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Taiwanese national Shuo Shan Wang, 29, pleaded guilty in December in Oak Park, Mich., to practicing surgery without a license, specifically the kitchen-table castration of a 48-year-old man who had found Wang’s “service” on the Internet. Wang told police he had 50 such surgeries under his belt, but that this patient began to bleed uncontrollably after bursting out laughing while eating a post-operative piece of pie at Wang’s house. Police recovered two testicles in a Tupperware container in Wang’s refrigerator.

In November, incoming Colombian defense minister Marta Lucia Ramirez rescinded the military’s policy of encouraging the country’s Marxist rebels to defect by airdropping sexy photos implying that the depicted women were waiting for them upon their surrender. Said Ramirez, “I, as a woman, add myself to (the protests of this policy).” (The so-called FARC rebels, mostly men, are not allowed to have sex without permission of their commanders.)

Following an exhaustive four-month search by Florida’s child-welfare agency to find the 393 kids entrusted to it but whom it could not locate after an August crisis, Gov. Jeb Bush proudly announced that it had found all but 88. In November, the city council of Soap Lake, Wash., a 1,700-population town that did a booming tourist business in the 1950s but has fallen on hard times, voted the first step toward a revitalization that it believes will draw visitors back in droves: a 60-foot-tall Lava lamp on Main Street. The architect of the campaign, Brent Blake, said, “I just for some reason thought of (a) lava lamp.”
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