Sunday, October 12, 2008
And in Ann Arbor: They Live Longer if He Screams at Her and She Shuts Up...
A husband wishing his wife wouldn’t harp on him so much? Sounds like a hackneyed gender stereotype (even if the litigation part takes it to a new level.) Kind of like the one about the wife who longs for her husband to open up about his feelings more. But a recent study in the Journal of Family...
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Friday, October 10, 2008
And in Germany: Knit Your Way out of Jail...
A judge in the town of Rockenhausen has matched the sentence to the criminal. Heidi Kohl, 89, was found guilty of slashing car tires. She claimed there were so many parked cars she couldn’t find a safe place to cross the road. With no money to pay the fine, Kohl accepted the sentence. She must knit...
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
And in Seattle: Beauty Salon Must Dispose of Fish...
Tuyet “Tweety” Bui had been running a beauty treatment in her salon in which Chinese “chin chin” fish nibble customers’ fingers and feet to remove dead skin. But the Seattle Department of Licensing has informed Tweety that all implements in manicures and pedicures must be sterilized, so the chin...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
And in London: Today’s Special – The Shackleton Diet...
A London restaurant has recreated a 6000 - calorie meal based on what the ill-fated Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his party would have consumed each day to maintain strength during their 1908 -’09 attempt to reach the South Pole. It includes a 20-oz steak, “pork scratchings” [I had to...
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Monday, October 6, 2008
And From the Canadian Campaign: Dazed and Denuded, the NDP Coalitions...
[Yes folks, we too have an election going on. We’re a little country (not in size, mind you), so we have little debates, and we even have little scandals. Here’s what one party leader (we have 3 ½ of them, parties and leaders) had to say about another one the other day:] “Mr. Layton already has a...
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
And in Libya and Paris, not in London: No Overnight Camping in Hyde Park..
Moammar Ghadafi, the eccentric Libyan strongman, is nothing if not consistent. He so enjoyed pitching his tent beside President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Paris home, the Elysee Palace last year, that he decided to do much the same when he attends a summit of oil-producing nations this December in London....
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Friday, October 3, 2008
And in Dubai: The Self-Feeding Shark Exhibit...
If all goes well, and so far it hasn’t, the Dubai Aquarium’s new 10-million litre shark tank will open on Oct 30. The tank holds 33,000 aquatic exhibits, including 400 sharks and rays. Officials were dismayed to find that so many sharks cause feeding frenzies on one another. The solution is to feed...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
And Almost Everywhere: A New Disease – Drunkorexia...
A cadaverous Amy Winehouse [in nomen omen est] has been called one. So too the bottle-clutching pre-rehab Lindsay Lohan. And while “drunkorexic” isn’t a medical term, the slang word describing women who skip food in order to drink booze without gaining weight is increasingly on the lips of medical...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Does Your Little Honeybun Have Her Padded Bra Yet?
At the Nordstrom department store in Scottsdale, Arizona, I’m standing in front of a rack of bras and nighties. The bras are made with padding and underwire. The nightgowns are are lacy, see-through and sexy, something I’d buy for someone else, if you know what I mean. The bras and nighties don’t...
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Monday, September 29, 2008
And in India: Hari Puttar?
There appears to be no end to the hackneyed ways people can find to cannibalize J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter success. [In the West, courts have found in the author’s favor.] [But] a court in Delhi, India, is upholding a Bollywood film company’s right to produce a movie about a 10-year old boy who...
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