Saturday/Sunday, April 10-11, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, April 10-11, 2010)
(1)- THE WAY IT IS -- Newspaper Guild thinks it is more than a coincidence that the $10 million stock awards and options NYTimes Chairman and President received last year are equal to $10 million in cuts members took to save the Boston Globe.

(2)- GLADIATORS IN TRAINING -- Twenty students from the University of Regensburg plan to live and train in the style of Roman gladiators from 79 AD and stage a battle for scientific research this summer.

(3)- RINGTONE THERAPY -- Japan is well ahead of the rest of the world in mobile phone technology: handsets that can pick up TV channels have been standard for years. But the latest craze is ringtones said to be therapeutic.

(4)- MORE PATRAEUS – Gen. David Petraeus, 58, can't even travel to his home state of New Hampshire anymore without raising another round of "Will he run for president in 2012?" talk. He could enter the 2016, 2020, or 2024 presidential contests.

(5)- FASTFOOD MAKES IMPATIENCE -- Can't wait an extra 30 seconds for your computer to boot up or an e-mail to get a response? Fast food could be partly to blame, a new study suggests.

(6)- GET THERE FROM HERE -- We've all seen it. Either in person, or in a book or on a postcard. That iconic road sign that directs motorists to far-flung places including Moscow, Stockholm, Athens and Madrid — Maine, that is. With mileage.

(7)- GOYA -- There was never a painter as modern as Francisco Goya (1746-1828). A thinker, a painter to the Spanish Crown, a do-it-yourself/sell-it yourself printmaker almost 200 years before punk rockers took up the act.

(8)- MORE CARROLL FACTS -- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was nearly titled "Alice's Hour in Elfland" and its author -- a mathematics don at Christ Church, Oxford -- almost called himself Edgar U.C. Westhill.

(9)- FOWLER'S GUIDE TO ENGLISH USAGE -- why did “this schoolmasterly, quixotic, idiosyncratic, and somewhat vulnerable book” retain its hold on the imagination of all but professional linguistic scholars.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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