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...Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy Lingren of Beason, whose winning cry was "Kenneeeee, the sows are in heat, and I can't get the boar out of the mudhole...
...dusty Veramin plain on the outskirts of Tehran. Hussein Gohari, 14, squats next to the graves where his father Essa and his brothers Hassan and Ali lie, all killed in the conflict with Iraq. His mother, like many of the other widows at the cemetery, carefully washes her husband's gravestone, then sits with one hand on it in prayer. "We come every Friday," says Hussein. Soon his mother may be left alone to tend the graves. Hussein is ready, eager even, to join the war. "My mother doesn't want to lose me," he says, gazing steady-eyed...
...EBay Watch Bayraider bayraider.tv Bayraider ferrets out the silliest, freakiest stuff being auctioned on eBay and other auction sites-a laser-etched Buddha, say, or the Slightly Used and Possibly Defective Husband kit-and provides direct links to where you can place your bid. There are things you may actually want, too. Discoveries are organized by category (Music, Sporty Stuff, Weird). New from Shiny Media, a U.K. weblog company...
Investigators in Largo, Fla., last week disclosed the results of an autopsy of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who was the subject of a bitter struggle over whether to remove her feeding tube--pitting her husband Michael against her parents, right-to-lifers and members of Congress--before she was allowed to die in March. The autopsy, vindicating Michael, showed her damage was irreversible, she had gone blind, and her brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush...
...Palace says that allegations that three of Arroyo's relatives, including her husband Miguel, received money from an illegal gambling racket are just another part of the plot. Last Thursday, Sandra Cam, a 45-year-old former provincial official, told a Senate investigating panel that she delivered tens of thousands of dollars in cash to the President's son, Juan Miguel, and her husband's brother, Ignacio Arroyo. (Both men, along with Arroyo's husband, have denied getting payoffs from the so-called jueteng numbers rackets.) Arroyo responded swiftly, ordering an investigation by the Justice Department...