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Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest.

/begin my translation Headless Chicken Roams Around Streets...Scaring Away People According to local media, a headless chicken roamed around in Kunming, Yunnan, China, scaring away many people. It showed up on Jul. 30. It roamed around on grass as if looking for food, bobbing its head. The media reported that it was apparently able to hear because it turns around to the source of a sound whenever it hears one. It not only scared people but also dogs. It weighed about 2 kg(4.4 lb), and managed to survive for hours, according to the local media. There is a record that...

AMERICANS will certainly have 9/11 in mind when they vote today. But they should keep another date in mind, too — one almost exactly a quarter-century ago: Nov. 4, 1979. A clear path runs to 9/11 from the day of the raid on the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the seizure of American hostages. The 1979 embassy attack came at a time when the administration of President Jimmy Carter was trying to prop up the new Khomeinist regime in Tehran. Carter had decided to support Khomeini in the context of the so-called "Green Belt" strategy developed by National Security...

Just heard from a guy I trust that the Pentagon will be releasing information regarding Able Danger in the not too distant future. The short version: Don't expect any bombshells. Thank you, Congressman Weldon, for getting just enough of this story right (the existence of Able Danger and its mission) to get folks like myself and lot of others to take you seriously. Those others weren't just bloggers, by the way - I'm talking about the New York Times, the AP, the Bergen Record... And thanks a [really bad word] heap for getting more than enough wrong that we look...

<p>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has a bone to pick with the KFC chain, which PETA is boycotting.</p> <p>KFC, PETA says, uses suppliers that don´t treat chickens very well. It demands that the company do something about it. KFC denies the chicken-abuser allegation.</p>