The Big Dig, a Boston engineering boondoggle that’s national news mostly because you helped us pay for it, is basically a death trap. It’s killed people already, and some precariously perched lights were apparently preparing to off a few more.
When programmer Don Relyea tried to choose one candidate on his voting machine, the computer chose a different candidate – plus four other candidates from the same, incorrect party – right in front of him. He captured the whole thing on video.
Prosecutors in the case against Apple’s Paul Devine – accused of taking $US1 million in payola from Asian parts suppliers – say they found $US150,000 in shoeboxes at his home. Investigators are now looking for the rest, at home and abroad.
