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11 August 2004

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  Police Search for Cross-Dressing Robber   (Associated Press)
  • Police are searching for the man who robbed a Tennessee bank while wearing a woman's wig and dress.


  •   Moms Hold 'Nurse-In' at Starbucks   (Reuters)
  • More than two dozen mothers staged a breastfeeding "nurse-in" at a Starbucks store in Maryland in an effort to get the world's largest coffee shop chain to adopt a policy allowing breastfeeding in all its U.S. stores.


  •   Rock Star's Mike Removed by Bomb Robot   (Associated Press)
  • The next time Brian Teasley gets on a plane, he promises he'll ship his custom-made microphone. That same device shut down five gates at Dallas Fort Worth-International Airport.


  •   Dutch Slurping Coffee Ad Raises Eyebrows   (Associated Press)
  • The Netherlands is famed for its tolerant attitude toward drugs, but some Dutch say a commercial for a new iced cappuccino drink glorifies cocaine use and has gone too far.


  •   Human-Powered Helicopter Returns to the Drawing Board   (Associated Press)
  • Mike Georgallis and his team of University of British Columbia engineering students took to a field with their ungainly contraption in an attempt to have a man fly their machine three metres above the ground and do so for over a minute.


  •   Authorities Remove 160 Rabbits from Home   (Associated Press)
  • Responding to a complaint from a neighbor, authorities removed about 160 domestic rabbits — some dead and some alive — from a home and condemned the brick rambler as uninhabitable.


  •   Christmas Comes (Very) Early to London   (Agence France Presse)
  • Harrod's, the famous London department store, opened its Christmas department more than four months before the big day, with the city still enveloped in a fug of warm, humid weather.


  •   Crashes Tarnish Houston Rail Reputation   (Associated Press)
  • Once called the "train to nowhere," Houston's new rail line between downtown and the Astrodome is earning a few new nicknames — "Danger Train," the "Wham Bam Tram,""A Streetcar Named Disaster."
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