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Today's Odd News News: Monk first to be charged under Bhutan smoking law Girl with girl cheating OK, half of boyfriends say Mexican Smugglers Catapult Pot Over Border U.S. town demolished over lead contamination Chinese ready for upheaval and sex in Year of the Rabbit Intimate Swift letters reproduced "baby talk" Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at border Woman survives fall from 23rd floor Social networking leads to sex faster? Cat in Court, Giant Crayfish Found, Tasmanian Devil Die-Off: Buzz Week in Review Mexican gangs using catapults to hurl pot into US Police: NY mail carrier pinched discount coupons Report: Arizona fugitive planned suicide by bear Missing pedigreed cat turns up — neutered Musician rescues Miami mystery piano from sandbar 5-foot Monitor lizard wanders Calif. neighborhood Indonesia MPs launch whip-round for pay-freeze president Table, wine turn up on now-famous Miami sandbar University awards first Beatles degree University awards first Beatles degree Monk first to be charged under Bhutan smoking law Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:05 am PST Reuters - A Buddhist monk could face five years in prison after becoming the first casualty of a stringent anti-smoking law in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which vows to become the first smoke-free nation. Full Story Top Girl with girl cheating OK, half of boyfriends say Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:05 am PST Reuters - Half of men would forgive their female partner's infidelity, as long as it was with another woman, according to a new study on cheating. Full Story Top Mexican Smugglers Catapult Pot Over Border Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:07 am PST ContributorNetwork - Forget border hopping and sewing drugs into car cushions. Mexican smugglers have found a far more creative way to push pot north of the border: via giant catapults. Full Story Top U.S. town demolished over lead contamination Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:03 am PST Reuters - Most of its residents left, the school closed, the city government was disbanded and starting this week nearly every commercial building in Picher, Oklahoma, will be demolished. Full Story Top Chinese ready for upheaval and sex in Year of the Rabbit Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:11 am PST Reuters - The Chinese Year of the Rabbit promises to bring political upheaval from restless youth and sex scandals for the amorous, but in China the government is at least likely to bring inflation under control. Full Story Top Intimate Swift letters reproduced "baby talk" Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:43 pm PST Reuters - New analysis of a series of love letters from Anglo-Irish satirist and "Gulliver's Travels" author Jonathan Swift to two women shows that the strange, juvenile language he employed reflects the way babies talk. Full Story Top Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at border Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:56 am PST Reuters - In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said.. Full Story Top Woman survives fall from 23rd floor Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:31 am PST Reuters - An Argentine woman survived after jumping from the 23rd floor of a downtown Buenos Aires hotel on Monday, landing on a taxi moments after the driver dashed to safety, the state news agency reported. Full Story Top Social networking leads to sex faster? Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:31 am PST Reuters - Nearly four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released on Monday showed. Full Story Top Cat in Court, Giant Crayfish Found, Tasmanian Devil Die-Off: Buzz Week in Review Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:44 pm PST The Newsroom - This week, fur was flying: Animal tails caught the attention of the Web. A cat was summoned to jury duty. A giant crayfish was found, and the poor Tasmanian Devil is almost gone. These stories and more in your Buzz … Full Story Top Mexican gangs using catapults to hurl pot into US Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:51 pm PST AP - Drug smugglers are using an ancient invention as a new way to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to Arizona. Full Story Top Police: NY mail carrier pinched discount coupons Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:57 pm PST AP - A mail carrier on New York's Long Island is accused of pinching thousands of discount coupons intended for residents' mailboxes. Full Story Top Report: Arizona fugitive planned suicide by bear Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:36 pm PST AP - A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison said after his capture that he had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him to end the fear and panic he was experiencing while on the lam. Full Story Top Missing pedigreed cat turns up — neutered Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:27 pm PST AP - A valuable pedigreed cat that went missing from its New Zealand home turned up two days later a little different — it had been surgically castrated. Full Story Top Musician rescues Miami mystery piano from sandbar Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:11 am PST AP - A baby grand piano is gone again from a Miami sandbar after a musician rescued the battered instrument for his son. Full Story Top 5-foot Monitor lizard wanders Calif. neighborhood Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:04 pm PST AP - Animal services officers often get calls reporting "huge," monstrous reptiles, only to arrive and find an itty-bitty garden snake. Full Story Top Indonesia MPs launch whip-round for pay-freeze president Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:22 am PST Reuters - Indonesian members of parliament have started a collection for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after he said he had not had a pay rise in seven years. Full Story Top Table, wine turn up on now-famous Miami sandbar Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:47 am PST AP - First, a baby grand piano mysteriously showed up on a Miami sandbar. A day after it was removed, a small table with two chairs, place settings, a bottle of wine and a chef statue appeared on the now-famous strip of sand. Full Story Top University awards first Beatles degree Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:17 am PST Reuters - A Canadian woman has become the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in Beatles studies. Full Story Top University awards first Beatles degree Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:56 am PST Reuters - A Canadian woman has become the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in Beatles studies. Full Story Top

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