Popular Elsewhere
15:09 UK time, Thursday, 22 September 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
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Hugh Hefner's mansion is not in sight in the Salon article . It's not just the mansion which is lacking, but any sense of glamour. The lasting memory seems to be the tightness of the corsets. Rhonda Talbot's mother concurs with her memories of witnessing the injuries from the uniform: "I broke four toes, probably had a hernia, possibly broke a rib, and never met an available man". She sums it up with "We were just glorified waitresses in straitjackets."
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As the execution Troy Davis dominates many news sites' most read lists, a few out-of date pleas to prevent it linger. While a New York Times editorial over all, a popular Guardian piece set out - written hours before he died. Among them were unreliable witnesses, no gun and no DNA evidence.
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Accusations that stage psychic Sally Morgan may have been fed information from the back of a Dublin show has led former psychic in the Daily Mail. But it doesn't take psychic powers to work out what he spills out - that psychics can make a lot of money. "People tend to forget that psychic shows are very big business. In some theatres you can get audiences of 2,000 or more which, at £20 to £50 a ticket, generates a huge amount of cash to be shared."
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And readers are getting fortunes told, in more ways than one, over at Slate. Amid US debate about a new tax bracket for millionaires and billionaires, it asks . If someone just matches Bill Gates' worth, considering inflation, the magazine says it will take 98 years. But if the richest person outpaces inflation by 3%, it would only take 50 years.
