firstsgtmike
01-06-04, 03:53 PM
Blizzard Babies
DENVER - Cabin fever is alive and well in the West.
Hospital officials say the monster blizzard that kept people indoors across Colorado last year led to a spike in the number of December babies.
“We had more babies born in December — exactly nine months after the blizzard — than in any other month last year,” said Len Gregory, spokesman for St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo.
Added Lynne Snyder, head of newborn services for Avista Adventist Hospital in suburban Louisville: “We were overflowing there for a while.”
Snyder said it is not unusual for a surge in births 40 weeks after major events like the Denver Broncos' first Super Bowl victory.
The snowstorm started March 17 and shut down Colorado cities big and small for several days. Nearly 9 feet of snow fell in the mountains and half that total paralyzed the heavily populated Front Range along the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
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Now I know where first names like Storm and Snowflake come from.
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Not The Perfect Crime
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Kern County sheriff's deputies said they've never seen a less cagey suspect.
James Paul Egan allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven at gunpoint, taking care to conceal his identity by covering his face with a blue bandanna and wearing a knit hat and gloves.
Then he ran into the backyard of a nearby house, and threw away all the incriminating articles: the bandanna, the gloves, the hat, a .357-caliber handgun, and the jacket he'd been wearing — with his county jail property identification card in the pocket.
The card had his photograph, date of birth and jail booking number.
Deputies recognized him as the 21-year-old Egan, looked up his address and found him hiding in the attic of his home. He'd tried to disguise himself by shaving his head, deputies said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) -- Authorities in Malaysia's conservative Terengganu state plan to ban non-Muslim women wearing mini-skirts or figure-hugging dresses to work as part of a drive against indecency, state officials said on Monday.
Muslim women will have to wear head scarves and loose dresses to office, they said, adding employers risked losing their business licenses and face fines if the staff flouted the rules.
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Last week I read that France had passed a law banning the wearing of head scarfs in school.
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BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Germany's cash-strapped government is paying 225,000 euros (U.S. $285,200) to build a tunnel to help frogs avoid the perils of a busy road, officials said Monday.
Ruediger Zech, a local council spokesman in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, said the project would allow native varieties of toads, frogs and other amphibians to reach a nearby lake safely when they spawn in the spring.
Previously the creatures had been carried across the road in buckets by volunteers from nature protection groups.
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DENVER - Cabin fever is alive and well in the West.
Hospital officials say the monster blizzard that kept people indoors across Colorado last year led to a spike in the number of December babies.
“We had more babies born in December — exactly nine months after the blizzard — than in any other month last year,” said Len Gregory, spokesman for St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo.
Added Lynne Snyder, head of newborn services for Avista Adventist Hospital in suburban Louisville: “We were overflowing there for a while.”
Snyder said it is not unusual for a surge in births 40 weeks after major events like the Denver Broncos' first Super Bowl victory.
The snowstorm started March 17 and shut down Colorado cities big and small for several days. Nearly 9 feet of snow fell in the mountains and half that total paralyzed the heavily populated Front Range along the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
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Now I know where first names like Storm and Snowflake come from.
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Not The Perfect Crime
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Kern County sheriff's deputies said they've never seen a less cagey suspect.
James Paul Egan allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven at gunpoint, taking care to conceal his identity by covering his face with a blue bandanna and wearing a knit hat and gloves.
Then he ran into the backyard of a nearby house, and threw away all the incriminating articles: the bandanna, the gloves, the hat, a .357-caliber handgun, and the jacket he'd been wearing — with his county jail property identification card in the pocket.
The card had his photograph, date of birth and jail booking number.
Deputies recognized him as the 21-year-old Egan, looked up his address and found him hiding in the attic of his home. He'd tried to disguise himself by shaving his head, deputies said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) -- Authorities in Malaysia's conservative Terengganu state plan to ban non-Muslim women wearing mini-skirts or figure-hugging dresses to work as part of a drive against indecency, state officials said on Monday.
Muslim women will have to wear head scarves and loose dresses to office, they said, adding employers risked losing their business licenses and face fines if the staff flouted the rules.
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Last week I read that France had passed a law banning the wearing of head scarfs in school.
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BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Germany's cash-strapped government is paying 225,000 euros (U.S. $285,200) to build a tunnel to help frogs avoid the perils of a busy road, officials said Monday.
Ruediger Zech, a local council spokesman in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, said the project would allow native varieties of toads, frogs and other amphibians to reach a nearby lake safely when they spawn in the spring.
Previously the creatures had been carried across the road in buckets by volunteers from nature protection groups.
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