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<description>The world can be a wacky place. From the mysterious to stomach-churning to the just-plain-wacky, the best of the weirdest</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Broke in the City of Light? Pay a Visit to 'Auntie']]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The Credit Municipal of Paris, known about town as &quot;Auntie,&quot; is pretty glamorous for a pawnshop. Since 1777, the city-operated institution has served Rodin, Monet, Zola, Verlaine, and Victor Hugo, who mentioned it in Les Miserables. The newest development? Auntie now accepts wine. &quot;People can now exchange liquidity&mdash;for liquidity,&quot; the shop's director tells the Los Angeles Times.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 12 May 2008 15:37:09 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  America's Most Haunted ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Your local graveyard may be creepy, but mazelike mansions and murderous history make up LifeScience&rsquo;s list of the most haunted places in America: 

    Winchester Mystery House: More than 100 rooms and staircases leading nowhere fill this San Jose, Calif., mansion, built by its paranoid owner to ward off ghosts.
    Amityville Horror: The NY site where a son said demons possessed him to kill six family members.
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 15:31:20 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Imprisoned Moms Are Keeping Kids]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[More states are imprisoning babies, and moms couldn't be happier: Prisons nationwide are allowing incarcerated mothers to keep their little ones, the AP reports. Opponents of the practice say the kids may be traumatized, but one researcher found that &ldquo;the outcomes are promising, if the prison nursery programs have the appropriate resources.&rdquo;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sat, 10 May 2008 19:23:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Mom, Kids Lived With Corpse of Woman, 90]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A&nbsp; woman and her self-proclaimed &quot;bishop&quot; have been arrested after cops found the decomposing corpse of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in the house she shared with her two kids, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The woman said the bishop of her tiny religious group told her her God would bring the corpse back to life if she prayed hard enough.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sat, 10 May 2008 10:09:16 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Philly Cops Probe NFL Star in Shooting]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Police have questioned Indianapolis Colts star Marvin Harrison about a shooting outside his Philadelphia bar this week, the Indianapolis Star reports. Details are vague so far: A man was shot in the hand, doctors treated a child hurt by shattered glass, and &ldquo;a vehicle that was on the highway&rdquo; was involved in the Tuesday incident, a police spokesman said.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 02 May 2008 19:07:16 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Regrown Finger Called 'Absurd' ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A UK plastic surgeon repudiated claims by an American company that a powder made from a pig&rsquo;s bladder spurred regrowth of a man&rsquo;s severed fingertip, the Guardian reports. Stories circulated this week of Lee Spievack&rsquo;s &ldquo;miraculous&rdquo; recovery thanks to what he called &ldquo;pixie dust,&rdquo; but Simon Kay, professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds, said the reports were &ldquo;junk science.&rdquo;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:36:06 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Missing Romanovs Identified ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[DNA tests have confirmed that remains discovered last year in Russia are the remains of two children of Tsar Nicholas II, the BBC reports. Though most of the tsar&rsquo;s family, executed during the Bolshevik revolution, was found in 1991, two children&mdash;Alexei and Maria&mdash;were thought missing, fueling widespread rumors that they survived and escaped later capture.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:50:22 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ David Blaine Breaks Breath-Holding Record]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[David Blaine broke the world record for holding one&rsquo;s breath today when he was submerged for 17 minutes and 4 seconds during a taping of Oprah. The endurance artist looked relaxed emerging from a water-filled sphere, the AP reports. Blaine had undergone simulated altitude training and pure oxygen treatment to prepare for the feat. The previous record was 16 minutes, 32 seconds.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:11:01 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ As Currency, Dolphin Teeth Feel Recession's Bite]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Spinner dolphins had better watch out&mdash;their pearly whites are again a fast-growing currency in the South Pacific, the Wall Street Journal reports. Economic troubles in the Solomon Islands have caused many to return to the traditional trading chip. &ldquo;Dolphin teeth are like gold,&rdquo; says the governor of the nation's central bank. &quot;You keep them as a store of wealth.&rdquo;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:50:04 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Dear Mass Murderer: I Need Advice]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[An unemployed writer posing as a 10-year-old boy seeking advice wrote letters to a number of celebrities, including some of America's most infamous killers. The responses to the queries from the &quot;pop-culture historian,&quot; as Radar magazine described Bill Geerhart, range from the weirdly sensible (Ted Kaczynski) to the terrifyingly psychotic (Charles Manson).]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:51:41 CDT  </pubDate>
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