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Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a "terrific danger" to the United States.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9047102/The death of an Alabama service station owner illustrates the point that a gasoline industry group makes over and over to its members: Losing money during a drive-off isn't worth losing your life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9050231/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
President Bush charged Tuesday that anti-war protesters such as Cindy Sheehan, who want the troops brought home immediately, are "advocating a policy that would weaken the United States."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9051990/North Carolina lawmakers have approved a measure that would require courts to give battered spouses something extra when they seek a restraining order - information on how to apply for a concealed weapon.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8992647/A Rochester physician says he's outraged at being called on the carpet for telling a patient she was obese and needed to lose weight. Dr. Terry Bennett says the complaint that she was insulted by his advice is baseless. "It's an epidemic in the United States, and it's croaking us," Bennett said. It's a lecture he said he gives to many of his overweight patients. Bennett said he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives. But the lecture drove one patient to write a letter to the Board of Registration in Medicine, which passed it on to the attorney general's office. "Did I sleep with somebody? Did I give somebody drugs? Was I careless? No. End of story," Bennett said. "That should have been the end of it."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/08/23/woman_complains_about_doctors_advice_to_lose_weight/The percentage of Americans with bulging waistlines is growing in just about every state, with residents of Alabama joining the obesity ranks the fastest. Only Oregon failed to fatten, according to a report released Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9048817/A man in Arizona who furnished his home with furniture made only of FedEx shipping boxes won a fight against the company to maintain a Web site telling others how to do it, according to a Local 6 News report. Software developer Jose Avila said he could not afford new furniture in his new apartment so he decided to make all of his furniture with boxes.
http://www.local6.com/news/4862657/detail.htmlhttp://www.fedexfurniture.com/Jose Avila joins us tonight.
That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
A 43-year-old North Country man has made the Guinness Book of World Records in a new entry for the longest eyebrow hair. Frank Ames of Saranac in Clinton County measured in at 3.78 inches or nearly eight centimeters. "I don't know why it grows like that; it just always has," Ames told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EYEBROW_HAIR?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEAmes is just lucky the "Fab Four" haven't gotten a hold of him.
-- Carey Fox
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Thousands of troops stormed the main bastions of resistance to the evacuation of two West Bank settlements Tuesday, clearing out hundreds of extremists opposed to Israel's first dismantling of West Bank settlements.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8931552/The head of Iraq's constitutional committee said Tuesday he did not think the three additional days lawmakers said are needed to reach a compromise on the draft charter would be enough. As lawmakers deliberated, a six people were killed when a suicide bomb exploded at an Iraqi military center in a town north of Baghdad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9005694/Al-Qaida in Iraq said on Tuesday it was behind a failed rocket attack on U.S. Navy ships in Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba, according to an Internet statement.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9043881/Google Inc. is set to introduce its own instant messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday, marking the expansion by the Web search leader into text and also voice communications.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9050519/The Bush administration proposed new fuel economy standards for pickup trucks, minivans and some sport utility vehicles on Tuesday, calling upon automakers to make modest improvements to gas mileage amid rising prices at the pump.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9051613/A Belgian nun's acrobatic and indecorous dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said Tuesday.
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