When Jon Frohling started making sausage just over a decade ago, it was considered over-the-top just to mix a little cheese or jalapeno pepper into a bratwurst.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. (CBS) ― It’s been sitting for a year in a real estate market that won’t move. Now the owners of a home in Maryland are raffling off their house for a good cause, reports CBS station WJZ-TV in Baltimore.
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Officials at the Church of England have written a saucy good sex guide for their parishioners.

The handbook, called Growing Together, gives candid advice on married life and tells couples to talk about their “turn-ons and turn-offs”.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who do not drink alcohol may finally have a reason to start — a study published on Friday shows non-drinkers who begin taking the occasional tipple live longer and are less likely to develop heart disease.
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MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — All the world’s a stage at some of Minnesota’s bars.

A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them “actors.”
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TOKYO (AFP) - For those who feel a bit lonely just talking on the phone, a Japanese company is offering a cellphone that turns into a robot buddy ready to chat.

Softbank Mobile Corp.’s new mobile line looks like a small humanoid with attachable arms and legs, with the screen showing various faces.
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TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career — they also helped her overturn a court verdict.

The bikini model, who goes by her professional name Serena Kozakura, was cleared after a court decided she was too well-endowed to squeeze into a room through a hole, as she had been found guilty of earlier.
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