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14:36 UK time, Monday, 17 October 2011
A popular Independent story is billed as "". At this year's Scrabble World Championship Britain's Ed Martin was accused of hiding a letter G that mysteriously went missing during a game. The organisers didn't strip search him as requested and he didn't go on to win. Ed Martin wasn't even Britain's best player. So, the tile eating accusation is still the top of the Scrabble stories.
A feud to make David Ike proud seems to be slowly cooking among newspaper columnists and it's proving popular with Guardian readers. Charlie Brooker's Guardian column last week where he called David Cameron a lizard was denounced by Telegraph writer Graeme Archer as irresponsible. So . This time, Brooker adds shape-shifting to the lizard qualities he gives David Cameron. And just in case his words could be misconstrued, Brooker says it again and again and again:
"At least here you get the truth. Which is that he is a lizard. And by 'he', I mean Cameron. David Cameron. Who is a lizard. David Cameron is a lizard."
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Counting the population is as easy as 1-2-3, right? Well, not according to the New Scientist's popular article. It says it's so tricky that the . As well as the problems of relying on inaccurate censuses, there is also the suspicion by demographers that Chinese mothers may well be hiding tens of millions of babies to evade the one-child policy.
First it was the bookshops, and making agents redundant while doing so. That's according to the New York Times' most emailed article. It says Amazon are doing things a bit differently - for one the writer's advance isn't a given. And the bestseller lists are getting shaken up as well - an obscure German historical novel made it onto the list without a single professional review.
