| March 20, 2008 | -
Researchers found that a diet that includes lots of folate will keep sperm healthy.
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BBC News
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| January 29, 2008 | - A camping-goods website was selling a cheeseburger in a can.
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Cheeseburger in a Can is Both the Best and Worst Thing I've Ever Seen
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| January 29, 2008 | - Hungry Haitians were eating cookies made of mud.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
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| July 11, 2006 | - In Mauritania, where local custom favors obese women and where girls are sometimes fattened up by being force-fed sweetened milk and millet porridge via a funnel, large numbers of women were attempting to lose weight for health reasons.
| Source:
The Christian Science Monitor
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| June 18, 2006 | - The Lakeland, Florida, English
swan population, which is descended from swans given to the city by the Queen of England in 1957, was being eaten by alligators at three times the normal rate.
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NewsNet5.com
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| May 3, 2006 | - Prince Henrik of Denmark, honorary president of the Danish Dachshund Club, told an interviewer that he enjoys eating
dogs.
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The New York Sun
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| January 25, 2006 | - The FBI was spying on vegans in Georgia.
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11Alive.com
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| January 19, 2006 | - A man in Australia escaped from prison by losing enough weight to slip through a hole.
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BBC News
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| April 20, 2005 | - The zookeepers in Ramat Gan, Israel, fed their gorillas
kosher matzo crackers for Passover.
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Newsday
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| April 15, 2005 | -
Bosnia was exporting snails.
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BBC News
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| April 14, 2005 | - The United Nations released a video game called “Food Force” that lets players pretend they are feeding the starving.
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BBC News
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| April 12, 2005 | -
American and Japanese scientists proclaimed cloned
cattle safe to eat.
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BBC News
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| April 9, 2005 | - It was announced that Cookie Monster would cut back on cookies.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| April 3, 2005 | - Robert Creeley, Terri Schiavo, Johnnie Cochran, Frank Perdue, Mitch Hedberg, and the pope died, as did the man who wrote the theme song to “Gidget.”
| Source 1:
Indianapolis Star
Source 2:
Indianapolis Star
Source 3:
New York Times
Source 4:
New York Times
Source 5:
Fredericksburg.com
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| April 1, 2005 | - The European Union placed a 15 percent duty on American
trousers and sweet corn.
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Times Online
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| March 26, 2005 | -
Harvard students were upset that the brand-name cereals in their dining halls had been replaced with generic brands.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| March 23, 2005 | - A California woman, eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant, bit into a human finger. The finger had a manicured nail.
| Source:
Stuff.co.nz
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| March 20, 2005 | - The U.S. Senate subpoenaed Terri Schiavo, a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1991, to testify before the Health, Education, and Labor Committee. The subpoena was intended to make it impossible for Schiavo to be taken off the feeding tube that allows her to survive; the order, however, was defied by a Florida judge, and the feeding tube was removed. Schiavo then began to die of dehydration. The House and Senate held emergency sessions in order to pass a bill that would transfer the case from state court to federal court. The bill was then signed by President George W. Bush, who had flown in from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for the occasion.
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Wikipedia
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| March 18, 2005 | - Police in Florida arrested a five-year-old girl at her kindergarten, binding her hands with plastic ties and placing handcuffs around her ankles. The girl, who weighs forty pounds, was upset about some jelly beans. “They set my baby up,” said her mother.
| Source:
AP
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| March 12, 2005 | - In India, several hundred people reenacted Gandhi's 1930 twenty-four-day march to the Arabian Sea to make salt. Nearly half of India's cabinet marched, although many returned to their hotels after walking a short distance.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 10, 2005 | - An Idaho teenager was in trouble for frosting
brownies with his semen.
| Source:
Sun-Sentinel.com
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| March 9, 2005 | - A badly prepared snack killed twenty-seven children in the Philippines.
| Source:
ABC13
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| March 8, 2005 | - The mayor of Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, ordered the entire 1,100-member Nezahualcoyotl police force to read one book a month and to control its cholesterol.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| March 5, 2005 | -
Martha Stewart was released from prison. While incarcerated Stewart's wealth increased $700 million, and her cappuccino
machine broke.
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Times Online
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| March 3, 2005 | - Ninety Danish master bakers were working to improve the flavor of communion wafers.
| Source:
The Copenhagen Post
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| March 2, 2005 | - A Swiss synesthete who tastes music reported that Bach is creamy.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 27, 2005 | - Arthur Shawcross, a cannibal
serial killer, was writing a cookbook.
| Source:
New Criminologist
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| February 23, 2005 | - An Orangeburg, New York, man beat his toddler daughter to death for refusing a peanut-butter sandwich.
| Source:
The WGAL Channel
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| February 21, 2005 | -
Eritrea was facing a major food crisis.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 13, 2005 | - A Swedish woman found a “medium-sized” penis in a bottle of ketchup. “I will never buy this brand again,” she said.
| Source:
Mail and Guardian Online
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| January 31, 2005 | -
Scientists determined that barbecue causes cancer.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| January 12, 2005 | - During the trial of Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., it was revealed that he threatened to rape prisoners and made them eat pork, and made one prisoner eat from a toilet.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| January 12, 2005 | - A police officer in the Philippines was accused of stealing a fellow officer's bomb-sniffing dog, then eating it.
| Source:
Sun Star Davao
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| January 4, 2005 | - and researchers found that commercial diet programs don't work very well.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 3, 2005 | -
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts announced that it has bad credit and that the Atkins diet was not to blame.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 9, 2004 | - With its food supply running low, the crew of the international space station was asked to cut calories until fresh groceries could be delivered on Christmas.
| Source:
CNN
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| October 27, 2004 | - Researchers in South Carolina concluded that high-fat diets can cause brain damage.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 2, 2004 | - Researchers concluded that the Atkins diet doesn't work in the long term.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 20, 2004 | - The CEO of McDonald's dropped dead of a heart attack.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 10, 2004 | -
South Africa's health minister, who has repeatedly expressed doubts that HIV causes AIDS, said that a diet with lots of garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice would help fight the disease.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 8, 2004 | - American researchers found that farm-raised salmon have ten times the PCB, dioxin, and pesticide contamination of wild salmon. Using EPA risk estimates, the scientists suggested that people eat no more than 110 grams, or about half a normal portion, of Maine salmon a month; Scottish salmon, among the most contaminated in the study, which analyzed fish from all over the world, should be limited to 55 grams a month.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 22, 2003 | - Scientists were surprised to discover that low-calorie diets prolong the life of fruit flies no matter when the diet begins.
"The system," said one professor, "has no memory."
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 22, 2003 | - A giant star was observed
eating three planets.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 16, 2003 | - The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow fired ballerina Anastasia Volochkova because, at 110 pounds, she is too fat.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 15, 2003 | - The National Academy of Science, after studying thousands of papers on the subject, declared that too many pets are overweight.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 10, 2003 | - The Department of Agriculture proposed adapting its dietary advice to the fact that most American adults are overweight.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 9, 2003 | -
Italian babies, it was found, are the fattest in Europe.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 8, 2002 | -
Emmpak Foods Inc. said it was recalling 2.8 million pounds of ground beef because of E. coli contamination. Marigold Foods recalled its chocolate-chip ice cream because it contains “undeclared nuts.”
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| July 16, 2002 | - A swarm of locusts descended on Beijing, where they were promptly gathered by the bagful, deep fried, and eaten.
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| June 18, 2002 | -
The United Nations World Food Summit convened in Rome; delegates dined on lobster, goose stuffed with olives, and foie gras on toast with kiwifruit.
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| February 19, 2002 | - A new study suggested that Alzheimer's disease could be caused by eating too much meat.
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| January 15, 2002 | -
Hyenas were eating people in Malawi.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
A Russian man was eaten by a bear.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Sixty percent of Americans are too fat, warned the surgeon general.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Some Oregonians were circulating a petition to repeal the law that bans the eating of roadkill.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Thousands of dead fish killed by industrial waste in a lake in Bangladesh were being collected and eaten by poor people.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
British women have the largest breasts in Europe, a study found, though they are not the fattest.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Crowds of fishermen in Germany were trying to catch a giant catfish that ate a pet dachshund in a lake near Moenchengladbach.
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| September 11, 2001 | - Sharks were eating people in Virginia and North Carolina.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A young elk got drunk eating fermented apples and caused traffic jams in Sweden.
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| August 21, 2001 | - A giant sea turtle that was being tracked via satellite by thousands of schoolchildren was barbecued and eaten at a fiesta in a Mexican village.
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| August 21, 2001 | - A baked potato exploded backstage at the Royal Opera House in London; the audience was evacuated safely.
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| August 21, 2001 | -
Scientists working for a Peruvian pharmaceuticals company found that eating maca, an Andean plant similar to a turnip, can increase a man's sex drive by 200 percent.
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| July 31, 2001 | -
Queen Elizabeth's husband told a 13-year-old boy he was too fat to be an astronaut.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A plague of Mormon crickets was eating the crops of Utah.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Japanese
researchers found that eating sushi reduces a smoker's risk of developing lung cancer.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | - A live-in caretaker in Everett, Washington, was charged with murder for paying her 13-year-old daughter and four other teenagers to kill her client's son, 64, with baseball bats; her 11- and 7-year-old children helped her clean up the house afterwards; the 89-year-old client, a mute Alzheimer's patient, was neglected and survived by eating newspapers.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Indian vultures were dying out, complicating the rituals of Bombay's Zoroastrians, who still follow the ancient ways and lay out their dead to be eaten in an ancient stone amphitheater called the Tower of Silence.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Several people in the Alaskan village of Manokotak apparently were infected with botulism after eating fermented beaver tails and feet, a traditional delicacy made by burying the beaver parts and letting them rot.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Researchers found that spinach, broccoli and other green vegetables that are good for you really do taste bad.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Taiwan banned the eating of dogs and cats.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Experts theorized that poor people were fat because they spend too much time in front of the television
eating Big Macs and such.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Evidence that Kuru, a disease spread by eating human brains, is more widespread in Papua New Guinea than previously thought, suggested that the European epidemic of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variant of mad cow disease, to which Kuru is related, may be more serious than government officials have been willing to admit.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Republicans accused Democratic vote counters in Florida of eating chads they had secretly and illegally punched for Al Gore.
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| November 7, 2000 | -
French
police arrested a father and son who knowingly sold mad-cow-infected beef for slaughter; over a ton of the beef was processed and sold. Much of it was eaten.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Safeway, the supermarket chain, recalled its house brand of corn taco shells after food critics discovered that the shells contained StarLink, a type of genetically modified corn that was not approved for human consumption.
Taco Bell previously recalled its shells.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Scientists extended the lifespan of yeast by subjecting it to a low caloric diet; they speculated that a pill might someday be available that would extend human life.
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| September 5, 2000 | - A 69-year-old man was eaten by a shark while swimming in Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, in shallow water just ten feet away from his backyard; the man's wife said she saw the shark's dorsal fin as her husband struggled to get away.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Japan will resume hunting for sperm and Bryde's whales, purportedly to study the diet and ecology of the rare species.
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