Good week, Bad week
Good week for: Getting poked, Being really relaxed, Zinc lozenges; Bad week for: Banks and hedge funds, Coca-Cola, Tiger Woods
Good week for:
Getting poked, after Columbia University researchers found that 83 percent of prostitutes have Facebook pages, and that the average hooker now gets a quarter of all clients that way.
Being really relaxed, after Leonard Nickelray, 29, somehow survived being hit by a freight train as he walked along the tracks in Saskatchewan. Nickelray, who was very drunk and listening to an iPod when the train sent him flying through the air, suffered only some bruises. “Not even a limp,” he said.
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Zinc lozenges, which were proven in new research to reduce both a cold’s symptoms and its duration, from seven days to four.
Bad week for:
Banks and hedge funds, after swindler Bernie Madoff said in a jailhouse interview that several large institutions were “complicit’’ in making money off his massive Ponzi scheme. “The attitude was sort of, ‘If you’re doing something wrong, we don’t want to know,’” Madoff said.
Coca-Cola, after a public-radio show stumbled on an old newspaper clipping revealing the soft drink’s secret recipe, now heavily guarded by the company. The secret “7X” flavor, a diary kept by Coca-Cola’s creator said, is a mixture of lemon, orange, nutmeg, and neroli oils, with some coriander and cinnamon.
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Tiger Woods, who was fined for spitting on a green after blowing a putt during another bad round. “Somebody now has to come behind him and maybe putt over his spit,” said TV commentator Ewen Murray. “It does not get much lower than that.”
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