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January 12, 2008
Topics tattoo, jobs, focus, jeans, dictionary, skin, personal, travel, hair, business, body and people
eading Australian dictionary Macquarie has added 85 new words and phrases grouped in 17 categories from business to travel. The collection includes odd words such as 'toad juice', 'slummy mummies', and 'arse antlers' among others. 'Toad juice' is defined as a foul-smelling liquid fertilizer produced from pulverizing cane toads, pests that devastate native wildlife. 'Slummy mummies' refer to mothers who are oblivious to their personal appearance, an antonym of which is so-called yummy mommies. And 'arse antlers' is another term for a tattoo just above the buttocks.
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January 7, 2008
General Motors Corp. executives announced recently that within a decade, the cars that can drive and park at their destination could be ready for sale. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner's announced on Tuesday the company's vision of driverless vehicles and that GM, parts suppliers, university engineers and other automakers are all working together on vehicles that could revolutionize and initiate the short- and long-distance travel.
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January 2, 2008
Topics world, travel, bet, underwear, france, leaves, war, face, bank, baby, people and woman
A hundred years after an Edwardian won a bet to travel the world in an iron mask while pushing a baby carriage, his great-grandson is saying he could have lied about the feat. In his 1908 wager with John Pierrepoint Morgan, the founder of JP Morgan Bank, and Lord Lonsdale for the equivalent of $2. 97 million today, Harry Bensley had to travel 30,000 miles across 19 countries while finding a wife.
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December 20, 2007
Hawaiian Airlines will refund a would-be passenger a full $225 it collected as a processing fee after she canceled a Hawaii trip for three. Jane Wilkens was supposed to travel with her 77-year-old mother and a family friend, but her mother passed away unexpectedly on September. When Wilkens asked for a refund for $4,287, Hawaiian Airlines tacked a $225 processing fee. Before Jane's mother could make the trip, she underwent surgery for a back problem, but she died three days later from a blood clot.
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November 11, 2007
Topics crown, philippines, thailand, diamond, brazil, beautiful, cool, miss, queen, travel, happy, germany, big, business, student and world
A 21-year-old Thai was named the most beautiful transsexual in the world in an extravagant pageant held at the famed tourist destination southeast of Bangkok. Tanyarat Jirapatpakon went home with the Miss International Queen 2007 crown, beating 23 other stunning hopefuls.
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