The Barefoot Bandit is becoming legend
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SEATTLE -- Colton Harris-Moore, the teen fugitive who has eluded capture for two years, left a handwritten note and $100 at a veterinary clinic in Raymond, Wash., Raymond police told the CBS News program "48 Hours". The note reads: "Drove by, had some extra cash. Please use this cash for the care of animals --Colton Harris-Moore, (AKA: "The Barefoot Bandit") Camano Island, WA. Police told a "48 Hours" producer that the crime lab dusted the note for fingerprints and matched the prints to Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old who left a halfway house two years ago and is suspected of dozens of...
Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 10:40:58 AM
CAPTION a barefoot Hillary with Hussein
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Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 10:40:58 AM
The painful truth about trainers: Are running shoes a waste of money?
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At Stanford University, California, two sales representatives from Nike were watching the athletics team practise. Part of their job was to gather feedback from the company's sponsored runners about which shoes they preferred. Unfortunately, it was proving difficult that day as the runners all seemed to prefer... nothing. 'Didn't we send you enough shoes?' they asked head coach Vin Lananna. They had, he was just refusing to use them. 'I can't prove this,' the well-respected coach told them. 'But I believe that when my runners train barefoot they run faster and suffer fewer injuries.' Nike sponsored the Stanford team as...
Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 10:40:58 AM
Life StoryPlan B -- a single mom's decision to go it alone
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With her biological clock winding down and no sign of Mr. Right, one woman pursues a different route to motherhood. I'm in my ob-gyn's office, feet in the stirrups. Dr. Bakas peeks up over the paper sheet draped across my knees and pulls his gloves off with a snap. "So? Do you want a cigarette?" My friend Bev laughs, as does the nurse, but I try not to because I don't want to jiggle or move or do anything to disrupt those tiny little sperm as they make the long journey up through my uterus to my little waiting egg....
Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 10:40:58 AM
Moms should stay home
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The president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, announced this week that he will resign from his position at the end of this academic year. This became almost inevitable after he made a speech last winter claiming "innate differences" between the sexes may well explain why more men succeed in math and sciences than do women. Not the most radical statement in history, perhaps, but bold enough to make him a hated figure on campuses and a punching bag for radical feminists. I don't really know if there is a different aptitude for science between men and women and don't particularly...
Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 10:40:58 AM
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