Good Week, Bad Week

Good week for:

Joan R. Ginther, the luckiest woman in Bishop, Texas, who won $10 million with a Texas lottery scratch-off ticket. She previously won $5.4 million in a 1993 lottery jackpot, $2 million in another scratch-off game in 2006, and $3 million in a 2008 scratch-off.

Impotence, after a new study found that the rate of STDs in men over 40 who take erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra is double that of men who don’t use these medications.

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Turning off the radio, after a British study found that people who listen to sports on the car radio become so absorbed in the games that their reaction times slow by up to 20 percent, making them drive as if they were drunk.

Bad week for:

Edgy Iranians, after Iran banned “decadent Western haircuts” for men, including spiky hair, ponytails, and mullets.

Councillor Colin Hall, the lord mayor of Leicester, England, who stood up to address schoolchildren at an educational event and had his pants fall down to his knees. “The lord mayor has offered his deepest apologies to those attending the event for any offence caused by the accident,” said a spokesman.

Los Angeles, after IBM’s “commuter pain index” ranked Los Angeles the worst city in the U.S. for commuting by car, because of frequent traffic jams, incidents of road rage, and other irritations. L.A.—which got a pain rating of 25—still fared far better than Beijing and Mexico City, whose pain ratings of 99 (on a scale of 100) were the worst in the world.