• Scientists say anorexia may be related to autism. Sufferers of both disorders struggle with rigidity and obsession, and people with anorexia can develop the motor tics and difficulty reading emotions that are considered characteristic of autism. • Caylee Anthony's autopsy report has been released — it shows that her body had been in the woods for about three months, and that someone put duct tape on her head before or just after she died. • Research shows that kids learn emotional control from roughhousing with their dads. Close father-child bonds also help children form strong relationships later in life, and even delay menstruation in girls. • OJ's ex-girlfriend is writing a tell-all in which she accuses him of trying to separate her from her friends and family, constantly comparing her with Nicole, and threatening a friend of hers with a gun. • Hillary Clinton has had surgery to repair a broken elbow, and doctors expect her to make a full recovery. • Glamour editor Sheila Weller is into three-ways: she wrote Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation, and now she's writing a book about Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour. • A British school is considering asking all girls to wear pants because their skirts have gotten "ridiculously short" and "too revealing especially on staircases." Headteacher Jane Holland says she might consider relenting if girls promise to keep their frocks knee-length, because "girls look smart in skirts." • Two people with swine flu got married in Chicago. No word on whether Pat Robertson thinks this will destroy the institution of marriage. • The inventor of the Magic Fingers vibrating bed has died at the age of 92. • Both houses of Congress — but not Ron Paul — voted to condemn Iran's crackdown on protesters. • Some residents of Pasco, Washington don't want a Planned Parenthood opening in their town, because they're worried about how antiabortion protests might affect local schools — even though the clinic won't actually provide abortions. • Watch Barack Obama order General Odierno to shave Stephen Colbert's head here. • Obama wants the 2010 census to include data on same-sex marriages and partnerships. Previous censuses tried to include same-sex unions by "altering the gender of one member of a same-sex couple" — we're not sure how that worked. • Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe refused to meet with Sonia Sotomayor, saying that his voting against her was "a foregone conclusion." • Roland Burris will not be charged with perjury for statements he made about his appointment to Obama's Senate seat. • A man claiming to be an aide to Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud says Mehsud planned the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He also claims Mehsud was acting on behalf of the United States. • Economist Ian Ayres suggests that people use "commitment contracts" to pledge to forego meat one day a week — and pay a bounty if they don't. •

[Minsk, May 9. Image via Getty]

A Belarussian WWII veteran (2-R) dances with a group of young women in downtown Minsk on May 9, 2009 during Victory Day celebrations commemorating the end of WWII. Belarus was heavily involved in the war as its soldiers served in the Soviet Red Army and many battles were fought on its territory. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

• A cat has survived being walled in under a bathtub for 7 weeks in Berlin after the feline crept under a bathtub that was being installed. • More stories of survival: A tortoise narrowly escaped being buried under 50 tons of trash at a landfill after his owners accidentallly threw him in the garbage. • Lunatica Desuna has complied a gallery of the different depictions of the Mona Lisa by famous artists like Andy Warhol, Keith Herring, and Marcel Duchamp. • Jeremy Paxman, a TV-presenter on the BBC network, whines that "the worst thing you can be [in the television industry] is a middle-class white male". • A 21-year-old mother undergoing treatment for cervical cancer has been denied Ondansetron, an anti-sickness drug, because it is supposedly too expensive. • Women at the National Theater in London are getting a chance to shine behind the scenes as art directors, designers, and playwrights by giving over the largest stage to a living female playwright's play, a first for the theater • Child rape is rising in Afghanistan's northern provinces (as the government's control begins to be lost to insurgents). • A 47-year-old man in Scarborough, Ontario has claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary in his neighbor's tree. • More than 1/3rd of women between the ages of 18-44 have admitted to sharing prescription drugs in a recent study. • Wooser, Tibet's most famous female writer and blogger, has been arrested by police after being accused of photographing military installations. • Cheerleaders in Monroe, Ohio have been banned from wearing their cheerleading uniforms to school because the short skirts violate a new district-wide dress code on skirt length. •

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According to The Guardian hips may be hip again this spring when tulip shaped skirts show up in stores. Not likely this trend will take off since women have been taming their curves for generations, but if you're tempted, proceed with caution. Tulip skirts, like last season's balloon skirts, are not for everyone. They work for those who are lean above and below the skirt leaving one to imagine that there's a shapely little bum hiding underneath. http://www.guardian.co.uk/style/story/0,,1964133,00.html