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POPS50 Ugliest Cars Of All Time According To Business Week Start talking about your favorite car or truck and chances are you will be get a visceral reaction out of many Americans. Where I grew up in the Midwest, for example, saying that Toyota made a better truck than, say, Ford or GM...well, them'z was fightin' words to some. In other parts of the country, the same might be said for debates such as, "Which sports car is the fastest of all time?" We do love our cars. But, then, there are those "ugly ducklings" that should never have made it off the assembly line, and which, sadly, never blossomed into swans. This week, Businessweek assembles a slide show of the 50, all-time ugliest ducklings on four wheels...If you are passionate about autos, or just want a few laughs before heading off to nighty-nighty land, then check out this slide show. Yeesh!
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POPSMallard Hatchlings Plunge From 2nd Floor, Caught By Banker SPOKANE -- The downtown Sterling Savings Bank will soon be a nursery for some soon-to-be hatched ducklings. This will be the second time a mother duck has made her nest at the bank. Last year, mama took her ducklings on their first trip to the river. But employees feared the 10-foot leap would be deadly. A loan officer caught them as they jumped, then gathered the brood in a box and walked to Riverfront Park with mama close by. From Riverside, you can’t even tell a small family has moved in just a few feet above. Even in the strong winds, the feathers stay put, protecting the ivory colored eggs while she’s away finding food. Her eggs will incubate for about 28 days. So that means their due date is about a week away. Employees say the ducks head for the water right after hatching. They make that long jump and even longer walk when they’re just a few hours old.
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POPS?Bird Brains? I've had a dog come up to me from out of no where with porcupine quills in his nose. I was playing guitar when he came up and layed his nose on my knees. I had a friend get the needle nose pliers out of my truck and the dog sat there, whimpering a little, while I plucked them out one by one. As soon as I plucked the last quill from his snout he turned around and took off.
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POPSMother duck's 'bird brain' saves ducklings But the duck, a female (he thinks it was a mallard), wasn't about to give up that easily. Making sure she still had Petersen's eye, she waddled up the road about 20 metres and lay on a storm sewer grate. Petersen watched and thought nothing of it. "But when I started walking again, she did the same thing. She ran around and grabbed me again." It became obvious to him then that something was up. So when she waddled off to the sewer grate a second time, Petersen decided to follow. "I went up to where the duck was lying and saw eight little babies in the water below. They had fallen down between the grates."
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POPSThe Luckiest Girl "The cash from the milk accumulated, and Beatrice’s parents decided that they could now afford to send their daughter to school. She was much older than the other first graders, but she was so overjoyed that she studied diligently and rose to be the best student in the school. An American visiting the school was impressed and wrote a children’s book, “Beatrice’s Goat,” about how the gift of a goat had enabled a bright girl to go to school. The book was published in 2000 and became a children’s best seller — but there is now room for a more remarkable sequel. Beatrice was such an outstanding student that she won a scholarship, not only to Uganda’s best girls’ high school, but also to a prep school in Massachusetts and then to Connecticut College. A group of 20 donors to Heifer International — coordinated by a retired staff member named Rosalee Sinn, who fell in love with Beatrice when she saw her at age 10 — financed the girl’s living expenses.
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