KEY POINTS:
One country's convenience is another country's child abuse: This is a BabyKeeper (see above) designed to keep your child out of harm's way while the parent is incapacitated using a public rest room. (Source: Boingboing.net)
What about Harry?" a reader asks. "Shortland Street made the front page of the Herald this week with its announcement that Lucy Wigmore has been recast as the new Justine Jones, replacing Laurie Foell. The story says this is the first recasting in the local soap, but the first Harry, Callum Campbell-Ross, was recast at the screen age of 5. Perhaps being under 5 doesn't count. I guess Harry just grew rather fast in his first month at school!"
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Male chimps prefer older females with bald patches, sagging skin and wrinkles over younger females with full fur and well-toned bodies, according to the journal Current Biology. The researchers concluded that male chimps prefer older females because their experience will benefit the pair's offspring.
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TV3 did marvellously well at the Qantas TV Awards, with Mr Nice Guy Mike McRoberts taking the top journalism honours. As expected, proud bosses are sucking up revenue-gathering time with self-congratulatory footage of Mike reporting from Gaza, strapped into a flak jacket. But I can't help wondering if it might be just for show, a mere costume if you will, because the cameraman seems happy to risk being showered with bullets and goes without a protective jacket.
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The average mum spends 12 days a year shopping for Christmas. She then spends another day getting things ready, says a study. That includes 4.19 hours wrapping presents and 3.03 hours decorating the house. An average of 4.27 hours is spent preparing Christmas dinner, 4.38 hours cooking it - and 11 hours tidying up. One in five said they hated Christmas and two-thirds said they found it stressful, according to the poll of 3000 women for Kaleidoscope catalogue. (Source: Ananova.com)
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Unintentionally funny quote 1:
A 17-year-old youth spent two years and 1000 hours building a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' basement. "I thought he was going to be a cook," said his mother, "because he liked to mix things."
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Unintentionally funny quote 2:
Heather Mills, soon to be the former Beatle wife, said her relationship with Paul McCartney had turned into such a nightmare that: "I would rather someone come up and chop off all my limbs than go through what I went through."
