Here chick, chick

Published 8:04 pm Saturday, September 18, 2010

Gonna need a bigger bun: Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a small but ferocious dinosaur from which Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. Raptorex had T. rex’s big head and tiny arms but weighed 150 pounds, compared to 5 to 8 tons for T. rex.

What this means, if evolutionary trends are any guide, is one day chickens will weigh about 500 pounds and will be free range whether we like it or not.

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Pale is the new bronzed: With consumers concerned about their budgets as well as skin cancer, tanning salons should expect a significant drop in business, a research firm says.

Now might be the time for gardeners and those in the “home-based medicinal herb industry” to check Craigslist for second-hand tanning beds. They make great grow lights.

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More baggage: Putting a new emphasis on safety, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that it will no longer refer to the airlines it is responsible for monitoring as “customers.”

In response, the airlines have announced that their customers will now be referred to as “freight.”