Researchers find 2,100 year-old melon
Jun 1st, 2007 | Leave a CommentBased on a radiocarbon analysis, researchers estimate the half-rounded piece of fruit to be about 2,100 years old, said Shuji Yamazaki, a local official in the city of Moriyama. Melon seeds have been often found in archaeological digs around the country, but researchers rarely find the remains of melon flesh, Yamazaki said.
The skeleton of the German doctor, known only as Siegfried B., was found Monday wrapped in a blanket, along with a bottle of schnapps and some farewell notes.
Woman gives birth in car for second time
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentOn Tuesday (May 22, 2007), for the second time in 17 months, Green had a baby while en route to a hospital. Doctors had planned to induce labor Thursday, but baby Zaria had other plans.
Ice cream truck sold pot
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentPolice from Mission, Texas say elementary school students tipped them off to an ice cream truck driver who was apparently selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana from the truck. Most customers were in the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
60-year-old New Jersey woman gave birth to twins
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentFrieda Birnbaum, who conceived with the help of an in-vitro fertilization clinic in South Africa, delivered the boys, Josh and Jaret, at Hackensack University Medical Center. The hospital cited her as the oldest American woman to give birth to twins.
Fred for bomb joke
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentA former Wal-Mart cashier says he was fired for joking on his MySpace page that the average IQ would increase if a bomb were dropped on the company’s stores.
McDonald’s insulted by dictionary definition of McJob
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentThe Oxford English Dictionary describes a McJob as “an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects”. McDonald’s says that is out of date and insulting.
Multi-million dollar waitress
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentVictoria Hart, 18-year-old waitress and part-time jazz singer, whose day job involves working for tips at the little-known Naked Turtle restaurant in London, was flown to Cannes earlier this month after a friend of a friend put her name forward to sing at a charity event.
Doctors remove bullet after 64 years
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentA newspaper reports Chinese doctors took four hours to remove the more than one-inch-long, rusty, green bullet from the woman’s skull earlier this month, who was shot by Japanese army troops 64 years ago.
Cell phone saved a man’s life
May 31st, 2007 | Leave a CommentBaxter lost his right leg after being hit by a tractor-trailer in October. He was returning from getting a haircut when he discovered the man with a gun inside his house. Roger Baxter survived the Tuesday incident after a cell phone apparently slowed a bullet to his chest.
