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Arts & Entertainment Editor

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You’re Too Thin!

   The French Parliament's lower house adopted a bill April 15 making it illegal for fashion magazines, advertisers, Web sites or anyone else to show “extreme thinness.” The bill applies to models of both sexes.

Going Hip-Hop

   Bill Cosby recorded a hip-hop album with the help of guest rappers. According to the Associated Press, his album will have a positive message instead of a negative one, but he will not be rapping.

Order in the Circus, I mean Court

   A court in Texas began the hearings of the largest child-custody hearings in U.S. history April 17 in the case of the 416 children taken from the polygamist camp. What began as an organized hearing turned into a circus-like atmosphere with multiple attorneys shouting objections for their clients. It sounds like this case is going to take a long time.  Update:  The court ordered a paternity test for the children and parents to determine family relationships and will separate the children from their mothers.
 

A New Flavor

   Combine the flavor of strawberry with cocaine, and you have one of the new flavors of cocaine now sold on the streets. The synthesized drug also comes in coconut, cinnamon and lemon and it is full-strength. What will they think of next.

A New Way to “Pop the Question”

   Tammy Li received the surprise of her life when she reached a certain score on "Bejeweled," a ring and a proposal of marriage from her boyfriend came on the screen. Bernie Peng reprogrammed the game to show the ring and the proposal and, of course, she said “yes.”

Paternity Test in a Box

   Want to know who the father is? A pharmacy chain marketed a take-home “DNA test” in several states. The cost of this kit is $29.99. I guess that's one way to find out; you don't have to go on "Maury" any more.

“Mad Libs”

   “Mad Libs” turned 50-years-old this year. To read more about the history, please click on the link.

Happy Birthday!

   Edna Parker turned 115 years old Sunday, April 20. Last August, Guinness World Records declared Parker the oldest person in the world after a Japanese woman four months older than her died.

Olympic Controversy

   Recently a Japanese Buddhists temple said, for the safety of worshipers and the monks, it will not host the Olympic Torch at its temple. Over the past few months, controversy and protest of the Olympic games being held in China have occurred in several countries around the world. Many of the protests stem from the treatment of Tibet by China.

   For more news on the Olympic Games please click this link.

This Week’s Read:

   “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote. "In Cold Blood" is a tale of two men who murder a family of four in the small town of Holcomb, Kan. The book takes you along on a journey before, during and after the murders and into the lives of the murdered, the murderers and the people around the deceased. Capote uses a composite character in the story and uses many literary devices in this story that he first read as a newspaper story. He gives you the thoughts of the victims through the descriptions of the people who knew them.

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