Friday February 26, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday February 26, 2010)
(1)- CASE SETTLED -- The elementary school student, accused of sexually harassing a classmate as a first-grader in 2006, will receive a total of about $160,000 in a legal settlement reached with the city. He was six at the time of the incident.

(2)- SAVING MONEY -- As a cost-saving measure, Colorado Springs is turning off streetlights. Flipping the switch on about 1/3 of the city's 24,512 streetlights is expected to save $1.245 million in electricity.

(3)- ANSWERS -- How did a ferocious T.rex woo his lady? How did a Stegosaurus couple negotiate sex with all those deadly plates and spikes? Discovery Channel answered those questions and more with something truly romantic: dinosaur sex.

(4)- NATURAL DEATH SENTENCE -- The oldest death row inmate in the US has died of natural causes aged 94. Viva Leroy Nash died late on Friday at the state prison in Florence. Nash had a criminal record dating back to the 1930s.

(5)- OLYMPIC VIEW – Here resides an impressive panoramic view of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Vancouver.

(6)- MARDI GRAS REPORT -- Mardi Gras is not solely about exhibitionism and one-night stands. Although the participants may not be aware of it, there is a sociopolitical component to the sexually charged proceedings.

(7)- WHO BURNED HIS PAPERS -- Orest Ranum, a prolific scholar of 17th-century France, is an emeritus professor at the Johns Hopkins U. “I wasn’t really angry” at the loss of his early work, he says. “I’m not a person who gets angry easily.”

(8)- COURT OPINION -- The Supreme Court tosses out the case Alvarez v. Smith, a challenge to a portion of the Illinois asset forfeiture allowing government to keep seized property for up to six months before giving its owner a day in court.

(9)- ROYAL MAIL -- For 400 years the delivery of letters has been integral to British life. As Royal Mail confronts an uncertain future, we find through the correspondence of ordinary people, just how much letter writing meant to them.

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