Bolivia’s president Evo Morales — the former union leader and coca farmer known for hard-nosed political combat — is also a fanatical soccer player and drew worldwide video attention for an incident during a supposedly friendly match between his pals and a team headed by the mayor of La Paz.
After absorbing a vicious foul five minutes into the contest (resulting in a leg gash) President Morales confronted the offender and kneed him in his — as local media described it — “testicular zone,” leaving the player curled on the ground.
Afterward, Morales’ bodyguards briefly threatened the gasher with arrest.
Drowning
is what
they are
good at   
Researchers from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada and the University of Portsmouth in England, in a journal article, “proved by flotation dynamics and rotation dynamics,” altered for “external surface area,” that giraffes can swim — although they are probably terrible at it because of their odd shape.
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Funny,
it says
‘Dial’
on it
Swiss artist Gianni Motti has been displaying a bar of soap at Zurich’s Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, claiming it was made from fat that had been liposuctioned from Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Motti said a clinic employee had surreptitiously given him the fat following Berlusconi’s treatment in 2004, but the clinic has denied any involvement.
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