Children Keep Eating Batteries And More News

Battery-Eating Incidents Up: In the strangest study we've run across, researchers have discovered that the number of emergency room visits involving kids eating tiny remote batteries have increased to 66,000 visits a year. [New York Daily News]

Mickey Mantle's Restaurant Survives: Following news that the historic restaurant might be evicted, Mickey Mantle's owner hopes to buy a month's time with a $71,000 check. [NY Post]

Gordon Ramsay Gets Another Hotel Show: The outspoken chef has teamed up wtih "retail queen" Mary Portas to run Hotel Britannia. [UKPA]

Julia Child Gets a Children's Book: To celebrate Julia Child's 100th birthday, the cooking queen gets a new biography, plus a children's scrapbook of her life called Bon Appétit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child. [Grub Street]