RANDOM ROUND-UP, VOLUME 3

TBRs weekly feature of stories you may have missed and a few favorite photos. The pictures are all of a crocodile attacking a mother elephant in Zambia. The entire event took all of 15 seconds. In the end, the baby elephant stumbled on to the crocodile, causing it to release the mother and retreat into the Nile. A happy ending! (Photos from National Geographic.)

1. Straight British couple seeks 'gay' partnership. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch from AP]
2. Romanian neighbors: Child mom much older than 10. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch from AP]
3. As boomers age, 1 in 5 drivers will be oldsters. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch from AP]
4. Scientists: Beak deformities increase in Northwest. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch from AP]
5. Smoke pot? Schwarzenegger says, who cares?. [Associated Press]

6. Conan O'Brien comes clean. [Rolling Stone]
7. Phil Collins says he considered suicide. [Guardian - UK]
8. Oklahoma English-only measure challenged. [The Oklahoman]
9. The Vice-Presidency Of Joe Biden (Slide Show). [The Onion]
10. The Other Holocaust: Stories from victims of Stalin's terror. [The Huffington Post]

11. Half of children struck by cars near schools are hit by parents driving children to school. [PolitiFact]
12. Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke. [ABC World News]
13. Student gets prison for hacking Bill O'Reilly site. [MSNBC from AP]
14. This is what New Yorkers complain about. [Gawker]

15. Sarah Palin's Alaska: How’s that outdoorsy stuff working for ya? [The New York Times]
16. Other products that could use cigarette-style warning labels. [Vanity Fair]
17. British double agent George Blake predicts end of 'American empire'. [The Telegraph - UK]
18. Polar Bears turning to goose eggs to survive warming? [National Geographic]
19. George W. Bush's omission points. [Mother Jones]
20. Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs (Text & Video). [CNN]