Monday, June 20, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, June 20, 2011)
(1)- THOMAS DRAKE -- A former senior executive at the National Security Agency, the government’s electronic-espionage service, he is accused, in essence, of being an enemy of the state. According to a ten-count indictment...

(2)- ANGRY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY -- Dr Rowan Williams has launched a sustained attack on the Coalition in the most outspoken political intervention by an Archbishop of Canterbury for a generation.

(3)- NEW SORT OF SUPERNOVA -- Astronomers report six ultra-bright flashes detected in deep space are ancient exploding stars that are a new kind of supernova; a whole new class of objects that can't be explained…

(4)- NEW PHENOM -- Settlers of Catan is becoming the most popular board game since Risk and Monopoly. With sales near 25 million worldwide, it was once enjoyed by a small niche of gamers and now stands as a major mainstream hit.

(5)- ANONYMOUS JURIES -- Maryland’s highest court has voted to allow anonymous juries in criminal trials when a judge believes there are concerns about juror harassment, tampering or safety.

(6)- NEW ELEMENTS -- After three years of review, a committee representing the governing bodies of both chemistry and physics, allows two new elements (element 114 and element 116) to be added to the official Periodic Table of Elements.

(7)- CHINA & BEER -- China, already the world's top beer-producing country, boosts its market dominance, according to a newly released German study. The world's most populous country produced 22 per cent of the global beer supply last year.

(8)- BORING -- Some people claim never to have been bored. They lie. One cannot be human without at some time having known boredom. Even animals know boredom, though they are deprived of the ability to complain directly about it.

(9)- NERUDA’S SUSPICIOUS DEATH -- A Chilean judge opens an investigation into the death four decades ago of a Nobel Prize-winning poet after allegations by his former driver that agents acting for Gen. Augusto Pinochet poisoned Neruda.

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