Winners & Losers
Winners Knut: Ball of fuzz defiant after receiving death threat, rolls around in adorable fashion. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Lebanese plastic surgeons: Lebanese bank offers “plastic surgery loans” in famously image-conscious nation, where demand for cosmetic enhancement has increased 20 percent since last year. British travelers: A pound’ll buy you two bucks. Chan Chun Chuen: Property ...
Winners
Winners
Knut: Ball of fuzz defiant after receiving death threat, rolls around in adorable fashion.
Lebanese plastic surgeons: Lebanese bank offers “plastic surgery loans” in famously image-conscious nation, where demand for cosmetic enhancement has increased 20 percent since last year.
British travelers: A pound’ll buy you two bucks.
Chan Chun Chuen: Property investor and feng shui advisor inherits $4.2 billion from Hong Kong’s richest woman.
Daquiri drinkers: Fruity drinks are good for you.
Losers
The Böög: Swiss cotton snowman goes up in flames, gets slammed by weather experts.
Bollywood fans: “Wedding of the century” between megastars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan crashed by love-struck, wrist-slashing starlet.
Debbie Schlussel: B-list pundit guesses wrongly that the Virginia Tech shooter was from Pakistan. It goes downhill from there.
Yahoo! Sued by a Chinese political prisoner for allegedly ratting him out to the Chinese government.
Crackberry addicts: Nearly two days of Blackberry outages give North American users the DTs.
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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