每天读一篇英语小故事：Magician Attracts Women

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　　David Penny, a world-famous magician who can make elephants and locomotives
disappear, is being investigated by the FBI. A woman charged him with sexual
assault while she was visiting him on his private island, about 50 miles
northeast of Puerto Rico. David uses his island to unwind and relax.
        　　Newspaper reporters have discovered that David likes to “unwind and relax”
with young and pretty females from his audiences. Hiding backstage before his
magic shows begin, David uses binoculars to check out the pretty women in his
audiences. His assistants hand each pretty woman a card.
        　　The top of each card says: “Congratulations! You have been selected to
visit David Penny, World-Famous Magician, on his private island. This
opportunity might lead to a permanent job working with David all over the world.
If you are interested in flying to David’s island on his private jet, please
fill out the information below. After tonight’s show, David will interview you
in his dressing room.” The bottom of the card asks for personal information:
name, address, phone number, marital status, birth date, email address, height,
weight, bra size, shoe size, and favorite alcoholic drink.
        　　“Amazingly, most women who get the card fill out all the information,
including their bra size,” said one assistant. He said that David swore all his
assistants to secrecy. “He told us we would be fired if we talked about this to
anyone, but the FBI told us we might end up in jail if we didn’t cooperate with
them.”
        　　The assistant told a reporter that David had flown hundreds of women to his
island over the past 10 years. None of them, he said, ever got a job with
David.