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Gas masks may be issued to zoo keepers http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_738475.html?menu=news.quirkies
Zoo bosses say they are considering issuing their keepers with gas masks after a group of odorous orang-utans developed a real taste for sprouts.
The apes have left keepers at Dudley Zoo gasping for air after munching on out-of-date supplies of the festive vegetable.
The primates have been causing a stink after a local supermarkets donated a bumper post-Christmas batch of sprouts to the Black Country zoo.
Monkey keeper James Harper told the BBC: "Orang-utans are windy animals but because of all the brussels sprouts they are eating there is quite a pong around here at the moment."
He added: "Whoever gets the short straw gets to muck them out."
Story filed: 19:15 Friday 10th January 2003
In the News
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Office e-mail rules come in black, white and gray - 01/13/03 http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3585358.html
It's been five years or more since e-mail became an office fixture, but some workers still seem unclear about the boundaries for its acceptable use.
Combatting workplace bullying pays dividends - 01/12/03 http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582435.html
Workers at an IBM plant got a jolt when they read the Web site of a local newspaper. On a chat page, factory workers were harrying their new boss, a black woman.
Hacking Crime - 01/10/03 http://www.kalb.com/news/localnews/MGBL571HSAD.html
For the state's leading investigator of child porn, building a molestation case against Ville Platte surgeon Dr. Charles LaHaye was easy. The evidence was on digital tapes, CDs, computer disks and hard drives.
The Web is his beat: County detective patrols Internet for sex crimes - 01/10/03 http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20030110/localnews/747402.html
Tim Bethel has been busy picking out names for boys and girls. But, Bethel is not an expectant father -- he is a Coshocton County Sheriff's detective whose specialty is sex crimes.
13-Year-Old Rape Victim Met Attacker Online - 01/09/03 http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_009180608.html
(St. Paul) It started on AOL and ended in a motel room. A Twin Cities man is charged with raping a girl he met online.
Scammers Make Hay On Online Auction Sites - 01/09/03 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2018588
Teresa Smith discovered Internet auctions in a big way about two years ago, selling $800,000 worth of Apple Macintosh computers through sites such as eBay and AuctionWorks.
Man sought teen, police say - 01/09/03 http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=152530
The Colorado Springs man read the 13-year-old boy's profile online and shot him an e-mail.
Is he really 13? And what was he looking for?
The boy said he wanted a friend he could do stuff with. The man replied he was "an older guy that likes guys your age!" He said he wanted to perform oral sex on the boy, that he never tried it before. "Would you let me?" he asked the boy.
A Plan To Stop Online Kiddie Porn - 01/09/03 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57136,00.html
Joan Irvine knows she's preaching to the choir, and she tells her audience as much. But she's talking to an unusual group -- pornographers who want to stop Internet kiddie porn.
Two men nabbed in Net teen sex sting - 01/09/03 http://www.thedailyjournal.com/news/stories/20030109/localnews/735292.html
Two area men face attempted assault and endangerment charges stemming from separate incidents in which each tried to use the Internet to arrange sex with minors, police said.
New-tech can prove a mixed blessing - 01/09/03 http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=26422003
The communication revolution has led to firms facing problems with employees' emails.
With countless employers still regarding unofficial employee usage of email and the internet as an unofficial perk best overlooked, many will be shocked at the level of business problems caused by such practices.
Spammers and scammers beware - someone's watching you - 01/09/03 http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story142589.html
J.A. Hitchcock gets passionate when it comes to spam.
And if you really want to see her hot-blooded side, get her talking about financial scams, identity theft and cyberstalking.
Protection One ends effort to get names of Internet critics - 01/08/03 http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/4894712.htm
Protection One, a Topeka-based home security business, has withdrawn an attempt to force Yahoo to reveal the identities of employees who posted criticisms of the company on the Internet.
Charges In Web Speech Case - 01/08/03 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-08-web-speech_x.htm
Misdemeanor defamation of character charges against a former high school student who used his Web site to attack fellow students and administrators have been dropped, ending a case that drew national attention and resulted in the overturning of Utah's criminal-libel law.
Queens Teen Charged With Identity Theft - 01/7/03 http://click.wh5.com/redirect.php?c=11086&u=pD0FsLzMMt94E0hAE4Yirw
A Queens teenager was arraigned on Tuesday on charges of stealing the personal identities of more than 100 America Online customers in what authorities said was the first indictment under the state's new ID theft law.
Shiva Sharma, 18, allegedly gained the victims' personal information and used it to get credit and debit cards worth more than $500,000, officials said.
Sharma, a first-year business management major at Interboro Institute in Manhattan, also bought more than $10,000 worth of racing car parts and electronic equipment, officials said.
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