Well, at last the news-makers are off their diets!
But first, a quick stop in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary for a word of the week:
Coca-colonize - to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
Which is all very interesting, of course, but right now we have bigger news to fry...
Sept. 18, 2009 09:21 AM Associated Press
ITHACA, N.Y. - A group of upstate New York dog owners plans to compost the tons of dog doo deposited by the roughly 50,000 canines that use the city's dog park annually. If their pilot project is successful, the Tompkins County Dog Owners Group and Cayuga Compost hope to market usable compost within the next two or three years.
Just think - this means that Fido can fertilize the plants before he digs them up...
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Sept. 17, 2009 03:08 PM Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system - at the moon's south pole. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun, and it's colder by one degree Fahrenheit than far away Pluto.
First of all, let me just say that I have officially scratched that place off my vacation list.
And what's up with poor Pluto? First it gets demoted from planet status to dwarf planet, and then it gets bumped into second place for coldest spot in the solar system. Don't be surprised if it just packs up its moon and goes home...
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Sept. 17, 2009 11:10 AM Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. – A 16-year-old girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp. In the middle of the night. With a crossbow. Her family has 40 pounds of alligator steak in the freezer now.
Not to mention a nice pair of shoes and a killer custom bag for that crossbow...
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Sept. 17, 2009 02:30 PM Associated Press - Dominican agents find cocaine in dictionaries
I checked. Sure enough, I found cocaine in my dictionary, too. Right after Coca-colonize...
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