Week In Review

• A Good Question--Asked by Bill Bennett, "What did Popeye ever see in Olive Oyl?"

• Media's most promising medical horror vanishes from India--Yep, no more bird flu in the subcontinent. Hopefully, for the sake of the media, it will soon strike with a vengence somewhere else.

• The Joy of Soy--It may not be all we've been led to believe.
  

• 1200 year old Psalter found in Irish bog--There are a couple of angles to this story. First, that it was found. Second, how does a bog preserve something like a book? (This was my first question.) And third, this bizarre retraction that is tied to the war in Israel:
  

The National Museum of Ireland, which this week announced the discovery of a 1,200-year-old Book of Psalms in a bog, has issued a clarification about just what the Psalter revealed. In its initial announcement on Wednesday, the museum said the 20-page manuscript was open to a page showing Psalm 83; news reports noted that in the 17th-century King James version, the psalm exhorts God to act against conspirator nations plotting to erase any memory of “the name of Israel.” But the museum’s director, Patrick F. Wallace, said in a statement yesterday that the announcement had “led to misconceptions about the revealed wording.” The text visible on the manuscript “does not refer to wiping out Israel,” Dr. Wallace said, “but to the ‘vale of tears’ ” in Psalm 83 of the Vulgate, the Latin version used in medieval times. The text about wiping out the name of Israel occurs in the Vulgate as Psalm 82, which is not visible in the Irish manuscript. ALAN COWELL, NY TIMES

• And speaking of Israel--I have always liked Benjamin Netnyahu (who seems to be called BiBi these days) a former PM of Israel. His words on Hezbollah this week were great: "Did you ever see the movie 'Alien'? There's an alien body, this fearsome predatory body, that resides in the host and then lurches out from the host and attacks you ... that's Hezbollah."