At last, here’s something for women with bigger bottoms to smile about. Research shows they live longer.
終於，有了一件讓擁有較大臀部女性可以微笑以對的事。研究顯示，她們活得比較久。
A study has found that pear-shaped women, typified by the small waists and shapely bottom of the likes of Kate Winslet and Christina Hendricks, have a longer life expectancy than the apple shapes who store fat around their middle.
Their project might not sound like much： The college students recently launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow balloon.
他們的計畫聽起來或許沒什麼了不起：這些大學生最近用一顆黃色大氣球發射了一枚體積只有汽水罐那麼大的小型衛星模型。
It went aloft to a height of 165 meters and then came back down attached to a parachute. Yet in this developing West African country, ambitious organizers, _who recently launched the Ghana Space Science and Technology Center _ see the test as a sign of bigger things to come.
A gluten-free, wheat-free store in Australia has come under fire for charging customers A$5 just for looking at products on display.
澳洲一家販售不含麩質與小麥食品的商店，因為向那些只看展示品而不買的顧客收取5澳元的費用，而受到抨擊。
Celiac Supplies in Brisbane complained that it had too many people going into the store to find out which products were gluten and wheat-free and then going to buy them elsewhere.
Speaking on NBC’s "Today" show in a segment originally filmed before the Boston Marathon bombings, President Barack Obama revealed the strategy he and First Lady Michelle Obama have been using to keep their daughters away from tattoos.
美國總統歐巴馬在一段於波士頓馬拉松爆炸案前錄影的國家廣播公司「今日」節目片段中，透露他與第一夫人蜜雪兒˙歐巴馬用來讓兩個女兒與刺青保持距離的撇步。
"What we’ve said to the girls is, ’If you guys ever decide you’re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place, and we’ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo,’" Obama said.
A Slovak street performer dressed in white papal vestments has been detained and fined by the police in Rome for bearing too close a resemblance to the late John Paul II, the police said on Friday.
警方週五說，一名身穿白色教宗法衣的斯洛伐克街頭藝人，因為太像已故教宗若望保祿二世，在羅馬遭到警方拘留並罰款。
"The problem was that he looked a lot like Karol Wojtyla. He was detained for usurpation of title which is a misdemeanour," a police spokeswoman told AFP. "The cassock he was wearing has been confiscated," she added.
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「傑 瑞賈西亞！你的永生怎麼樣呀？」「袍子太小了，光圈太大了，而且這把豎琴走音了。」『心懷感激的往生者個^#!$#』（譯註：本漫畫影射美國著名搖滾樂團 Grateful Dead「死之華合唱團」及其靈魂人物 Jerry Garcia。本漫畫將團名曲解成了「滿懷感激的往生者」，而 Jerry Garcia 的一連串抱怨顯然令上帝深感不滿。） |
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「路 克，我是你的…等一下…不，不…算了。」貝斯平星嬰兒檢測報告 案例號碼：01134715 無迷地原蟲吻合 遙遠遙遠銀河的親子鑑定報告出爐（譯註：Bespin 是《星際大戰》系列電影中的行星，midichlorian 迷地原蟲是決定生物體內 the Force 原力強弱的微小有機體。而在該系列電影中，天行者路克和黑武士原本是父子。） |
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香皂 在使用髒話之後，小海倫凱勒被處罰了（譯註：以前在歐美國家，若小孩講話「出口成髒」的話，家長會警告要拿肥皂洗小孩的嘴巴作為懲罰，但美國已故身心障礙教育家海倫凱勒失聰且失明，因此她在本漫畫中由於寫了不雅的字眼而被罰洗手。） |
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