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  • Couples who have premarital sex to be considered married Madras High Court

    In what can be seen as a new twist to the concept of premarital sex, the Madras High Court has in a judgement said if any unmarried couple of the right legal age "indulge in sexual gratification," this will be considered a valid marriage and they could be termed "husband and wife. The court said that if a bachelor has completed 21 years of age and an unmarried woman 18 years, they have acquired ...

  • Marijuana legalization What a long strange trip it has been

    Muraco Kyashna-Tocha started the Green Buddha marijuana dispensary in an unlabeled Seattle storefront in 2008. In 2009, she applied for a business license. In 2010, she began paying taxes and, in 2012, she passed a tax audit. She says, "And I expect to shut in April 2014" when the stores for the public are open for business. Cannabis is a new industry. Change is organic, not ...

  • Lolo Jones attempt at humor backfires

    DES MOINES, Iowa -- Lolo Jones' attempt at humor in a video that's gone viral received a chilly reception from some members of the bobsledding community.Like that, the U.S. hurdler who also recently picked up bobsled finds herself under scrutiny again.Jones posted a Vine video in which she pokes fun at a check she received for $741.84 as prize money from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton ...

  • Boss starring role a super flop

    IT WAS supposed to be a super-funny video to encourage physical activity and combat stress. Instead, this British health system boss has landed himself in a mountain of ...

  • Driver says he was speeding so he could dry car

    BLACK DIAMOND, Alberta -- He was drying off his freshly washed car.That's what the Canadian man told the Mounties when they stopped him doing 180 kilometers per hour (112 mph) south on Highway 22 south of Black Diamond, Alberta in Western Canada.The driver, a 67-year-old who lives in the area, was in court Monday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday the judge fined the man ...


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Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier [DVD]

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier [DVD]

Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece about the madness of war, has always been a flawed epic. Few films can rival the grandiosity of its scale and thematic ambitions--perhaps only D.W. Griffiths Intolerance (1916) surpasses it in sheer magnitude, visually a ... ...

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  • True Grape Road 13 reflects the Okanagan’s historic Golden Mile

    EDMONTON - Road 13 Honest John's Red 2011, Okanagan, B.C.; $26.99; CSPC: 290684"It's all about the dirt." A simple, concise, seemingly obvious statement, yet inexplicably ignored by too many wineries around the world. But the motto ...

  • Fast and curious Vancouver Island driver caught going 221 kmh loses car

    This 6,018-sq-ft penthouse condo at 1139 W. Cordova St. in Vancouver features three bedrooms with private sundecks, five bathrooms, rooftop deck with patio and 360-degree views of the North Shore, Burrard Inlet, Stanley Park and downtown Vancouver. Take a ...

  • Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...

  • Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong

    A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...

  • Rep. Nadler Post-Five Month Abortion Ban ‘Morally Outrageous’

    - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is "morally outrageous" to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. "It is morally outrageous, frankly," Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into ...

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