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15:10 UK time, Thursday, 10 November 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
"I should have known better" is the sentiment coming from the popular New York Times' cautionary tale about . After all, the article says, Carl Richards gets paid to help people make smart financial choices. His story doesn't start well: "I answered an ad in 1995 that I thought was for a job related to 'security' (as in security guard) but was in fact related to 'securities.' That's how little I knew about the stock market." Whizz through a few more years, an estate agent with a gold jaguar, a 100% mortgage and a stock market crash later and you get to the part where Richards had to give up his home.
Ricky Gervais tries to get to the bottom of the in a popular Time article. His insight from his own sitcom, The Office, being translated into American seems to suggest Americans are just kinder. But, in an effort to justify his willingness to insult, he explains that he's just being honest. However, it seems that Gervais may be coming round to the American way:
"I'd rather a waiter say, 'Have a nice day' and not mean it, than ignore me and mean it."
As other most read lists are populated with speculation as to the reasons behind the departure of X Factor hopeful Frankie Cocozza, Independent readers are finding out about . The article says that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi admits that "at the height of the band's hell raising days" Ozzy Osbourne decided to soak a hotel room with shark blood. According to the article it was because he was bored with drugs. This adds to the already known bad behaviour towards animals - biting off a bat's head on stage andÌýdoing the same to a dove in a meeting with record executives.
Vanity Fair readers are thinking about thinking. But be warned: it's a miserable game. That's if the life story of the "" is anything to go by. The article follows the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman who has tried to get to the bottom of why people make bad decisions and hated every minute of it. If his life choice seems like a bad decision itself, it might be because he decided early on in his research he wouldn't study anything unless he first detected it in himself.
