The Dayton Daily News reported that a vandal operating in local libraries is still on the loose after two years of incidents. The high school track team in Utica, Michigan, bowing to pressure from a minister and a few parents, has agreed to end its alleged idol worship. The team quickly adopted it as a mascot, and the students would dance and chant around it before sporting events. The minister thought the use of the statue, called Ho Tai, taught trust in luck instead faith of in God. Netherlands native Imre Somogyi told an audience at a book festival in Chicago that he was the world's first toe reader.
Men hide their toes.
According to a report from Reuters, coffins are rarely used in Jewish burials in Israel. Bodies are merely wrapped in sheets and wheeled to their graves on hospital-type gurneys. The rabbis explain that this way the bones can rise unimpeded on the Day of Redemption. Researchers at the University of Denver have released the first major survey on the sexual behavior of single evangelical Christians. The survey indicates that strict taboos on masturbation, petting, and premarital intercourse are, for the most part, being disregarded by church members.