Friday, April 22, 2005

The Weekly Read Out---Internet Hunting, Icebergs 101, and a Tax On Chewing

Everything you wanted to know about icebergs, but were too cold to ask, courtesy of Daniel Engber at Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2117097/
You'd think gun-lovin' Texans would have no problem with Internet hunting, that is controlling a gun from a computer to blast away at varmints. But the Lone Star State apparently wants you to do your killing up close and personal, as Nancy Vogel writes in the Los Angeles Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-liveshot21apr21,0,4157569.story?coll=la-home-headlines.
Singapore's saying I told you so: Now it's Liverpool that wants to make life difficult for chewing gum manufacturers.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/localgovt/news/0,8368,1466659,00.html.

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