Good week for:
Examples, after Fresno County Schools Superintendent Larry Powell cut his own annual salary from $290,000 to $31,000. “If we face midyear cuts, I can have the money ready to go and it doesn’t affect our employees,” Powell said.
Al Gore’s next home, after engineering students at Northwestern University designed a “green,” 128-square-foot house, which includes a living room, a bedroom loft, a kitchen, a composting toilet, and a rainwater filtering system.
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Parents, after an Illinois appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by two grown children who sued their mom for “bad mothering,” claiming she failed to buy enough toys, “haggled” over the amount spent on party dresses, and sent a birthday card that her son didn’t like.
Bad week for:
Bad manners, after an attempted bank robbery was foiled by angry customers who scolded the robber for cutting ahead of the line. When a teller told the man to take off his hoodie and wait his turn, he left the bank.
The Australian navy, which bought a new anti-submarine torpedo system for about $700 million from European manufacturers, and then discovered that the instruction manual was only in French and Italian. The navy now has to spend at least $100,000 on a translator.
Representing you’re school, after the clothing chain Old Navy began selling official college T-shirts that say “Lets Go” followed by the school name, with the “Lets” missing its apostrophe. More than 70 colleges have their names on the T-shirts.
