• HEY, DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY? AND THAT IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH SANTA AND RON PAUL? Ok, no more shouting. • A 50-year-old woman in China known as "The Paper Woman" suffers from a rare skin disorder which allows words to appear on her skin when she gently writes on herself with a fingernail. • A lawsuit filed 8 years ago by a former employee against Ringling Bros. Circus claiming that the circus mistreats its endangered elephants is going to trial next week in Washington. •

• Oh yeah, remember the "pickpocket terrorist" from yesterday? It turns out that she has been arrested 73 times, not 37 times, and she alleges that she lives at the White House. • A new study of Japanese eaters suggest that people who eat quickly until they are full are three times more likely to be overweight. • A female Turkish interior designer is a member of team that is overseeing the construction of the Sakrin Mosque, the first mosque to be designed by women. • A shoe that belonged to Mr. Rogers and was pinched from the Louisiana Children's Museum by Tulane Law School students was returned yesterday. • Fans of Stockholm's AIK team heckled Jan Huokko of the Leksand hockey club when his team played AIK on Tuesday by throwing dildos on the rink, in reference to a sex tape starring Huokko and his girlfriend that was leaked earlier this year.• A new study reveals that 79% of women using hormonal contraceptives have concerns about their birth control method, mostly over issues that might harm the birth control's effectiveness like spontaneous sexual activity and forgetting to take a pill. • Valerie Tripp, the author of more than 50 "American Girl" books, based the popular stories of Kit Kittredge on her mother's experiences during the Great Depression. • The Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices decided today that adult smokers under 65 should get pneumococcal vaccine, a shot that protects against pneumonia, meningitis, and other illnesses. • The FDA announced that surgical mesh is linked to serious complications in women when the mesh is used to hold a patient's pelvic organs in place during procedures to treat incontinence. • A female football kicker for the New Creation Center Crusaders in Georgia helped her team beat the East Atlanta Mustangs, a team that originally opposed playing a female football player because of religious reasons. • A pregnant woman in Tokyo was denied admission to 7 healthcare institutions in Japan for emergency treatment on October 4th; she later died three days after giving birth and undergoing surgery for a brain hemorrhage at a hospital that finally agreed to treat her. • A popular female math teacher at Portland High School in Tennessee has been charged with having sex with three of her male students in a supply closet or off campus. •

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