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<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31122122/?GT1=43001" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31122122/?GT1=43001</a>
 
Outlaw butt cleavage? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
<b>Dog plays fetch with live grenade in Germany</b>

Police summon a munitions expert to identify and defuse the weapon

updated 5:58 p.m. ET, Mon., June 8, 2009
BERLIN - A dog playing fetch in Germany has found and delivered to its owner a U.S. hand grenade from World War II.

Police in the western town of Erkrath said Monday they were called by the dog's 40-year-old owner who stopped walking her pooch when she recognized the "rusty" object it was carrying was a weapon. Police summoned a munitions expert Sunday to identify and defuse the grenade.

Grenades and bombs left over from World War II are still often found in Germany.

Sometimes whole streets in neighborhoods are evacuated so that such devices can be safely defused.
 
Crazy dog. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Australian man rescued from washing machine
January 10, 2006

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A man had to be rescued after becoming wedged in a washing machine while playing a game with his children, a newspaper reported Tuesday. A fire officer pulled Robin Toom, 38, out of the machine after Toom became trapped while playing hide-and-seek, according to Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "I just hopped in there and couldn't even get the lid down and the kids came in and said, 'Ha, ha! We found you,'" Toom told the newspaper. Toom, of the Queensland city of Townsville, waited for an hour with his knees pressed to his chest before being rescued by local fire squad member Dave Dillon, the paper reported. Rather than dismantling the washer, Dillon reached into the machine and pulled out Toom's wedged foot. Toom said he planned to change the rules of hide-and-seek for his children. "I hope they don't go hiding in any washing machines now," he said.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=327338:date=Jun 10 2009, 01:30 PM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ Jun 10 2009, 01:30 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=327338"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Any self respecting kid

would have turned on the washer<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-f-2009-06-15" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-...er-f-2009-06-15</a> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />

Imagine having a yard full of them things! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />
 
Damn you, Scientific American! DAMN YOU! *shakes hoof* <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

Shoulda copy an' pasted it, I guess. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Live and learn. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Yep. Copy and paste. I forgot what it was. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
This could bring a whole new meaning to "shiver me timbers!" <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>Turning wood into bone: Peg-leg science with a pirate hook</b>
Science Centric | 16 June 2009 09:09 GMT

Pirates can now trade in their peg-legs for real legs as scientists transform wood into bone. In a Royal Society of Chemistry journal Italian chemists show that ordinary wood can be turned into bone suitable for repairing damaged limbs. It brings a whole new meaning to the term 'tree surgery.'

The microstructure of the wood is the perfect natural template for making bone as it allows growth of blood vessels and tissues, Anna Tampieri and colleagues report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.

By treating wood with a fairly simple set of chemical processes, the natural structure of the wood is retained. The wood is first decomposed to leave a carbon framework, and then reacted with calcium, then oxygen and then carbon dioxide. A final reaction with a phosphate donor transforms the framework into hydroxyapatite, the main constituent of bone. This structure retention could help the bone be integrated into the body more easily than current replacement materials, which do not share this organic-like structure.

Tampieri suggests the material could finds other uses. She says its high strength. Weight ratio could make it ideally suited for use in space vehicles.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Original story here :
<a href="http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09061625-turning-wood-into-bone-peg-leg-science-with-pirate-hook" target="_blank">http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article...ith-pirate-hook</a>
 
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