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In September it was reported that the government of Japan had begun testing silvery, reflective coats and hats for cows, designed by a Tokyo professor to cool them in summer and warm them in winter, making them produce more meat and milk. Australian researcher Dr. Philbert Hausman said earlier this year that milk production could be increased up to 35 percent by playing certain background music while cows are being milked. He especially recommended Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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In August in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, plastic surgeon Frank Lomagistro saved the hand of a woman whose fingers were almost severed when her boyfriend accidentally slammed the door on them by attaching 35 leeches to her fingertips to draw blood down into the fingers.
A study of the safety of a new printing chemical used to foil counterfeiting of $50 bills, released by the Bank of Canada in July, concluded that an ordinary-sized person would have to eat $9.6 million for the chemical to be fatal.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
