Six-Toed Hemingway cats stay

It's nice to get some good news once in a while."THE ASSOCIATED PRESSKEY WEST, Fla. - The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum...

Bratz books banned

I had my first experience with a Bratz doll last weekend at a garage sale.  My three-year-old granddaughter was delighted when she found a never-opened Bratz box with a tiny doll and dozens of tiny...

'Missing Link' in Canadian hockey found

Can you imagine the absolute chaos of a hockey game with 40 or 50 people on each team?  This is quite a fascinating story about an 1839  reference to hockey, the second oldest ever found.  The...

Big Bang machine ready to go

We read about this project on NP before and many expressed some trepidation about it, even wondering if it could destroy the world.  I guess now we'll see.  Stand back for the Big Bang machine."GENEVA -...

McCain joins White House race with political spud ads

"There's a Canadian company that wants to see McCain in the White House no matter which of the competing presidential candidates wins in November.A major ad campaign launched this week by the U.S. subsidiary of New Brunswick food titan McCain Foods Ltd. makes the case for...

Just a rubber gorilla suit in ice

I'm kind of disappointed."PALO ALTO, California (AFP) - Supposed "Bigfoot" remains revealed last week to a skeptical public turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit in a block of ice, according to analysis posted...

Gates, Buffet eye Alberta oil sands

If they're looking for a way to invest some big, big bucks, this is surely it.  But one wonders if it wouldn't conflict in a major way with the environmental concerns that have been so clearly expressed by...

Missing: Canada's only Olympic oak

Has anybody seen a German oak (querqus peduculata), about 70 years old, somewhere in Canada?  Presented to gold medallist paddler Frank Amyot in 1936 and last seen at a ceremony in Ottawa."Where is Canada's...

Attention couch potatoes: exercise pill in the works

"Exercise pill" is a great oxymoron.  I'm sure it could provide great benefit to people who cannot exercise but I'm not so sure about its application for couch potatoes. Right now, if you're a mouse, you...

Anger unites Canadians: Poll

A new Ipso Reid poll of 1,022 Canadians reveals that Canadians are simmering with pent-up anger about a number of things.  Gilbert Murphy decided to take action." Gilbert Murphy could take it no more. The...

What makes the northern lights dance

This is pretty amazing stuff. "An international team has discovered when Earth's "magnetotail" snaps out in space, the northern lights start dancing across Canada's skies.  One explosive release in...

Girls equal boys in math

Another myth laid to rest. "Girls and boys are now performing equally on standardized high school math tests across North America, ending a "gender gap" that lasted for decades, new research says.  An...

Faked canoe death costs couple 6 years

What a lot of trouble they went to! They must have been desperate.  Stupid, but desparate."John and Anne Darwin were each jailed for more than six years today for carrying out a £250,000 con by faking his...

Paranormal group says photo is dead soldier's ghost

Well okay. Could be anything, right?  Still, it sure looks like a ghost."A ghostly figure, supposedly the spirit of a dead soldier from a key battle in the English Civil War, has been captured on film by a...

Dr. Earth to open eco club, London

A place where dancers generate their own electricity.    Sure hope it works."LONDON (Reuters) - Welcome to Surya -- self-styled "world's first ecological nightclub" where cyclists and walkers get...
 

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