Tuesday Trifles

Science Confirms What Everyone Already Knew, Episode 1,204,093: Women want to marry rich men, a new study shows.
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Elton John to re-locate to Asia: Throughout Asia “there are on average more men than women, especially among the younger generations.” However, “if proportions between the sexes on this continent were the same as in the rest of the world in 2005, there would need to be an additional 163 million women.
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I like this idea: The caffeine nap. In fact, I've done it a few times. I just didn't know there was a name for it. I'll probably need two of these, one late Christmas morning and another Christmas afternoon.
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Pretty wild: Officials in New York are trying to work out how a window-cleaner survived a 47-storey fall from a skyscraper. They believe Alcides Moreno, 37, clung on to a piece of his platform as he fell - and it acted as a surfboard in the air.
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A woman lived as a man since 1928. She said it was because men made more money. Hmmmm. Call me skeptical, but I think they're missing something. In fact, I think they might be butchering the whole story.
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Quote of the day: "How else to explain the most recent killer's belief that by perpetrating random slaughter he would 'go out in style'? Where might he have acquired such a curious notion of 'style' apart from the morally de-contextualized, aesthetically-conceived violence in the movies of Quentin Tarantino and others? Our popular culture may not have created the monsters ... but it certainly created their sense of style."