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Good week for:

Boomer nostalgia, after Rolling Stone magazine came out with a list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, with 60 percent of its picks recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. Just 8 percent were recorded since 2000, and only a handful of jazz, country, and hip-hop albums made the list.

Flying pigs, after the federal government proposed new guidelines that would allow disabled people to board airplanes with unusual “service animals” to provide comfort, including pigs, miniature horses, and monkeys. Other passengers may not object.

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A penny saved, after Thomas Daigle of Milford, Mass., made his final mortgage payment on his home with 62,000 pennies. He collected the 400 pounds of change over 35 years.

Bad week for:

Batman, after physics students at the University of Leicester determined that if the superhero used his 15-foot-wide cape to glide down from a 40-story building, as depicted in comics and movies, he’d hit the ground at 50 mph and go splat.

Claustrophobes, after New York City announced a contest for designing the best “micro-unit” apartments for young singles—a single room measuring just 300 square feet. About 46 percent of Manhattan households consist of just one person.

Wooing female voters, after a German mayor ordered parking spaces to be labeled with male and female symbols, with tighter, “more challenging” spaces designated for men. “Men are, as a rule, a little better at such challenges,” said Mayor Gallus Strobel.