Good week, Bad week
Good week for chimps, salarymen, hot pursuit; Bad week for Moms who've fooled around, nervous fliers, working your way through college
Good week for:
Chimps, who beat humans in a test of short-term memory conducted by Japanese scientists. The results, in which the simians were faster than people in recalling a pattern of numbers from one to nine, challenges the assumption that “humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions,” scientists said.
Salarymen, after a Japanese court ruled that Toyota had to compensate the widow of a worker who keeled over and died of a heart attack after logging 106 hours of overtime in a month.
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Hot pursuit, after a man named Warren Whitelightning stole a Krispy Kreme doughnut truck and led several police cars on an 80-mph chase, leaving a trail of hundreds of donuts rolling down the streets of Madison, Wis. Whitelightning was charged with drunken driving, ramming a police car, and a host of other crimes.
Bad week for:
Moms who’ve fooled around, after Rite Aid began selling home DNA paternity tests for $29.99.
Nervous fliers, after the Australian Transport Safety Bureau reported that more than 90 percent of airline pilots have experienced “spatial disorientation,” a phenomenon that causes them to briefly hallucinate that the plane is moving in a way that it is not, or that they are out on the wing watching themselves fly.
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Working your way through college, after two Ohio students were sentenced to 20 years in jail for two armed holdups. “I needed more money for college,” explained Christopher Avery, a 22-year-old engineering major at the University of Cincinnati. He and his accomplice, a theater major at the University of Toledo, told the judge they decided it was better to rob stores than to drop out.
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