Interesting….
From the Quick Takes column in the Chicago Sun Times.
A robber entered a convenience store in Kenmore, Ohio, pulled out a gun, pointed the gun at a clerk sitting behind a bulletproof glass and demanded cash, police said.
A baby born in Singapore is expected to regain its hearing after it was born partially deaf because its mother played educational tapes against her abdomen during pregnancy.
A black man on trial in Hillsboro, Ore., for beating his 2-year-old son to death says he should not be held accountable for his actions because he is a victim of “post-traumatic slave syndrome.”
David Hasselhoff has expressed interest in playing the next James Bond villain.
Newspaper Correction of the Month (Boston Globe): “Because of a reporting error, Dr. Arleigh Dygert Richardson III, former teacher at Lawrence Academy at Groton, was described in his obituary yesterday as favoring tacky pants with tweed jackets and Oxford shirts. Dr. Richardson favored khaki pants.”
A student who was denied graduation at Kent University in Britain because of plagiarism is suing the university because it did not offer sufficient warnings that plagiarism is against the university’s rules.
President Bush on the Iraq war:
“I’m honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.”
An 11-year-old boy who was assigned to make a display about what he would “take on a camping trip and why” at Grasonville Elementary School in Grasonville, Md., was suspended because he displayed a decorated shoebox filled with camping tools including a small knife.
and finally….
“Texas” is mispronounced by 28.19 percent of Texans
