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Not only that, but pregnant with twins.
Romanian doctors say a 67-year-old woman is seven months pregnant with twin girls after fertility treatment.
If the pregnancy comes to full term, it is believed that Adriana Iliescu, an author and academic, will become the oldest recorded mother.
Somehow the manager is not in trouble for this (at least isn’t going to court like the guys he ordered around).
Two Wal-Mart employees who police say followed a manager’s orders to shoot and kill a stray cat have been charged with federal animal cruelty.
The men, both assistant managers at the Supercenter, were arrested and released after a court appearance Wednesday. Christopher Anderson, 29, and Jeffrey Hardin, 21, told police the store’s manager ordered them to get rid of the animal that was living in a storage trailer behind their store.
Thanks Barney for the link.
So was he right or is this just a PR stunt (considering that many question the guy’s validity)?
An Oregon man said Thursday that his firm warned the Indian government of an impending earthquake that could cause more destruction across Asia. An Indian government minister called the warning “hogwash,” and blamed him for the scare that prompted tens of thousands of people to flee their homes for higher ground.
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Geologists in Oregon said they had not heard of Park or of his research and joined the Indian official in questioning its validity.
“I’ve never had any contact with this group,” University of Oregon geology professor Ray Weldon said. “I assume if it was legitimate I would have heard of it.”
Geologist Lou Clark, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industry, said that she hears periodically from earthquake enthusiasts who claim to be able to predict impending disasters.
“One of the problems is that there are earthquakes all over the earth every day,” she said, making it easy for someone to ‘predict’ a quake in a large area, especially in regions of the world, such as Indonesia, that lie near the boundary between two tectonic plates.
“The problem is because quakes are concentrated in a few areas it is very difficult to say that something is not chance unless you are completely specific about the quake,” she said.
She’s exactly right. A bunch of small quakes in the same area doesn’t mean a big one’s coming. Using that logic, Bend would have been blown away after we had all those micro quakes a while back.
All sounds a bit fishy to me.
OK, that’s just freaky. This guy got a big tattoo on his chest of an old-school NES controller. The tattoo was drawn to make it look like the cord’s coming out of a hole in his chest.
How this for taking advantage of the holiday spirit?
The packages were labeled as toys for good girls and boys and the business was called Santa’s Helpers. But authorities say the packages were nothing more than a naughty ruse to cover a large-scale drug smuggling operation.
The bogus business tried to smuggle $7.8 million worth of cocaine from Los Angeles to nearby Willoughby, Ohio authorities said. Drug agents seized about 175 pounds of cocaine Monday in the largest seizure in Cleveland this year.
Producers of Jeopardy! have announced a “Super Tournament” where they’re going to pit 150 past five-time winners against each other. The two surviving contestants will face Ken Jennings in a $2,000,000 finale. Full Story.
It’ll cost you $15/bottle, but Sam Adams now makes a Chocalate Beer.
Apparently exploding gravy tops the list which includes falls from rocking horses and tipsy party guests toppling downstairs.
Brits are going to be force-fed nearly 200 reality TV shows in 2005. If this was happening in America, 90% of them would be on Fox.