Barely over 100 words, this kind of story was what Reuters used to call a “brite” (though sometimes the stories themselves could get kind of dark) - cute, odd, unusual snippets of news. Anyway, I include this one here, not because it was a literary work of art, but because I am just enough of a Star Trek dork to be nerdily proud of my headline, which somehow passed muster with the editing desk.

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