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Duo claim record by watching 57 films in 123 hours

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2008-10-08 11:18.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim, of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra, of Petersburg, Germany, claim to have broken the Guinness World Record for movie-watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square.

Mackerel Economics

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sat, 2008-10-04 10:30.

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When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, "I had a stack of macks."

Las Vegas rolling the dice on its new mob museum

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Thu, 2008-10-02 08:57.

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LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit.

The city is opening The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful and storied past in organized crime.

"I'll buy your house if you'll buy mine" is the latest real estate marketing tactic.

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2008-10-01 09:30.

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Sher and Luke Bruun have outgrown their two-bedroom Apple Valley townhouse and are itching to get into a house with more room for their family.

Why Didn't I Think Of This?

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Mon, 2008-09-29 10:19.
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PickyDomains.Com is a perfect example of how to turn one’s talent into a profitable business. With ever expanding Internet and tens of millions existing websites, finding an available domain name that’s not already taken by cybersquatters can be a real nightmare.

But one man’s problem is another man’s solution. Rather than to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars for a domain name on the aftermarket, an increasing number of web entrepreneurs turn to professional “domain namers".

In the 1990s, your family came for dinner. Now they're moving in.

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2008-09-24 10:02.

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The number of parents, siblings and other relatives who live with adult heads of households grew 42% from 2000 to 2007, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Leading the way: parents, up 67%, to 3.6 million.

Virginia town tries to prove existence of 'ghost cats'

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sun, 2008-09-21 07:53.
'Ghost cats'

A cougar pelt is on display at a hardware store in Blackstone, Va., (AP Photo/Steve Helber / August 15, 2008)

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