Wednesday, March 17, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)
(1)- AIG BLAME NONE -- Behind closed doors, employees at AIG's Financial Products division -- the very unit whose trading had hastened the insurance giant's collapse -- were defiant, saying they were merely getting what they were due.

(2)- A HEN AND PUPPIES -- A hen has astonished its owners by taking a litter of puppies under its wing. Mabel, took a shine to the pups at a farm in Shrewsbury and now keeps them warm by roosting on top of them in their dog basket.

(3)- JAPAN ROYALTY NEWS -- Eight-year-old Princess Aiko, the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, has been reluctant to attend school since Monday after being bullied by boys in her grade.

(4)- NEW STUDY -- Research shows just looking at an attractive female makes men more likely to indulge in 'physical risk-taking' which results in embarrassing failure or even injury. The behavior is triggered by a surge in testosterone in men.

(5)- ALAN SOKAL – The Sokal Affair, when he “dropped a bomb” on postmodern literary theory and social science by publishing a parody paper, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.”

(6)- WHY? -- Why did Heidegger fail to speak out after the War in condemnation of the Nazi atrocities? Philosophy Professor David Farrell Krell says this had more to do with "a Kierkegaardian contempt for publicity... than anything else.

(7)- PERFECT WIFE – A new study shows the perfect wife is five years younger than her husband. She is from the same cultural background, at least 27 percent smarter than her husband. Yes, 35% smarter seems tolerable. But 12% smarter: unacceptable.

(8)- FRENCH CHEESE WARS -- It was a typical globalization-era war that pitted tradition against profits. A large cheese factory wanted to change the Camembert recipe and began a dirty fight against small producers.

(9)- GERMANY, THE MAFIA AND TRASH -- German courts have been dealing with an unusual problem. More than 100,000 tons of Italian trash were shipped to eastern Germany, saving a waste treatment plant from bankruptcy.

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