Wednesday, January 13, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, January 13, 2010)
(1)- JUNG'S RED BOOK -- This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland.

(2)- LIAR TITLE -- The Burlington Liars Club bestowed its highest award this year for this line: "I just realized how bad the economy really is. I recently bought a new toaster oven and as a complimentary gift, I was given a bank."

(3)- HEROIC PET SNAKE -- Rescued pet snake returns the favor by warning family when an electric blanket catches fire. When Yu Feng of Liaoning Province in China found a dying black snake in the grass outside his home...

(4)- TIGER: MOST ENDANGERED -- Studies show there may be as few as 3,200 tigers (Panthera tigris) left in the wild. Tigers occupy less than seven per cent of their original range, which has decreased by 40 percent over the past ten years.

(5)- OVAL OFFICE CHANGES -- Decorative china plates are gone. Historic metal gadgets and Native American pottery stand in their stead. On a bookshelf is a framed program from the Martin Luther King Jr. 1963 March on Washington...

(6)- TRAFFIC TRUTHS -- Traffic systems -- and the stoplights that are their highway sentinels -- are complex networks that must be synchronized with Balanchine precision or rush hour will descend from the normal headache into commuter hell.

(7)- TEACH THE TEACHER -- Should a teacher who can't speak fluent English to her students be allowed to stay in the classroom? The outcome of Phanna Rem Robishaw's case against Lowell schools holds statewide ramifications for education.

(8)- RACISM?? -- An ad by KFC showing a man giving chicken to West Indies fans has been slammed as racist - but is it just a cultural misunderstanding? In the "cricket survival guide" ad, an Australian fan asks viewers...

(9)- Y2010 WOES --German bank cards have been affected by a "millennium bug"-like problem because they contain software that can't process the number 2010. At issue are 20 million bank issued debit cards and 3.5 million credit cards.

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