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'Just browsing' may become a memory
Tuesdays with MitchAnyone in retail is familiar with this scene. A customer comes in, asks for help. He tries things on, tests things out, maybe takes some literature, writes down model numbers or designer names. Then, when time comes to close the sale, the customer says,...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, IBM, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Drugs with bite: The healing powers of toxins
Premium Health News ServiceA brush with a pit viper is not a relaxing experience. These snakes are venomous, can grow to several meters long and will be on to you long before you know they're there, sensing your body heat with a pair of highly sensitive infrared-detecting organs...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Environmental Issues, Heart Attack, Colleges and Universities, Obesity
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Cost for 'mooning' the Queen? $803
The Courier-MailAn Australian who "mooned" Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Brisbane in 2011 was fined the equivalent of $803 U.S. dollars on a public nuisance charge Tuesday. Liam Lloyd Warriner, 22, a barman from Sydney, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane...Tags: Punishment, Fines, Elizabeth II
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'Strange smell' grounds plane, turns out to be dirty diaper
NewsCore/ Northern Territory NewsA dirty diaper stuck in a toilet is being blamed for grounding a passenger plane flying between the Australian capital cities of Darwin and Brisbane. Qantas Flight 825 was forced to land at Mount Isa on Sunday after passengers and crew complained of a...Tags: Boeing Co.
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Serena Williams withdraws from Brisbane with ankle sprain
The Fabulous ForumSerena Williams was forced to withdraw from the Brisbane International after spraining her left ankle Wednesday during a second-round victory over Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia.... -
Band's video of life-size Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja goes viral
TechnologyPopular iPhone games Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Plants vs. Zombies, Cut the Rope and Flight Control are re-imagined in an indie rock outfit's new video.... -
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Man dies after 'planking' on Australian building
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a man who plunged seven floors to his death from an apartment balcony was participating in the Internet craze of "planking." Planking, increasingly popular in Australia, involves people lying flat...Tags: Photography, Australia, Arts and Culture
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Floods costing Australia $3B in lost farming, coal
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The river that submerged vast swaths of Australia’s third-largest city last week surged again Friday and began flooding some Brisbane suburbs, as rivers in Australia’s southeast soared to record heights....Tags: Australia, Julia Gillard, Coal, Mining, Natural Disasters
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