| To find a partner, scratch and sniff
Sniffing someone's armpits does not sound the most promising start to a date. Research, however, suggests that it will probably turn up a better prospect than either a blind date or gabbling nervously to 20 consecutive strangers. Now a new dating website, ScientificMatch.com, promises a discreet way of letting you nose out potential partners. Researchers found more than a decade ago - by asking female students to sniff T-shirts worn by men - that ovulating women rate certain male body odours as sexier than others. Crucially, the preferences depended on a certain part of the immune system called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Women, it turned out, were bewitched by the odours of men whose MHC genes were most different from their own, and repelled by the aroma of men with similar MHC genes.
Cops: KFC manager beat to death with chair
I wish you people would quit making EVERYTHING a race issue. It is what it is, I do not care if he would have been purple he still beat a helpless 61 year old to death with a chair. Can you imagine?? Also do not tell me this wasn't a planned out thing. KFC NEVER has that much money in a front safe at one time so he waited til the "more profitable" weekend came and right before brinks came. To his parents, your son took a life.... You think about that the rest of your lives!!! " .
Smoothing that sticky Stickel situation
When Sheriff Bernie Giusto announced last week that he will retire later this year, one of the most revealing details went unreported: whom he visited immediately after his announcement. Sources Say can report that person was Oregonian publisher Fred Stickel. For much of the past year The O has deployed one of its top investigative reporters, Les Zaitz, on Giusto's seemingly hapless management ways, assisting youngster Arthur Sulzberger. As publisher, Stickel does not have any formal control over the day-to-day reporting of The O. But to the Giusto crowd, The O's attention has felt like a journalistic jihad for Giusto's ouster, and they think they know why: Stickel is a friend of Jim Jeddeloh, the man Giusto used his law enforcement position with to force into rehab, then started dating his wife.
Disruptions force up coal and iron
FINANCIAL markets may be sweating on a US recession, but prices for Australia's bulk mineral exports, coal and iron ore, are soaring as a spate of supply disruptions reveals just how tight markets are. Floods in Queensland and power cuts to mines in South Africa have reduced supplies from key coal exporters, while China is cutting coal exports to manage production for its own soaring power demand. There were reports last week that ships seeking to load coal had been turned back from China's largest port, Qinhuangdao, after heavy snow and rain sent power consumption soaring and hampered coal transport. In South Africa, power cuts to industry could last up to four weeks, as utility Eskom battles soaring demand and tight coal supplies as it is forced to compete with strong export markets for local coal.
Collection illustrates American politics from thongs to songs to dirty ...
After 38 years of collecting presidential campaign buttons and memorabilia, one of Jordan Wright's favorite pieces arrived in the mail in January when New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson dropped out of the race after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary. .
Qld woman charged over internet scam
POLICE have issued a warning against online scams after charging a 54-year-old Brisbane woman with receiving and forwarding stolen property. Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, from the Queensland Police Service Computer Crimes Investigation Unit, said the woman allegedly asked to have stolen goods delivered to her home at Sunnybank, in Brisbane's south, before forwarding them to Cambodia. The woman was believed to have become involved in an internet relationship with a man in Cambodia whom she met on a dating website. Det Supt Hay said overseas-based criminals could spend months engaging people online to cultivate their trust before asking them to send money or goods. People who receive stolen or illegally obtained property and send it overseas would be prosecuted and internet users should be alert to possible scammers, he said.
Not-so-funny gales to hit Ted Fest
Father Ted worshippers had better brace themselves this weekend as storm force winds whipping all coastal areas today head west. The week-long Ted Fest, marking the 10th anniversary of the filming of the last episode of the hugely successful comedy series, has brought fun and frivolous shenanigans to Kilfenora village in Co Clare this week. But with the action set to move tomorrow to Inis Mór off the Galway coast for the grand finale of celebrations, Fr Ted disciples - eagerly awaiting the Craggy Island World Cup and Buckaroo speed dating - will have their sense of humour firmly tested as gale force winds blow in. Careful now. Met Éireann says southwesterly gales will gradually veer west and northwest this afternoon with winds, gusting from 80 to 120km/h in exposed areas, expected to reach storm force on coasts.
Desperate in NH: Fibbing About Obama and Iraq?
But in casting Obama as a phony on the Iraq war, Clinton has veered close to outright lying. Yesterday, in an interview with CNN, Clinton said: If someone is going to claim that by their very words they are making change, then if those words say… I'm against the war in Iraq and I'll never vote for funding and then, when they go to the Senate, they vote for 300 billion dollars' worth of funding [for the war], I think it's time for people to say, "Wait a minute, let's get real here." There's a big difference between talking and acting, between rhetoric and reality. Did Obama actually vow, as Clinton said, to never vote for funds for the Iraq war? If he had, he would indeed be a major promise-breaker-and a fraud on a critical issue for Democratic voters.
Dubai investment fund plans to spend in Asia
The fund's chief operating officer, Anand Krishnan, also told a news conference that the fund would be open to raising its stake in existing holdings like Sony, HSBC Holdings and European Aeronautic Defense & Space. Gulf investors spent $80 billion last year in foreign acquisitions, almost three times the amount they spent in 2006, according to Dealogic, a data provider. Krishnan said Dubai International planned to raise its assets under management to $25 billion to $30 billion in the next three to four years, from $13 billion now, estimating that India, China and Japan could make up one-fifth to one-sixth of the total. "I would think the three countries in the next three years would take a share possibly of about $5 billion," he said. .
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