More than half of Americans visited a library in the past year with
many of them drawn in by the computers rather than the books, according
to a survey released on Sunday.

Lifehacker has an interesting blog post on the "Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About" that includes stalwarts like Google Trends and Google Alerts and a few others that may not be quite so familiar like Google Personals, Google’s WYSIWYG web site creation tool, and Flight Simulator for Google Earth.

An inevitable consequences of advanced and rich economy is a fatter
population, says a health economist and co-author of a new book The Fattening
America. Though obesity has
established itself in western industrial societies, the author Eric Finkelstein
gives example of India and China where, he says, waistlines are growing rapidly
along with their economies.

The total number of billionaires in China has risen to second place in
the world, just behind the US, Yangcheng Evening News reported on
Sunday.

From a Greek nunnery turned
into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African
man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off", the
world was full of weird news in 2007.

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