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Weddings were cutting into his tennis time

By TIMES WIRES
Published February 21, 2007

SORRY, CAN'T MAKE IT

It's really a big responsibility to be social butterflies in Buenos Aires. So Adolfo Caballero and his wife took out an ad in the newspaper La Nacion asking people to stop sending them wedding invitations. "We thank you ahead of time for understanding this petition, which is due to our saturated social calendar," read the ad. Caballero, 66, says he's overrun with invites from all manner of family, friends and business associates, and a serious Argentine wedding can take upward of 12 hours when you include travel time. "It's fun for youngsters who want to dance until 5 a.m. But the next day I'm tired and I can't move when I want to go play tennis," Caballero said.

KID'S HEALTH

Be good and police give you a Big Mac

New Zealand's Daily Telegraph reports that police will give out McDonald's and pizza vouchers to reward children for good behavior in Dubbo, a town desperate to tackle a youth crime epidemic. "If we see them doing good things within the community, they will be rewarded," Detective Michael Willing said. He said that the program was one of a number of strategies to be phased in this year as an extension of an antitruancy program that was launched last year. No decision on whether to give bad kids fruit, or what they will do when in five years all the good kids are overweight.

NO REST FOR MR. BONES

50 years later, still no funeral for him

And you thought there was a big to-do about what would happen to Anna Nicole Smith's remains. Police in Bedford Township, Pa., still haven't buried the skeletal remains of a man they found in 1958. Prosecutors say what's left of "Mr. Bones," as he's known to police, is evidence of an unsolved crime. Police believe the person was killed at least two years before the skeleton was found, and a large sum of money found nearby makes robbery an unlikely motive. "It's really an unusual case," prosecutor William Higgins said. "But the bottom-line is that you really have to preserve any evidence you have."

NICKNAME CITY FIGHT

Only one town can be nation's icebox

Fraser, Colo., is taking advantage of a loophole to become the "Icebox of the Nation." It seems that International Falls, Minn., filed for a federal trademark on the nickname, but someone forgot to renew it in 1996. Fraser found this out, and pounced. Well, as much as the word "pounce" is applicable 11 years later. International Falls is taking the blow in stride. "No, no, no!" Mayor Shawn Mason told the Denver Post. Okay, maybe "in stride" is an exaggeration. The cities have battled over the nickname for decades, with Fraser giving up the "official" designation in 1986 when International Falls sent it a check for $2,000. International Falls City Administrator Rod Otterness sounded like an official ready to defend the title: "We beat them once, and I'm sure we can beat them again."

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