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According to a Japan Times article in August, habitats for very low-maintenance pets are currently popular among Tokyo twenty- and thirty-somethings: The Antquarium is a five-inch-high ant farm filled with a nutritious blue-green gel suitable for both tunneling in and eating (the price, about $30, doesn’t include ants). Holo Holo is a small plastic tank of algae- and mineral-fortified water containing five or so tiny scarlet shrimp; the water never has to be changed, and the shrimp never have to be fed (besides the algae, they eat the bodies of other shrimp as they die off).
Only for Me, Not for Thee
Now That’s Corruption
Stephen C. Jackson, wanted for bank robbery, was arrested in August after he was spotted at the Ultimate Car Wash in Lakewood, Ohio, feeding one red-dye-stained bill after another into the change machine. When a squad car pulled up, Jackson tried to run but didn’t get far, possibly because of the 23 pounds of quarters–about $950 worth–in the pockets of his jacket. Police and FBI tied him to several bank holdups, including one earlier that day in Cleveland.
