**** HERE'S YOUR SIGN - STUPID ****

Flaming Pop-Tarts Hot Topic in New Jersey 

PHILADELPHIA - It seems that a burning legal issue has popped  
up for the Kellogg Co. Brenda Hurff of Washington Township,  
New Jersey reportedly put a cherry Pop-Tart in the toaster  
and left the house to drive her children to preschool. When  
she returned 10 to 20 minutes later, smoke was pouring from  
the home and firefighters were already on the scene. Hurff  
and her husband are now suing the popular cereal company for  
$100,000 in damages. A Kellogg spokesman declined to comment  
on the lawsuit but told reporters that the products were  
safe and each box clearly states that consumers should not  
leave the toaster unattended due to a possible risk of fire.  


**** WEIRD HAPPENINS ****

Have a Cell Phone? Church Can Come to You! 
  
Salvation now makes house calls! Those too busy to attend  
church and have a cell phone: don't fret. With the help of a  
cell phone Short Message Service, a religious group has trans-  
lated the Lord's Prayer into shorthand so you can read it  
on your phone. The opening, "Our Father, who art in heaven,"  
has now been shortened to "dad@hvn" and "hallowed be thy name"  
is now "urspshl." The entire prayer has been shortened enough  
to fit into SMS's limit of 160 characters. A spokesperson  
called the SMS prayer "an experimental form of virtual worship." 
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Gag Gift No Hoot for Hooters Waitress 

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - I would not have believed this story if  
I had not seen it on at least two separate news pages. A  
waitress is suing Hooters restaurant because they gave her  
a toy Yoda doll as a contest prize instead of the Toyota car  
she was expecting. Jodee Berry, 26, won a contest to see who  
could sell the most beer in April at the Hooters in Panama  
City Beach. She said the top-selling waitresses from each  
Hooters restaurant in the area were entered into a drawing  
to win a Toyota. She believed she'd won a new car. She was  
blindfolded and led to the parking lot, but when her blind-  
fold was removed she found she was not the winner of a  
Toyota, but a toy Yoda doll from the "Star Wars" movies. As  
compensation she's asking the cost of a new Toyota.
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Crook Needs Better Getaway Plan

MANCHESTER, England - Tellers at the Royal Bank of Scotland  
noticed one conspicuous customer wearing a fur hat and heavy  
coat on one of the hottest days of the year. His odd attire  
was explained when he robbed one of the tellers getting away  
with $8,500. He had just made it outside to his getaway  
vehicle, a bicycle, when a die pack hidden among the cash  
exploded, knocking him off the bike. As he scooped up the  
money, his face became visible to the bank's security camera.  
He persisted, though, and started off on the bike again, only  
to hit a curb, fall and drop more of the money. He ended up  
dropping two-thirds of the money behind trying to make the  
getaway. One officer said, "His actions once he left the bank  
were bordering on the comical." 
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Asian Museum Pays Homage to the Porcelain God

SOUTH KOREA - The people of South Korea are lining up for the  
lavatory, but not for the usual relief. The Toilet Exhibition  
Hall in Ilsan compares the important differences in Eastern  
and Western toilet culture and even has videos featuring  
toilets of the future. A spokesman for the Government-run  
museum says it's part of a campaign to improve public toilets  
in the country. Among the exhibits are photographs of 10,000  
year old toilet pipes found in the Orkney Islands and a replica  
of the toilet used by King Louis XIII of France.  
[Kind of makes me wonder what the condition of the restrooms  
in the museum are like.]  

 **** HEALTH NEWS ****

  QUIETING RESTLESS LEGS  

A U.S. hospital, the Mayo Clinic, recommends ways to help  
quiet restless legs, including taking non-prescription  
painkillers and soaking in a warm bath. The Mayo Health  
Letter also advises sufferers to:  

--massage the legs;  

--learn to relax, especially before bed because stress  
can aggravate the symptoms;  

--stretch your legs at the beginning and end of the day;  

--try heat or cold packs or alternate between the two;  

--get regular exercise but avoid overdoing it or working  
out late in the day;  

--cut back on caffeine, alcohol and tobacco, all of which  
may aggravate or trigger symptoms;  

--go to bed later because adjusting to a later bedtime  
can help relieve symptoms; and,  

--stay busy until bedtime because boredom or drowsiness  
before bed may worsen symptoms.  

Restless legs syndrome, a sleep disorder, brings on feel-  
ings of a creeping, crawling, jittery, tingling, burning  
or aching feeling in the calves, thighs, feet or, less  
frequently, arms. If nothing seems to work, see your  
doctor, who can prescribe medication for managing the  
symptoms.
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Children's flu study begins in St. Louis  

ST. LOUIS, -- A National Institutes of Health study to  
test an avian flu vaccine in children started Tuesday at  
Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "Recently,  
some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in  
Asia," said Dr. Robert Belshe, director of the Center for  
Vaccine Development at the university. "There is concern  
these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are  
not infecting people in the United States at this time.  
Rather than wait for that possibility to occur the (NIH)  
is testing avian influenza vaccines." The National  
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the  
NIH, has tested a new H5N1 avian influenza vaccine in  
healthy adults at clinical sites across the nation. Now  
that safety data are available from that adult study,  
Saint Louis University will test an investigational  
vaccine in children ages 2 to 9 -- a population that is  
especially vulnerable to acquiring influenza. The study  
will involved a killed bird flu virus vaccine known as  
A/H5N1. Researchers will evaluate the vaccine's safety  
and ability to stimulate antibodies in children.  
Officials said 120 children across the nation will par-  
ticipate in the study.
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GREEN VEGGIES MAY KEEP CATARACTS AWAY  

An Ohio State University study shows antioxidants found in  
dark leafy green vegetables can help prevent cataracts.  
Vitamin manufacturers often add the antioxidants lutein  
and zeaxanthin, but until now there has been no biochemical  
evidence the substances help protect the eyes, says Joshua  
Bomser, study co-author and assistant professor of  
nutrition. Laboratory experiments on human lens cells show  
lutein and zeaxanthin, antioxidants found in plants such  
as kale, spinach and collard greens, may help protect the  
cells from exposure to ultraviolet light -- a leading cause  
of cataract formation. Lutein and zeaxanthin were nearly  
10 times more powerful than vitamin E in protecting the  
cells from UV-induced damage, the authors say. Nearly 20  
million Americans have cataracts, a clouding of the eye's  
lens.   
  

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