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    Open microphone reveals papal dentist appointment (Reuters)

Reuters - Everyone has to take time off from work to go to the dentist
 -- even Pope Benedict.

    Chimp no longer has monkey on his back (Reuters)

Reuters - A chimpanzee in a northwest China zoo has quit smoking after
 16 years with the help of her keepers, official media reported.

    Quicksand: that sinking feeling (Reuters)

Reuters - Quicksand is not the bottomless pit portrayed in Hollywood
 films that sucks in unsuspecting victims and swallows them whole.

    Aniston, Pitt put house on market (Reuters)

Reuters - Actors Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, whose highly publicized
 divorce is expected to be finalized this week, have placed their
 Beverly Hills estate on the market for $28 million, the Los Angeles
 Times reported on Sunday.

    Oktoberfest beer drinking dips as volume lowered (Reuters)

Reuters - Despite having an extra day to celebrate, revelers drank less
 of Germany's favorite tipple at this year's Munich Oktoberfest tribute
 to beer which ended Monday.

    Man nabbed after climbing landmark (Reuters)

Reuters - A Japanese man made his way to a spot about 330 feet above
 ground on a famous Tokyo landmark Sunday in what may have been a
 reckless attempt to impress a girl.

    O.J. Simpson makes rare public appearance in L.A (Reuters)

Reuters - Testing the waters of his tarnished celebrity a decade after
 his acquittal on murder charges, O.J. Simpson appeared at a
 Halloween-themed comic book convention on Friday night to sign
 autographs, but few beside the media seemed to care.

    New Orleans seafood safe to eat again - experts (Reuters)

Reuters - Fish from Lake Pontchartrain, the source of much of New
 Orleans' famous seafood, is safe to eat again after Hurricane Katrina,
 but lay off the oysters, state environmental experts said on Friday.

    Bookmaker blasted over 'Last Supper' ad (Reuters)

Reuters - Irish bookmaker Paddy Power was fending off the wrath of
 Christians in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland on Friday over an
 advert depicting Jesus and the Apostles gambling at the Last Supper.

    Welcome to the killing fields cafe... (Reuters)

Reuters - A new Cambodian cafe is offering diners a slice of life under
 the Khmer Rouge, with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and
 waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist
 guerrillas.

    Grub Trumps Suds at Munich Oktoberfest (AP)

AP - Munich's two-week Oktoberfest drew to a close Monday, and
 organizers said more people visited this year but they drank less beer
 than in 2004.

    Nobel winner was a human guinea pig (Reuters)

Reuters - An Australian scientist who jointly won the 2005 Nobel prize
 for medicine said he became a human guinea pig and drank a cocktail of
 bacteria to prove his theories that ulcers were not caused by stress.

    Teacher clings to mother in life and death (Reuters)

Reuters - A professor of English in southern India loved his mother so
 much that he lived with her corpse for 20 years. When he died, the pair
 were laid to rest in the same grave.

    Man Breaks Display Case to Read Rare Book (AP)

AP - Some book worms live outside the law.

    New Merriam-Webster gives diners an 'amuse-bouche' (Reuters)

Reuters - What do you call a doctor who makes hospital visits to cut
 down on other doctors' hospital visits? A hospitalist, of course.

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