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Reuters - Hoping to send the message that pets are
life-long partners not disposable accessories, a Japanese maker
of medicines for animals has begun giving employees who own
dogs or cats a monthly “family allowance” for their pets.

AP - Two cleaning women, trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, survived on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued.

AP - A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature’s call.

Reuters - A 102-year-old will become Britain’s
oldest emigrant this weekend when he leaves to start a new life
with his wife in New Zealand.

AP - The holidays were sad enough for Kim Velevis after her lovable pug “Scooter” dug its way out of the back yard and disappeared. But the real blow came with the new year: A letter from an anonymous woman who found the friendly dog and gave it to her daughter as a Christmas present. […]

AP - An man faces a drunken driving charge after the sport utility vehicle he was driving flew off the road on a sharp curve and crashed into a rental cabin.

AP - A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things — but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and […]

AP - A customer at a grocery store stopped an armed robbery by pulling his own gun and holding the suspect at gunpoint until police arrived, authorities said.

Reuters - From a Greek nunnery turned into a
marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South
African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to “walk the
pain off,” the world was full of weird news in 2007.

AP - A computer consultant apparently put too much faith in the GPS technology in his rental car: It didn’t tell him to look both ways before driving onto tracks as a train barreled toward him.