In the News; May 3rd 2008

What goes around comes around indeed. An 11-year-old Boy Scout who found and returned a wallet containing more than $800 gets his own wallet returned. He found the wallet of last month in a church parking lot, not long after losing his own at an Easter egg hunt. Meanwhile, a 6-year-old found the boy's wallet at the park where the egg hunt took place.

YUCK! A study by British consumer magazine "Which? Computing" asked a microbiologist to examine 33 keyboards in a typical London office, a toilet seat and a toilet door handle, for bugs generally found in unhygienic places.

Four keyboards were judged potential health hazards and the microbiologist recommended the removal of one keyboard as it had 150 times the pass limit of bacteria -- five times filthier than the swabbed toilet seat.The study found that eating lunch at desks is the main cause of a bug-infested keyboard. Dropped crumbs and food encourages the growth of millions of bacteria.

Poor personal hygiene, such as not washing hands after going to the toilet, may also add to the dirtiness of keyboards. But despite the health hazard of a dirty keyboard, a survey of 4,000 people by the magazine found one in 10 people -- or 11 percent -- never cleaned their keyboard while another two in 10 never cleaned their mouse. Almost half -- or 46 per cent -- cleaned their keyboard less than once a month.



Sorry mom. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Linens 'n Things is a sign of a difficult consumer environment.
The bedding- and home-furnishing retailer filed a petition in bankruptcy saying it would have to close 120 underperforming stores, almost a quarter of them in California.


Lindsay Lohan mugshot of the was prominently featured Friday in an advertisement attacking legislation for devices that measure a driver’s blood alcohol level before their vehicle can start.
The full-page black-and-white ad appeared in USA Today on Friday and was paid for by the American Beverage Institute, a trade group that supports the interests of the alcohol industry. The ad reads “Ignition interlocks are a good idea for” above Lohan’s mug shot from her July 24, 2007 arrest and “But a bad idea for us” above smaller photos of people drinking.

The American Beverage Institute managing director told The Associated Press. “We needed to create the distinction for the public what someone with multiple DUIs looked like versus a low blood-alcohol-level first-time offender.”

Lawmakers in several states have passed bills that would require drunken driving offenders to pay for and install an ignition interlock system. Under many such laws, the interlock requirement extends to first-time offenders driving while “highly intoxicated” — or with a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent or higher.

Lindsey has a reported net worth of approximately $7 million dollars based on her movies, albums, and other works. She was ranked #18 on The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars list by Forbes magazine (2007).

She made it as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" (2004)

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