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                  as of Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:34:47 GMT

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Reuters - Australia launched a new A$180 million ($133 million)
 advertising campaign Thursday which seeks to attract international
 tourists by swearing at them.

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Reuters - Gladiators may have fought and died to entertain others in the
 brutality of the Roman arena but they appear to have abided by a strict
 code of conduct which avoided savage violence, forensic scientists say.

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Reuters - A woman who tripped and fell over letters, packages and
 periodicals left on her front porch can sue the U.S. Postal Service for
 damages, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.

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Reuters - What do you get for the star who apparently has everything?

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Reuters - Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they
 are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly
 released research.

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Reuters - A Bolivian senator, a close ally of President Evo Morales
 known for her raucous chanting of "Long live coca, Death to the
 Yankees!," said on Wednesday the United States had canceled her entry
 visa.

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Reuters - Serial kissers at Brazil's racy Carnival parades can now swap
 saliva with even more revelers thanks to a mouth spray designed to
 fight germs, just one of many weird products companies have launched to
 profit from traditionally libidinous revelry.

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AP - Some Florida cities would like to throw a dog a bone -- or maybe a
 burger and some fries. Dogs would be able to sit with humans at outdoor
 restaurant tables in some communities under a measure advancing in the
 Florida Legislature.

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Reuters - Few members of the audience at "Godfather of Soul" James
 Brown's concert in Shanghai this week were more impressed than Zhang
 Zhenglun, a textiles factory director from wealthy eastern Jiangsu
 province.

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AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn't in on the joke. Blagojevich says he
 didn't realize "The Daily Show" was a comedy spoof of the news when he
 sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the
 sometimes-puzzled Democratic governor.

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

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AP - Vets at the Biblical Zoo have a tall order -- stopping a baby boom
 among giraffes.

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Reuters - People across China are hailing a simple winter coat as a sure
 sign that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is a man of the people.

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Reuters - On Rio de Janeiro's crowded Copacabana Beach, poor artists
 carve out a living from Carnival tourists who pay to snap photos of
 their magical cities and seductive women shaped entirely of sand.

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