Archive for May, 2007
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Someone super-glued classroom doors shut at a high school in Sunrise.
School district officials and police are investigating to see who is responsible for the overnight prank at Piper High School.
Broward School District spokesman Andrew Feirstein says the locks of 40 or 50 doors were found glued when school officials arrived around 5:30 a-m. He says students were temporarily placed in the auditorium. As of 8:30 this morning, the majority of the doors were reopened. (more…)
The two twin brothers that appear in this photo are known as “the goats with large faces” in China, due to maxillofacial multiple fibrous dysplasia which was only recently diagonsed by a medical professor in Zhenzhou University.The faces of the boys can be restored via face-lift surgeries.
The family of 95-year-old Zhao from Zhanjiang city, China are hoping that doctors will be able to explain the 5 inch horn that is growing out of her forehead. Local media describes the horn as curving down “like the stalk of a pumpkin”. (more…)
The world’s highest swing has been set up on an 1,100ft (335m) TV tower in China.
The swing is set on a 700ft (213m) high viewing platform on the tower in Harbin city, Heilongjiang province. Participants sit on the steel seat and swing out over the city, beyond the edge of the platform. The swing is called “Game for brave people”, reports Harbin Daily. The tower is the world’s second-highest steel tower, after the Kiev tower in Ukraine.