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A bar in Brazil charges customers 4% if someone vomits on their premises. One of the patrons is now suing, though. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1388577.html]. We like the 4% charge. It's fairly measured on consumption. If a person says, "Hey, I

The Game (a hip-hop recording artist) is changing his life, and to represent his transformation, he has tatooed a butterfly on his face. It sits opposite an older tatoo of a tear. Only The Game can explain it all adequately, so we'll step aside and give him the

Eric Scheske has seen it in one or two of his eldest daughter's friends, and he remembers seeing it as a youth: meanness in girls. It apparently starts at toddler age. Link [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155920,00.html]. Excerpts: > Meanness in girls can

We remember reading that crocodiles and polar bears are the only animals that hunt humans. This problem in Australia will make the cougar problem out west look like tame. Another victory for environmentalists. > A record number of crocodiles in Australia's famous Kakadu National Park, and larger more

> North America's top sexologists are hunkered down with academics and therapists at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel this weekend: to swap findings about everything from teens with underwear fetishes to transgender couples. > "These couples have problems that I didn't know how to

One writer slashes away at the idea that public schools should adopt a free enterprises paradigm. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/johnson-t1.html]. Excerpts: > [S]tudents are definitely not customers, because customers are not forced by law to patronize businesses, but students are forced to attend school. Customers

Star Wars or Star Trek? Nerds debate. The rest of us may now slit our wrists, resting comfortably in the fact that the world is, as Schopenhauer assured us, pointless. > This month will mark the passing of not only the final Star Wars movie, but also the latest Star

It's all fun and games until someone loses a mouth: > A new chilli sauce goes on sale today that is so hot it could KILL. > Ultra-concentrated “16 Million Reserve” is the hottest science can make. > The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest pepper

> A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from going to college in the fall. > Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student, a trumpet player in the school band and

Don't know what we did without this: And watering your lawn with the Dark Side costs only $19.00! Link [http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=1890;category_id=421;pcid1=;pcid2=] .