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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
How researchers spend their time:
–Documenting menopause in gorillas (at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo, to show that not just humans experience menopause) (December).
–Studying whether hamsters are happy or depressed (an Ohio State University project to determine whether non-humans experience seasonal affective disorder) (January).
–Finding the gene for ear wax (conclusion: Africans’ and Europeans’ ear wax tends to be wetter, and that among East Asians drier, with other Asians’ wax about midway between, though the Nagasaki University researchers failed to learn much else) (January).
In July 2005, News of the Weird reported that former Florida judge Gary Graham had been charged with child molesting, based on statements by a former girlfriend, and as an added touch, the woman had described Graham’s insistence that she present herself for sex in pigtails and with paint-on freckles, to give the effect of a young girl. In February 2006, a judge in Inverness, Fla., dropped all the charges after the ex-girlfriend admitted that she made everything up because she was angry.
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