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Looking it up is what a pretty fair number of readers suggested I should have done in a column in which I paraphrased a snippet of advice from "Hotel Secrets From the Travel Detective," an excellent new book by Peter Greenberg.
An Italian magistrate warned against the growing lure of Antichrist cults in Catholic Italy after the discovery of the bodies of two teenagers killed in a satanic sacrifice.
In a bid to lure men in Britain away from TV soccer games and into book shops, publisher Penguin Books will send out a sexy model to offer £1,000 prizes to males spotted reading a selected title.
A 61-year-old woman known as "The Godmother" whom police said ran a ruthless cocaine empire in the 1980s was released from prison and set to be deported to Colombia.
A man riding an armor-plated bulldozer went on a rampage in a Colorado mountain town and smashed into city hall, a bank and other buildings before being found dead.
The groom said "yes," but a city hall official said "no," refusing to marry a couple because the groom didn't voice his consent first in the Romanian language.
In his latest effort at improving the quality of life for citizens of the city that never sleeps, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed the largest overhaul of the city's noise code in three decades.
Animal rights activists — moved by the plight of 13 brown bears that were forced to dance on the streets to amuse tourists and enrich their owners — have bought the animals their freedom by giving small grants to the people who exploited them.