CRANES use it for courtship, hippos to mark territory and frogs for camouflage. Humans mostly flush it as fast as they can.

A new exhibit at the Miami Metrozoo is set to open minds about this omnipresent, versatile, little loved yet practical byproduct of life on earth.
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ST. LOUIS – Just days after the St. Louis Cardinals won the top honor in Major League Baseball, their hometown jumped to first place on a list no one wants to lead: the most dangerous cities in the United States.

This Midwestern city has long been in the upper tiers of the annual ranking of the nation’s safest and most dangerous cities, compiled by Morgan Quitno Press. Violent crime surged nearly 20 percent there this year, when the rate of such crimes rose much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to FBI figures released in June.
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NEW YORK – Bill O’Reilly walked out for his appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” with a plastic shield. He could have used it.

“That’s cute, that’s nice,” Letterman said on Friday night’s show. “You come out with toys.”
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A Roseville woman was pinned down to the ground for four days after her refrigerator fell on top of her in her kitchen, as she fought to stay alive.

69-year-old Inga Walen’s refrigerator was top heavy and as she leaned in to open the fridge door, it fell forward, toppling her.
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A “sexy” pole-dancing kit has been pulled from the toys and games section of a website run by Britain’s biggest retailer after protests from outraged parents.
The Peekaboo pole-dancing kit, which has a “sexy garter” to help “unleash the sex kitten inside” was sold in Tesco Direct’s toys and games section, The Daily Mail reported.

“Soon you’ll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars,” its blurb reads.
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(CBS) With prices like these, maybe it’s time to put some hard thought into what we could be filling up with. The Iranians say they have a solar-powered car. Engineers in the U.S. and Europe say they have tried hydrogen. But, how about air? CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.

At their factory in southern France, father-and-son team Guy and Cyril Negre insist air power is no joke.
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ATLANTA — Retirement day will be an especially memorable one for Ford assembly plant worker Jerome McInnis. McInnis played the new Georgia Lottery instant game Bah Humbucks and became the first to win one of the game’s $225,000 top prizes.

Jerome is a 13-year employee of the Ford assembly plant in Hapeville that closed today.
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