three wise monkeys

John Slattery
Reporting

(CBS) NEW YORK The family of 50s songwriter, Julius Dixson, has filed suit against a Manhattan Hospital charging the elderly man died of neglect after routine surgery.
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Friday, Jan. 26, 2007
By John Cloud

Zoologists have known for many years that homosexuality isn’t uncommon among animals. (My own cat has raised suspicions ever since he tried to mount a cowering male dachshund.) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhibit homosexuality at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclusively with other rams.
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By Ryan Smith, ExpressNews Staff

January 16, 2007 - Edmonton - DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer.
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Don’t stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.

The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting.
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Window displays will have to reflect true female form
January 25, 2007

MADRID, Spain–Spain’s government has reached an agreement with major fashion designers, including the owner of the Zara chain, to standardize women’s clothing sizes with the aim of promoting a healthier image.
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January 26, 2007

All mentions of God are bleeped out of a version of Oscar-nominated movie The Queen distributed to Delta and some other airlines.

Jeff Klein, president of Jaguar Distribution, the company that supplied the movie to the airlines earlier this month, said it was a mistake, committed by an overzealous and inexperienced employee who had been told to edit out all profanities and blasphemies. “A reference to God is not taboo in any culture that I know of,” Klein said.

“We excise foul language, excessive violence and nudity.”

Passengers hear “(Bleep) bless you, ma’am,” as one character speaks to the Queen. In all, the word “God” is bleeped seven times. Jaguar has been sending out new, unedited copies.

The employee is still working in the editing lab, Klein said.

Associated Press via The Toronto Star

Little-known 1977 law requires some born abroad to reregister as citizens
January 25, 2007
Thulasi Srikanthan
Staff Reporter

A little-known legal loophole has left hundreds of Canadians without their citizenship.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada yesterday identified 450 recent cases where people have come to apply for a new passport or renewal of an expired one and found out their citizenship is not valid.
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Lacking papers, a family fleeing persecution can’t be forced back to Iran, but now finds that there’s nowhere to go
January 25, 2007
Nicholas Keung
IMMIGRATION/DIVERSITY REPORTER

An Iranian woman and her two children have been stranded in a Moscow airport for more than eight months while en route to seek asylum in Canada to be united with her brother, her only overseas relative.
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Look closely…

A sign on the pump of the Terror-Free Oil gas station in Omaha, Neb.

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From The Globe and Mail, January 23, 2007

January 19, 2007
Tamara Cherry
Staff Reporter

A drunk Toronto man who spent five freezing hours in a stranger’s chimney Thursday morning was simply trying to enter the home after no one answered his knocks at the front door, police say.

The 35-year-old man left his friend’s Muskoka Lakes cottage in the middle of the night to “relieve himself,” Ontario Provincial Police said.
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