A week ahead of the Arizona primary, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are virtually tied, a CNN/Time/ORC poll finds. Romney has 36% support among likely voters, while Santorum has 32%—but the gap between them is within the poll’s margin of error. Some 18% are set to vote for Newt…
Continue reading …Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said today he has to have more surgery after doctors in Cuba found a new lesion in the same place where he had a tumor removed last year. The announcement thrust Venezuelan politics into new uncertainty because the 57-year-old socialist leader is seeking re-election this year,…
Continue reading …Rick Santorum’s two biggest problems today appear to be Satan and Matt Drudge. The latter is using his influential Drudge Report to highlight a 2008 speech Santorum gave in which he warned about Satan having his “sights on” the US, reports Politico . “Drudge is making Santorum look like the scary…
Continue reading …Competitive eaters aren’t just good at stuffing their faces: Their digestive systems actually function differently from everyone else’s. A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania compared the eating habits of a leading competitive eater and a man who weighed 45 pounds more than the champion did. He scanned the two…
Continue reading …A lunch menu from the Titanic’s final day afloat is expected to fetch about $150,000 when it goes up for auction in England next month, reports the Telegraph . The menu came from a first-class table: The wife of San Francisco banker Washington Dodge tucked it into her purse at…
Continue reading …Mark Kelly retired as an astronaut just last fall—but he’s already back to work. Gabrielle Giffords’ husband is writing a children’s book about a mouse who travels to space, the AP reports. It’s called Mousetronaut: A Partially True Story , and it’s inspired by some of Kelly’s own furry friends….
Continue reading …The jersey Jeremy Lin wore while scoring 38 points against Kobe Bryan’s Los Angeles Lakers has been auctioned off online—for $42,388, USA Today reports. The money from the Knicks jersey, worn Feb. 10, will go to the Garden of Dreams Foundation, a charity linked to Madison Square Garden….
Continue reading …A flower that last bloomed when woolly mammoths roamed the Earth is once again alive and growing. Russian scientists say they’ve dug up remnants of a 32,000-year-old plant from Siberia’s frozen wasteland and successfully cloned 36 plants from its fruit tissue, the New York Times reports. Now for the…
Continue reading …A Florida man suspected of assault told sheriff’s deputies he was half-orangutan and had to telephone the “Fusion Center” about his monkey blood, the Naples Daily News reports. The deputies had responded to a call that Mark Loescher, 51, brandished a gun after a woman told him a car he…
Continue reading …Mitt Romney’s opposition to the Detroit bailout plan may come back to haunt him in the Michigan primary , the New York Times reports. Not only did Bain Capital, the equity firm he founded, refuse to pump money into a flailing General Motors—Romney himself wrote an op-ed for the Times…
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