Pub Schools are 4 times Better than in 1970!

Oh, wait, never mind, just 4 times more expensive.

Privatize Libraries!

Privatizing public library operations!




http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/business/27libraries.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Segway Karma

Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, has died after riding one of the two-wheeled machines off a cliff and into a river.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers

Cheers!

But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables — socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on — the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who were not current drinkers, regardless of whether they used to be alcoholics, second highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.html