Tuesday, June 14, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, June 14, 2011)
(1)- HACKMAN INTERVIEW -- Whether it's The French Connection or Hoosiers or Unforgiven, Gene Hackman has delivered some of the most memorable performances of the past fifty years. But is he really and truly finished with movies?

(2)- ACCIDENTAL BRICOLEURS – Fast Fashion: They have changed fashion from a garment making to an information business, optimizing their supply chains to implement design tweaks on the fly.

(3)- THE TRIAL OF THE SUICIDE DOCTOR -- As the issue of medically assisted suicide hit the headlines again in 1991, Kevorkian vowed to continue his crusade for “planned death” for the terminally ill. But was he Socrates or Mengele?

(4)- DESTROYING/SAVING DETROIT -- It took over 300 years to build this city. It'll take about four to knock it down. Howie Kahn rides shotgun with the men who are demolishing the abandoned, godforsaken homes of Detroit—all 70,000 of them.

(5)- DEATH AND DRUGS IN COLUMBIA -- In February 2003, the mayor of a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast stood up at a nationally televised meeting with then President Álvaro Uribe and announced his own murder.

(6)- FOR WHOM THE CELLPHONE TOLLS -- Electromagnetic radiation is as old as the universe. We spend our lives immersed in it. Until the twentieth century, the greatest emitter of electromagnetic radiation known to man was the sun.

(7)- OH YEAH! -- A Florida couple turns the tables on Bank of America, the bank that tried to foreclose on their home. Now, the family is foreclosing on the bank! Even bringing trucks and deputies ready to seize property.

(8)- PECULIAR BRITAIN – Britain asks: We are supposed to be more health-obsessed than ever, so why have Krispy Kreme doughnuts become so popular that they will double their number of UK stores in the next five years?

(9)- MYSTERY -- It’s not clear which came first — the ad on Craigslist or the ransom note left on the door of Stephen King’s radio station on Broadway. MaineState police are investigating both…

POLITICAL CARTOON

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