By eating a diet of ants, a German tourist lost in the Venezuelan jungle managed to stay alive until people could find him last Wednesday. He survived the wilds with only a penknife for six days, or
8,640 minutes.
Upon arriving at work last Thursday, a Michigan postal worker threw three buckets of animal feces at his co-workers. He peacefully surrendered to police in
120 minutes.
Tired of getting stopped in airports because of your underwire bras? A Japanese company has invented Frequent Flyers’ Bras, available in white, orange and blue, with nonmagnetic metal hooks. They’ll be available online in December, or
51,840 minutes.
It’s the end of an era. The Sun reported on Monday that the Spice Girls are definitely broken up and are no longer on speaking terms. The world of pop has been dealing with this loss for
5,760 minutes.
After a hiatus in which engineers tweaked designs, the British Airways Concorde is flying again. On Monday, it made the trip from London to New York in
216 minutes.
Tommy’s House of Pizza is still fighting with a local resident who pushed the business’s bedtime up
60 minutes.
NASA is looking for people to take a nap for $11 an hour so they can experiment with long-duration space flight positions. The lucky 10 subjects will be monitored as they stay in bed for 30 days, or
43,200 minutes.
At a cost of $22 million, the Science Center will soon undergo a 32,000-sq. foot addition and renovation. The plans have been public for
2,880 minutes.
As if the Emmy Awards had not been paranoid enough, they are now redirecting their mail to another location to be sorted and examined. The show (if it isn’t cancelled again) will air Nov. 4, in
14,400 minutes.
On Oct. 3, 1983, a suicide truck-bombing in Beirut International Airport killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. Our country has mourned the tragedy for
9,060,480 minutes.
Sounds of silence are going to be recorded in England thanks to a British media artist who is collecting the gaps between words spoken on a BBC’s radio station during one day, or for
1,440 minutes.
The Harvard Men’s Heavyweight Crew pleased Harry Parker once again. The men stormed ahead of all the other college crews and won their division. They have been first-place finishers for
6480 minutes.
Anthrax hits again. Mail at the White House has reported traces of the bacteria. This news has been hot for
3,456 minutes.
Islamic militants in Pakistan vowed to raid a Pakistani air base being used by the U.S. for missions in Afganistan. The militants have been aching to bust up some B-52s for
3,600 minutes.
The E! Network’s new show, “Rank,” named George Clooney the sexiest man alive on Sunday. The next episode, which will feature the scariest movies of all time, is airing on Halloween, which is in
10,080 minutes.
