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Boston’s ranking on the annual list of the world’s costliest cities, released Monday by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Tokyo placed first, New York City 13th.

Boston-based Visor Enterprises is selling these spoof magnetic ribbons at www.supportourribbons.com. The message is satirical, but the cause isn’t: proceeds go to Operation Uplink, a program that provides free prepaid phone cards to soldiers and veterans.

"So basically, there is no chance your dog will be hallucinating rainbow cats."

Tasmanian inventor Ian Rochfort, explaining that his Hemp Hound Hors d’Oeuvres, dog treats made with cannabis seeds, contain only 50 mg of THC per kilogram of treats.

"I mean, you know, Auschwitz? Bergen-Belsen?... I think they would have been very happy to be allowed to defecate on themselves."

Fox News commentator Chris Wallace, reasoning that Guantánamo Bay is a much pleasanter place to stay than Nazi concentration camps.

$800,000

Offer turned down by Gregory Olaf Anderson in 1998 for Flash II, a Star Class sloop sailboat built in 1930 and once owned by John F. Kennedy. A US judge this week ruled that Anderson used proceeds from marijuana distribution to buy the boat for $18,000 in 1996, and awarded ownership of the boat to the US Attorney’s Office in Boston, which plans to sell it to the highest bidder.

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Percent of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq, according to the latest Gallup Poll. That’s up from 47 percent in March, and it’s the first time the majority’s been in opposition.

$90 million

US record-breaking residential-property price, paid by a Swedish businessman for 40 acres in the Hamptons that come complete with a main house, two guest bungalows, farmland, and a big chunk of sandy beach.

"I happyslap people. I dnt see nowt wrong wit it tho, ima good person! Its well funni tho!!"

An English "yob" posting on a blog about the phenomenon of "happy slapping," where gangs of youths approach unsuspecting passers-by and assault them while recording it on cell-phone cameras.

 


Issue Date: June 24 - 30, 2005
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