| March 2, 2004 | - A new study found that angry men are more likely to drop dead of stroke.
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Associated Press
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| November 2, 2003 | - Historians were upset that the Smithsonian Institution's new exhibit of the Enola Gay bomber fails to mention that the B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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New York Times
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| October 23, 2003 | - and in Croatia a one-year-old boy was attacked by a gang of babies and bitten 30 times.
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Sky News
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| July 10, 2003 | - A racist factory worker in Mississippi who was angry at being forced to attend sensitivity training killed five co-workers and then himself.
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New York Times
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Indian lawmakers in the state of Bihar were upset about “the government's failure to curb the mosquito menace” and demanded the appointment of a special minister of mosquito control.
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| March 18, 2003 | -
Secretary of State Colin Powell mentioned France 12 times during a Sunday-morning television appearance and seemed to be more angry with Jacques Chirac than with Saddam Hussein.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
People in Berlin were upset that the city was planning to spend $475,000 to build tunnels under a road for some frogs even as swimming pools and kindergartens are being closed to save money.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
“Is Iraq complying, yes or no? If the answer is only partially yes,” said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, “then the answer is no.” Bush Administration officials were very upset over France and Germany's latest statements condemning America's war plans and their continued unwillingness to support an American invasion of Iraq.
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Inspectors also searched the private homes of two Iraqi
scientists, one of whom was upset that his clothing and his wife's medical Xrays were examined. The inspectors later expressed surprise that the Bush Administration was making such a big deal out of the empty warheads, which have a range of 12 miles; Hans Blix, the head of the U.N. team, said the warheads were not important, and a French diplomat agreed: “I have only one thing to say — empty.”
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Many U.S. veterans were angry about cutbacks in their health benefits.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Angry people in Malawi stoned a government official for his alleged role in harboring vampires, who many Malawians believe are collecting blood for international aid agencies.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Iraq was upset that the United States took possession of the only copy of its weapons declaration that was given to the United Nations Security Council; Norway and Syria, nonpermanent members of the council, complained that they would receive only edited versions of the document.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
American officials were upset.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
Some members of Williams's family were upset and charged that his son, John Henry Williams, plans to sell his father's DNA.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Some people in Nevada were upset about new license plates that have a picture of a nuclear mushroom cloud on them.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
In Egypt, an angry crowd was prevented from reaching the Israeli embassy, so it vandalized a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant instead.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
An angry mother hippopotamus killed a photographer in South Africa who was taking pictures of her calf; hippos kill more people in Africa than any other wild animal.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Angry women in Kenya were attacking bars, claiming that cheap alcohol was making their husbands impotent.
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| October 30, 2001 | - Northern Alliance soldiers in Afghanistan were upset that the American bombing was so paltry that it was raising Taliban morale: “If the United States did this for a hundred years, it's not enough.” There was a report that American forces had passed up a chance to destroy a convoy carrying Taliban leader Mulla Omar Mohammed because they didn't have authority to do so.
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| October 30, 2001 | - Some died; others were upset that their security had been completely overlooked by federal officials.
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| October 2, 2001 | - People in Tijuana, Mexico, were upset about their new area code, 666, the Number of the Beast.
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| September 11, 2001 | - The Earth Liberation Front vandalized a cancer-research lab on Long Island, apparently because they were upset about biotechnology research.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Water consumption was up, however, which probably upset executives at Coca-Cola.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Farmers in Oregon were upset about suckerfish.
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| May 29, 2001 | - An enraged
cow attacked a golfer in Stockholm.
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| May 15, 2001 | - An enraged passenger attacked a tram driver in Amsterdam and bit off part of his finger.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered that all routine contact with the Chinese military be suspended, then revoked the order after the White House got upset, which led to speculation of a power struggle within the Republican cabal. “We're going to review all opportunities to interface with the Chinese,” President Bush clarified.
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| May 8, 2001 | - The Pope visited Greece, the first such visit in about 1,300 years; Orthodox Christians protested, apparently still upset about the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, and held up insulting placards calling the Holy Father, among other things, a “two-horned monster of Rome.” President Macapagal Arroyo declared that a “state of rebellion” existed in Manila as thousands of supporters of former president Joseph Estrada (who was arrested recently on corruption charges, fingerprinted, and photographed like a common thief) stormed the presidential palace.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
Al Gore, angry that Bill Clinton was selected to deliver the commencement address at Columbia University, tried to organize a petition drive among his students there to protest the decision.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Brigitte Bardot was extremely upset that the mayor of Bucharest, Romania, was killing
stray dogs instead of putting them up for adoption as the aging actress had demanded; she accused the mayor of tyranny.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Police in Cincinnati, Ohio, shot dead an unarmed black youth who had a number of outstanding traffic tickets; enraged residents ran amok.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was angry about a fact-finding mission led by former senator George Mitchell; he said that allowing such an investigation into the causes of the recent Intifada was an “historic mistake” because “no one has the right, no one, to put Israel on trial before the world.” A Palestinian
sniper shot and killed a ten-month-old Israeli girl in Hebron as she lay in her stroller; Israeli troops then shelled a nearby Palestinian neighborhood and other targets, including Yasir Arafat's home.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Catholics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, were upset about a photographic collage depicting the Blessed Virgin in a two-piece swimsuit made out of roses.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Moscow warned the United States about its new Cold War rhetoric; the Russians were upset over remarks by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said that “Russia is an active proliferator” of dangerous weapons
technology which “seems to be willing to sell anything to anyone for money.” The United States expelled 50 Russian diplomats, four of whom were thought to have been working with Robert Philip Hanssen, the FBI agent recently arrested for spying; Russia in turn said it would expel the 50 diplomats most precious to America.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was upset about a picture in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and was threatening to set up a decency panel to police the city's museums.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Mugabe and his followers were angry that the court had repeatedly declared the government's seizure of white-owned farms illegal.
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| January 23, 2001 | - South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges was upset that prison inmates, including child-killer Susan Smith, who were supposed to be doing chores at his home were instead having sex there; the prisoners assured investigators that they did not have sex while Hodges' children were at home.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair got hit with a tomato by a protestor upset about the continued sanctions on Iraq, which was bombed again by the United States and Britain.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was very upset that a judge upheld a ruling that citizens have a First-Amendment right to curse at police officers.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Republicans were upset about Senator-elect Hillary Clinton's $8 million book deal; concerns were expressed about the potential conflict of interest created by accepting money from a major media company with an aggressive legislative agenda.
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| November 7, 2000 | - The Mexican government was upset about a Mexican citizen on death row whom Texas failed to notify of his right under the Vienna Convention to contact his government's embassy; the Mexican government did not find out about his arrest until a year after he was condemned.
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| October 31, 2000 | - State agricultural agents were storming homes in Florida and chopping down citrus trees in an effort to eradicate the citrus canker virus; Agriculture Secretary Bob Crawford ordered sensitivity training to help soothe homeowners who were upset at having their property destroyed.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan, having recovered from his gall bladder operation, said that his enemies were “abolishing America”; he was particularly upset about the growing tolerance of homosexuality, which he called “the love that will not shut up.”
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| September 19, 2000 | - People in Coral Gables, Florida, were upset over a new rule allowing the City Commission to bar irritating people from meetings.
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