A transsexual man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.
“It’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human desire,” a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. “I have a [...]

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Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. “We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen,” said Melissa McIntire, 23. “There’s a lot of relief involved.” The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is [...]

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A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk, researchers said on Tuesday.
They said the finding casts doubt on theories that babies are born knowing all the possible sounds in all of the [...]

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The same rules that make Earth plants green may make non-Earth plants yellow, red or green — but likely not blue, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.
They said their findings — which look at how plants absorb and reflect different types of light — may help narrow the search for life on planets beyond our solar [...]

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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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Dating used to be largely a matter of spending time with a love interest, discovering the good, the bad and the ugly in person. If you were lucky, friends helped fill in some of the blanks. These days, the Internet — and the ability to check people out before they ever meet up — has [...]

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When Dee Riddle heard breaking glass inside her central Illinois home on Monday morning, she first thought a bathroom mirror had shattered. But what had broken was a bedroom window and what had caused it to break was an object that had fallen from space, scientists called in to investigate concluded.
The small metallic object found [...]

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Yum Brands Inc. has hired an urban pest control expert to review standards of its New York City restaurants, it said on Friday, a week after television cameras filmed rats scurrying around a KFC/Taco Bell.
Yum, the operator of the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut chains, also said it was working with the health department [...]

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With help from a judge, David Kite got five years in prison and a life partner.
After sentencing Kite on Wednesday to prison for stealing a lawnmower from a home, St. Clair County Circuit Judge John Baricevic obliged the 23-year-old man’s request and married him to girlfriend Victoria Smith in the same courtroom.
The groom sported an [...]

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With help from a judge, David Kite got five years in prison and a life partner. After sentencing Kite on Wednesday to prison for stealing a lawnmower from a home, St. Clair County Circuit Judge John Baricevic obliged the 23-year-old man’s request and married him to girlfriend Victoria Smith in the same courtroom.
The groom sported [...]

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