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<title>Missing couple show up at news conference into their disappearance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An Australian couple who went on a last-minute vacation arrived home on the weekend as police and reporters were preparing to hold a news conference about their suspicious disappearance. William and Heather Ostell found police searching their Melbourne home when they pulled into the driveway on Sunday. Australia's Herald Sun newspaper reported police were in the process of ripping up a backyard deck to search for the couple's bodies.]]></description>
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<title>Is the term &quot;Canadian&quot; the new code word for racist references to black people? - The ...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A news story out of the Southern U.S. has been circulating around the not-quite-mainstream Canadian print news media for the last week - apparently there's evidence to suggest that African American southerners are covertly being referred to as 'Canadian ' by racists who don't quite have the spine to out themselves as racists in public discourse. ]]></description>
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<title>globeandmail.com: Treat gangs as terrorists: Toronto councillor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a proposal that Mayor David Miller dismissed as "wacky," Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti said yesterday the army should be brought in to help police battle Toronto's gang violence and federal anti-terrorism laws should be used to apprehend, question and detain "gang terrorists" indefinitely.]]></description>
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<title>Utah Polygamists Snap Up iPhones</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fights nearly broke out in Vegas as would be iPhone purchasers became irate as they realized nearly all iPhones were bought by Utah polygamists.
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<title>A rare treat from nature: Perfect snow doughnuts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As gravity pulls a clump down, it usually rolls down the hill and collapses, creating what the WSDOT calls a pinwheel. Or it will not roll at all, and come down in an avalanche of snow. But if the snow is the perfect density and temperature, it rolls down leaving a hole in the center, Stanford said.

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<title>Man With Twin Living Inside Him</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I love stories like this because I get to say nonchalantly, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_Fetus_Lady">there's a South Park for that</a>. ]]></description>
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<title>Study finds out why it's gross to kiss your sister - CNN.com</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This story gets to the heart of why kissing your sister is, well, icky.  Apparently my answer of "Because it is, and ew!" was not enough of a reason for these psychologists.]]></description>
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<title>Crash victim says dog saved her life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cute story of a dog who saves a woman after a car accident.]]></description>
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<title>CCTV to safeguard speed cameras</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Speed cameras in the Scottish Borders may soon be monitored by security cameras to protect them from vandals.  Then, I suppose we need still other cameras to protect the camera-watching cameras.]]></description>
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<title>Foreskin Facecream</title>
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<description><![CDATA[And it's not the only body part on the chopping block for vanity. Ethical?]]></description>
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<title>New York antiques dealer sues homeless people</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a clash of classes on a posh shopping strip, an antiques dealer has filed a $1-million (U.S.) lawsuit against four homeless people, seeking to keep them off the sidewalk in front of his shop.]]></description>
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<title>The Bathroom as Status Symbol.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is so true. The previous owner of our house converted a bedroom into a bathroom!]]></description>
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<title>West Coast lashed by another windstorm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Another windstorm has lashed the B.C. coast, smashing into already ravaged Stanley Park where it knocked down more trees and briefly blocked a tour bus.

Winds gusting to almost 100 kilometres an hour hit Vancouver mid-afternoon Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title>Why not a banana over Texas?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Montreal artist spearheads project that he says has many possible meanings]]></description>
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<title>Mother gives birth to six babies in Vancouver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A woman has given birth to sextuplets at a Vancouver hospital, a source has confirmed to The Canadian Press.

No other details are being revealed but sources have told two Vancouver news outlets that the births had taken place this weekend, about 6 1/2 months into the pregnancy.]]></description>
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