Repeat Yourself, Repeat Yourself

The following paragraph is the start of a news article entitled: Sex, Spies, and Videotape.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Four Taiwan civil servants filmed visiting hostess bars in neighboring China have been blackmailed into becoming spies for Beijing, the
government of the self-ruled island said Thursday.

So far you know that there are 4 Taiwanese people working as spies because of a videotape. That takes care of knowing what the title means. Now, here is the second paragraph.

Four civil servants on trips to China were filmed in hostess lounges and then blackmailed into becoming informants for Beijing, Taiwan Justice Ministry spokesman Luo Chi-wang said. He did not say what has happened to them since being uncovered.

I would just like to point out that the second paragraph is Luo Chi-wang's reading of the first paragraph.

7 Things a Guy's Bedroom Can Tell You (and why I think most of it is B.S. - that's right MSN.com, I'm calling you and everyone else out who publishes these generalized, overstated, and completely ridiculous articles).
1. An unmade bed. He might be a momma's boy. I say that maybe he is lazy, in a rush, a little messy, or maybe he just thinks that there's no point, since the bed is made to sleep in.
2. Signs of Life. He's nurturing. Okay, I'll accept that plants/fish are good. But maybe he just has that cat to torture?
3. Musically Minded. He's old school. Or he just likes music. Or he wants to look cool. Or it was his great-grandfather's guitar?
4. Man of Steel (the picture showed 5 lbs dumbbells). He likes his arms. 5 lbs dumbbells are not impressive. At all. If a guy really cares about how he looks, he will go to the gym. Or buy a bowflex.
5. Organizational issues? (picture of two chairs with clothes laying on them, neatly). He's not so anal. Okay, so there are some extra clothes. All this means is that whoever owns the room does not have a mental disorder called OCD. What if they just came out of the laundry and are going to be hung up soon? That wouldn't mean the guy was anal. It would just mean he's normal.
6. Photographic memories. He's sentimental. I think the issue here is it depends on what the pictures themselves contain. If they are all 5 ft x 5 ft pictures of an ex-girlfriend, he's probably still in love. If they are all 5x5 ft pictures of an Abercrombie and Fitch male model, he's probably gay?
7. Beyond the basics (picture carpeting with a design). He thinks of himself as an adult. Or his mommy/ex-girlfriend got it for him. Or it was free.

Don't worry, the same people that wrote that will give you advice on his man parts, when you should sleep with a significant other, and what men don't understand about women. Maybe men would understand women better if this crap didn't appear in every tween, teen, and women's magazine. It's repeated through out life to people that don't ever think it could not apply in every case.

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - present)