Popular Elsewhere
14:52 UK time, Tuesday, 16 August 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
How's this for a demonstration of scale: . That's according to a well-hit Guardian story reporting from inside the camp. On top of that, its airport is busier than any in the UK, apart from Gatwick and Heathrow. The camp's own water-bottling plant, provides one million litres of water a week for the camp. The numbers continue - the camp has eight incinerators to destroy rubbish. The article is obsessed with the size even of the army's dogs, saying "a german shepherd so big that he rarely has to raise growl to deter potential troublemakers".
As a , a popular Independent article asks what they may have ahead of them. SuperHeavy will feature Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and AR Rahman - being borne as a result of Jagger and Stewart's Jamaican residences being close to each other. But these groups haven't always experienced smooth sailing - one battle of egos was had in the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The article says "at one point, a studio argument about a single harmony resulted in Nash refusing to talk to Stills for two years."
In a popular article in the Huffington Post Nick Baines ensures he probably won't be invited to another barbecue this summer by daring to . He's been complaining that the British barbecue just isn't good enough. He wants his meat marinaded and cooked slowly. It's as if he thinks barbecue food should actually taste good. "Whilst I am sure there are countless dreary British barbecues for me yet to endure, be it engagements, birthdays and beyond. I just pray for a little more enthusiasm from whoever is in charge of the food." And we give a thought to the hosts dealing with an ungrateful guest.
In Slate's most popular article Patti Waldmeir starts by finding an . She has adopted two children from China but, in her effort to keep in touch with this child, she finds a lot has changed since her adoptions. She puts the resistance she encounters down to China "still smarting from the national humiliation of having had to export as many as 100,000 babies in the past 20 years". Now, she also adds, to adopt healthy children, foreign parents must wait for up to five years. And she predicts a "root-seeking" industry to mushroom in the next few years.
