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What Are the 10 Best Places to Retire?
What Are the 10 Best Places to Retire?
What Are the 10 Best Places to Retire?
When people retire, they often decide to pull up stakes and move to a new city. No longer bound by the restraints of employment offices or client locales, retirees may instead find themselves drawn to places with great weather, affordable housing or better amenities than where they currently live. U.S. News used data from Onboard Informatics to ascertain 10 things people look for when they retire,
German Prostitutes Have to Feed a Street-Walking Meter
German Prostitutes Have to Feed a Street-Walking Meter
German Prostitutes Have to Feed a Street-Walking Meter
Prostitution is legal in Germany, and subject to taxation. While the German government doesn’t have a problem collecting taxes from sex workers who operate out of brothels, getting street walkers to pay up has been tricky. The German city of Bonn thinks they have a solution to this problem: a parking-meter like device which women who solicit on the street put $8.70 into nightly for a ticket that g
Yikes! Amazon UK Sees Giant Spike in Sales of Aluminum Bats, Clubs During London Riots
Yikes! Amazon UK Sees Giant Spike in Sales of Aluminum Bats, Clubs During London Riots
Yikes! Amazon UK Sees Giant Spike in Sales of Aluminum Bats, Clubs During London Riots
As the London enters another day of rioting, looters and bystanders have taken to the web to arm themselves. Amazon’s UK site has seen scary-high spikes in sales of blunt objects over the past 24 hours, including a 50,000% spike in clubs and a more than 35,000% spike among different aluminum baseball bat models.
Update on Alaska’s Mysterious “Orange Goo”
Update on Alaska’s Mysterious “Orange Goo”
Update on Alaska’s Mysterious “Orange Goo”
Ok. Scientists say they have it figured out. Kind of anyway. Maybe "figured out" is pushing it, but narrowed down, at least. They claim now that is definitely a "natural" substance. It's not man-made. So their verdict as to WHAT it exactly is...Eggs. Eggs? What kind of eggs? They don't know. At least, not yet.

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