Oops! Don't say "dinosaur," and more

Oops! Don't say "dinosaur"

New York City’s new sensitivity guidelines for standardized tests ban 50 undesirable words that might “evoke unpleasant emotions” in students, including “dancing,” “dinosaurs,” and “birthdays.” Fundamentalists might be upset by dinosaurs and dancing, while Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays. Also banned are “Halloween” and “junk food.”

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A former space shuttle astronaut will go to court this week for the right to call himself an astronaut. Democrat Jose Fernandez is running for Congress in California’s 10th District, but a lawsuit filed by a firm with ties to his GOP opponent demands that the word “astronaut” not appear next to Hernandez’s name on the official ballot, on the grounds that “astronaut is not a title one carries for life.”