Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Email Photo Print Photo

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows flooded roadways as the Coast Guard conducted initial Hurricane Katrina damage assessment overflights of New Orleans, Monday Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi)

Members of the MO/TN Incident Response Teams Urban Search and Rescue teams and local officials help evacuate people trapped in their flooded homes by Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 30, 2005. Floodwaters engulfed much of New Orleans on Tuesday as officials feared a steep death toll and planned to evacuate thousands remaining in shelters after the historic city's defenses were breached by Hurricane Katrina. (Vincent Laforet/Pool/Reuters)

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Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name

LONDON, (AFP) - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs for their oddly-named village.

While British visitors are finding it hilarious, the residents of F---ing are failing to see the funny side, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

Only one kind of crimimal ever stalks the sleepy 32-house village near Salzburg on the German border -- cheeky British tourists armed with a sense of humour and a screwdriver.

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Malaysian Kuah Mershel, daughter of a bonsai cultivator, holds the smallest of her miniature bonsai at her residence in Kuala Lumpur August 24, 2005. These miniature bonsai from a local species known as 'water jasmine' measure 22mm. Picture taken late August 24, 2005. REUTERS/Kamarulzaman Russali




Three weeks after the birth of a giant panda cub, seen during its weekly exam August 24, 2005, San Diego Zoo veterinarians have determined that the cub is a girl. The female cub weighs 22 ounces or just in excess of a pound and is 29.5 centimetres from the tip of its nose to the base of its tail. As Chinese tradition dictates, naming the cub will not occur until the cub is 100 days old. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo/Handout



A pelican dives into the water to go after a fish as high surf and thunderstorms roll in from tropical storm Katrina in Boca Raton, Florida, August 25, 2005. Tropical storm Katrina formed off the coast of the Bahamas and is packing 50mph winds as it heads for Florida's southern Atlantic coast with the potential of becoming a hurricane and making landfall by Friday morning. REUTERS/Marc Serota



Bollywood actor Bipasha Basu looks on during a promotional event for her forthcoming Hindi movie 'No Entry' in Bombay, India, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Guy Making Furniture Out Of FedEx Boxes Faces Legal Action From...FedEx

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FedEx threaten creative furniture maker with trademark action

In the beginning was a creative idea, now a trademark dispute threatens. This bitter experience has had to be endured by an American programmer possessed of ingenuity. Jose Avila knocked up some furniture made from boxes from the delivery service FedEx and furnished his new flat with it. After one of his friends who was enthused with this idea had arranged for his interior design to be publicized over the Internet, a caution from FedEx landed on Avila’s doorstep. The delivery service threatened a trademark dispute because it perceived its trademark rights to be infringed and demanded that the web site fedexfurniture.com should be shut down immediately.

Avila who, after his move to Arizona, had found himself temporarily paying rent on two separate properties and who had made his FedEx furniture primarily out of fun, but also as a result of an urgent financial crisis, showed himself to be surprised by FedEx’s behavior. ‘I am in favor of FedEx. I send everything by FedEx and I prefer FedEx as their boxes are so sturdy’, he said to the online journal Wired News. This latter statement is also shown by his interior design which, among others, consists of a box bed, a box eating table and a box couch.

And also a box work table at which the programmer, so he says, works several hours daily, proving the stability of the packaging material. Avila stressed moreover that he never had any intention of earning money from his internet site, or of profiting in any way from the FedEx name. The delivery service is certainly of a different opinion and are speaking of copyright and trademark infringement.

In consideration of the brimming-over of the dispute, the programmer has consequently had to seek out legal assistance. He is now represented by the Center of Internet and Society of Stanford University, which up to now has refused all approaches. Whether it will really come to legal proceedings, remains to be seen. In any case, it seems improbable that FedEx will make use of the robust furnishing as a marketing gimmick.

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A model presents a creation by Colombian designer Paula Alvarez during Colombia Moda fashion show in Medellin, Colombia August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera

Models walk the runway at the Style LA Swim & Resort runway show benefiting Stop the Violence/Face the Music in Santa Monica, Calif. on Monday, Aug. 15, 2005. (Fashion Wire Daily/Maria Ramirez)

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An African lion cub hugs its mother at a zoo. Lions are doing a roaring trade, with baboons, giraffes, zebras and chimps also on sale on the Internet, a report said.(AFP/File/David Hancock)


Baby Gregor is pushed aside by his mother Nicole at the Zoo in Berlin on Monday, Aug. 15, 2005. The little hippo was born on July 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)


A model presents a creation by Colombian designer Paula Alvarez during Colombia Moda fashion show in Medellin, Colombia August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera

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Actress Pamela Anderson speaks at the podium during a August 7, 2005 taping of 'The Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson' in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', served as Roast Master for the television special which will be telecast on the Comedy Central cable channel in the U.S. on August 14. NO ARCHIVES NO THIRD PARTY SALES REUTERS/Frank Micelotta/Comedy Central/Handout

Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find

Sat Aug 6, 7:29 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.

The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine

NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.

Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.

The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.

"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice."

The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

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Why Do Men Have Nipples?

By John Zawadzinski
Wed Aug 3,11:26 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Have you ever wondered why your teeth chatter when you're cold, or if you could really catch a disease from sitting on a toilet seat?

New York physician Billy Goldberg, pestered by unusual questions at cocktail parties and other social gatherings over the years, puts the public's mind at ease in his book "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" which hits the book stores on Tuesday.

"It's really remarkable how often you get accosted," said Goldberg, 39. "There are the medical questions from family and friends, and then there are the drunk and outrageous questions where somebody wants to drop their pants and show you a rash or something."

The book, subtitled, "Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini," (Three Rivers Press), is co-authored by humorist Mark Leyner.

"People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops," said Leyner, 49, of Hoboken, New Jersey. "When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier at Rite Aid."

Chattering teeth is one way the body tries to generate heat.
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And why do men have nipples?

While only females have mammary glands, we all start out in a similar way in the embryo, the authors explain. The embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in.

Men, however, have already developed nipples.

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A three-week old giant panda cub takes a nap in the arms of its mother, Mei Xiang, at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., August 1, 2005. The panda cub was born at the zoo on July 9, 2005. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Courtesy of Smithsonian's National Zoo/Handout

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U.S. actors Jessica Simpson (2L), Seann William Scott (L) and Johnny Knoxville (R) react to a contestant in the 'cousin Daisy look-a-like' contest while doing a television interview for their upcoming movie 'The Dukes of Hazzard' at 'Live@Much' in Toronto July 31, 2005. The movie stars Simpson as cousin Daisy , Knoxville as Luke Duke and Scott as Bo Duke and opens nation wide on August 5. REUTERS/Mike Cassese

Catalina Valencia of Columbia, left, the 33th Miss Intercontinental, crowns the 34th Miss Intercontinental Emmarys Pinto from Venezuela in Huangshan, east China's Anhui Province, July 30, 2005. Sixty-one contestants from 60 countries around the world attended the 34th Miss Intercontinental Final. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Lei)

Singer Jessica Simpson makes her film debut this week in 'The Dukes of Hazzard,' a movie version of the 1970s TV show, as the voluptuous Daisy Duke in a role many of her fans will enjoy from top to bottom. Simpson pours herself into her role and into bikini tops and tight, short-shorts in the car-crazy, brainless, good ol' Southern boy romp. Simpson waves as she arrives at the 'Dukes of Hazzard' premiere in Hollywood, July 28, 2005. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)