POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A recent move has brought me to a comfy apartment building in friendly Medford, Massachusetts, complete with washer and dryer hookup. However, while having such a hookup is helpful, it’s much more practical to have a working hookup, which alas I...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police investigators in Billings, Mont., concluded that Wayland Deputee Jr., 23, broke into a home whose owner was on vacation, hauled away two bags of household items, then returned to set fires in the kitchen and bedroom to cover his tracks. Before...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Australian arson investigators accused Erich Alexander Sarger of setting fire to his television repair shop, then hiring Shane Long to burn down Sarger’s hairdressing salon. Prosecutor Kate Youngson told Brisbane District Court that Sarger paid...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - OK, before asking my question, I have to admit that I got the idea for it from an episode of Beavis & Butt-head. Anyways, can I hop in a box, have a friend take me to the post office, and send myself to far-off destinations? If I can, would it be cheaper...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Some of Roland Sweet’s greatest hits of 2005: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining Former first lady Barbara Bush declared that many victims of Hurricane Katrina are better off than they were before the storm. After touring the Astrodome, where many...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s a staple of ghost stories, horror films, spooky TV shows, and creepy books. And I suppose for someone with a heart condition, it may well be true. But can a young, healthy person be literally scared to death, without any physical cause? 'Rebecca...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Washington, D.C., police reported that Michael V. Donahoe, 53, robbed a bank, making off with $2,000, but a witness thwarted Donahoe’s getaway by blocking the taxi that he was escaping in. Then a dye pack, which the teller had put in with the stolen...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A South African man who robbed a Bloemfontein couple at knifepoint fled the scene and took refuge at a nearby zoo. Police official Sam Makhele said that the man hid in what turned out to be a tiger enclosure and was mauled to death. • Police investigators...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A friend forwarded your article on male genitalia in Greek art, and it reminded me of a discussion'OK, a near argument'I had with a friend on the sexual habits and rituals of the ancient Greeks. I read somewhere that homosexual acts among ancient Greeks...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I’ve noticed that when people want to “prove” that humans are capable of amazing things under stress, they often cite the 90-pound mother who lifts a car off her trapped child. I know humans can do incredible things, like the guy who...