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23 September 2003

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  Student Cuts Off Penis and Tongue   (Sky News)
  • A student cut off his penis and tongue with garden shears while tripping on an hallucinogenic drug. The 18-year-old German went into his garden and set about severing his organs after downing a tea made with the plant Angels' Trumpet.


    •   School Gets $1.7 Million to Count Bugs   (Associated Press)
  • Oregon State University plans to use a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create technology that can identify insects with pattern recognition systems similar to systems used to compare and identify fingerprints.


    •   Hungarians Get Horny While Singapore Sleeps   (Reuters)
  • Forget Latin lovers — horny Hungarians are now the most active between the sheets, leading a charge of eastern Europeans in the global sex charts.


    •   Man Robs Bank Then Waits for Police   (Associated Press)
  • A Taiwanese man robbed a bank with a toy gun, but waited to be arrested instead of running away, claiming he wanted to be jailed to avoid repaying a loan shark.


    •   No Clapping, Dancing at Mass, Vatican to Warn   (Reuters)
  • No dancing in the aisles or applause in church, please, we're Catholic. And we'd prefer altar boys to altar girls.


    •   Man Sentenced, Married on Same Day   (Associated Press)
  • A judge performed a wedding ceremony for an inmate and his fiancee, moments after sentencing the groom to more time in prison for hiding marijuana in his underwear.


    •   Woman Bites Two Librarians in Robbery   (Associated Press)
  • A woman bit two librarians after they tried to stop her from stealing about $70 from the public library's cash drawer.


    •   ACLU Says Secret Service Keeps Anti-Bush Protesters Away   (Associated Press)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union asked the federal courts Tuesday to prevent the U.S. Secret Service from keeping anti-Bush protesters far away from presidential appearances while allowing supporters to display their messages up close.


    •   Woman Sues After Pop Bottle Cap Flies Off, Hits Her in the Eye   (Associated Press)
  • A bizarre pop bottle accident is forcing the Coca-Cola Bottling Company into the courts.


    •   New York's Library Hotel Denies Infringing on Rights of Owner of Dewey Decimal System   (Associated Press)
  • A library-themed luxury hotel in Manhattan said that it has not infringed on the rights of a nonprofit library cooperative that owns the Dewey Decimal system.
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