Body parts sent to wrong address

Liver, part of a head mistakenly delivered to house instead of research lab; 28 other packages, intended for medical research, could have gone astray
Mar 03, 2007 04:32 PM
Associated Press

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Two packages containing human body parts – including a liver and part of a head – meant for a medical research lab instead were delivered to a home.

The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franck and Ludivine Larmande’s home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table.

“My husband started to unwrap one and said, ‘This is strange, it looks like a liver,’” Ludivine Larmande said. “He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.

Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias

By SAM DILLON
Published: February 25, 2007

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”

Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

100 dead sheep found in downtown back yard

Feb 24, 2007 05:47 PM
Nick Kyonka
Staff Reporter

Residents of a downtown neighbourhood woke up today to the stench of 100 dead sheep wafting in from the back yard of a nearby rooming house.

12 yrs on and she still makes my skin crawl

Karla a mom, ready to wed

Fri, February 9, 2007

Sources say the notorious killer and the baby boy’s father will tie the knot in the Caribbean.

By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO — Karla Homolka is nursing a newborn baby, Sun Media has confirmed.

Lawsuit Filed After Songwriter Starves In Hospital

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.

No stoning, Canada migrants told

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.

G** bless you, airline movie censors

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

450 ‘Canadians’ find out they’re not

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.

Terror Free Oil

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

Drunk man rescued from chimney

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.