Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Mount Everest, after a team of mountaineers and a Sherpa guide began removing 11,000 pounds of garbage, empty bottles, oxygen cannisters, and abandoned tents and ropes from the slopes of the world’s tallest mountain.

Lost Springs, Wyo., which is undergoing a population boom, according to the 2010 census. The town now has four people living in it, up from the one who was counted in 2000.

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Dumb luck, after Richard Paylor, a 55-year-old truck driver, accidentally saved his own life in Pennsylvania as he was choking on an apple. He lost control of his truck, which hit a median; the jarring impact dislodged the apple from his throat. “I guess I have to thank the wall,” Paylor said.

Bad week for:

Forgetting the date, after Evanston, Ill., residents called City Hall in outrage over a local newspaper’s report that only those who bought a “snow removal sticker” from the city would have their streets cleared. City officials pointed out that the paper was printed on April 1, and said there would be no fee.

Transparency, after President Obama accepted an award for supporting government transparency at a private ceremony from which the media and public were excluded.

Learning from your mistakes, after Michelle Elaine Astumian of San Luis Obispo, Calif., convicted of forging drug prescriptions, showed up in court with a doctor’s note asking the judge to delay her sentencing. The doctor’s note had been forged.