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Design contest aims to give kitchen standby Tupperware a hip new image: NEW YORK (AP) - Tupperware has many purposes: forming Jell-O rings, spin-drying salads, storing spaghetti, microwaving oatmeal. more »

Long Island principal bars girls wearing Captain Underpants costumes: LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) - Captain Underpants has battled talking toilets and Professor Poopypants but he was no match for a Long Island high school principal who banned students from dressing up as the children's book character.
New York moves to block identity theft, brings shredding power to the people: RYE, N.Y. (AP) - Mr. Smith, as he wants to be known, is a very private man. He wouldn't give his real name, he wouldn't say how old he was and he ducked behind a reporter when a photographer approached.
Rescue team ends search for manatee that swam up Mississippi to Memphis: MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Would-be rescuers ended their search Friday for a manatee that strayed an unprecedented 1,127 kilometres up the Mississippi River, leaving the warm-water mammal to an uncertain fate far north of its natural range.
Road rage: shopkeeper punches out motorist - and his car - in parking dispute: MAHOPAC, N.Y. (AP) - A shopkeeper at a strip mall got so angry about the way a man parked his car that he punched both the motorist and the car.
North Carolina dad says cop toy utters curse word, wants pulled from shelves: JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A father is asking Toys "R" Us Inc. to take a police toy set off the shelves because he says the one given to his 6-year-old son utters a curse word.
South Korean condom sales, motel bookings surge after North's nuclear test: SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Condom sales and bookings at several of South Korea's pay-by-the-hour "love motels" surged in the aftermath of North Korea's nuclear test, according to statistics released Thursday.
New British book reveals how many famous quotes have been altered: LONDON (AP) - Mr. Spock never uttered the words: "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it," to Enterprise Capt. James Kirk.
Krazy George celebrates starting the Wave cheer 25 years ago: OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Krazy George Henderson has spent the last quarter-century trying to persuade everyone that he debuted the "Wave" during an Oakland Athletics' playoff game against the Yankees - not those Washington football fans who claim the Huskies first performed the now famous cheer.
Man tried to castrate dog using glass; thought she was a hermaphrodite: STRATFORD, Ont. (CP) - A man who used a piece of glass to try to castrate his female dog because he thought she was a hermaphrodite has pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering.