The world's tallest teenage girl walks hands in hands with her boyfriend, the picture of young love despite a staggering height difference. 17-year-old Elisany da Cruz Silva (pictured with her lover and again with her family) measures an unbelievable two metres tall and has to bend down to plant a kiss on her lover Francinaldo da Silva Carvalho (who is 5 years her senior but 40 cm shorter). The youngster, from Salinopolis in Brazil, has a form of gigantism because of a tumour on her pituitary gland, which regulates growth. Doctors have since removed the tumour. But what won't be removed is police in schools in a town in New Jersey. In fact, Marlboro Township is getting ready to station a full-time armed police officer in each of its nine schools come January 2. And speaking of come (excuse the pun), 55-year-old Raymond Favero, a geneticist from Braidwood in Illinois, must pay US$30,000 and serve three years of probation for illegally obtaining valuable semen from whitetail deer in East Texas. Investigators say that in 2007, Favero acquired whitetail deer semen from a buck in Cherokee County that he knew was illegally transported from an out-of-state source. The semen was worth US$92,000. Investigators also say that the following year, he acquired more whitetail deer semen from another buck in a similar case.
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