Ventura to announce if he's running for Senate on Larry King

"Will he or won’t he? Former Minnesota Governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is expected to announce Monday night on CNN’s Larry King Live whether he’ll run for his state’s U.S. Senate seat....

BASE jumper leaps off cliff but chute fails to open

" POLICE have seized graphic video showing the moment a BASE jumper's parachute fails to open in a near-fatal plunge. The Port Douglas chef and experienced skydiver with hundreds of jumps under his belt, miraculously survived the 305m fall off Australia's highest sheer...

Man Proves People Can't Fly

"DUANESBURG, N.Y. - A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said.Sloan Carafello of...

Man jumps to death from Disneyland hotel

A man just commited suicide by jumping from the 14th floor of his Disneyland hotel room."A man apparently jumped to his death on Friday from the 14th floor of the Disneyland Hotel at the world-famous amusement...

Morning news show in virtual freefall

" ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - To conquer his fear of heights, "Good Morning America" host Chris Cuomo jumped from the roof of an Atlantic City casino Tuesday morning. As part of the ABC morning show's series...

Yahoo! Jumps Into The World Of Third Party Applications :: Symblogogy

"In a move to show its relevance to the mobile applications world, Yahoo! unveils a demonstration of its Go 3.0 platform at a keynote speech from the CES in Las Vegas yesterday. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang used his...

Jumping women want gender-equal Olympics

It's kind of weird that women ski jumping at the Olympics is even an issue.  Aren't we in the noughts, as in not-1955?"Canada could become the first country to hold fully gender-equal Winter Olympic Games if...

Iconic daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69

"CLEARWATER, Fla. - Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69."

Mexican youngsters wrestle with fame

We found a Lucha Libre school buried in the depths of Arena Mexico in Mexico City."Mexican youngsters wrestle with fameDeep in the belly of Arena Mexico, the enormous venue known as the "cathedral of lucha libre"...

Schering-Plough Profit up 55%

Schering - Plough's leading drugs for cholestrol fighters rose 21% over a year to fuel record setting earnings for the company. The best sellers are co-marketed with Merck."posted a 55 percent rise in first-quarter earnings, beating analysts' estimates on sharply higher sales...

British cat commutes to shopping

Using mass transit, so he's eco-friendly! The white cat, who bus drivers have nicknamed "Macavity," takes the bus several times a week, traveling 400meters down the road to a shopping district. Experts believe he's going to the fish and chip shop."Since January, when the cat...

Man Who Jumps Should Have Waited

" March 30, 2007 California - A California man who died after jumping to escape a fire in his 18th floor condo might have survived if he had waited for rescuers to arrive. Authorities say firefighters were just one floor below John Carlyle Crews, 60, when he jumped from a...

POV Point, Counterpoint – Global Warming Opinion Intentions :: MAXINE

"Usually, it is easy to just discount the views as coming from a very liberal, journalistic, and socialist camp. That is, until her [Ellen Goodman] latest attempt to place people who want to deny that the...

Fireman Has Surgery To Look Like Bruce Willis

"California - A firefighter has undergone plastic surgery in India to look like Hollywood star Bruce Willis. John Joseph Conway, 43, from Chicago, checked into the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi with a...

SponsoredReviews.com Jumps Into the Pay-Per-Post Fray - Posted by Michael Fomkin

"Well, it looks like yet another pay per post service is jumping into the fray, offering to pay bloggers for their posts. SponsoredReviews.com was publicly announced as a service for both bloggers and advertisers by Jarrod Hunt, head honcho at 360 Enterprise Inc., the company...

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