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15:09 UK time, Tuesday, 27 September 2011

A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.

Telegraph headline

Telegraph readers are catching up on the latest from the attempted evictions of travellers at Dale Farm. The paper reveals that . However, according to the paper, he is in fact Dr Jonathan Oppenheim - one of the world’s leading physicists. The paper has fun with his change of roles:

“He has been focusing his forensic mind on something some people consider equally complex: Britain’s planning laws.”

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail’s most read story tells the tale of “”. This tale of poverty after long term unemployment isn’t about feeding the children but about affording their pony lessons and cricket trips. But, she says, others go further to conceal losing a job:

“Some friends of ours were terrified of traumatising their children if they admitted that Daddy didn’t have a job any more. So each morning he’d dress in a suit and head for the station, take a train to London and spend the day in a library.”

NPR headline

Many, , are clicking on news of the British merchant ship off the coast of Ireland which has reportedly been found with £175m worth of goods on it. Meanwhile, another two ships sunk in the same year, 1941, off the Australian coast. A popular NPR article claims finding the shipwrecks, in the end, . While others had assumed German survivors were lying, psychologists found their accounts of where ships were just reflected bad memories. Many charts of data later, and the ship was identified 2.7 nautical miles away from psychologists’ predictions.

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Much debate has been around about taxing the rich, after the very rich Warren Buffett argued he is taxed less than his employees. But in a popular Washington Post article John Steele Gordon argues the tax is that millionaires aren’t even that rich. After all, only billionaires are on the Forbes rich list nowadays.

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