The shark shield is supposed to keep sharks away from surfboards. Unfortunately, in testing it attracted a great white shark that ate it!
http://feedmoo.com/2008/03/04/anti-shark-device-eaten-by-irony-loving-great-white-do-not-buy/
Very interesting article of why kids lie:
http://nymag.com/news/features/43893/
Amazing that a grandmother AND granddaughter were born on Leap Day!
http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=7948271
28-year-old woman fell into a coma during a difficult delivery. The doctors were going to shut off her life support 2 weeks later so her husband grabbed her hand and started shouting at her…it worked and she woke up! She says that she doesn’t like getting yelled at by her husband:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517535&in_page_id=1770
New Georgia law requires each elementary school kid to be weighed twice per year and post the aggregated results on the school’s website:
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/health/stories/2008/02/29/obesity_0301_web.html
Afghanistan produces 90% of the world’s opium, with most of the opium grown in Taliban strongholds. They also convert the opium to heroin or morphine. Apparently Afghanistan is ALSO the world’s leading producer of pot. I guess that is how the Taliban and others in Afghanistan are making money now:
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/03/26/afghanistans_opium_dilemma/6923/
Only 30% of Afghanistan is under the control of the official government, one big problem with stopping the drugs. The Taliban controls 10%:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/02/27/4880321-ap.html
Japanese swimsuit model was acquitted of breaking into her ex-boyfriend’s home because she demonstrated that she was too well endowed to fit through the hole in the wall:
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3978
Iraq war vet claimed he was the victim of a drive-by shooting, but it turned out that he had a friend shoot him in the shoulder because he wanted to skip the drug test he was supposed to take at work!
http://www.keprtv.com/news/16200812.html
A Chinese man rescued a 7-year-old boy who was drowning in a pond…20 years after rescuing the boy’s father in the same pond!
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2747111.html?menu=
More than 1% of the adults in the US are in prison–the US leads all other countries in this category:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/28/ST2008022803016.html
Interesting that for Lent some Christians are trying to reduce their carbon footprints instead of giving up drinking or sweets for Lent:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102604.html
Interesting that ultrasounds have discovered the G spot and that only some women have it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/21/medicalresearch.sciencenews
Link found between cell phones in men’s pockets and infertility:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-02-24-cellphones-fertility_N.htm
Amazing that long hair can tell CSIs the regions you have been in for the past 2-3 years!
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1720520,00.html
Study found that antidepressants should not be prescribed except in cases of severe depression:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23348068/
Amazing that this Brunei Prince buned through $14.8 billion. His brother the Sultan accused him of wasteful spending (1700 luxury cars!) and is asking for the assets to be returned:
http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Mar08/020308/nite01.htm
Interesting that 1/3 of workers sleep or are very sleepy at work, with the 4.5 hours per week they bring work home is partially to blame:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/03/sleep.job.ap/
