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MONDAY,  AUGUST 10,  2009

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A New York hot dog vendor says he was evicted from his spot by the Metropolitan Museum of Art because he could not afford the $53,558 monthly rent.  Vendor Pasang Sherpa, 51, said while he routinely made up to $1,500 daily at his busy vending location by the New York museum, he fell $310,000 behind on the Parks Department rent, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.

Welcome to New York. 

SUNDAY,  AUGUST 9,  2009

Actual AP headline today:  Collision Over Hudson Interrupts Idyllic Day

Yeah, I'll buy that.

HAMILTON (Reuters) - Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island.  The four members of China's Muslim Uighur minority began working last week to help prepare the lush, seaside Port Royal course to host the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October.

Just ignore the land mines planted at the ninth hole.

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