The ridiculously thin and attractive, and more

Good week for:

The ridiculously thin and attractive, after the opening of the Model Lounge, a New York City watering hole open only to female professional models. Its patrons say they can relax in the exclusive environment without being hit on by creepy guys and glared at by other women.

Kelly Hildebrandt and Kelly Hildebrandt, who got married after the female Kelly found the male Kelly on Facebook and sent him a message saying, “Hi. We have the same name.” They dated only a few months. “He’s just everything that I’ve ever looked for,” said Hildebrandt, who is keeping her maiden name.

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Conspiracy theorists, after NASA admitted that videotapes of the alleged moon landing 40 years ago had been erased. The tapes were shipped to a federal records center, “which apparently didn’t realize what it had,” claimed NASA engineer Richard Nafzger.

Bad week for:

Conspiracy theorists, after NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter returned images of the old lunar landing sites, showing the surface marked by abandoned scientific instruments and an astronaut’s footprints.

Privacy, after the Maryland Transit Administration began considering a plan to install audio surveillance equipment on buses and trains to monitor conversation and “deter criminal activity.”

Going undercover, after an undercover sheriff’s deputy in Iredell County, N.C., made a drug buy from undercover officers from the nearby Statesville Police Department. One undercover officer arrested the other until it was all sorted out. “We need to be working together here,” sighed Statesville Police Chief Tom Anderson.