Tuesday, July 14, 2009

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, July 14, 2009)
(1)- THE BIG TASTY TUNA -- Japanese scientists will have bred a new "super-tuna" within a decade that will be stronger, more resistant to disease and taste better than the bluefin presently in the oceans.

(2)- JACKSON WAS A BOOKWORM -- When news broke in early 2009 of Michael Jackson's return to Los Angeles, it was not via reports of him being spotted dining at the Ivy or dancing at the hottest new Hollywood club but book-shopping in Santa Monica.

(3)- AW SHUCKS -- The actress Emma Watson has confessed she was so desperate to complete her kissing scene with her Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint that she "pounced" on him.

(4)- REALLY EXTRAORDINARY -- This unassuming middle aged woman has one of the most exciting and unbelievable stories of tragedy and survival to tell. She is Juliane Koepcke a librarian in Munich, Germany.

(5)- THE BRITS OWN IT -- An original first print of the American Declaration of Independence has been discovered gathering dust in Britain. The document that is one of only 26 copies known to have survived out of 200 printed July 4.

(6)- HAVE ANOTHER – The iconic stout Guinness marks its 250th year. And as part of its celebration, the brewery is sending someone into space, another to the depths of the ocean and a personal performance from The Black Eyed Peas.

(7)- SCARY DINO -- A vicious meat-eating dinosaur, bigger, faster and more terrifying than velociraptor made famous in Jurassic Park, once roamed the plains of Queensland. They found the bones of Australovenator Wintonensis.

(8)- ECONOMIX?? -- God Is Back is an enormously ambitious book whose authors pound its argument home with the persistence of the proverbial used-car salesmen. Given their devotion to classical economics, that Adam Smith/God is a sound investment.

(9)- INSIGHTS -- A week after President Obama spoke in Cairod, the Anglo-Dutch scholar Ian Buruma spoke on "The Virtues and Limits of Cosmopolitanism," presenting sophisticated context for an idea at the core of Obama's approach in Cairo.

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