News of the Day for 1.8.10

• I first heard of this case on a podcast, the one about a transgender man trying to pass himself off as an abandoned teenager to gain admittance into Marion fucking High School. Only in Southern Illinois.
• A walrus has fun with himself. Kind of cute, if you ask me.
• Rattan wood turns into bone, hopefully leading to advances in medicine.
• Cleopatra eye makeup wards off disease...?
• Nooo! Smoke flavoring in food might be toxic.
• A Susan Boyle fashion line is taking things a bit too far, don't you think?
• Some positive news as a recent study showed that one-on-one tutoring for kids stuck at the bottom of the class yields lasting results. The trouble, as always, is funding and the social and political willpower to implement such a scheme.