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Submitted by zooey on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 18:58

Fourth-Grade Summer Reading - Portnoys Complaint

TheMillions.com – by Jacob Lambert - [Recent studies] suggest that children learn best when they are allowed to select their own books… [According to one researcher,] “I don’t think the majority of these kids ever read during the summer, but [being] given the opportunity to select their own books and discuss what they knew… was, in itself, motivating to them.” -The New York Times - My Summer Book Report By Zach McCormick, Mrs.

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Submitted by zooey on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 17:03

And now for something completely different

Crainsnewyork.com – Aaron Elstein - There's a famous (or perhaps more accurately, notorious) Monty Python sketch in which the publisher of a Hungarian phrasebook translates such innocent questions as "Can you direct me to the station?" into English as "Please fondle my bum." Asked in later court why he did so, the author calmly replies: "I wish to plead incompetence." Jump forward 30 years or so, and a somewhat similar defense is being employed by a prominent New York money manager in a fraud case.

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Submitted by zooey on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 16:24

Restaurant toad-licker gets ticket from health department

Davenport Iowa – wqad.com – by Chris Minor - A Davenport restaurant was ticketed today by the health department after its head chef was caught on tape kissing and licking live toads in the kitchen Sunday. The Scott County Health Department reviewed the video Wednesday and called in the chef and owner of Osaka in Davenport to issue a 335-dollar ticket.

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Submitted by zooey on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 09:57

Angry JetBlue Attendant Exits Plane on Slide

 

Upset with Uncooperative Passenger, JetBlue Attendant Curses Out Plane, Pulls Emergency-Exit Chute and Slides into JFK – CBSnews.com - Next time you're having a bad day on the job, don't follow in the footsteps of JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater. Instead, take a deep breath and think twice before you do anything you will regret.

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Submitted by zooey on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 16:48

Criminal charges describe Spongetech fraud

Crain’s NewYorkbusiness.com – By Aaron Elstein - A federal criminal indictment was issued Friday against the former leaders of Spongetech Delivery Systems, a publicly traded New York-based sponge-maker whose executives were charged by securities regulators in May with faking 99% of their company's sales.   Prosecutors charge the former Spongetech Chief Executive Michael Metter and former Chief Operating Officer Steven Moskowitz with five counts of fraud, conspiracy, obstructing justice, conspiracy to launder money, and perjury.

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