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Stanford University researchers recently ended a long-standing debate among owl specialists as to which sense owls most rely on to detect food at night. In a September journal article determining sight to be most important, they reported fitting owls with eyeglasses.
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Skin-care expert Constance Schrader, quoted in the U.S. Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps, says people can temporarily banish skin wrinkles by pulling the skin over a wrinkle taut, then licking a stamp, applying it to the wrinkle, and pulling it off, which produces a “healing rush of blood” to the affected area.
Georgia Tech researchers recently offered volunteers $15 each to tumble down a flight of stairs for videotapes about how a body falls. Research sponsors included advocates of energy-absorbing construction materials.
Hu Changfu, 81, was cited in a New China News Agency story in August for his hobby of killing an estimated 4,000 flies a day in Beijing. The Neighborhood Sanitary Committee, which buys the flies by the pound, pays him $1,000 per year. During the May student protests, Hu collected 5.5 pounds of flies from the garbage and human waste around Tiananmen Square.
Arrest warrants were served in August on the Reverend Michael Meade and two friends in Southington, Connecticut, after five adolescent girls were baptized in the friends’ home without parental permission. The friends’ daughter had invited the girls to a party to “eat pizza and talk about God” but had not mentioned baptism.
