China, flushed with pride over its successful Olympic bid, will play host to the fourth annual World Toilet Summit.
The crapper convention kicks off later this month.
New toilets, along with new stadiums, new subways and new greenery, are considered key for getting Beijing up to snuff for the 2008 Olympics.
If she’s so smart, why can’t she find a job?
Bulgarian Daniela Simidchieva, a mother of three, has five master’s degrees and an IQ of nearly 200. She is rated by the country’s Mensa office as the world’s cleverest woman.
And she has been on the government dole for two years, unable to find employment.
“I love learning, but I also want to work,” said Simidchieva. “I am qualified as an industrial engineer, as an English teacher and as an electrical engineer. But in Bulgaria, employers don’t want clever employees.”
One St. Louis man just can’t keep his hand out of the cookie jar.
When Walter Martin left his arraignment on a charge of breaking open a cash register, he took the elevator six flights up to the courthouse café – a cop hangout – and grabbed $260 from the register, police said.
The café owner chased Martin down three hallways to an elevator lobby and got his cash back.
And you thought it was hard to get a 212 number.
A Beijing man paid $215,000 at an auction for the luckiest cellphone number in China.
You can call him at 133-3333-3333.
Chinese tradition considers three a lucky number and groups of threes even luckier. All Chinese cellphone numbers begin with “13.”
Big whoop!
Wildlife researchers are moving 14 whooping cranes bred in Wisconsin to their natural habitat in Florida – flying an ultralight plane with them and wearing crane-like costumes to minimize the birds’ contact with humans.
But last month in Illinois, another ultralight flew 100 feet behind the researchers’ plane, scaring the 5-foot-tall birds. The researchers ask other pilots to keep it down.