SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.—An Orange County school district has reinstated a series of fantasy vampire novels at its 12 middle schools after banning the books from campuses last week. Capistrano Unified School District banned Stephanie Meyer’s four-book “Twilight” series on Friday after a literacy program coordinator decided the subject matter was too “mature” for middle [...]

LANCASTER, PA — “My husband could have been killed and my children left without a father,” a young New Holland woman told a Lancaster County Court judge today, “all because of a $20 movie.”
The dispute — over the movie “Underworld 2″ — resulted in John Francis Gray being sentenced this morning to 6 to [...]

CHATTANOOGA, TN — A professed vampire with Presidential aspirations is in the Marion County jail and his property burned. We sat down and interviewed Jonathon Sharkey, who calls himself “The Impaler.” About three months ago, he bought five acres of land in Grundy County near Tracy City.
Sharkey says he bought the land to start a [...]

PITTSBURGH, PA — “Vampire Weekend have [sic] announced a show to encourage people to vote in the upcoming US presidential election, taking place at a Pittsburgh college this weekend (October 4).
The event is a Free Voter Registration Concert sponsored by the Students for Barack Obama at Carnegie Melon University, and will be open to the [...]

“Not since Bunnicula — the vampire bunny that sucked the juice out of vegetables — has there been such an interest in vegetarian options for vampires. Sure, the immortal “cold ones” get to enjoy a host of benefits not privy to you and me, but that one tiny detail of sucking on humans has many [...]

A fad for vampire teeth, where lovers of spooky Gothic music file their canine teeth into sharp points, may pose problems in the future.
Music fans who file their teeth to a point also wear black clothing and make-up so that they look like scary people with a thirst for fresh blood. Another variation is with [...]

Nicholas Bakalar
for National Geographic News
June 19, 2006
Vampire bats are the only mammals whose diet consists exclusively of blood, and when they find a source they like, they come back for more, feeding on the same individual on consecutive nights.
Now researchers have figured out how they do it: The bats can hear you breathing.
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