07 Sep 2006
Dead body travels 1,000 miles on Amtrak

My kids had better never call me Mr. Cheap again - I'm not even in the same league with this gal...

AP - An Amtrak passenger traveling with her ailing father waited nearly 23 hours and about 1,000 miles to tell authorities he had died so she could avoid the cost of shipping the body home, police said.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system

You know how kids bring home colds they catch at school? The virus your kid brings home from this school not only gives you a runny nose, it wipes your hard drive and spams the planet with phony Viagra ads...

But what I really want to know is if the the school will be evacuated every three hours while the principal reboots it?

After three years of planning, the Microsoft Corp.-designed "School of the Future" opened its doors Thursday, a gleaming white modern facility looking out of place amid rows of ramshackle homes in a working-class West Philadelphia neighborhood.

(link) [CNN.com]

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