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'The Sunday NewsStrut' - October 8th

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edited October 2006 in Strut Central
...good morning I AM Kent Brockman, we welcome you to this weeks: LEAD STORYIn the midst of violence and despair in Baghdad, at least two institutions are working smoothly, according to September stories in, respectively, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times."Iraq Star," an "American Idol"-type reality TV show, attracted 10,000 contestants for 45 slots in filming at the downtown Baghdad Hotel, and will be shown locally and around the Arab world. Other reality-style shows are in the works.Second, the almost 3,500 Baghdad traffic officers still command high respect despite the city's other problems. Said an engineer,"The traffic law is the only thing nowadays that functions correctly." In fact, the Web site of the Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani contains a query whether it is permissible, even when a driver has the street allto himself, to violate traffic laws; the ayatollah's answer is no...IN OTHER NEWSSnake charmer goes for world recordPATTAYA, Thailand - A Thai snake charmer kissed 19 highly poisonousking cobras in an attempt to set a world record Saturday.One by one, the cobras were released onto a stage set up in a Thaibeach resort town, as snake charmer Khum Chaibuddee kissed each beastand then moved on to the next.Four additional snake charmers flanked the stage at each corner and a medical team waited on the sidelines with serum in case one of the snakes snapped, said a statement from Thailand's Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, which organized the event.The museum's manager, Somporn Naksuetrong, said Ripley's plans to submitthe record attempt to the Guinness Book of World Records to overtake a previous record set in 1999 when Gordon Cates of Alachua, Fla., kissed 11 venomous snakes in 1999.Khum, a part-time snake charmer for more than 12 years, urged children and onlookers not to try the feat on their own. ........................................................................................................thank you and, until next time

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