Friday March 12, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday March 12, 2010)
(1)- WHO RULES? -- America is littered with fast food restaurants. But which ones dominate in each region? You might be surprised. WeatherSealed analyzed location data for eight of the country's major burger chains, and mapped the results.

(2)- PROSELYTIZING ATHEIST – An atheist left insulting religious images in an airport prayer room in honour of his "hero". He placed "grossly abusive and insulting" photographs and cartoons depicting Christian and Muslim figures.

(3)- DRINKING FORGETFULNESS -- Researchers found suffering a trauma after one or two drinks meant your brain remembered only snapshots without the "context" that made them more understandable.

(4)- FINALLY -- Two women who helped police crack the Palatine Brown's Chicken massacre case are going to be each paid a one-half share of the reward money, $98,000. One nine years before telling the other that a man she knew committed the murders.

(5)- POSSIBLE RELIC?? -- A nail from the time of Christ's crucifixion which was hidden by the same knights who featured in The Da Vinci Code has been found by archaeologists in a dig. The four-inch Roman relic was stored in an ornate box.

(6)- CHINA THINKS AHEAD -- The prospect of the Arctic being summer months navigable, leading to both shorter shipping routes and access to untapped energy resources, stirs the Chinese to allocate more resources to Arctic research.

(7)- CHAVEZ -- As farm workers’ movement leader, Cesar Chavez became an iconic 1960s figure. But his union was largely a failure. It was as a martyr who embodied the psychic contrast between Mexico and America that he commanded our attention.

(8)- SLOW-CHANGE FACTS -- There are facts that change slowly. These are facts which we tend to view as fixed, but which shift over the course of a lifetime. What is Earth’s population? Well, it turns out it’s about 6.8 billion.

(9)- NICE LADY -- Historians have generally passed quickly over Louisa Adams. She is known as the somewhat unhappy, somewhat difficult wife of the sixth President (and daughter-in-law of the second). She was more.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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