Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs

Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs



WASHINGTON (Wireless Flash) – If you ate at McDonald’s today, chances are, Peter Holden has eaten there too: The 39-year-old Washington D.C. bachelor has had meals at more than 11,000 of America’s 13,500 Mickey D’s restaurant.

STORRS, Conn. – The Time Machine may soon become a reality thanks to a physics professor in Connecticut. Ronald Mallett is building a gizmo that could move anything backwards or forwards in time and hopes to have a working model ready for experimentation this fall.

HELSINKI – Nearly 700 Finnish women are protesting the creation of a new nuclear power plant by vowing not to give birth for the next four years.

ST. LAURENT, Canada – Move over baseball cards, a Canadian company has created Gulf War Cards, which feature paintings of battle, weapons and other scenes from the war. The same company also made Vietnam war cards in the 1980s, though their most recent collection is a set based on Shrek.