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    Gas prices high? Try an eco-friendly, $3.5 mln Skycar (Reuters)

Reuters - If that Hummer is draining your cash at the gas pump, Neiman
 Marcus Group Inc. has the perfect holiday gift: A fuel-efficient, $3.5
 million "Skycar" that flies 350 miles per hour and burns
 environmentally friendly alcohol.

    World toilet summit lifts lid on public hygiene (Reuters)

Reuters - Delegates to the annual World Toilet Summit in Northern
 Ireland's capital Belfast could be forgiven for feeling flushed this
 week after sitting down for a three-day debate on the finer points of
 public sanitation.

    Recipe for perfect sandcastle (Reuters)

Reuters - A lesson learned by centuries of beachcombers has been
 distilled to a physicist's formula: to make the perfect sandcastle, use
 eight parts sand to one part water.

    Hairdressers battle over Merkel's hairstyle (Reuters)

Reuters - Two top German hairdressers are fighting over who deserves the
 credit for Angela Merkel's new hairstyle after the conservative leader
 traded a low-maintenance page-boy cut for a more stylish look just
 before the election.

    Mating game is never over for male swallows: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Men who put on a little pot belly after marriage can give
 thanks that they are not barn swallows. A study published on Thursday
 shows females of that species keep shopping around even after mating.

    San Francisco Street Becomes Ski Jump (AP)

AP - Olympic ski champion Jonny Moseley and his buddies transformed one
 of San Francisco's steepest streets into one of the strangest
 king-of-the-hill competitions yet.

    U.S. Air Force team are on the ball (Reuters)

Reuters - England's first Ashes series victory over Australia for 18
 years has boosted cricket's popularity in the birthplace of the game.
 On one village green, however, an unlikely band of men were already
 hooked.

    San Jose to Repair Smelly Sewage Line (AP)

AP - It's no longer going to smell like ammonia and rotten eggs on one
 suburban street.

    New concept car: a rotating egg on wheels (Reuters)

Reuters - Tired of all those three-point turns? Nissan Motor could have
 a solution.

    New Car Aimed at Drivers With Parking Woes (AP)

AP - For drivers who find backing out of tight parking spots a hassle,
 Nissan has an answer: An egg-shaped car whose body pivots 360 degrees
 so that its rear end becomes the front.

    Pol Pot menu too much to swallow in Cambodia (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.

    Pastor Gets Unwelcome Supply of Viagra (AP)

AP - A pastor received an unwelcome supply of Viagra pills by registered
 mail earlier this month. The 500 pills of the impotence drug was very
 unexpected, he said.

    Australian pastry cook scoops dough for cut finger (Reuters)

Reuters - Australia's highest court has upheld a A$471,000 (204,000)
 compensation payout to a pastry cook who cut her little finger while
 reassembling a doughnut machine, court officials said on Friday.

    Eviction Escape: Man Flees, Pig Attacks (AP)

AP - A man and his pet wild pig facing eviction from their Boulder Creek
 home have eluded authorities -- the man by running into the woods, and
 the pig by attacking deputies.

    Media boasts lands New York's top hooker in jail (Reuters)

Reuters - A $2,000 (1,137 pounds) an hour prostitute known as New York's
 No. 1 Escort pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of money
 laundering and prostitution that stemmed from her bragging in the media
 about her work.

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