police officers have begun patrolling the Internet sites where guilty parties sometimes freely admit to committing various crimes without apparent fear of reprisal, such as parties and protests.
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A woman ran over her own legs with her SUV in a McDonald’s drive-thru.
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Bush vetoed the child healthcare bill and 51% of Americans said they would be willing to pay higher taxes so that all children could have health insurance,with those with lower household incomes showing the most support.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced that the completion of a $20 million “virtual fence” pilot project along the Mexican border near Tucson would be delayed because its cameras and radar were unable to distinguish people and vehicles from bushes and cows.
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21.7 million pounds of beef were recalled.
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Hillary Clinton suggested she might give $5000 to babies.
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Raytheon unveiled Silent Guardian, a device that radiates unbearable pain which the US plans to use in Iraq. “You don’t have time to think about it,” said an executive. “You just run.”
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A Government official was charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend using homeland security data.
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The Canadian dollar surpassed the value of the American dollar.
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Alan Greenspan said the Iraq war was largely about oil.
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O.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday on charges related to a Las Vegas armed robbery involving sport memorabilia, and his book: “If I did it: Confessions of the Killer,” was published by the family of his ex-wife, who he might have killed.
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Banks in Nigeria have been told they must stop using attractive women to persuade customers to open accounts. “Why is it that all these girls are…moving around hustling as if they are looking for something other than money?” the Senate President asked.
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Scientists in Britain made gum that won’t stick to your shoe.
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Google offered $30m to anyone that lands a robot rover on the Moon.
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Researchers found the number of American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold from 1994 to .
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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Police are cracking down on Craigslist hookers. “Technology has worked its way into every profession,” said a Long Island detective, “including the oldest.”
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Doctors pointed out that cigarette smoke can give animals cancer, and an hundred-year-old woman celebrated her birthday by lighting her 170,000th cigarette with her birthday candles.
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Top executives at major businesses last year made as much money in one day of work on the job as the average worker made over the entire year, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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The Bush administration prepared to ask Congress for an additional fifty billion dollars for the war in Iraq, a military jury exonerated the only officer facing trial for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Wednesday ordered a six-month shutdown of his militia in what his aides described as an attempt to reform the organization, President Bush said Tehran’s atomic ambitions could put the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust,” Iran rejected US accusations it was fomenting instability in Iraq, and northern Iraq was hit by major cholera outbreak.
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