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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man, and he commissioned the world’s largest sailing yacht — so big that in order to get it out to sea, he’s offering to pay to take apart and reassemble a historic bridge that it needs to pass to get out of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It may result in the world’s biggest scrambled eggs, if a planned Facebook event to hurl rotten eggs at the $485 million vessel is as popular as its signup sheet suggests. Facebook user Pablo Strörmann, a Rotterdam resident, stirred up "Eieren gooien naar superjacht Jeff Bezos...

Budget Cuts Open The Door For Other Nations The combination of a concerted, well-staffed effort by China -- along with recent budget cuts and the resulting delays at NASA -- may very well mean the Chinese will beat the US back to the Moon, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told Congress this week. Citing the current status of the Chinese manned space program and its project growth, Griffin told the House Committee on Science and Technology Thursday China could conceivably land a man on the moon within the next 10 years. Current projections indicate NASA won't make it back there until...

DONGYANG (Zhejiang) - Following breast milk banquets in the southern city of Changsha comes news that children's urine is being used to cook eggs in eastern China. The Chinese Business View reported that residents in Dongyang City of Zhejiang province believed eggs cooked in the urine of young boys were nourishing. It said people were queuing with washbasins in hand outside every primary school. Some even turned to the principals or teachers to help them collect the urine. A check by the Chinese-language newspaper at one primary school found washbasins were placed in the boys' toilets. A principal said some...