08/29/08

The summer dig near the centre in Morden, Man., that is still underway has already unearthed a mosasaur, an 11-metre-long ancient sea creature estimated to be 80 million years old.

The "impressively large" copper vessel contained a cylindrical golden jar with a lid, with the gold wreath of oak leaves and the bones inside.

Today's recommended $1 gadget is a portable FM radio from Dollarama.

Dubbing the mystery worker "China's prettiest factory girl," China's Southern Metropolitan Daily on Tuesday quoted an unidentified Foxconn official as saying the woman was not fired.

Palin is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska. She has five children.

"I'm crying because I was around when Martin Luther King died and when John F. Kennedy died, and it's a long time since then and a long time to get back the dream," said Francino Norman of Miami. "This is history. I will tell my grandchildren about this."

This book has a thesis, and it is, on the face of it, a preposterous one: George Orwell = Evelyn Waugh.

"He's the biggest celebrity in the world," the ad intoned. "But is he ready to lead?"

He said he still can do all his famous dance moves and "more."