Chicago, IL -- Tax season could be the start of a boom market for dental surgeons. According to a poll conducted by the American Academy of Periodontology, 34 percent of Americans will spend their tax refund on gussying up their gums.

LONDON -- A British soccer player set a new world record for scoring a goal just two seconds after the game started. Twenty-five year-old March Burrows says one of his fellow team mates rolled the ball forward and he took a kick at it. "The wind was strong and the ball just sailed over their poor keeper," he says. The old record was held by Ricardo Olivera, who scored within 2.8 seconds of the start of a match in Uruguay in 1998.

EVANSTON, Ill. -- College students are known for burning the midnight oil, but not the members of a new fraternity at Northwestern University whose Greek letters are ZZZ. Members of Zeta Zeta Zeta, or Tri-Zeta, say they are dedicated to "encouraging excellence through superior sleep." The mock fraternity is open to both men and women and will accept members "regardless of race, gender or sleeping orientation," reports the "Daily Northwestern."

KUNMING, China -- There will be no naked sushi on the menu at a Japanese restaurant in Kunming, China, which had offered patrons a chance to eat raw fish off the bodies of two nude women. The so-called "feast on a beauty's body" was priced at $160, but was yanked off the menu before anyone had a chance to sample it because of public outcry, reports China's Xinhua News Agency.

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