MIAMI (AP) - Cuban migrants fashioned a boat out of a 1951 Chevy pickup truck and "drove" it to within 40 miles of the United States before they were spotted, taken off and returned to the island, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday.

Cubans found at sea on pickup truck

A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorised a German lake for years has washed up dead but the legend of "Kuno the Killer" lives on.

Germany's dog-eating catfish found dead

03 July 2003

An experiment that created human "chimeras" by merging male and female embryos in a test tube was condemned yesterday as scientifically vacuous and ethically questionable by leading proponents of research into IVF.

Scientists outraged over fusion of male and female embryos

FRANKFURT -- Denmark and Sweden lead the world in social progress, Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list and the United States ranks 27th among 163 nations, according to the latest Index of Social Progress.

U.S. ranks 27th in world social progress; Africa in dire straits

Atlanta (July 8,2003)—Working from their university labs in two different corners of the world, U.S. and Australian researchers have created what they call a new class of creative beings, “the semi-living artist” – a picture-drawing robot in Perth, Australia whose movements are controlled by the brain signals of cultured rat cells in Atlanta.

And they make great pets.

Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Create Robotic ‘Semi-Living Artist’

Creator Kenneth Johnson, who wrote and directed the May 1983 miniseries (and earned a Writers Guild Award nomination in the process), has been tapped by NBC to revive the franchise.

In an announcement issued Monday by the network, Johnson said his new script will pick up 20 years after the original story.

Original stars Jane Badler, who reigned as alien queen Diana, and Marc Singer, who fought the good fight as mere mortal Mike Donovan, "could possibly return to resume their roles," the network notes. NBC also drops the names of Faye Grant, who played hero scientist Julie Parish, and Robert Englund, who, in a pre-Freddy turn, played Willie, the Visitor defector.

'V: The Second Generation'

An Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of beating his wife faced year in prison and a fine. But when he spit in an arresting officer's face, he got a life sentence instead, officials said Wednesday.

John Carl Marquez, 36, was convicted of "placing bodily fluid upon a government employee," a felony that can carry a life sentence because of the possibility of transmitting a potentially deadly disease.

CNN.com - Man gets life in prison for spitting

"I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!

For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is..."

I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush

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I wonder how long it will take for these things to end up on QVC. You can probably sell them to goths as "death diamonds" or new agers as "spirit stones." Who knew that you can get up to 100 diamonds out of one corpse...

sell and wear your dead relatives and pets