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[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

AWESOME! When is the movie coming out?

They're gay, too? Cool!

[Lamplighter]

Here's followup from Higgs Boson Central.
The quote below has been re-organized to clarify the article.

Close, but no cigar. (yet)

NY Times
DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: December 13, 2011
Data Hints at Elusive Particle, but the Wait Continues

Physicists will have to keep holding their breath a while longer.

Physicists around the world, fueled by coffee, dreams and Internet rumors of a breakthrough,
gathered in lounges and auditoriums early Tuesday morning
to watch a lengthy Webcast of the results at CERN.
“Physicists at 8 a.m.,” exclaimed Neal Weiner,
a theorist who organized a gathering at New York University.
“That’s really impressive!”

Two teams of scientists sifting debris from high-energy proton collision
in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization
for Nuclear Research outside Geneva, said Tuesday
that they had recorded tantalizing hints — but only hints —
of a long-sought subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson,
whose existence is a key to explaining why there is mass in the universe.
By next summer, they said, they will have enough data
to say finally whether the elusive particle really exists.

Meanwhile, the other team, known as C.M.S.
— for its detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid —
found what its spokesman, Guido Tonelli, termed “a modest excess”
in its data corresponding to masses around 124 billion electron volts.

The physicists from the different teams are already discussing
whether these differences are significant.

The fact that two rival teams using two different mammoth particle detectors
had recorded similar results was considered good news.

They still think they will need a bigger collider.

[classicman]

Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies

A South Carolina man's brother died after police said he was forced to eat cocaine hidden in his brother's backside.

Both brothers were taken into custody on allegations they had drugs in their car.

But police told Charleston, S.C., TV station WCIV there were additional drugs hidden in 23-year-old Deangelo Mitchell's backside.

Officers said Deangelo Mitchell convinced his brother, 20-year-old Wayne Mitchell, to swallow the ounce of cocaine to hide the evidence. He died soon afterward.

"It's sickening," North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt told WCIV. "I got upset when I saw the thing. I was pretty shocked on it."

Deangelo Mitchell already bonded out of jail on the drug charge, but now police are looking for him again on charges of involuntary manslaughter.

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[sexobon]

What, nothing about it being crack cocaine?

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by classicman

Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies


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But it doesn't say "butt," it says "backside." That can mean all kind of things.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by sexobon

What, nothing about it being crack cocaine?

[Gravdigr]

Well WTF...Did he die from an OD, from ass poison, choke to death, or what?

WTF killed the guy? Shame?

That guy sounds like a real buttmunch.

[Gravdigr]

I guess this guy got a front seat on the Express train to Hell...

[glatt]

What sort of a guy's name is Isabel?

[Gravdigr]

Damn! I was rereading the article and a quote from an old Dirty Harry movie sprang into my head:

A man's got to know his limitations.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

WTF killed the guy?

OD apparently.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by glatt

What sort of a guy's name is Isabel?

Total shithead, judging by this example.

[infinite monkey]

Why is the heading 'HEART ATTACK' there first, but smaller than the 2nd, yet more relevant, headline?

[footfootfoot]

Notice "stopped having sex with her" rather than stopped raping her.

So rape is having sex? When did they change that?

[BrianR]

Certain militant feminists have been claiming that all sex is rape for twenty years now. Keep up!