Why you should never eat cookies in bed, and more

Why you should never eat cookies in bed

Doctors in Taiwan have removed dozens of ants from the ears of a teenager fond of eating cookies in bed. Dr. Hung Yuan-tsung says the 16-year-old girl would “pick her ears while eating snacks and later go to sleep without brushing away the crumbs.” While she slept, hungry ants would then follow the smell of food into her ear canals—where they would stay “because there was more than enough food there to keep them alive.

Courtney Love's search for Mr. Super-Rich

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Courtney Love is hunting for a super-rich husband. Love, 46, has dated a string of men since the 1994 death of her husband, Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, but says that she is currently “only interested in plutocrats—like really, really rich guys. I think I can be a real asset to a wealthy man.” She admits that her previous drug use and wild reputation may concern some potential suitors. “People still think I’m the same sad skank I was in 2005.”

A sexy courtroom ploy?

A Chicago trial lawyer has accused opposing counsel of trying to distract the jury by having an attractive, buxom paralegal sit at his table. Attorney Thomas Gooch says that while “personally, I like large breasts,” the presence of Daniella Atencia, 26, in the courtroom is clearly a ploy on the part of rival attorney Dmitry Feofanov, 53—who happens to be Atencia’s husband—to draw the attention of the jury and create sympathy for his client. Feofanov denies the charge, saying that his wife has a “brilliant legal mind” and is “actually overqualified as a paralegal.”