New York, NY – Cruiser made four house calls on a recent rain-soaked Tuesday. There were two happy endings and two unhappy ones, a fairly typical outcome for a typical day in the life of a bedbug-sniffing puggle.
“Except that there’s nothing typical about this business,” said his handler, Jeremy Ecker, 35, whose six-month-old company, the [...]
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South Lanarkshire, UK – A group of stunned primary schoolchildren began crying when their teacher told them during a bizarre Holocaust game that they were to be taken away from their families.
The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told they were being sent away or might end up [...]
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Brooklyn, NY – A helmet may not be enough to protect cyclists from Google Maps’ latest feature.
The search engine rolled out a “bicycling directions” option yesterday that is filled with potentially fatal flaws, including routes that cut across Central Park’s treacherous tranverse roads and steer cyclists to truck-riddled thoroughfares.
A Post reporter rented a bike on [...]
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Brooklyn, NY – New Google Bike Map Includes Now Removed Williamsburg Path
Washington – During a rant that lit up the blogosphere yesterday, an enraged U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy from Rhode Island had to be gaveled quiet yesterday after ripping into what he called “despicable” media coverage of the war in Afghanistan.
House floor on a failed measure calling for the end of the war in Afghanistan.
“If anybody [...]
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Kingston, Jamaica – This island nation boasts miles of pristine beaches, reggae music and the Western hemisphere’s largest butterfly.
Now, it’s promoting a new asset to tourists: its Jews.
From the tourism minister on down, Jamaican officialdom has embraced a plan to market the nation’s Jewish history as a way of wooing a new segment of travelers.
New [...]
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Kingston, Jamaica – New Spiel To Woo Jewish Tourists
Washington – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says 30 million visitors have now come through its doors.
The museum said today that the milestone was passed this week. The museum has been open since April 1993. A museum spokesman says 1.75 million people visited last year.
Museum officials also note that 88 heads of state and [...]
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Brooklyn, NY – Abraham Tischler, who excited the media and the people of the 44th Council District with his energetic campaign to become the youngest member of the New York City Council, threw his support behind Joe Lazar today and urged his supporters to do the same. Tischler wasted no time in announcing his endorsement [...]
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Brooklyn, NY – Former Council Candidate Tischler Endorses Joe Lazar For City Council
Port-au-Prince – A Medical team has positively confirmed today the identity of the only Jewish casualty in the Haiti earthquake.
36-year-old Alexander Biton from Canada was buried under the ruins of hotel Montana in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. The body will be flown to Montréal on Thursday for burial. Biton was survived by his wife [...]
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New York, NY – Rush Limbaugh is drawing ire for a racist (and factually inaccurate) comment he made about Gov. David Paterson on the heels of the resignation of New York Congressman Eric Massa.
Rosh said David Paterson will be playing “massa” if he appoints Massa’s replacement. The comment was a reference to slavemasters and Paterson [...]
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Petah Tikva – An Israeli supermarket today looked to cash in on the infamous surveillance camera footage showing suspected assassins stalking a Hamas operative in Dubai with a new advertising campaign.
The commercials for the “Mahsaney Kimat Hinam” supermarket chain shows actors carrying tennis rackets, and wearing hats, glasses and wigs — the same disguises worn [...]
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Petah Tikva – Dubai Assassination Inspires Supermarket Commercial
