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101 things to do with a coffin
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana -- A coffin company eager to sell more merchandise has come up with 101 uses for a wooden coffin.
Your Coffin Company builds and sells home decor items such as bookshelves, coffee tables, wine racks and entertainment centers -- all made out of coffins.
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Most of town's police in jail
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Twenty of the 25 police officers in the border town of Corumba were arrested last Thursday, accused of corruption and criminal association.
Charges range from helping prisoners escape to alleged drug trafficking. Extra police have been called in from the state capital.
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End of the line for the Mini
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The classic Mini car, which belied its frugal roots in post-war Britain to exhibit a joie de vivre of its own, has driven in to history with the last model rolling off the production line.
More than 40 years after it first arrived on Europe's forecourts, number 5,387,862 of the classic car left the Longbridge plant, near
Birmingham, last Wednesday.
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MOVIE OF THE WEEK: mail by mule
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SUPAI, Arizona (CNN) -- The village of Supai -- accessible only by foot, horseback or helicopter -- is home to more than 600 Havasupai Indians who live on a reservation deep below the south rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Remote? Yes. Isolated? No. The U.S. Postal Service delivers mail and supplies to the Havasupai the same way it's been done for more than a century -- by mule train.
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