much that I did not make goes towards making me whatever I shall be praised or blamed for being; that I must constantly choose among competing and apparently incommensurable goods and that circumstances may force me to a position in which I cannot help being false to something or doing some wrong; that an event that simply happens to me may, without my consent, alter my life; that it is equally problematic to entrust one's good to friends, lovers, or country and to try to have a good life without them--all these I take to be not just the material of tragedy, but everyday facts of lived practical reason.

Martha Nussbaum
    --The Fragility of Goodness

HANOI (Reuters) - Bodybuilders in Vietnam are squawking about the absence of chicken in their diets after a bird flu outbreak hit supplies of the cheap source of protein.

25 YEARS AGO TODAY

Jan 29 1979

Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer fires repeatedly at the school across from her residence in San Diego, killing 2 and wounding 8 children. The reason she gave inspired the Boomtown Rats song. "I just started shooting, that's it. I just did it for the fun of it. I just don't like Mondays ...I just did it because it's a way to cheer the day up. Nobody likes Mondays." 

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" I Don't Like Mondays"

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown? 


All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die? 

-Boomtown Rats

The whale died after becoming beached

 

Whale explodes in Taiwanese city

A dead sperm whale has exploded while being delivered to a research centre near the southwestern city of Tainan.

Passers-by and cars were soaked in blood and body parts were sprayed over a road after the bursting of the whale, which was being carried on a trailer.

A marine biologist blamed the explosion on pressure from gases building up in the mammal as it began to decompose.

Residents and shop owners wore masks while trying to clean up the spilt blood and entrails.

INCREASING PROBLEM:

Swedes have more and more animal sex

Av Øyvind Ludt og Carin Pettersson 26.01.04 12:24

“We have seen an increase since 1999 when child pornography became illegal,” said Johan Beck-Friis. “It appears, in other words, as there are some people who have replaced children with animals."

The injuries inflicted on animals after sexual assaults are of the same character of those children get. The most common injuries are wounds on the sex organs and blisters.

A British study indicates that every 20th dog or cat that receives treatment at veterinaries has been inflicted the injury as a result of a sexual assault.