Haircut kid scores free Spurs tickets

May 19, 2012

So I suppose Patrick Gonzalez’s story has a happy ending after all. The San Antonio 12-year-old was threatened with suspension from his middle school for the intricate Matt Bonner portrait he had shaved into the back of his head. But Bonner was touched by the gesture, and showered his No. 1 fan with Spurs...
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Postal employee on workers’ comp caught running Boston Marathon

May 19, 2012
Postal employee on workers’ comp caught running Boston Marathon

Competitors in the 2012 Boston Marathon (Steven Senne/AP) A U.S. District Court in Florida convicted a former Florida postal worker of health care fraud after she was caught participating in more than 80 long-distance races, including the Boston Marathon, all while taking workers’ compensation for a back injury. Jacquelyn V. Myers, 55, was also...
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Photographer “blows away” subjects

May 19, 2012
Photographer “blows away” subjects

Click image to see more photos. (Tadas Cerniauskas) An eye-popping photo series shows that perhaps there is no “good side” when your face is getting blasted by powerful gusts of wind. Lithuanian photographer Tadas Cerniauskas from the Tadao Cern studio created the work entitled “Blow Job.”  He took the photos during a design exhibition...
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Man with record-breaking 14-foot mustache has some grooming tips

May 19, 2012
Man with record-breaking 14-foot mustache has some grooming tips

At 14 foot, Ram Singh Chauhan has the world’s longest mustache (AFP/Getty)Ram Singh Chauhan of India has the world’s longest mustache, 14 feet, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Chauhan had received attention long before entering the world record books. According to the London Telegraph, his famous facial hair was featured in...
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Italy "dog and cat tax" muzzled after uproar

May 19, 2012

ROME (Reuters) – A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite after a wave of popular anger saw it withdrawn on the same day it was made public. Italy was abuzz for hours after local media reported that...
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Does organic food turn people into jerks?

May 19, 2012
Does organic food turn people into jerks?

Monika Graff / Getty Images Vendors offer organically grown produce at the Union Square farmers market in New York City. Renate Raymond has encountered her fair share of organic food snobs, but a recent trip to a Seattle market left her feeling like she’d stumbled onto the set of “Portlandia.“ “I stopped at a...
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Worm-like robot climbs clothes with alacrity

May 19, 2012
Worm-like robot climbs clothes with alacrity

6 hrs. Devin Coldewey Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology Letting people climb walls like a bug is one thing, but letting robots climb humans like one? The researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science must have felt that robots these days just weren’t creepy enough. The Clothbot is a small robot that uses a pair...
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