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November 21, 2007

Chinese Girl to Undergo Operation to Remove Spare Arm From Back

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November 20, 2007

British Woman, 102, Bares All as Miss November for Nude Charity Calendar

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

A 102-year-old British woman has decided she isn't too old to be a pinup — and a naked one at that.

Nora Hardwick is Miss November in a nude calendar done to raise money for the local football team, the Ancaster Athletic in Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England.

Don't worry: The 1905-born great-great grandma is swathed in a filmy petal pink scarf and is strategically positioned behind the beer taps at the Ermine Way pub in town, so it's almost impossible to tell she's standing there in the buff.

"They draped a bit of pink cloth around my shoulders, but at my age I just don't have the model body to be taking it all off," she told The Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper. "It was all very tastefully done. You couldn't see any of the bits or anything."

Hardwick said the football club asked her to pose in her birthday suit because she's the oldest person in the village.

"It's just a bit of fun really," she told the Telegraph.

Her children, who are 80, 74 and 62 have been supportive of their mum baring all for a good cause, she said.

/**/ She has lived in Ancaster since 1933, and retired as the village's postmistress at age 72, after 35 years on the job, according to the newspaper.
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November 18, 2007

Doc: Indonesian Tree Man Who Grew 'Roots' Can Be Saved

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Dede, a 35-year-old fisherman from a rural Indonesian town, is living with a rare and peculiar medical condition that has transformed his life and his body, England's Telegraph reports. Tree-like warty “roots” cover his skin, and grow outward from his arms and feet.

The condition began after Dede cut his knee as a teenager. The warts progressively spread across his body, due to a rare genetic fault that prevents Dede’s immune system from containing the growths. In time he lost his job, his wife, and was eventually unable to perform daily tasks, the Telegraph reported.

But now, an American dermatologist who tested samples of Dede’s blood believes he has identified the cause of the growths, called “cutaneous horns,” and has proposed a treatment that could save the fisherman’s life.

Click here to read the Telegraph’s full report.

Dr. Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland says that Dede’s condition is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers. But Dede has an extreme case of HPV.

"The likelihood of having his deficiency is less than one in a million," Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph. Gaspari believes Dede’s ailment can be cleared up with a daily dose of a synthetic form of Vitamin A.

"He won't have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph.

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November 17, 2007

No, honestly: 'world's biggest liar' crowne

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November 16, 2007

Michigan Boy, 13, Driving for Drunk Dad Charged With DWI

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