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The worship of youth continues its devastation: > A guest on the television talk show "Oprah" recently shared her secret to fighting facial wrinkles: vaginal cream. > "I have been putting Premarin vaginal cream on my face for 20 years, and it works," said Vicki Mackarvich.

A teenage girl breaks up with her boyfriend. He supposedly says some unkind things about her. In retaliation, she causes 300 naked photos of him to be passed around the school, much to the amusement of the other student bodies. But apparently they're back together: > "It&

> The City of Toronto licenses more than 200 brothels under the banner of holistic health centres, a Toronto Star investigation has found. > Licensed to offer alternative health treatments such as shiatsu, reflexology and aromatherapy, about three-quarters of the city's holistic centres operate as sex dens. Link

Nasty Tina Brown is outta here! > A moment of silence, please, for Harold Evans, Henry the Intern, and the three diabetics watching CNBC on Sunday nights: Tina Brown, she of the bathroom that time forgot, has been “relinquished” of her duties and the last episode of Topic A will

Felon in the outfield. That's Eric Scheske. As we've mentioned before, May means nice weather and lots of children sporting events. But Friday was just too gorgeous (70 and sunny) to enjoy cold sober, so he took Child Three to baseball practice and helped out for

> A Romanian traffic cop has been demoted after he fined a driver for "having a face like a moron and being a big monkey". > Marius Vlasceanu pulled over Gheorghe Tosa as he drove through Craiova in Romania, local daily Jurnalul National reported. > But Tosa failed

> A state of the art swimming pool for down-on-their-luck dogs has been opened by the King of Thailand. > The pool at Bangkok's Kasetsart University will provide therapy for sick and injured dogs. > It has been named after the King's favourite pet, Suvarnachad, a

If you weren't aware of it, the Heritage Foundation provides live Internet broadcasts of its events. Link [http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/index.cfm]. It would be worth downloading the necessary plug-in, if you don't have it already. Here's the list of lectures

> Three New York doctors were charged on Thursday with giving large amounts of Viagra and other anti-impotence drugs to mob members in return for construction and auto repair work done by mafia-controlled businesses. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-06T161701Z_01_N05533102_RTRIDST_

> A second-hand Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict sold for 188,938 euros ($244,800) to a U.S. buyer in frenzied online bidding, a spokeswoman for eBay in Germany said Thursday. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-06T161556Z_01_L058907_RTRIDST_