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Yahoo News - LONDON (Reuters) – A partial set of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's gold-mounted dentures has fetched 15,200 pounds ($23,770) at auction, over three times the estimate. The false teeth, specially designed to disguise Churchill's lisp, were sold by the son of the technician who was commissioned to make them. They had been expected to make a maximum of 5,000 pounds at Thursday's sale by Keys auctioneer. "The atmosphere was electric," said a Keys' spokesman.

TalkingPoints.com – Evan McMorris-Santoro - In a wide-ranging profile due out in next month's issue of Details, Kentucky's Republican nominee for Senate, Rand Paul, stands up for all the good things the controversial practice of mountain top-removal mining can do for the environment. Despite warnings from conservationists that blowing the tops off of mountains to get the precious, precious coal underneath can have a seriously negative impact on the surrounding land, Paul says that when you really stop to think about it, losing those mountain tops is actually a net positive.

The Independent - Brewing company BrewDog has created the world's strongest, and possibly most expensive, beer sold in taxidermied stoats. The BBC reported recently that Scottish Brewers, Brewdog, the creators of the 32% ABV Tactical Nuclear Penguin and the 41% Sink the Bismark, have broken the record for the world's strongest beer, with their new beverage, known as ‘The End of History,' which weighs in at 55% ABV. However, the record-breaking super-strength beer also comes served in dead squirrels or stoats.

By DON PEAT, QMI Agency - TORONTO - Don't leave your resume behind at the scene of the crime.Barrie, Ont., cops didn't have to look too hard for an alleged shoplifter who was hunting for a job at the same time over the weekend. The 40-year-old woman was at a Bayfield St. store for a job interview but after meeting the store manager and handing over her resume, the woman was spotted on store security cameras allegedly lifted several items, police said. She bolted with the items and the store manager, who was in the backroom at the time, called the cops.

Wall St. Journal Law Blog - Time to brush up on your trademark law. We turn now to the dog-eat-dog world of toothpaste packaging, where a word we’ve never heard of is at the center of a heated dispute between the Colgate-Palmolive Company and GlaxoSmithKline. The loaded word?