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Eager to improve the world around them
source: By Christine Clarridge Seattle Times staff reporter
A variety of reasons inspired hundreds of people, most of them young, to sign up yesterday to do a year's worth of good works for very little money. Some are joining AmeriCorps - a sort of domestic Peace Corps - because they've...Dino Mummy: Rare fossil reveals common dinosaur's soft tissue
source: Sid Perkins / Science News
A mummified dinosaur unearthed in Montana a year ago is giving scientists a rare peek at what the creature's muscles and other soft tissues may have looked like. The duck-billed animal-dubbed Leonardo by its discoverers-would have...Pope gives rosary 5 new mysteries
source: By Ann Rodgers-Melnick, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Pope John Paul II is urging Catholics to add five more events from the life of Jesus to the mysteries they ponder as they work their rosary beads, "that's an extra eight minutes". In an apostolic letter John Paul has called for a renewalFriends remember Pope's childhood
source: By Beata Pasek / Associated Press Writer
Poland -- As a boy, Karol Wojtyla was once chased away by a priest for kicking a soccer ball against the church wall. That and other stories were traded Wednesday afternoon by five school friends of Wojtyla, now Pope...Alexandria Library rises again after 1,600 years
source: By Andrew Hammond / Reuters
Egypt officially reopens this week one of the first and most celebrated centres of learning in human history -- the library of Alexandria whose ancient roots stretch back more than 2,000 years. President Hosni Mubarak and some...Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
source: By Alister Doyle / Reuters
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by a committee whose head called the decision a deliberate slap in the face for the current U.S. government over its policy on Iraq. Carter, a Democrat...List of Nobel prize winners in 2002
source: Reuters Alert Newsdesk
The announcement that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was awarded the 2002 Nobel peace prize ended this year's unveiling of the winners of the prestigious honours, each worth about $1 million. The winners of the 2002...Light Therapy Helps Treat Prostate Cancer, Too
source: Reuters.com
Researchers may have added prostate cancer to the list of cancers that can benefit from photodynamic therapy (PDT), which combines drugs and light to treat cancer and other conditions. Timothy R. Nathan of the University College...Fighting media madness
source: essay by Lightman
We are living in a time when perception means everything, when those who control global print, radio and television networks dictate a synthetic version of reality to the masses. By coordinating today's multimedia, this relatively small number of men effectively manipulate how we think and feel and act. We must use every tool at our disposal to...Agreement on election reform bill Response to '00 Florida debacle -- speedy enactment expected
source: Washington Post/San Francisco Chronical
House and Senate negotiators agreed on legislation to revamp the nation's election system, producing a sweeping measure that sponsors hailed as an "historic" federal response to the election day flaws exposed by the 2000...Search for world's funniest joke ends
source: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
Drum roll, please: an online search for the world's funniest joke has produced a winner. In a year-long experiment called LaughLab, a British psychology professor asked thousands of people around the world to rate the humor value...Man missing since july found at sea
source: By Bruce Smith / Associated Press Writer
As a series of storms ravaged his boat, a Florida sailor missing at sea for more than two months tried to keep his vessel seaworthy with tape and dental floss, a Coast Guard spokesman said Friday. Terry Watson of Homosassa...Man grows 1,245-pound pumpkin
source: By Associated Press
An upstate New York man's pumpkin patch only yielded three pumpkins this year. But that was more than enough. One weighed 450 pounds, another about 800 pounds, and the third came in at 1,245 pounds....Malaria genomes cracked
source: Don Kennedy / BBC News
Malaria kills a child every 40 seconds New ways of tackling malaria - the infection which kills a million people a year - are likely to be developed as a result of a new scientific milestone. A hundred years after the discovery that mosqui...Kennedy, Clinton, Gore target Bush on Iraq and terror war
source: By Chuck Noe NewsMax.com
The Democrat establishment's campaign against President Bush heated up Friday as Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy opposed U.S. policy on Iraq and Al Gore accused Bush of ignoring warnings about Sept. 11. Meanwhile, at theNew compound said to stop HIV, aid immune response
source: By Deena Beasley
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Scientists have created compounds that may be able to block the virus that causes AIDS and at the same time keep the body from sabotaging its own immune response, according to early-stage reports...Boat offered to man lost at sea for months
source: Reuters
A California man inspired by a Vietnamese-born sailor's harrowing four-month journey adrift at sea said he would like to give his sloop to Richard Van Pham, who survived by eating turtles and fish that swam near his tiny sailboat...First ladies pledge to fight poverty
source: By Lisa J. Adams / Associated Press Writer
Laura Bush joined first ladies from across the Americas in a pledge to fight child poverty, recognizing the problem is not limited to poor, developing countries but also plagues rich ones like the United States...Group aims to preserve sacred sites
source: By Kim Baca / Associated Press Writer
For centuries, young American Indians have run a series of trails that stretch from the muddy red waters of the Colorado River to the Arizona-California line. Running the trail has been at the center of the Quechan Nation's...Australian aborigines regain land
source: By Associated Press
Australia -- A federal judge formally gave control of a remote chunk of northwest Australia slightly bigger than Greece to an Aboriginal tribe on Friday, marking the end of six years of negotiations.The 52,510 square miles...Thousands honor fallen firefighters
source: By Robert Weller / Associated Press Writer
Thousands of family members, friends and colleagues gathered in the shadow of Pikes Peak to remember the firefighters killed in the line of duty in the past year -- including 343 in the attack on the World Trade Center...Man rescued after months at sea
source: AP/CNN
An American was rescued after being adrift aboard his damaged sailboat at sea for more than three months, keeping himself alive by catching fish, seabirds and turtles for food. Richard Van Pham, 62, was found aboard his sailboat...Spokane activist to document actions in Iraq
source: By Martha Irvine / AP National Writer
Nathan Mauger has seen much of the world, and been kicked out of some of it. Banned from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for delivering food and medical supplies to Palestinians who'd occupied the Church of the Nativity...Sen. Byrd charges Bush's war plans are coverup
source: By Paul J. Nyden Charleston Gazette Staff Writer
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said President Bush's plans to invade Iraq are a conscious effort to distract public attention from growing problems at home. "This administration, all of a sudden, wants to go to war with Iraq,"...A life-changing event prompted a mild-mannered Auburn man to become a superhero
source: by Marc Ramirez / Seattle Times
Mark Wyzenbeek and his stepson glide through the shopping-mall doors, a trio of villainous teenage girls hot on their trail and ogling the man with the big "S" on his chest. The tight bright-blue bodysuit. The red shorts and boots...Miraculous messages from water - how crystalizing water reflects our consciousness
source: wellnessgood.com - submitted by KD Weber
When a japanese researcher took various water samples and exposed them to different music and sounds, when frozen, the samples crystalized in the most extraordinary patterns. Sound bites from classical music, a Hitler speech all....Speed of light barrier broken with basic lab kit
source: New Scientist.com
Electric signals can be transmitted at least four times faster than the speed of light using only basic equipment that would be found in virtually any college science department. Scientists have sent light signals at faster-than-light...Victory of the loud little handful
source: by Mark Twain / Philadelphia Inquirer
The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war. The pulpit will - warily and cautiously - object... at first. The great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and...The Prize - An unconventional Indian writer makes big waves
source: Arundhati Roy Unoficial Website
"Four thousand six hundred millions years old the earth is... so what does it matter what they say about my book ? I think the book is on its own, and it should travel its way, and whatever happens is okay." Arundhati Roy's debut...The Antikythera mechanism - An ancient clockwork computer
source: The Economist print edition
An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology. When a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying...Stem cells key to diabetes cure
source: By Kristen Philipkoski / Wired News
Diabetes sufferer Bob Marks may never again have to stick himself with an insulin injection. Marks is part of a lucky group of about 100 diabetes patients chosen for a University of Pennsylvania clinical trial of a new procedure called...How does human consciousness work?
source; By Jennifer Viegas / Discovery News
A British geneticist has proposed a theory, which is gaining ground, as to why humans are conscious and aware. If proven correct, the theory would explain one of science's greatest mysteries, the "hard problem" of awareness...U.S. life expectancy hits new high
souirce: By Laura Meckler / Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -- Life expectancy is at an all-time high, and the gaps between blacks and whites, men and women are continuing to narrow, the government reported in its annual look at American health. Overall, the death rate is...Robot on the run - robot escapes 'survival of the fittest'
source: By Dave Higgens / The Age.com
Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives". The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in...Robot to explore pyramid mystery
source: By Donna Bryson Associated Press Writer
CAIRO - A robot the size and shape of a child's toy train is exploring one of the enduring questions of Egypt's Great Pyramid: What lies at the end of a shaft first discovered by explorers in the 19th century? Engineers from Boston...Consumers spend, shrug off worries
source: By Caren Bohan / Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers shrugged off economic anxieties and boosted spending on big-ticket items like cars and furniture as they reaped the benefits of low inflation and cheap interest rates, reports showed...The sleeping giant awakens
source: by Lightman / Lightwatcher Publishing
In the present, good news is as rare as an honest politician or a spin-free story from CNN. The best news I know today is that American seems to be coming out of a year-long coma. We the people are slowly waking from what...Church near WTC open to public
source: By Richard Pyle / Associated Press Writer
When the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, only a sycamore tree in the churchyard behind St. Paul's Chapel prevented a huge steel beam from smashing the 235-year-old church to splinters. Uprooted by...Arafat's Fatah faction halting attacks
source: Reuters
GAZA - Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction has drawn up a draft document in talks with European Union mediators calling for a halt to attacks by Palestinian militants on Israeli civilians, a senior Fatah official said Tuesday...Dalai Lama envoys visit Beijing
source: By Associated Press
BEIJING -- Two envoys from the Dalai Lama are visiting Beijing in the first formal exchange between the two sides in nine years, a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan leader said Tuesday. Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen arrived...A word to the wise
source: Fern Kupfer / AP Columnist
I'm in a sporting goods store, trying to decide which of the gazillion athletic shoes would be right for the low-speed way I exercise. There are three cool teenagers in the same aisle. I know they are cool because the boys have their...100-year-old rewards doctor
source: yahoo.news
Israel Haimowitz made a deal with his doctor 15 years ago: "Get me to 100 and I'll buy you a European vacation."
On Thursday, Haimowitz is celebrating his 100th. And Dr. Robert Drimmer and his wife are looking forward...Pitch dark bar opens for blind dates
Source: Reuters
BERLIN - Diners at Berlin's newest restaurant cannot see what they are eating and have to be guided to their table by blind waiters because the bar is pitch black. The restaurant opened Wednesday and aims to make guests concentrate...Stumpy the squirrel goes back home
source: By Associated Press
A squirrel with half a tail and no left hind foot is back with his caretakers after 10 days on the lam. The squirrel, named Stumpy, was found six miles from the residence of Steve and Marcia Carter, who fought back tears when...World Council of Churches asks U.S. to desist from military threats
source: By Associated Press
GENEVA -- The World Council of Churches called on the United States to "desist from any military threats against Iraq" and urged America's allies not to join "pre-emptive military strikes against a sovereign state under the pretext...If you plant a seed... amazing things do happen.
source: by Lightman / Lightwatcher.com
When the Los Angelas riots of 1992 decimated the mainly ethnic neighborhoods of South LA, many individuals and groups were motivated into action instead of being defeated by the events. One of these groups became known as...Americans turn their backs on Iraq attack
source: By Katty Kay in Washington, Melissa Kite in Maputo and Philip Webster / The Times London
Support for a US ground invasion of Iraq has declined rapidly in the United States during the past few months with nearly half of all Americans opposed to such a strike. A Time Magazine/CNN opinion poll released yesterday showedPakistani Muslim saved by Jewish man on 9/11 - 'Brother... grab my hand, let's get the hell out of here'
source: By Greg Botelho / CNN
A Pakistani by birth and Muslim by faith, Farman was just a recent college graduate going to work when his PATH train pulled into the World Trade Center stop shortly before 9 a.m. September 11. The ensuing events landed...Rescued dog starts new life in Hawaii
source: By Ron Stanton / Associated Press Writer
HONOLULU -- A dog rescued after 24 days stranded aboard a burned-out ship was flown first-class to Honolulu to begin what her new owner hopes will be a quiet life. Hokget, a 2-year-old mixed terrier sporting a paper flower lei, was handed over...Taking a yogic flier on 'Peace Bonds'
source: By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who came to fame in the 1960s as the Beatles' guru, has a new plan: He's going to produce world peace -- and make a profit doing it. And you -- yes, you! -- can get a cut of the action by purchasing the bonds...More than Americans - God bless us all
By Thom Rutledge / author of Embracing Fear and Finding the Courage to Live Your Life
How will September 11, 2001 be remembered in the years to come? As the beginning of the end? As one more day that woke us up for a while until we drifted back to sleep? Or could it go down in history as a terrible wound inflicted...Robot seeks answer to pyramid mystery
source: By Mark Henderson / Science Correspondent / World News
A Mysterious passage in the Great Pyramid at Giza will be explored by a robot next month in an attempt to unravel one of the final secrets of the last remaining wonder of the Ancient World. The Pyramid Rover will be...Visiting the Wilhelm Reich Museum
source: The Wilhelm Reich Museum / Orgonon
Wilhelm Reich was a physician-scientist whose investigation of energy in human emotions led to the discovery of an unknown energy which exists in all living matter and in the cosmos. He called this energy "orgone."...Trapping the light fantastic - Quantum computer are coming!
source: The Economist print edition
Lasers and lenses give a new sort of quantum computer a big leg-up. Quantum mechanics, the theory that explains how the universe's fundamental particles behave, thrives on reconciling opposites. According to its topsy-turvy tenets...Hot Pants At Burning Man Our columnist prepares for his desert bacchanal, critics and whiners be damned
source: By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
The famous and astonishing desert bacchanal -- part art fest, part survivalist experience, part commerce-free community experiment, part otherworldly celebration, part quasi-pagan chillout ritual, part inexplicable soul adventure -- is all...The flowering inferno S.F. artists build blazing buds to brighten Burning Man
Dave Ford, Chronicle Staff Writer
Flowers and fire: the perfect combination? Absolutely, according to Paul Cesewski and Jenne Giles, San Francisco fabricators -- that is, tradespeople who work with metal -- and their tech- whiz cohort, Rudy Rucker. The three have...Scientist thrilled by supercool atom work
source: by Martha Stoddard / Lincoln Journal Star
The strange and unknown world studied by Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the University of Colorado. "We're seeing things right now that nobody understands," he told the group. "That's how science progress...Special court rejects Ashcroft rules
By Ted Bridis Associated Press / Washington Post
WASHINGTON A special court that oversees sensitive law enforcement surveillance forced Attorney General John Ashcroft to change his guidelines for FBI terrorism searches and wiretaps, according to documents released Thursday...Woman has 2 sets of identical twins
By Associated Press
When Scott Hulford heard about the odds of his newborn quadruplets being two sets of identical twins, as it appears they are, his reaction was somewhat understandable. "I kind of wish I had bought a lottery ticket that night instead,"...Real power from nothing but hot air - 1km-high convection tower to supply 200,000 houses
source: David Fickling in Sydney / The Guardian
A one kilometre-high tower capable of producing enough energy for 200,000 homes has been approved by the Australian government and could be in operation within three years, subject to approval by the New South Wales...How to build a time machine
source: By Paul Davies / Scientific American.com
Time travel has been a popular science-fiction theme since H. G. Wells wrote his celebrated novel The Time Machine in 1895. But can it really be done? Is it possible to build a machine that would transport a human being into the...Pope arrives in his native homeland
source: By Victor L. Simpson Associated Press Writer
Krakow, Poland -- Greeted by cries of "welcome home, welcome home," Pope John Paul II made an emotional return to his homeland Friday, walking steadily down the steps of his plane and making an impromptu appearance on the balcony of his residence.Pioneering doctor hits the streets
source: By Mike Crissey Associated Press Writer
Pittsburgh -- Nearly a decade ago, a young doctor dressed in an old shirt and torn jeans started making trips to the citie's alleys, overpasses and bridge abutments, a bag of medical supplies at the ready. Dr. James Withers...Does the mysterious 'lost' Ark of the Covenant survive in Ethiopia?
source: By Richard N. Ostling / Associated Press
Thanks to Hollywood's "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the Ark of the Covenant is one of the most famous objects in the Bible. It's also one of the most mysterious, since the Bible doesn't say what happened to it. Ethiopian Christians...Missing Texas infant found safe
source: By Angela K. Brown / Associated Press Writer
ABILENE, Texas -- A month-old infant snatched from her family's minivan by a woman in a Wal-Mart parking lot was found unharmed Wednesday more than 100 miles away, authorities said. A former prison guard was charged...Do Chinese and Native Americans come from same stock?
source: By David Hsieh / Straits Times China Bureau
BEIJING - The famous Lake Tahoe in California provides a vital piece of evidence supporting the theory that ancient East Asians and native Americans are of the same stock, said a Chinese expert. History professor Yang Liwen...Asteroid will miss Earth in 2019
source: NewsDay / The Associated Press
The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers said they have determined that a newly discovered, 1.2-mile-wide asteroid will miss the Earth in 2019. Last week, preliminary calculations of the orbital path traveled...First Tibetan Dharma Conference of America - Dalai Lama to speak
source: The Office of Tibet, New York
The Office of Tibet is pleased to announce that the First Tibetan Dharma Conference of the Americas will take place in New York City on Monday, September 22 and Tuesday, September 23, 2003. Moreover, we are highly honored to report that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has kindly agreed to inaugurate the event with a keynote address.New method to elusive math problem
By RAJESH MAHAPATRA / Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI, India -- Indian computer scientists said Friday they have solved a mathematical problem that has eluded researchers for 2,200 years -- and could be crucial in modern times in improving computer configurations...An angel saved his life
source: Gloucestershire Echo
As a result of the heavenly intervention, the man was diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease and treated before it could kill him. Nursery boss Chris Evans was working away at his business in Bamfurlong, near Staverton, when...Wilhelm Reich's contact with Space
source: By Alison Davidson
"There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying...Bob Dylan returns - war mongers beware
source: by Mike Marqusee / Guardian of London
When Dylan Played Newport in 1965 He Shocked the Crowd. Will He Do So Again When He Returns Tomorrow? On Saturday night August 14, Bob Dylan returns to the scene of the crime. For the second time Bob will...Peace Events planned worldwide for 9/11/2002
source: www.commondreams.org
U.S. Peace and Human Rights Groups Call On Communities To Organize "Peace Events" the Week of Sept. 11 Peace and healing will be themes of events to commemorate the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks...Judge orders naming of September 11 detainees
source: by Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian.uk
The US government must release the names of almost all the 1,200 people it has detained during the investigation of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a judge ruled yesterday. The decision delighted civil liberties groups, which have...Culture and controversy in homeschooling
source: by Michell L. Stevens / Kingdom of Children
More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted...Four friends set the world's record for random acts of kindness
source: http://www.extremekindness.com
With the help of Salmon Arm (a town in the interior of BC), we were able to set a new world record for: the most random acts of kindness committed in a single day. Over 4000 people in the Shuswap region made history...The Crystal Method - What is up with these Andara stones?
source: By Sarah Phelan / MetroActive
Odd colored crystals discovered in California are reported to have unusual healing qualities. Once debunked as masses of post-industrial glass, these unusual colored masses have excited both New Agers and Native American healers...Mystery Radio - Amaryllis Serial Drama / Episode One (40mb/.rm/1 hour play) - FREE Download
Monkeys lay siege To police station - rescue monkey inside
source: Orange-Today.co.uk
Monkeys rescued an orphaned member of their troop from an Indian police station after its mother was shot dead. The female langur was feeding on a tree when an orchard owner brought her down with an airgun in Murshidabad.NASA's view on Planet X - the 10th planet
source: xFacts
In 1982, NASA themselves officially recognized the possibility of Planet X, with an announcement that 'some kind of mystery object is really there - far beyond the outermost planets'. One year later, the newly launched IRAS...A tenth planet? Something is out there
source: By Kenneth Chang / ABCNEWS.com
Astronomers may have found hints of a massive, distant, still unseen object at the edge of the solar system - perhaps a 10th planet, perhaps a failed companion star - that appears to be shoving comets toward the...Trapped miners brought safely to surface
source: NewsMax Wires
SOMERSET, Pa. -- Almost every fifteen minutes through the early hours of Sunday morning rescue workers lifted soaking wet miners to the surface, "a miracle" of precision and acknowledged luck that saved nine lives, officials...New Space race?
source: By Helen Briggs BBC News Online science reporter
Thirty years after the last lunar landing, space agencies are setting new sights on the Moon. Europe is sending an unmanned spacecraft to map the satellite early in 2003. So is China. Meanwhile, US scientists are calling on their...Searching for the 'God Particle'
source: by Michael Moyer
Physicists are praying that their 4-mile-long machine will detect a tiny bit of matter so elusive that some consider it practically divine. Buried beneath the plains of Illinois is a monster of a machine designed to mince matter into its...Citizen-spy plan facing opposition in public, House
source: By Andy Newman / Seattle Times
NEW YORK - Eli Rios Jr. is just the kind of guy Uncle Sam wanted on the front lines of Operation TIPS, the Justice Department's ill-fated plan to encourage meter readers, truck drivers, cable guys and other workers whose jobs routinely take them through the nation's neighborhoods to report signs of terrorism to a national hot line.We're all animals here
source: David Suzuki / Environmental News Network
The sign in the shopping mall said, "No animals allowed." As I read it, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It reflected a failure to admit or acknowledge our biological nature. We are animals and have a taxonomic classification: Kingdom...Nature in short / Dragon legend lives on in Imba Marsh
source: Kevin Short/Daily Yomiuri
Imba Marsh is a wide, shallow wetland located along the border between Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures, just south of the Tone River and west of Narita Airport. About 5,000 years ago, the marsh was part of a long inlet of the sea...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speaks on world condition
source: From Peter Kiefer
On U.S. President Bush - I see him as an ignorant man, who knows nothing of the frontiers of science, or of reason, or of the meaning of religion. That great country is being led to destroy the world by very wrong sentiments.Rome strikes second coming deal with jews
source: Eric J. Greenberg - Staff Writer / The Jewish Week
In 1967, during the early thaw of Catholic-Jewish relations, Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg addressed a Catholic audience about the conflicting Messiah beliefs. The Orthodox rabbi noted that one difference between Jews...What Buddhists know about science
souce: By Daithí Ó hAnluain / Wired News
"I was amazed a couple of years ago when I discovered Thong Len ( proun: Tong Lin). I had a burnt hand, and (when I used) that technique, it was like an anesthetic had been injected into my arm," said Jack Pettigrew, a renowned...How can I serve? a path of spiritual activism
source: by Bruce Mulkey / Asheville Citizen-Times
Around three decades ago I traveled from Tennessee to Washington, D.C. to join a protest against the war in Vietnam. My housing had been pre-arranged; the group I was traveling with would be staying with a family of Quakers...The new war on freedom
source: Gore Vidal / AlterNet
This past spring marked the anniversaries of three landmark events which paved the way for the further erosion of our personal freedoms we face today. Nine years ago, the FBI ended a stand-off that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...Frail Pope insists on traveling
source: By Victor L. Simpson / Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY -- A frail, stooped Pope John Paul II sets out Tuesday for Canada, Guatemala and Mexico, ignoring the advice of aides who say the 13,000-mile trip may be too much of a strain for the most traveled pope in history.Round In Circles - Shyamlan's thriller "Signs" addresses crop circles
source: by Jason Zasky
On August 2 Touchstone Pictures will release M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs," a star vehicle for Mel Gibson, who plays a farmer that becomes famous after crop circles begin appearing in his fields. For the uninitiated, crop circles...Beads of doubt - second law of thermodynamics is in doubt
By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor
One of the most important principles of physics, that disorder, or entropy, always increases, has been shown to be untrue. Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have carried out an experiment involving laser...Citizen-spy plan facing opposition in public, House
source: By Andy Newman The New York Times
Eli Rios Jr. is just the kind of guy Uncle Sam wanted on the front lines of Operation TIPS, the Justice Department's ill-fated plan to encourage meter readers, truck drivers, cable guys and other workers whose jobs routinely take them...Stowaway Cat Flies 63,000 Miles
source: By Associated Press
Ozzy the flying feline clocked up 63,000 miles in 10 days after escaping from his cage on a flight from the Gulf state of Qatar to London and stowing away in the jet's tail. Jonathan Boyd and Katie Deacon, who adopted Ozzy while...Predictions for an unwritten future
source: Congressman Ron Paul. MD, District 14, Texas
The months since September 11th have been unsettling for our nation. The twin specters of war and economic recession weigh heavily on the national consciousness. The Middle East conflict intensifies, with no peaceful end in...Apple pulls out all the geek stops
source: By Michelle Delio
There's an interesting thing happening at Macworld this year. Apple is visibly morphing into a "geekier than Microsoft" computer company. Apple is now the biggest supplier of Unix-based operating systems...US Postal Service says no to Bush's TIPS program
source: By Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press Writer
"The Postal Service had been approached by homeland security regarding Operation TIPS; however, it was decided that the Postal Service and its letter carriers would not be participating in the program at this time," the agency said in...Survey: teen drug, alcohol use down; so why the severe RAVE Act?
source: By Associated Press
Grown-ups who tell kids not to smoke, drink or take drugs are getting their message across. A new survey shows that drug, alcohol and cigarette use among sixth- to 12th-graders is at the lowest level in years, partly because adults are...GM's billion-dollar bet
source: By Dan Baum
The hydrogen car has been a long time coming. GM is betting $1 billion that the end of internal combustion is near. These days, the company is on a PR tear to tell the world it is "reinventing the automobile." At the Detroit Auto...The road home not taken
source: by John L. Hagan / Boston Globe
American Draft Resisters Fled Vietnam Through Canada. A Generation Later, They Are a Unique Breed of Citizen. More than three decades ago, as Americans divided over the Vietnam War, more than 50,000 draft-age men migrated...Planet of the apes
source: Tim Radford Saturday/The Guardian
Three days ago, Toumaï was a carefully guarded secret. Two days ago, Toumaï became the world's most famous hominid. Toumaï is the nickname given to the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a new candidate for the ancestry...Orphaned whale reaches home waters
source: By Peggy Andersen /Associated Press Writer
An orphaned killer whale that strayed into Puget Sound last winter and won hearts for her troubled species arrived back in her home waters Saturday. A high-speed catamaran carrying the whale arrived Saturday evening in...New observations suggest universe is much older
source: Cosmiverse
An analysis of 13.5 thousand million-year-old X-rays, captured by ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, has shown that either the Universe may be older than astronomers had thought or that mysterious, undiscovered 'iron factories'...Temple treatment for psychiatric illness
source: Anil Ananthaswamy / New Scientist
A six-week stay at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu can produce the same improvement in people with severe psychiatric disorders as a month-long course of standard drugs, say researchers in India. A team led by Ramanathan...A new world is created in a wink
source: bin McKie, science editor, The Observer
Astronomers are overjoyed as telescopes confirm their theories of how stars can produce solar systems, and planets that might support life elsewhere in the universe. Astronomers have observed a star giving birth., pinpointed a...
Solar cells go organic
source: The Economist
Although they are not particularly efficient, plastic solar cells that are flexible enough to be sprayed on roofs or printed on clothes look like being remarkably cheap Every minute, the sun showers the earth with more energy than...Warchalking - digital hobo sign fad sweeps the world ..)(>
source: wirednews.com
Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking culture. The digital traveler, source of many online horror stories has gotten help from unlikely sources. warchucks are appearing in the most unlikely places...Researchers envisage turning light into liquid
source: Ananova
A group of Spanish scientists may have worked out a way of turning light into liquid. Computer simulations carried out at the University of Vigo in Ourense showed light splits into water-like droplets under certain conditions.New drugs restoring vision in elderly
source: Associated Press
To doctors' amazement, experimental new medicines are rescuing people from the brink of blindness so they can read and drive and sometimes even regain perfect vision. These lucky few are the first beneficiaries of an...David Icke to host Sci-Fi Channel
source: BBC News
David Icke, the former BBC presenter who stunned the nation when he announced he was the Son of God, is to make a TV comeback. Icke made an infamous appearance on Terry Wogan's chatshow in 1991 wearing a turquoise shellsuit...US cities reject 'Patriot Act'
source: By Dean Schabner ABCNews.go.com
Cities across the country have been quietly staging a revolt against the USA Patriot Act, saying it gives law enforcement too much power and threatens civil rights Over the last three months, the Massachusetts cities of...American balloonist circles globe solo
source: By Liz Austin / Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO -- No one should be surprised that Steve Fossett is the first person to fly around the world in a balloon by himself. The former Eagle Scout who founded his own securities firm has a long history of trying and trying yet...Choo-choo trains help energy crunch
source: By Erik Baard / Wired News
Sierra Railroad thinks it can make electricity to meet California's peak summer demands. The short-touring and freight line, has 48 diesel locomotive engines in a rail yard waiting to produce 100 megawatts of electricity...
All of us are in danger - banning the Patriot Act
source: Nat Hentoff / Village Voice
In 1756, in Boston and other cities and towns, the coming of the American Revolution was speeded by mechanics, merchants, and artisans who organized against British tyranny. Calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, they set up...An Open Letter to George W. Bush from Michael Moore - Writer of 'Stupid White Men'
source: Michael Moore
Dear George, When it's all over in a couple months, and you're packing up your pretzels and Spot and heading back to Texas, what will be your biggest regret? Not getting out more often and seeing the sights around Rock Creek Park?...US artists damn 'war without limit'
Toddler survives several days alone
Padre Pio now a saint - wrestled with devil
'Sasquatch cast' makes a big impression on anatomists
Turin shroud 'probably was genuine'
3-D map - 120 million years old - press conference/online
Fairy Tales - the next 'big thing?'
The Tao of Elvis - A&M professor explores the duality of the King of Rock
God in the Brain - scientists think God may be hardwired within brain
Under fire, justice shrinks TIPS program
Congressional Investigation of 9/11 is opened
Toddler is rescued from bank vault
Expert: Jefferson letter authentic
Hot on the Contrails of Weather
Bob Hope honored on 99th birthday
Senior prank: be nice to people
Good Medicine for This WorldLost Briefcase With Life Savings Returned
Economic optimism expected to buoy stocks
Living donors give to strangers
Tiny baby spends first day at home
David Blaine - just a genius, or is he... a real magician?
Can the conscious mind may be electric?
Pope says he's comforted by prayers
Horses win annual race vs. humans
Church belfry to include WTC beams
Elk acts like a bull in a China shop
Smooth going to the rough edge:
Gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright may finally be built
Firefighters Contain Calif. Wildfire
Stocks Surge at Open on Retail Sales Data
Forecasters see 'weak to moderate' El Nino
Map of the Creator? 120 million year old stone map anomaly stumps scientists
'Spider-Man' bodes well for superhero movies
Congressman set to introduce Web Privacy Bill
Two words: biodegradable plastic
Free love and Macintosh computer commune in the 1980'sSenate says no! to Arctic Wildlife Refuge oil and gas drilling
Pop-culture making Jesus a hot commodity
Researchers find 3,600-mile ant supercolony in Europe
Painting discovered by boy worth a million?
AIDS vaccine to be tested in India
Pope names sx potential saints
Activist makes an investment in ex-cons
Fight against Monsanto vaults farmer into world spotlight
Israeli bomb victim's kidney saves Palestinian woman's life
Scientists explain the 'healing hands' effect
Ball lightning finally explained
Stolen Krispy Kreme truck leaves 28 mile doughnut trail
With Taliban gone, kite fighting is back
Underwater city found near Cuba amazes scientists
Old dogs may have taught man essential trick
Hermit warming to the human touch
Did Chinese explorers beat Columbus to America?
Temple reveals secrets of the one God
Astronauts work on 'Mr. Hubble'
Cat saves teenager from burning garage
Woman lifts van off trapped husband
Mexico pushes hard for North American national integration
Does Sol have a companion star?
$50 million invested in nature
Wacko' squirrel chases class out of room - then back inside
Instant diagnosis in your palm
20.02.2002: Just another palindromic dayDeep-frozen atoms stop beam of light in its tracks
Secrets of space warps are in sight
Garlic can prevent cancer and heart attacks
Afghans raise countries new flag
Rutgers literacy activists ship surplus books to Global Literacy Project
Honda's robot opens NYSE on Valentines Day
Healing Our World: weekly comment
Scotland votes to Ban hunting with dogs
Butterflies head for newlyweds
Port Authority police officers found in their last heroic act
FEMA will recruit and train 400,000 citizen corps volunteers
CDC Calls this flu season mild
WTC sculptures transfomed - are they still art?
Red Cross plans to widen eligibility for aid money
Japan man is world's oldest at 112
Many colleges taking poverty relief into their own hands
New edition of bible will be gender-neutral
Dalai Lama falls ill, postpones Kalachakra in India
The ABC's of UFOs - Is ABC preparing our kids for UFO disclosure?
Comic books find post-Sept. 11 roles
Vitamin C may boost brain healing
Mud microbes can generate electricity
China releases Tibetan musician
Ark of the Covenant features in Ethiopian celebration
Gonzo Science - altered states of consciousness
Tiger lounges on police cruiser
Good news: Doomsday has been postponed
Rep. Kucinich's HR 2977 names chemtrails as an 'exotic weapon', proposes ban
Organic farmers sue GMO giants Monsanto and Aventis
Observatory could detect hidden dimensions
20 Reasons not to take thesmallpox vaccination
100 Nobel laureates issue warning for planet Earth
New guidelines to protect food from terrorism
Maine gives students Apple iBooks
Rev. Mychal Judge, FDNY chaplain and WTC victim #1, was larger than life, bigger than death
Archaeologists ponder possible Midas throne relic
Indian remains returned from Harvard museum are reburied
In Salt Lake City, time for the 'Healing Games'
Publishing's new sensation: Dead Sea Scrolls
Changing chess: Women compete for national title at U.S. Chess Championship
Hula man wiggles to a world record
Heart may be able to repair itself
Western states among fastest-growing
Update on the top ten medical advances of 2000
Paganism- the religion of the 21st Century?
Measles nearly eradicated in west
Damaged by fire, St. John the Divine hosts Christmas service
GM Christmas tree will light up on its own
Is there a 70,000 year old animist inside our jolly Saint Nick?
Business in things spiritualis briskStudy: number of world conflicts decline
World's funniest joke revealed after internet vote
Study shows U.S. teens smoking less
University runs course on Homer Simpson
Boy's fight for Firefighter's 'Day'
U.S. forces to bomb Afghanistan - with cake
Sickle cell is cured in lab mice
X-mas tree boosts morale at WTC
Zinc enhances infant survival rates
Rhodes list includes 32 Americans
Police to test Segway scooters
UN secretary-general tickles Elmo on Sesame Street
Women don trousers in protest in Turkey
Americans enjoying balmy weather
Space shuttle Endeavour blasts off
Harrison's last rites in India
Beads still used as way to count prayers - (click free MMM e-book in sidebar also)
Unemployed eye environmental cleanup
Taiwan's VP awarded peace prize
Rep. Ron Paul's heroic address on the 'War On Terrorism'
Diverse religious communities come together: Keynoter Paul Simon 'our best hope is understanding'
WWII Navajo code talkers honored
Teen chess champ aces college admission test
Faith may help prevent drug abuse
Swiss campaign to rebuild giant Afghan Buddha
Weizmann scientists develop first diabetes vaccine
Ichiro always stayed a step ahead at plate
Divers collect tons ocean debris
Berliners smash up junk cars to beat stress
Bush to announce $1 billion in grants for homeless
Anti-aging research shows restricting calories is miraculous
A bird in the hand Is worth 44 in the pants
Einstein's brain 'markedly different' from the norm
Team is ready to publish full set of dead sea scrolls
Fleeing Tsaliban abandon jailed aid workers; U.S. picks them up
Hemp could be big.Study finds solar power can help achieve energy security
Milky Way may harbor s sources of cosmic rays
'Untouchables' convert to Buddhism
Pope to bless the Net...The weaving way - living by the loom
Americans turn to 'rituals of small things'
Cardinal tells how angel foiled intruder
Jimi Hendrix childhood home saved
Relatives cheer bill clearing Salem witches
Bringing heaven to earth: Artist James Turrell is carving an Arizona crater
No more toy guns -say toy shops
Gay hero emerges from hijacking
Toe-wrestler, bean man no match for top eccentric
NASA wants volunteers to go to bed for a month
Schoolboy deciphers mystery of mummy's identityMiner rescued after a week underground
World's first AIDS vaccine factory to be in South Korea
Quakers seek peaceful path to solution
Poop Power - electricity from sewage
Quantum Stew: How Physicists Are Redefining Reality's Rules
Feeling with words: Poet helps fifth-graders give voice to their thoughts about attacks
Vitamins can slow down eye disease, study finds
Homemade energy sparks savings and juices power grid
Bert & Bin Laden - Sesame Street friends?
U.N., Annan win Nobel Peace Prize for global efforts
From one quantum state to another, it's shades of 'Star Trek'
'Cantor Fitzgerald miracle'credits divine interventionChurch leaders to lay 6000 roses for attack victims
Three share Nobel prize for physics
Welsh scientists find order in chaos400 women gather to support Muslims facing harassment.
Shrines serve the need for healing in public spaces..
Cosmic 'Building Block' is detected
Buddhist relics smuggled out of Afganistan
Toddler found safe in bear's den after 3 days
By saving woman, rescuers saved themselves
Autumn color is nature's sunscreen
Atom experiment brings teleportation a step closer
Cat Stevens donates box-set royalties to victims.
Protesters march against possible U.S. attack
Suddenly, we're a little nicer these days
Global consciousness reacted to WTC Disaster before it happened Stanford study findsStill standing - a chapel spared stirs talk of miracle
Noam Chomsky on the events of 911
Drivers see more kindness, compassion on road since attacksAttacks inspire students to help others
Lighten Up - Finding some lightness amid very dark tragedy
Rising to the occasion - experts look at what causes heroism
Americans demand freedoms be kept during war
Rainbow Peoples Gathering 2001 - A report
Fountain of healing: In peace, with compassion, the crowds gathered
America unites, 'grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time.'
Ancient tomb theft baffles police
Mail carrier in New York City honored as national hero
What do you tell your children? Disaster raises questions and fears in young minds
ET called back? The Chilbolton code analysis
Einstein's theory of relativity must be rewritten
Earth does not move for scienceLittle Big Science: Nanotechnology... what the heck is it?
King hit in face with cream cake
A meteor's remnants draw a posse
UN grants tibet NGO status -- A breakthrough for tibet
Churches organize campout to raise funds for homeless
`A dream come true': Massive library in Alexandria recalls ancient repository
Under his own power
California maps network of open space as animall lxifeline
Surviving five stages of job loss
Probe encounters finale in solar activityBaha'i Statement To World Conference On Racism
Solar Max has passed, outlook is sunny
Poor Man Finds Cash, Gets $25,000 Reward
Consumers get the credit for blackout-free summer
Implosion technology and Viktor Schauberger
Crystals in starfish may improve networks..
Satellites Search for Ancient Artifact
Statue of Liberty hangs up parasailer.'Three Roads to Quantum Gravity': Space-Time Is of the Essence
The World Of Free Energy - A Status Report
Dr Ruth Drown - America's Greatest Radionics Innovator
Into the Well - Wherever You Go, Be Mindful
Floatplane narrowly misses breaching whale
Earth's Oceans Could Thrive Again
Classical Music Lovers May Indeed Have More Brains
Major Solar Energy Breakthrough
Good Vibrations The Science of Sensory Confusion
Taxi Driver's Passenger Is His Long-Lost Son
Pravda Releases More Info On Sensational Energy Source Discovery
Astronomers See Evidence of First Light in Universe
Is the Earth a Large Crystal?Homeschooling families learn they have help
Second Chance - Reincarnation?Farewell Letter From Nobel Laureate - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Moving Time With Light
Good kids shine
Near-Death Experiences Under Spotlight At Seattle Conference"The science of awe" Spirit and physics agree
U.S. Solar sail spacecraft launched from Russian submarine
Interplanetary Internet in the works
'Geek Group' Member Fires Up Own Tesla Coil
E.S.P. and L.S.T.? A Galactic DayThrough the Looking Glass, to Holographic Data Storage
E-Culture: Urban design with green ideas in mindUniverse Proven Flat - No 'Big Crunch' To Come After Original 'Big Bang'
New energy producing materials will replace nuclear, gas, oil and coal sources in Russia
Efforts Underway To Declare Ocean 'Wilderness' SitesWhat is Enlightenment? Does anybody know what they are talking about?
New Shroud of Turin enhancement
First stellar 'heartbeat' heard
Experts Rave Over French Prehistoric Cave Art Find
What it means to be 'born again'Mind continues after brain dies, scientist says
U.S. Grants for Church Groups Supported
'Old economy' leading recovery
The First Pen and Ink? Famed Lindisfarne Gospels Yield Hidden SketchesJulia Ward Howe, It's time to recognize this woman's extraordinary deeds
Hopi Rock Art Discovered In Alberta, Canada
Frozen Light
California Energy Refunds Proposed Federal Regulators Cite OverchargingWorld's Most Energetic Light Beam Produced At Argonne
Radiant Energy - Unraveling Tesla's Greatest Secret
California Energy Refunds Proposed Federal Regulators Cite Overcharging
The Inner Process of Asana by MukandaHitler and the Himalayas: the SS Mission to Tibet 1938-39
Let there be light!
Utilities subsidize efficient appliances
Theorists of inner space look to observers of outer space
Oregon man set for self-launch in own rocket
Keeping the castle secure
Survey: Violent Crime Plummeted
Blind American Scales Mount Everest
Let there be light!
Journey of self-discovery is the only road left untravelled
International Space Station gazing
Tibetan sound levitation of large stones witnessed by scientist
It's looking better on energy front
Dozens Of Star Trek devices now reality
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