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· Flights Grounded Thanks To Bumbling TSA Inspector.  ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage... reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to the planes' noses as handholds. As a result, nine American Eagle jets were grounded at Chicago's O'Hare Airport Tuesday. 

· Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found living in Kenyan hut.  The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. 

· Patient dies after being left in chair 22 hours.  A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding. 

· Joe Francis sues to rescind settlement.  "Girls Gone Wild" entrepreneur Joe Francis wants a California court to rescind a settlement he claims a federal judge coerced him into signing.  In Francis' suit, he accuses Judge Richard Smoak of siding with former law partners to jail Francis and force him to settle on terms favorable to the girls. An attorney from a law firm where Smoak was once a partner represented the girls and their parents. 

· Green cars too quiet.  Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind.  It has passed a bill to ensure that the vehicles make enough noise to be heard by visually impaired people about to cross a street. 

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Ubiquitous [u·biq·ui·tous] adj.  Being or seeming to be everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent. 

· McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama-Reuters poll.  McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. 

· Blowin' In The Wind: Bloomberg's Green Energy Plan.  Speaking at a major conference on alternative energy Tuesday night in Las Vegas, New York Mayor Bloomberg proposed putting windmills on top of city bridges, and skyscrapers. 

· Elevator that claimed boy's life had history of failures.  The elevator that claimed the life of a 5-year-old Brooklyn boy on Tuesday failed its most recent inspection and malfunctioned five times since February, city records show. 

· Wide-Faced Men More Aggressive.  Canadian scientists investigated photos of pro and varsity hockey players, measuring how wide and long their faces were. They found the wider that faces looked, the more aggressive players were, as measured by the number of penalty minutes they accrued, which are handed out for aggressive behavior. 

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

· Shoplifting suspect crushed in compactor.  Michigan authorities say a shoplifting suspect died after being crushed in a trash compactor where she was hiding. The Eaton County sheriff's department said two women fled a Lansing-area TJ Maxx discount store after spraying a security guard with Mace. 

· Researcher: Bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit.  Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — were slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit. 

· 5-year-old Brooklyn boy dead in elevator shaft plunge.  A 5-year-old Brooklyn boy trying to escape a stuck elevator plunged 10 stories to his death this morning in a Brooklyn housing project, police said. 

· PSA: Don't try kite surfing during tropical storm.  Fort Lauderdale resident Kevin Kearney is in critical condition Tuesday after attempting to kite surf in Tropical Storm Fay. (with disturbing video) 

· Boy's killing shakes Mexico.  A father's pain over his son's death at the hands of abductors has reverberated across a nation overwhelmed by the rising violence of a brutal drug war, sparking a public outcry and leaving the government scrambling to clean up its discredited security forces. Two Mexican police officers are in custody for the kidnapping and killing of the wealthy industrialist's 14-year-old son. 

· Dad's Shoe Found In Slain Bear's Stomach.  Authorities cut open a slain bear and found a shoe lost by a Florida man while fighting off a bear that attacked his 8-year-old son in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

· New Castle Man Hides $30K In Trash; Money Not There When He Returns.  A New Castle man thought a garbage can on Cunningham Avenue would be a good place to hide his money, but that didn't turn out to be the case. 

· FBI admits error, stands by anthrax probe.  FBI officials, while admitting a mistake, are offering more evidence to support their assertion that government scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax-laced mailings that killed five people in 2001. 

· College Presidents Want Drinking Age Lowered.  Presidents of about 100 of the nation's best-known colleges and universities are calling on lawmakers to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. They say current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus. 

Word of The Day by WordThink

Insipid [in·sip·id] adj.  Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty. Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull. 

· Gold loses glimmer, $200 in month.  A rebounding dollar, sinking commodity prices and a seasonal jewelry sales lull have sent gold prices into a virtual nosedive in the past month. Prices for the shiny commodity have tumbled nearly $200 in a month, but its future is still uncertain. 

· Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device.  Across the country, police are using GPS devices to snare thieves, drug dealers, sexual predators and killers, often without a warrant or court order. Privacy advocates said tracking suspects electronically constitutes illegal search and seizure, violating Fourth Amendment rights of protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and is another step toward George Orwell's Big Brother society. Law enforcement officials, when they discuss the issue at all, said GPS is essentially the same as having an officer trail someone, just cheaper and more accurate. 

· Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison.  Authorities freed British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly three years of confinement. 

Monday, August 18, 2008

· Outback mayor seeks ugly women.  A plea for lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" to move to a remote Australian mining town to reverse a shortage of eligible women has landed the local mayor in hot water. 

· Thug caught on camera beating 85-year-old Brooklyn woman.  Cops released video on Monday capturing a cruel punk's attack on an 85-year-old Brooklyn woman — and she's not his only victim. 

· Elderly Woman Grabs Gun, Holds Would-Be Burglar At Bay.  According to police, a 17-year-old suspect was attempting to burglarize 85-year-old Leda Smith overnight. That's when Smith grabbed her gun and told the teen that she would shoot him if he moved, police said. Smith then ordered the boy to dial 911, according to police. 

· Texas school district to let teachers carry guns.  A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States. 

· Girl in Fatal Wreck Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash.  Authorities say a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident. 

· Forget HD DVD: Toshiba focuses on plain old DVD.  After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD. On Monday, the Japanese electronics company is releasing a new DVD player that it says does more than previous models to improve the look of DVDs on high-definition TVs. 

· Bankrupt Vallejo Losing Cops, Crime Surges.  Just after becaming the largest California city to declare bankruptcy, this San Francisco suburb is facing an exodus of police officers as residents grow anxious about a surge in robberies and other crimes. 

· NASCAR discovers cheating by Gibbs Racing.  NASCAR inspectors, preparing to do tests on horsepower numbers following Saturday's Nationwide race at Michigan International Speedway, found magnets under the gas pedals on the two Gibbs Toyotas. 

· Boy's parents sue to get his baby from mom, 21.  A Pickerington couple and their son are fighting for custody of a baby born to a Lancaster woman charged with having unlawful sex with the boy, who was 15 at the time of conception. 

Word of The Day by WordThink

Rhetorical [rhe·tor·i·cal] adj.  Of or relating to rhetoric. Characterized by language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous. 

· Endorsements pure gold for Phelps after Beijing.  Having completed his Olympics gold rush, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps is now poised to make another haul -- this time of the endorsement variety. Even before the Beijing Olympics, Phelps collected a million-dollar bonus from one his sponsors, Speedo. 

· Mother Finds Teacher Texting, Calling Daughter.  A worried mother says her daughter has been texting and talking to her high school teacher after hours, and despite her protests, her daughter was still in classes with that teacher. 

· Metal thieves skirt cap by keeping sales inside limits.  Phoenix detectives are responding to more than four times the copper theft cases from five years ago as metal thieves across the Valley steal everything from light fixtures to manhole covers. Meanwhile, those who use stolen metal as a source of income are finding a way around Arizona's law that requires scrap yards to document transactions of $25 or greater. 

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