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Good week for: Getting out of their $*%#! way, Chihuahuas everywhere, Making the most of her 15 minutes; Bad week for: Kissing the Blarney Stone, The lazy days of summer, Gerrit Blank
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Good week for:
Getting out of their $*%#! way, after a survey on road rage declared New Yorkers to be the angriest, most aggressive drivers in the U.S.
Chihuahuas everywhere, after three of the tiny, yapping dogs cornered a full-grown mountain lion that had wandered into their owner’s garage in Southern California and kept it there for 45 minutes. When police saw what was keeping the snarling mountain lion at bay, said the dogs’ owner, “their jaws dropped.’’
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Making the most of her 15 minutes, after the runner-up in Britain’s Got Talent, the previously impoverished Susan Boyle, began asking for a fee of $180,000 to sing three songs at corporate events. That’s $15,000 a minute. “Now we can start making her some serious money,’’ said one of Boyle’s agents.
Bad week for:
Kissing the Blarney Stone, after the website TripAdvisor named the Irish landmark—which is smooched by 400,000 people a year—the world’s germiest tourist attraction.
The lazy days of summer, after students of one California elementary schools found out they must attend 34 days of summer school because their school day was five minutes too short on 34 days. The district must make up the entire days or lose funding.
Gerrit Blank, a 14-year-old German who claims to have been grazed in the hand by a small meteorite. “When it hit me it knocked me flying,” says Blank. The pebble-sized rock created a foot-wide crater in the sidewalk, and Blank says the resulting thunderclap was so loud that “my ears were ringing for hours.’’
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