Fifteen Minutes

Naked women, ages one to 81, posed for a calendar in Tamworth, N.H. to benefit local charities. The first printing of the $15 calendar sold out in 72 hours, or

4,320 minutes.

Toronto police evacuated a donut shop last week after someone reported that a pipe bomb was in the mens room. Fear abated when they discovered it was actually a vibrator after they examined the black pipe for

40 minutes.

Jeff Dunkel, 18, and his mom were both elected to represent Mount Carbon, Pa. as mayor and Borough Council member, respectively. They take office in January, in about

66,240 minutes.

Canadian radio producer Max Allen donated Canadas largest porn collection to the University of Toronto in May of 2000. The cataloguing of the collection has just begun after adminstrative holdups kept the historic documents locked up for a year and a half, or

788,400 minutes.

Last Tuesday, Don Gorske ate his 18,000th Big Mac. Hes eaten at least two of them every day since 1972, or for

15,242,400 minutes.

The tourism board geniuses in Cambodia are turning Pol Pots jungle hideout into a lush resort. After some work, the drive from the site to tourist-friendly Siem Reap has been trimmed to just

180 minutes.

Just fish, rainwater and floating coconuts were all two West Samoan fishermen had for sustenance as they difted on an aluminum catamaran for 132 days, or

190,080 minutes.

Nine women managed to stop the logging of Californias Headwaters Forest by stripping off their shirts and showing their breasts. While loggers stared, they halted work for

120 minutes.

The producers of the Real World are bringing their next crop of strangers to sin city. People interested in moving to Vegas got to audition at Jillians yesterday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or

420 minutes.

The featured character of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Ken Kesey, died Saturday. On a similar note, people driving to Yale this weekend will have a ride that lasts about

150 minutes.

It was only a matter of time before someone wrote a musical about Princess Diana. That time ended when Lady DianaA Smile Enchants the World opened in Germany to polite applause on Saturday night. The critics have been underwhelmed for

6,480 minutes.

After the Eliot House Grille had that whole fire incident on Sunday, most students couldnt come back to their rooms for another five hours, or

300 minutes.

The Scene section of the Yale Daily News, which is running Gossip Guy this week, recently panned the new movie The One, which has a run time of

87 minutes.

When a judge found out that Paula Poundstone had violated her probation, she was jailed briefly on Tuesday. Earlier this year she was spared jail time by agreeing to go to rehab and participate in community service for 200 hours, or

12,000 minutes.

The Fox network, always the gem of television, is coming out with a new series on the Centers for Disease Control. As with most dramas, it will run

60 minutes.