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Teachers’ Muslim dress order
A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.

‘Don’t Tase me, bro’ student breaks silence
In the media frenzy that has surrounded the Tasering of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer during a September John Kerry forum, one voice has been missing from the conversation — Meyer’s. Now that he has been cleared of criminal charges, Meyer, 21, is speaking out for the first time on TODAYshow.com.

Karen Heller | Naughty - and definitely not nice
Victoria’s Secret’s Pink line offers plush dress-up dolls.

The worst Islamist attack in European history
Paul Hamilos looks at the social, political and legal aftermath of the 2004 Madrid bombings

Google opens up social networking
Google has launched a system that will allow developers to create applications for a variety of social networks.

Death & glory: A story of ants, ageing and altruism
Now there is another reason to admire the tiny, colonial denizens of the insect world. Ants not only work hard and are prepared to lay down their lives for their fellow ants, they also take bigger risks for the good of the colony as they get older – and they can even assess how much time they have left in life.

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The Cybook is an ultra-light reading device based on E ink® screen technology. Its screen possesses a paper-like high contrast appearance and is readable even under direct sunlight. This unique device offers an impressive battery lifetime of 8,000 page flips. The Cybook reads many file formats and offers access to a wide range of digital documents.

The Ultimate Consumerist Guide To Fighting Back (Revised Edition)
a one-stop-stop for figuring out what you need to do to start a customer complaint, or how to escalate a stalled one so that it can be resolved.

New Congress at war over everything
In a closed-door meeting before the last vote on the children’s health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer appealed for the support of about 30 wavering Republican lawmakers. What he got instead was a tongue-lashing, participants said.

Preteens Trading Fairy Wands for Fishnets
Gabby Cirenza wanted to be a referee for Halloween. The outfit she liked had a micro-mini black skirt and a form-fitting black and white-striped spandex top held together with black laces running up the flesh-exposing sides. She looked admiringly at the thigh-high black go-go boots that could be bought as an accessory. And she thought the little bunny on the chest was cute.

Furor After Flag-Folding Ceremony Pulled From Cemeteries
A group of congressmen has asked the Department of Veterans Affairs to reconsider its ban on the flag-folding ceremony at military funerals after the agency decided last month to streamline burials at federal cemeteries.

Bono’s Plans Cause A Rattle And Hum
Plans by music giants U2 to stamp their mark on the skyline of their home city have hit a wrong note with conservationists.

Dollar and oil hit new records
Oil hit a new record high of $93.80 and the dollar struck a new low yesterday as investors showed their growing certainty that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates on Wednesday.

Saudi king greeted by pomp, ceremony and anger in Britain
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah was to receive a lavish welcome from Queen Elizabeth II Tuesday as he starts a state visit amid angry protests and headlines after accusing Britain of anti-terrorism failures.

Ahmadinejad orders purge of local officials
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejed has ordered the sacking of local officials who are deemed to be “indifferent” to the problems of people, the press reported on Tuesday.

The Google phone: Has a wireless upheaval begun?
The Google phone is inching closer to reality, with wireless handhelds running Google Inc. applications and operating software expected in the first half of 2008, several industry analysts said today.

Bradley tapped to aid Bond stunts
Ever since the “Bourne” movies have come on the scene, the makers of James Bond have been in the line of fire for having a dusty, lethargic spy on their hands — “Casino Royale” notwithstanding.

But it looks like EON Prods. and Columbia Pictures might be kicking it up a notch for the next Bond film.

Taking a page from the “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” handbook, the production has hired “Bourne Supremacy” and “Bourne Ultimatum” action designer Dan Bradley as the film’s second unit director.

Eurostar sets Paris-London record
Eurostar has set a record on its inaugural journey from Paris to London via Britain’s new high-speed line.

Weighing the ‘Surge’
Nearly every week, American generals and politicians visit Combat Outpost Gator, nestled behind a towering blast wall in the Dora market. They arrive in convoys of armored Humvees, sometimes accompanied by helicopter gunships, to see what U.S. commanders display as proof of the effectiveness of a seven-month-long security offensive, fueled by 30,000 U.S. reinforcements. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. military leader in Iraq, frequently cites the market as a sign of progress.

Signing Up Sunnis With ‘Insurgent’ on Their Résumés
Naiem al-Qaisi was imprisoned for four months, beaten, shocked with electric probes and, he said, forced to witness fellow Sunni male prisoners being raped by Shiite soldiers of the Iraqi army.

Two Rush-Hour Blasts Kill at Least 24 in Pakistan
A pair of explosions during rush hour early Tuesday killed at least 24 people and injured scores more in the city of Rawalpindi, home to Pakistan’s military.

Woman sees own heart on display
A woman has seen her own heart on display at a medical exhibition.

Texas Startup Says It Has Batteries Beat
Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.

AT&T Offers Parental Control Service
It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads - all at a parent’s fingertips. AT&T Inc. (ATT), the nation’s largest wireless carrier, will launch a service Tuesday giving parents that kind of wide-ranging control on almost all of its 63.7 million subscriber lines.

Study: Obese Toddlers Have Iron Deficiency
Pudgy toddlers have an alarmingly high rate of iron deficiency, and Hispanic youngsters are more affected than other groups, a new study finds.

Yard Art Is in Eye of Beholder and Court
For Dwight DeGolia’s neighbors, the last straw was the fake palm trees.

The 62-year-old retiree had spent years fixing up the sliver of sloping land outside his home, adding two putting greens that were almost 30 feet long, a small creek and a gazebo.

Transparent Toaster
his transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you’re never surprised by toast that comes out too dark.

Category 5 Hurricane Felix slams ashore
Hurricane Felix roared ashore early Tuesday as a fearsome Category 5 storm — the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have made landfall in the same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, whipping metal rooftops through the air like razors and forcing thousands to flee coastal swampland.

Scientology faces criminal charges
A Belgian prosecutor on Tuesday recommended that the U.S.-based Church of Scientology stand trial for fraud and extortion, following a 10-year investigation that concluded the group should be labeled a criminal organization.

Apple rumor-roundup for September 5th event
Check your pulse Apple fanatics, “the beat goes on” September 5th… now just two days away. Unusual for Apple rumors, this event has pretty much all the analysts and so-called insiders in sync with their predictions. Mass disillusion or divine soothsaying, we don’t know. Certainly everyone’s been expecting this to be a big quarter for product transitions. While we wait, we figured you might as well get up to speed on all the predictions for Wednesday’s big show:

Gangster daughter sheds light on Japan underworld
With her dyed-brown long hair and tight designer jeans, Shoko Tendo looks like any other stylish young Japanese woman — until she removes her shirt to reveal the vivid tattoos covering her back and most of her body.

Stephen King’s The Mist Trailer
Three-time Oscar®-nominee Frank Darabont (”The Green Mile,” “The Shawshank Redemption”) reunites with horror-master Stephen King to write and direct this chilling adaptation of the author’s original short story.

Motion control done right: the doors of Metroid Prime 3
Over the last few days, I’ve been playing through the retail version of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. While I’ll save the majority of my thoughts for the big review we have slated for next week, I thought I’d pass along a little something in the game that truly shows how immersive Wii games could be if developers put time and effort into them.

Phosgene From Iraq Found in UN Office
U.N. weapons inspectors discovered a potentially hazardous chemical warfare agent that was taken from an Iraqi chemical weapons facility 11 years ago and mistakenly stored in their offices in the heart of midtown Manhattan all that time, officials said Thursday.

Colo. School Bans Tag on Its Playground
An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

SKorean Hostages Recount Abduction
Newly freed South Korean church workers apologized to their government Friday for causing trouble in Afghanistan by being kidnapped by the Taliban for six weeks.

Actor playing Brutus stabs himself
Julius Caesar lay dead and Brutus was talking to his co-conspirators about swords and blood when he paused and excused himself, saying “I seem to have stabbed myself.”

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Royal Family Marks 10th Anniversary of Diana’s Death
Prince William and Prince Harry led a somber memorial service Friday marking the 10th anniversary of the death of their mother, Princess Diana, whose status as a beloved global icon remains a source of both pride and bewilderment for the British.

Rendering for an Interactive 360º Light Field Display
We describe a set of rendering techniques for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display.

NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract
NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.

Microsoft lays down smack on AutoPatcher service, users not pleased
Let’s face it, even those who do like using Windows (us included) aren’t too fond of Windows Update — and don’t even get us started on what sysadmins have to go through keeping Windows boxes up to date (yeah, we used to do that too). Which is why we’re so glad there’s always a healthy 3rd party ecosystem in place to help fill in the gaps and get users get what they need and how they need it. Like AutoPatcher, the popular Windows Update substitute that’s been around for the last four years. Well, kiss it goodbye.

Apple accused of short-shrifting disabled retail shoppers
Two San Francisco women have filed a lawsuit that accuses Apple of largely ignoring accessibility laws at one of its retail stores, making shopping or service trips all but impossible for those confined to a wheelchair.

Aliens vs Predator - Requiem (18+)
This looks closer to the feeling in the original movies. Hopefully an improvement from the last AVP.

Taliban Agree to Free SKorean Hostages
The Taliban agreed Tuesday to free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage since July after the government in Seoul pledged to end all missionary work and keep a promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Iraqi city cleared after clashes
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been ordered to leave a Shia festival in the Iraqi city of Karbala after heavy shooting broke out in the city.

Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for New Car
The teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.

Iran Prepared to Fill Iraq Power Vacuum
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Tuesday that a power vacuum is imminent in Iraq and said that Iran was ready to help fill the gap.

Junk sleep ‘damaging teen health’
Too many teenagers are damaging their health by not getting enough sleep and by falling asleep with electrical gadgets on, researchers say.

‘Ninja’ teens in Oregon not as swift as those in movies
The three teenagers in hooded black outfits were scampering over rooftops, climbing trees “just like a squirrel,” and breaking into houses and cars, police said.

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100-year-old celebrates her birthday by smoking 170,000th cigarette
An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigerette from a candle on her birthday cake.

Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigations
Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other matériel to Iraqi and American forces, according to American officials. The officials said it amounted to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered in the conflict here.

China dad denies abuse of marathon girl, 8
The father of an eight-year-old Chinese girl who ran 3,560 km (2,212 miles) to Beijing to celebrate the 2008 Olympics on Tuesday denied accusations of child abuse.