Bad news, America: World doesn't like We the People - "While Europeans and Asians and Arabs increasingly have disliked U.S. policies or specific U.S. leaders in recent years, Americans were liked and admired. Polls show an ominous turn. Majorities around the world think Americans are greedy, violent and rude, and fewer than half in countries such as Poland, Spain, Canada, China and Russia think Americans are honest."
Legal loophole emerges in NSA spy program - "An AT&T attorney indicated in federal court on Wednesday that the Bush administration may have provided legal authorization for the telecommunications company to open its network to the National Security Agency."
WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL IN US CONGRESS - "U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be passed in 2006." -- Here is the Senate Bill.
Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point - "The world is now eating more food than farmers grow, pushing global grain stocks to their lowest level in 30 years. "
Robertson: God Says Tsunami Possible For U.S. - "The Rev. Pat Robertson says God has told him that storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year."
Mexico wants your software work - "Mexico may not have as many engineers as India or China, but the country's a lot closer to the United States than either of them."
Human, Chimp Ancestors May Have Mated, DNA Suggests - "The study suggests that the human and chimp lineages initially split off from a single ape species about ten million years ago. Later, early chimps and early human ancestors may have begun interbreeding, creating hybrids—and complicating and prolonging the evolutionary separation of the two lineages."
Pyow pyow pyow . . . hack hack hack hack! Let's get out of here (in monkey talk) - "British scientists have discovered that the putty-nosed monkey in Nigeria pictured above sometimes communicates by combining sounds into a sequence that has a different meaning from any of its component calls, an ability that was thought to be uniquely human." -- That's because humans are not all that unique.
Student Faces Criminal Charges For Teacher Jokes - "A Henry County high school student is facing criminal charges after posting comments about his teacher on the Web site, MySpace.com, reported WSB-TV in Atlanta."
Colleges chase as cheats shift to higher tech - " With their arsenal of electronic gadgets, students these days find it easier to cheat. And so, faced with an array of inventive techniques in recent years, college officials find themselves in a new game of cat and mouse, trying to outwit would-be cheats this exam season with a range of strategies--cutting off Internet access from laptops, demanding the surrender of cell phones before tests or simply requiring that exams be taken the old-fashioned way, with pens and paper. ... In a survey of nearly 62,000 undergraduates on 96 campuses over the past four years, two-thirds of the students admitted to cheating."
Planet group similar to solar system found - "A team of European astronomers said Wednesday that they had found one of the closest analogues yet to our solar system: three planets and an asteroid belt circling a pale Sun-like star about 42 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. ... The third planet, about 18 times the mass of Earth, circles at a distance of about 60 million miles, within the star's so-called habitable zone, where the temperatures would allow the existence of liquid water, the authors said."
Smokeless rockets launching soon? - "Only time and money separate the current state of rocket propulsion science from the engine rooms of Star Trek's Starfleet, according to a university professor."
Quote of the Day
"And crawling on this planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time. And lost in space... and meaning."
~ The Criminologist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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