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News Quirks

Pre-Sinner Winner

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 28,2013 - The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that bosses could fire workers they see as an “irresistible attraction,” even if the employees haven’t engaged in flirtatious behavior or made other advances.

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Brace Yourself

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 21,2013 - The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the U.S. Golf Association, golf’s top governing organizations, proposed a ban on golfers anchoring their putters against their bellies instead of swinging them freely.

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Infernal Triangles

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 14,2013 - Candice Lee, 37, and her husband had an open marriage and invited her former lover, Shakir Muilam, 45, to live with them at their home in Monroe County, Fla. after he was diagnosed with cancer.

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Hail Mary & Mohammad

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 7,2013 - Muslim enrollment is increasing at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, according to both students and administrators, who indicate the Muslim population has doubled over the past decade,

News Quirks

Invasion of the Robot Pants

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Dec 31,2012 - Someone did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day the girl was last seen alive.

News Quirks

Naming Rights

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Dec 21,2012 - The Weather Channel announced it is “the first national organization in North America to proactively name winter storms.” TWC, which claims a 76 percent share of the U.S. weather audience, assumes other media

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Onward, Omnivores

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Dec 17,2012 - Official efforts to stop the spread of the voracious, invasive snakefish—aka “Frankenfish” and “rattlesnakes with fins”—having failed, the next tactic is eating them to extinction.

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No Road to Somewhere

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Dec 10,2012 - After receiving $29 million in federal stimulus money, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered a harbor built on the Aleutian island of Akutan.

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Tourist Trade

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Dec 3,2012 - New York and New Jersey victims of Hurricane Sandy complained their cleanup efforts are interrupted by disaster tourists, who’re drawn by curiosity to the real-life scenes of tragedy shown on television.

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Sticky Fingers

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Nov 26,2012 - A Connecticut jury convicted Anthony Johnson, 49, of stealing up to $70,000 a week by crawling beneath seats in darkened movie theaters to remove credit cards from women’s pocketbooks.
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