] Blame it on geocaching, an Internet-based hide-and-seek
] game that has, just three years after its invention, been
] played by an estimated 250,000 people around the world.
] Roughly 15,000 play in any given week, and the number has
] doubled about every six months

Geocaching getting some more notice.

'Geocaching' buccaneers pursue hidden bounty throughout Bay Area as GPS-based game catches on

] George Evanthes has never been hunting. "Originally I'm
] from New York. What am I going to hunt? Squirrels?
] Someone's cats. Someone's dogs? I don't think so," said
] Evanthes. Now that he's living in Las Vegas , he's
] finally getting his chance to put on his camouflage, grab
] a rifle and pull the trigger, but what's in his scope may
] surprise you. He's not hunting ducks or even deer. He's
] hunting woman. Naked women.

Sounds like fun

Bizarre Game Targets Women: Hunting for Bambi: Parts 1 & 2

] Chilean scientists said on Friday their study of a huge
] blob of flesh found on a Pacific beach about three weeks
] ago concluded it was the carcass of a sperm whale, ending
] speculation of a giant octopus.

CNN.com - Giant Chilean beach 'blob' identified - Jul. 11, 2003

] Experts with the National Weather Service say these
] photos are rare. They say it was a small explosion
] created by a lightning bolt.

WOAI: SAN ANTONIO//NEWS | Ring in the Sky: What Was That?

flynn23 wrote:
] ] The fully-grown flies, as doctors described the
] ] parasites, have been emerging out of Chandan Goswami's
] ] genitals and flying off for more than two weeks now.
]
] OMG!, this is a nightmare come true...

How do you explain that one to a date? Uhhh I have this little fly problem, so don't be surprised if a fly comes out.

RE: 'Fly boy' continues to suffer as doctors struggle

] British scientists are lobbying to build the world's most
] powerful microscope, an instrument so advanced that it
] can see individual atoms moving.
]
] The European Spallation Source (ESS) -- a type of
] instrument known as a matterscope -- would allow them to
] look at the growth of protein molecules in living human
] tissue or at the stresses deep within the wheel of a
] train or the wing of an aircraft.
]
] "This is on par with the Hubble telescope, but it's for
] looking at inner space," said Professor Bob Cywinski of
] Leeds University, which is backing the one billion pound
] (US $1.6 billion) project.
]
] A disused World War Two airfield in North Yorkshire has
] been earmarked for the matterscope's kilometer-long
] concrete tunnel and neutron research laboratories.
]
] "To look at it, you'd just see a mound of grass growing
] over the top and sheep wandering around," said Cywinski.

Big science! w00t!

Kilometer-long microscope in the works

] On July 1st a bright dust cloud spilled out of Hellas
] Basin, a giant impact crater on Mars' southern
] hemisphere. The cloud quickly spread and by the Fourth of
] July was 1100 miles wide--about one-fourth the diameter
] of Mars itself.
]
] "The cloud can be seen now through a telescope as small
] as 6 inches," says Donald Parker, executive director of
] the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO).
] "Its core is quite bright."

RedNova News: The Giant Dust Storms on Mars

] TAMPA, Fla.
]
] Two deputies were injured Thursday when they ate
] cheeseburgers laced with broken glass at a McDonald's
] during their dinner break, officials said.

Heard about this on the radio this morning. The glass was very small pieces and looked very much like the minced onions on the burgers. The other bit of information that isn't in this blurb was that, the two officers where the only two customers in the restaurant at the time of the incident.

St. Petersburg Times Online: Two Hillsborough deputies injured by glass in cheeseburgers

] The attempted robbery suspect was already subdued when
] Metro police arrived on the scene; he also was naked and
] bound with duct tape.

] The suspect, Gregory Leon Bell, 38, of Ward Street was
] arrested and charged with five counts of attempted
] aggravated robbery. He was being held in Metro Jail last
] night in lieu of $250,000 bail.

How much did he expect to get from the dollar store? But the bigger question here is why did they strip him?

Police find robbery suspect naked and bound with duct tape - Thursday, 07/10/03

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