Thursday February 25, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday February 25, 2010)
(1)- BARELY SAVED -- A 15-year-old stuck in a drain inlet at a low-level concrete crossing in the Nerang River on the Gold Coast has been hailed the luckiest person alive after being sucked through an intake pipe in the river.

(2)- CHINA -- Since China began undertaking economic reforms in 1978, its economy has grown at a rate of nearly ten percent a year, and its per-capita GDP is now twelve times greater than it was three decades ago.

(3)- BYE BYE HISTORY -- Richard Evans’s study of Britain’s historical profession serves as a timely reminder both of what Britain’s historians have achieved over the past half-century, and what may be lost if their legacy is squandered.

(4)- LOOK AT CHICKENS -- Peter Lennox keeps chickens. They teach him a great deal about behaviour, ethics, evolution and the psychopathic nature of modern 'efficiency.' Chickens give us psychology, sociology and management theory.

(5)- FAULKNER DIARY -- The original manuscript, a diary from the mid-1800s, was written by Francis Terry Leak, a wealthy plantation owner in Mississippi…

(6)- CLONE NEANDERTHALS?? -- If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Connecticut.

(7)- SAVE THE TIGER -- In the rugged hills of southern China, conservationists are battling to save the critically endangered South China tiger, an initiative given extra impetus as Chinese celebrate the Year of the Tiger.

(8)- MEDIEVAL RECIPE TRANSLATIONS -- Here are recipes from several medieval English manuscripts and collections, each in its original language accompanied with a literal translation, and followed by a modern interpretation of the recipe.

(9)- LESSONS LEARNED -- This Pit Bull decided he would attack a Porcupine; but being brave, he learned the hard way that you can't always win, no matter how tough you are. The vet sedated the dog and removed 1347 quills...the dog survived.

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