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SERIOUSLY LOST LUGGAGE: In less than a week, Paralympic athlete Kate Horan is due to line up for the 100 meter dash at the IPC Athletics World Championships in the Netherlands. But there's a problem. British Airways has lost her leg. The $10,000 running leg has been missing for more than a week now and is believed to be sitting somewhere in a London warehouse with 20,000 other pieces of luggage. Kate has been preparing for the championships for two years. Unfortunately, ever since British authorities foiled a terrorist plot to attack flights out of Heathrow Airport, increased security has forced travelers to limit their carry-on luggage. For Kate that meant she had to check in her running leg for the short flight from London to Amsterdam a week ago. Kate's now busy with another race -- a race against time with manufacturer Otto Bock and Ossur, which will attempt to build her another leg in time for the world championships. Kate said, "I'm going straight to the factory. These sort of legs take weeks to fine tune. At the moment that's the only option I've got."
The Vatican's chief exorcist now says that Hitler and Russian leader Joseph Stalin were possessed by the devil.
The New York Post's Page Six reports that despite massive hype, Paris Hilton's CD is flopping, selling only 75,000 copies its first week and less than half that the next. And she can't tour to promote it because she can't sing live, dance or play an instrument.
Wigmaker Ruth Regina of Miami is introducing a line of hairpieces for small dogs. That’s right… wigs for dogs. Selections include wig names like "Yappy Hour" and "Peek a Bow Wow," with prices in the hundreds of dollars.
If you visit the central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, whatever you do don't say "God bless you" or "Praise Allah." Religious talk will soon be a crime in that country, reports UPI. A law that is being drafted by the parliament will make it illegal for anyone to talk about his or her faith outside of registered places of worship. Convicted offenders will be jailed for as long as eight years!
You've got mail -- but no job. That was essentially the E-mail RadioShack sent to 403 employees last week to notify them they had been fired as part of a company downsizing. RadioShack spokesman Charles Hodges said the company had notified employees in the last 10 days that they would learn of their fates through an e-mail. At the designated time,employees were glued to their computer screens at the company's headquarters in Fort Worth. Those who were fired saw a message that read, "The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."U-S-C business professor Warren Bennis says, "I thought I had stopped being surprised at the callousness of corporate acts."
Hedgehogs in England have humbled burger giant McDonald's, forcing the company to re-design its McFlurry ice-cream containers. Up to now, the opening in the container has been large enough for hedgehogs to get their heads into for a lick of the left-over dessert -- a trap they have then been unable to withdraw from. But starting this week, the wide-mouthed opening in the lid of the McFlurry containers in Great Britain will be reduced in size, making them too small for the sugar-loving animals to get their heads into. "This is excellent -- it is long overdue news," says Fay Vass, chief executive of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. Spiny Norman was unavailable for comment.
The Vatican's chief exorcist now says that Hitler and Russian leader Joseph Stalin were possessed by the devil.
The New York Post's Page Six reports that despite massive hype, Paris Hilton's CD is flopping, selling only 75,000 copies its first week and less than half that the next. And she can't tour to promote it because she can't sing live, dance or play an instrument.
Wigmaker Ruth Regina of Miami is introducing a line of hairpieces for small dogs. That’s right… wigs for dogs. Selections include wig names like "Yappy Hour" and "Peek a Bow Wow," with prices in the hundreds of dollars.
If you visit the central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, whatever you do don't say "God bless you" or "Praise Allah." Religious talk will soon be a crime in that country, reports UPI. A law that is being drafted by the parliament will make it illegal for anyone to talk about his or her faith outside of registered places of worship. Convicted offenders will be jailed for as long as eight years!
You've got mail -- but no job. That was essentially the E-mail RadioShack sent to 403 employees last week to notify them they had been fired as part of a company downsizing. RadioShack spokesman Charles Hodges said the company had notified employees in the last 10 days that they would learn of their fates through an e-mail. At the designated time,employees were glued to their computer screens at the company's headquarters in Fort Worth. Those who were fired saw a message that read, "The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."U-S-C business professor Warren Bennis says, "I thought I had stopped being surprised at the callousness of corporate acts."
Hedgehogs in England have humbled burger giant McDonald's, forcing the company to re-design its McFlurry ice-cream containers. Up to now, the opening in the container has been large enough for hedgehogs to get their heads into for a lick of the left-over dessert -- a trap they have then been unable to withdraw from. But starting this week, the wide-mouthed opening in the lid of the McFlurry containers in Great Britain will be reduced in size, making them too small for the sugar-loving animals to get their heads into. "This is excellent -- it is long overdue news," says Fay Vass, chief executive of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. Spiny Norman was unavailable for comment.
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