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High school senior Trevor Loflin scored a perfect 1600 on his SATs this year, despite the fact that he’d spent the past three years living with his mother and sisters in the back of their Chevrolet Suburban. After his mother, Cynthia Hamilton, lost her job as a physician in Fresno, California, she decided to homeschool her kids and discovered that they got along just fine without a house (though they recently moved into a one-bedroom apartment). The family turned to Christianity to get them through their ordeal; Trevor told the Los Angeles Times he would probably enroll at Bob Jones University in the fall.
No Longer Weird
When trout engage in sex, they quiver violently with their mouths open and are then supposed to release their sperm and egg simultaneously. But after observing 117 trout matings, Swedish scientists from the National Board of Fisheries reported in March that the females withheld their eggs half the time, possibly “faking an orgasm” in order to save their eggs for a more desirable male.
In March, John and Ruby Barnes of Huntsville, Alabama, were hospitalized with severe burns after heating aerosol paint cans on their stove in order to make the paint come out more easily….That same month David W. Vinyard, serving a jail term in Greene County, Illinois, for his failure to pay traffic fines, was standing on the lavatory of his cell, fooling around with a ceiling light, when he slipped, leaving a portion of his little finger in the fixture as he fell to the floor. (The local prosecutor said he would file a claim against Vinyard for damage to the fixture.)
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
