Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012)

(1)- EYES WIDE SHUT -- Peg Nadel—and others who benefited from her husband Art Nadel’s Ponzi scheme—say they never knew what he was doing. But did they just refuse to see the truth?

(2)- THE HAPPIEST MAN ON DEATH ROW -- He an IQ of 46. He knew of eating and playing and trains; things you could see and smell and experience. But abstractions eluded him. The doctors called him an imbecile.

(3)- NEIL YOUNG -- Yes, he partied with Charles Manson and tried to hook him up with a recording contract. He admits he saw a magazine picture of Carrie Snodgress before he courted her, married her and divorced her.

(4)- AUTHORS BY GENDER -- If the results of the NPR poll are a reflection of the reading populace, the young adult world is a place of relative harmony compared to the battle of the sexes being waged in adult fiction.

(5)- SON OF SAM TALKS -- From his jail cell 35 years to the day his reign of terror ended, David Berkowitz says society needs to take the 'glory out of guns.' He shot 13 people in cold blood, killing six.

(6)- COMIC BOOK TRIVIA – Seeking to improve on Batman’s utility belt, the Clown Prince of Crime unveiled his evil utility belt in 1952. The Joker mostly used gadgets that would make Adam West queasy with disbelief.

(7)- PUTTING LIFE ON MARS -- With NASA’s Curiosity Rover safely on Mars and ready to search for signs of life, back on Earth attempts are underway to engineer bacteria that could thrive on the Red planet.

(8)- WHATZA KUDU? -- The newest addition to the Houseton Zoo is a kudu. It joins five other (deer-like creatures) that live near the three rhinos in The African Forest area.

(9)- CONTROL FROM THE GRAVE – Can you force a grandchild to take a drug test in order to receive an inheritance? Make sure your wife's future husbands can't run through money you worked hard to earn? Answers here:

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