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Stabbed by friend, still matesJanuary 10, 2005A BRITISH man has been jailed for repeatedly stabbing a long lost best friend he had traced via the Friends Reunited website, and the victim still wants to be mates. Brendan Walsh, 27, nearly killed Noel Duff when he stabbed him seven times in a drunken rage because he mistakenly believed his friend had attacked his sister, Karen, whom Mr Duff had started dating. However, Walsh immediately became full of remorse and called an ambulance. Mr Duff was rushed to a hospital where doctors said it was a miracle he had survived a stab...

What are we paying for our beer today? The price per-case just keeps rising it seems like everything else. Is there a "price of beer" site like the on for gasoline? Any info on this topic would be great, and save me some money down the road.

Ashlee Simpson says she can burp the alphabet. The singer, who stars in her own MTV reality TV show, The Ashlee Simpson Show, says she loves showing of her special talent. She said: "When I burp the alphabet, my favourite letter is G. It is an open consonant and it is at the beginning when my wind is strong. "My worst letter is S. It is a closed consonant and at the end when I am out of wind." The 19-year-old star also admitted that older sister Jessica also shares the same talent reports Femalefirst.co.uk. She told America's New York...

Burp....scuze me, please pass the green bean casserole...WHAT? IT's GONE!??? Aunt Sherry TOOK IT?? Well gang, if you're a typical family and either hosted a party last night or today or went to the party, then you have two differing dilemmas. If you hosted the part, chances are good you have a fridge full of leftovers; enough to feed a small army or a couple of teenagers. If you attended a party, then did you sneek a bowl of broccoli and cheeze or some turkey for a sandwich. When you got home, was there a sense of 'emptiness' in YOUR...

Two 'highlights' from Elizabeth Edwards' just-completed interview on the Larry King show: 1. in describing the need to bring the country back together after the election, she expressed the fear W would be incapable of doing it, because he engaged in "character assassination" during the campaign; and 2. asked what her priorities would be if her husband and Kerry are elected, she mentioned her desire to be an advocate for military families, saying they haven't been fairly treated, and that military families hesitate to criticize W for fear of "recriminations by the Commander-in-Chief."

Burp vaccine cuts greenhouse gas emissions 25 September 04 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. You cannot stop a sheep belching or farting, but you can make sure its eructations are less damaging to the environment. Belches and, to a far lesser degree, farts from sheep, cows and other farm animals account for around 20% of global methane emissions. The gas is a potent source of global warming because, volume for volume, it traps 23 times as much heat as the more plentiful carbon dioxide. To protect the planet from such ruminant effusions, a team led by Andre-Denis Wright of...

Kobayashi's dominance a lot to swallow By Darren RovellPage 2 CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. -- Three minutes into the Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest, Japanese speed-eater Takeru Kobayashi had scarfed down 17 hot dogs and buns. There were nine minutes remaining, but Kobayashi had already bested the personal highs of more than half of the competitors. The numbers don't lie, even though they're nearly impossible to believe. For the third consecutive year, the event was no contest as Kobayashi dominated. Although he did finish six hot dogs and buns short of the record he set last year, Kobayashi's 44½...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy snubbed President Bush yesterday, refusing to attend a Rose Garden speech on the ``No Child Left Behind Act.'' Kennedy and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the top Democrats on the Senate and House education committees, boycotted the event, angered by inadequate funding for the measure they worked with Bush to enact last year. ``They simply won't cough up the resources to make school reform work,'' Kennedy said. The act redefines the federal role in K-12 education and aims to increase school accountability and parent involvement. ``The era of low expectations and low standards is ending;...