Japan’s chilling Internet suicide pactsThe discovery Sunday of the bodies of four young Japanese men in a car at a vista point near Mount Fuji appears to be more evidence of a grim new trend in the prosperous country – group suicides of strangers who meet over the Internet. The suicide pacts, which have resulted
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Motorbike shop owner Hirokatsu Mikami rides his remodeled scooter, nicknamed Tonkichi (pig fortune), near Tokyo on Friday. He said it took him two months to build his shop’s unconventional advertising medium. (photo)
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Spotted on the Straight Dope Message Board: Mice created without fathersQuote: “The eggs had two sets of chromosomes from two female mice, rather than one from the mother and one from the father as in a fertilised embryo.” “Quick! Find some new uses for men before it’s too late! So, not long before we apply
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