hmmm...   December 2007

• The Queen claims own YouTube channel → Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube on Sunday. #
• Ballet student, 13, faces 10 sex charges → A 13-year-old student at the National Ballet School was charged yesterday with seven counts of sexual assault. The alleged offences are said to have taken place over the course of a year on school property. #
• More Americans Googling themselves → In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine. #
• Woman married to 10 men at same time → A 26-year-old Miami woman was married to 10 men at the same time, prosecutors allege, in a marriage-for-pay scheme to enable the men to remain in the United States. #
• 1 in 4 Canadians on Facebook → The list of things that help define Canada just got a little longer: Hockey, Tim Hortons and … Facebook. #
• Human evolution speeding up, researchers say → Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. #
• Cat survives 19 days with jar stuck on head → Tabitha Cain has fed a feral cat she calls Wild Oats for several years, but now she’s thinking of changing its name to Survivor. That’s because she said the cat survived for 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head. #
• Wachovia Bank tells man he owes $211 trillion → It’s one thing to bounce a check and it?s another to be so far in the red Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump combined couldn?t come close to bailing you out. A Cobb County man got a letter from his bank with that very shocking news. #
• Evel Knievel, legendary daredevil, dies → Evel Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil whose stunts — including an attempted leap over Idaho’s Snake River Canyon — made him a popular cultural figure, is dead, according to his Web site, evelknievel.com. He was 69. #

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