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Trivia fanatics have their smart phones.
The hand-held devices, a lifesaver for handling emergencies, checking e-mail during boring meetings and listening to music has a new role: trivia night crib sheet. Bar patrons are using Blackberries, Apple iPhones and all other sorts of cellular technology to get help answering questions about obscure 1980’s indie rock bands, NCAA bowl game records and other random queries, annoying competitors who play by the rules. Read more…
One of Washington D.C.’s best known figures walked past a line of gaga photographers, creating a volley of flashes and a chorus of pleas to turn his head around just so. Decked in black and white, he was seemingly oblivious to his fans before he plopped down on his dingy white bottom on the concrete floor and munched on a 10-foot-long stalk of bamboo.
This is Tai Shan, a 200-pound giant panda at the National Zoo. On Friday officials there announced that next year the animal will move to whereabouts unknown in China where he’ll spend the rest of his days as a stud. Read more…
