Lobsters Survive Maine Truck Crash
Lobsters Survive Maine Truck Crash: Police report that some 30,000 pounds of live lobsters from Canada have survived and are back on the road again after the truck carrying them slid off a highway and flipped-over in central Maine. Wow, you can bet those lobsters are really steamed after all this. The insurance company is denying payment, claiming that the trucking company’s policy has a “no-lobster claws.”
Neanderthals Made and Wore Jewelry: New evidence suggests that long before they shared the landscape with modern humans, Neanderthals in Europe developed a sharp sense of style — even wearing eagle claws as jewelry. Who could have guessed that Neanderthals were kind of like early Kardashians? No wonder they became extinct.
Seattle Crews to Hoist and Repair Massive Tunneling Machine: City officials say the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine named Bertha, stuck for over a year underneath downtown Seattle, will be pulled above ground starting this week to be repaired — inevitably leading to massive cost overruns. I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking what a “boring” story this is. Now I’m no engineer, but it sounds like those cost overruns may be due to tunnel vision.
