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One day, science will understand Pherotones and their awesome power to attract the opposite sex. In the meantime, the Auditory Institute, RTP is conducting rigorous research and fieldwork to better understand Pherotones and their impact on mating behavior.

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“I wasn’t much of a ladies’ man before Pherotones. Now they call me ‘Mr. Lady.’”

Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution for Twentieth Century Fox, said the popularity of its "Big Momma" films rests with Lawrence's comic appeal.

"People like the 'Big Momma' character, pure and simple. She's funny, she's sassy, but it's a guy underneath there," Snyder said.

Are you making a financial mistake by having too much fun? Budgeting for hobbies, even in your 20s, is essential if you want stay out of financial trouble.

Between hockey, snowboarding, skateboarding, camping, traveling, fishing, hanging with his dogs Sugar and Jack, and his latest interest -- restoring a '79 Harley-Davidson Sportster Ironhead 1000 motorcycle, there's never a dull moment for Andy Dallman, 23, of Minneapolis.

Like a lot of twentysomethings, Dallman has more disposable income than he will when he's married with kids and a mortgage, so he's taking advantage of his financial freedom now.

Speed Dating in the Parks, to be offered next month, has plenty of women but not enough men.

Plenty of singles are interested in the new Speed Dating in the Parks program being offered next month by the Three Rivers Park District. The trouble is that most of them are women.

The program was the idea of Jenni Mead, a 25-year-old (and single) outdoor recreation specialist who adores winter sports. Participants will snowshoe on a candlelit trail while getting to know one another, then socialize over hot chocolate.

Drug dealers not only paid their debts to society last year with prison sentences, they often paid with tax money as well.

Tennesee's unauthorized substances tax, dubbed the "crack tax," raked in $1,714,565 since becoming effective on Jan 1., 2005.

The unauthorized substances tax is levied on illegal drugs including marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine. It also is assessed on illicit alcoholic beverages, such as "moonshine."

Under the law, drug dealers are to pay taxes to the Department of Revenue within 48 hours of acquiring an unauthorized substance and obtain a state tax stamp.

Liberals and conservatives can become equally bug-eyed and irrational when talking politics, especially when they are on the defensive.

Using M.R.I. scanners, neuroscientists have now tracked what happens in the politically partisan brain when it tries to digest damning facts about favored candidates or criticisms of them. The process is almost entirely emotional and unconscious, the researchers report, and there are flares of activity in the brain's pleasure centers when unwelcome information is being rejected.
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The "cold reasoning" regions of the cortex were relatively quiet.

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Arctic temperatures gripping most of Russia pushed the reported death toll close to 40 on Friday as weather forecasters warned that no major thaw is expected in Moscow before February.
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But thousands of religious believers -- along with other hardy souls -- plunged into icy waters nationwide Thursday for an annual ritual marking the Russian Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany.

Complaints about the cold came amid comical stories about coping by both man and beast.

At a zoo in Lipetsk, south of Moscow, director Alexander Osipov said monkeys would be given wine three times a day "to protect against colds," the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. Rossiya television said a circus sea lion was being treated for pneumonia with brandy body rubs.

Random access iterators can jump from any place to any other place in constant time I am not sure that this is required, and it is certainly allowed to be amortized constant time. Every C pointer type is an STL random iterator for a C array container.

Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
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"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be."

An Indian man believed dead by his family and fellow villagers caused panic when he returned over fears he had come back as a ghost, the Times of India reports.

Children screamed "Ghost! Ghost!" and villagers locked their doors when Raju Raghuvanshi returned from jail earlier this month to his village in Mandla district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
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The village council has demanded he prove he is not a ghost, but the paper did not say what kind of proof the elders wanted.

RENO, Nev. Jan 13, 2006 — There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday.
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"The Donner family ended up getting the stigma basically because of the name," said Julie Schablitsky, one of the lead authors. "But of all the people, they were probably the least deserving of it."

Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey for Governor of Minnesota - 2006

Honesty is very seldom heard nowadays, especially from a politician. So, I am not going to break from political tradition. My name is Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey, Ph.D., L.D.D.D. I am a Satanic Dark Priest, Sanguinarian Vampyre and a Hecate Witch. My Magikal Path name is: Lord Ares.

I despise and hate the Christian God the Father. He is my mortal enemy.

Any Terrorist who is caught in Minnesota while I am governor, will find out what the true meaning of my nickname: “The Impaler!” I will impale them right in front of our State Capital. Then Fed’s can take the terrorist’s body from the impaling stake. If the US Department of
Justice (DOJ) wants to charge me with brutally murdering a terrorist, they may do so. I do not see an American Jury convicting me.

How to describe Manos fairly? I tell locals that it's about a couple who take a wrong turn on Scenic Drive (that being the one landmark in the film still recognizable after three decades) and wind up at a 'Lodge' managed by a cult leader, his wobbly-kneed sidekick, and his harem of lingerie-clad wives.

One of the reasons he hates the Mystery Science Theater version, he said, is the silhouettes of the MST cast which block the bottom portion of the screen throughout the film. They obscure the few shots where you can see that Torgo actually does have cloven-hoofed feet. The subtle explanation for Torgo's awkward gait: he's a satyr.

As for the Master's 'wives', they were recruited from a local modeling agency, Fran Simon's Mannequin Manor.

"And they gave poor Hal [the director] fits," said Bob. "They kept doing little turns every time they walked. 'This is not a runway!' he would scream at them."

He also rented one 1955 Cadillac limousine which would arrive at the door of the theater, unload a couple of the stars, then drive around the block to where the rest of the cast and crew were waiting, pick up two more, and make another run.

SHELTON, Wash. -- A Washington state woman who was reported missing was later found dead suffocated under a pile of debris in her home, police said.

Officers found clothing, dishes and boxes crammed from floor to ceiling in every room of the couple's house.

"In some areas, clothes and debris were piled 6 feet high," said Police Chief Terry Davenport of the Shelton Police Department. "Officers were having to climb over the top on their hands and knees. In some areas, their heads were touching the ceiling while they were standing on top of piles of debris."

(SPACE.com) -- NASA will pay the Russian Federal Space Agency $21.8 million per passenger for Soyuz rides to and from the international space station (ISS) starting this spring.

NASA spokeswoman Melissa Mathews said January 5 that the U.S. space agency and its Russian counterpart concluded a $43.8 million deal just before New Year's Day that includes Soyuz transportation to and from the space station for NASA's newly named Expedition 13 crew member, Jeff Williams, and a ride home for astronaut Bill McArthur, who has been living onboard the station since October.