The Hour of Earth

The sudden skyscrapers embraced their second
climate change. The obviously usual individuals
answered far short. Massive. Thousands. Green.

A switch flicked in disappointed harbourside
gone dark. Hundreds of Earth. Thousands
of Hour: Then Atlanta and the big chicken.

A phenomenon. Massive. Varsity gone north and wild.
The expecting answer, far short. Be.
Less predictable gathered important short time.

-- Jeff Hansen

Lights off! Sydney supports Earth Hour
Lights to go out in Atlanta for Earth Hour
Earth Hour: Let there be dark

Pregnancy engagement falling

Among the important issues raised by the pregnancy of Oregonian Thomas Beatie is whether a female-to-male transgender person who becomes pregnant might be endangering the fetus, especially someone like Beatie, who has been taking testosterone for at least 10 years. There's very little research on the subject to date, and some experts are at odds about it. Any possible damage done by 10 years of testosterone would be irreversible, he said.

Jamie Lynn Spears amped up her own engagement rumors Tuesday by showing off a sparkly rock during a Kentwood, La., coffee run. Of course, if it is an engagement ring, she's wearing it on the wrong hand. But those Spears sisters always have done things...uh, a little differently.

"It was like any other night," Raul Navaira, 40, said Wednesday.

Except it wasn't.

"The next thing I knew, I felt stuff falling over me," he said.

-- Mario Puente

Transgender Man's Baby May Have Health Problems
Jamie Lynn's Ring: Just What Does It Mean?
Emilio Navaira's Brother Recalls Crash

Rejecting Backgrounds Speculative

Time in at this point,
the keeping in with futures,
and nowadays shimmering impenetrable the at odyssey
        known.

View in at this barrier,
the piercing in with refusal,
and paradoxically compared cracked the in think
        situations.

Exiles in at this sentinel,
the including in with fiction,
and more adopted imaginary the for information
        sharpened.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Some Tibetan Exiles Reject 'Middle Way'
State Dept. contractors access Obama's passport records
Where few have gone before

Balls to Paul

confidentiality
engagement ring
burn in bin

abuse
the tatters
of this union

to
wake tensions
in fiasco supporters

-- Andrew Bailey

How 'gay' became children's insult of choice
Tensions rock at No 10
Paul Burrell 'Took Engagement Ring Off Diana's Body' Claim

Callous Celebrity Shots

risk being damaged by the cult of celebrity
worst excesses of celebrity may lend to lurid
        headlines
sustained and cumulative casual sadism way these
        committed

encouraged visceral killing with little alienation or
        distancing
no more violent than episode of 24 or Quentin
        Tarantino film
believed academic success unnecessary make fame
        reality TV show

committed to making great interactive entertainment
balconies laden with potted plants facades festooned
        with flowers
housed in a glass cabinet, dreamt up by spiritual
        heirs

-- Clark Allison

Ban on 'sadistic' video game overturned
Celebrity culture 'harms pupils'
Cartagena: Love in the Time of Cholera

Forces Of Erosion

Through this canyon a million years in construction,
as water broke over the banks, deposits some mineral,
prospector banks on mineral, deposits $100.

The old carved cream, too tangy for amazement,
cut no ice amid fears of money -- to borrow from the earth,
to move out of caves and rent a grand new shed.

There's no reason geologists could lose their jobs,
but water ice manufacturers are unexpectedly predicting
flavors slightly off.

--Glenn R. Frantz

Economy Lost 63,000 Jobs in February
Could GOP lose Hastert seat?
Grand Canyon Still Grand but Older

Targeted Chemical Powder

advanced technology jet fighters flew over bombed non-stop
failed to achieve aims military operation against guerillas
militants killed dozens of hideouts ammunition depots
        destroyed

ground assaults and air raids targeted rebel positions
spraying car with bullets and killing two of his guards
not clear substance summoning ambulance respiratory
        distress

several vials of powder found in a plastic bag
did not give more information about tabbed book
don’t know an awful lot about him

-- Clark Allison

Way Is Clear for the Execution of ‘Chemical Ali’
Guns, 'Anarchist Book' Found With Ricin
Turkish military operation failed: PKK leader

America's Afghanistan Poison

It's tough to imagine Hillary Clinton giving up
But like a gunslinger out of America's mythical past
Barack Obama has beaten her.

Prince Harry will be immediately brought home from
        Afghanistan
His presence there had been kept secret from the public
and then blasted into the global media spotlight

a deadly poison, was discovered in a hotel room
after a suspicious substance was reported
which can be deadly even in small quantities

-- Adam Alva

Clinton holsters up for Texas
Prince Harry in Afghanistan
Man in Las Vegas critical, ricin poison suspected

Until the Decision

Wolf boy and fish girl face a pregnant audience
Hunters are taken off the endangered rebel list
Efforts to attack the authorities and offensive tabloid people
        comes after casualties

The gray photo said Zebari Zebari Hushiyar
The actress and singer ran to lengthy long salsa island
Across the border into air

Wildlife launched across land and ground
Night was not aware of strikes
Tribes are back

-- Carmel Lousada-Stiven

Turkey Says It Has Sent Ground Troops Into Iraq
Jennifer Lopez gives birth to twins
Gray wolves to lose endangered status

Liberty U.S. Reported

£100k wedding dress for 21 year-old WAG,
Rooney, a designer gown, found a football,
and is thrilled with U.S. jetting, costing £100,000.

Fire fighters travelled to Venice,
to aid Valentine's Day,
identified and pulled from a canal

Paul Burrell, Queen of Wales,
who obtained The Sun in the States,
was very naughty and now lives with the butler.

-- Lisa Goodman

Missing British tourist found dead in Venice
Paul Burrell in video ‘confession’
Coleen McLoughlin finds wedding dress for £100,000

Articulated Crossings Intentional

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internal arresting a networks of sentimenet bolster before,
four-hour calculated a formula of air smuggling before.

Set it what to this wanting of now,
that more flak provided would razor flak suspected,
that flaxseed shows suspected would thought other provided.

Out strike every as as given this,
potentially someone every as as listened countless,
that so-called lies set can picture demands reappears.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Let Them Strike
Major Immigrant Smuggling Ring Is Broken in Phoenix
Justice Will Be Served Only if Clemens Isn't Given a Pass

Britney’s human romp

From pole to pole, father keeps control
Kids head out, try to survive
Ecosystems are under pressure

Frankly, it’s hard to distinguish the zombies
To create each block the earth’s last
We have made great effort

In addition temporary conservatorship
Too ghoul for coral
Taken virtually near the singer

-- Jenny Richards

This zombie romp is too old ghoul
Father keeps control over Spears
Study Finds Humans' Effect on Oceans Comprehensive

The Hidden Progress

Today the spokesman for
a malfunctioning Earth decided
there will be war.

But at dawn, as the fierce-eyed spy
unearthed his corrosive
appetite for victory,

the clandestine prey
shows its teeth
strong and unambiguous.

-- Rebecca Eddy

Predator Dinosaur Fossils Unearthed In Nigerian Desert
Dead in Damascus
Plans to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite

Heavy Smoking Day

Unable to quit, smoking is killing
Palestinian flower growers.
Majed Hadayed said, “It’s a major

pain. They look like they’re having fun,
carrying heavy items and fitting into small spaces.
They are more likely to die on Thursday.”

In video footage shown this week
Hadayed gleefully fed two truckloads
of the flower growers to sheep.

-- Jennifer Edgecombe

Zero gravity can be heavy burden
Gazans mark Valentine's Day with mixed emotions
Smoking kills nearly a million Indians a year

Controversial Masked Indignation

Mosquito of human rights,
Unprecedented private pain, sound and hurt,
Monet declines opposition.

Gangs in degradation and suffering,
Police investigations, motion backed,
Handgun commissioner demonises natives.

Stolen frequencies form the heart,
Ethical apology in broad daylight,
Brandishing young people upon Europe.

-- Harriet S. Whitehorne

Call for ban on audio device that targets young ears
Australia to apologise to Aborigines for past 'degradation'
Thieves take $164 million art works in Swiss heist