Russian doomsday cult calls credit cards satanic

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NIKOLSKOE, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian doomsday cult sheltering in a bunker say credit cards and food packaging bar codes are satanic, the official negotiating the release of children from the group said on Monday.

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Nipple rings fall foul of airport check (Reuters)

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Attorney Gloria Allred (L) and her client Mandi Hamlin pose with a mannequin and nipple rings in her Los Angeles office after a news conference March 27, 2008 in this photograph provided by Allred. (Ashley Morrison-Courtesy Gloria Allred/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A woman who claims she was ordered by federal airport screeners to remove her nipple rings with pliers demanded an apology from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Thursday.

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Days may have 25 hours in near future due to Earth

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Days are gradually growing longer. To the layman this means that in the northern hemisphere days are longer in summer than they are in winter. But geoscientists interpret this phrase as follows: they found that days grow longer not only in spring time. According to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, July 13 2003 was the shortest day within the last 100 years

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Head of Sofia Forensic Medicine Centre Released on BGN 2,000 Bail

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Sofia City Court released Monday the head of Forensic Medicine Centre of Alexandrovska hospital, Doctor Stanislav Hristov, on BGN 2,000 bail after he was arrested over illegal explantations and trade in human organs. Hristov was put under home detention and dismissed from his position. According t…

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Alternate Baseball Universes

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Jamie found a NYTimes op-ed by a grad student and a professor from Cornell, outlining some research they did into alternate baseball universes. The goal was to find out how unlikely in fact was Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, played out in the 1941 season. No one since has even come close to that record. The math guys ran simulations of the entire history of baseball from 1885 on — 10,000 of them. For each simulation they put each player up to the plate for each at-bat in each game in each year, just like it happened; and they rolled the dice on him, based on his actual hitting stats for that season. (Their algorithm sounds far simpler than whatever …

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Trial against Bulgarian Former Bully Mayor Drags on

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Sofia City Court postponed Monday the case hearing against Fidel Beev, ex-mayor of the town of Velingrad, accused of tax evasion. The court decided to put off the trial, as another financial expertise must be conducted. According to prosecution, the defender failed to declare income of BGN 43,000 a…

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Farmer finds mystery space junk (Reuters)

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Australian farmer James Stirton stands next to a ball of twisted metal, purported to be fallen space junk, on his farm in southwestern Queensland in this undated handout photograph received March 28, 2008. (James Stirton/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A cattle farmer in Australia’s remote northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites.

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