Thursday, December 14, 2006
World's Tallest Living Man Saves Dolphin
From the BBC News:

When veterinarians at Royal Jidi Ocean World in China were unable to extract plastic shards from the stomachs of two dolphins, using traditional implements, someone had the bright idea to call Bao Xishun.

The 54 year old Mongolian herdsman recently claimed the title of World’s Tallest Man and is listed by Guinness as standing 7ft 8.95in tall. Veterinarians thought the giants could use him incredible reach, which measures over a meter, to manually pluck the shards. This is exactly what the gigantic man did. Boa saved the two dolphins by reaching into their stomachs and pulling out the dangerous plastic shards with his own hands.

Still, the entire event sounds like a headline from World Weekly News.

Read more about the story here.

image: Bao Xishun, elbow-deep into a dolphin.

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Cyclops Baby Dies

It seems as though I am breaking this story in North America.

The cyclopic little girl born almost a month ago in Chennai, India has died according to a report filed on September 11, 2006 with NewIndPress.com. The exact date of her death is unclear, however the article states it was 10 days previous.

The baby girl, who caused a major media and Blogosphere frenzy, was diagnosed with a rare chromosomal disorder known as cyclopia at birth. She was born with a single eye in the center of her forehead, no nose and her brain fused into a single hemisphere.

While the average life expectancy for such and infant is three days, this child lived for nearly a month, the longest surviving case in history.

‘She was losing weight and had to breathe and feed via a tube’. Doctors at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital, ‘The parents took away the child though we requested them to preserve the body’.

The parents do not want their child to become a museum specimen; it was their first child after six years of marriage.

It is a shame that, while her birth was everywhere, the passing of this unique and stong willed little girl has not garnered the same press.

Image: a modified photo credited to Scott Carney, taken from Wired News.
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