Luckily for Aleki Taumoepeau, a New Zealand man, love might be bottomless but the ocean is not. Over a year ago, Aleki, a newly-wed ecologist, was conducting an environmental sweep of the Wellington harbor when he accidentally dropped his wedding ring into the water. His wife Rachel remembers:
“It flew off into the air and everyone on
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It reads like a line from a clever whodunnit:
The aspiring actress told an operator: “I can’t breathe. I’ve been stabbed. Please help me. I’m dying. He’s stabbed me to death.”
There’s something about the murder mystery that holds a unique place in our popular lore, from Hitchcock to Agatha Christie to CSI. Such mysteries are fun and intellectually diverting…
Drowning in clutter?
A new study finds that objects don’t bring you happiness, but buying experiences actually may:
“[E]xperiential purchases, such as a meal out or theater tickets, result in increased well-being because they satisfy higher order needs, specifically the need for social connectedness and vitality — a feeling of being alive.” According to psychology professor Ryan Howell,…
The St. Petersburg Times reports:
A woman has been arrested after accosting her live-in boyfriend with a pink sex toy.
Yes, it’s true. Intoxicated Kimberly Lynn Calvert of Treasure Island, Florida was charged with battery for poking her boyfriend John Anthony Gonzales several times in the groin.
Naturally, he called 911.
You might think this…
A couple of months ago we wrote about a marriage calculator that calculates the odds of getting divorced.
Now some researchers from the Australian National University have studied almost 2500 couples to identify factors that tend to correlate to divorce. The report is titled “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”
Yes, but how…
Why must we cast Chris Brown as either a cynical villain or a wayward soul seeking heroic redemption? He is neither evil incarnate nor a paragon of virtue. He is, in fact, just an angry and confused young man trying to clean up his act.
Back in March, after Brown’s vicious beating of his then girlfriend Rihanna, I wrote about…
There are plenty of ways to leave someone at the altar, but it’s hard to beat email for efficiency – or tackiness.
Basketball player Richard Jefferson of the San Antonio Spurs recently did the deed electronically with fiance Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols because, he explains:
Sometimes you might write an e-mail to get your thoughts down right.
He had the body of a porn star. He would disappear mysteriously for days a time. Jason Brake even had the name of a porn star.
But Haylie Hocking believed him when he said he was a personal trainer. She believed him when he said that his mysterious weekend trips were just to visit gyms with his trainer clients. And…
(Retired football star, husband, and father of four Steve McNair was murdered on July 4th, 2009, by his 20-year old girlfriend who then shot herself.)
It was always easy to root for Steve McNair.
A Mississippi boy who played college ball for a historically black college many football fans had never heard of – Alcorn State. A calm-headed…
We’ve previously reported on two repercussions of extra-curricular activities - twins with different fathers and getting assaulted by the angry spouse 30 years later. Now we learn of another – yard signage.
Poor Linnie apparently went on a business trip, only to come back to find this in his front yard.
Oh, to be…
