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Captain Underpants Pulled Down!
This sounds like a job for "Captain Underpants!" If the captain's creator were to write the story of the conflict this week at Long Beach, New York High School, it might open like this -- the evil school principal went insane with horror when he saw three girls strolling brazenly through hallways looking like caped crusaders. Naked caped crusaders. Principal Nicholas Restivo had a problem with the way the three seniors were dressed on Superhero Day -- they were dressed as "Captain Underpants." He issued them an ultimatum -- change clothes, cover up or leave school. Chelsea Horowitz, Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin, all 17, left the school.
--Originally reported by Newsday.
Jockeys Too Hot for Firemen!
A city in Canada, under pressure for alleged sexual harassment within its fire department, has ordered firefighters to wear only boxer-style underwear. Richmond, British Columbia will spend more than 14-thousand dollars to buy six pairs of underwear for each firefighter in a bid to make fire stations in the suburb of Vancouver more gender neutral. A recent investigation of the department described its workplace culture as "characterized by juvenile and hostile behavior" toward female firefighters by their male colleagues. Firefighters strip off most of their clothes in order to don protective gear when responding to fire alarms and some of the men's underwear was deemed a little too...hot.
--Originally reported by The Vancouver Sun.
License to Kill!
A young woman's goal of getting her driver's license crashed this week -- right into the license branch. The 20-year-old woman was pulling into a parking spot outside the license branch in Portage, Indiana when she hit the accelerator instead of the brake. The car jumped a small curb and went into the building about 1:30 p-m Tuesday, tearing out a large glass window and damaging a door and low brick wall. The driver and the examiner, who weren't identified, were not injured. The young driver failed the test.
--Originally reported by The Indianapolis Star.
Sexsomnia
Researchers are struggling to understand a rare medical condition in which sufferers unknowingly demand, or actually have, sex while asleep. Research into sexsomnia -- making sexual advances toward another person while asleep -- has been hampered as sufferers are so embarrassed by the problem they tend not to own up to it, while doctors do not ask about it. As yet, there is no cure for the condition, which often leads to difficulties in relationships. Most researchers view sexsomnia as a variant of sleepwalking, where sufferers are stuck between sleep and wakefulness, though sexsomniacs tend to stay in bed rather than get up and walk about.
--Originally reported by New Scientist magazine.
This sounds like a job for "Captain Underpants!" If the captain's creator were to write the story of the conflict this week at Long Beach, New York High School, it might open like this -- the evil school principal went insane with horror when he saw three girls strolling brazenly through hallways looking like caped crusaders. Naked caped crusaders. Principal Nicholas Restivo had a problem with the way the three seniors were dressed on Superhero Day -- they were dressed as "Captain Underpants." He issued them an ultimatum -- change clothes, cover up or leave school. Chelsea Horowitz, Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin, all 17, left the school.
--Originally reported by Newsday.
Jockeys Too Hot for Firemen!
A city in Canada, under pressure for alleged sexual harassment within its fire department, has ordered firefighters to wear only boxer-style underwear. Richmond, British Columbia will spend more than 14-thousand dollars to buy six pairs of underwear for each firefighter in a bid to make fire stations in the suburb of Vancouver more gender neutral. A recent investigation of the department described its workplace culture as "characterized by juvenile and hostile behavior" toward female firefighters by their male colleagues. Firefighters strip off most of their clothes in order to don protective gear when responding to fire alarms and some of the men's underwear was deemed a little too...hot.
--Originally reported by The Vancouver Sun.
License to Kill!
A young woman's goal of getting her driver's license crashed this week -- right into the license branch. The 20-year-old woman was pulling into a parking spot outside the license branch in Portage, Indiana when she hit the accelerator instead of the brake. The car jumped a small curb and went into the building about 1:30 p-m Tuesday, tearing out a large glass window and damaging a door and low brick wall. The driver and the examiner, who weren't identified, were not injured. The young driver failed the test.
--Originally reported by The Indianapolis Star.
Sexsomnia
Researchers are struggling to understand a rare medical condition in which sufferers unknowingly demand, or actually have, sex while asleep. Research into sexsomnia -- making sexual advances toward another person while asleep -- has been hampered as sufferers are so embarrassed by the problem they tend not to own up to it, while doctors do not ask about it. As yet, there is no cure for the condition, which often leads to difficulties in relationships. Most researchers view sexsomnia as a variant of sleepwalking, where sufferers are stuck between sleep and wakefulness, though sexsomniacs tend to stay in bed rather than get up and walk about.
--Originally reported by New Scientist magazine.
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