Hundreds of thousands of holiday greeting cards and get-well-soon letters for injured American soldiers were returned to sender or thrown away unopened and never reached their destinations. The Pentagon and Postal service have refused to deliver mail letters addressed to wounded troops since the September 11 attacks and the anthrax scare, for fear terrorists might send toxic materials or bad messages to the recovering soldier wounded during war.

A group of Swedish female activists is campaigning for women to be allowed to go topless in the country's swimming pools. UPI mentions The Local reporting Tuesday the group, calling itself Bara Brost (Bare Breasts or Just Breasts), launched the protest following an incident in August involving two women who were refused to go topless at their local pool in Uppsala.

Security experts have debunked the reported assassination of a Russian spammer and called it a hoax. On Thursday, a blog post on the website Loonov. com claimed a spammer named Alexey Tolstokozhev was shot in the head, "a clear mark of Russian hit men. " The news even made it to the popular technology website Slashdot. org, saying "Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands-on method of system administration are staggering. "

George Hotz, the 17-year-old teenager who made headlines for breaking AT&T's lock on iPhone users, swapped the cell phone for a new car. On his blog, Hotz said CertiCell, a Louisville, KY cell phone repair company, offered the Nissan 350Z, plus three 8 gigabyte iPhones. The teen said he'll send the three iPhones to the three people who helped him discover the hack.

A 35-year-old woman from Canada, who was transferred to Montana because of a shortage of neonatal beds there, gave birth to rare identical quadruplets. The odds of this occurring is one in 13 million. Officials at a Great Falls hospital told Associated Press Thursday that Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare.