Reading erotic literature was an extensive social activity in eighteenth century, according to a new study. A Ph. D. candidate at the University of Leeds conducted the study. The study rejected findings of previous studies which suggested that erotic texts were read in solitude, saying that the erotic texts were read aloud everywhere from alehouses to coffee shops.

An eighth grader from Wilson Middle School has been suspended and might face expulsion for putting urine in a teacher's coffee pot, Muncie Community Schools officials have said. The act was brought to the knowledge of school authorities on Friday after the teacher noticed a strange odor in the coffee. Another student who overheard classmates discussing the act also reported it to the officials.

Dutch authorities on Friday seized nearly three tons of hashish that was left behind by occupants of a van after a crash. When officials reached the scene, many of the packets of the drug were scattered all across the road and the suspects had fled the scene. "It's not something you see every day," police spokesman Hielke Vogelzang told the AP, adding that investigators were searching for the driver of the van and the passenger.

The owner of a coffee stand in the parking lot of an auto repair shop in Washington is determined to find the thief who recently robbed his store at gunpoint. Troy Malchow is offering one year of free coffee to anyone who can help the police catch the gunman. According to Malchow, his store Perfetto Espresso was robbed last Wednesday, when a man "walking down the sidewalk. . . walks right in and pulls a gun out and said 'stay calm and give me the money,'" he told Komotv. com.

A woman was making coffee in the kitchen of her daughter's New Jersey home Sunday morning when she looked out the window and found herself face to face with a 211-pound black bear. Lorraine Grossman's shocked scream was enough to send the bear scurrying up a 40-foot-tall tree. "I was making a pot of coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at me," Grossman said, according to AP. "For a minute I didn't realize there was a glass between him and me. "