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October 15, 2008
Topics email, e-mail, job, florida, people, sad, survivor, plus, election, hell, blind, address, eggs, advertising, homeless, girlfriend, cancer, chicago, hard, film, united, medical, security, head, baby, dead, woman and man
With the worsening economy everything is for sale on Craigslist, including one kidney from someone self-described as a healthy, healthy, broke and about to be homeless 35-year-old. Selling a kidney is unquestionably illegal but its hard to tell if the ad is serious or a prank.
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August 6, 2008
Topics indian, japanese, india, couple, women, egg, sperm, plus, route, single, education, couples, medical, law, baby, children, men, hospital and world
The future of an infant born of an Indian surrogate mother is uncertain as her biological parents, a Japanese couple, divorced after conception. Abandoned by her Japanese and the Indian mother, the baby is now under her grandmother's care in a hospital in Jaipur, in western Rajasthan state.
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June 5, 2008
Topics personal, police, banner, plus, buildings, cover, french, bus, men, hospital, world, people and man
Two men scaled the 52-story New York Times building in Manhattan Thursday in separate stunts that drew amused and tensed onlookers on the streets plus police and rescuers. Alain Robert, a 45-year-old skyscraper climber nicknamed the French Spiderman, first scaled the tower by holding and stepping on slats that cover the building's façade. When he reached the top, he made a personal statement to mark the World Environment Day by unfurling a banner with the words "Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week. "
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May 9, 2008
Topics toronto, globe, plus, mobile, insurance, sports, education, mail, schools, medical, office, life, money, school and car
An audit will be conducted on the trustees of the Toronto Catholic District School Board after Ontario discovered excessive spending by the trustees. Despite the lack of legal authority, the trustees voted for themselves medical, dental and life insurance coverages, plus a yearly $8,604 car allowance. Those with excess funds from their discretionary budgets were generous to schools, charities and sports groups of their preference, which were not authorized under the country's Education Act.
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March 19, 2008
A 77-year-old woman filed a $22. 7 million lawsuit against the city of Tampa for not paying back a loan given by her great-grandmother during the Civil War. Joan Kennedy Biddle, said that her ancestor Thomas Pugh Kennedy loaned the city $300, and in return received a promissory note, with the city promising to give the money back. The note was dated June 21, 1861.
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