have problems hearing? there might be an easy cure for you… ” A 72-year-old man who suffered from profound deafness has returned home from a skiing trip with “crystal-clear” hearing. Derek Glover needed hearing aids for 15 years but? has now thrown them away. The former auction house worker had …
” A man from north Cornwall who regularly eats animals killed on the roads is set to share his unusual taste with others. Arthur Boyt, who is 66 and from Davidstow, is writing a recipe book about his gastronomic enthusiasm for roadkill. Mr Boyt, a retired civil servant, insists the …
Here’s an image I didn’t want to have in my head… Published Fri, Jan 27, 2006 The Associated Press ” OSLO, Norway (AP) – Health authorities expressed shock and disgust Friday over reports that employees at a hospital in southern Norway threw a party in a post-mortem room and covered …
What people are keeping as pets nowadays…. LISBON, Portugal (AP) – Police on Friday captured two crocodiles being kept as housepets in a house in southern Portugal, officials said. The crocodiles, 18 years old, were living in a closed backyard in conditions similar to those of their natural habitat, the …
From Reuters: KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia plans to send two teams of scientists to scour its southern rainforests and track down a huge ape said to have been spotted there, a government official said Friday. “Bigfoot” fever has dominated Malaysian newspaper headlines for several weeks now, with several dramatic …
Scientists at Syracuse University, recently describing for a British journal their study of body measurements of bats, found an inverse size relationship between a male bat’s brain and testicles. The researchers hypothesized that both sperm and brains are metabolically costly to produce, and in species with relatively stable monogamous relationships, …
Two men, aged 50 and 36, who had taken a taxicab home so they wouldn’t be driving drunk, were killed when the cab was hit by a 21-year-old drunken driver (Albuquerque, November). And a 21-year-old Mormon man, riding in a truck at about 35 mph with his brothers, who were …
