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TUESDAY, February 15, 2011

Boeing has unveiled their new giant -- the 467 passenger 747-8 intercontinental jumbo jetliner.  Drastic design changes include a completely redesigned cockpit which now includes bar stools, a cocktail blender and a stewardess holding area.

A 3.2 million-year-old foot bone recently found in Ethiopia has convinced paleontologists that the earliest species of Neanderthal  man walked upright consistently, unlike, say, Charlie Sheen or Amy Winehouse.

Tiger Woods faces a stiff fine for spitting in frustration after posting a final round 75 in the Dubai Classic, his worst finish ever on the European tour.   Woods is so disgusted, he’s thinking of switching to baseball.

Korea is experiencing the coldest winter in more than a century with record wind, sleet and snowfalls.  The snow was so deep over the weekend, Kim Jong Il was missing  for almost three hours.

A man attacked by a tiger in Gediu, Indonesia was saved when his wife hit the big cat with a soup spoon.  The woman told rescuers that she used the spoon after realizing that she didn’t have time to load her salad shooter.

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