Yesterday, it was New Jersey trying to ban the painful, but pleasing, Brazilian waxing treatment. You can yawn your way through the whole story, in which bug -expert-nerds argue over what kind of spider it was, inwardly lamenting their early decision to eschew anything that would ever get them laid, or you can knit together these tidbits from the story:. Oddly, the Brazilian spider delivers more than a painful bite that sends most victims to the hospital. Researchers have found its venom also stimulates an hours-long erection in men.

Balboa Park Tram contract renewed for 5 years. Parents say San Diego Unified mask policy discriminates against students with disabilities. The district is not allowing students on campus without a mask to prevent COVID transmission, even if students have a disability or medical condition that prevents mask wearing. Public Safety. Small fire at homeless encampment extinguished in National City.

A decision by one of Rio's top samba schools to let a seven-year-old girl lead its carnival procession has caused uproar on the eve of what Brazilians call the greatest party on Earth. The honour of being one of the carnival queens, the nimble-footed women who lead the deafening samba troupes along Rio's Sambadrome, is normally reserved for immaculately tanned and half-naked soap opera stars keen to keep their faces — and bottoms — in the Brazilian media. This year, however, one of Rio's best-known samba schools, Viradouro, has opted for a more unusual queen: Julia Lira, who is set to lead the drum section of her father's samba school, becoming Rio's youngest samba queen.