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A CHICKEN AND
EGG SITUATION
USA Why did the chicken
cross the road when he
reached the polling station? Because
he wasn’t allowed within 100 feet of
it… Nevada officials have banned
chicken costumes from polling stations
during the 8 June primaries, assuming
they’ll be worn to mock Republican
Senate candidate Sue Lowden. The
former beauty queen suggested
Americans should barter for medical
care, like when “our grandparents
would bring a chicken to the doctor”.
In response, Democrat supporters
attended Lowden’s campaign events
in chicken fancy dress costumes.
Registrar Dan Burk said such costumes
would be “inappropriate and obvious”
at polling stations so banned them
along with political badges, shirts,
hats and signs.
NOD OFF IN
NEVERLAND
HE WAS ARRESTED ON
CHARGES OF ASSAULT
AND BATTERY FARMING
SOUND ASLEEP: FANS CAN
REST AMONG JACKO’S THINGS
Japan Calling all Michael
Jackson fans. Feeling blue
as the first anniversary of the King of
Pop’s death approaches? Fear not.
Moonwalk to Tokyo where the
promoters of the Neverland Collection
– an exhibition of Jackson’s belongings
on display at the Tokyo Tower – are
holding a sleepover for Jackson
devotees on 25 June. Snuggle down
beside Jackson’s 1967 Rolls-Royce
Phantom, curl up beneath costumes
he wore in the Thriller video and unfurl
your sleeping bag among whole heaps
of Jacko’s personal pieces. Just
remember to bring your wallet; tickets
are going for a whopping $1,000.
ELSEW HER E
SWISS GET THEIR
JUST DESSERTS
Switzerland The Swiss
have reclaimed their title for
creating the world’s largest tiramisu.
The nation lost the prestigious
accolade last year when a group
of French bakers from Lyon whipped
up a whopping 1,075.9kg beast of
a pudding. Now, a dedicated gang
of 155 volunteers from Porrentruy –
the Italian community in western
Switzerland which held the record
before the Lyon chefs – have donned
their best pinnies and spent 14
hours beating together 799kg of
mascarpone cheese, 6,400 eggs, 350
litres of cream, 189kg of sugar, 300
litres of coffee, 35kg of cocoa, 66kg
of liqueur and 64,000 biscuits. After
hygiene checks, the enormous
pudding was registered by The
Guinness Book Of Records and the
Swiss could celebrate rustling up a
sugary treat which ch was more than
twice the size of the one previously
created by their French
rivals. The sloppy y
dessert was
made in the
town’s ice-skating g
rink and the final
treat measured
8cm-high, 50
square metres in
area and weighed d
in at 2310.8kg. Yum. um.
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“AND THERE ARE
STILL 54,631SERVINGS
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WE’RE NOT SURE THE
GLEE SOUNDTRACK
HAS THE SAME EFFECT...
MUSIC TO YOUR
BABY’S EARS
Austria If you’ve been
whistling Mozart sonatas
to your pregnant belly, hoping to get
your kid into Oxbridge, you may as
well stop. Researchers in Vienna have
debunked the myth that listening to
Mozart makes you smarter. The theory,
termed ‘The Mozart Effect’, was first
published in 1993 in the journal Nature,
and instigated a wave of classicalmusic
hysteria with nurseries playing
opera to napping infants and students
revising revisi with Wolfgang Amadeus eus
concertos conc booming in the background. ckground.
The UUS state of Georgia even n
distributed distr classical CDs to
new ne mums. But after
testing t 3,000 individuals,
Vienna V University’s Faculty ty of
Psychology P decreed that while
people pe listening to music do
perform pe better than those e listening
to nothing, Mozart fans aren’t en’t
squeezing squ more brainpower er out of
their the headphones than the rest of us.
THE PASSION PILL
Germany “Not tonight love,
I’ve got a headache” may
become an excuse of the past if
scientists at Boehringer Ingelheim
get their way. The German
pharmaceutical company has
developed a nifty new drug called
Flibanserin, a little pink pill that toys
with a woman’s brain (and blood flow)
to increase her sexual
appetite – a Viagra
specifically for the
fairer sex. Originally
created for use as
an antidepressant,
the drug was
tested on
pre-menopausal
females affected
by hypoactive
sexual desire
disorder
[the absence
of sexual
fantasies or an urge
for sexual activity], and results
revealed a marked increase in levels
of sexual satisfaction over 24 weeks.
The US Food And Drink Association
(FDA) is scheduled to discuss the
approval of the drug on 18 June.
INTELLIGENT
LIFE AQUATIC
THE ‘FEMALE VIAGRA’ MAY BE
ABOUT TO TRANSFORM SPAM
MAIL BOXES EVERYWHERE
Finland This week’s Eco
Gold Star goes to a group of
conservationists, philosophers and
legal experts who’ve been petitioning
for dolphins and whales to be given
the same rights to life and liberty as
humans, because of their superior
intelligence to other mammals.
According to the Whale and Dolphin
Conservation Society, which held
a two-day conference at the University
of Helsinki, giant sea mammals display
moral codes and self-awareness that
scientists used to think were unique
to humans and great apes. Dolphins
can even recognise themselves in
a mirror, a rare quality in animals.
Prime whaling nations Iceland, Japan
and Norway oppose the declarations,
which ask for an end to the
hunting and capturing
of sea mammals.
DOLPHINS CAN RECOGNISE
THEMSELVES IN MIRRORS.
WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THEY
TAKE SO LONG IN THE BATHROOM
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