In honor of our visit from the Sherwoods and the start of what promises to be a spectacular crop circle season, we revisit Dreamland’s crop circle special from December 7, 2002. No 800 numbers, advertising or special offers in this program are valid.read more
There are hundreds of literary prizes given out every year, all over the world, but a little-known award is the annual Literary Review Bad Sex prize given out in the U.K. for the worst description of sex in a contemporary novel. This year?s winner is Wendy Perriam for a description in her novel “Tread Softly.” It contains the lines “Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked. Pin-stripes were erotic, the uniform of fathers, two-dimensional fathers. Even Mr. Hughes’s penis had a seductive pin-striped foreskin.” The runner-up was Nicolas Coleridge, author ?Godchildren,? in which he describes a man stroking his lover “like a groom reassuring a frightened foal.” Previous winner Christopher Hart used a polar exploration as a metaphor for love-making.
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The Chinese block news and soft-core sex internet sites, but let porno sites through. They also block desperately needed AIDS information. A team from Harvard Law School spent 8 months testing more than 200,000 Chinese websites and discovered that nearly 20,000 sites are inaccessible there. They tested Saudi sites last year and found almost all women’s sites were blocked, including those advertising bathing suits.
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Patients who are being treated for cancer with radioactive materials may set off anti-terrorism devices installed in public places. A 34-year-old man with a thyroid condition who was being treated with radioactive iodine was strip-searched twice in New York subway stations. “Police had identified him as emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning,” say Drs. Christoph Buettner and Martin Surks. “He returned to the clinic and requested a letter stating that he had recently been treated with radioactive iodine.”
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