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Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Friday, December 02, 2005 01:00 AM PST Today's Odd News News: Man fined for reading porn to six-year-olds Rowdy teens beware: the Mosquito is coming Bar hosts 81st burglary Very, very frequent flyer.. Sleepless in Pyongyang Florida islanders burn storm flags to end season Cure for cow flatulence cooked up by scientists Baby, you make my "love molecule" soar! An end to hard butter misery? He'll cross that bridge when it comes to him.. Man Apologizes for Stealing Snowplow Miracle tears on Calif Virgin Mary statue Emily the Stowaway Cat Lands in Wisconsin Cure for cow flatulence cooked up by scientists U. Penn. Drops Action Over Naked Photos Canadian police mistakenly impound driver with car Unlucky Bank Robber Pleads Guilty U.S. lawsuit over ape's 'nipple fetish' settled Call to Save 'Baby' Ends With Cat Rescue Giant condom overlooks Buenos Aires on AIDS Day Man fined for reading porn to six-year-olds Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:10 am PST Reuters - A Swedish drama student was fined 2,400 crowns on Wednesday for reading pornographic stories to a group of six-year-olds as part of a theater project on children's sexuality. Full Story Top Rowdy teens beware: the Mosquito is coming Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:11 am PST Reuters - A Welsh inventor claims to have found the perfect solution to rowdy youngsters -- noise. Full Story Top Bar hosts 81st burglary Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:14 am PST Reuters - Brigitte Hoffmann wishes that her bar was not such a hit with some Berliners -- on Wednesday burglars robbed it for the 81st time in 12 years. Full Story Top Very, very frequent flyer.. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:12 am PST Reuters - After two months of zig-zagging across Canada by plane, frequent flyer Marc Tacchi has reached his goal of accumulating one million miles of credits -- and become something of an Internet celebrity in the process. Full Story Top Sleepless in Pyongyang Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:13 am PST Reuters - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's relentless push to advance the communist movement in his state has turned him into a bit of an insomniac, according to the North's state media. Full Story Top Florida islanders burn storm flags to end season Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:12 am PST Reuters - Storm-weary residents on the Florida island of Key West celebrated the end of the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record on Wednesday by ceremonially burning red and black hurricane warning flags. Full Story Top Cure for cow flatulence cooked up by scientists Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:13 am PST Reuters - Cows belching and breaking wind cause methane pollution but British scientists say they have developed a diet to make pastures smell like roses -- almost. Full Story Top Baby, you make my "love molecule" soar! Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:36 am PST Reuters - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year. Full Story Top An end to hard butter misery? Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:31 am PST Reuters - Ever get frustrated with fresh-out-of the-fridge butter that is too hard to spread? Full Story Top He'll cross that bridge when it comes to him.. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:31 am PST Reuters - When Scott Nelson learned an aging bridge over the Missouri River was to be tossed on the scrap heap of history, he did the only thing a lifelong preservationist could do: he offered to give it a home. Full Story Top Man Apologizes for Stealing Snowplow Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:52 pm PST AP - A man returned an 800-pound snowplow to an equipment store, apologizing for stealing it, police said. Full Story Top Miracle tears on Calif Virgin Mary statue Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:13 pm PST Reuters - The dark streaks like bloody tears that have drawn believers to a Virgin Mary statue here in recent weeks follow a long tradition of Catholic apparitions around the world which often provide solace to the faithful. Full Story Top Emily the Stowaway Cat Lands in Wisconsin Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:47 pm PST AP - Emily the cat is back — after flying home in the lap of luxury. The curious cat who wound up traveling to France in a cargo container touched down at the Milwaukee airport on Thursday, greeted by her family and a horde of reporters. Full Story Top Cure for cow flatulence cooked up by scientists Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:52 am PST Reuters - Cows belching and breaking wind cause methane pollution but scientists say they have developed a diet to make pastures smell like roses -- almost. Full Story Top U. Penn. Drops Action Over Naked Photos Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:42 pm PST AP - The University of Pennsylvania dropped disciplinary charges Thursday against a student who posted photos on the Web of a naked couple apparently having sex in front of a dorm room window. Full Story Top Canadian police mistakenly impound driver with car Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:54 pm PST Reuters - An 85-year-old Canadian man spent hours inside his impounded car in freezing temperatures after his vehicle was ticketed for illegal parking and then towed to a police compound, police said on Thursday. Full Story Top Unlucky Bank Robber Pleads Guilty Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:38 pm PST AP - The saga of a man who may be the city's unluckiest bank robber ended Thursday with a guilty plea. Full Story Top U.S. lawsuit over ape's 'nipple fetish' settled Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:04 pm PST Reuters - Two women who had taken care of Koko, a gorilla who communicates with humans by sign language, have settled a lawsuit charging the president of its sanctuary urged them to show their breasts to the ape, a lawyer said on Thursday. Full Story Top Call to Save 'Baby' Ends With Cat Rescue Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:10 pm PST AP - Many people treat their pets like children, but a woman is in legal trouble after calling 911 and claiming that her "baby," which turned out to be a cat named Baby, was stuck in the sewer. Full Story Top Giant condom overlooks Buenos Aires on AIDS Day Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:02 pm PST Reuters - Sightseers in Buenos Aires got a shock on Thursday when the city's most famous landmark, the obelisk, was covered with a giant pink condom on World AIDS Day. Full Story Top You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.