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Former tennis great Bjorn Borg, responding to what he calls Europe’s “delicate problem” of having too few taxpayers to support a growing population of retirees, ran a full-page English-language ad in Sweden’s leading financial newspaper Dagens Industri in March urging people to step up their procreation. The ad, purchased by Borg’s clothing company, suggests that readers “get to it” and “fuck for the future.”
DUI Defense du Jour
A team of researchers from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands announced in December that after nearly four years of research it had figured out how to store and pour draft beer on zero-gravity space stations. The team injects carbon dioxide against a flexible membrane inside the keg, which forces the beer out without commingling the liquid and the gas (like a conventional keg does) and ejects the beer in liquid chunks the size of table-tennis balls.
Miami’s B.E.D. restaurant serves its customers not at tables but on large beds (as big as 600 square feet for parties of ten)….And New York’s Ike appeals to baby boomers by offering a Swanson’s TV dinner for $6.
Three reveling college students have died from falls or incompetent leaps during this year’s spring break: a Florida man, 20 (climbing balcony to balcony in Daytona Beach); a Kansas man, 18 (climbing balcony to balcony at a Mexico resort); and a New Jersey man, 19 (leaping from a balcony into a swimming pool but missing, in Fort Lauderdale). Another man has survived falling off of a motel building in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
