ONE IN TEN BRITISH MEN WEAR UNDERPANTS TWO DAYS YJQH LONDON (REUTER) - ONE IN 10 BRITISH MEN WEAR THE SAME UNDERPANTS TWO OR THREE DAYS RUNNING AND ONE IN 100 WEARS THE SAME PAIR ALL WEEK, ACCORDING TO A SURVEY JUST PUBLISHED. ONE IN FOUR OF THOSE SURVEYED CONFESSED TO GOING WITHOUT A BATH OR SHOWER FOR THREE DAYS ON A REGULAR BASIS. NOT THAT IT'S CRAMPING THEIR SEX LIFE. SURVEY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES SAID THEIR POLL OF 1,000 ADULTS SHOWED A LARGE NUMBER OF WOMEN SEEM HAPPY WITH THE SMELL OF PERSPIRATION. INDEED, ONE IN SIX OF THE WOMEN QUESTIONED SAID THEY ALSO WENT THREE DAYS WITHOUT A BATH OR SHOWER AND HALF SAID THEY KEPT WEARING UNDERWEAR AFTER IT HAD GONE GREY WITH AGE. 20-JUN-0418. HHK420 H2031722 NEVL A BARREL OF LAUGHS FOR NIAGARA COUPLE YJDX TORONTO (REUTER) - AN AMERICAN COUPLE HAVE SURVIVED A 165-FEET (55-METRE) DESCENT OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN A BARREL WITH ONLY MINOR INJURIES. CANADIAN MEDIA REPORTED STEVEN TROTTER, A FLORIDA BARTENDER, AND LORI MARTIN OF ATLANTA WERE TREATED AT A HOSPITAL FOR MINOR INJURIES AFTER PLUNGING OVER THE CANADIAN HORSESHOE FALLS AS A FATHER'S DAY GESTURE. POLICE AND RESCUE CREWS TOOK AN HOUR TO FREE THE FIBREGLASS CAPSULE, WRAPPED WITH THE BULLETPROOF MATERIAL KEVLAR AND COVERED IN THICK STYROFOAM, FROM ROCKS AT THE BASE OF THE FALLS. THE COUPLE ARE EXPECTED TO BE FINED. 19-JUN-0421. HHK293 H1970818 NEVJ SHARK LEAPS INTO BOAT, KILLS FIJIAN FISHERMAN YJUW SUVA (REUTER) - A FIJIAN FISHERMAN DIED AFTER A THREE-METRE (12-FT) SHARK LEAPT INTO HIS BOAT AND ATTACKED HIM WHILE HE SLEPT, THE STATE-OWNED RADIO FIJI REPORTED. THE REPORT SAID THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE OFF WAYA ISLAND IN THE REMOTE YASAWA GROUP. LOCAL POSTAL AGENT TIMOCI RAVOUVOU TOLD RADIO FIJI FIVE MEN HAD BEEN SLEEPING IN THE EIGHT-METRE (16-FT) FISHING BOAT, WHICH WAS ANCHORED IN OPEN SEAS WHEN THE ATTACK OCCURRED. HE SAID THE SHARK NEARLY TORE OFF THE RIGHT LEG AND RIGHT HAND OF VILLAGER KINIJIOJI VINDOVI, 69, WHO LATER DIED FROM LOSS OF BLOOD AS THE OTHER MEN STEERED THE BOAT TO SHORE. 25-MAY-0446. HHK382 H25188635 NEVM TEENAGER BECOMES YOUNGEST DOCTOR IN WORLD YJCR NEW YORK - CHEERED BY FELLOW STUDENTS, FACULTY AND FAMILY, A NEW YORK TEENAGER BORN IN INDIA HAS CLAIMED A PLACE AS THE YOUNGEST MEDICAL DOCTOR IN THE WORLD. IN A GRADUATION CEREMONY HELD BY THE MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 17-YEAR-OLD BALAMURALI AMBATI WAS AWARDED HIS DIPLOMA, THUS BECOMING DR AMBATI AND ACHIEVING A GOAL HE SET OUT TO REACH WHEN HE WAS A CHILD. THE PREVIOUS YOUNGEST DOCTOR GRADUATED IN ITALY AT 18 YEARS AND THREE MONTHS OLD. HE BREEZED THROUGH SCHOOL TWO GRADES AT A TIME, FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL AT AGE 11 AND GRADUATING FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AT 13 WITH A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE. 20-MAY-0447. HHK256 H2096886 NEVK THE SECRET TO A MALE'S SEX DRIVE YJTF LONDON (REUTER) - SCIENTISTS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND THE SECRET OF THE MALE SEX DRIVE AND IT IS NOT, AS WAS WIDELY BELIEVED, THE HORMONE TESTOSTERONE. INSTEAD, THEY HAVE PINPOINTED DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE, A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VERSION OF THE HORMONE. DR CHRISTOS MANTZOROS AND COLLEAGUES AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDIED 92 GREEK MEN, AGED 18 TO 22, WHO WERE ASKED TO INDICATE THEIR AVERAGE NUMBER OF ORGASMS PER WEEK. THOSE WHO REPORTED THE HIGHEST NUMBER ALSO HAD A HIGHER LEVEL OF DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE (DHT) IN THEIR BLOOD. Reuters WELL, THE RESULT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR IS IN. ANNABEL CHONG, A 22-YEAR-OLD SINGAPORE-BORN SOCIOLOGY STUDENT LIVING IN LA, ATTEMPTED TO HAVE SEX WITH 300 MEN IN 10 HOURS (THAT'S 90 SECONDS EACH) OVER THE WEEKEND BECAUSE SHE "WANTED TO SET A WORLD RECORD." ANNABEL DIDN'T EXPECT THE GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS TO VERIFY HER ATTEMPT, "IT WAS A LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO THE BONE FOR THEM." OF THE 300 MEN WHO WERE ISSUED AIDS CERTIFICATES WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN LA, ONLY 150 HAD THE BOTTLE TO JOIN. MANY HAD TO GO TWICE AS THEY WERE BROUGHT TO ANNABEL'S ROOM FIVE AT A TIME. SHE INSISTED ON TAKING A BREAK EVERY FEW HOURS TO FIX HER MAKE-UP AND HAVE A DRINK, BUT AFTER NUMBER 251 HAD ENTERED IN TO HISTORY (THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 121), ANNABEL, WHO IS 5FT 5 INS TALL, HAS CHEST IMPLANTS AND USED TO LIVE IN LONDON UP UNTIL 1993,(SOUND FAMILIAR ANYONE? - ED)) WAS TOO EXHAUSTED TO CARRY ON. SHE SAIDS: "THAT WAS THE HARDEST THING I'VE DONE - BUT I LOVED IT!" ONE OF THE MEN,, A 38-YEAR-OLD FROM LONDON SAID: "I'M GLAD I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST AND NOT ONE OF THE LAST." ANNABEL, WHO BEFORE HAD ONLY MANAGED 12 BLOKES AT ONE TIME, FILMED THE WHOLE EVENT AND IS NOW PRESUMABLY BLACKMAILING MOST OF THE PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE WIVES AND/OR GIRLFRIENDS. GREEK ROBBER DEMONSTRATES CRIMINAL INITIATIVE YJMH ATHENS (REUTER) - A GREEK PETROL STATION ROBBER, UPSET WHEN HE FOUND LESS CASH IN THE TILL THAN HE EXPECTED, LOCKED UP THE OWNER AND MANNED THE PUMP FOR SEVERAL HOURS TO POCKET MORE MONEY. POLICE SAID THE MAN, IN HIS MID-TWENTIES, PUMPED PETROL FOR FOUR HOURS AFTER LOCKING STATION OWNER NIKOS LAMBROU IN A STORE ROOM. HE POLITELY FREED THE OWNER BEFORE TAKING OFF WITH THE EQUIVALENT OF $1,100 -- $700 MORE THAN WAS IN THE TILL TO START WITH. "HE RELEASED THE OWNER, THANKED HIM, AND VANISHED ON A MOTORCYCLE. HE TOLD CUSTOMERS THE OWNER WAS ILL AND THAT HE WAS REPLACING HIM FOR THE NIGHT," A POLICE OFFICER SAID. 17-NOV-1359. HHK349 H17160554 NEVH