Store Yanks Ghettopoly Amid Protest
([New York] Daily News )
The Urban Outfitters outlet pulled the game Ghettopoly from its shelves after critics slammed it as racially offensive.
Dubious Letters from GIs In Iraq
(CBS News )
A series of letters to hometown newspapers, purportedly written by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, contain identical language.
Getting Lost in the Translation
(BBC )
Relying on online translation tools can be a risky business, especially if you expect too much of it. For the time being, might translation be something best left to the humans?
Myth Debunked: Immigrants Pay Business Taxes
(The [Monroe] Times )
According to the myth, people from foreign countries can open a restaurant in the United States and not pay taxes for five to seven years, depending upon which version one hears.
Digging Up the Dead
(Insight )
Digging up the dead for forensic examination falls somewhere between morbid curiosity and setting the historical record straight.
For Cheap Car Customizing, Some Turn to Bullet Hole Stickers
(Associated Press )
Some people are turning to an inexpensive and controversial way of customizing their cars: applying decals of bullet holes.
Elevator Operator Case Reaches Supreme Court
(Associated Press )
Pauline Thomas does not assert that she was physically unable to perform her last job — the standard disability claim — but rather that technology has all but abolished her last occupation, and she cannot do anything else.
It's Never Too Late to Learn a Lesson
(The Gloucester County Times )
At age 65, it is not too late to learn a lesson. My sin was laziness, my homework incomplete. And I failed Journalism 101. It won't happen again.
Satellite Helps Nab Ambulance Thief
(Reuters )
A Norwegian man who stole an ambulance in Oslo was arrested just 20 minutes later after police pinpointed him with the help of a satellite transmitter aboard the vehicle.
Mountain May Be Named for Schwarzenegger
(Associated Press )
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who scaled to the top of California politics, could now get a mountain named after him in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Wedding Party Shoots Down Plane
(Reuters )
A two-seater sports plane on an unauthorized joyride was apparently shot down by mistake when it flew over a Serbian wedding party where guests were firing guns into the air.
NBA's Manute Bol to Become Tallest Jockey
(Associated Press )
Manute Bol, the 7-foot-7 former NBA player from the Sudan, plans to follow his brief stints in hockey and boxing with a venture into horse racing.
Man Attacks Stain in Trousers . . . Destroys Apartment
(Reuters )
A Russian man may wish he had stuck with having dirty trousers after an imaginative attempt to purge a stubborn paint stain on them destroyed his apartment.
Nevada Outhouse Racers Aim at Royal Flush
(Associated Press )
Welcome to Virginia City's annual Outhouse Races. To the winner goes the Royal Flush Trophy.
Court Dismisses Claim by Barefoot Man
(Associated Press )
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who sued the Columbus Metropolitan Library after he was asked to leave because he was barefoot.
Agency Is Selling Land on the Moon
(Associated Press )
A new real estate agency, Lunar Realty, based in the southern Australian city of Melbourne, is selling one-acre blocks on the moon.
Group With Cockfighting Ties Gets Tax Break from Federal Government
(Associated Press )
Bob Hilsercop owns 30 gamecocks, roosters bred for their aggression in the cockfighting pits. For Hilsercop, it's just a hobby.
Liquor Stores, Bars Increasingly Using Scanners to Test for Fake IDs
(Associated Press ) Liquor Stores are using scanners that read the bar codes and electronic strips on the back of most states' driver's licenses.
Aide Who Burned Hitler's Body Dies at 86
(Associated Press )
Otto Guensche, an aide to Adolf Hitler who burned the Nazi dictator's body to keep it from the advancing Soviets in the final days of World War II, has died at age 86.
Apartment Tenant Kills Goats for Food
(Associated Press )
An apartment tenant has admitted he slaughtered two goats in the building in which he lives.
N.Y. Tiger Man Also Had a Lion
(Associated Press )
The man who raised a tiger in his Harlem apartment acknowledged that he also once had a lion — but not in the apartment where the tiger and an alligator both lived.
