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Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 5:29pm
Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - Being able to fly would be nice, so would invisibility. But given a chance to pick one superpower, more Americans say they would want to travel through time or read other people's minds.

Time travel and mind reading tied for first place in a Marist College poll released Tuesday. Both superpowers received 28 percent of the votes out of five choices. Flying came in third followed by the ability to teleport and invisibility.

Pollsters surveyed 1,020 people across the country Nov. 15 through Nov. 18. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

      

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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WNYT lights it up like it's 'Dynamite'

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Monday, January 24th, 2011, 5:48pm

We were so impressed by what the students at Monument Mountain Regional High School did that we were inspired to create our own lip dub.

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Skidmore students take it off in name of charity

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010, 6:52pm

SARATOGA SPRINGS - They take it all off, covering up only with tools of their trade or hobby. They're in all of their naked glory. Skidmore College students posed nude for a calendar that will raise money for a Ugandan orphanage.

For theater major Elly Smokler, being shot in the buff is not so tough.

"It was very liberating and silly and harmless," Smokler said.

Smokler is one of 90 Skidmore students to bare all. But during this age where everything ends up on the Internet, they aren't concerned what a prospective employer might think.

"I don't know if I'd want work for someone that was concerned about this. I'm really proud of what I've done," said senior English major Christopher Weigl, who  produced and appears in the calendar.

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Paul Caiano's Zombie Warning Forecast

Submitted by Chris Rooney, WNYT Web Manager
Friday, October 29th, 2010, 1:03pm

According to meteorologist Paul Caiano, Halloween looks to have a mix of sun and clouds with a chance of zombies.

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Naked man makes scene at Albany Airport

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Friday, August 13th, 2010, 5:48pm

COLONIE- The Albany County Sheriff's Office is investigating an unusual incident that happened at the Albany International Airport Friday morning.

Police say at 8:30 a.m. James M. Buccigrossi, 49, of Clifton Park, approached the ticket booth attendant of the airport's economy parking lot and told her he didn't have money to pay for his parking.

At the same time an airport fire truck was pulling into the lot to refuel. Buccigrossi jumped out of his vehicle and climbed into the truck, telling the firefighter inside that he was an air marshal and that he needed to get driving.

The man then began to undress as he told the firefighter that there was a bomb in his car, which was blocking an exit lane at the ticket booth at the time.

Deputies with the sheriff's office responded and secured Buccigrossi before setting up a perimeter around his car. Colonie EMS came and took him to Albany Medical Center for evaluation.

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