Weird but true
Everything’s bigger in Texas — even babies.
Janet Johnson of Longview has given birth to a 16-pound, 1-ounce, boy.
And the proud mom believes that JaMichael Brown may be among the biggest babies in state history.
“Everybody was amazed that he was so big,” Johnson said.
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Don’t pooh-pooh this idea.
Gilbert, Ariz., is considering using a “dog waste digester,” designed by Arizona State University students to create enough electricity to run at least one street lamp.
The raw material would be collected from a local park.
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There’s probably no good place to have a heart attack — but this comes close.
A cardiologist and a team of nurses were giving a lecture on heart disease at a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, when a man in the audience complained of chest pains.
Seconds later, his heart stopped — but the doctor and nurses quickly got it restarted.
After treating their unexpected patient and checking him into the hospital, they resumed their presentation.
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A 100-mile ultra-marathon in Montana’s Flathead National Forest, scheduled for July 29, has been canceled — because of snow.
Portions of the course collected so much of it over the winter, race officials fear it will still be on the ground by the start of the event, making it too dangerous for the racers,
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OMG!
Swedish officials have refused to declare sharing files on the Internet an act of worship.
Backers of open access to data had formed the Missionary Church of Kopimism (pronounced copy-me-ism), named after the Kopimi logo on the Web sites of people willing to have their posted files copied.

