Huffington Magazine Issue 11 | Page 9

Enter POINTERS ANOTHER DEADLY OUTBREAK BLAMED ON CANTALOUPE 5 6 HUFFINGTON 08.26.12 If you’ve recently bought cantaloupes— especially if you know they were grown in Indiana—you may want to throw them away. Two people are dead and more than 150 are sick because of a salmonella outbreak linked to melons grown in the region, according to health officials. Last year, 30 people died from eating cantaloupe tainted with Listeria. Those deadly fruits were traced back to a Colorado farm. STRAIGHT-A STUDENT CAN’T GET HER DIPLOMA JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES (CANTELOPE) An Oklahoma high school Valedictorian used the word “hell” in her graduation speech—and because of that, she still hasn’t received her diploma. Kaitlin Nootbaar told her classmates in her May speech that when people asked her about career plans, she’d say, “How the hell do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many times.” School officials say they will hold her diploma until she releases an apology. THAT’S VIRAL RAGE AGAINST RYAN A selection of the week’s most talked-about stories. HEADLINES TO VIEW FULL STORIES ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’ GETS PLASTIC SURGERY MEGADETH SINGER CLAIMS OBAMA STAGED AURORA AND SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTINGS THIS GUY MAY HAVE THE WORLD’S MOST UNFORTUNATE NAME ‘TOP GUN’ DIRECTOR TONY SCOTT TAKES HIS OWN LIFE