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by Lucy Truglio staff writer

Illegal slang

It may be OK to be a skank, but it is not legally OKto be called one. A California state appeals court has ruled it is libel to call someone a "skank" or even a "big skank'' on the radio. The word has been described as "a derogatory slang tenn of recent vintage that has no generally recognized meaning:•

Hot water passion

In Berlin, a young Gennan couple hid in a bed shop after closing time and passionately tested the waterbeds for several hours before being caught by the police. Police discovered the couple after alarms were sounded as the couple tried to escape through an emergency exit.

The Osama bin Laden doll

border and preventing teen drug use. The site posts its reports going back to 1991.

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