Today's stories [6.21.07]

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An amateur translator from English to Japanese happened to find a 
temporary job. The first he has to do is this; " Go the extra mile.
It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker."

Because the Japanese translator does not have a sense to understand
the above, his work in Japanese reads; "Don't go the extra mile, or
it reveals you as an incompetent slacker like your boss."

Horace Wells:

Pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s

How he died: Used anesthetics to commit suicide

While experimenting with various gases during his anesthesia research,
Wells became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying
two women with sulfuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed
chloroform for his problems, claiming that he'd gotten high before the
attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He'd anaesthetized
himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

The Roslin lab in Scotland is scheduled for a government budget cut.
"But that won't have much effect," says Michael X. Ferraro. "Once you've
cloned sheep, it's not that difficult to counterfeit money." 

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