Autistic Mice, Five Elephants, The Forever Stamp, Pervert Kim, and La Lohan Hooks Up

Really? Five elephant babies?

1. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are finding that deleting the Pten gene in mice's brain change the mice's behavior to something reminiscent of autism, which is interesting since some people with autism show mutation in their Pten gene. More importantly, this will finally satisfy the public's overwhelming demand for socially awkward mouse pets. (IBN Live)

2. Move over diamonds. The Postal Service (think delivery, not Death Cab) decides to take "forever" with what else? Forever stamps. That's right, for a cool 42 cents, versus 42k, you can buy a stamp that lasts forever, that disregards all laws of mailing inflation--or deflation--and captures the present in all its untasty glory. So say goodbye to your past, present, and future two-cent flings. This is something you can commit to--that is, if you're still actually mailing. (AP)

3. Gossip bees are buzzing that Lindsay Lohan might have come between Paris Hilton and Stavros Niarchos. La Lohan and Niarchos were spotted recently, though after the breakup, drinking and dirty dancing together at LA's Element, with *gasp* Niarchos sticking his hand up her skirt. Fast forward a few days, and Niarchos was seen leaving her Chateau Marmont room, or as I'd like to call it, her den of sin. Brett Ratner who? (MSNBC)

4. At her book talk at Bergdorf Goodman yesterday, Madeline Albright took some jabs at North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.

"I had the rather dubious honor of being the highest-level American official to ever meet with Kim Jong-Il. We didn't know a lot about him. Our intelligence said that he was crazy and a pervert... He's not crazy."

This reported for the North Korean dictator? Oh Daily News, I'm sure he's been called worse.

5. Weighing in at five baby elephants, Manuel Uribe might be the heaviest person in the world. Bedridden for the past five years and abandoned by his wife who feared his increasing size a decade ago, the 1,200 pound Uribe is hoping to go to Modena, Italy from Mexico to receive a free intestinal bypass. Stranger still is that despite his extreme obesity, his cholesterol and blood-sugar is in check. Stranger yet is Uribe's comment on his breakup: "She left me because she must have thought I was dying." Aside from making that mental note to use that as a breakup line, one has to wonder about the legitimacy behind abandoning loved ones at their deathbed. (Reuters)