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To honor the 50th anniversary of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies, the university’s Japanese Graduate & Researchers Society had a pretty unusual idea.  They decided to get together, dress like ninjas using dime-store costumes, and make the world’s largest California roll.  With a little help from the Alaska Seafood Marketing […]

Rachel Christie is quite an accomplished young woman.  Or she was, anyway.  At age 21, not only is she in training for the 2012 London Olympics as a heptathlete, she also found some time on her days off to become the first black winner of the Miss England competition.  However, while she might still represent […]

The 2009 inductees for the National Toy Hall of Fame have been announced, and this year’s class of honorees is the direct opposite of last year’s class.  Where the 2008 version required a lot of imagination to wring the most fun out of them, 2009’s hall of fame class requires a lot less thinking and […]

After 13 years on the police force, Terry Ashe has seen and experienced a lot of crazy things.  However, he hasn’t lost his sense of humor, or his ability to tell an appropriately lurid tale.  When his police cruiser was bitten by an angry alligator (apparently this is a common problem in Florida), he could’ve […]

Any time a baby goes missing, a big manhunt breaks out.  Fortunately for 7-month-old Shannon Lea Dedrick, her story has a happy ending.  Unfortunately for Shannon’s mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, and babysitter, Susan Elizabeth Brown, the baby’s happy ending will probably get them both jail time.  Shannon was reported missing on Saturday, and was discovered […]

Matthew Booth never thought his first trip out with a metal detector would find anything of real value.  Maybe some coins or old bottle caps, if he’s lucky.  Little did he know that when his machine started beeping in a field outside of Stirlingshire, Scotland, that he’d uncovered a rare and valuable treasure trove.  Booth’s […]

If you’re having the symptoms of the swine flu, you’re going to have to take more precaution than you realized.  This time, instead of just worrying about your human family members, you have to worry about your pets, too.  In this case, a 13-year-old cat in Iowa has caught swine flu from two of the […]

O’Rhonde Chapman may only be 17 years old, but he feels as though he’s been a woman all his life, merely trapped in the body of a man.  That’s why he routinely wears women’s clothing to school.  However, the day he donned a wig and stiletto heels is the day he went a little too […]

Humans and chimpanzees, from a genetic standpoint, are first cousins.  The difference between the two from a DNA standpoint is only like 1.2 percent of genetic material; all our other DNA is exactly the same.  It’s those few simple mutations, some of which are less than 5 million years old, that separate us from the […]

A 35-mile long crack in the Earth’s surface, somewhere in the remote Afar desert of Ethiopia, will eventually become a new ocean.  Unfortunately for the drought-starved Ethiopians, it won’t become an ocean tomorrow.  No, it’s a slow process that will take millions of years, but it will become an ocean one day. So what’s so […]

All in all, it was a pretty memorable day for 11-year-old Bulgarian gypsy Kordeza Zhelyazkova.  Not only did she become the bride of her boyfriend, Jeliazko Dimitrov, the 11-year-old from Sliven also became a mother.  She gave birth on her wedding day, two years before she becomes a teenager.  That’s a pretty big day. She […]

You might want to dismiss Dr. Drew Pinsky, star of such TV shows as Loveline and Sober House, as nothing more than one of those puffed-up TV doctors, like Dr. Phil or Dr. Laura.  However, that would be a mistake, because Dr. Drew is a real medical doctor, and he can add lifesaver to his […]