News Scoop

Current affairs always have that fresh coffee feel to them. They're fresh, interesting, and if edible: probably delicious.

So I've decided to do a little news scoop today. I'm in the library right now at school, we get the newspapers delivered everyday, and the BBC Focus (no New Scientist, to my dismay).

• Today, President Bush Jr vetoed the war spending bill. I don't even know if that counts as news as we knew it was going to happen anyway, but it made front page of Reuters.
  
  
• And has anyone noticed how badly the $ is doing against the £? Well the silver lining is that today the $ has hit a 2 month high vs the yen.
  
  
• A little closer to home (or not), obese British children will apparently replace underweight and hungry convicts on the next deportation to Australia. That's right, another reality get-thin show. They'll have to eat bush tucker and sweat off the pounds.
  
  
• And finally, the scoop of the day: Meet the Lawyer with the $67 Million pants. (That's trousers, to you, Brits). Apparently the dry cleaners lost the lawyer's trousers, and now he's suing them for $67 million so he can retire early and buy 84,115 pairs of pants at his quoted value of $800 per pair. Also, he wants 10 years of free weekend car rentals so he can take his dry-cleaning to a different company.
  
  
• Why doesn't he just buy a dry cleaning rig himself? With $67 million I'm sure you could fetch a pretty good deal, or three. Thanks to Dvorak.org/blog , a blog I can't recommend enough.

Enjoy your java beans!