Wednesday, June 8, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, June 8, 2011)
(1)- OOOOOPS (May 28)-– A LATimes story about Debbie Reynolds' auctioning her costumes collection said items included the famed ruby red Wizard of Oz slippers. The slippers are not the shoes seen in the film. They were only a "test pair."

(2)- CLOCKWORK RECOLLECTED -- A Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel, a film that introduced millions to Malcolm McDowell as a gregarious street thug whose exploits shocked the world when first released.

(3)- FORGET IT -- Canadian researchers say the drug metyrapone (pronounced "met-yr-a-pone") can stop your brain from recalling the sadness and other "negative" emotions associated with difficult and bad memories...

(4)- STORY BEHIND THE SCENT - In 1921, a clever French businesswoman and belle of the Parisian social elite created a scent that revolutionised the way women smell. Ninety years later Chanel No 5 is arguably still the world's most iconic perfume.

(5)- NEW ZEALAND PIZZA STORY -- A Domino's customer dubbed his takeaway the "Pizza of Death" after finding a white-tailed spider hiding in the box. The Palmerston North man said the spider was found under the fold of the box after eating a slice.

(6)- DID HE WRITE IT? -- Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book" is the closest thing to a bible that Marxist-Leninist, materialist and atheist Chinese society had. But did he actually write it himself, or get a ghost writer to do it for him?

(7)- BEDBUG FACT AND FICTION -- At normal room temperature, bedbugs can survive up to three months without a blood meal. But because their metabolism will slow down in chillier climates the insects may live up to a year without feeding.

(8)- A FAIR CHASE? -- On the plains of New Mexico, a band of elite marathoners tests a controversial theory of evolution: that humans can outrun the fastest animals on earth.

(9)- WHAT USE IS IT? -- Revenge subverts the ethical basis of a competitive society. It is also a revolution in miniature; it assumes that the existing state of affairs is insupportable, and it actively seeks to transform it.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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