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                  as of Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:47:56 GMT

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Reuters - Playboy won't pull its March issue over actress Jessica Alba's
 claim that she was made an unwitting cover girl to fool readers into
 thinking she is nude inside, the magazine said on Friday.

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Reuters - A 25-year-old woman grabbed a sheriff deputy's sports utility
 vehicle on Thursday and led police on a two-hour televised car chase
 through suburban Los Angeles County.

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Reuters - The living dead beat rhino horn to be named Oddest Book Title
 of the Year.

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Reuters - Breathtaking views high above Rio de Janeiro's beaches and
 mountains can be yours for just a few dollars a day -- if you skip
 pricey hotels and sleep in a slum.

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Reuters - An unpopular punctuality drive launched in the U.N. Security
 Council last month by U.S. Ambassador John Bolton came to an abrupt end
 on Thursday when Argentina took over the council's rotating presidency.

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Reuters - Most students who drop out of high school in the United States
 admit they made a mistake by quitting and some say they might have
 stayed if classes were more challenging, according to a report released
 on Thursday.

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AP - Eighty-one-year-old Myron Manders wants the Social Security
 Administration to know that he still is alive. The problem is, it
 doesn't seem to be listening.

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Reuters - An adviser to the Chinese parliament has urged curbs on civil
 servants' body weight to aid the fight against corruption.

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AP - Marlene Kiraly asked her husband to hide the 3 1/2 karat, uninsured
 diamond ring her mother had given her just before she died 23 years
 ago. Problem was, he did such a good job no one could remember where it
 was.

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Reuters - A Cameroon court jailed a newspaper publisher for four months
 on Friday for defaming a government minister named in a list of 50
 presumed homosexuals in the central African country where homosexuality
 is a crime.

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AP - Restaurants, gas stations, stores and other businesses in one
 Connecticut city may soon face another regulation -- coat hooks in all
 public bathrooms.

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AP - A criminal justice professor at Grand Rapids Community College has
 resigned after showing a video in class of a man having sex with a pig,
 students and a faculty representative said.

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AP - A 25-year-old woman climbed past barriers and into an elephant's
 zoo exhibit, then crawled out with minor injuries after the 6,000-pound
 animal smacked her with its trunk.

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