Ducks, dorks and deviants: Wackiest stories of 2008

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The trial of the US student indicted this fall for allegedly breaking into the e-mail account of then-Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin won't happen until May 2009. The story certainly was one of the more colorful items in Palin's eventful year. The student David Kernell, 20, allegedly hacked Palin's Yahoo Mail account in September.

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