That's News to Me
Lauren Olney
Issue date: 11/7/08 Section: News
Last week, one-thousand men filled a stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia. They were there to watch a 13-year old girl get stoned to death. The girl, named Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, had been raped by three older men and came forward to officials about the situation. Instead of aiding her and getting her the help she needed, they denied her claims and accused her of adultery. Because of these allegations against her and the ongoing corruption that the country is facing, it was acceptable that she be killed for her actions.
New photographs of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, surfaced this past weekend-putting speculations about the ruler's poor health to rest. After suffering a stroke in August, many people questioned the communist leader's health. Kim Jong Il missed a few key events, which gave the public reason to wonder about the health status of the President. Yet this weekend pictures of Kim Jong Il at a soccer game were spread through the country showing that he was still alive and well. However, many have already scrutinized the pictures, saying they could have been ones from the past.
Britain has been facing an interesting dilemma lately: whether or not they should keep the iconic red telephone booths that famously line their streets. All over the world, telephone booths are losing their popularity as cell phones and land line phones are taking over. A British telecommunication company, BT, owns the phone booths and claims that they are losing money each day due to low usage. Britain currently has 12,700 red phone booths throughout the country. BT already has plans to get rid of 400 of them. For the remaining booths, the company is allowing companies, organizations, or people to adopt a booth if they would like. They then could turn the famous stalls into public bulletins, greenhouses, even small art galleries, and in the end preserve an object which is so closely associated with their country.
Geraldo Garay, Mexico's top federal police chief, has just recently quit his position. Mexico has been enduring a relentless battle with the war on drugs. Corruption is also a large part of why the country cannot control and enforce the drug trade within and outside of their country. Garay said he quit because he wanted "to place myself at the orders of legal judicial authorities to clear up any accusation against me." Garay had for a long time faced accusations that drug smugglers were working beside upper level police officers, which ruined all of the other efforts to try and correct the problem. Garay claims he has never been anything other than a professional.
Much like Holy Cross, the University of California-Davis has a squirrel problem. The number of squirrels roaming the campus has almost quadrupled in the last four years. Currently, around 400 squirrels occupy the university's grounds. Although they are cute, students and faculty say they are becoming too aggressive at the sight of food. They also are destroying neighboring farms and fields in the area. The school has decided to implement a birth control mission. They will [humanely] inject some of the squirrels with a hormone birth control in attempts to control the population. The researchers will then do another study the next year, seeing if their methods were successful at maintaining the number of squirrels.
New photographs of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, surfaced this past weekend-putting speculations about the ruler's poor health to rest. After suffering a stroke in August, many people questioned the communist leader's health. Kim Jong Il missed a few key events, which gave the public reason to wonder about the health status of the President. Yet this weekend pictures of Kim Jong Il at a soccer game were spread through the country showing that he was still alive and well. However, many have already scrutinized the pictures, saying they could have been ones from the past.
Britain has been facing an interesting dilemma lately: whether or not they should keep the iconic red telephone booths that famously line their streets. All over the world, telephone booths are losing their popularity as cell phones and land line phones are taking over. A British telecommunication company, BT, owns the phone booths and claims that they are losing money each day due to low usage. Britain currently has 12,700 red phone booths throughout the country. BT already has plans to get rid of 400 of them. For the remaining booths, the company is allowing companies, organizations, or people to adopt a booth if they would like. They then could turn the famous stalls into public bulletins, greenhouses, even small art galleries, and in the end preserve an object which is so closely associated with their country.
Geraldo Garay, Mexico's top federal police chief, has just recently quit his position. Mexico has been enduring a relentless battle with the war on drugs. Corruption is also a large part of why the country cannot control and enforce the drug trade within and outside of their country. Garay said he quit because he wanted "to place myself at the orders of legal judicial authorities to clear up any accusation against me." Garay had for a long time faced accusations that drug smugglers were working beside upper level police officers, which ruined all of the other efforts to try and correct the problem. Garay claims he has never been anything other than a professional.
Much like Holy Cross, the University of California-Davis has a squirrel problem. The number of squirrels roaming the campus has almost quadrupled in the last four years. Currently, around 400 squirrels occupy the university's grounds. Although they are cute, students and faculty say they are becoming too aggressive at the sight of food. They also are destroying neighboring farms and fields in the area. The school has decided to implement a birth control mission. They will [humanely] inject some of the squirrels with a hormone birth control in attempts to control the population. The researchers will then do another study the next year, seeing if their methods were successful at maintaining the number of squirrels.
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