From MSNBC.COM:
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb’ sticker set off evacuations at Ohio University
ATHENS, Ohio - Ohio University will reimburse a student for a bicycle that was destroyed during a bomb scare.
A sticker on Patrick Hanlin’s bike led authorities to shut down four campus buildings March 5.
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“Whoops, sorry about your bike kid.”
We’ve become a […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Aviation’s future — pilotless planes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pilotless planes could be the “next great step forward” in aviation, or a new safety hazard in already crowded skies, a House panel was told Wednesday.
Since 1997, unmanned aircraft have been used in U.S. airspace primarily by the military. But now the government wants to fly more […]

From Dispatch.COM:
Urine ‘bombs’ could bring $1,000 fines
Pitching portable potties along Ohio’s roadsides could bring a fine of up $1,000 under a bill introduced this week by a state lawmaker.
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1 Million “Urine Bombs” a year?  WTF?   What the heck are people doing in Ohio?

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Ireland-bound airliner makes a Derry error
Ryanair jet lands at wrong airport; beer bathing; Burger King’s whopper bill
The frequent flyers among us can easily recount the times their flights have been rerouted to a different airport due to bad weather. But for an Ireland-bound Ryanair jet this week, an unexpected change in destination wasn’t due […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
And who says I want to be rescued?
Boy, 3, crawls up into pizzeria claw toy machine, doesn’t want to leave
MINNEAPOLIS - Devin Haskin isn’t the first little boy to find the inside of a toy machine too enticing to resist. When the 3-year-old Austin, Minn., boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy […]

From Nature.com:
Supercomputer builds a virus
Vast simulation captures molecules in motion.
Helen Pearson
One of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has conjured a fleeting moment in the life of a virus. The researchers say the simulation is the first to capture a whole biological organism in such intricate molecular detail.
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And So it begins…

From CNN:
Shifting sands reveal ‘buried mystery’
‘A special ship, the people’s ship’
OCEAN SHORES, Washington (AP) — A ship that carried Northwest loggers and miners, housed visitors to the Seattle World’s Fair and served as a charter fishing base before it was grounded in a storm is emerging from a sand dune.
The once-buried hulk of the S.S. […]

From BBC News:
Kite flyers arrested in Pakistan 
 
Despite the ban the skies above Lahore were filled with kites
More than 500 people are reported to have been arrested in the Pakistani city of Lahore for flying kites.
Kite flying is a traditional part of a festival marking the advent of spring in Punjab, but on Thursday the Pakistani authorities […]

 
From YahooNews:                    
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-four people disappeared from cruise ships between 2003 and 2005 and 178 passengers reported being sexually assaulted, a congressional panel heard Tuesday.
 
Among those who disappeared were an elderly Vietnamese-American couple who fled their native land as “boat people” in 1975.
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