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12 September 2003

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  36 Pairs of Panties: Cost? Total Humiliation   (St. Petersburg Times)
  • This is worse than e-mail chain letters, like the ones that promise doom and damnation if you don't forward them to 20 people before your next blink. These women are serious. They want their free panties, and they are threatening social outcast status for anyone who gets in their way.


    •   Copy-Protected CDs Take Step Forward   (BusinessWeek)
  • For the first time in the United States, BMG Music is releasing a disc loaded with anticopying protection, a move that opens a new round of experimentation for record labels.


    •   Beatles' Record Company Sues U.S. Tech Company Over Apple Name Trademark   (Associated Press)
  • The Fab Four's record company, Apple Corps Ltd., had said it is suing Apple Computer because the technology company violated a 1991 agreement by entering the music business with its iTunes online store.


    •   ZZ Top's Tall Texas Tales: True, False or In Between   ([Minneapolis] Star Tribune)
  • Ever since they made it big with a 1973 song about a little whorehouse in La Grange, Texas, ZZ Top has been covered with facial hair, shrouded in mystery and mired in rumors.


    •   I'll Have What He's Having   (Reuters)
  • Adventurous ladies looking for new ways to flirt, here's a suggestion from New York's Museum of Sex — go to a restaurant, head for the bathroom, take off your panties and put them on your date's plate.


    •   Bolshoi Theater Struggles with 'Heavy' Ballerina   (Reuters)
  • Moscow's Bolshoi Theater was embroiled in a high-profile row with an ice-cream-loving ballerina it says is too heavy for ballet partners to lift.


    •   Porno Film Strips Church of Holiness   (Reuters)
  • A church in central Italy may need reconsecrating after police discovered it had been the location for a pornographic film.


    •   Man's Plans for Alibi Foiled by Mail   (Associated Press)
  • A man who thought he had hatched a perfect alibi to charges that he murdered a man in a barroom shooting two years ago had his scheme foiled when a letter asking a friend to lie for him was returned and was read by jail guards.


    •   Elderly Widow Stored Wife's Body for Years   (Associated Press)
  • A 75-year-old man stored his wife's body for nearly six years in his backyard, twisted and upside down in an old freezer, because he hoped she could someday be brought back to life.


    •   Woman Robs Missouri Bank with Fake Bomb Around Neck in Apparent Copycat Crime   (Associated Press)
  • A woman robbed a bank by saying she was "wired" around her neck in an apparent copycat version of a robbery last month that left a pizza delivery man dead.


    •   Breakfast-Time Weddings Thwart Gatecrashers   (xReuters)
  • Wedding parties are being held early in the morning in Somali towns to put off gangs of gatecrashers.


    •   Sexual Frolics Spark Massive Police Hunt   (Reuters)
  • The sadomasochistic sex games of two Germans prompted a massive police hunt involving over 40 officers and fire services after witnesses mistook their frolics for a violent crime.


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