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BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, SC (WIS) - Lexington County School District Three is investigating after a first-grader complained about having to rub her teacher's feet. A district spokesperson said the district has launched a full investigation, appropriate action has been taken and the situation has been rectified. But that's not nearly enough for some parents. "She admitted to the children rubbing her feet," said Brenda Norris. "Just the thought of it... They immediately sent her home, but she's back there today." Norris is far from satisfied after her six-year-old granddaughter in first grade came home from Batesburg-Leesville Primary School last Wednesday to say...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Fort Wayne man is facing charges of voyeurism and child exploitation after he used an elaborate camera system to spy up skirts at an Indianapolis mall, police said. David Delagrange, 40, was spotted at Castleton Mall Saturday night getting very close to women and girls wearing dresses and sliding his right foot under their skirts, said Sgt. Matthew Mount...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases. The world is ready for women, or even other men, to legally buy sex, said Shady Lady Ranch owner Bobbi Davis. Plus, being the first to offer male service could boost business in tough economic times, she said. "With so many other male revues going on in Vegas, we thought it was time to give...

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There are baby bumps and then there are baby bumps. But there must be few women in history who have ever had a baby bump quite like octuplets mother Nadya Suleman. These extraordinary pictures show the 33-year-old baring her stomach eight days before having her brood. Smiling proudly, the mother-of-14 hoists her green patterned smock to show off her hugely distended stomach to the camera. The photographs, which first went up on tmz.com, show the strain her body was under as she reached the end of her record-breaking pregnancy. Single mother Suleman, who already had six children by IVF, used...

According to press reports, President-elect Barack Obama's favorite superheroes are Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian. But what do these picks say about Mr. Obama? Madeleine Brand talks to Gabriel Fowler, owner of indie comic book store Desert Island, about what the superheroes reveal about the next president.

Who said men’s pajamas and underwear belong only to men? For Spring 2009, designers delivered these intimate pieces specially for women. You have Dolce & Gabbana, Kris Van Assche, Yves Saint Laurent, and Etro to blame for this new trend. Dolce & Gabbana, Kris Van Assche, Etro, Yves Saint Laurent

Cure for killer bug - but there's a catch KATE FOSTER IN THE annals of medical history, this could go down as one of the most effective but stomach-churning treatments ever devised. Scientists seeking a cure for a deadly superbug have successfully treated patients using human faeces. Trials in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach. Clostridium difficile was last week at the heart of a damning report into cleaning failures at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust...

Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western Massachusetts farm.

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer. Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there. Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly. Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled...

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CHICAGO - A northern Illinois resident reported finding a bird’s head in a can of pinto beans, prompting a Chicago-based food company to announce a voluntary recall on Friday.. La Preferida Inc. said in a statement that it was recalling a limited number of its cans as a precaution. The company says the beans were canned by New Meridian Inc. in Eaton, Ind. “There are still many unanswered questions, but we have decided to err on the side of safety,” said David Brand, La Preferida’s director of quality assurance. The company is investigating to determine how the bird head got...

Doctors at a clinic in Kragujevac, central Serbia, have removed an 11 centimetre-long intestinal worm from a woman's eye socket. According to preliminary results, the worm taken from the 37-year-old patient's eye belongs to the Ascaris family, a common intestinal parasite in pigs that is also found in humans. No similar case has ever been recorded in Serbia and probably in Europe, Radomir Stojicevic, a doctor at the Kragujevac clinic, told the Tanjug news agency. The parasite had probably travelled through the patient's blood from the digestive tract into the eye socket, doctors at the clinic believe.

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Alleged fetus eater focus of new legislation Kansas considers bill to regulate conditions of abortion, medical clinics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 15, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Shockingly unsanitary conditions discovered at an abortion clinic in which the proprietor was accused of eating a fetus have prompted consideration of a bill by the Kansas Legislature to tighten up regulations for all medical facilities. Last spring, Krishna Rajanna's abortion clinic in Kansas City was raided after former employees made allegations of coffee cups full of syringes, medical tools stored near toilets and fetuses stored...

His female caretakers thought they were caring for a handicapped adult, but William Mucklow was really a financial analyst. His nurses say he had a scheming mind and a penchant for Pampers. More than 20 women allege Mucklow behaved like a baby and asked them to change his diapers. Debbie McKemy/Alleged Victim: "He came to the door in a green onesy with a diaper full and a binky in his mouth. He acted like a 3-year-old child." Court documents allege William Mucklow pretended to be his own mother on phone interviews arranging for health care workers to come to his...

This moving and majestic film would be a landmark if only because it is the first Hollywood movie to unmask the homoerotic strain in American culture that Leslie Fiedler discerned in his notorious 1948 Partisan Review essay, "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey." Fiedler characterized the bond between Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as an unconscious romantic attachment shared by two males of different races as they flee the more constraining and civilizing domain of women. He went on to identify that bond as a recurrent theme in American literature. In popular culture, Fiedler's Freudianism certainly...

French lesbians have been crossing the border to Belgium in search of medical procedures to get pregnant, which are denied in France, creating a new sort of baby boom at Belgian fertility clinics. "In Belgium, we were welcomed without any judgment," said Marie-Pierre Micoud, 41, a marketing director, and her partner Nathalie Bassac, 43, a midwife, who conceived three boys by artificial insemination. "More and more women are making the trip from Paris to Brussels to have children through artificial insemination by an anonymous donor," said Franck Tanguy, who works with an association of homosexual parents and want-to-be parents. Last...

Minor League Team To Host 'Hairiest Back' Contest POSTED: 11:23 pm EDT August 17, 2005 WOODBRIDGE, Va. -- The Potomac Nationals of the Carolina League are ready to let the fur fly later this month. The Class-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals will hold its first-ever "Hairiest Back at the Ballpark" contest before their game against a team from Salem, Va., on Aug. 25. According to the team's press release, the winner will receive a complimentary laser hair removal service valued at $2,500. In addition, there will be a drawing for a complimentary laser removal service worth $1,200 for those...

Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it. The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it, according to the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts. This is the same organisation that created the "indestructible sandwich" that will stay fresh for three years...

Countless female stars have taken it off for the camera, but this is the first time in Korea that a band of transssexuals will be appearing in what are no longer their birthday suits. The photos were taken amid much secrecy in Thailand's transsexual mecca Pattaya, home of an annual ladyboy beauty contest, between April 19 and April 23. By releasing a photo album focusing on an entirely different standard of sexiness than those of other celebrities, Lady hope to establish themselves as international models. Starting with the provocative title -- "Women, reflect!" - the album throws down the gauntlet...

A German restaurant claims to be fully booked for weeks after adding maggots to the menu. A German restaurant achieves an unlikely success by putting maggots on the menu. Dishes at Espitas in Dresden include maggot ice cream, maggot salads and maggot cocktails /Europics Dishes at the Espitas restaurant in Dresden include maggot ice cream, maggot salads and maggot cocktails. The restaurant is importing the "nutritious and extremely tasty" maggots from Mexico. Espitas owner Alexander Wolf said: "We are the first in the world as far as I know to start importing them. "What started out as a bit of...

SPOKANE -- The FBI has opened an inquiry into a possible "public corruption" case involving accusations that Mayor James West offered city jobs to young men he met online, a federal prosecutor confirmed yesterday as West began a temporary leave. The FBI involvement was confirmed by Thomas Rice, chief criminal prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office here, The Spokesman-Review reported in a copyright story posted late yesterday on its Web site. Agents were expected to interview Ryan Oelrich and another man, both 24, who said they were independently offered City Hall jobs after online chats with a man who turned...

Man Pierces Glasses Permanently On Face Sooy: LASIK Surgery, Contacts Too Expensive   POSTED: 5:36 am EST March 22, 2005 UPDATED: 10:35 am EST March 22, 2005   A man in Texas who said LASIK surgery was too expensive to correct his eye sight had the bridge of his glasses permanently pierced into his nose, according to a Local 6 News report.         James Sooy was tired of wrestling with his eyeglasses and instead of contacts decided to have a post pierced into his face for permanent lenses.   IMAGES: Glasses Pierced On Face VIDEO: Permanent...

A transvestite who pumped industrial silicone into other men to give them feminine features pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a man who suffered complications. Stephen Thomas, 31, will serve five years in prison and 10 years on probation under the plea to felony involuntary manslaughter, which he entered Monday. The plea of was appropriate because those involved were willing participants and there was no intent to kill, Chief Assistant District Attorney Greg Edwards said Friday. The death of Andre Geter in December 2003 threw a spotlight on ``pumping,'' a thriving underground practice among men living as women,...

A piece of Britney Spears' discarded chewing gum has been withdrawn from eBay after boasts that it contained her DNA. According to the Daily Mirror, bids for the gum on the internet auction site had already reached £280, when the site realised the sale contravened its Human Body Parts and Remains policy. The advert stated that the gum – complete with teeth marks- was kept in an airtight container after the pop princess spat it out while she was staying at a London hotel this year. Interested bidders were told: “For you budding scientists out there, this means Britney’s DNA...

Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it (Annanova) 3/26/04- Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor.Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies.He says society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking and encourage children to take it up.Dr Bischinger said: "With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner."And eating the dry...