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PX:Direct Restraints. Oddities / UFO With S-Shaped Fin Photographed Over Netherlands Castle - possibly next-gen rotating wing aircraft? C-section babies more likely to be obese. Taylor Townsend dispute: USTA cuts funding until No. 1 junior loses weight. Taylor Townsend, 16, is the world’s top-ranked junior, but the USTA is threatening to cut off support until she loses weight and focuses on her fitness.

Taylor Townsend dispute: USTA cuts funding until No. 1 junior loses weight

(Getty Images). Taylor Townsend is America’s top-ranked junior girl. In fact, at 16, she’s the No. 1 junior girl in the world. At 15, she scored her first pro-level win, beating a player twice her age to progress to the second round of qualifying at the U.S. Open last year. Unfortunately none of these results — Townsend is the first American junior girl to reach No. 1 since the ITF combined singles and doubles rankings in 2004 — is enough to insulate her from criticism from her coaches about her fitness. Her coaches declined to pay her travel expenses to attend the Open and told her this summer that they wouldn’t finance any tournament appearances until she makes sufficient progress in one area: slimming down and getting into better shape. Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money.

Why do chimpanzees throw poop?

Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money

The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter. Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government. We hope that they will spend that money wisely. Unfortunately, that is simply not the case. You are about to read some examples of how the government is wasting your money that are absolutely mind blowing. The following are 30 mind blowing ways that the government is wasting your money.... #1 In 2011, the National Institutes of Health spent $592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop. #2 The National Institutes of Health has spent more than 5 million dollars on a website called Sexpulse that is targeted at "men who use the Internet to seek sex with men"

. #3 The General Services Administration spent $822,751 on a "training conference" for 300 west coast employees at the M Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. #7 The U.S. Capricious God Violently Shakes Ant Farm Day After Bestowing Orange Slices Upon Colony. APPLETON, WI—Less than 24 hours after their god bestowed two delicious orange slices upon them, local ants reported the capricious deity had picked up the entire ant farm in which they live and shaken it violently, leaving many to wonder what they had done to incur the all-powerful being's deadly wrath.

Capricious God Violently Shakes Ant Farm Day After Bestowing Orange Slices Upon Colony

"Yesterday, when we received his bountiful gift of sweet fruit, we thought we had pleased him mightily with the tireless labors of our digging," worker ant #103 said Saturday as she helped to rebuild the underground passages and chambers the vengeful god had completely decimated without warning. "But now he has laid waste to everything we, his followers, have erected to his glory. Why? Why has he done this to us? " "Must we dig in different directions, or perhaps dig even longer and more complex tunnels?

" Lance Armstrong denies new U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges. Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken.

Lance Armstrong denies new U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges

He looks out of place, a white guy carrying a $1,500 Nikon D700 camera, but the residents are used to him by now and greet... Blackhawks thrilled to have Brent Seabrook back Starting with Game 6 Sunday, Brent Seabrook's timeout will be over and the defenseman will be back on the ice — so long as he promises to play nice. The Blackhawks have done pretty well in Seabrook's absence, winning all three games the NHL... NFL draft preview: Defensive ends As the NFL draft nears — it takes place May 8-10 — we're taking an 11-day, position-by-position look at what's out there and what the Bears need.

In May 1974, Tribune delivered 2 Watergate bombshells Obama denounces racist comments reportedly made by NBA owner. Living in Japan. Change.org - Start, Join, and Win Campaigns for Change. The 5 Creepiest Unsolved Crimes Nobody Can Explain. Dear Internet: We have to admit something -- we've been getting kinda cocky, recently.

The 5 Creepiest Unsolved Crimes Nobody Can Explain

Whether we're explaining the phenomenon of alien abduction, debunking every textbook ever or doing some third thing, we've been spending a lot of time acting like we have all the answers. And it's started to go to our heads. But that all changes now. NBC Hit For Editing Ksenia Afanasyeva Gymnastics Routine Out Of Olympics Broadcast. 10 of the world's biggest unsolved mysteries: Go figure. Hot and Covered...TOKYO SKY TREE x mina perhonen. "Improvement of functionality"— ©TOKYO SKY TREE Tobu Tower Sky Tree is four days, has announced the staff to wear uniforms, etc. observatory of the "Tokyo Sky Tree".

Hot and Covered...TOKYO SKY TREE x mina perhonen