Woman to Undergo Surgery to Look Like Jessica Alba

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HEADLINE: Woman to Undergo Surgery to Look Like Jessica Alba
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584049,00.html?test=latestnews
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A Chinese woman is so keen to win back her ex-boyfriend she plans to undergo plastic surgery to transform herself into his favorite actress — Hollywood star Jessica Alba, AFP reported on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old, who identified herself as Xiaoqing, told the Shanghai Daily that she had met with doctors at a plastic surgery clinic in Shanghai who offered to do the work for free.
"I have made my decision," the newspaper quoted her as saying.
"I'm not only doing it for my ex-boyfriend, but for myself. I am a psychologically weak person. I want to do something to challenge myself and build a strong personality through it."

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HEADLINE: Children drinking two bottles of wine a week
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7082570/Children-drinking-more-than-adult-safe-levels-official-figures-show.html
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telegraph.co.uk - Children in the north of the country drink and smoke more than those in the south, data from the NHS Information Centre has found.
In particular, girls aged between 11 and 15 in the Midlands and the North are drinking more than the recommended limits for adult women.
They are consuming around a bottle and a half of wine a week.
Adult women are advised not to drink more than two to three units a day (or up to 14 units a week) and men not more than three to four (or up to 21 units a week) with two alcohol free days a week.

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HEADLINE: Game Sees Children Give Out Virtual Condoms
SOURCE LINK: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Parents-Outrage-Over-Online-Game-Where-Girls-Give-Characters-Contraception-And-Adopt-Orphans/Article/201001415536316?lpos=UK_News_Third_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region__1&lid=ARTICLE_15536316_Parents_Outrage_Over_Online_Game_Where_Girls_Give_Characters_Contraception_And_Adopt_Orphans
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An online game that sees girls as young as seven give virtual characters contraception and adopt children as fashion accessories has outraged parents' groups.Players of 'My Minx' can clothe their characters in sexy lingerie and other revealing outfits, and buy 'trophy orphans', who are named after children adopted by celebrities.

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HEADLINE: Hoon, 80, slept while driving 160km/h
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/hoon-80-slept-while-driving-160kmh/story-e6frfku0-1225824160401
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A FORMER Sunday school teacher, and possibly Australia's oldest hoon driver, says he only drove at 160km/h because he fell asleep.
Farmer and former Sunday school teacher Ron Bell, 80, said his life had been destroyed by his reckless driving last July and he can no longer go to bowls or church.
He was given a suspended driving sentence.
The octogenarian drove at nearly 160km/h for 23km in a 100km/h zone in north-western Victoria while being pursued by police, the Horsham Magistrates Court was told yesterday.

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HEADLINE: Short and sweet - monkeys keep their chat concise, scientists find
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8479170.stm
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Monkeys avoid long-winded chatter, preferring to keep it brief, a new study suggests.
Scientists found that macaques use short calls far more often than lengthier vocalisations.
Humans also do this: the words that we use most often, such as "a", "of" and "the", do not take long to say.
The fact that we both share this vocal trait could shed more light on the origin of human language, the team writes in the journal Biology Letters.
The relationship between the length of a word and how often it is used is described by the "law of brevity".

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HEADLINE: California School District Bans Dictionary Over 'Oral Sex' Definition
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584010,00.html
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A California school district has added a new book to the controversial list of literature that is considered unfit for young eyes.

It's the dictionary.
The Golden State's Menifee Union School District has yanked all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its shelves and is investigating the classic American text for containing "age-inappropriate" words.
The trouble started when an inquisitive student got lost somewhere between "oralism" and "orang" and found a rather recent entry to the lexicon: "oral sex," a phrase that has been in common parlance since 1973 but still makes many parents fairly hot under the collar.

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HEADLINE: Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/international/i140829S94.DTL&tsp=1
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A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.
Hans Kurt Kubus, 58, is to be deported to Germany as soon as he is released from prison, Judge Colin Doherty ordered Tuesday.
Kubus was caught by wildlife officials at Christchurch International Airport on South Island in December, about to board an overseas flight with 44 geckos and skinks in a hand-sewn package concealed in his underwear.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/international/i140829S94.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dlMaxHtI

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