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27 July 2004

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  Yawning Is Contagious Among Chimpanzees   (Associated Press)
  • A study says that out of six chimpanzees under observation, two clearly yawned repeatedly in response to videos of other chimps yawning.


  •   Coloured Plastic Billed as a Signal   (Toronto Star)
  • Teens have always had symbols for sex, but few have gotten the kind of media attention that sex bracelets have.


  •   Athens Athletes Get Free Condoms   (Reuters)
  • Athletes at the Athens Olympics are expected to go for gold in the bedroom as well as on the field, with 130,000 free condoms being made available throughout the Games.


  •   Tales From the Lighter Side of NASCAR   (insiderracingnews.com)
  • Over the course of the years, a NASCAR fan sees or hears many things to do with racing that have little or nothing to do with the sport itself, but are simply funny or strange.


  •   Men Brawl Over a Game of Chess   (Associated Press)
  • An argument over a game of chess ended with a fight in which one player rammed the other's head through a plate-glass window.


  •   Pets Stolen for Dog Fighting   (icWales)
  • Evil dog-snatchers are stealing-to-order to supply vile dog fighting rings across Wales, according to RSPCA officers.


  •   "Sieg Heil" Website Gives Holocaust Lesson   (Reuters)
  • German neo-Nazis seeking to access racist propaganda on the Internet will now receive a lesson on the Holocaust when visiting a website named after the Nazi victory salute "Sieg Heil".


  •   Polygamy Blamed for Thai Penis-Hacking Craze   (Independent Online)
  • They have been boiled, fed to ducks, even attached to hot air balloons and cast into the night sky: when it comes to permanently depriving a cheating lover of a recently severed penis, the imagination of the wronged Thai woman knows few bounds.


  •   Woman Accused of Assaulting Alleged Bully   (Associated Press)
  • Police have charged a woman with assaulting an 11-year-old boy she says bullied her son at an amusement park.


  •   Love-Sick Tomtit Risks All to Fly Home   (Reuters)
  • Distance proved no obstacle for an intrepid New Zealand tomtit, which apparently dodged predators and braved open seas to fly more than 37 miles back to his lady-love.


  •   Teen Claims She Found Joint in Parfait   (Associated Press)
  • A teenager says she found a partially smoked, quarter-inch long marijuana cigarette in her frozen yogurt parfait at a McDonald's in South Texas.


  •   Two Cows Recaptured After Wandering Through Beer Tent   (Canadian Press)
  • Two cows have been captured after 15 adventurous days of freedom, including a stroll through a beer tent at a local lobster festival.


  •   Each Hat Tells Its Own Story at Convention   (Associated Press)
  • For many delegates it's not enough to wear their partisanship on the sleeve. They wear it on the head, too.


  •   Online Dating Service Filters Two-Timers   (Associated Press)
  • An online dating service hopes to help its love seekers avoid the sleazily married by filtering philanderers.


  •   Japanese Use Eel As Remedy to Summer Heat   (Associated Press)
  • The uninitiated might consider the eels — or "unagi" in Japanese — an unappetizing meal. But the Japanese for centuries have considered eel a surefire cure for heat fatigue.
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