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Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• That a quarter of people in a recent international survey reported bribing a public official in the last year? —Mick Dumke
• That the United States is no longer the world’s fattest nation? —Tal Rosenberg
• About the rise of the right angle and the decline of the circular? —Steve Bogira
• That police response time in Detroit is so slow—an hour for priority calls—that some residents have mapped out their own emergency plans? —Mick Dumke
• About the amputee who built herself a prosthetic leg out of Legos? —Aimee Levitt
• About the outlaw farmer who owes the U.S. government 1.2 million pounds of raisins? —Sam Worley
• That Great Britain didn’t actually have a 77-year Wimbledon drought, but the more recent winners were women, so who cares? —Gwynedd Stuart
• This minority view on The Book of Mormon, from a Tribune reader? —Tony Adler
• About the partying habits of the cast of The Wire and how some members had trouble coping with the day-to-day slog through Baltimore’s bleak city streets? —Kevin Warwick