“...we have stepped up our action dramatically - more stop and search, more visible policing, more metal detectors trying to spot where knives exist ... if you are caught with a knife, you will be prosecuted, if you have a knife you will be punished, and we will do everything in our power to prevent people having knives.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4349442.ece

"A divided US appeals court has ruled an Arizona school violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old student by conducting a strip search for ibuprofen."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2301960.htm?section=justin

The title says it all. Take a look at these 2 communities that are literally living on the edge (of massive cliffs). Beautiful to see, cool to visit, but a very scary place to live!

http://deputy-dog.com/2008/07/03/living-on-the-edge-2-stunningly-scary-clif...

"Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country's highway fuel consumption, while avoiding up to 4,000 traffic deaths a year."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/03/warner.speed.limit.ap/index.html

"Considering the average amount of gas used per household, the rise has cost us approximately $1,690. With the average 42-inch plasma screen going for $975, just the extra cash you've forked over for gas in the last year and a half could have bought you 1.733 plasma TVs. And that number just keeps rising."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/02/beck.oilexploration/index.html?eref=rss_to...

"When Thomas was a young boy growing up in Georgia, his mother thought allowing him to experiment with nail polish and lipstick was just innocent fun. Her attitude changed when Thomas reached a certain age, but Thomas' feminine tendencies didn't change."

http://www.auburnvillager.com/story.html?1214491873013674

" A 5.9-foot black-headed python was found in a toilet bowl on the 10th floor of an Australian apartment complex. It is believed the snake had been living in the plumbing of the building for some time."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369569,00.html

Defying million-to-one odds and everything you ever knew about fertility and hormones and monthly cycles, a 29-year-old mother of two got pregnant a couple of times within the span of a few weeks.

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2007/10/03/non-twin-tw...

She said seaweed was wrapped around the top of the running shoe, making it hard to tell whether any tissue was inside the shoe. "I got close enough," she said. But she said the foot appeared to have been deliberately severed, as the bones "had been cut clean across."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/18/canada.feet/index.html?eref=rss_topstor...

I'm most amazed at Venezuela's 12 cents per gallon. This is what happens when your government controls the oil and there are no big profit gas companies involved.

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

Nina Conti's ingenuous skit about meta-Ventriloquism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E25ebRjx8w0&feature=related

"A North Carolina man says his house was so overrun with bees that the walls ooze honey."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,367442,00.html

The public will be able to see the footage when Romanek's movie is complete, Peckman said, a release date the filmmaker's Web site said is "soon."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4957753&page=1

In this picture you will see a young (14 y/o) Bin Laden enjoying a fun filled vacation in Sweden. Funny that none of the women seem to have a shaw over their face and they are cruising around in a pink pimp mobile. Oh how times have changed...

http://www2.cellar.org/youngbinladen.html

"The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says parents of an 8-year-old boy left their son behind when two armed men burst into the home and killed the family dog. Authorities say the boy was not injured, and the suspects fled the house before deputies arrived."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356858,00.html

It's natural ;)

http://www.uncarvedblog.com/files/e4e1733687865efe24fe9bac383da626-25.php

"Dr. Norman Spack, a pediatric specialist at the hospital, has launched a clinic for transgendered kids — boys who feel like girls, girls who want to be boys — and he’s opening his doors to patients as young as 7."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356592,00.html

Torpedo testing on a decomissioned Australian destroyer.

http://postworthy.com/Worthy/ex/Torpedo_Testing/139.aspx

Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, is now vying for a different record: the human who has lost the most weight. Read his story. He may one day be the undisputed biggest loser!

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1330327620080513