Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Moving to Sweden, after a new report indicated that the average Swedish workweek hit a historic high—26.2 hours. Unions are complaining that the added work “can affect people’s health.”

Using your elbows, after a new study found that the two most germ-infested surfaces in hotel rooms are light switches and TV remote controls.

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Gus Hertz of Roanoke, Va., who was vacationing in St. Petersburg, Fla., when he saw a car go over a seawall. Hertz pulled the driver of the submerged car to safety. The next day, Hertz was fishing when an ultralight plane crashed near his boat. “I couldn’t believe it,’’ he said, after helping rescue the pilot and a passenger.

Bad week for:

Preventing voter fraud, after The Miami Herald reported that Florida Gov. Rick Scott—who is trying to purge ineligible voters from the state’s rolls—had trouble voting in 2006 because voter records showed that he was dead. “They let me vote provisionally,” Scott said. “I’m sure it counted.”

St. Mary Parish, La., after its new, $3 million convention and visitors bureau sank five feet into the ground and cracked like an egg. The building was constructed atop a swamp.

Pitching against your last team, after Tampa Bay Rays reliever Joel Peralta was ejected by umpires for hiding pine tar in his glove. When asked how he knew umps would find the illegal substance on Peralta’s glove, Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson said, “Well...he pitched here.”