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Man With Altered Saudi Passport And Pressure Cooker Held In Detroit
DETROIT, (UPI) – A 33-year-old man was being held in Detroit Monday after allegedly being found with an altered Saudi passport and a pressure cooker, authorities said. Hussain al-Kwawahir was arrested at the Detroit airport Saturday after the cooking equipment was found in his luggage and his passport allegedly was found to have had a […]
Gallup To Review Methodology After Bad Miss
WASHINGTON, (UPI) – After badly missing the mark in its prediction of last November’s U.S. presidential election, the polling firm Gallup will review its statistical procedures. Gallup received heavy criticism for predicting in its daily tracking poll that Republican nominee Mitt Romney would edge out a victory over incumbent Democrat Barack Obama. Gallup’s often-quoted national […]
Democrats Lose Choice To Run For South Dakota’s U.S. Senate Seat
PIERRE, S.D., (UPI) – Stephanie Sandlin, seen by national Democrats as their best hope to retain a Democratic seat from South Dakota in the U.S. Senate, said Monday she will not run. The former U.S. representative said she had decided against running for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson so she could […]
LED Lights Ruin Retinas, Researchers Say
MADRID (UPI) — A study by Spanish researchers found that eco-friendly LED lights can be damaging to your retinas, which cannot regrow or be replaced. The lights produce high levels of radiation in the “blue band” of the light ray rainbow, which, over time, can damage retinas, ThinkSpain reported. Dr. Celia Sanchez Ramos, an investigator […]
Sumatran Tigers May Go Extinct In 10 Years
JAKARTA (UPI) — Conservationists said the critically endangered Sumatran tiger may go extinct from the Jambi province on Sumatra, Indonesia, in a decade. There are between 250 and 300 of the massive orange and black striped cats living in the wild in the region and that number is shrinking due to deforestation taking away habitats, […]
More Than 78,000 People Apply For One-Way Trip To Mars
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (UPI) — More than 78,000 people have applied for a chance to go on a one-way trip to create a permanent community on the planet Mars, officials said. The Dutch company Mars One launched its online application process on April 22, in an effort to find four people to send to Mars to […]
Scientists Say Traditional Dog Year Calculation Misleading
LONDON (UPI) — U.S. scientists say calculating “dog years” by multiplying the pup’s age by seven is misleading depending on the animal’s breed and size. Dog owners can more accurately pin down their pet’s age relative to a human’s by taking into account what specific kind of dog they own and where they are in […]
Feds Gear Up For Dangerous Fire Season In Western U.S.
BOISE, Idaho (UPI) — Late rainfall contributed to what the Obama administration said Monday would likely be a dicey wildfire season in the western United States this year. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell toured the nation’s wildfire command center in Idaho Monday at the same time new satellite imagery warned that […]
Man Completes Handwritten Bible After Seven Years
SPENCERTOWN, N.Y., (UPI) – In front of a small crowd at a church in New York, a man named Phillip Patterson completed his handwritten King James Bible after working on it for seven years. An event was held Saturday at St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church in Spencertown to mark the completion of Patterson’s Bible, the Register-Star, […]
Sunbathing Incites Fight Between Tenants In New York City
NEW YORK, (UPI) – Some parents are complaining about women in bikinis sunbathing in an upscale New York City housing development’s open space where kids play. Mothers who take their children to the green space in the Stuyvesant Town residential development in Manhattan say the scanty outfits some women wear make them uncomfortable and are […]
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