The Bugle Audio Use Paper For A Visual World

Hello worlds.

Welcome to issue 14 of the Bugle, the pioneering audio newspaper from Times Online, the week beginning

January 28th of January 2008. What a week. This threatens to be possibly one of the great

weeks of 2008 so far easily in a top four or five I'd say. I'm Andy Zoltzmann in London,

in New York City. It's John Oliver. Hello Earth. What a pleasure to be in your ears.

As always, some sections of the audience paper go straight in the bin. This week,

a section on space exploration with the mystery image of life on Mars, which appears to show

what might be a human form on Mars, but is in fact clearly a small rock,

reasonably intriguing possibility that there might be objects shaped like humans

elsewhere in the galaxy. There is apparently a comet that looks a bit like a dog from a certain

angle, so truly exciting times for space fans. Also in the bin is a token for the one drink for

the price of two promotions, which is part of a new campaign by the licensing trade to cut down

only amount people drink on binges.

So our top story this week, money, money, money, money, money, money,

it's the ledger. I saw Rick James came in for a second and just decided to lay down a fat track.

His stay was brief, but funky. So is the world on the brink of an economic meltdown?

Now in the interest of disclosure, let me point out that I know absolutely nothing about

economics. I've lived for 30 years on this planet, two elsewhere, and I still don't get it.

To me, economics is like the Dutch language. I'm told it makes sense, but I seriously have my doubts.

Now the US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to 3.5%, the biggest rate cut in 25 years,

and incredibly, the markets have stased a comeback for the time being, for reasons that no one

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