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EULESS -- For at least one customer, Tom Bodett probably won't be leaving the light on. A thief took two cotton towels, two hand towels and an ashtray from a Motel 6 in the 100 block of Airport Freeway on Monday. A police report did not have the dollar loss in the theft. Bodett, the longtime spokesman for Motel 6, uses his trademark promise that "We'll leave the light on for you" to entice customers to the economy motels. But Bodett won't be losing sleep over the Euless theft.

TALLAHASSEE · With the family cat in tow, Gov. Jeb Bush headed Friday for the next chapter of his life, leaving his Capitol office for a holiday trip to South Florida with no plans to return to the office. Gov.-elect Charlie Crist takes over Jan. 2. Bush won't return to Tallahassee until that day, when he will attend Crist's inauguration. "I'm going to take some time off, hopefully do a little fishing, golfing, resting, reading, exercising. And I've got to make a living, so I'll figure it out probably in January." Bush, who has been governor since 1999, has already...

MIDI - I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING I'd like to teach the terrorists that we are really nice We should care for their feelings...maybe we should say that twice We know they have a point of view that we should all respect On things we've done to anger them, we really should reflect Perhaps we should take our dish towels and wrap them on our head If we show solidarity, they might not want us dead Let's be sensitive...we have so much to give Please don't be mad that we've done bad...praise Allah, let us live...

Unknotting a tangled tale of towels Scientific tests have established that an icon, revered as an imprint of Christ’s face, is 13th century By Martin Bailey Tests on a painting, called the Mandylion, revered as a miraculous imprinted image of Christ, have revealed it to have been made in the 13th century. There are several early versions of the image, but the one in Genoa is the first to have been subjected to a thorough scientific examination. The results are being presented at an exhibition (until 18 July) in the city’s Museo Diocesano as part of the European Capital of...

Feb. 14, 2004, 12:06AM Halliburton questioning focuses on towels' cost By DAVID IVANOVICH Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers wanted to hear about the towels. When would-be Halliburton Co. whistle-blower Henry Bunting of Houston came to Capitol Hill on Friday, Democratic senators peppered him with questions about the suddenly famous embroidered towels purchased for an exercise facility for U.S. troops in Baghdad. Bunting, a former Halliburton field buyer once stationed in Kuwait, told lawmakers a manager for Halliburton subsidiary KBR insisted on buying 2,500 towels costing $4.50 to $5.50 apiece, rather than ordinary towels for $1.60 each. The gold...

MIDI - LOVE GROWS (by Edison Lighthouse - who???) Let's not be pretending…this will not be ending Not until every one is dead Because blood flows where Islamist scum go And everyone knows it's true On their heads are towels…they smell like your bowels It really is too much to take Because blood flows where Islamist scum go And everyone knows it's true They get down on their rugs and they pray Several times in the day This religion of pe-eace They'll then be pleased to go slit your throat Or blow up a big boat Watch their terror...