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Big stuff out of little
Popular Science dubbed researcher Gaby Maimon of Rockefeller University as one of its "Brilliant 10" for 2011 for his monitoring of neurons in the brains of fruit flies.
Golly, we all belong to that
In the course of a story on an ill-fated Continental Airlines flight during which all restrooms in coach were broken, the reporter for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis sought reactions from experts.
Pics don’t have grass to mow
Even in a flagging economy, Christie's auction house in New York City was able to attract a record sales price for a photograph.
Lots of jerks are left
Was Moammar Gadhafi the last of the "buffoon dictators?" asked BBC News. His legend was earned not merely with his now-famous, dirty-old-man scrapbook of Condoleezza Rice photos. Wrote a BBC reporter, "One day (Gadhafi) was a Motown (backup) vocalist with wet-look permed hair and tight pants. "The next, a white-suited comic-operetta Latin American admiral, dripping with braid." Nonetheless, Gadhafi had competition, according to a report in the journal Foreign Policy. For example, the son of ...
OK, he’s clean to go
The tactic of "patience" is usually employed when police believe that a suspect has ingested drugs for smuggling.
He was super duper guilty
Tommy Joe Kelly, unsuccessfully acting as his own lawyer, was convicted of slashing a stranger's tire by an Austin, Texas, jury, despite his explanation.
It’s not my fault
U.S. Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he and a partner had "settled" the lawsuit brought by the Bartow County Bank for failing to repay a $2.2 million loan they had taken out in 2007.
Cat on a hot, tin law
A recent vicious, unprovoked attack in Toronto by Sammy the cat on Molly the black Labrador (bloodying Molly's ear, paws and eye) left Molly's owner without recourse to Ontario's or Toronto's "dangerous pet" laws.
Like that’s gonna happen
Jonathan Rothstein of Encino, Calif., filed a lawsuit against Procter & Gamble for selling its Crest toothpaste in "Neat Squeeze" packages, which Rothstein said make it impossible to access the last 20 percent of the contents, thus forcing consumers to buy more toothpaste prematurely.
Stop the presses, please!
Enterprising reporters get stories by earning the trust of their sources, which Simon Eroro of the Post-Courier (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) obviously did.
TV movies made it all worth it
Wanda Webb Holloway, 36, was arrested in January, 1991 for putting out a murder contract on a Channelview, Texas, woman.
OK, so he panicked a little
Brent Morgan, 20, was arrested in Prince George, British Columbia, on three counts related to the attempted theft of a Corvette.
They’re what Freud called ‘spooky’
Veteran New York City performance artist Marni Kotak, 36, gave birth to her first child, Ajax, on Oct. 25 - and that was her "art," as the birth took place at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., after Kotak had moved into the space two weeks earlier to interact with visitors.
Yee-haw, let’s break the law
Police in Corpus Christi, Texas, looked to the public for help to find the man who, according to surveillance video of a city agency building, stole three surveillance cameras - not the recording units, just the cameras - by lassoing them from their perches near the ceiling.
It seems like a good investment
A British manufacturer, BCB International, is flourishing, buoyed by sales of its Kevlar underwear, at $65 a pair, to U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.
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