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  • Adults can learn just like kids

    The old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks may not hold true for everyone. As more and more research has suggested, we never lose the ability to learn like a child. A new study suggests that as adults, we actually lose confidence in our ability to learn as we age and lack of time and self-esteem stand in the way of adults picking up new skills, Daily Mail reported. Children are ...

  • St. Augustine grads told to take taste of true friendship with them in life

    Chuck Kirman/The Star Graduates celebrate at the St. Augustine Academy graduation and promotion ceremony on Saturday. St. Augustine Academy holds its graduation ceremony at the main court on campus at 130 S. Wells Road in ...

  • Umpire admits to blown call on weird play at first

    Jeff Nelson expressed regret for making an incorrect call Friday night, saying it was a play he'd never seen in 25 years. Nelson spoke to a pool reporter before Saturday night's game between ...

  • Tuukka Rask Shows His True Self In Series-Clinching Win Over Rangers

    BOSTON (CBS) — He was coming off the most embarrassing moment of his career, a tumble to his backside in the largest city in the U.S., on national TV, in a potential series-clinching playoff game. He opened the door for a 48-hour window of his ability to close out series to be questioned on the radio and TV. He said afterward that he had no choice but to laugh it off and move on, but ...

  • New Yorks Hot Dog Hooker arrested again

    New York's infamous "Hot Dog Hooker" allegedly tried to serve up the full works to one customer, but she didn't know the customer was an undercover detective and is now facing a prostitution case, police ...

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Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD]

Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD]

When we first meet Yuuki Gennosuke (Mikijiro Hira), the hero of Hideo Goshas Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken), he appears to be a simple criminal on the lam, hiding out in the dirt of a grassy field while his pursuers track him down. Yet, as we soon learn via ... ...

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  • Doug Ford says drug allegations against him are not true

    Toronto Coun. Doug Ford says allegations that he once dealt hashish are "not true" and an "outright lie." In an interview with CP24, Ford denied ...

  • Leading scientist attacks university over outrageous IVF treatment patent

    Fertility experts say the patent, which covers the duration of the first three cell cycles in a human embryo, encroaches on a naturally occurring phenomenon. Photograph: ...

  • Polanski laments leveling of sexes as idiotic

    CANNES, France — Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women. The director said the pill has "changed the place of women in our times," while talking to reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. He was there to premiere his film "Venus in Fur," adapted from the David Ives play. Polanski said the leveling of the ...

  • Police officer sues over BMV revoking OINK plate

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A central Indiana police officer has filed lawsuit against the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles, saying its decision to revoke his vanity license plate "0INK" was ...

  • Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record

    FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...

  • Cruel twist opens a new journey

    They were married on February 12, 2005, sealing a romance that began when they were teenagers. A little over a year later, their marriage was put to the ultimate test when Jackie was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.Jackie's first symptoms were subtle. Fumbling the ball during touch footy, arm soreness, occasional loss of balance. Then one day active, happy 25-year-old Jackie ...

  • Hany Abu Assads Omar entertainment with a twist at Cannes

    The action starts with the young baker Omar (the newcomer Adam Bakri) climbing over the separation wall - dodging surveillance cameras and bullets in the process -- so that he can see his secret love Nadja (Leem Lubany). Fed up with being constantly harassed, Omar and his joke-spewing friends Amjad (Samer Bisharat) and Nadja's brother Tarek (Eyad Hourani) decide to exact some revenge and ...

  • FBI Agents Die Under Strange Circumstances

    May 25, 2013 Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a ...

  • Japan government says unaware of ghosts at PM residence paper

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of ...

  • Bizarre twist links October murder November suicide

    A woman’s body found in a wooded area in Anderson County in October and a man’s death in Flint a month later would seem to be unrelated, but authorities say the two are connected.Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said Friday morning that the homicide of 35-year-old Tylerite Deborah Leann Diaz had been solved.';We feel quite confident that the case is solved, and a grand jury ...

  • Irish gran locks three suspected thieves in farmyard

    A 64-year-old Irish grandmother locked three suspected thieves into a yard, promised to come back with the key and then called police. Her daughter says Ann Curtis also got some help from her neighbors in Clegg, County Meath, who gathered in front of the gate before police officers arrived to make sure the men did not escape, the Irish Independent reported. The incident occurred Tuesday ...

  • Openly gay Robbie Rogers returning to professional soccer

    Robbie Rogers , who came out as homosexual when he announced his retirement from soccer, tells USA Today he has decided to return to the field. Rogers said he made the decision last month while he was speaking at the Nike Be True LGBT Youth Forum in Portland, Ore. "I seriously felt like a coward," he said. "These kids are standing up for themselves and changing the world, and ...

  • Baby scam tricked clients to look pregnant

    She had spent many years trying to conceive and now, at 61, she was finally with child, twins in fact - or so she thought.Even when it came time to give birth, the woman still believed she was an expectant mother. She went back to the midwife, was given seeds to chew and started feeling drowsy.The woman, Desope Cecilia, says the midwife told her to start pushing and that soon after she heard the ...

  • Madrids Catholic Church says it needs exorcists

    ReligionenLibertad, a Catholic website, blames the growing secularization of Spanish society for what it calls an increase in people asking for help with their ...

  • Know What Important Ruling Made This Week Affects German Beer Take The Fark Weird News Quiz

    Know what important ruling made this week affects German beer? Take the Fark Weird News Quiz and show your stuff. However, you probably shouldn't drink beer before you take ...

  • Bruins Tuukka Rask Loses Balance But Keeps Sense of Humor

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  • Police Thong Cape Scooter Man not breaking law

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man known to ride through Madison on a scooter - dressed in thong underwear and a cape - may be disturbing to ...

  • Video Amanda Bynes makes strange court appearance in wig

    Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a New York criminal court on charges she tossed a bong out the window of her Manhattan apartment ...

  • Tempura-battered tarantula on menu at California bug fest

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer? They're frozen then defrosted before bug chef David George Gordon cuts off the abdomen, singes off hairs with a lighter and dunks the remaining spider body into ...

  • The Strange Advice A Teacher Gave To One Graduate

    Making sure you have all your ducks in a row on the morning of graduation day can help make the whole process easier. Plan ahead so that you arrive early -- with your phone fully charged, wearing comfortable shoes -- and choose a meeting spot where you'll be able to find your family later. If you go to a large public school, these things are especially important -- you don't want to ...

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