“With just 116 yuan ($14), Shanghai office worker Han Bin could be the proud owner of a second-hand Volkswagen Passat, if he wins a court battle against the car’s disbelieving seller,” Reuters reports. Han, 20, put in his ridiculously low bid for the car when it was offered over a leading Chinese auction Web site, EachNet.com. By the deadline, no one else had bid and a jubilant Han received confirmation

From Rob Morse’s Monday

Are OB-GYNs cloaking their own preference for C-sections in the rhetoric of women’s choice? — or are today’s women simply too posh to push? US News & World Report’s Susan Brink examines the sharp spike in Cesarean sections and asks, “Progress? Or convenience…?” … For the record, either’s fine with me. Because to be honest with you, I don’t know how women do it at all. I mean, the responsibility