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MONDAY,  JUNE 8,  2009

Cultural note from Britain's Sun:  Armed cops patrolling Heathrow Airport have been banned from wearing tiny Union Jack badges in support of British troops.
Top brass claimed the tie-pin badges - which cost £1 with proceeds going to the Help for Heroes charity - were offensive.

To think, this is the country that stood alone against the Nazis in 1940.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand man, spurned by the woman of his dreams, has come up with a novel way of disposing of the diamond engagement ring he bought her -- a treasure hunt.  Anyone keen to pick up the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268), will need to be in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

You've got to admire the man's spirit.  What woman could turn him down?

SUNDAY,  JUNE 7,  2009

CHICAGO, June 7 (UPI) -- A Chicago-area woman who dropped out of high school in her senior year to help her parents during the Depression has received a diploma 73 years later.
In the intervening years, Eleanor Benz, 90, married, studied typing and bookkeeping and produced 15 children, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday. She has 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.

Well, the bookkeeping must have come in handy.

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