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Unusual tranquilliser
BANGKOK: A Thai woman has accused a doctor of using unusual means to quieten her during childbirth — several punches to the face, reports Reuter.
Police said Tuesday that Boonthong Youthica, 28. from northeastern Thailand, charged that her doctor had punched her in the face to stop her from screaming while she was in labour.
She said the doctor who attended her during the Sunday birth of her child ordered her to stop screaming, then hit her in the face, said police in Sisaket province, about 500 km northeast of Bangkok.
A police officer said Boonthong's face was bruised from being struck and that they would arrest the doctor, who faces one month in jail or a 2,000-baht (51 dollar) fine if he is convicted.
Americans would rather make love...
MIAMI: Sex beats riding the space shuttle or being president for a day. but half of all Americans would rather go on a free shopping spree, a survey published Tuesday showed, reports Reuter.
Americans love to make love — they are edged out only by the French in the 14-nation survey. But when asked to choose between sex and an unlimited shopping spree on someone else's gold credit card. 57 per cent of American women found the latter option more appealing.
For men it was 42 per cent, giving a full 50 per cent across the sexes who would rather be shopping, the survey said.
British-owned condom manufacturer Durex asked 1,055 US men and women aged over 18 to talk about sex-related issues as part of a survey of almost 10.0Q0 people in 14 countries.
The US part of the survey found that more than half of Americans would rather make love than be a guest on the next space shuttle, and 50 per cent would rather make love than be president of the United States for a day.
Voting from space!
SPACECENT&E. Houston; For the fifst time in history, an American astronaut is about to exercise his right to vote while in orbit, reports AP
A ballot has been sent to David Wolf aboard the Russian space station Mir. thanks to a new Texas law. It was prompted by John Blaha's inability to vote from Mir last year.
Under the old law. an absentee ballot had to be sent by US mail. But in June. Gov. George W Bush signed a bill saying astronauts registered to vote in Texas — where most of them live — can cast ballots from space.
Using new software developed by NASA. Tony J. Slrvello 111, Harris County's elections chief, sent a ballot last week to US flight controllers in Moscow, and they transmitted it to Wolf 240 miles above Earth.
The 41-year-old doctor and engineer, who arrived on the station in September for a four-month stay, will open the e-mail on a laptop computer. He has until 7 pm Houston local time on Nov. 4. (0100 GMT Nov. 5) Election Day. to get the ballot back to Sirvello via the flight controllers in Russia.
Sirvello will read Wolfs e-mail and punch a ballot by hand with the astronaut's choices.