HAIR accessories have suddenly become a big thing, after 85-year-old US Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg released details of her favourite places in the world to buy scrunchies.
She told the Wall Street Journal she had been wearing the "fluffy circlet hair ties of the 1980s and 1990s" for years.
"My best scrunchies come from Zurich, next best London, and third best Rome," she told the respected financial newspaper.
It's all part of her signature hairstyle which comprises a low ponytail such as the one pictured below that she sported when swearing in former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2005 (picture courtesy of CNN).
Good news - researchers in the US have found catching a disease from fellow plane passengers is not as common as you thought.
A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology has found the chances of catching the flu from other travellers is surprisingly small - unless you are sitting directly beside, in front of or behind the contagious culprit.
However somewhat disturbingly they found the highest risk (watch out - you may want to adopt the brace position) is from the flight attendants, who should definitely stay at home if they are unwell.
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