Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Typo on nuclear test site shakes Sudan KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 11 (UPI) -- The Sudanese government got a jolt when it read on a United States Congressional Web site about U.S. nuclear tests in the Sudan -- but it was only a typo. Advertisement A House committee report mentioned tests conducted in Sudan between 1962 and 1970. But, when alarmed Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail asked U.S. officials in Khartoum, it turned out to be a typing error. The report should have said Sedan, a test site in Nevada. The U.S. embassy in Khartoum confirmed the United States had never conducted nuclear tests in Sudan. "There is nothing that makes us so far doubt the explanations we have received from the U.S. administration," said a relieved Ismail. But, he said he would continue his investigation into the matter. Colorado town hosts 'Frozen Dead Guy Days' Advertisement NEDERLAND, Colo., March 11 (UPI) -- It's time for the fourth annual Frozen Dead Guy Days in the Colorado mountain town of Nederland where visitors salute a real frozen dead guy. The coffin race course is set up, the Tuff Shed is ready for visitors and Aud Morstoel is back in the town where she left her father's frozen body a decade ago, the Boulder Daily Camera said. Morstoel, 75, received a travel visa to come to the United States from Norway for the first time since her deportation 10 years ago. Grandpa, as everyone calls him, died in 1989. When his daughter had to leave, Grandpa's body was stored on ice in a Tuff Shed and became the center of an annual event when the public found out. The festival's had its first opening ceremony Friday with runners carrying torches from Grandpa's shed to downtown Nederland, plus the usual coffin races, a hearse parade and tours of the infamous Tuff Shed to come. Like owners, pets like bottled water, too LAWSONVILLE, N.C., March 11 (UPI) -- A North Carolina couple have joined the growing industry of providing bottled water for finicky pets. People have developed a big thirst in recent years for bottled water, many because they don't like tap water. So it seems their pets are no different and entrepreneurs like Bill and Rhonda Fels are jumping in to serve the creatures. Advertisement The Felses, who market PetFresh products nationwide from a former tobacco farm in Lawsonville, N.C., stumbled onto the business while trying to get Jason, their 3-year-old spaniel-retriever, to drink enough water. They were delighted when Jason finally found water he liked from a glacier-fed river Fels crossed during a hike. Fels made regular trips to bring back more river water for Jason. When neighbors started mooching his pooch's supply for their own problem drinkers, Fels knew he had something, the Wall Street Journal said. The Felses also sell PetRefresh for cats, birds and hamsters. Britons discover joys of single life LONDON, March 11 (UPI) -- The British government predicts less than half the couples in the country will be legally married in six years. A report released Thursday also forecasts a growing number of divorces among the elderly, the Mirror said Friday. The divorce rate among younger Britons is expected to stabilize, mainly because so few of them will be getting married. Government officials predict by 2011 married couples will be only 47 percent of all couples. That's expected to drop even more to 44 percent by 2021 and 41 percent by 2031. By 2031, only 9 percent of women and 10 percent of men under 30 will be married. Advertisement The report suggests young people are delaying marriage because they are spending more years in school and many of them are deciding not to tie the knot because they had to live through their parents' divorces. Older people are getting divorced because they have observed from their children's behavior that staying in a failed relationship is not necessary.
