A friend told me "I can understand why men don't like vasectomies. My uncle got a vasectomy, and paid for it with MasterCard. He forgot to pay the bill, and the finance company came over to his house and knocked up my aunt." Send this story to a friend 1 The president turned back to his own role in history. He told the audience that he saw a list of the top 100 news stories of the century compiled by the Newseum, a journalism- oriented museum ... across the Potomac in Virginia, and noticed that "something about the events of the past year" [was] on it. Clinton, smiling, revealed his number on the list: No. 53. "No. 53! I mean, what does a guy have to do to make the top 50? I came in six places after the invention of plastic, for crying outloud. And I don't recall a year of 24-hour-a-day saturation on the miracle of plastic." --Associated Press Report on 85th White House Correspondents Association Dinner 2 May 1999 Send this story to a friend 2 Nairobi, Kenya -- A Kenyan doctor who removed a bean stuck in the ear of a young girl forced it back when her parents said they couldn't afford the bill, local newspapers reported Wednesday. The Daily Nation said the doctor successfully removed the bean from the child's ear and then presented the parents with a bill for $5.75. When they said they did not have enough money, the doctor grabbed the child, forced the bean back into her ear and ejected the family from his workplace. The Kenya Medical Association said it was investigating the incident. Send this story to a friend 3