‘Smoot’ measurement reaches new heights at MIT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The father of a measurement known as the “Smoot” returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago….
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Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin
ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) — That’s a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds….
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Chinese wins tightrope contest across Seoul river
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul’s second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday….
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GOP, Democrats battle in Pa. over voter dress code
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring….
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9 from Roswell, NM, claim $200M Powerball jackpot
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Roswell, N.M., is usually more associated with little green men than with greenbacks….
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Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home’s front yard
CAPLEN, Texas (AP) — A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris….
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Naked lunch promo dropped to placate town board
GREENVILLE, Maine (AP) — There’s no such thing as a free lunch anymore for Black Frog Restaurant patrons nervy enough to run down a dock and plunge naked into Moosehead Lake….
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