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    <title>How did the states establish long, straight borders before GPS?</title>
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        By cecil adams
      
      
      How is it that, in places without natural features such as a river or mountain range to mark a border, U.S. states could establish a nice, even line over hundreds of miles before GPS? &mdash; Granite-Morale &nbsp; The lines aren&#39;t always nice and even. Study a U.S. atlas and you&#39;ll find many supposedly straight boundaries with slants and zigzags in them, the work of surveyors who were, and it pains me to say this, borderline incompetent. Still, the remarkable thing
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Free Will Astrology</title>
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        Nov. 18-24...
       
      
        By Rob Brezsny
      
      
      SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): &quot;There&#39;s nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it&#39;s going to be a butterfly,&quot; said philosopher Buckminster Fuller. I encourage you to make that your personal motto in the coming weeks, Scorpio. From what I can tell, you are capable of generating a transformation that will look impossible to casual observers. You have the power to change something that everyone said would never change. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you resolved every last detail of your
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Earth-friendly sex toys, frogs with fangs and more</title>
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: For some consumers, good environmental citizenship is important even when choosing sex accessories. No longer will they tolerate plastic personal vibrators made with softeners called phthalates; or body lubricants that contain toxic chemicals typically found in, say, antifreeze; or leather restraints from slaughtered cattle. In an October issue, Time magazine described a market of organic lubricants, biodegradable whips and handcuffs, vegan condoms, and glass or mahogany vibrators (even hand-crankable models, eliminating the need for batteries). Some Catholic Church
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports</title>
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      PEE-DITTY, PART I: An officer was patrolling the area of Courtland Avenue and Ralph McGill Boulevard, when he reported a man &ldquo;behind the statues on the Northwest corner, urinating on the base of the statue.&rdquo; The officer asked the man what he was doing. &ldquo;He stated he was getting his food together. I then asked him what else he was doing and he admitted that he had to urinate and could not hold it in.&rdquo; (The Blotter Diva googled &ldquo;statue&rdquo;
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>How can racing yachts sail faster than the wind?</title>
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        By cecil adams
      
      
      How can those America&#39;s Cup yachts sail faster than the wind? Here&#39;s what the San Francisco Chronicle has to say: &quot;It&#39;s physics.&quot; Come on, Cecil, I know you can do better. &mdash; P. McCartney, Oak Harbor, Wash. &nbsp; I should hope. To give the Chronicle some credit, though, &quot;it&#39;s physics&quot; was preceded by an accurate if somewhat murky explanation that, unfortunately, you didn&#39;t get. Let&#39;s try again. &nbsp; The America&#39;s Cup, for those whose taste in sports runs more to
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    <title>Tom the dancing bug</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Free Will Astrology</title>
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        Nov. 11-17...
       
      
        By Rob Brezsny
      
      
      SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A 13-year-old girl shocked everyone by winning a plowing contest in England. Driving a 12,000-pound tractor and pulling a five-furrow plow, Elly Deacon did a better job than all of the middle-aged male farmers she was competing against. What&#39;s more remarkable is that she was a newcomer, having had less than a week&#39;s experience in the fine art of tilling the soil with a giant machine. She&#39;s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Like
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bathroom bloggers, prostitutes sent from God and more</title>
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: Procter &amp; Gamble announced in October that it will once again create and host a public restroom for the holiday season in New York City&#39;s Times Square as a promotion for Charmin tissue. Last year&#39;s installation was merely specially outfitted toilet facilities, but this year P&amp;G will upgrade by hiring five bloggers (&quot;Charmin Ambassadors&quot;) to &quot;interact&quot; with the expected &quot;hundreds of thousands of bathroom guests&quot; and write about their experiences with Charmin tissue on the company&#39;s website (and
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    <category>Bad Habits/News of the Weird</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports</title>
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES: An officer was working an extra job for Ansley Park Security Patrol when he responded to a call about an alleged theft on Inman Circle. A woman said in April or May 2009, she loaned a diamond ring to a female friend. &ldquo;The ring holds sentimental value to both parties,&rdquo; the officer wrote. Also, the ring is reportedly worth $27,500 and the diamond is 2.68 carats. The woman said in August 2009, she asked her
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>This Modern World</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Nov. 4-10...
       
      
        By Rob Brezsny
      
      
      SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your anti-role model &mdash; the person you should be the opposite of &mdash; is the Scorpio warrior U.S. Gen. George Patton, also known as &quot;Old Blood and Guts.&quot; He once said, &quot;Practically everyone but myself is a pusillanimous son of a bitch.&quot; That&#39;s an attitude you should especially avoid in the coming weeks, since your success will depend on you seeing the best in people &mdash; even if they sometimes don&#39;t seem to warrant it. P.S.
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Artificial memories, the worst jobs in science and more</title>
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: Recent Precision-Tuning of the Fruit Fly Brain: 1) Scientists at England&#39;s University of Oxford know how to make fruit flies scared of things they weren&#39;t scared of previously &mdash; by implanting artificial memories in their brains after somehow locating and managing the precise 12 neurons that enable the flies to learn things. The implanted &quot;danger&quot; (the smell of sweat-soaked athletic shoes) causes the flies to scatter at the first whiff. 2) Scientists at the University of Toronto know
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports</title>
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY: A 36-year-old man said he called a personal chat line while he was waiting for his cousin to pick him up from the Greyhound bus station. He said he talked with a woman he knows as &ldquo;Little Florida&rdquo; on the chat line &mdash; and Little Florida offered to give him a ride from the bus station if he gave her gas money. The man agreed. When Little Florida arrived, the man put all his personal belongings in her
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    <category>Bad Habits/The Blotter</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Does the camera really add 10 pounds?</title>
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      I&#39;ve often heard people say &quot;the camera adds 10 pounds&quot; when they&#39;re photographed. Is that just an excuse or is there any truth to it?&mdash; Emma&nbsp; No question there&#39;s an element of denial here. Since you&#39;re not looking at yourself most of the time, it&#39;s easy to maintain a self-image reflecting the svelte physique you had 10 years ago, as opposed to the corpulent wreck you&#39;ve become. But that&#39;s not the whole story. For reasons having to do with optics
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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