Cultural Diversity In October, the government of Singapore, anxious about the city’s declining birth rate, began teaching its high school polytechnic students in formal courses on how to flirt. Said […]

Fine Points of the Law (1) Italy’s highest appeals court ruled in March that it is not illegal for a woman to lie in a police investigation if the reason […]

News That Sounds Like a Joke Toronto police announced in February that they had arrested the man who had stolen a backhoe with the intention of driving it to a […]

The Continuing Crisis A 25-year-old woman was arrested for assault in Bremerton, Wash., in December after fighting with her boyfriend in the shower over whether the man’s dog could join […]

Can’t Possibly Be True Two Park Vista High School girls who admitted that they swiped money off the table of a Girl Scout selling cookies at a supermarket in Boynton […]

Cultural Diversity Brand-new Japanese parents receiving a gift are then customarily obligated to give a lesser one in return, and the Yoshimiya rice shop in Fukuoka recently created the ideal […]

The Entrepreneurial Spirit! The New Lucky Restaurant has been around since the 1950s in Ahmadabad, India, serving diners among the gravestones located at various points around the tables. No one […]

The Litigious Society In October, Korie Hoke filed a $1.6 million lawsuit against the Tempe, Ariz., police, claiming that it was actually an officer’s fault that she, after a New […]

Government in Action! Among the accusations that emerged from an FBI investigation of the U.S. government’s beleaguered Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (according to a December Washington Post report) […]

Bright Ideas Michael Windisch, proprietor of the Maltermeister Turm restaurant in Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany, solved what has become a crisis for other restaurants since the state extended a smoking […]

Cultural Diversity While European and American TV and film producers take care to have dialogue dubbed into foreign languages using voices that are appropriate for each actor, the dubbing in […]

The Entrepreneurial Spirit! A warehouse on Chicago’s West Side is “the world capital of fake (latex) vomit, where it’s still made the old-fashioned way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated,” […]