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Reuters - The tale of a rambunctious puppy is proving its staying power
 in the dog-eat-dog world of U.S. best-sellers.

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Reuters - Brazil's Roman Catholic Church urged revelers on Thursday to
 abstain from reckless sex, too much alcohol and violence during the
 country's Carnival celebrations.

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Reuters - New York authorities on Thursday charged four men with
 illegally harvesting and selling tissue from 1,077 dead people in the
 past four years, possibly including the remains of British broadcaster
 Alistair Cooke.

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Reuters - It's a case of the vanishing blondes.

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Reuters - A radical environmental activist has been indicted by a
 federal grand jury for demonstrating how to build a firebomb in a
 speech just 15 hours after a fire that his group claimed responsibility
 for destroyed a large apartment complex being built nearby.

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Reuters - A creature that looked like a beaver, right down to its flat
 paddle-like tail and webbed feet, lived 164 million years ago alongside
 dinosaurs, U.S. and Chinese researchers reported on Thursday.

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AP - Gobbles, clucks and coos spill out of the grand ballrooms, but
 there are no live turkeys on the floor of the Opryland Convention
 Center. Instead, about 150 men, women and children are doing their best
 imitations at the championship of turkey calling, the annual Grand
 National Wild Turkey Calling championships.

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Reuters - A Colombian man has been sentenced to four years' house arrest
 for slapping a woman's bottom as he rode by her on his bicycle,
 sparking debate on whether the punishment fit the crime.

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AP - New signs on New Hampshire's borders tell visitors, "You're going
 to love it here." The only problem is the governor and other top
 officials hate them.

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Reuters - Britain's match against the United States for the men's
 curling bronze medal was interrupted on Friday when a male streaker ran
 across the ice.

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AP - A woman who claimed she was trying to cheat on a drug test was
 behind a bizarre incident in which a frightened convenience store clerk
 thought she had microwaved a severed penis, police said.

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Reuters - You live in Rio, one of the world's greatest party cities.
 It's Carnival, perhaps the world's greatest city party. So how do you
 celebrate?

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AP - The men's bronze medal match Friday was interrupted by a streaker.
 Midway through the United States' 8-6 win over Britain, a man wearing
 what appeared to be a strategically placed rubber chicken ran onto one
 of the covered sheets of ice not being used in that session.

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Reuters - It isn't surprising that shoes are an obsession with the
 beauties who grace Brazil's Carnival parades -- they're generally the
 biggest things they wear below the neck.

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AP - Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to
 Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of
 the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names.

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Reuters - She's a suspected killer, she's in custody, and at least four
 people want to adopt her.

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