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Pushpin Artist Deals With Lots of Pricks

(April 16) -- When you're an artist who makes portraits using pushpins, dealing with pricks is just part of the job. That's one of the pointed discoveries that artist Eric Daigh has made over five years of creating pushpin portraits of his friends, family and neighbors in his home town of Traverse City, Mich. Daigh is a...

World's Smartest Horse Is No Smart-Ass

(April 14) -- To quote "The Theme From Mr. Ed": "A horse is a horse, of course, of course." But that blanket statement is simply not fair to a 17-year-old thoroughbred gelding in Chino Hills, Calif., who is being touted as the smartest horse in the world for the many amazing feats he's been able to master: 35 in all. His...

The Wisdom of Pulling a Bus With Your Hair

(Nov. 13) - I had two questions for Manjit Singh, a day after he pulled an 8.5-ton double-decker bus for nearly 70 feet with his hair: Did you shampoo today? And are you out of your mind? "Yes, I took a shower, and my scalp feels fine," says the 59-year-old Brit, known in his hometown as "The Ironman of...