Dentist Claims Breast Rubs Appropriate - A dentist accused of fondling the breasts of 27 female patients is trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an appropriate procedure in certain cases. Mark Anderson's lawyer says dental journals discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem.Original news source

Woman won’t get bin Laden name after all - A woman who petitioned to change her last name to bin Laden did not appear in court on Friday and her case was dismissed. Caren Ann Burke, 49, of Seymour, failed to show for a name change hearing in front of Outagamie County Circuit Court Judge Dee Dyer.Original news source

Bad Golf Shot Leads To Incredible Rescue - A bad golf swing may have saved the life of an injured dirt biker in central New Jersey. Really.The man was rescued after spending 17 hours trapped in the woods.Original news source

SKorea to host conference on condom size - Fresh from summit diplomacy with North Korea, South Korea's government now faces an entirely new challenge -- trying to set international quality and size standards for condoms.The five-day meeting, organised by the International Organisation for Standardisation and the Seoul government, will begin next Monday on the southern resort island of Jeju.Original news source

New IRS data shows rich are getting richer - The richest one percent of Americans earned a postwar record of 21.2 percent of all income in 2005, up from 19 percent a year earlier, reflecting a widening income disparity among different classes in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing new Internal Revenue Service data.Original news source

Funeral Director Recovering after Falling Into Grave - There are falls from grace and falls into graves.Take Leo Murphy's, for instance.One misstep at the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery during a Sept. 20 burial service, and the longtime funeral director from Augusta found himself in a grave, looking up through a cloud of dust."I fell in the grave backwards," Murphy said, two and a half weeks into his recovery. "I hit my left side on the corner of the grave. All of a sudden, I saw a cloud of dust, and that's where I was in the hole."Original news source

Pepsi, Coke Rivalry Becomes Physical - The long-standing rivalry between Coke and Pepsi took a physical turn Friday when a Pepsi deliveryman allegedly punched his Coke counterpart in the face at a western Pennsylvania Wal-Mart, state police said.Original news source

Man Sentenced 8 Years Later for DUI - A man was sentenced to house arrest for drunken driving and drug charges eight years after his paperwork somehow got lost in a bureaucratic shuffle, authorities said.Original news source

Attacker Bites Off Man's Ear - Police say a crazed attacker broke into a man's home in Uniondale New York, beat him with a karaoke machine and bit off his ear.Original news source

Japan: Suicide Web Site Creator Arrested - Police in Japan arrested a man who ran an Internet suicide site for allegedly killing a woman who paid him to do so, an official said Thursday.Kazunari Saito, a 33-year-old electrician, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly giving Sayaka Nishizawa, 21, sleeping pills and suffocating her in April, a police official in Kanagawa said, speaking on condition of anonymity, citing policy.Original news source


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