Friday, April 16, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, April 16, 2010)
(1)- THE CLAIM: -- With birth rates of seven babies per women, fundamentalists will take over the world. And here is the kicker: it’s all secularism’s fault.

(2)- DOROTHY PARKER -- As her earliest poems near their first centennial, we may well ask if Parker’s poems will be widely read on their second one. It would take a wholesale rejection of modernism for her to be considered. And yet…

(3)- FASCINATING STORY -- After they left Zambia, Mark and Delia Owens feared that North Luangwa National Park would be overrun by corrupt government forces and that the elephants would again be hunted nearly to elimination.

(4)- TRAIT SELECTION – A U.S. fertility company recently advertised human embryo eye, hair, and skin-color selection. Facing a backlash, the company suspended its plan, but not for lack of technical ability…

(5)- RECORDS -- Experts recommend keeping anything that verifies the information in your tax return for at least six to seven years. Never trash tax return copies and checks — anything else, I would say keep for at least six years.

(6)- WELL-PAID -- The 25 best-paid hedge fund managers earned a record $25.3 billion overall last year – topping the 2007 record high of $22.3 billion payouts; and marking a two-fold increase in the payouts the managers received in 2008.

(7)- EARBITE REPORT -- A man was brutally attacked at a Faneuil Hall bar. A group of suspects bit 21-year-old Adam Jaspon’s ear off at the bar. Three police sergeants and detectives managed to free the victim from the attackers.

(8)- TIME TO BID -- Just in time for Easter weekend a Dallas auction house announced that one of four Energizer Bunnies featured prominently in the battery-maker's commercials will go up for sale in Beverly Hills.

(9)- SERIOUS CRIME -- A 12-year-old schoolgirl sues New York City authorities for $1 million after she was arrested, handcuffed and perp-walked out of school for writing on her desk with an erasable, green marker.

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