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January 12, 2006
Taiwanese scientists have successfully bred three fluorescent green pigs. A team at the National Taiwan University injected fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, which resulted in three male transgenic pigs, says professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university's Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.
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January 8, 2006
A $20 bill mysteriously printed on top of an ordinary fruit sticker sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said. The flawed note bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait. The buyer at the Orlando, Fla. , auction did not want to be identified. The 1996 bill originated at a U. S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the paper of the greenback is unknown.
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December 26, 2005
Topics advertising, icons, icon, marketing, mcdonalds, pop, happy, green, play, children, city, school, people and man
The Jolly Green Giant, Cap'n Crunch and Kool-Aid Man and more than 2,000 other legendary advertising icons continue spreading their message at the Advertising Icon Museum, the permanent home of the "Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame. "The Kansas City museum will showcase the world's largest collection of three-dimensional advertising icons.
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December 19, 2005
Athens, Ohio - A convicted drug dealer has filed a lawsuit against the search of his business, that turned up more than 50 lbs of marijuana. Now the dealer is suing the dog involved in the bust. Andi, a dog used by the Athens County Sheriff's Department, is listed as one of the defendants in a lawsuit filed by Wayne Francis Green, 46, on Nov. 18. Green, who is representing himself, alleges that a search of his furniture business in 2003 was illegal. During the raid police made a discovery of 50 pounds of marijuana.
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November 29, 2005
Ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's army uniform is being put up for bids on an internet Web site. The green uniform, with epaulettes bearing the mark of Saddam Hussein's rank in the Iraqi army, has a starting price of $5,000.
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