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The Slim Mouthpiece (above) will finally do the job right if you're still having problems with the fat on the sides of your mouth. Just place the device on the corners of your mouth and begin to repeat the five vowels until you feel the burn. The mouthpiece also contains a removable spring with which you can upgrade the resistance.
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Stephen Jaquiery, Otago Daily Times illustrations editor, who stepped from a helicopter on to one of the icebergs off the Dunedin coast, can answer that age-old question, is an iceberg made of saltwater or fresh water? "As I sit here supping a whisky cooled by a chunk I brought back ... it tastes as pure as the driven snow," he says.
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Birdwatchers who flocked to see a rare breed of swallow that hasn't been seen in Britain for 20 years got a nasty surprise when the bird was eaten by a hawk in front of their eyes. The twitchers had been watching the red-rumped swallow for 20 minutes when a sparrowhawk swooped, near Montrose in Scotland. Group member Mike Sawyer said: "We were horrified. We had just called other birdwatchers to tell them the news, and then had to call back to say it had been eaten". (Source: Metro.co.uk)
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US double-jeopardy laws present ... In a new TV interview to promote his new book, OJ will discuss how he would have committed the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend "if I did it". Say what? The two-part television interview to air on the Fox network is titled O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened. In a video clip on the network's website, an off-screen interviewer says to Simpson, "You wrote: 'I have never seen so much blood in my life' ... " "I don't think any two people could be murdered without everybody being covered in blood," Simpson responds.
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The Herald staff often enjoy the comedy stylings of NZ Police that come in the form of email updates: This week the wags from Canterbury Communication Centre sent out a media alert warning that five cows were loitering on the Northern Motorway north of Christchurch, near Kaiapoi. They titled the email 'Steak Highway One'.
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A German doctor has been ordered to pay child support to a patient who got pregnant despite using a contraceptive implant. The precedent-setting ruling gives both parents, who are not married, the right to receive child support from the doctor until their son reaches adulthood. The doctor inserted a contraceptive implant into the arm of the woman who later found she was pregnant and it was too late for an abortion. The woman says she was unable to continue her work as a kindergarten teacher and could not support herself and the child. The gynaecologist will pay $1150 a month until the child turns 18.
