News Extra
By Modupe Ogunbayo
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Stare at a Woman's Boobs, Live Longer
Eureka! That is what many men would say at this discovery. A recent research finding has confirmed that it is rewarding to ogle at women's boobs. A five-year study of 200 men discovered that men who ogle at women's boobs live longer than men who do not. A 10-minute ogle at a woman's breasts is equivalent to spending 30 minutes in the gym. Doing so consistently has the ability to prolong a man's life by four to five years.
The research based its findings on the fact that men who enjoyed looking at women's boobs had lower blood pressure, less heart diseases and slower pulse rates compared to those who turn a blind eye. Karen Weatherby, a female doctor who carried out the study in Germany, wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine: "Just ten minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out." She said, this is because sexual excitement gets the heart pumping and improves blood circulation which reduces the risk of a stroke and cardiac arrests in men. But this study is only efficacious if done daily for at least 30 minutes.
Nike Oduwole, a Nigerian nurse, say he had no problems with the finding especially as the research was done by a fellow woman which removes the possibility of sexist connotation whatsoever. However, she wants Weather by to research into what women need to stare at in a man to live longer.
D'Banj Shines
Nigeria is fast becoming a force to reckon with on the music scene globally. Last week, Dapo Oyebanji, the Nigerian musician popularly called D'banj, won the 2007 MTV Best Africa Act for his hit track called Why Me? at the MTV Music Awards held in Munich, Germany.
It was a momentous occasion for D'banj. He shouted "No long thing!" his famous catchphrase as he climbed the rostrum to collect the prize. This means there is no problem. After making his acceptance speech, he said, "I dedicate this award to the man who saw the vision first, Don Jazzy." Don Jazzy is D'banj's promoter.
This achievement is the second time a Nigerian musician would win the award. Innocent Idibia, popularly called Tu face, is the first Nigerian to win the award last year held in Lisbon, Portugal.
A Rare Achievement in Death
Andy Warhol has joined the long queue of paint artists whose works fetch gargantuan amount after their death. One of his paintings of Dame Elizabeth Taylor has been sold for $23.7m at a New York auction. An anonymous bidder bought the 1963 portrait, called Liz. Even at that price, it was sold under the normal price which it had been expected to fetch at the Christie's auction.
Warhol created 12 portraits of the actress as she recovered from illness. "I started those a long time ago when she was so sick and everybody said she was going to die," the artist said then. Later, he touched up the paintings by putting bright colours on Taylor's lips and eyes. Warhol also produced similar works of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy. In May, Warhol's painting of a car crash sold for $71.7m. It was a record for a Warhol piece. The 1963 painting, Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), depicted an overturned car on fire.
Warhol was a leading figure in the Pop Art Movement, and he experimented by creating paintings from mass-produced images from American popular culture. Born in 1928, he died suddenly in 1987 in a New York hospital following a gall bladder operation.
A Lawyer's Wicked Sense of Humour
Terrye Cheathem, a crime defence lawyer and adviser to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, has a wicked sense of humour. Folks of prisoners need not fret at how to communicate their regret or sorrow because he has developed a line of greeting cards for the recently incarcerated. Among her selections are cards reading "Sorry to hear about your arrest,"and "Honestly, I never knew anyone who was arrested before," and, simply, "Not You!" A remorseful friend or relation could choose "I know that I have not visited you. But I still care about you ... When are you getting out, anyway?"
Nigerians Are The Brightest
It has been said time and again that Nigerians are actually brilliant Africans. More often than not, it is seen as a boast. Not anymore. It is now an empirical fact. A poll of 11 to 16-year olds in the survey of 4,170 children from Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the UK and the US has showed that Nigerian students scored the highest with 5.15.
Given a ranking on a score of one to seven after answering a series of questions, UK children scored just 2.19. Next to bottom were American teenagers with a ranking of 2.2. The survey found out that British youngsters were the least likely to make the effort to understand current events in the world or to learn a foreign language. A breakdown within the UK found that English pupils scored 2.17 compared with 2.26 in Northern Ireland, 2.35 in Scotland and 2.43 in Wales.
Martin Davidson, chief executive of the British Council presented the findings. The British Council commissioned the survey for its annual conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster. He was miffed at the result, however. "Our school children cannot afford to fall behind the rest of the world. For the UK to compete in a global economy, it is vital we encourage our young people to have an interest in the world around them," he said.
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