Rants and Raves
December 7, 2006
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[HTML_REMOVED] The problem with stereotyping: A 61-year-old grandmother in Arizona who trafficked drugs to support her bingo habit faces 12 years in prison after 214 lbs. of marijuana were found in her car.
[HTML_REMOVED]A man in New York is accused of spray-painting goats on Thanksgiving and scattering papers throughout a barn as retaliation in a feud with the property owner.
[HTML_REMOVED]Anorexics and bulimics hiding their eating disorders from family and doctors are increasingly using information from the Internet to sustain their illness, according to a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
[HTML_REMOVED]There's always a catch: Women in Saudi Arabia can buy and sell cars at a new all-women showroom in Riyadh, but they are still banned from driving.
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[HTML_REMOVED]A handbag manufacturer is targeting dads with its latest diaper bag created from truck tire inner tubes and hemp, accessorized with buckles, grommets and rivets.
[HTML_REMOVED]Portage, Ind.'s city clerk's office has generated about $120 by running a profanity office fundraiser with self-administered fines whenever workers in the office swear. The money will go to buy gifts for teen cancer patients.
[HTML_REMOVED]The same people who brought us the "Got Milk?" campaign are behind a new campaign to outfit bus shelters in San Francisco with scented adhesives that give off the smell of freshly baked cookies.
[HTML_REMOVED]A study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that daily consumption of chocolate by pregnant women reduced the chances of miscarriage by 20%.
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