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The news beyond Hillorama and McRomney Date published: 2/1/2008 By Edie Gross IN A MONTH FULL The mind reels. Clinton or Obama? McCain or Romney? Giants or Patriots? In your efforts to digest the month's most earth-shattering news, you might have missed other smaller, but equally important, headlines. Please allow us to fill you in. WHAT'S IN A NAME? In an effort to boost tourism and foreign investment, Lithuania announced last week that it may change its English name to something easier to pronounce. The southern Baltic state, long overshadowed by media darlings Latvia and Estonia, has adopted a marketing concept designed to promote itself as "daring," according to a Reuters news report. Names reportedly under consideration include MacGyver, Magnum P.I. and Mr. T. "Lithuania's transcription in English is difficult to pronounce and remember for English speakers," said government spokesman Laurynas Bucalis, who himself is considering I FEEL PRETTY A Brazilian model, best known for dancing seminude in the country's Carnival parades year after year, aims to set a world record for the number of plastic surgeries endured. Angela Bismarchi told The Associated Press that she was undergoing her 42nd operation this week--having nylon wires implanted in her eyes to give them an Asian slant. Her new look was inspired by this year's Carnival theme celebrating the centennial of Japanese immigration to Brazil. Also by the fact that her frontal lobe was replaced a few years back by a silicone gel implant. PLEASE STORE OUTFIT IN OVERHEAD BIN An eastern German travel agency is urging some of its clients to pack light--real light. OssiUrlaub.de began taking reservations According to reports, the flight crew will remain clothed "for safety reasons." IN ELECTION NEWS A candidate for office in Texas has promised constituents that, if elected, Ed Hamilton told the Associated Press that the position of Kerr County treasurer is a waste of money and that if he wins the March 4 election, he simply won't do the job. Naturally, voters are puzzled as to how that makes him different from just about every other politician. DUDE, WHERE'S MY CHANGE? Speaking of naturally California has become the first state to offer marijuana vending machines. The devices--there are three in the L.A. area so far--dispense pot to customers for whom medical use of marijuana has been approved, according to the Associated Press. Next to each pot machine is another that sells only Cheetos. And next to that is one that sells those little treats you buy at the movie theater, I think they're called Snowballs or Sno-Caps or Sno-Munchies or whatever, but they're basically chocolate chips sprinkled with those little white candy-coated dots that make a crunching sound when you bite them, and man are those good. Edie Gross: 540/374-5428
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