Monday, June 7, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, June 7, 2010)
(1)- BEING SOLD -- Pabst Brewing Co., the maker of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Schlitz and several other lower-priced beers, will be sold to investor C. Dean Metropoulos for about $250 million, according to a published report.

(2)- EXOPLANETS -- The first planets were discovered around pulsars, then we got "hot Jupiters" which hug close to their parent stars. Lately, we've seen a planet being engulfed by its star and all kinds of weird, eccentric orbits.

(3)- INSIDE HOPPER AT THE END -- What went down behind those corrugated steel walls of Dennis Hopper's Venice fortress as he lay dying at age 74? A Los Angeles Times report:

(4)- EBOLA RESEARCH -- A gene silencing approach can save monkeys from high doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola virus in what researchers call the most viable route yet to treating the deadly and frightening infection.

(5)- POOR NORM – The late Norman Mailer provides gossip with memoirs this year by his widow, his cook, and one of his mistresses. Yet despite the sea of women in Mailer’s life his great literary handicap was the failure to learn from them.

(6)- ABOUT BRANDEIS -- When the great attorney Louis Brandeis wrote a legal brief in a constitutional case, it was short on legal theory and packed with so many facts that it required a sturdy binding and a solid arm for hefting.

(7)- ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT -- In an ultimately futile act some have described as courageous and others have called a mere postponing of the inevitable, existentialist firefighter James Farber delayed three deaths in Illinois.

(8)- THE PERFECT HOT DOG -- The best hot dogs look a bit like a sausage — with a natural casing made of pork or lamb. "So when you bite into it, it snaps," says Barry Nemerow, co-owner of The Weiner's Circle in Chicago.

(9)- SNAILS & METH -- Scientists have used pond snails to study the effects of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, on the brain. They discovered that the drug enhanced the creatures' abilities to learn and remember a task.

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