Good week for:
Kicking the habit, after a British woman gave up cigarettes on her 102nd birthday over fears they could shorten her life. Clara Cowell has smoked 60,000 cigarettes since her first one in 1931.
Street food, after Montana lawmakers passed a bill allowing residents to bring home and eat road-killed game such as bears and bighorn sheep. “People hit a lot of animals,’’ said state Rep. Steve Lavin. “There’s a lot of good meat being wasted out there.”
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Making hay, after it was revealed that Hillary Clinton will soon hit the speaking circuit, charging upwards of $200,000 per speech. Her husband, Bill, gets an average of $189,000 per event.
Bad week for:
Russians, after nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed banning overeating and “excessive” sex, which he blames for Russia’s low life expectancy. “In Europe, America, or Japan, they live longer,” he said. “Why should we perish?”
Charles Mainor, a Democratic New Jersey state legislator, who had to apologize for “liking” two unseemly websites on his Facebook page—“Big Bootie Freaks” and “You Got Knocked the F--- Out,’’ which features videos of physical assaults. Mainor promised to “unlike” the sites once his daughter showed him how.
Law and order, after a Swedish murder suspect was turned away when he tried to surrender to Malmö police, who told him the station was closed. “[I’m] a wanted man—you guys really want to get hold of me!” Saleh Hadri told them. He was finally arrested when, as directed, he went to an open police station in another town.
