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Syndicated Columns

Newsquirks

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Nebraska state police reported that Arlie Bichlmeier, 58, tried to rob a bank in Norfolk but fled before getting any money. Witnesses said that the suspect escaped in a black GMC pickup with the personalized license plate “FINDME.” Within...

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Newsquirks

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Soldiers came to the rescue of an Austrian fertility clinic that ran out of sperm donors. The private clinic in Thalheim, Upper Austria, made a public appeal for soldiers to step forward and offer their services. “The response was sensational,”...

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The Need for Speed

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Please, please, please settle this question. The discussion has been going on for ages, and any time someone mentions the words “airplane” or “conveyor belt,” everyone starts right back up. Here’s the original problem essentially...

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Newsquirks

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police in Kansas City, Mo., accused Virgil Dennis, 22, of ordering three pizzas, then pressing a knife against the delivery driver’s neck and taking the pizzas without paying. Investigators found that the address the suspect had given Pizza Hut...

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Highway to Cell

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Last year my town made it illegal to use a “hands-on” cell phone while driving'hands-free phones are still OK. Since laws here tend to get passed on the basis of what will look good in the newspapers, I’m wondering: How dangerous is...

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Adrenaline Junkies II

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - In 1989, when I was a freshman at Baylor University in Texas, I was driving one evening to meet friends for dinner. I came over a hill and noticed a car on its last of several flips in a ditch on the side of the road. I quickly pulled over. The driver...

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Newsquirks

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police didn’t take long to identify Gary Belote, 30, as their bank robbery suspect in Colorado Springs, Colo. “He robbed a bank where people knew him,” Sgt. Scott Whittington said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, that’s Gary.’”...

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Newsquirks

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police in Springfield, Ore., arrested Clayton Everett Teman, 22, after they said that he held up a diner, then returned two days later to rob the same diner and the same cashier again. This time, he shot himself in the foot. “He was a little upset...

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Won’t Get Fueled Again

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s not often that I stumble into anything on the Net that scares me, but this does. A large number of sites declare that we’re about to hit, or have hit, peak oil production and that our civilization is essentially on the clock and poised...

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Newsquirks

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Swedish police investigating a burglary in Overtornea rang the number of a cell phone that had been among the items taken. “The thief answered the phone, but then just put it away without turning it off,” police officer Kurt Paavola said....
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