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When pigs fly, airline embarrassed
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania -- On October 17, a pig flew on board a six-hour US Airways flight -- sitting on the floor of the first row of first class. The airline is embarassed and says it will never happen again.
The pig's traveling companions convinced the airline that the pig was a "therapeutic companion pet," like a guide dog for the blind.
According to an internal airline report, the animal got out-of-hand upon arrival in Seattle. It went running through the plane squealing and tried to get into the cockpit.
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Boy's wrestling move sends him out the window
TACOMA, Wash. -- A 7-year-old boy practicing wrestling moves from TV did a flip from his bedroom dresser, missed the bed and bounced right out a second-story window.
The boy landed on grass, suffering only cuts and bruises. "Sometimes it hurts to wrestle," he said. "I'm not doing any more wrestling moves."
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Pope gives politicians a patron saint
VATICAN CITY -- Politicians -- often said to be in need of solid role models -- have been given a more ethereal source of inspiration following Pope John Paul II's proclamation of Saint Thomas More as their patron saint.
More is seen by the Vatican -- and Christians around the world -- as a symbol of integrity. The English statesman was beheaded in 1535 for refusing to recognise the self-proclaimed supremacy of King Henry VIII in spiritual matters.
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MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Island of the Dolls
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XOCHIMILCO, Mexico (CNN) -- No one knows why Don Julian has hundreds of toy dolls hanging from trees around his simple home. And he will not say where they came from.
The Island of the Dolls, as locals know it, has come to inspire curiosity, fear, and even reverence.
One Brazilian couple who visited the dolls a few years back secretly prayed to one, asking it to cure their ill daughter. They swear it worked. But others say those who visit the hanging dolls might become cursed. And that their custodian is himself a wizard.
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