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  Couple flee to save their baby from social workers after girl, 17, is told she is not clever enough to look after her child | Mail Online

  A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him up. It was another ...

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  Technology DOESN'T isolate people: New study shows the Internet and mobile phones increase your social network | Mail Online

  But a new study has found that the Internet and mobile phones do precisely the opposite and actually enhance people’s social worlds. The Pew Internet and American Life Project, titled ‘Social Isolation and New Technology’, found that people who embraced the modern technologies had larger and ...

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  Florida flasher deploys 'explosive diarrhoea' defence • The Register

  A Florida flasher who allegedly exposed himself to two women explained to cops that his state of undress was due to an "explosive diarrhoea" incident. Collier County deputies responded to a call on Monday that painter Todd Napodano, 42, stood up inside his white Chevrolet box-truck van in a ...

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  Is this the world's dirtiest PC? • The Register

  We're obliged to reader Danny Lee for forwarding evidence of what appears to be a Quatermass-style lifeform, which has attached itself to a PC and pretty well explains why the thing had ceased to function:

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  Boinkfest clicks 'Delete' on woman's memory • The Register

  A woman identified only as Alice - no last names, please - had her memory reinitialized by a presumably stimulating romp with her husband, Scott. After the duo's sweaty success, the couple switched on the TV, which was covering - as was every media outlet during August 2008 - the Beijing ...

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