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They know how to handle those difficult lays

According to Golf Magazine, players with low handicaps are more than twice as likely to have had sex on a golf course.

Suggested brand name: `Blitzen'

A Norwegian company announced plans to distill an alcoholic beverage from reindeer milk.

Some things are worth the wait. Really. Trust us. No, really.

A plastic surgeon said that a vacuum device intended to enlarge women's breasts really can create an increase of up to one cup size, but that few women would commit to wearing the thing for the required period of 10 hours a day for 10 weeks straight.

Just don't give those Hacky Sack guys any ideas

The family of late Frisbee designer Ed Headrick honored his wish that his ashes be formed into memorial flying discs.

Like we always say, it helps to have a goal in mind

In a Wall Street Journal article, world pizza-, ice cream- and french-fry-eating champion Ed "Cookie" Jarvis--who weighs 420 pounds despite working out in a gym for two hours a day--announced his intention to lose 140 pounds in hopes of winning more contests. Many recent gluttony competition have been won by skinny guys, who can put away food more quickly.

Coming soon on ESPN2: Extreme Gardening

Enthusiasts in Britain and New Zealand are attempting to popularize "freestyle wheel-barrowing," in which the one-wheeled builder's tool is used to perform skateboard- or dirt-bike-style tricks.

Shaq played it once, and they're still trying to get the ceiling fixed

Cable channel TNN introduced "SlamBall," a new sport in which players dunk basketballs by jumping on trampolines.

They're fierce competitors, though on the small side

According to a CNN report, parents who want their offspring to be sports stars are enrolling kids as young as 2 in tennis, soccer and golf schools.

Good advice for all you young athletes out there

When asked about his club's remarkable three-year winning streak, the manager of High Times magazine's softball team said that "the secret for us personally is that we don't go out on the field too stoned."

You should see him spin a basketball on his hat

In a presentation in St. Peter's Square al the Vatican, Pope John Paul II was named an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

Next research subject: `coyote arm'

Scientists at Glasgow University in Scotland conducted a study on the "beer goggles" effect, discovering that after having about three drinks, students find members of the opposite sex 25 percent more attractive.

All hail our great and powerful ruler, Mickey

By helping a protein called beta catenin work better, scientists at a Boston hospital doubled the size of the cerebral cortex in mice's brains.

Why Anna Nicole Smith can't get a date

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that people who are allergic to peanuts can have dangerous reactions from just kissing someone who had eaten peanut butter within the past six hours, even if the other person had brushed his or her teeth.

At least that's what they're telling their girlfriends

Scientists at the State University of New York claimed their research shows hormones in men's semen act as an antidepressant for women.

I don't know what that is, but it isn't bamboo

To help get shy giant pandas to reproduce, Chinese breeding officials have been showing them "educational films" of other pandas mating.

Who's really getting fat? Lawyers

* A Delta Airlines passenger threatened to sue after being forced to endure a squished ride in a set next to an obese man.

* Overweight passengers threatened to sue Southwest Airlines when it announced it would start charging double for people who couldn't fit in a single seat.

* A New York City man filed a class-action suit against major fast-food companies, blaming them their customers' obesity.

Then again, maybe the lawyers are right

A frozen-food manufacturer actually managed to make french fries less healthy by bringing out sugar-sweetened chocolate and cinnamon versions. In a newspaper article, an executive said that to come up with the new flavors, "we asked kids what would make them want to eat more french fries."

Some of you out there aren't trying

An Illinois coroner had to order hydraulic lifts and larger storage facilities because of the increasing number of deceased people whose bodies weigh more than 500 pounds.

Unhappy meals

* Humanitarian groups criticized McDonald's franchises in Norway for introducing a flat-bread burger called the "McAfrika," saying it was insensitive at a time when parts of Africa are threatened with famine. The chain apologized and allowed the groups to put donation boxes in restaurants where the burgers are sold.

* Humanitarian delegates to the Earth Summit in South Africa, organized in part to discuss how to end world hunger, were criticized in the media for dining at mealtimes on such foods as lobster, caviar, foie gras and champagne.

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