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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore laboratory in California recently produced “sea gel,” an edible paperlike substance made from seaweed that is lighter than air.
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An Australian government research organization announced in December that it is on the verge of breeding sheep whose wool secretes insect-killing proteins that make it moth-proof. The same organization recently developed sheep with wool so loose it could be pulled off by hand.
TV evangelist Robert Tilton, weary of having lawsuits filed against him by former followers who claimed to have paid him to revive dead relatives: “If you want to be mad at somebody, get mad at God; don’t sue me.”
Dexter Manley, who retired from the National Football League in December to play in Canada after failing his fourth drug test, told reporters in July that he talks personally to Mackenzie King, the deceased Canadian prime minister. “I’m sincere. Whether people believe me or not, my vision is real to me. I tell you I talked to [King]. We talked about thunder and lightning.”
Last June in Tempe, Arizona, a comedian with the stage name Joe Michaels died of a heart aneurysm during a performance. He was emceeing alive version of The Dating Game at Rowdy’s Bar when he collapsed and fell off the stage. According to an employee who rushed to help him, Michaels’s mumbled last words were, “Bachelor number one.”
