Odds and Ends

Now isn’t THAT a headline. And if it was in The Sun, you’d know what to expect. But as it’s in the science section of BBC News, it’s about birds.

from the Latin, literally “using foot-and-a-half-long words”; found in: The New York Times

Hillary Clinton’s “blunder” in retelling the story of her landing in Tuzla/Bosnia in 1996. Cf. The Washington Post

= fossilized faeces, cf. BBC

“Fossilised faeces found in a US cave may help solve the riddle of when and how humans came to the Americas.” cf. BBC

I keep wondering if this might even solve the riddle WHY people came to the Americas. And what a remarkable imprint they left!

“Occasionally, I am a human being like everyone else.” - Hillary Clinton on why she “mis-spoke” by claiming to have landed in Tuzla in Bosnia under sniper fire when she hadn’t.

quoted from: The Economist, March 29, 2008, online edition

Now, did she “mis-speak” again, or did she really mean to say that she is human only occasionally?

… not only bear arms but to change tv channels at gunpoint, cf. “SAM AMAYA was six years old when he first pulled a gun on another person—his father, who was beating his mother. At eight he would produce the gun when he wanted his sister to change the channel from a soap opera to a cartoon.” [The Economist]

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outskirts even further from the city centre than suburbs, cf. The Economist

According to the BBC, there’s a proposal that pupils - at least at primary school age - should no longer be asked to do homework: oh, how would I have liked THAT when I was a pupil.

Now what might that be? Found it in the Daily Mail. To me, it just looks like an ordinary advertisement. According to Wikipedia, “an advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective opinion editorial, and presented in a printed publication — usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story. The term “advertorial” is a portmanteau of “advertisement” and “editorial.” Merriam-Webster dates the origin of the word to 1946.”