The Orbis

Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: News/Features

BJ Novak demonstrates the Cadbury egg size difference on Conan.

The great Cadbury egg scandal

If your cream eggs seemed smaller this year, it's because the Cadbury company made their chocolate Easter eggs roughly 25 percent smaller without bothering to tell anybody. Confused consumers who went to the Cadbury Web site for answers found a message denying any size change. But now that BJ Novak, star of NBC's "The Office," revealed the scandal on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," the Cadbury Web site has a long explanation about market demands. Hearing the news makes us long for the good old days, when seasonal candy was consistent, and candy companies could jack up their prices honestly without having to downsize their product.



Lil' Romeo falls in love with USC

Romeo Miller, better known as Lil' Romeo, recently gave a verbal commitment to play basketball at the University of Southern California. According to his publicist, he will be the first active hip-hop artist to be signed to a full athletic scholarship. Rapper Percy Miller, aka Master P, is Romeo's father and coach. Master P, who once tried out for the Indiana Pacers, has a net worth of $361 million, according to a Forbes Magazine article from nearly eight years ago. Many people might claim it absurd to have a family as wealthy as the Millers get a full scholarship to a prestigious university. And those people would be correct.



Your own personal Obama

On March 31, a papier mache sculpture of Jesus went on display in a Chicago gallery run by the Art Institute of Chicago, but it has drawn criticism because it bears more than a little resemblance to Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The sculpture, created by 24-year-old undergraduate David Cordero for his senior show, depicts Obama wearing a white robe and adorned with a neon halo. "All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. Yea, believe in Barack, and ye shall find peace.



From the 'What a Surprise!' Department...

A new study by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. shows that 2,057 students who attended government-funded abstinence-until-marriage programs were as likely to have sex, to first have sex at 15 years old and on average, had as many sexual partners as students who did not attend the programs. The study has been a blow to the Bush administration's push to renew its abstinence programs which cost the American public $176 million a year, which seems now to be a huge waste of funds. On the plus side, Bush can proudly say that in his abstinence programs, no children have been left behind - at least when it comes to expressing their sexualities.



Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

After four years, Missouri resident Kari Mitchell was finally reunited with her Boston Terrier, Mickey, who turned up 1,000 miles away in Montana. The animal shelter that found him traced him to his owner by scanning his implanted microchip identification. If only Chance had been able to take advantage of the Silicon Valley boom...

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