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Brothel owners in Bulgaria are blaming global warming for staff shortages. They claim their best girls are working in ski resorts because a lack of snow has forced tourists to seek other pleasures. Petra Nestorova, who runs an escort agency in Sofia, said: 'We have hired students, but they are temps and nothing like our elite girls. http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=39945&in_page_id=2 If people could still do this, they wouldn't want prostitutes. Or something like that.

Prosecutors Break Up What They Call One of the Biggest Wall Street Insider-Trading Rings NEW YORK (AP) -- The defendants included husband-and-wife lawyers, registered representatives, compliance personnel and hedge fund portfolio managers who improperly relied on hundreds of tips during five years of illegal trading. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070302/securities_fraud.html?.v=13

We're beating the United Nations - PLEASE HELP Your efforts are beginning to work! Our members have sent over SIXTY THOUSAND faxes to ALL 55 Republican Senators, demanding that they REJECT passage of the United Nations "Law of the Sea Treaty" (LOST) -- the OUTRAGEOUS treaty that would impose UN taxes on the American people, and would entail history's biggest and most unwarranted voluntary transfer of wealth AND surrender of sovereignty. This ridiculous treaty is the SAME treaty that Ronald Reagan REFUSED to sign, but Bill Clinton wanted passed -- and now some Senators are trying to push it through...