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April 1, 2008
Local authorities arrested a man for intentionally crashing his vehicle into the car wash after becoming dissatisfied with the service. The man, 37-year old Assi Touti, was at the Mr. Hand Car Wash complaining about the unsatisfactory job done on his Chevrolet Silverado truck after he drove it through the car wash.
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March 4, 2008
A couple who bought a hard disk drive from a Best Buy store for $300 found three bags of beans instead of the computer storage device inside the package when they opened it. The buyers returned the item to the store but Best Buy referred them first to the manufacturer of the HDD before replacing the product with a $300 gift card, Engadget. com and the Money Helps blog of CNNMoney. com reported Tuesday.
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March 3, 2008
The Old North Church, Boston's 285-year-old beacon of the American Revolution, has gone high-tech with the installation of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Ed Pignone, executive director of the Old North Foundation of Boston, said energy-efficient lights now illuminate ceiling vaults inside the church, whose steeple was used by Paul Revere to display two lanterns as a signal about British troop movements on April 18, 1775- the night described in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, which included the line: "One if by land, and two if by sea. "
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January 24, 2008
Topics pigs, fly, technology, education, video, aim, design, teachers, computer, face, young, school and people
Saying it could be offensive to Muslims, a government organization rejected a digital video based on the Three Little Pigs. The video, entitled 'The Three Little Cowboy Builders', was criticized by the education technology agency, Becta, saying "the use of pigs raises cultural issues".
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January 20, 2008
Hungarian scientist's claim they have come up with a computer program, which would enable people to understand dog, barks. The group o scientists said the software is able to decode dog's barks, howls, yaps and growls.
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