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November 13, 2006
Australian scientists have developed a unique musical T-shirt that has the capacity to turn the movement's of the wearer's arms into the music of a guitar. Developed by Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up the wearer's arm motions. It then wirelessly relays them to a computer, which further interprets them as guitar notes.
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November 9, 2006
Topics hair, body, world, dream, mexican, image, photos, hands, china, book, free, chinese, feet, web, lost, news, dreams, rock and man
Yu Zhenhuan, an aspiring Chinese rock-star with 96-percent of his body covered in hair, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Beijing's World Carnival Company for posting his photograph without permission on its website. Yu said the unauthorized posting had caused him to suffer from undue psychological damage.
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November 7, 2006
According to an Israeli-born psychic Uri Geller, the December 2003 capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was not simply a matter of luck or the work of sophisticated intelligence gathering. Rather, members of a US paranormal program used psychic powers to locate the tiny hole containing the bearded and bedraggled dictator. Geller claims to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War. He said on Monday that his knowledge of the psychic discovery of Saddam is gathered from a high-level source in the secret US paranormal program.
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October 4, 2006
The world's biggest diamond in 13 years went on sale on Wednesday in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The successful bidder, for the gem that was mined in Lesotho, shall be named by the Antwerp Diamond Centre on Monday. Dubbed "Lesotho Promise," the owners found it hard to give the monetary value of the piece. To get the price of a diamond rock, traders need to know how many cuts can be made out of it. The 605-carat diamond is about a third bigger than the size of a golf ball.
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September 10, 2006
Topics zoo, monkeys, head, woman, monkey, blue, rock, paper, animals, newspaper, hospital and people
A 25-year-old Brazilian woman said she is planning to lodge a formal complaint against the head of the Rio de Janeiro Zoo after one of the monkeys threw a stone at her during a visit. Regiane Viana told O Dia newspaper that she was taken to the hospital and needed treatment after she was hit on the head by the monkey's stone.
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