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London, England: The airline Virgin Atlantic plans to install bedrooms complete with showers, Jacuzzis and double beds in its 747 jumbos to encourage travelers to join the "Mile High Club", a report said Wednesday. Ten to 12 rooms will be installed in the hold of airplanes and be accessed by a staircase from the main cabin, the Sun newspaper said. The price of a trip from London to New York would be around 2,900 pounds ($4,600). "You can do it on cruise ships and trains, why not on a plane? Passengers will find it comfy and romantic," airline boss Richard Branson was quoted as saying. The paper said Branson also plans a Kiddie Class, where airline nannies and clowns will entertain children.
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Watertown, New York: It was eagle-eyed zookeepers who noticed first. The DNA testing only proved what they already suspected. The Thompson Park Zoo's American bald eagle breeding program was going nowhere. Not with two males, anyway. "We had our suspicions right away. The birds are virtually the identical size," said Director Glenn D. Dobrogosz, who laughed Tuesday about the gender mix-up that provided a comical start to the zoo's new eagle breeding program. "It happens. Not a lot. But it happens," he said. The two American bald eagles - supposedly a male and female - arrived at the zoo last July from the Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The two males became good buddies but zookeepers quickly realized there would be no amorous flights for these two, Dobrogosz said. Because bald eagle males and females share the same coloring characteristics, it is difficult to determine gender by visual inspection. However, in most raptor species, the female is slightly larger than the male, he said. Based on their size and behavior, the Alaska center mistakenly thought it had sent a male and a female, Dobrogosz said. It wasn't until the Thompson Park Zoo took blood samples for DNA testing that it confirmed the birds' sexes. "Sure enough, they both were boys," he said. Now that the confusion has been cleared up, zookeepers are once again focused on the romancing. One of the males is being sent to the Clinch Park Zoo in Traverse City, Mich. Meanwhile, the Watertown zoo already has received a new female from another raptor rehabilitation center on Sitka Island in Alaska. "We're positive this time," Dobrogosz said, heading off the inevitable inquiry about the bird's gender.
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"Demi Moore's new movie about the first woman in the elite Navy Seals still has no name," says Alex Kaseberg. "They decided not to go with the title chosen by a test marketing group -- 'Straight to Video.'"
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