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April 8, 2008
A total of 30 pans were reportedly stolen from a Pizza Hut. According to local officials, the incident was first discovered when pizza store employees arrived for work to discover that all of the pans needed to make pizzas had disappeared.
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April 4, 2008
A man from North Potomac, Maryland made a goldmine out of the domain name he had been maintaining since 1994 for $20 a year after the web address sold for $2. 6 million in an online site that auctions domains. Chris Clark's pizza. com received the highest bid from an anonymous bidder when the auction closed Thursday. The bidding ran for a week.
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March 10, 2008
In an attempt to give moral and ethical behavior more significance to current times, the Vatican has recently announced seven new deadly sins, published in an issue of the L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper. The revision of the list comes after 1,500 years, with Vatican officials explaining that the new items address a global "secular" society bent on the concerns in the age of globalization. The sins are said to be an address to the "decreasing sense of sin" in the modern world.
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March 7, 2008
Italian priests are currently undergoing a course in confession, where they are taught the proper way of communicating with sinners and bringing them back to confession. The program was launched to respond to reports of a decline in the number of people going to confession. After identifying one of the reasons as the inappropriate reactions of priests upon hearing of the people's confessions, the "grave crisis" was taken into account and the Vatican is currently attempting to remedy the damage through the lessons.
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January 28, 2008
The popular Internet classifieds site Craigslist was allegedly used by a woman to hire a hit man to kill a romantic rival. Police claim Ann Marie Linscott advertised she would pay $5,000 to have killed the wife of a Calif. man she was having an affair. Although the want-ad listed only a "freelance" job offer, those who answered the Craigslist posting were offered $5,000, plus the name and the address of the woman Linscott allegedly wanted "eradicated. " California police are now seeking the woman's extradition.
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