Wednesday March 10, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday March 10, 2010)
(1)- NEWS SORCES -- Americans are not tied to one news source, and about 92 percent get their news from multiple platforms – Internet, newspapers, TV, or cell phones, says a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

(2)- MUSEUMS -- The Japanese love a museum and alongside the city's many well-known galleries are dozens of smaller, often privately-run museums dedicated to just about anything you care to imagine, such as parasite specimens.

(3)- ELEPHANT SCARE -- An elephant ran amok at a lavish wedding ceremony in India, causing $303,000 worth of damage.The elephant in New Delhi, went on the rampage after trying to reach an in-heat female elephant.

(4)- OH DEAR! -- Acinetobacter baumannii is one of a category of bacteria that by some estimates are already killing tens of thousands of hospital patients each year. They may be a bigger threat than the feared deadly hospital sited MRSA.

(5)- ANCIENT HEAD -- Archaeologists have unearthed a massive red granite head of one Egypt's most famous pharaohs, Amenhotep III, who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the head was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh's mortuary temple in Luxor.

(6)- UFO NON REPORT -- The British Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo reveals.

(7)- MARRIAGE FORMULA -- Mathematicians have come up with a 'fiancee formula' allowing men to work out when to pop the question. All he needs is the age he would first consider marrying and his cut-off point - and the equation does the rest.

(8)- CURSING FESTIVAL -- Each year, Nepalese youth in two villages, Parsawa and Laxmipur, in the south of the Himalayan country save up their choicest insults for a 10-day "cursing festival" that reaches its climax Sunday.

(9)- ART -- Artist Matthew Albanese,whose materials include tile grouting, cinnamon and steel wool, brings his sculptures (some designs less han 3ft long) using clever photography and camera angles.

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