Thursday, January 14, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, January 14, 2010)
(1)- GETTING BUSINESS-LIKE – Pirates of the East African seas have moved onto dry land with a variety of investments meant to move their ill-gotten gains into more legitimate areas. The Somali pirates' most popular pursuit? Kenyan real estate.

(2)- AT RISK -- Petty criminals who break into condom vending machines are causing concern among Aids and HIV-prevention activists in the Indian city of Mumbai.
At risk are 3,000 condom vending machines in the city as a part of an HIV Aids prevention.

(3)- RESTLESS LEGS -- Dr. Xiang Gao, of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and his colleagues studied more than 23,000 male dentists, optometrists, veterinarians and other health professionals, who would complete health-related surveys at regular intervals ...

(4)- FOOD REPORT -- The task I set for myself in the week between Christmas and New Year's was to make a dinner for five people entirely from foodstuffs purchased at the Ikea Swedish Food Market. I'm Scandinavian, so I was prepared to do this thing.

(5)- ANGER -- A Livingston woman is charged with felony aggravated battery for hitting another woman over the head with a glass mug while at a restaurant. The women were having a verbal argument when it erupted into a physical fight that sent the victim to the hospital.

(6)- MCNUGGETS RAGE -- Meet Melodi Dushane. Angered that Chicken McNuggets were not available at an Ohio McDonald's, the Toledo woman allegedly put her fist through the eatery's drive-thru window.

(7)- SAFETY OPPOSED -- The full body scanners being introduced to Britain's airports risk breaking child protection laws against making indecent images of children, opposition groups say, claiming the pictures created by the scanners are too graphic.

(8)- SAFETY IMPOSED – Comediene Joan Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines gate agent who found the two names on her passport fishy.

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