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27 October 2003

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  Disney: Currying Favor with the Press   (Associated Press)
  • If all goes as planned, newspaper readers, magazine subscribers, radio listeners and television viewers will face waves of flattering feature stories about Walt Disney World during the next few months.


  •   FBI Looking for Victims of Pineville-based Scam   (Associated Press)
  • The defendants told victims they had access to millions of dollars in Africa, but the money was marked and must be cleaned before it could be spent.


  •   Escaped Convict Arrested Posing as Policeman   (Reuters)
  • German police arrested an escaped convict after discovering him posing as a traffic policeman in a stolen car.


  •   Debtor Doing Robber's Sentence Earns Own Jail Time   (Reuters)
  • A jobless Brazilian man who agreed to impersonate a convicted robber and serve his prison sentence to cover a $275 debt wound up doing time of his own for the ruse.


  •   Canadian Beats World at Rock, Paper, Scissors   (Reuters)
  • The winner at the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships, held at a nightclub in downtown Toronto, was Toronto's Rob Krueger, a member of the "Legion of the Red Fist" team.


  •   Students Burn School in Protest Over Disco Ban   (Reuters)
  • Kenyan students set fire to their school, ransacked the kitchens and looted computers in a three-hour orgy of destruction after teachers banned video shows and discos.


  •   Man Attempts Underwater Pumpkin Record   (Associated Press)
  • A scuba diver who also owns a pumpkin patch said he hopes he broke the world record for underwater pumpkin carving with a stunt he successfully completed.


  •   Enron Goes Hip-Hop with Ex-Employee's Rap Record   (Reuters)
  • A former Enron pipeline engineer going by the name NRun is releasing a rap album, "Corporate America," that chastises his former Enron bosses by name.


  •   Vandal Allegedly Pours Oil Into Pool   (Associated Press)
  • A vandal apparently bent on revenge used Superglue to seal shut the doors of a public sauna and then fouled the facility's swimming pool with a large amount of motor oil.


  •   Seen Any Good Movie Shorts Lately, Then?   (Reuters)
  • Boldly renouncing the usual cutting room chat about holidays, a London hairdresser has installed airline-style personal television screens for his clients.


  •   Colorado Blood Drive Offers Free Beer   (Associated Press)
  • United Blood Services of Durango, Colorado, held an unusual blood: Donors got a free pint of beer for a pint of blood. Four area breweries took part in the promotion.


  •   Some Shelters Protect Black Cats at Halloween   (Associated Press)
  • An animal shelter in St. Charles County wants to find good homes for 15 black cats, but this shelter, like many around the nation, won't allow them to be adopted during the Halloween season.


  •   Amateur Stuntman Lands in Hospital   (Reuters)
  • Sydney police patrolling near the Coral Sea Park in the seaside suburb of Maroubra spied a man on the roof of a toilet block douse himself with petrol, set himself alight, climb onto a BMX bike and launch himself off the block.


  •   They Range from the Alamo's Walls to Phantom School Buses   (San Antonio Express-News)
  • San Antonio's most noteworthy ghost stories date at least as far back as 1836, the year of the battle of the Alamo.


  •   Up in the Air   (New York Post)
  • It's probably the most famous picture of a lunch break in New York history — and it seems hundreds of people know someone who was there. Or do they?
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