Inappropriate Kisses
Malaysian Shahimi Abdul Hamid, 33, announced that on March 11, he will, as a matter of Asian pride, challenge the world record for speed-kissing a venomous snake, which is held by an American, and he smooched up a 9-foot-long cobra at his press conference.
And last Oct. 31, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune police column, "An employee of a business complained that a former coworker had been constantly showing up and kissing his truck, leaving lip marks all over it. Police warned the man to stay away."
Signs of the times
In September, fertility experts interviewed by London's Daily Telegraph said an alarming number of women were choosing in-vitro fertilization not because of trouble conceiving, but merely because "fast track" pregnancies better fit their busy lifestyles.
The provincial government in Buenos Aires began in December requiring all retail clothiers selling to adolescent girls to stock a range of "plus" sizes in order to encourage larger girls to obsess less about being thin.
In November, researches from the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Ireland told a convention in Chicago that two-thirds of their patients who received injections into the buttock muscle had not received the full dose of medicine because existing needles are not long enough to reach beyond the fat.
