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Old 02-27-2010, 09:19 AM   #1
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Sunken Town Re-Emerges After 25 Years


(Feb. 26) -- Intentionally flooded in 1985 to make way for a reservoir, the former Venezuelan town of Potosi has suddenly made a haunting reappearance thanks to a historic drought brought on by the El Nino weather pattern.
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Old 03-05-2010, 12:12 PM   #2
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S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby'

Very sad...
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A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.
The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.
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Old 03-11-2010, 08:25 PM   #3
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Sunken Town Re-Emerges After 25 Years


(Feb. 26) -- Intentionally flooded in 1985 to make way for a reservoir, the former Venezuelan town of Potosi has suddenly made a haunting reappearance thanks to a historic drought brought on by the El Nino weather pattern.
Brigadoon?
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We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark.

I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them,
I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period.



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Old 03-15-2010, 07:12 AM   #4
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This being from the daily mail, I have my doubts. Can anyone confirm?

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Donna Simpson already weighs 43st, but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world's fattest woman.

The 42-year-old from New Jersey, U.S, is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark (71st) in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.

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Read the whole thing, and count how many truly WRONG things you can find...

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Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world's fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.

She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter Jacqueline during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Yet although she can only move 20ft before needing to sit down, she wants to be even bigger.

'I'd love to be 1,000lb,' she said.

'It might be hard though. Running after my daughter keeps my weight down.'



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You might expect her long-term partner Philippe, 49, to advise her to slim down, but instead he encourages her to eat more.

He met Donna on a dating site for plus-size people and is a self-confessed fat admirer, although he himself only weighs 150lbs.

'I think he'd like it if I was bigger,' said Donna.

'He's a real belly man, and completely supports me.'
He must use a bloody CRANE then!

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To fund the massive $750 weekly food shop, she runs a website where men pay her to watch her eat fast food.
WTF?


There's more at the link. I don't CARE whether its true.
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Old 03-31-2010, 02:30 PM   #5
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...he's a real belly man...
Uh, I call BS. There are not "belly" men.
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