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Good week for:

Icelandic lovers, who can now use a smartphone app to avoid accidental incest. The nation’s 320,000 residents are often related because of generations of inbreeding, so prospective partners can “bump” their phones and hear an alarm if they are cousins.

Research, after erotic novelist Chad Leslie Peters posted an ad seeking a “female participant” for a 30-day love affair, which he will turn into a nonfiction book. Peters is asking for a woman 20 or over who is “preferably an English or writing major.”

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George W. Bush, whose presidential library opened with his popularity rebounding. In a new poll, 47 percent said they approved of Bush’s job as president, while just 34 percent said they “strongly disapproved.”

Bad week for:

Joe Berti, who crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon just 30 seconds before the first bomb went off, then returned home to Texas, where he witnessed a fertilizer plant explode. “Maybe he just needs to stand in an open field,” said his wife, Amy.

College students, after scientists found that the typical beer pong ball is teeming with up to 3 million germs, including salmonella, staph, and E. coli. Many of those bugs end up in the beer.

A.J. Clemente, a fledgling TV news anchor, who opened his first-ever broadcast on a North Dakota station with the words “F---ing s---,” not realizing his microphone was on. “Rookie mistake,” Clemente later tweeted, after being fired. “Can’t help but laugh at myself.”