Popular Elsewhere
16:02 UK time, Tuesday, 12 July 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Getting is quite difficult, says a popular article in the Guardian. If it isn't spotted, getting letters, usually the first of each line, to spell out a word or a phrase in print is normally inadvertently stopped by subs splitting up the sentence.
The paper reports on the News of the World journalists who got their message out in the last edition of their crossword. "Disaster", "tart", "menace", "stench" and "racket" were among the answers, while clues included "Woman stares wildly at calamity", "criminal enterprise", "repel odd change that's regretted" and "mix in prison", with "lamented", "stink" and "catastrophe".
A look at the history of the hidden message has revealed that of the people who have managed it James May is one of them. He was fired after using Autocar's Road Test Yearbook to spell out "So you think it's really good? Yeah, you should try making the bloody thing up. It's a real pain in the arse" at the beginning of each new article.
Photographer Peter Webb was unknown when he got the gig to take pictures of the Rolling stones in 1970. So the Independent's most-read story supposed he must have been gutted when he lost the pictures. But, 38 years later, . Mr Webb had written off the pictures but he says the bigger shock than them turning up again is that after all this time the Rolling Stones are still touring.
In a popular Telegraph article Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's wife, has questioned .
"Nobody would ask him [Clegg] how he balances everything. For some reason there is a kind of assumption in your question that it is my role to balance it" she says.
However, she did reveal that Nick Clegg is "killing himself" to make sure he spends time looking after his children.
? asks Slate's most-read article. If it sounds familiar but you can't work out why, it is the sachets of gel you find in new bags and boxes of shoes. The article says all that is known by most is it is not to be eaten - as written on warnings on the packet. But, Slate says absolutely nothing happens if you do eat the non-toxic and harmless gel. Silica is another form of sand able to absorb moisture. It turns out it's not the contents of the packet that are the problem but the packet itself which can cause children to choke.
NPR's most-read story says a Utah family of husband and four wives who have 16 children and their own reality TV series plan to if prosecutors decide a case against them. While only one of the wives is legally married to Kody Brown the others are referred to as his spiritual wives - still illegal in that state. They argue the laws are unconstitutional and plan to use the Supreme Court's 2003 precedent which decided the state could not prosecute people for engaging in private, consensual sexual behaviour - in this case, gay sex.
