| July 4, 2008 | - The United Nations brought female excrement carriers from India to New York City to appear on the catwalk alongside top models at a fashion show, crowning one woman the princess of sanitation workers. “This is the dream coming true of Indian independence hero Gandhi-ji,” said an organizer.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| June 29, 2008 | - 20-year-old Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova jumped to her death from a Manhattan apartment building. “My dream,” she once wrote on a website, “is to fly.”
| Source:
Daily News
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| June 22, 2008 | -
Al Gore endorsed Obama, as did Donatella Versace, whose spring-summer 2009 men's line, which includes slim pants with a “slick techno-fabric sheen,” is dedicated to the candidate.
| Source 1:
The Hill
Source 2:
AP via Yahoo
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| June 2, 2008 | - Yves Saint Laurent, who popularized pants for women, died at age 71. “My small job as a couturier,” Saint Laurent once said, “is to make clothes that reflect our times. I’m convinced women want to wear pants.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 5, 2007 | -
Rapper Jay-Z was flashing euros in a recent video, and supermodel Gisele Bundchen was refusing to accept payment in dollars.
| Source 1:
YouTube
Source 2:
Telegraph.co.uk
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| October 30, 2007 | - Fourteen children were rescued from a New Delhi sweatshop that was subcontracted by The Gap.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| September 22, 2007 | - The Mexican
shoemaker who made the pair of ostrich-skin cowboy boots that former President Vicente Fox gave to President Bush was indicted after the contraband skins of sea turtles, caimans, and other endangered species were found in an associate's warehouse.
| Source:
Rocky Mountain News
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| July 24, 2007 | -
YouTube and CNN co-hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates at The Citadel in South Carolina. After a YouTuber asked the candidates to say something they liked and something they disliked about the candidate to their left, John Edwards said that he approved of Hillary Clinton's record of national service, but perhaps not her salmon-colored jacket. Additional questions came from a Viking, a five-year-old, a snowman, and a man in a chicken costume.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 24, 2007 | - A Washington, D.C.,
newspaper ranked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi number four on a list of the “50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill.” Other honorees included congressional aides, a Washington Redskins cheerleader, and a police officer.
| Source:
The Hill
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| July 2, 2007 | - In Nairobi
Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi, surrounded by his squad of female bodyguards and wearing a shirt printed with pictures of the African presidents, called for the creation of a “United States of Africa” and implied that he should be its first leader.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 27, 2007 | - Philanthropist clothing designer Liz Claiborne died.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 30, 2007 | - Police in Tehran forbade barbers from giving men Western style haircuts or plucking their eyebrows.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 27, 2007 | - “Perfect hair” was among the potential liabilities outlined in a PowerPoint document leaked from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The former Massachusetts governor, according to the document, intends to avoid being called ”Slick Dancing Mitt” or “Flip-Flopper” and will instead promote himself as ”the anti-Kerry,” a “get-it-done CEO” who hates France and possesses ”intelligence,” unlike President Bush.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| February 17, 2007 | -
Britney Spears
shaved her head.
| Source:
AP via CNN
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| February 8, 2007 | -
Donatella Versace told Hillary Clinton to stop wearing pants.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 11, 2006 | - In response to the deaths of three anorexic
models, the fashion industry held a forum that called for internal regulation. “We would much rather come up with a way of self-policing ourselves,” said one modeling agency chief, “than have regulations rammed down our throats.”
| Source:
NY Post
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| December 7, 2006 | - At the White House Christmas party, First Lady Laura Bush changed into another outfit after it was discovered that she and two other women were wearing the same $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta dress. According to the White House social secretary, “It was the right thing to do.”
| Source:
WCBSTV
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| November 3, 2006 | - In South Korea, where miniskirts will soon be legalized, police have begun using “cyber terror units” to curb the rise of online bullying by the mob.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
BBC News
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| October 8, 2006 | - A ministry in Atlanta, Georgia, was sending camouflaged
devotionals to U.S. soldiers serving overseas.
| Source:
WTVM.com
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| September 29, 2006 | - A Russian tabloid praised President Vladimir Putin for sprucing up his wardrobe.
| Source:
Baltimore Sun via Seattle Times
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| September 20, 2006 | - A pedigree bull mastiff deefer from Nottingham, England, underwent emergency surgery to have two pairs of ladies' underwear removed from his small intestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 5, 2006 | -
Britain's Royal Preston Hospital unveiled the “Inter-Faith Gown,” a hospital garment modeled on the Muslim burka.
| Source:
Breitbart.com via the Drudge Report
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| June 30, 2006 | -
David Hasselhoff hit his head on a chandelier while shaving.
| Source:
AP via AOL News
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| June 2, 2006 | - A snake bit a woman at a Wal-Mart in Florida. “Thank goodness for sweat pants with elastic,” said the woman, “because he tried to climb up my britches' leg.”
| Source:
WFTV.com
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| May 27, 2006 | - In Iraq over 66 people were killed in attacks, including two CBS News employees when their convoy was struck by a car bomb; a CBS correspondent was seriously injured in the same attack. In Baghdad two tennis players and their coach were killed for wearing shorts, and a Marine helicopter was shot down over the Anbar province.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
AP via Forbes.com
Source 3:
ABC News
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| May 14, 2006 | - The Israeli army announced that female soldiers must not lower the waistline of their pants or take in their shirts.
| Source:
Toronto Star
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| May 2, 2006 | - In England the Archbishop of York played African drums and led a conga line as he wore a hoodie.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 25, 2006 | -
Chinese
bra producers were offering larger sizes to meet increased demand.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 18, 2006 | - In England a man drowned after diving into the river Ouse to rescue his girlfriend's shoes.
| Source:
Mail & Guardian Online
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| April 5, 2006 | - Three New York women were suing a plastic surgeon for making their breasts too large.
| Source:
All Headline News
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| February 22, 2006 | - The Australian Army was looking for a man who wears an army uniform and exposes himself to underwear salespeople. "I thought it was one of my mates having a joke on me," said a salesman. "We call him 'Donkey Dong.’"
| Source:
News.com.au
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| February 1, 2006 | - During the State of the Union address activist Cindy Sheehan was handcuffed and thrown out of the House chamber for wearing a T-shirt that read "2245 Dead: How Many More?" and Beverly Young, the wife of Representative Bill Young (R., Fla.), was told to leave because she was wearing a T-shirt that read "Support the Troops: Defending Our Freedom." Young later held up his wife's shirt on the House floor and said, "shame, shame."
| Source:
ABC News
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| December 7, 2005 | -
Saddam Hussein refused to appear in court to defend himself against war crimes, complaining of a lack of clean underwear. “Go to hell, all you agents of America,” he said.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| December 1, 2005 | - In Tennessee a man was arrested for firing a gun at traffic while wearing only a pair of socks.
| Source:
AP
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| November 9, 2005 | - Michael Bloomberg was re-elected mayor of New York City for around $68 million, and Jon Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey for around $40 million. When sworn in, Corzine will be America's only bearded governor.
| Source:
USA Today
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| November 8, 2005 | -
Socks made from corn were slated to go on sale in Japan.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 1, 2005 | - A study found that over the last 15 years the breasts of the average American woman had swelled from a 34B cup to 36C; D-cup breasts, it was pointed out, are equivalent in weight to two small turkeys.
| Source:
Discover Magazine
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| September 2, 2005 | -
Condoleezza Rice attended a musical in New York City, where she was booed. She also went shoe shopping. A fellow shopper was thrown out of the store after yelling “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying or homeless?”
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| July 20, 2005 | -
Germany declined to finance a bald man's toupee, even though the state covers the costs of wigs for women who have lost their hair.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 11, 2005 | - It cost $75 to bleach
your
anus in Los Angeles.
| Source:
The Village Voice
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| July 5, 2005 | -
McDonald's corporation asked Russell Simmons, P. Diddy, and Tommy Hilfiger to redesign the company's uniforms.
| Source:
CNN Money
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| June 3, 2005 | -
Berlin police, acting on a kidnapping tip, stopped a car and pulled a man from the car's trunk; it turned out the man, wearing only a thong and collar, was a voluntary sex slave.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 20, 2005 | - A rabbi had a fistfight with a man wearing a swastika
T-shirt in the Kansas City, Missouri, airport.
| Source:
Kansas.com
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| April 11, 2005 | - A garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing at least one hundred people.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 7, 2005 | - Tailors sewed the next pope's
robes.
| Source:
USA Today
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| April 1, 2005 | - The European Union placed a 15 percent duty on American
trousers and sweet corn.
| Source:
Times Online
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| March 23, 2005 | - A ten-year-old Vermont boy won a national smelly-sneaker contest. "The stank,” he said, “was from rubbing my toes back and forth and making them sweaty.”
| Source:
Boston.com
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| March 17, 2005 | -
Iraqi
barbers were being killed because they gave Western-style haircuts and cut off beards.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 11, 2005 | - A New Jersey man was arrested for a string of burglaries. “He defecated in at least four residences,” said a prosecutor. “When he was taken into custody, he also defecated, and that was in his pants.”
| Source:
The Trentonian
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| March 7, 2005 | -
Prince Charles visited New Zealand, where he was met by a woman with the words “GET YOUR COLONIAL SHAME OFF MY BREASTS” written across her bare chest. The Prince smiled.
| Source:
Seattle PI
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| February 5, 2005 | - Laura Bush explained that she likes fashion because it's fun.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 17, 2005 | - The White House was preparing for the president's inauguration, and it was revealed that Laura Bush's inaugural gown is an ice-blue and silver embroidered tulle V-neck dress with matching satin coat, by de la Renta; Jenna and Barbara Bush are being dressed by Lela Rose, de la Renta, Derek Lam, and Badgley Mischka. President Bush will wear a business suit.
| Source:
The Ledger
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| June 7, 2004 | - A horticulturalist in Florida unveiled a new low-carb
potato.
| Source:
University of Florida
|
| April 12, 2004 | - Twenty-one poor Indian women died in a stampede to collect free saris.
| Source:
Times of India
|
| March 4, 2004 | - An Israeli fashion designer staged a photo shoot along the West Bank wall near Jerusalem; several young models were photographed while posing under Arabic graffiti that read: "I AM A BIG DONKEY."
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| February 14, 2004 | - An FDA advisory panel recommended widespread testing for mad cow disease, saying that absent such testing there is no way to assess the risk of transmission from meat, drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, or dietary supplements.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 2, 2004 | - A pierced breast popped out of Janet Jackson's outfit during the Super Bowl halftime show.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| February 1, 2004 | - Reporters continued to notice sartorial oddities among the Democratic presidential candidates.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 30, 2004 | - The California Assembly was considering a proposal to incorporate feng shui into the building code.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 16, 2004 | -
Tanzania banned the importation of used underwear.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 9, 2004 | - General Wesley Clark was wearing argyle sweaters at campaign appearances in an attempt to appeal to women voters. The retired general told a reporter that some women have "an impression that the armed forces is a male-dominated, hierarchical, authoritarian institution."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 7, 2004 | - A man wearing a chicken>
suit robbed a grocery store in Columbus, Ohio.
| Source:
NBC5.com
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| December 30, 2003 | - Religious "Yahwists," people who try to follow Old Testament lifestyle rules, sued Arkansas to force the state to permit Yahwist prisoners to eat kosher meals and to grow long hair and beards.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 28, 2003 | -
President Bush showed up in Iraq for Thanksgiving wearing an Army
tracksuit; Bush stayed in the country for two and a half hours, the same amount of time spent by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, in 1966.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 18, 2003 | - It was reported that Arnold Schwarzenegger wore a Prada suit to his inauguration as governor of California; his wife, Maria Shriver, wore a cream skirt and shell by Valentino.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 26, 2003 | -
Archaeologists were surprised by evidence that Roman Britons wore socks with their sandals.
| Source:
Ananova
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| August 4, 2003 | -
Liberian civilians were starving in their homes as rebels and government fighters, some wearing women's wigs and blue painted toenails, continued to fight for control of Monrovia; a small number of Nigerian peacekeepers arrived in the country, and a United States official said that American forces would provide "communications assistance" to the peacekeepers and might even go ashore.
| Source:
Guardian, Associated Press, New York Times
|
| July 5, 2003 | - A British woman was temporarily blinded and badly blistered after lightning struck her tongue stud.
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 9, 2003 | - The Wall Street Journal reported that women are sexually attracted to the Commander in Chief. "Hot? SO HOT!!!!! THAT UNIFORM!" said one New York mom. Said another: "I mean, that swagger. George Bush in a pair of jeans is a treat to watch."
| Source:
Wall Street Journal
|
| October 23, 2001 | - The president flew to
Shanghai, China, for the Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit.
He rode around in a limo and pronounced the city “mind-boggling” and “miraculous.” He wore a traditional Chinese silk jacket; it was blue with gold trim.
He noted that “there is no isolation from evil.” At a joint press conference with President Jiang Zemin, President Bush answered questions about anthrax.
“These are evil people and the deeds that have been conducted on the American people are evil deeds,” he said.
“And anybody who would mail anthrax letters, trying to affect the lives of innocent people, is evil.” The president also cautioned that the anthrax attacks could turn out to be “a hoax.” Preliminary analysis of the anthrax found in New York and Florida showed that the bacteria was “professional grade” and all from the same strain.
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| September 11, 2001 | - Thousands of volunteers rushed to lower Manhattan. Well-meaning citizens created a small disaster by overwhelming rescue workers with truckloads of socks, T-shirts, food. Much was simply thrown away.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Puff Daddy, a rapper, told a German magazine that the Queen of England has a poor fashion sense: “She should stick to muted shades and combine gray, black, and earth tones,” said Mr. Daddy. “Those pastel shades she wears don't suit her at all and she has to do something about that haircut.”
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| May 15, 2001 | - A performing rat was killed by a wayward curtain rod at a fashion show in Sydney, Australia; animal-rights groups were investigating the incident.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, wearing his tacky Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired gold-striped robe, which he himself designed, swore in George W. Bush, whom he himself appointed president of the United States.
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