Friday Snippets and Soundbites

• The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired a photo of Peter Schiff, the boy Anne recalled as her "one true love" in the diary she wrote while hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex from July 1942-August 1944. A childhood friend of Peter Schiff gave the picture to the museum after realizing there were no known photographs of the boy. Anne Frank died of typhus in Bergen Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Peter later died at Auschwitz. He was 18; Anne was 16. Read more about Anne Frank here.

• This week, February 24-March 1, is eating disorders awareness week. It's estimated that eating disorders affect more than 10 million women and 1 million men in the United States. Learn more at the National Eating Disorders Association's Web site.

• Need money for college? Junior Achievement and Deloitte recently announced the launch of their fourth annual "Excellence through Ethics" essay contest. To enter, high school seniors must write an original essay of 500 words or less in response to an ethical dilemma posted on Junior Achievement's Web site. The idea is that teens apply their knowledge of ethical decision-making and share views on the importance of ethics in business. Entries must be submitted online by March 28, 2008. You must have completed at least one Junior Achievement lesson in ethical decision-making to enter. The winner receives a $5,000 scholarship.

• Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, had been serving on the front line with a British army unit in Afghanistan until news of his deployment was leaked by the Drudge Report this week. Harry had been there since mid-December, but after his deployment became common knowledge, British officials assessed the risk and pulled him out of the country. Officials were concerned the increased media coverage of Harry would put him and his comrades in danger.

• In totally random news, four strands of hair believed to be George Washington's sold for $17,000 in an auction last Friday. Christa Allen of Colorado sold the hair, which her father, a Philadelphia attorney had passed down to her. It was pressed under glass in a locket and accompanied by a watch. Allen claims the hair has been passed down since it was clipped from Washington's head. The Historical Society of Montgomery County, Pa., inspected Allen's evidence and gave her its backing.