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Life in the Amazon sounds pretty good right now

3:17 PM Fri, May 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

PHOTO BY GLEISON MIRANDA, FUNAI / Via AP It might be hard to believe, but there are supposedly 100 tribes around the world that have never had contact with the outside world. That's right. There are grown people who......

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It's time to fertilize, Mr. Martian

10:56 AM Thu, May 29, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The Phoenix Mars Mission is pretty impressive. It covered 422 million miles in 10 months at a cost of $420 million. Still, NASA could have gotten photos like this -- and saved a lot of......

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Sex 365 days a year: What a deal -- or not?

2:42 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

A woman from North Carolina is getting a lot of attention for the gift she offered her husband on his 40th birthday: Sex every day for a year. That sure beats getting a shirt, and it sounds almost as good......

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Saving the economy could take DoggySteps

9:39 AM Tue, May 20, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Spend that tax rebate check. It's your duty. It's up to you, the almighty American consumer, to jump-start the economy. Sure, you could use the money to pay down debts as some have suggested, but that won't help the economy.......

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More stories of 'real men'

9:02 AM Tue, May 13, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Just after Steve Wilder, the Omaha man who gave himself a tracheotomy last month, pushed the manometer scale even higher, he was outdone by an Australian swimmer who made a shark turn and swim away like a skittish minnow. On......

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The new definition of 'a real man'

12:16 PM Fri, May 09, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Who says real men have gone the way of the Neanderthal? Steve Wilder of Omaha hasn't been sissified by a society that no longer values machismo. Waking up one night unable to breathe and concerned (I won't say this guy......

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Why brides sometimes behave badly

3:32 PM Fri, May 02, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Brawling brides always make headlines. Even the sleepiest editor realizes that people will read stories about a woman in a beautiful white gown throwing punches in a reception hall or wrestling in a hotel hallway. Readers were treated to two......

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