Here's an item from Leah Garchik's delightful "Personals" column in today's San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfgate.com):

Countdown Under Way

A survey taken by the condom maker Durex, forwarded by Dyann Espinosa, has found that almost half the young people in the world want to usher in the millenium with sex. The most revved-up celebrants were Canadians; 63 percent said they hoped to be celebrating the occasion with personal fireworks.

(another good reason for moving to folk heaven in Toronto)

This is a teaser on the front page of the same edition of the Chronicle: Under a title: TODAY'S SCIENCE PAGE there's a picture of two cute hyena kits (they get pretty ugly when they grow up), and beneath that, the teaser:

Hyenas in the Berkeley Hills are offering scientists new insights into sex hormones. See page A10.

I didn't read the story: I didn't want to be disabused of my fantasy that "hyenas" is a campus term for date-rapers.

--seed