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News of the Weird (July 14, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Top Gun: Todd Whitehurst may be the “father” of from 42 to 60 children, based on statistical probability that recognizes his virtuosity as a sperm donor, according to a June New York Post profile (though one website, Donor Sibling Registry, claims to have documented 129 children sired by an unnamed seed demon, who is one of 92 highly productive men with 10 or more).
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News of the Weird (July 7, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Somehow, upscale restaurateurs believe that diners will soon willingly pay more for a beef dish if it comes with disclosure of the DNA of the actual cow being eaten, according to a May Associated Press report.
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News of the Weird (June 30, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Giddyup! When a strain of equine herpes led to a temporary quarantine at horse farms in central Utah, the sponsors of the Davis County Mounted Posse Junior Queen contest in May had a dilemma, but instead of canceling the competition in which the cowgirls show their skills on horseback, they decided to conduct the show except with the girls “riding” stick “ponies” to get style points.
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News of the Weird (June 16, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead StoryIn Chinese legend, tea leavespicked by fairies using not their handsbut just their mouths yielded brewedtea that would bring prosperity andcure diseases, and now the historic,picturesque Jiu
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News of the Weird (June 9, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Ellenbeth Wachs, 48, was arrested in Lakeland, Fl., in May on a complaint that she “simulated” a sex act in front of a minor.
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News of the Weird (June 2, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Rights of women are severely restricted in Pakistan’s tribal areas and among Muslim fundamentalists, but the rights of the country’s estimated 50,000 “transgenders” blossomed in April when the country’s Supreme Court ordered the government to accept a “third sex” designation on official documents (instead of forcing a choice of “male” or “female”).
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News of the Weird (May 26, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Tonya McDowell, 33, an off-and-on homeless person in Bridgeport, Conn., was arrested in April by police in nearby Norwalk and charged with felony theft—of $15,686 worth of “services” from the city.
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News of the Weird (May 19, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story The cure for emphysema is cigarette smoke piped directly into the lungs, according to chemist Gretha Zahar, whose clinic has treated 60,000 people in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the past decade.
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News of the Weird (May 12, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Equal justice under the law might just depend simply on whether a judge’s stomach is growling when he pronounces sentence, according to a study of 1,000 parole decisions during 50 courtroom days observed by students from Columbia University and Israel’s Ben Gurion University for an April journal article.
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News of the Weird (May 5, 2011)

By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story Businesses typically resist government regulation, but in March Florida’s interior designers begged the state House of Representatives to continue controlling them, with a theatrically ham-handed lobbying campaign challenging a deregulation bill.