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Monday, August 4, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Inside Japan’s 30,000 Kinky ‘Love Hotels’

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August 04, 2014
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Welcome to The Angel, one of 30,000 pay-by-the-hour lodgings in Japan offering a discreet haven for trysts and visits with dominatrixes. Despite a struggling economy, business is booming at these houses of sin. Lizzie Crocker writes that these abodes are more heartbreak hotel than love shack.
GROUND WAR
Two apparent terrorist attacks occured inside Israel on Monday, though it's not clear if they were linked to Hamas. Israeli authorities said that a 25-year-old pedestrian was killed in Jerusalem when he was fatally struck by an excavator, which was trying to flip over a bus. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the excavator driver was a "terrorist known to security forces from a separate incident." He was shot by police, and three others were injured. Shortly thereafter, an Israeli soldier was also shot and wounded near Hebrew University. The assailant was reportedly on a scooter and fled the scene. These incidences occurred hours into the ceasefire declared by Israel, but it has been broken by attacks from both sides.
DROWNING
Mitch McConnell has been through a nasty primary already, and the November election is going to be just as rough for the five-term Republican. Ben Jacobs reports that the Senate minority leader, long-reviled among many on the right for what they see as kowtowing to Democrats, is in a tough race for his seat—and in trouble with the Tea Party.
TAPED
Fred Thompson was chief counsel to the Republicans on the Watergate committee. One night, he hit pay dirt and uncovered that Richard Nixon was taping everything. Eleanor Clift gets the story behind the one question—"Mr. Butterfield, were you aware of the existence of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?"—that set it all off.
KA-CHING!

Big Bang Theory stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, and Kaley Cuoco cleaned up big in their negotiations with producers Warner Bros TV. According to Deadline, the three leading cast members of the hit sitcom will each making $1 million per episode for the next three seasons. Each was previously making $350,000 per episode. (An 11th season is possible.) And there are added incentives for the cast to sign on for more episdoes. The new contracts reportedly include an increase in show ownership for Parson, Galecki, and Cuoco from .25 to more than a full point. Each is set to make over $90 million during their lifetime because of the series.


GRISLY SCENE
Five Family Members Found Dead
Believed to be murder-suicide.
WONDER DRUG
American Ebola Patients Got Secret Serum
Previously used only on monkeys.
UNCONSTITUIONAL
Judge Strikes Down Alabama Abortion Law
Required admitting privileges.
UP IN ARMS
Michigan Town Rebels Against Police
Militarized cops beat man for public urination.
SPOOKED
Israel Reportedly Spied On Kerry Talks
During peace negotiations.

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