A gender-bending newborn
An Irish couple are adjusting to the news that their 5-week-old baby girl is in fact a baby boy. Claire Robson, 21, gave birth 11 weeks prematurely to a child she initially named Olivia. After the baby spent weeks in an incubator, its growth led surprised doctors to conclude they’d misdiagnosed its gender. “Because he was born so early, he wasn’t fully developed,” says Robson, who has renamed the child Dylan. “As he got a few weeks older it became apparent.”
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Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband is planning to have her “plastinated” after her death. Prince Frederick von Anhalt says the 93-year-old screen legend “has always dreamed that her beauty would be immortal,” and that he is exploring the option of having Gunther von Hagens, the German doctor behind the notorious Bodies exhibit, replace the water and fat in Gabor’s corpse with plastic, preserving the body in perpetuity. Von Anhalt says he would then put Gabor’s body on display, possibly “in the context of a scene in one of her films.”
Teens text sheriff for marijuana by mistake
A pair of Montana teenagers trying to buy marijuana accidentally texted their request to the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Leo Dutton says he thought he was being pranked when he received the text message, “Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?” Dutton nevertheless sent a detective to meet the prospective buyers, one of whom passed out in shock. Dutton decided to take the teens home instead of arresting them. “Trying to buy drugs is a crime,’’ he said, “but it’s probably worse that they had to face their parents.”
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