Fan restores ‘Christmas Story’ house

Posted on November 23rd, 2006 by Jason

CLEVELAND - Ralphie Parker and Brian Jones know what it’s like to want something.
For Ralphie, the object of desire was an official Red Ryder, carbine-action, 200-shot, range model air rifle. (Go ahead, say it, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”) For Jones, the gotta-have-it item was Ralphie’s house — the one in “A Christmas Story,” [...]

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Panda porn pays off

Posted on November 23rd, 2006 by Elizabitch

Scientists say a bid to encourage giant pandas to breed by showing them ‘panda porn’ has paid off.
They claim to have sparked a baby boom among the endangered animals by showing them DVDs of pandas mating.
“It works,” Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, told the Xinhua news agency.
Pandas are notoriously poor breeders and the ‘panda [...]

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