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Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo with his bride

Pope expels the exorcist archbishop
They could tolerate his folk singing and his exorcisms, but Emmanuel Milingo's advocacy of clerical marriage was too much for the Vatican to bear, writes John Hooper
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Milingo says he rejects excommunication notice
Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who was excommunicated Tuesday, said he does not accept his excommunication and will continue his campaign to persuade the Vatican to allow married priests. The 76-year-old archbishop married a Korean acupuncturist in 2001.
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Tags: Pope, Emmanuel Milingo , Excommunication

Lenticular Cloud

Incredible Clouds
"Lenticular clouds are simply one more example of the beauty and complexity that can be the result from a simple process in nature.These lens-shaped clouds are often mistaken for UFO’s because of their weird shape that seems to mandate a prior design. But like evolution, it is just a process that has designed these kind of clouds..." - from Valuca photos
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Unusual Vehicle

The World’s Most Unique Vehicles
Normal vehicles are not for everyone. Thankfully, people take what was once a normal creation and turn it into a one of a kind set of wheels. Here is a collection of the world’s most unique vehicles, guaranteed to cause maximum rubbernecking
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The square pupil of an Amazonian freshwater shrimp (photo: Alex H. Griman, Alex Kawazaki Photography, São Paulo, Brazil)

The square pupil
The square pupil of an Amazonian freshwater shrimp was the subject of one of this year's winners of the Nikon Small World photography contest. Discover.com's coverage has a high-resolution version of the shrimp, along with the 19 other winners.
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James Monroe Stamp

Unused 10-cent US stamp with a rare printing error fetches $74,000 at auction
A 1920s-era 10-cent stamp containing an extraordinarily rare printing error sold at auction for $74,000 (nearly €58,000).
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Man stabbed with fish
A MAN is recovering after he was stabbed with the bill of a swordfish measuring almost one metre.
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Sunless Suntan Proves Possible
Researchers have induced honest-to-goodness suntans in mice without exposing them to ultraviolet (UV) rays. Instead, they rubbed a lotion into the critters' skin that activated their tanning machinery, which then protected the mice from UV's cancer-causing effects.
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Red Wine May Prevent Alzheimer's
Red wine might put a cork on the formation of brain proteins tied to Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. But don't raise your wine glass to celebrate yet: The study only included mice. It's too soon to know if the findings apply to people.
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Football equipment just got smarter
Devices that measure helmet impacts, play-calling software, even swallowable temperature sensors are becoming realities.
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DVD pirates: Beware of the dog!
The Motion Picture Association of America Thursday unveiled its latest tool in the war on movie piracy: a pair of DVD-sniffing Labrador Retrievers named Lucky and Flo.
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President Kennedy doodles - AP photo from Basic Books

Doodlers-in-chief
"Presidential Doodles," just released by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, collects the random sketches and drawings of Mr. Hoover and most of his fellow commanders in chief, from Mr. Hoover's elaborate shapes and swirls to the isolated squiggles of Abraham Lincoln.
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leucospermum, one of the plants being grown

Botanists grow plants from seeds gathered 200 years ago
A handful of 200-year-old seeds discovered inside a red leather-bound notebook at the National Archives in London have been nurtured to life by botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens
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Diebold Voting Machine

US voting machine vulnerable to fraud
Computer scientists at Princeton University say they have created a virus that can override the functions of Diebold voting machines - the US's most popular - altering vote counts with little chance of detection.
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“Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet.
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Technorati Tags: Diebold , Voting

No Time To Exercise Is No Excuse
A new study, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that short bursts of very intense exercise - equivalent to only a few minutes per day - can produce the same results as traditional endurance training.
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Technorati Tags: Exercise , Health

Epaulette Shark - Full photo by Gerry Allen

The coral paradise where sharks learned to walk
Dozens of new species, including nocturnal sharks that "walk" on their fins, "flasher" wrasse and many previously unknown forms of reef-building coral, have been discovered off the Indonesian province of Papua.
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Technorati Tags: sharks , Papua New Guinea

Airport Wireless Internet Access Guide
The definitive guide to US airport wireless connections and free airport wifi.
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Technorati Tags: wireless , Airports

Pumping iron can damage your eyes
Holding your breath while you're weight lifting can increase the risk of developing eye disease and potentially blindness, a study says.
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If you've ever daydreamed about finding a job that lets you play with legos, crack safes or ride around in the Weinermobile, you don't need to wake up, you just need to look in the right places.
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Instant Karma - Bully Knocked Out