Winners
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NASA: The Lisa Nowak bizarre love triangle makes being an astronaut doubly sexy.
Frenchmen: The introduction of a line of male pantyhose, in a "thick, mannish knit," has answered many a prayer.
Harvard: After 371 years, the Board of Overseers picks Drew Gilpin Faust as the university's first female president.
Ganges dolphins: A Japanese acoustic tracking device may save the endangered cetaceans, one of only four dolphin species that inhabit rivers and lakes.
Reagan's ghost: Not only was February 6 the Gipper's birthday, but now residents of a Polish city are demanding that a statue of the former U.S. president replace a Soviet monument, in a plaza to be renamed "Ronald Reagan Freedom Square," no less.
Losers
Iranian peaceniks: Iran takes it up a notch, as a top cleric insists on state radio that the United States is within his country's "firing range."
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Chinese spitters: Beijing is training residents to be on their best behavior for the 2008 Olympics, so anyone expectorating in public can expect a fine of 50 yuan ($6.50).
Indian consumers: Serious inflation—affecting everything from the price of lentils to apartment rents—threatens India's economic boom.
Godless communism: 300 million Chinese identify as religious, according to the first major survey of religious belief in China—triple the official number.
Caribbean wackiness: Anna Nicole Smith, former unwelcome Bahamas resident, passes away.
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