Sidelights.(American's behavior)

If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness--G. K. Chesterton

A survey of college students found that the ones most likely to cheat were journalism majors. According to the Center for Academic Integrity, 27 percent of journalism students admit to cheating, followed by 26 percent of business majors. * U.S. airlines lost an average of 10,000 bags a day in 2005, a 23 percent increase from 2003. * Fifteen percent of Web surfers never use search engines. ... 71 million American adults use e-mail on the average weekday. ... Over half of all Google Web searches originate in the U.S. * The average new home in the U.S. contains over 2,400 square feet, an increase of almost 50 percent from 1973. * An Australian couple found a 32-pound lump of ambergris valued at about $295,000 while walking on the beach. Highly prized by perfumers, ambergris is a substance vomited by sperm whales. * North Korea makes over $100 million annually by producing counterfeit cigarettes. * One third of French citizens describe themselves as "racist," according to a poll by France's National Commission for the Rights of Man. One year ago, the number was one fourth. ... A third of Italians want to live in a country besides Italy, according to a Eurispes poll. Most want to move to Spain or France. * A whopping 96 percent of Singapore's citizens favor the death penalty, according to a poll conducted by the Sunday Times newspaper. According to respondents, capital punishment deters serious crimes, keeps the country safe, and is a just punishment for criminals. * London's Sunday Times reported that heterosexual foreigners are faking homosexuality and entering into phony gay civil unions as a way to gain British citizenship. Homosexual civil partnerships became legal in the U.K. last year. * Euan Blair, eldest son of British prime minister Tony ...