IDEA-Boob Jobs To Give Tourism a Lift (plastic City)

BOOB jobs are the answer to the Gold Coast's financial predicament, according to mayoral candidate Tom Tate.The Surfers Paradise businessman says cleaning up the city's sleazy image is not the way to go, instead touting the city as the ideal place to get plastic surgery.Mr Tate will run for mayor at next year's local government elections and is convinced medical tourism can solve the Glitter Strips economic woes. ''People could come here to have their procedures done, stay at the Versace, experience all the Gold Coast has to offer -- and then just go home with bigger boobs,'' he said.

Mr Tate's radical proposal is just one of his visions for the city.



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TGIF-Friday most popular day for bank robberies

NEW YORK - Bank robberies in the United States take place most often in mid-morning, on Fridays and in southern and western states, according to government statistics released Tuesday.

Robbers stole slightly more than $43 million last year nationwide in 5,546 robberies of banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, statistics released by the FBI showed.

The South led the way with 1,790 bank robberies, followed by the West with 1,691. California had the most robberies at 805, followed by Texas with 464. North Dakota, where there were two bank robberies, had the least.Overall, there were 5,628 reported bank crimes — the 5,546 robberies along with 74 burglaries, eight larcenies and 13 extortions of financial institutions.

Wow-Chocolate Bunny battle

VIENNA - An Austrian chocolate company vowed on Tuesday to appeal a ruling by a Vienna court that stops it from producing Easter bunnies resembling those made by Switzerland’s Lindt & Spruengli.

Austria’s Hauswirth has been locked in a seven-year battle with larger confectioner Lindt over the chocolate figures. Both chocolatiers make the distinctive sitting bunny shapes wrapped in gold foil with a red ribbon bow tie.Lindt says Hauswirth’s bunnies are a knock-off of their own version and violate its EU trademark. It won the case blocking production at a trade court last week but the Austrian company says the bitter chocolate battle will go on. “We are going to file an appeal because we continue to believe in our legal case and the rule of law,” company Chief Roman Hauswirth said in a statement.

Good-Paris Sewers to heat schools

PARIS - The Paris sewers — whose murky labyrinths have been reviled and romanticized through history — are at the centre of a renewable energy experiment to harness heat for buildings, including the presidential palace.Paris wants green sources to fuel 30 percent of its energy needs by 2020 and a new heating project at a primary school is the city’s first using power from sewers, where temperatures average between 12 and 20 degrees Celsius (53 to 68 Fahrenheit).The technology takes advantage of the warm waste water flowing into the sewers from showers, dishwashers and washing machines. A steel plate containing heat-conveying fluid is submerged in the waste and feeds a heat exchanger pump — in this case located in the school’s cellar — which circulates heat through an existing network of radiators.