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Jun. 2nd, 2004 01:08 pm
Jun. 2nd, 2004
Because you always needed the complete Kama Sutra, rewritten and illustrated with photos of Star Wars AT-ST Walker toys posing.
http://www.scoutwalker.com/: Give geeks everywhere a bad name.
http://www.scoutwalker.com/: Give geeks everywhere a bad name.
The cleaners came Friday to wash the blood out of Elmer and Viola Stacy's carpet.
Now the rural Davenport couple hopes someone will tell them whose blood it was.
"We are both in our 90s, and we are tired," Elmer said. "It was an exhaustive experience."
Police called in bloodstain experts and specially trained dogs when they arrived at the Stacys' home Tuesday to find gore splattered in the kitchen and several other rooms, mostly on the floors and low on the walls.
So far, all they can tell is that the blood is human, and that it "was almost all over the house," Scott County Sheriff's Capt. Mike Brown said. "It looked bad. It makes you take a step back and say, 'Whoa, what happened?' "
Elmer and Viola say they are fine. They apparently were home when the mess was made. Brown said Elmer and Viola were checked by a doctor. Their DNA will be compared with the blood.
Now the rural Davenport couple hopes someone will tell them whose blood it was.
"We are both in our 90s, and we are tired," Elmer said. "It was an exhaustive experience."
Police called in bloodstain experts and specially trained dogs when they arrived at the Stacys' home Tuesday to find gore splattered in the kitchen and several other rooms, mostly on the floors and low on the walls.
So far, all they can tell is that the blood is human, and that it "was almost all over the house," Scott County Sheriff's Capt. Mike Brown said. "It looked bad. It makes you take a step back and say, 'Whoa, what happened?' "
Elmer and Viola say they are fine. They apparently were home when the mess was made. Brown said Elmer and Viola were checked by a doctor. Their DNA will be compared with the blood.
Once again stealing from Warren.
Jun. 2nd, 2004 03:33 pmAn 11-year-old girl led a fellow sixth-grader to an empty classroom during their lunch hour, slit her neck and arms with a box-cutter, and left her to bleed to death.
The grisly murder at an elementary school in southern Japan yesterday sent shockwaves through the local community, leaving many asking how such a tragedy could strike in their midst.
Police identified the victim as Satomi Mitarai, 12.
They said she died of massive blood loss after being slashed in the neck and arms with a retractable knife used to cut paper and boxes.
Just three years ago, lawmakers lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 14 from 16 amid public outrage over the brutal beheading of a 10-year-old boy by a 14-year-old in 1997. Last year's Nagasaki murder led many to wonder whether the line should be lowered again.
Despite the concern, however, violent juvenile crimes remain rare. The 1,986 "heinous crimes" - murder, robbery, arson and rape - committed by minors in 2002 represented just 1.4 per cent of all youth offences, according to the National Police Agency...
The grisly murder at an elementary school in southern Japan yesterday sent shockwaves through the local community, leaving many asking how such a tragedy could strike in their midst.
Police identified the victim as Satomi Mitarai, 12.
They said she died of massive blood loss after being slashed in the neck and arms with a retractable knife used to cut paper and boxes.
Just three years ago, lawmakers lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 14 from 16 amid public outrage over the brutal beheading of a 10-year-old boy by a 14-year-old in 1997. Last year's Nagasaki murder led many to wonder whether the line should be lowered again.
Despite the concern, however, violent juvenile crimes remain rare. The 1,986 "heinous crimes" - murder, robbery, arson and rape - committed by minors in 2002 represented just 1.4 per cent of all youth offences, according to the National Police Agency...
Man banned from every hospital
Jun. 2nd, 2004 03:34 pmAn abusive patient has become the first person to be banned from entering or calling all NHS premises or private clinics in England and Wales.
Norman Hutchins, 53, from York, was made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) by magistrates.
The court was told he had verbally and physically abused NHS staff 47 times in the last five months.
NHS security managers asked for the ban following an incident in which Hutchins was found with a knife.
Norman Hutchins, 53, from York, was made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) by magistrates.
The court was told he had verbally and physically abused NHS staff 47 times in the last five months.
NHS security managers asked for the ban following an incident in which Hutchins was found with a knife.
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Jun. 2nd, 2004 03:36 pm
The Borromean ring, an icon of Nordic and Christian traditions, has been self-assembled at the molecular scale level for the first time. The new molecule, composed of three interlocking rings, provides another new component for future nano-devices.
For decades, chemists have been creating molecules with ever more complicated shapes. Two rings had already been made to interlock, by creating one ring and then building a second around it. A five-link chain has also been strung together.
But the Borromean ring - three rings entwined such that breaking one separates the other two - has proved elusive. It has been moulded in DNA, but only in a very wound-up form.
"The molecular Borromean rings became a kind of Holy Grail in recent years," says Fraser Stoddart, director of the California NanoSystems Institute in Los Angeles, where the molecular rings were created. "There was a bit of a friendly race going on to see who would get there first.
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Jun. 2nd, 2004 04:41 pmMeet John Lookebill. The 52-year-old Florida man was arrested late yesterday for impersonating a police officer after he attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a female motorist in Hobe Sound. Unfortunately for Lookebill, the woman was a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy who quickly realized that he was a fraud. Lookebill, of course, ended up in cuffs, with the real fuzz seizing his Smith & Wesson pistol, ammo, and a flashing light mounted on his 2001 Chevy Suburban. Oh, yeah, they also confiscated a gold badge, a photo of which you'll find below. This nitwit Lookebill apparently fashioned himself some kind of undercover operative
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