Good Week For
Salmon, for whose benefit a stretch of an Alaska river is being laboriously flattened.The Chester Creek River is apparently so steep in parts that even the famously determind salman can't leap up it on their annual journey back to their spawning grounds."It's the right thing to do," said project manager Russ Oswald.
leveling the playing field,after the NFL announced that its refs would be getting HD monitors on the field to use during replay reviews."As more people were getting high definition TV at home,they actually had a better view than the referee," said the NFL's Dean Blandino. "That could've bit us in the rear if we continued that.
Making the trains run on time,after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used a special,seven hour-long edition of his weekly radio show, Alo,Presidente,to announce that he's moving the nation's clocks forward a half-hour. The change will make Venezuela more efficient,Chavez said. "It's about the metabolic effect,where the human brain is conditioned by sunlight."
Getting Dumped, after a study by clinical psychologists at Northwestern University concluded that people invariably overestimate how painful it will be to break up with a partner.Things can be a little rough initially,the study determined,but "at the end of the day, it is just less bad than you thought," said professor Eli Finkel.
Giving the finger,literally, after a member of a right-wing Japanese group cut off his little finger and sent it to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe along with a letter protesting Abe's absence at a ceremony honoring Japan's war dead."I thought they would ignore me if I just sent the letter," the man told police.
The Segway,after an officer atop one of the much-ridiculed gyroscopic people-transporters chased down a fleeing suspect for the first time since Chicago police started using the vehicle in May 2006.Officer Thaddeus Martyka apparently needed the final 0.5 mph of the Segway's 12.5 mph top speed to apprehend the fugitive.