Lead Stories
According to a January Associated Press report, China has a government-sanctioned UFO research organization with 50,000 members, processing 500 alleged sightings a year; the director said he was not surprised at the number, since extraterrestrials are interested in the country’s rapidly developing markets. Last year in Shanghai, Professor Liu Dalin opened a sex museum with 1,000 exhibits, including a stamp used to mark the derrieres of virgin girls. And according to an April Wall Street Journal story, there has been an “explosion” of successful litigation in China by elderly parents suing their children for failing to care for them.
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
In December a joint committee of the Colorado legislature approved an emergency grant of $75,000 to Morgan Community College in Fort Morgan after it dawned on administrators that because of “an oversight in the plan for the project” the new student center building had no rest rooms.
Well Put
In a village near Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, police say a Muslim woman beat her ten-day-old son to death in January because he preferred to be breast-fed by his father’s other wife. And in Tokyo in March, Mitsuko Yamada, 36, pleaded guilty to killing a two-year-old girl, apparently so that Yamada would no longer have to face the girl’s mother, who had allegedly ignored Yamada at the neighborhood playground.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
