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if you lived in Cabot Cove from 1984-1996, there was a pretty good chance that someone was going to murder your ass. With a body count of up to eight per episode, Cabot Cove experienced an outbreak of no less than 800 murders during the time that Jessica Fletcher lived there.

“This gets old, believe me. … Doing this once or twice to help out turns into SOP (standard operating procedure) … It’s expected, and you’re criticized as a tech agent if you refuse to do this later on.”

Men are naturally more comedic than women because of the male hormone testosterone, an expert claims.

Over about a quarter century, Stewart quietly gave out more than $1.3 million to people in laundromats, diners, bus stations, shelters and thrift stores, saying it was his way of giving back at Christmas for all the wealth and generosity he had received in his lifetime.

“I’d love to have seen the look on his face when he saw Diesel. He must have got the shock of his life. There’s no alarm, but who needs one when you’ve got the Hound of the Baskervilles in your back seat?”

Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret’s publisher, said “I’m pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my college studies and broader journalistic pursuits.”

A 19-year-old man was trying to figure out why a pipe bomb he made did not explode when it blew up and killed him, police said.

In his study of homosexuality among sportsmen in the US, sociologist Dr Eric Anderson found that 19 in a sample of 47 had taken part in acts intended to sexually arouse other men, ranging from kissing to mutual masturbation and oral sex.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) countered that this summer, the Congress looked at the substance of the warrantless wiretapping and decided to legalize it.

“We ought to send President Bush a letter thanking him for the program and apologizing for accusing him of violating our Constitutional rights,” Sessions said.

IE8, the next upgrade to Microsoft’s browser, passes the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group’s general manager. “On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode,” Hachamovitch said in a post to Microsoft’s official IE blog yesterday.