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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A rubber duck sat in a dog's stomach for five years before being removed by Swedish vets last week, a local newspaper said Tuesday.The owner of the Apollo the Boxer dog assumed the toy had dissolved in his stomach over the years as it had not come out any other way, Daily paper Lanstidningen said.But the owner, from the northern Swedish town of Ostersund, took the animal to a vet when it began vomiting and refused to drink and the toy was removed.The duck had turned black and gone rock hard the newspaper said on its Web...

LiveScience.com - Office workers who share music via Apple Computer's iTunes software track their coworkers' comings and goings and form opinions about them based on their playlists. The opinions are not always what the sharer intended, a new study finds. The sharing phenomenon can nonetheless create a community of sorts among coworkers who otherwise barely know each other. The study, of an unnamed mid-sized U.S. company, was funded in part by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). "People sharing music in our study were aware of the comings and goings of others in the office because they noticed...

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