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Education,with the news that 10 percent of U.S. college students think Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech was made to advocate the abolition of slavery.

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Tribalism, after an American soccer fan sued the man who tattooed a P---s onto his back instead of the logo of his favorite team.The Tattooist,it seems,is a keen supporter of a rival team.

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School, snow, cold

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Overreacting, after a barking dog caused the death of 443 chickens in China.The dog's barking scared a 4-year-old boy,whose high-pitched screams of terror caused the chickens in a nearby henhouse to stampede and trample one another to death.

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The urban Jungle ,after a Guyanese immigrant newly arrived in New York went for a stroll,got lost,and turned up five days later suffering from frostbite and dehydration.Damon Mootoo,32 says he would have ask for directions had he not heard stories of what New Yorkers will do to people."I'm thinking of going back to Guyana," added Mootoo.

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Emma Faust Tillman of Connecticut,who died days after assuming the title of World's Older person.The title now passes to Yone Minagawa,114,of Fukuoka,Japan.

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working outside

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wearing shorts

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Diversity,after the small Canadian town of Herouxville,Quebec,put Muslim immigrants who wish to live there on notice that they will not be allowed to stone women to death in public,burn them alive,or throw acid on them.The sponsor of the new rules said the town was simply clarifying that traditional practices of other cultures "cannot be re-created here.

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Going for broke,after Andrei Karpov of Murmansk,Russia,ran out of money during a poker game and bet "ownership" of his wife,Tatiana.He lost the bet to opponent Sergey Brodov,Tariana has since divorced Karpov and married Brodov,whom she describes as Handsome and charming.

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For someone on a diet or trying to lose weight....

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Wookies,after a man dressed as Chewbacca--the hirsute,bandolier-draped Star Wars character--was arrested for head-butting a tour guide outside Grauman's Chinese Threater in Los Angeles.Nobody tells this wookie what to do! the 6-foot-5 assailant reportedly yelled before the attack.

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The future of the species after a survey of 1,000 American women found that most valued their favorite clothes more than sex,and would gladly abstain for 15 months in exchange for an entire new wardrobe.

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Fighting city hall, after the death of a Canadian man who had waged an unsuccessful three-year campaign to have authorities remove a giant tree stump that posed a danger to snowmobilers.The man,Robert Case,died on a dark night when his snowmobile creashed into the aforementioned tree stump.

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jello...a cheap form of posting

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Thrift, after Canadian Wayne Kingwell,40, was caught trying to sneak into the U.S. by floating down the ice-choked Niagara River on a rubber raft.Kingwell,who was treated at a hospital for hypothermia,told authorities he was trying to avoid the $85 handling fee his credit card company charges him if he mails his monthly payment from Canada.

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Brintney Spear's hair

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Fatal attraction, after a 70-year old Japanese woman went on trial for bombarding a 79-year old man with more than 200 love letters and forcing her way into his home seven times. When the object of her affection did not respond,she told him."if it comes down to it,you could die."

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Psychics and spoon-benders,after Princeton University announced the closure of its extra-sensory perception laboratory after 28 years of inconclusive research.If people don't believe us after all the results we've produced,then they never will, shrugged lab founder Robert Jahn,76.