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Rare eager beavers finally breed

by AGENCY - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Beavers have bred for just the second time in England in 400 years.

Happy births day: One of the new creatures who produced a litter

A pair, brought over from Germany last year, are thought to have given birth in an enclosed section of the river Tale in Devon

The creatures were hunted to extinction here in the 1600s

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bred
pt. and pp. of breed

breed
to produce (offspring); procreate; engender
to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce: Ten mice were bred in the laboratory

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Wake up with a whiff of coffee

by AGENCY - Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Need to wake up? Just whiff your coffee


Smell the coffee and wake up, this is the verdict of research that suggests just a whiff of the drink can fight fatigue.
In tests, rats deprived of sleep had reduced MRNA, messenger molecules in the brain.

But when they were exposed to the aroma of strong coffee, their MRNA rates were restored to nearly normal levels, scientists in Japan found.
They are now looking at whether the same applies for humans

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A man obsessed with a recorded female voice has been arrested after spending more than 3,000 hours on a freephone telephone number

Man loved to hear the woman's voice
Hiroyuki Nomoto, from Tokyo in Japan, called the number around 500 times so he could hear the woman's dulcet tones on a taped message.
The 38-year-old plumber was arrested on suspicion of obstructing the business of the company at the other end of the line, a food firm based in Takasaki, north of the capital.
"The company has the number for 24-hour order-taking with a female voice," a police spokesman said.

"He said he wanted to hear a woman's voice.

"The company paid the call charges, which amounted to £18,595 for the call time of 3,100 hours."
Japanese police are used to dealing with people obsessed with female voices.
A 37-year-old man was arrested in January after placing at least 2,600 calls to directory enquiries over several months.
Telephone operators - who in Japan are almost always women - reportedly nicknamed him the "don't-hang-up-man".
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dulcet: sounding sweet and pleasant

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One way to beat traffic

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Amphibious Car


Businessman Dar Shivtiel has found a way to cut fuel and parking costs.
His amphibious car lets him park on water and use rivers to avoid traffic jams

Dar Shivtiel's amphibious car, a modified Ford Fiesta, does up to 8 knots on the water and drives at 70mph on dry land.
The 40-year-old, from Leeds, paid £6,900 for the Dutton Commander on eBay.
'It's more economical than many cars,' he said


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traffic jam
a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move
amphibious
1
living or able to live both on land and in water; belonging to both land and water
2
capable of operating on both land and water: amphibious vehicles

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I love this topic and I really appreciate all your effort to keep it updated


Hope to see others so active in here
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Rooneys recover from 'pizza' wedding

Friday, June 13, 2008
As guests of the new Mr and Mrs Rooney nurse a £5m wedding hangover today, first details of the lavish ceremony between Wayne and Coleen have been revealed.
And it appears that top of the Scousers' list for wedding grub was pizza! The banquet feast was piled with local pizza, endless bottles of champagne and decorated with 12,000 white flowers.


Blushing bride Col chats to her bridesmaids




The couple spent the whole day flanked the entire by OK! magazine security, determined to prevent any pictures of the pair being circulated before the magazine is published.
Earlier the rain drenched couple shed tears of joy during the ceremony - but fortunately, locals believe a rain drenched bride will be a lucky bride.
After an early morning start, and confirming the marriage in a civil ceremony in front of a dozen close friends, Coleen was put through her photo paces.
She was whisked off to the cliff top monastery in Portofino under police escort to be united with a £200,000 wedding frock.


The spectacular fireworks display to mark the Rooneys' marriage



The emotional bride emerged at 2pm with the sun finally shining to dry her tears for her wedding blessing.
Proud father Tony then walked his girl down a red carpet around 5pm at the St Girolama's to give her away to the Manchester United star
With formalities over the couple immediately popped out the bubbly for a toast in the abbey's foyer before treating guests to a canapé drink reception on the terrace.
Photograthers hid in trees in a desperate bid to grab a picture of the new couple - but they failed.
At the banquet it was time for Wayne's waterworks as he paid tribute to his beaming bride, choking up as he thanked his 'stunning wife and bridesmaids.'


Wedding guests enjoy a feast in the plush Italian coastal town



His best man Sean Molloy then left him red faced showing the party a photo of the bride's childhood home defaced the words 'Coleen Loves Wazza' sprayed on with shaving foam.
Moments later Irish boyband, Westlife took centre stage performing for a modest fee of £400,000 before a disco for the guests kicked off.
The £115,000 a week Manchester United star then treated the wedding party to a £100,000 firework display to top things off.
Today, they will board a yacht for a swanky bbq with family before heading off down the coast.
The partying won't stop there as further celebrations are expected for the couple back in Britain

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hangover
Synonyms 1. queasiness, sickishness, qualm, nausea
lavish
to expend or give in great amounts or without limit: to lavish gifts on a person
Synonyms 1, 2. unstinted, extravagant, wasteful, improvident; generous, openhanded. Lavish, prodigal, profuse refer to that which exists in abundance and is poured out copiously. Lavish suggests (sometimes excessive) generosity and openhandedness: lavish hospitality; much too lavish. Prodigal suggests wastefulness, improvidence, and reckless impatience of restraint: a prodigal extravagance. Profuse emphasizes abundance, but may suggest overemotionalism, exaggeration, or the like: profuse thanks, compliments, apologies. 3. heap, pour; waste, squander, dissipate.
Antonyms 1, 2. niggardly
banquet
1
lavish meal; feast
2
a ceremonious public dinner, esp. one honoring a person, benefiting a charity, etc

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Bomb Hunters

During the nine years of the Vietnam War the US dropped more cluster bombs on neighbouring Laos than it did world wide during the whole of World War Two.
It is estimated that the bombing in Laos equated to a B52 load of cluster bombs dropped every 8 minutes for 9 years, this totals to 260 million bombs being dropped between 1964 and 1973.
Since the 1990s an official clearance operation has been in place but they say that more than 80 million unexploded ordnance (UXO) or cluster bombs still litter the countryside.
With the global increase in the demand for steel, led largely by Chinese expansion, this has driven up the price of scrap metal and unexploded ordinance is now a very valuable asset.
In this documentary, Angela Robson travelled around the province of Xieng Khoang, where scrap metal yards have become the new fields of gold.
The people of Laos have utilised the metal from UXO for the past 30 years.
In Phonsavan, the fences of peoples' houses are made of shell casings.
Unexploded cluster bombs are also forged into axes, sickles, cow bells, rice cookers, belt buckles, boats and ladders.
One particular cluster bomb with a tripod-shaped fin is commonly fitted with a light bulb and used as a lamp.
However, this familiarity has proven lethal.
People have grown up with cluster bombs in their homes - so when they see them in the forest, in fields and on the mountainsides they do not anticipate the danger.
Cheap metal detectors can be bought for less than $12 (US dollars) and are encouraging trade.
Children as well as adults scavenge many places for scrap and as a result, almost half of the deaths from UXO in Laos are of children.
It is illegal and often deadly work but is so much more lucrative than most other forms of employment, that many citizens are turning to bomb hunting just to keep food on the table.
You can read more about Laos in Angela Robson's article in Le Monde diplomatique's English edition [ برای مشاهده لینک ، با نام کاربری خود وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید ] .
First broadcast Friday 13th June
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lethal
of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose
scavenge
to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material -
to cleanse of filth, as a street -
lucrative
adjective
profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business
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The barely credible Hulk disappoints

(12A) Running time: 112min
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh - Thursday, June 12, 2008

Rumours that star and co-writer Edward Norton threw a massive Hulk sulk during the editing process were hardly promising. But if the 2003 effort from Ang 'Brokeback Mountain' Lee was criticised for being overly-introspective, this bog-standard comic book blockbuster from The Transporter director Louis Leterrier at least hits the ground running.
The plot sees Bruce Banner (flavour-free Norton) hiding out in Brazil, desperately seeking a way to cure the gamma radiation poison that famously mutates him from a terminally dull scientist into a really violent Brussel sprout. It's barely 20 minutes before Norton 'hulks out'; there's a pulse-pounding chase through the favelas as he is pursued by evil dudes at the US military (William Hurt and Tim Roth

Could this be a new breed of mean, green Bourne Identity? Sadly, it soon settles down to become seriously boring. Token nods to cod psychology and politics won't fool adults into believing this is anything more than the noisy, joyless children's cartoon it ultimately slumps into.
A cast of resentful thesps are scant help: Roth declares 'this is a whole new level of weird' like he's chewing screws; Liv Tyler pouts wetly and occasionally wears glasses (to show she's a serious biologist); while Norton delivers comic one-liners like 'You wouldn't like me when I'm… hungry' with a dead hand unrivalled since vintage Schwarzenegger.
To be fair, Bruce Banner is one of Marvel's least interesting creations: as a monster he's less tortured than toddler. But the TV series at least imbued Hulk with a gentle giant appeal. Here there's no King Kong-like humanity to touch beneath those empty CGI eyes. Incredible? Um, hardly

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overly
excessively; too: a voyage not overly dangerous
Synonyms needlessy, immoderately, inordinately
introspective
given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
antonym extrospective

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Rooney's £5m 'sham' wedding

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Mr and Mrs Rooney got hitched in a £5m ceremony

Wayne Rooney's £5million marriage to Colleen McLoughlin is a sham, angry Italian church officials have claimed.
An Italian priest said he warned the couple the converted monastery in Genoa where they got married was deconsecrated, and so not eligible to host religious services.
Father Mario Ostigoni said he suggested another church 5miles (8km) away but the couple ignored his advice and the wedding, conducted by Coleen's family priest Father Edward Quinn, went ahead

Mr Ostigoni said: 'The Bishop of Chiavari is not at all happy with what happened and I should imagine that Father Quinn's local bishop in Shrewsbury will also want to know what happened.
'If he did carry out a blessing or some form of religious event then it was wrong and it has absolutely no validity in the eyes of the Catholic church and in the eyes of the Lord.'
He said La Cervara had not been a recognised venue for several months.
Bishop Tanasini, who gave permission for the marriage, was said to have been 'astonished at the behaviour and endless partying, fuelled by alcohol' that surrounded the wedding.
A source close to the couple said: 'They had a religious service at La Cervara after taking advice and
thought they were OK

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monastery
house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, esp. monks, living in seclusion under religious vows
eligible
fit or proper to be chosen; worthy of choice; desirable: to marry an eligible bachelor