from HARPER'S WEEKLY: >Mississippi lawmakers introduced a bill that would make it illegal for restaurants in the state to serve obese people, and an unidentified robber killed five women in a Chicago-area branch of the plus-sized clothing store Lane Bryant. A camping-goods website was selling a cheeseburger in a can. <
Meanwhile, >British scientists announced that it would soon be possible to convert female bone mar-row into viable sperm cells, hastening the obsolescence of men.< -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.