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A Wayne man filed suit Thursday against a local Starbucks, claiming his hand was scalded by overly hot tea from an improperly lidded cup. Antonio Couso and his wife, Lucy, were at a Starbucks on Route 23 in Wayne on March 12, 2006, when the spill occurred, according to the civil suit filed in state Superior Court in Paterson. Fort Lee lawyer Rosemary Arnold, representing the Cousos, said that "when he went to pick up the cup, the top wasn't on correctly. The top came off. "When you as a consumer go into a Starbucks and order tea and the...

No gym for home, work out floor with 30, but is it for 20 like 30 lb when you no lift it to be for men, for 30 lbs instead? or half is 10 for 20 pounds?

Creators Syndicate - In a development that could complicate the Bush administration's position on immigration, millions of illegal immigrants over the past few days have sought an amnesty deal similar to the one obtained by the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Just hours after President George W. Bush commuted Mr. Libby's prison sentence, news of the deal spread like wildfire through the illegal immigrant community, inspiring many who have sought amnesty to view Mr. Libby as a beacon of hope. According to reports, immigration officials across the country have been deluged in...

The thing I like best about being a conservative is that I don't have to lie. I don't have to pretend that men and women are the same. I don't have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine. Nor do I have to say that everyone's special or that the rich cause poverty or that all religions are a path to God. I don't have to claim that a bad writer like Alice Walker is a good one or that a good writer like Toni Morrison is a great one. I don't have to pretend...

Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young will be on the cover of the EA Sports Madden 2008 video game. A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed Young’s gracing the cover of the game to The City Paper. Efforts to reach EA Sports were unsuccessful on Monday. An official announcement is expected on Tuesday and Young will appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" as part of the kickoff promotion for the newest version the popular NFL video game that is endorsed by NFL Hall of Fame coach and analyst John Madden. Of course, appearing on the cover of the game has produced...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The replay official for the Oklahoma-Oregon football game says he knew that Oklahoma recovered a pivotal onside kickoff late in the game. But Gordon Riese told The Oklahoman that replay rules prevented him from correcting on-field officials who made the wrong call and awarded possession to Oregon, even though it was clear to Riese that Oklahoma's Allen Patrick had recovered the ball. Riese also said that if he had seen the correct angle of the replay, it would have been easy to reverse the call and give possession to Oklahoma, which could have run out the...

1. No bird flu 2. No category 5 hurricanes 3. No melting of the polar ice caps 4. Due to brilliantly conceived welfare programs, no poor people 5. Immediate removal of the U.S. army from middle-eastern countries that will commence to magically govern themselves peacefully without us.

One day, God willing, Russell Baer was going to tell his son this story. One day, after the boy's heart and brain had healed, he was going to point to that picture on the kid's bedroom shelf of the man doing a handstand on the roof of a house, take a deep breath and say, Mav, that's a man who lived a life as pure and died a death as muddy as any man ever to walk this rock, and I was there for both. That's the man, when your heart stopped for an hour and they slit you open...

To: Floyd Landis Phonak Cycling Team Eichtal 8634 Hombrechtikon Dear Floyd, Over the years I've watched every second of the outstanding coverage on the OLN network of the Tour de France - the toughest race in the world. I used to race bikes in my collegiate years. My roommate and high school buddy convinced me to go out for the UCSD Cycling team. I wasn't blessed with much natural talent, but persevered and actually won a race in my 4 year career. It helped me understand some of what goes into the 3-week torture called the Tour. When I first...

BEREA, Ohio -- Stretched out on a flatbed cart, LeCharles Bentley covered his face with a towel to hide his disappointment and tears. This wasn't the homecoming he had planned. His first season with the Cleveland Browns ended before it began. Bentley, a two-time Pro Bowl center and one of the team's prized free agent signings this winter, sustained a season-ending injury to his left knee on the first 11-on-11 drill of training camp Thursday -- a crushing blow for a club seemingly cursed by major injuries the past few seasons. "He was the face of our free-agent class," general...

Floyd Landis struggled on the second day in the Alps, losing his overall leader's yellow jersey Wednesday and falling all the way to 11th place in the Tour de France. Landis began the day with a lead of 10 seconds in the three-week race that ends Sunday. The American ended the day more than 8 minutes behind new leader Oscar Pereiro of Spain. The Alps, where seven-time champion Lance Armstrong always separated himself from the field, turned out to be the undoing of a former teammate who was hoping to follow in Armstrong's footsteps. Mickael Rasmussen of Denmark easily won...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 31 people, and more Hizbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing one, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon. Civilians on both sides were angry about the bombardment that has cost 235 lives in Lebanon and 13 in Israel, but Israeli and Hizbollah leaders showed no willingness to halt the fighting or heed proposals for a new U.N.-backed stabilisation force. "I don't even know where our neighbourhood was," said a Lebanese Shi'ite, looking for where his home had been on the edge of a bomb-blasted...

A 5-month-old baby died in a minivan Wednesday after the mother apparently forgot to drop the child off at day care. The tragedy was discovered about 5:30 p.m. outside the Wonder Years 2 day care. The baby's mother stopped at the day care after work to pick up the child and was told by staff that the baby had not been dropped off. She realized then that the baby had been in her minivan all day. "The mother had forgotten to drop off the child at day care in the morning," said Curt Kreun, owner of Wonder Years 2. "She...

In its quest to "organize the world's information," Google now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live. The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases from online stores using payment and shipping information they keep on file with Google. Google's aim, said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive, is to make it easier and faster for people to buy products advertised on Google — thus attracting more advertisers. "The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the time the customer decides to buy...

Suppose you could save five lives by taking one - what would be the correct thing to do? Such ethical dilemmas provide classic "experiments" for philosophers. Here the Magazine presents four such quandaries and asks readers to vote on what they think is right. [Magazine note: apologies but we have had a technical hitch with the votes. We've replaced the vote modules, and will add those already cast to the totals.] Like scientists, philosophers use experiments to test their theories. Unlike scientists, their experiments do not require sophisticated laboratories, white-robed technicians or even rodents. They occur in the mind, and...

Brett Favre issued an ultimatum to the Green Bay Packers today, saying he won’t return to the team unless they show they are dedicated to making a playoff run by improving the team’s vastly underperforming quarterback position. “Anyone who watched this team play the last few years knows we don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a Super Bowl unless we get better play out of the quarterback position,” said Favre. “Not to make a personal attack, but our quarterback has been terrible. It’s impossible to win in this league when you have a guy back there who...

The New Testament story describes Jesus walking on water in the Sea of Galilee but according to a study led by Florida State University Professor of Oceanography Doron Nof, it's more likely that he walked on an isolated patch of floating ice. The study points to a rare combination of optimal water and atmospheric conditions for development of a unique, localized freezing phenomenon that Nof and his co-authors call "springs ice." In what is now northern Israel, such ice could have formed on the cold freshwater surface of the Sea of Galilee -- known as Lake Kinneret by modern-day Israelis...

-Snip- So without further ado, here are the awards for the 2006 Final Four Award Show... Best Afro Award goes to...George Mason's Jordan Carter. Throughout the tournament I never saw the 2nd year guard get into a game, but every game there he was being a catalyst as the cheerleader on the George Mason bench rooting his team on with that award-winning afro straight out of the '70s that blends perfectly into his forehead. While we are on the topic of hair here are two more for you... Worst Hairdo Award goes to...who else? Florida's Joiakim Noah. The 6-11 sophomore...

Many people will tell you they believe in the Genesis account of creation. They�ll tell you they believe in the story of Adam and Eve. And then they�ll tell you they believe in evolution as well. In fact, I once had a college professor who, on the first day of class, stated that his father was a preacher, and that Christians who didn�t think both creation and evolution could be and are both true were stupid and in denial. Did God really create the world in 6 days? Couldn�t evolution fit somewhere inside those 6 days? Is there a gap...