Lunch Break: Couch Potatoes, Druggie Hijinks

By Connect Mason News Director Elizabeth Stern

Daily items of interest from all over the news and blog feeds.

You may be looking forward to spending months on your parents' couch after you graduate from college. With a potential recession looming on the horizon, students can expect low pay or unemployment, higher food and gas prices, and credit scores suffering from a lack of income to pay off student loans.

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Del. David Albo, R-Fairfax County, tries to bring back abusive driver fees, to no avail. This time around, Albo had hoped to hit out-of-state drivers in addition to Virginia residents with fines starting at $2,250.

If you're running out of good excuses for why you haven't showed up to ECON since the first week of classes, you're probably better off not following in the footsteps of Daniel Kuch. The 21-year-old first lied to authorities, claiming he had received a gunshot wound in one of his shoulders while jogging, before admitting the truth. Kuch had actually convinced a friend to shoot him in the hopes of jumpstarting his vacation time and bypassing a drug test. Maybe he should have stopped by Career Services.

A drug recall of Heparin, a popular blood-thinner, connects 21 U.S. deaths to a Chinese drug plant. Further investigation reveals disturbing facts about FDA practices that fail to monitor the quality of "millions" of imported products. For a list of recalled drugs, click here.