Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

A party on death row, after several states’ prison systems ran short of sodium thiopental, which is one of the drugs administered in lethal injections. Kentucky and Oklahoma have granted temporary reprieves to at least four inmates until Hospira, the company that makes the drug, can catch up with demand.

Vulcans, after the Washington Shakespeare Company in Arlington, Va., announced it would perform selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in the fictional Klingon language from Star Trek.

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Maintenance, after retired Long Island, N.Y., schoolteacher Irv Gordon approached the 3 million mile mark on his 1966 Volvo. “Read the owner’s manual, and do what it says,’’ Gordon advised.

Bad week for:

Getaways, after an Italian robber looking for a hiding place mistakenly ran into a Florence police station he believed to be a post office, where he met the couple he had just robbed.

Snakes on a Plane II, after a man was caught trying to smuggle 95 boa constrictors onto a plane when his bag burst open at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. He was arrested.

Russia’s national health-care plan, after the country’s finance minister urged his fellow citizens to drink and smoke more in order to boost tax revenues. “If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems,” said Alexei Kudrin. “Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state.”