Extra credit

Published 12:01 am Thursday, March 17, 2011

Extra credit

Listen up, career college students: It might be time to start applying for internships, because a bill pending before the Legislature would make you pay more for tuition after you’ve earned all your credits needed for that bachelor of arts in sports team management.

A companion bill also would forbid you from couch-surfing at your recently married buddy’s apartment more than twice in a 30-day period.

Wagging tales: In Granite Falls, children become better readers by reading aloud to visiting dogs, in a program called Reading with Rover.

The dogs’ favorite story is one called, “The Kid Who Fed the Dog Freeze-Dried Liver Treats Without Ever Stopping.”

Pod bay doors still closed: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station introduced a new crew member Wednesday: a human-shaped robot called Robonaut.

There was a bit of joking around as the astronauts removed Robonaut from its coffin-like packing crate, but no one was smiling later when, during routine testing, a crewman asked it to perform a simple function and the robot, nicknamed “R2,” responded, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff