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Mr. Jian Feng, of Hegang in northern China, suspicious when his wife gave birth to a baby he regarded as seriously ugly, got her to admit that, though she was not adulterous, she had herself been seriously ugly before she met Jian, but had had major plastic surgery in South Korea and now did not much resemble her genetic look. (Even so, Jian divorced her and in May sued her for fraud.)

Several George W. Bush-supporting punk rock bands have gained prominence in the United States recently to challenge the generally assumed dominance of rock music by political liberals, according to a May dispatch from New York by BBC News, which reported that bands such as Gotham Road and Bouncing Souls “are not raging against the machine, they are raging for it.” A Rolling Stone writer attributed the upsurge to conservatives’ general pugnaciousness, but one maven of “conservative punk” laid it to Republicans’ and punk’s joint “emphasis on personal responsibility.”

After a 10-year study with a global positioning satellite system (reported in February), researchers at England’s Oxford University concluded that homing pigeons do not get their bearings from the sun, as previously thought, but rather just follow roads and highways home.
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