Was Jimmy Hoffa buried beneath a driveway in suburban Detroit?
The storied Teamsters union boss was last seen on July 30, 1975, outside a Detroit-area restaurant. His body has never been found, inspiring a slew of legends and conspiracy theories. Relying on a tip, police in suburban Roseville, Mich., this week are checking a residential driveway under which “the earth had been disturbed at some point in time.” Even if there’s a body, police said, it probably won’t be Hoffa.
Are college students really in deeper debt these days?
The Pew Research Center reported that 22 million U.S. homes, nearly 19 percent, carried college debt in 2010. That’s twice as many as in 1989, and up 15 percent from 2007. Growing college enrollment, higher tuition costs, post-college joblessness and the economic downturn all helped create the record red ink. Nearly a third of the nation’s richest households and 13 percent of its poorest have college debt, Pew found.
Is there more than one Mona Lisa?
A Swiss foundation claims it has an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. The Mona Lisa Foundation said it found a replica of the 16th-century painting and that thorough research reveals that the “Isleworth Mona Lisa” is 11 to 12 years older than the one hanging in Paris’ Louvre Museum. The foundation’s Mona Lisa was done on canvas instead of wood, is slightly larger and was done in brighter colors. Debate continues.
