| Special Assignment: Love and Livestock
Finding love is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and living miles away from anyone only makes it harder. "You don't see anybody out here other than the mail man," Maquoketa farmer John Mayland said. John's friends in Dyersville, who also have a side hobby of matchmaking, say he's the cream of the crop. "We will see young girls come in here and we're really focused on John lately. We ask if they're dating...We haven't got anybody else in line yet. We're still working on John," Christi Hess said. But the dating game is tough in small town eastern Iowa. "I have to go to the cities. It's 60 miles to go to Davenport, it's 20 or 30 miles to Dubuque. Otherwise, it's small town bars and you never know what you get in a bar. Nobody's looking for commitment. So, it's pretty slim pickings around here," John said.
To find a partner, scratch and sniff
Sniffing someone's armpits does not sound the most promising start to a date. Research, however, suggests that it will probably turn up a better prospect than either a blind date or gabbling nervously to 20 consecutive strangers. Now a new dating website, ScientificMatch.com, promises a discreet way of letting you nose out potential partners. Researchers found more than a decade ago - by asking female students to sniff T-shirts worn by men - that ovulating women rate certain male body odours as sexier than others. Crucially, the preferences depended on a certain part of the immune system called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Women, it turned out, were bewitched by the odours of men whose MHC genes were most different from their own, and repelled by the aroma of men with similar MHC genes.
THE MIRROR: Point and Counterpoint (Browne)
College males have it hard, especially at Dartmouth. Hanover is not really what you'd call the dating hotspot of the Lake Sunapee region, so avenues to meet those women you want to take home to mom are limited. Luckily for Dartmouth men, there is still one avenue where guys can meet ladies and show off their skills. This avenue, my friends, is the dance party. In 2003 Dane Cook uttered the phrase, "Dude, I just wanna dance." When he said this, Dartmouth men everywhere stood up and cheered. Not only do Dartmouth guys love the dance party, but we also know how to treat a lady on the dance floor. For all the men out there who aren't avid dance party–goers and don't know the codes of conduct, take what I say as scripture. And just for everyone's information, the tips I'm giving are not just my observations, but also extensive research of reading over 100 Dartmouth women's diaries and Xanga profiles.
Prody suffers head injury
Christine Prody, daughter of Clair Prody, Lakeland Mental Health executive director, and Cathy Bellmore, is being treated for a significant head injury in Miami, Fla., that she sustained in a fall Monday. The Miami Herald reported that Prody was listed in serious condition by Baptist Hospital in Miami. Prody, 32, who has been dating ex-NFL star O.J. Simpson since 1999, hit her head during a fall at a Miami gas station and was hospitalized in intensive care, a police report said. Her father was unavailable for comment. The Miami Herald reported that officers went to the hospital Tuesday to speak with Prody's mother, who in 2001 moved from Edina to Florida. Bellmore told them that her daughter and Simpson recently returned from San Antonio, where they attended a Super Bowl party.
Best evidence yet of caffeine-miscarriage link
Women in early pregnancy who drink a cup and a half of coffee every day are at greater risk of miscarriage than those who stay away from caffeine, according to a Kaiser Permanente study out of Oakland. The study, published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is one of the largest to look at the connection between caffeine and miscarriage, and the first to interview women about their caffeine habits before they've actually suffered a miscarriage. While there has been much research into caffeine and miscarriage - some of it dating back to the 1960s - no studies have been definitive, and the effect of caffeine, and coffee in particular, on miscarriage has been a subject of controversy. But the Kaiser study, said doctors who were not involved in the research, makes a fairly solid case against drinking coffee, or any kind of caffeinated beverage, early in pregnancy.
Two dead after Valentine's Day tiff
A Northern Territory man shot dead his partner and stuffed her body in a freezer on a rural property outside of Katherine, before turning the gun on himself. Police found the bodies of the unemployed couple in the Helena Road area, 8km north-west of Katherine, about 4am (CST) on Valentine's Day morning. They had been called to the property 12 hours earlier - and cordoned off the area and evacuated several houses - following reports of a disturbance involving a gun. The couple, known in the neighbourhood for their recent relationship problems, were believed to have been aged in their 50s and had been dating for about two years, today's NT News reported. A neighbour told the paper the dead man, known only as Wayne, and his girlfriend Jacqueline Morrison were drinking at the property on Wednesday when they got into a heated argument.
Museum displays military exhibit
A special military exhibit, composed of a collection of weapons, uniforms and commemorative items dating from the 1880s, is on loan to the Sparks Heritage Museum. Veterans are invited to visit the museum free of charge for the month of February and March. Also, any military personnel who arrive in uniform also will receive complimentary admission. This exhibit is part of the museum's continuing tribute to locals serving on active duty. If your local loved one is serving on active duty anywhere in the world, bring in a 5-inch-by- 7-inch or smaller photograph, and he or she will be included in the unique exhibit. "Many of our members are veterans and collectors of military memorabilia," said museum manager Anthea Humphreys.
Tiger passes Arnie, wins 6th in a row
MARANA, Ariz. - What's left for Tiger Woods? Win every tournament he plays? He's off to a perfect start to 2008 (3-for-3) after his Sunday stroll-in-the desert wipeout of Stewart Cink that won the $8 million Accenture Match Play Championship.
The proportions of Woods' 8-and-7 victory are historic, but this is ground he covers casually these days. It's not only the widest margin of victory in the 10-year history of the tournament, but it also moved him past Arnold Palmer on the all-time PGA win list into fourth place with 63 career wins, one behind Ben Hogan. It's also his sixth victory in a row overall, dating back to last season.
The greatest show in golf shows no signs of ending early.
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