Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Headlines below the fold

another day, another storm
it's only signal 2 (moderate wind and rain) but it's been raining heavily all night. The usual landslides (often from areas with illegal logging) and Manila streets are flooded again so no school there, but our house is on high ground, and the main worry is that some of the lowlying rice fields, with the young rice plants, will not drain and ruin the crop.

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More on the coffee scandal.

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NYTimes has a good article on men who lose a loved one (usually a spouse).

Very true...sigh.

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Interesting article on scores of short tunnels found in southern Germany...are they escape tunnels from medieval castles, or were they places of pagan worship?

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Stop the presses!

Kim Kardashian has psoriasis

I'm not sure who she is, but she claims

"When I gain a pound it's in the headlines. Imagine what the tabloids would do to me if they saw all these spots!"

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