quote [ The biggest thrill of all was bifurcation. “What?” one may well ask. Bifurcation, meaning “split in two”, referred to the contours of a woman’s legs revealed by her donning men’s trousers. ]

quote [ Town Manager Sharon Lynn is conducting an inquiry into an incident involving Police Chief Jeff Jaran and a rap song about police brutality playing at a restaurant he was at on May 7.

A song by N.W.A. began to play. Jaran said he was not familiar with the song, but as he listened he became uncomfortable and offended. He said he told a restaurant employee to shut the song off and added that the person should be ashamed. Jaran said he and his friend regularly go to The Squealing Pig and he called the owner the next day and the issue was resolved. ]

quote [ we face every challenge, no tone is too high for us, no lip is too hot and no music is too inferior.

you can see our music and you can smell the stage performance. ]

quote [ ConTessa is a free 4-day online apolitical gaming convention featuring the many women who play, create, and love games of all stripes.
We’re a great big hippy love letter to all things gaming, because sometimes girls just wanna have fun!
Join us for an awesome start to your summer, June 21-24 2013! ]

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quote [ The latest craze sweeping through Japan is ‘oculolinctus’ – eyeball licking as an expression of affection between young lovers. However, it has led to a surge in cases of eye infections and can even cause blindness, doctors have warned. ]

quote [ Egyptian author and human rights activist Karam Saber has been sentenced to five years in prison, after a court found his writings to have insulted religion ]

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quote [ Weeks or months after a bite from the ticks, people have reported a new allergy to beef, pork and lamb with a characteristic slow onset: while most food allergies would be felt instantly after eating, these meat allergies kick in three to six hours after a meal, often in the middle of the night. ]

quote [ Washington has quietly taken steps that would make it easier, moving Patriot surface-to-air missiles, war planes and more than 4,000 troops into Jordan, officially as part of an annual exercise in the past week but making clear that the assets could stay on when the war games are over. ]

quote [ With the hermit crab taking up residence, it is now clearly visible how they twist their abdomen around the central column of the shell and the well-adapted tip of the abdomen clasps strongly to hold it in place. ]

quote [ Another Republican congressman ventured into the realm of rape and pregnancy Wednesday, saying at a committee hearing that incidences of pregnancy from rape are "very low." ]

quote [ Iain died in the early hours this morning. His death was calm and without pain. ]

quote [ The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows. "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said. "What they're doing" poses "an existential threat to democracy." ]

quote [ A Wisconsin law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls does not violate the state's constitution, an appeals court ruled, reversing a lower court's injunction. ]

quote [ The 24th-century material in question is “transparent aluminum,” and today I’m here to tell you: That future has arrived. Sort of. Pretty much.

What has happened, (and in fact what was happening in research circles at least as far back as 1981) is the development of a transparent aluminum-based ceramic called aluminum oxynitride, aka “AlON,” ]