ROME (Reuters) - Harry’s Bar, the famed Venice watering hole where Ernest Hemingway held court over hearty food and stiff martinis, is offering a discount to “poor” Americans suffering from a weak dollar and subprime blues.
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A trader in the Indian state of Bihar has lost his life savings after termites infesting his bank’s safe deposit boxes ate them up.

Dwarika Prasad had deposited currency notes and investment papers worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in a bank safe in the state capital Patna.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The owner of Jude’s Barbershops will continue offering haircuts and shaves to his customers, but no more free beer.
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VICTORVILLE — With candy sales banned on school campuses, sugar pushers are the latest trend at local schools. Backpacks are filled with Snickers and Twinkees for all sweet tooths willing to pay the price.
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BERLIN — A long love story is over at a German zoo: Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways.

Petra, a black swan, became a minor celebrity in 2006 when she became so attached to the boat — which is shaped like an oversized white swan — that she refused to leave its side.
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When Jeff Lewis had trouble buttoning his trousers recently, he didn’t go on a diet or hit the gym. He reached for a new device: “bodyshaping” underwear. Basically, a girdle.

“It took an inch-and-a-half off my waist,” says Mr. Lewis, a 26-year-old events coordinator in Phoenix. “It gave me an instant ego boost.”
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NEW YORK - Heath Ledger’s will leaves nothing to his former girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because it was never updated after they became part of his life.
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