Delta Wanted Extra Ticket For Conjoined Twins

An Arizona woman who wanted to take her 1-year-old conjoined twin daughters on a cross-country flight to visit relatives was frustrated because she was told she’d have to buy an extra seat.
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Edmonton to put open-air urinals near Whyte Ave.

Edmonton plans to put freestanding public urinals near Whyte Avenue at night to give drunken revelers a place to relieve themselves along the popular nightclub stretch.
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Pub Told to Change Tricky Bathroom Signs

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) – Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire’s Irish Pub have played jokes on customers for years, sending women to the men’s room and vice versa.

But the father of a girl who was interrupted by a man in the women’s room and Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation don’t find the signs funny.
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Park Rangers: Squirrel Birth Control Worth A Shot

Officials have tried poison, gassing and euthanasia to control a breeding frenzy among squirrels in a city park here. Now, they plan to give birth control a shot.

Under a new program to start this summer, squirrels in Palisades Park will be injected with an immuno-contraceptive vaccine to stunt their sexual development.
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Students more narcissistic, self-centered, study says

NEW YORK – Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
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Deer rescued from coffee can

RCMP from Lac du Bonnet rescued a deer from a coffee can last Saturday.

The two officers were on a snowmobile patrol near Pinawa when they were flagged down by a group of snowmobilers, who directed them to a two-year-old deer struggling with a coffee can stuck on its face. The animal was banging into trees and in obvious distress.
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No sex please, we’re confused

Nearly one in three Britons think that if a woman jumps up and down, washes or urinates immediately after sex, she can prevent pregnancy.

It was one of a string of revelations in the survey carried out by the Family Planning Association (FPA) at the start of Contraceptive Awareness Week.
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