Awww.. Poor Cowboys can't get someone to sponsor their billion dollar stadium

From ESPN:

The new $1.1 billion Dallas Cowboys stadium doesn't have an announced sponsor yet -- but now it has a name.

Team owner Jerry Jones announced Wednesday that the venue in Arlington will be called Cowboys Stadium.

Country star George Strait will headline the opening event at Cowboys Stadium. The June 6 concert will also feature Reba McEntire, Blake Shelton and Julianne Hough from "Dancing With the Stars."

The Cowboys on Aug. 21 will host the Tennessee Titans in their first preseason game at the new venue, which replaces Texas Stadium in Irving.

Crazy Australian Studies Love Pregnant Teens

Disadvantaged teen girls are more likely to turn their lives around if they have a baby, an expert says.

Professor Julie Quinlivan told a conference in Hobart yesterday studies had shown disadvantaged teens who fell pregnant often had better life outcomes than those who did not. Teen mothers were more likely to quit smoking, go back to school and get a job.

She said the girls also saved the economy money because a pregnancy forced them to engage with services and develop a focused plan for a better future.

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Something about having too much time on his hands...

It's always been a mad MAD world for Neil Cuadra.

The 55-year-old Internet entrepreneur has photographed a portrait he made of MAD magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman's head using junk mail CDs and DVDs and sent it to the magazine, a feat that landed him in the magazine's 500th issue, published in April.

"You just blew our mind. You used junk mail from AOL to create a piece of art that became junk mail to us," the magazine's editors said in a footnote to his letter.

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Well, they tax everything else already

The Senate Finance Committee today is hearing proposals on how to pay for President Obama's proposed universal health care plan, which is expected to cost more than $1 trillion. Among the proposals, as Consumer Affairs reports: A three-cent tax on sodas as well as other sugary drinks, including energy and sports drinks like Gatorade. Diet sodas would be exempt.

"While many factors promote weight gain, soft drinks are the only food or beverage that has been shown to increase the risk of overweight and obesity, which, in turn, increase the risk of diabetes, stroke, and many other health problems," Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which is pushing the idea, said in his testimony. "Soft drinks are nutritionally worthless…[and] are directly related to weight gain, partly because beverages are more conducive to weight gain than solid foods."

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Bartenders can actually SERVE their customers in Utah now

Utah bartenders may serve alcoholic drinks to patrons directly over bar counters instead of having to walk around them under a new law that took effect Tuesday.

Partitions known as "Zion curtains" -- usually made of glass -- that separate bartenders from customers began coming down early Tuesday. The name is a reference to the state's religious heritage as the home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which tells its members to abstain from alcohol.

"It's just kind of pointless to have clear glass in front of us. It really takes away from the personal experience of our customers," said Abbie Daggs, a manager at Stella Grill in suburban Salt Lake City. "A lot of people are surprised when they see it and ask about the Zion curtain, and we have to explain why it's there. They're always shocked."

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The most efficient beer opener ever

Your relationship probably seems like Ozzie and Harriet compared to these two

A BOGUS bride who spent three years living with her hubby has confessed to a court that she’s really a MAN.

Trusting husband Fu Shitou married transvestite Wei Jinhua after she struck up a friendship with his sister-in-law.

The truth only emerged when Wei, from Zhechuan, eastern China, was picked up and strip-searched by cops when she fled the family home after a row.

Fu told police: “I can’t believe I didn’t know. But we never had sex - I just wanted someone to take care of me.”

Wei, 44, was allowed to walk free after judges ruled that police should give her a short back and sides man’s haircut.

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This woman was SIXTY when WORLD WAR II broke out

A woman thought to be the world's oldest person at 130 has died after slipping on the bathroom floor of her new flat.
Sakhan Dosova broke her hip in a fall last month and never recovered.

She had been given the flat by officials in Kazakhstan who were embarrassed she was living in overcrowded conditions with her impoverished family.

Her age came to light after a census in the city of Karaganda. Demographers also found she was on Stalin's first census of the region in 1926, with her age given as 47.

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TV Stations FEAR Hulu

Online video site Hulu trumpeted its ascension to the media big time a few months back with a dash of sardonic humor. In its debut TV commercial, in which Alec Baldwin mocks the audience's addiction to the very shows he creates as a fictional network executive, the site calls itself "an evil plot to destroy the world."

The joke is uneasily close to the truth for some in the television business.

Once dismissed as "Clown Co." by Silicon Valley critics who scoffed that old media giants could ever harness the Internet, the website with a name that sounds like a Hawaiian dance has quickly upset the status quo. Hulu's traction with users has entrenched entertainment companies worried that the video site's runaway success could undercut the financial underpinnings of the industry.

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Sure, she's graduating with honors, but she probably drinks like a lightweight

What 11-year-old girl can turn away from the unbidden gift of the flash of a dozen pairs of brightly colored wings?

On Saturday, three months after her 14th birthday, Kelsey Curd Ladt graduated summa cum laude from UK with a degree in biology with honors.

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Gored by the Red Bull

A boy of 11 hanged himself after energy drinks changed his behaviour, his father said last night.

Lee Johns said Tyler was a happy-go-lucky child until he started downing the drinks to make himself feel grown up.

From thriving at school and impressing neighbours with his good behaviour, he became 'hyper and disruptive' in the months leading to his death last year.

A one-litre caffeine drink was lying near Tyler's body when his mother found him hanging in his bedroom.

His father said shops should be banned from selling the products to children.

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Octomom Baby Factory gets shut down

No more babies for the OctoMom!

Nadya Suleman is having half her uterus removed this weekend and says her child-birthin' days are done.

And after 14 kids, some may say that's a good thing - especially after she almost dropped one of her octuplets at the park.

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