Popular Elsewhere
15:49 UK time, Monday, 9 May 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
in Time's most read article. Chastity, now Chaz, is publicising his book about the subject. Time says he divulges "shocking" detail but he will not discuss two things - the first is whether he had "bottom surgery". He is quoted as saying: "I've decided to keep my privates private". He also would not reveal Cher's reaction to the sex change. The article says she chucked him out of the house when he told her he was gay.
Daily Mail readers are reading about findings which claim . The Royal Bank of Scotland survey found that on leaving education, teenagers anticipate a salary of about £16,600, rising to £35,400 by the time they are 25 and hitting £61,700 by their mid-30s. The article says the reality is "rather different", with the average 18 to 21-year-old earning just £8,595 - rising to only £18,705 for workers in their 20s and £24,333 for those in their 30s.
The New Scientist's most read article claims that . The article says that research from University College London found that the most distractible people had more grey matter in a region of the brain known as the left superior parietal lobe. This also signifies a less mature brain, which correlates with the belief that children are more easily distracted. The research is hoped to inform treatments to improve focus.
A popular article on the Al Jazeera site accuses Glencore - the world's largest commodities trader - of profiting from hunger and chaos by .
The article's accusations come as Glencore is planning a US$11billion share sale. It adds that this is probably the largest market debut ever seen on the London Stock Exchange.
The commodity speculating giant will create at least four billionaires, dozens worth more than $100million and several hundred old-fashioned millionaires, according to Al Jazeera.
The most e-mailed New York Times article turns the wisdom of the crowds on its head to look at the . Columnist Paul Krugman does this to help make his point that the economic downturn is a "top-down disaster". He goes on to say that policies that "got us into this mess weren't responses to public demand. They were, with few exceptions, policies championed by small groups of influential people - in many cases, the same people now lecturing the rest of us on the need to get serious".
Krugman argues that by "trying to shift the blame" to the general populace, elites are "ducking some much-needed reflection" on their own "catastrophic" mistakes.
