Oasis

A Russian man attempted to pass off a phony $100 bill at the New Hampshire State Liquor store shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday, according to the store manager, who said a cashier discovered the bill was bogus.

No arrest was made, according to police, but the incident was the talk of the store because Russians are known to be staying in the city ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s scheduled visit with President Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, on Sunday.

I don’t believe such thing from the Russian government…Yeah, right!

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A think tank partly funded by Exxon Mobil sent letters to scientists offering them up to $10,000 to critique findings in a major global warming study released Friday which found that global warming was real and likely caused by burning fossil fuels.

The American Enterprise Institute sent the letters to scientists offering them $10,000, plus travel and other expenses, to highlight the shortcomings in a report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group widely considered to be the authority on climate change science.

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The Ministry of Defence has admitted that there are unidentified flying objects in our skies, but has concluded that they are not alien craft but examples of a bizarre and little-understood atmospheric phenomenon.

I feel so much safer now, thanks Britain!

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Human brains are still evolving, increasing in both size and complexity, University of Chicago geneticists said in two papers published in the journal Science. [+]

Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse - women’s voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men’s. The research shows men decipher female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engage a simpler mechanism. [+]

Now I have the perfect excuse. je! Just kidding girls.