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Hazardous liaison

All right, everybody out of the pool except the straight, healthy people!

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- An employee at a public swimming pool in eastern Kentucky was suspended for a week without pay after telling two disabled gay men to leave, city of Hazard officials said Saturday.

The ugly truth

If you're ugly, just get counseling, OK?

An exclusive online meeting place billed as a dating website for "beautiful men and women" was causing new outrage Monday after dumping 30,000 members deemed too ugly.

Rock of ages

Want to feel really, really old, baby boomer music lovers? Check out this gallery of rocks stars then and now. Keith Richards may have aged the worst, although all the Rolling Stones look like they were buried then dug up. On the female side, Patti Smith and Grace Slick take the "Oh, God, my eyes!" prize. David Bowie and Joan Jett still look pretty good. Does anything look sadder than 60-something rocksters still dressing the same way they did 40 years ago?

Odorific

If you think TV smells now, just wait:

Television viewers are surrounded by sight and sound, but U.S. researchers want to add smell to the small-screen experience.

Another fish story

I would never torture a puppy or strike a kitty or even say an unkind word to a hamster. But call me a heartless animal abuser, I've never really given much thought to the welfare of goldfish:

Semper fie

A Marine vs. Leo High School:

A soon to be Leo High School graduate will be skipping out on her big day this weekend because she won't be allowed to wear her Marine Corps dress blues.

Private Kylie Furnish graduated from high school early and recently graduated from Marine Corps Boot Camp.

Adult supervision

An American university trips and stumbles into the obvious:

Here is one simple step colleges can take to reduce both binge drinking and hooking up: Go back to single-sex residences.

No abortion gap

A new poll finds that -- no big surprise -- Americans remain incredibly conflicted about abortion. This is especially interesting:

The survey devoted particular attention to the views of young adults. It noted that 18-to-29-year-olds are far more likely than their elders to support same-sex marriage, but found there is no comparable generation gap regarding abortion.

Hey, it's Icon Thursday!

Juxtaposition of the day -- make your own decision about what it means.

First, some people are working on $135,000 to, among other things, erect a 13-foot statue of Larry Bird at Indiana State University.:

Flunking the tests?

A 40-year political philosophy professor at Michigan State University has notcied ominous changes in his students in the last six or eight years:

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