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Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime -- young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

Dead Man's Dangling Legs Greet Couple Fri Jan 2,10:37 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico couple returned home from a week-long vacation to find the legs of a dead man dangling from their ceiling, police said. The man was identified as Carl Smith, 81, and he was the former husband of the woman who lived in the home, said Trish Ahrensfield, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque police. "He was stuck in an air conditioner duct," Ahrensfield said, adding a cause of death has not yet been determined. Police...

Reuters, the news and pictures agency, yesterday demanded an explanation from the Daily Mail as to why it doctored pictures of Michael Jackson. The Mail merged two Reuters pictures of Jackson taking his children for a walk in a Berlin zoo with veils over their faces. The paper also airbrushed out Jackson's security personnel, making the singer appear a more lonely figure. It superimposed the headline "Is he fit to be a dad?".