An 81-year-old German woman driving to a cemetery in her electric wheelchair decided to take a shortcut and drove the wrong way down a highway.
The wheelchair had been traveling at about four miles per hour. Vehicles on German motorways must clock at least 37 miles per hour, and there is no upper speed limit [...]

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An 87-year-old Utah man was discovered 2,000 miles away Wednesday in Pennsylvania, less than 48 hours after he was reported missing, police said. How did Andrew Hentz do it?
“He mentioned he had hitchhiked,” Clinton police Detective Matt Fawbush said. “I wish I knew how he traveled that far. It’s mind-boggling.”
Hentz has a son in Middletown, [...]

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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, announced plans on Tuesday for a lottery which would send its winner into space in a bid to spread the dream of extraterrestrial travel beyond the super-wealthy.
Aldrin, who followed U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong onto the moon in July 1969, said the lottery would be run [...]

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American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, says it can boost revenue by $94 million (48 million pounds) a year by tailoring some of its services to the growing number of women travellers.
The airline, a unit of AMR, this week unveiled a version of its Web site for women (http://www.aa.com/women). The site aims to increase the [...]

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Virgin Atlantic Airways has reinstated a pilot wrongly accused of drinking after an investigation revealed that a low-carbohydrate diet made the man smell of alcohol.
The 47-year-old male pilot was on the flight deck of an Airbus A340-600 plane preparing to leave Heathrow Airport for New York when police boarded, having been tipped off by an [...]

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Northwest Airlines cancelled a flight set to leave from Las Vegas to Detroit after the captain cursed on a cell phone in a bathroom, then swore at one of the 180 passengers on the plane, officials said on Saturday.
“He used what was described to me as rude language,” Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal [...]

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An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.  The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal court with simple assault, a misdemeanor.
According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, the [...]

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A Chinese province has taken the unusual step of fining hotels and bars more than $600 (307 pounds) if they do not provide condoms, part of efforts to fight the spread of AIDS, a newspaper said on Friday.
The booming eastern province of Zhejiang, with 1,859 recorded infections by the end of last year, started enforcing [...]

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Tourists visiting Chile’s picturesque port town of Valparaiso have cleaned the town out of a herbal aphrodisiac called palwen, an indigenous remedy also known as “Mapuche viagra,” according to local media.
The Internet news service Alfa Chile said tourists and performers visiting the world famous Vina del Mar song festival at the Pacific beach resort have [...]

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A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port, a local police official said on Thursday.
The cruise ship passengers told police they jumped on Wagner Segura, 20, to defend themselves when he pointed a .38 [...]

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