Posted on November 30th, 2006 by Tostig
Adolescents who play violent video games show differences in brain activity from those playing nonviolent games. The differences were associated with emotional arousal and self-control, medical researchers reported.Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine asked 44 adolescents to play either a violent or a nonviolent video game for 30 minutes. They used functional magnetic resonance [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2006 by Tostig
(CBS/AP)MAHOPAC, N.Y. A man broke into a barn on Thanksgiving morning, spray-painted three pet goats and scattered pages of pornographic magazines on the floor, apparently to harass the property owner, police said Tuesday.
Drew Gagnon, 37, of Mahopac, was arrested the next day and was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and animal cruelty, said Lt. Brian [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2006 by Tostig
A US thief was arrested after he repeatedly stopped during a police pursuit to smoke crack.
Police say the man, 45, from Stratford, Connecticut, had been driving a stolen car in Bridgeport.
The chase began after he attempted to pay for petrol with cards belonging to the car owner.
With police on their way, he abandoned the car [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2006 by MaxPower
An exceptionally well-preserved 65 million year-old fossilised dinosaur nest with some broken eggs exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The nest of raptors, fierce predatory dinosaurs, is expected to fetch between $180,000-$200,000 (92,000-103,000 pounds).
“It is probably one of the finest dinosaur egg nests in the world. For the tiny skeletons [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2006 by BrainwashedMonkey
A 44-year-old homeowner in Palm Bay, Fla., used a football helmet to strike and then capture a burglar attempting to break into his home early Monday, according to police.
Investigators said a man at a home located on the 700 block of Cayuga Avenue in the northeast part of Palm Bay heard a noise at about [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2006 by HavokChylde
Nintendo is seeking to lead the charge against the notion that all gamers are unfit couch potatoes. Nationwide sellouts of the Wii indicate that gamers are supporting that notion, and many have been very vocal about the system’s motion-sensitive controller as being a revolution in gaming. The problem is that it appears that after the [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2006 by Elizabitch
“American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks is biting the hand that made him a star.
The gray-haired pop-star says he won’t watch the FOX show anymore — and just wanted to use the exposure he got from winning “Idol” to further his career.
“‘American Idol’” for me is fizzling out,” he tells the latest edition of Relix magazine, [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2006 by Tostig
A Romanian woman was sent the body of her dead father in the post after a cemetery was sold to developers. Aurelia Cenusa, from Severin, says clergy in her father’s hometown of Darvari, 300 miles away, told her the graveyard his body had been buried in was to be sold and his body exhumed.
She said [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2006 by Tostig
SHREVEPORT, La. – A masked gunman walked into a gas station and demanded money, apparently not noticing that the line at the counter included a uniformed police officer.L.J. Scott, a member of the Police Department’s armed robbery task force, told the would-be robber to put his own hands up.
Scott took the handgun and arrested [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2006 by Elizabitch
He who prays fervently courts danger - neurological danger.This stark fact has only recently been reported to the public, in a study published by five neurologists at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel in Germany. But fear not - the risk for any particular individual is low. In the recorded history of the world, the physicians try [...]
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