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Pat’s Preview: July 27
Written by Pat's Papers | UPDATED: Tuesday, 27 July 2010 7:30 AM
Pat’s Preview is the first glimpse of our story selection for the day. Check back around 12 pm ET for our complete list of Pat’s Picks. Or if you can’t wait, keep your eye on the Story Stack for great articles as we come across them.
BP Chief Shipped Off to Siberia
You really can’t make it up any better than this: The New York Post reports that Tony Hayward will resign as CEO this fall to run BP’s Siberian business. Yes, that right. But he’s not exactly going into exile. Under a great photo of Hayward hiding from onlookers, the Post says he’ll receive “millions in severance and pension payments” to take the job in Siberia.
Cup of Cat Poo Coffee
It costs $30 a cup and tastes like crap. But it’s supposed to says the New York Daily News. “Cat poo coffee,” otherwise known as “Kopi Luwak,” is made from beans that are eaten and then excreted by small cat-like mammals called civets. In Indonesia and the Philippines, it’s considered a delicacy. VIDEO
Continental Airlines Tests Self-Boarding
Continental is the first US airline to try “self-boarding,” reports USA Today. It’s really not that big a change, but passengers at the airline’s hub in Houston are now scanning their own boarding passes at a turnstiles before walking down the ramp to their flight. The newspaper says it’s similar to what riders do when swiping their Metrocard on the New York City subway.
Iowa Lake Dries Up Virtually Over Night
Imagine living on a lake and then waking up one day to find it’s disappeared. About 900 homes ring Lake Delhi and until yesterday, they all shared spectacular views of the 450-acre lake in Eastern Iowa. Over the weekend a dam broke, sending water levels plummeting. The New York Times says only two days later, all that’s left is a nine-mile track of mud.
Country’s Oldest Farm For Sale
For 378 years, it’s been passed down from generation to generation. Until now. The Boston Globe says the country’s oldest working family farm is up for sale in New Hampshire. Tuttle Farms’ current owner says he hasn’t turned a profit since the recession. According to federal estimates, 41 million acres of American farmland have been lost since 1982.
Jailbreaking iPhones Now Legal
About 4 million iPhones and other Apple devices have already been altered to run on systems other than AT&T’s network; the LA Times says T Mobile has authorized so many iPhones it now offers technical support for them. But now, it’s actually legal to jailbreak your iPhone.
Pitch Perfect
Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg is so good at what he does that it’s easy to chalk up his ability to some otherworldly phenomenon. But a highly detailed article in today’s Washington Post says the real reason the 22-year-old is so good is that he’s “a genius at moving energy through his body, never making a motion too early or too late, never creating an angle in his body that’s too acute or obtuse.”
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