This would be a stirring endorsement for the Yosemite Sam mudflap industry if they existed for bikes. But mudguards are readily available and are being touted by Norwegian and Swedish researchers as a way to reduce the risk of gastroenteritis related to bicycle races over courses with animal feces and mud.

In 2008, a new craze swept the nail industry as women (and men) put their feet into water containing fish that ate the dead skin off feet. Washington State, and others, said no way, and would not approve the process. Now there’s some data to back up the ban.

Sticky rice balls are the suspected culprit behind a Mother’s Day outbreak of foodborne illness that sickened dozens who attended a Mother's Day garden party and food fair at a Buddhist monastery in Carmel.

At least 150 people who attended a Mother's Day garden party at an upstate New York Buddhist monastery have fallen ill with food poisoning. Eric Gross, spokesman for the Putnam County Bureau of Emergency Services, says about 700 people were at the festival at Chuang Yen Monastery in Kent Cliffs, 55 miles north of New York City. About 500 of them came on buses from Chinatown.