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| 2004-04-29 - Weird News Wireless Flash News Around The Weird: Bizarre News Briefs | ||
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Reno, NV (WFN) -- The U.S. military is calling muster on five old howitzer guns that were on loan to two ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. According to the Associated Press, Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain were given the guns last year to fire into snow banks to prevent avalanches from occurring, but now the military needs them back to fight the war in Iraq. PARIS -- Prisoners from jails around France are the authors of a new book of recipes called "I Cook For Myself Alone." The recipes were all written by inmates who used only a hot-plate and a frying pan. A first-class chef was asked to pick the best recipe, and the winning inmate, who made sea-bream with mushrooms on a bed of lettuce, won a television for his cell. CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Volvo's new XC90 is really stacked, and to prove it, this Saturday (May 1) Legoland in Carlsbad, California, is unveiling a copy of the Volvo made entirely of Lego bricks. The SUV replica weighs in at 3,000 pounds, and took a team of three Model Builders three weeks to design and an average of five Model Builders two and a half months to build it. BOSTON -- Outer space is now a travel destination for folks who use at least one online airline ticket broker. Cheapflights.com has just added eleven travel packages for folks who want to explore the Milky Way, including zero-gravity flights, cosmonaut-for-a-day programs and space academy training.
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