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In August Marie-Noelle Guillernee, 42, drowned in a deep water hole at a tourist attraction near Mont Saint-Michel, France, when she tried to save her six-year-old daughter. Dozens of tourists were watching the ten-minute rescue attempt, but none of them tried to assist the woman or called for help. Spectators reported hearing one tourist say, “I got the whole thing on tape.”
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Last fall in a jail in New Haven, Connecticut, inmate Francis Gotlibowski was beaten and kicked by other inmates in an attack that sent him to the intensive-care unit of the Yale-New Haven Hospital. After an investigation a jail spokesman found that Gotlibowski was beaten because he’d dropped litter on the floor of the cafeteria. Said the spokesman, “[The inmates] apparently have their own code to keep the place clean.”
The regional airline Markair apologized in July to Rosalyna Lopez, who was on a Tucson-to-D.C. flight in May when a flight attendant ordered her to stop speaking Spanish to a relative traveling with her. “No Spanish!” said the attendant. “English only! Do you understand that?”
In August Ottawa biologist David Brez Carlisle told a meeting of geologists in Waterloo, Ontario, that the exotic amino acids found in several rocks from space, which are considered evidence that extraterrestrial life exists, are not what they seem. Carlisle said the space rocks he’s examined contain not the exotic amino acids but flakes of human dandruff, which have a chemical makeup similar to the amino acids. Carlisle said he knows a lot about dandruff because he has had a severe case all of his life.
