Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
High on the Times' most recommended list, is Caitlin Moran's ironically unapologetic article on . A recent (she admits, rather unreliable) survey suggests Britons say sorry eight times a day. Moran thinks this is because sorry has so many different meanings. Her own husband even said sorry in his wedding vows. She took this one word to mean quite a lot:
"I wish this were over; who are these people? I really don't want to cry. The booze smell is the registrar's whisky - my hands were shaky; let's never get married again. I don't know if you've seen, but, behind you, your brother is wearing a balloon crown. I know you wanted to elope to Gretna; and if you leave me, I will die - for which I apologise in advance."
Perhaps the place where you won't be hearing people politely saying sorry is the escape hatch of a plane. But one of the Independent's most read stories says exactly what you should be doing to survive such a crash will be revealed in a . British Airways is offering a 4-hour safety course in exchange for some of their mileage points. If you're not lucky enough to be notching up frequent flyer points, the Independent's travel correspondent Simon Calder gives his own tips. He says the most basic of problems is usually the most fatal: getting the seatbelt off.
There's a battle ahead for US nurses and doctors over the title "doctor". For, a popular New York Times article says, . Doctors say this is making things unclear to patients and are pressing for a new law to stop nurses from using the title. And what's the difference between the two? Six to eight years training.
may seem like a lot of effort in order to shave off only six milliseconds from the present 65-millisecond transit time between London and New York. But the cable transmits information between traders. And, as the New Scientist's most read article explains, every millisecond counts in trading, especially automated trading. So the company who operate the cable, NYSE Euronext, wants to change the cable because, as the company's Andrew Bach says "The speed-of-light limitation is getting annoying".
14:42 UK time, Monday, 3 October 2011
