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According to The Guinness Book of Records, Bao Xishun is officially the world’s tallest man. The 7’9″ Chinese man earned that title by default as the actual tallest man in the world, 8′ 9″ Ukranian Leonid Stadnyk, has shunned all publicity and refuses to be measured. While Stadnyk is so distressed about his appearance that he refuses to even look in a mirror, 60-year-old Xishun has used his notoriety to find a wife. After broadcasting his desire to marry with advertisements around the world, Xishun eventually found true love with a girl from his own hometown. read more
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith may be tiny, but she’s tough. She tells People magazine that despite hubby Will Smith’s action hero status, she’s the stricter parent . Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. When you enter your name and email address, you’ll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted â” no need to use <p> or <br /> tags. read more
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Usually a school prank is a harmless trick or a clever gag designed to get attention and hopefully some laughs. That would be the case with the prank 19-year-old Myles Frost pulled at Glenbard East High School near Chicago last year. Frost has just been convicted of misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty and criminal defacement after scattering mutilated mice and a decapitated rat around his school campus in 2007. During the trial, Frost’s attorney denied that his client was responsible for the disgusting prank, but a school official and the police say that Frost confessed to them. read more
A new small study has found that television, even when only on as background noise, has a “small but real” affect on the way young children play. Researchers found that when playing in a room with a TV on — they used Jeopardy, a program they thought the children would have little interest in — children tended to stop playing and watch the TV now and then, shortening the intensity and length of their play. This finding is in conflict with former studies that found that young children don’t pay attention to TV that they don’t understand. A lot of parents really like to have television on as background noise during the day, however, to listen to as they go about their activities. This study isn’t broad enough to prove that, but plenty of research has gone into how TV affects children. Heh, I knew from the time my daughter was 8 months old that kids pay attention to TV even if it’s boring or they don’t understand it. read more
They were just kids playing with dolls, doing what kids do, even if those kids had diagnoses that other children didn’t — Down’s syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy. With the best of intentions, I believe, they made dolls with Down’s syndrome, including a heart surgery scar, dolls who have been through chemo, bald and with a catheter port, dolls in wheelchairs, dolls with leg braces. Other parents think that the dolls are a good idea, but need a little tweaking — fashion dolls who have special needs but still wear trendy clothing or action heroes who still save lives despite their own personal hurdles, for instance. The parent who posted that children play however they choose with their dolls, using imagination etc, so it isn’t really all that necessary that the dolls be made to portray special needs– was very eloquent. I remember reading a while ago that they did a study where they put a bunch of dolls of different races in a room and then looked at whether children would play with a doll of their own race or a doll of a different race, the argument being that most dolls are caucasian and therefore kids of different races are feeling left out. I know that American girl dolls do make wheel chairs and crutches for their dolls, but I am not aware of a company that makes accessory for their dolls that may need braces, orthotics, hearing aids or prosthetic limbs. read more
When I was a teenager, I would have done just about anything to get one of these — a footbag for playing hackysack that you soak in paraffin oil and light on fire. I suck at hackysack, but that wouldn’t have made a difference — this thing is actually made to be set on fire. Apparently a little too cool — or maybe not cool enough — for South Australia. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. When you enter your name and email address, you’ll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. read more