1. Someone pranked five Best Buy stores in Los Angeles by
setting up fake product displays that purported to offer an empty box for $99. ***
Federal authorities are now looking for the culprit; they want to offer him a job as a campaign manager.
2. Wal-Mart has lowered its sales and profit forecast for
the rest of the year. ***
And in order to cut costs, greeters will just say “Hello” to every other
customer.
3. Because of negative connotations, the aircraft industry
is trying to get journalists to stop referring to unmanned aircraft as “drones.” ***
On the other hand, I don’t think they want us to refer to them by the
word that the terrorists probably use when they see one coming right at them. “#$%@ !”
4. A pro-Assad group, the Syrian Electronic Army, hacked
into the Washington Post web site and switched readers to the Syrian group’s
web site. ***
Well, I guess that’s a little more effective at getting attention than
just putting something on the op-ed page.
5. Archaeologists say that rock etchings found in Nevada are
the oldest of their type in North America, dating back over 10,000 years. ***
Researchers have interpreted the symbols as saying, “Casino 10 miles
ahead. Double jackpots on Tuesday.”
6. The country of Jordan has asked the United States for
manned surveillance aircraft to help monitor its border with Syria. *** Now
that’s desperation—when someone asks the U.S. to help control a border.
7. Six researchers have emerged from an isolated dome in
Hawaii where they spent four months working on new recipes for space travel. ***
The next food specialist to be sent into the dome for four months: Paula Deen.
8. The jury in the Whitey Bolger trial found him guilty on
11 counts of murder. Many of the
prosecution’s witnesses were hit men, bookies and other underworld figures. *** The
defense, on the other hand, only had the shaky testimony of politicians.
9. In London, workers building a new rail line have come
across buried artifacts that give an exciting insight into English history,
such as remnants of an 18th century shipyard and 2,000 year-old
horseshoes. ***
There are even items that suggest that at one time England had dentists.
10. A federal judge has ruled that New York City’s “stop-and-frisk”
procedure is illegal. ***
Mayor Bloomberg says the police will comply with the ruling and will
only frisk people while they’re moving.
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