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Dr. Strangelove: Alive, Well, and Working for NASA . . .
[quote]NASA Asteroid Report to Congress: On or Off Target?
Author Leonard David
A months-in-the-making NASA report to Congress on asteroids has reached the desks of lawmakers. The congressionally-mandated appraisal — Near-Earth Object Survey and Deflection Analysis of Alternatives — is a 27-page chunk from a longer, over 270-page “limited editionâ€
[quote]NASA Asteroid Report to Congress: On or Off Target?
Author Leonard David
A months-in-the-making NASA report to Congress on asteroids has reached the desks of lawmakers. The congressionally-mandated appraisal — Near-Earth Object Survey and Deflection Analysis of Alternatives — is a 27-page chunk from a longer, over 270-page “limited editionâ€
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I always thought there was something funny about my school bus driver.
FBI: Extremists Driving School Buses
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer
Published March 16, 2007, 1:19 PM CDT
WASHINGTON -- Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."
Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said, "There are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.
The bulletin, parts of which were read to The Associated Press, did not say how often foreign extremists have sought to acquire licenses to drive school buses, or where. It was sent Friday as part of what officials said was a routine FBI and Homeland Security Department advisory to local law enforcement.
It noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who either drive school buses or are licensed to drive them, according to a counterterror official.
Foreigners under recent investigation include "some with ties to extremist groups" who have been able to "purchase buses and acquire licenses," the bulletin says.
But Homeland Security and the FBI "have no information indicating these individuals are involved in a terrorist plot against the homeland," it says. The memo also notes: "Most attempts by foreign nationals in the United States to acquire school bus licenses to drive them are legitimate."
Kolko said the bulletin was sent merely as an educational tool to help local police identify and respond to any suspicious activity.
One counterterror official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the government felt it was likely that the foreigners investigated were merely employed as bus drivers, and did not intend to use them as part of any terror plot.
A second official said the government felt it prudent that the backgrounds of all those who come in contact with school children be checked.
Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said the government has no credible information to suggest terrorists are "involved in buying school buses or seeking licenses to drive them." He said there was no indication of any immediate threat to the country.
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Associated Press reporters Katherine Shrader and Beverley Lumpkin contributed to this report.
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France opens secret UFO files covering 50 years
by Marlowe Hood Thu Mar 22, 10:32 AM ET
PARIS (AFP) - France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades.
The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists.
"It is a world first," said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of "non-identified aerospatial phenomena."
Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption.
"Cases such as the lady who reported seeing an object that looked like a flying roll of toilet paper" are clearly not worth investigating, said Patenet.
But many others involving multiple sightings -- in at least one case involving thousands of people across France -- and evidence such as burn marks and radar trackings showing flight patterns or accelerations that defy the laws of physics are taken very seriously.
A phalanx of beefy security guards formed a barrier in front of the space agency (CNES) headquarters where the announcement was made, "to screen out uninvited UFOlogists," an official explained.
Of the 1,600 cases registered since 1954, nearly 25 percent are classified as "type D", meaning that "despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain," Patenet said.
On January 8, 1981 outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in southern France, for example, a man working in a field reported hearing a strange whistling sound and seeing a saucer-like object about 2.5 meters (eight feet) in diameter land in his field about 50 meters (yards) away.
A dull-zinc grey, the saucer took off, he told police, almost immediately, leaving burn marks. Investigators took photos, and then collected and analyzed samples, and to this day no satisfactory explanation has been made.
The nearly 1,000 witness who said they saw flashing lights in the sky on November 5, 1990, by contrast, had simply seen a rocket fragment falling back into earth's atmosphere.
Patenet's answer to questions about evidence of life beyond Earth was sure to inflame the suspicions of those convinced the government is holding back: "We do not have the least proof that extra-terrestrials are behind the unexplained phenomena."
But then he added: "Nor do we have the least proof that they aren't."
The CNES fields between 50 and 100 UFO reports ever year, usually written up by police. Of these, 10 percent are the object of on-site investigations, Patenet said.
Other countries collect data more or less systematically about unidentified flying objects, notably in Britain and in the United States, where information can be requested on a case-by-case basis under the Freedom of Information Act.
"But we decided to do it the other way around and made everything available to the public," Patenet said.
The aim was to make it easier for scientists and other UFO buffs to access the data for research.
The website itself -- which crashed host servers hours after it was unveiled due to heavy traffic -- is extremely well organized and complete, even including scanned copies of police reports.
To visit the website: www.cnes-geipan.fr.
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Coyote stops to rest in Chicago sandwich shop
Associated Press
Published April 3, 2007, 6:29 PM CDT
CHICAGO -- For one day, at least, the roadrunner is safe. It seems the coyote is hankering for another kind of fast food.
Employees and customers at a downtown Chicago Quiznos sandwich shop were stunned to see a coyote walk through the propped-open front door Tuesday afternoon and lie down in a cooler stocked with fruit juice and soda.
"It wasn't aggressive at all," restaurant manager Bina Patel told the Chicago Tribune. "It was just looking around."
Employees and customers calmly cleared out of the restaurant, though some took the time to finish their sandwiches and snap some cell-phone photos, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Animal control officers took the passive coyote away after about 40 minutes, after a curious crowd had gathered outside.
"This one definitely I will definitely remember forever. A coyote in downtown Chicago," Quiznos employee Rick Torres told WLS-TV.
The city captures 10 to 15 coyotes every year, especially in the spring when they are most active, said Anne Kent, director of Chicago Animal Care and Control. Veterinarians will examine the coyote and, if he is not injured, release him into the wild.
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An audience expecting to see The Last Mimzy -- a PG tale of kids who discover mysterious toys and gain superhuman powers -- was stunned by what they got instead. The Holtsville, N.Y., crowd was shown the opening of the horror flick The Hills Have Eyes 2, which starts with the birth of a mutant. One man said the scene left his 3-year-old curious: "My wife is eight months pregnant, and he's been asking, 'Is that what Mommy's going to have?'"

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Fire officials in Crystal River, Fla., stopped the planned performance in January of Jesse Aviles, "The Human Bomb," who was set to lie face down across two bar stools at the Oar House Restaurant and Lounge and have himself blown across the room by explosives. According to Oar House, the performance was canceled for the lack of permits. City Manager Andrew Houston, asked by the St. Petersburg Times what kind of permits might be necessary for a person to be exploded from a barstool, said, "I have no earthly idea." [St. Petersburg Times, 1-27-07]

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A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.
Mr Alifi, of Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.
"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up."
Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.
"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.
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Fruity cocktails count as health food, study finds
Fri Apr 20, 8:50 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday.
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Adding ethanol -- the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits -- boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, the researchers found.
Any colored fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol, they report in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
Dr. Korakot Chanjirakul and colleagues at Kasetsart University in Thailand and scientists at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture stumbled upon their finding unexpectedly.
They were exploring ways to help keep strawberries fresh during storage. Treating the berries with alcohol increased in antioxidant capacity and free radical scavenging activity, they found.
Any colored fruit or vegetable is rich in antioxidants, which are chemicals that can cancel out the cell-damaging effects of compounds called free radicals.
Berries, for instance, contain compounds known as polyphenols and anthocyanins. People who eat more of these fruits and vegetables have a documented lower risk of cancer, heart disease and some neurological diseases.
The study did not address whether adding a little cocktail umbrella enhanced the effects.
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[quote]April 30, 2007
P.E. Classes Turn to Video Game That Works Legs
By SETH SCHIESEL
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Children don’t often yell in excitement when they are let into class, but as the doors opened to the upper level of the gym at South Middle School here one recent Monday, the assembled students let out a chorus of shrieks.
In they rushed, past the Ping-Pong table, past the balance beams and the wrestling mats stacked unused. They sprinted past the ghosts of Gym Class Past toward two TV sets looming over square plastic mats on the floor. In less than a minute a dozen seventh graders were dancing in furiously kinetic union to the thumps of a techno song called “Speed Over Beethoven.â€
P.E. Classes Turn to Video Game That Works Legs
By SETH SCHIESEL
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Children don’t often yell in excitement when they are let into class, but as the doors opened to the upper level of the gym at South Middle School here one recent Monday, the assembled students let out a chorus of shrieks.
In they rushed, past the Ping-Pong table, past the balance beams and the wrestling mats stacked unused. They sprinted past the ghosts of Gym Class Past toward two TV sets looming over square plastic mats on the floor. In less than a minute a dozen seventh graders were dancing in furiously kinetic union to the thumps of a techno song called “Speed Over Beethoven.â€
"The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance,
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
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and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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4 skulls plus 1 pot add up to hot water
By Azam Ahmed
Tribune staff reporter
May 2, 2007, 11:38 PM CDT
Jojo babby, a local artist and part-time drag queen, dropped by a Bucktown apartment Tuesday evening to check out some mannequins for sale.
The door was open, so he walked in unannounced and came upon a pot of water boiling on the stove. With a human skull inside.
So began a strange urban tale that involved four skulls, an eBay entrepreneur, an anthropologist, the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County medical examiner's office. No one has been charged, but the fate of the skulls remains uncertain.
babby, who was standing in the apartment's kitchen, peered into the pot. He thought he saw flesh along the gums of the boiling skull.
Brian Sloan, 26, the apartment's tenant, was in his back office, among antique horn-rimmed glasses, ancient manuscripts and palm-size cricket fighting cages. He had not heard babby enter.
When he finally heard him, Sloan came out and quickly assured babby that he was preparing the skull for shipment to an online buyer. He was selling the skulls, he explained.
"He told me 'It's all cool,' and he put me at ease," said babby, who added that he is in the final stages of officially changing his name to Jojo babby.
And for a time, babby was at ease.
Later, after he bought four mannequins and left, babby thought of his friend Ron Shaw, an anthropologist. He thought Shaw might be interested in the guy who was boiling skulls and selling them on the Internet. But when Shaw heard about it, the whole thing sounded like a Hollywood horror movie.
"I told him he had to call the police," Shaw recalled Wednesday, "and that if there was nothing nefarious going on, [Sloan] wouldn't get in trouble."
After resisting at first, babby called the police.
Sloan, who had gone out to a neighborhood coffee shop, returned to find he had visitors. Police officers were waiting for him. They wanted to see what was on his stove.
He let them in. More cops came. By his count, 15 police officers came by, and he spent hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning answering their questions.
"I think the cops were surprised that I wasn't wearing a cape," grumbled Sloan.
A Penn State Dickinson Law School graduate who doesn't much care to practice law, Sloan sells imported goods over the Internet.
He began going to auctions in Pennsylvania, buying antiques and selling them to customers around the U.S. Soon after, it dawned on him that his interest could become a career.
"I realized I had more potential in my life running this business," he said. "I felt limited by the law, and I wanted to take buying and selling to the next level."
A few months ago, he began to include human skulls in his online store.
"There are thousands of anthropologists, medical professionals and interested people who want to study anatomy through human bones," he said Wednesday. "It's not that unusual."
A number of Web sites, including eBay, offer human skulls for sale. Ron Cauble, owner of the Bone Room in Berkeley, Calif., has been selling human skulls and bones for about 15 years.
"There's never been any trouble with the law with respect to human bones, but with respect to calls and queries from the police, I've had a number," Cauble said.
Skulls represent just a fraction of the items Sloan sells, an array of goods that includes hip-hop clothing and the remnants of a shuttered movie theater he recently acquired.
As for his foray into skulls, Sloan contends there is a "a really strong market on eBay and other Web sites." Though he declined to specify where the four skulls held by police came from, he said he bought them from one of his sources online when he realized they could turn a profit. Police have said they came from China.
"I could see how it's reasonable for people to feel strange about me selling skulls, but . . . I treat them with the respect due human remains," he said.
Officials at the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration said they could find no laws that Sloan had broken.
According to Shakespeare District Lt. Perry Nigro, the discovery "doesn't appear to be anything nefarious at this time."
The skulls, however, remain in possession of the Cook County medical examiner's office. Their future is uncertain.
Sloan admits that his shipments can seem a bit strange, like the latest truckload of 80 mannequins that he brought home. People, he said, gathered in the alley to watch as he shuffled the human forms into his storage space.
"I don't want to have this creep vibe," he said. "This is just my inventory."
Tribune staff reporter Jeremy Gorner contributed to this story
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and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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Two boys get an early start on a life of crime . . .
May 7, 5:21 PM EDT
Kids Take Crayons, Pops From Day Care
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER
Associated Press Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- What would be the best prize ever if you were a child burglar? How about milk, Popsicles, paper, crayons and Play-Doh? That's what police say a pair of boys took during two break-ins at a day care on the city's south side.
An 8-year-old and 10-year-old broke into Day Care Services for Children, Inc. on Sunday. That burglary followed one last week that also included a 9-year-old, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Monday.
"The kids did confess," she said. "A stepfather was helpful in getting the boys to own up for what they had done."
A witness photographed the 8- and 10-year-old boys breaking a window and leaving with two large bags around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Schwartz said. The boys also set off the day care's alarm, she said.
They allegedly grabbed paper, crayons and Play-Doh on Sunday. The stash last week was milk and popsicles.
Messages left for Day Care Services for Children were not immediately returned Monday.
Police canvassed the neighborhood, eventually ending up at the home of the 8- and 9-year-old boys, Schwartz said. She didn't know their relationship.
The children were released to their parents, Schwartz said. The case hadn't been turned over the Milwaukee County Children's Court on Monday. She didn't know if it would.
Donald S. Jackson, assistant district attorney for Milwaukee County Children's Court, said children under age 10 cannot be charged as delinquents and sent to a state Department of Corrections facility.
They can be charged as juveniles in need of protection and referred for services, including counseling or sent to a residential treatment center or a group home.
The site is one of six the day care has in the city, according to its Web site. The location offers infant and toddler care, preschool day care, a head start program for children 3 to 5 years old and a day care summer program for children 6 to 12 years old, the Web site said.
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On the Net:
Day Care Services for Children, Inc.: http://www.dcscinc.com/2210Becher.htm
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and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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Another Darwin Award nominee is selected out . . .
Fireworks victim was 'wild' spirit
By Josh Noel
Tribune staff reporter
May 9, 2007
Tyler Delves once set a bonfire behind his home that grew so large it drew firefighters.
They damped it back and left, but not before Delves posed for a photo beside the firefighters with a thumbs-up and a crooked smile.
He was proud.
"He was pretty wild," said Jillian Delves, 24, his wife of six months. "Always exciting, always adventurous."
But the way Tyler Delves, 29, lived was the way he died Saturday night during a bachelor party in his back yard. He was killed when illegal commercial-grade fireworks exploded in his face as he tried to figure out why they hadn't gone off yet, authorities said.
Delves and about 10 friends had gone to a sports bar for food, drinks and to watch a Bulls playoff game Saturday before returning to his home in unincorporated Downers Grove for fireworks and a bonfire, DuPage County Coroner Pete Siekmann said.
About 10:40 p.m., the first round of fireworks went up as expected, but the second appeared to flame out, authorities said. After cautioning everyone to hang back for a moment, Delves approached, looked into the cylinder holding the explosive and almost immediately suffered "massive head trauma," Siekmann said.
He was declared dead at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital. No autopsy is being done, but a toxicology analysis will look for traces of alcohol or drugs, the coroner said.
The DuPage County sheriff's office said its investigation is ongoing and would not say whether charges were possible. The hazardous-devices unit removed the remaining fireworks from the home, authorities said.
In a similar incident, Frank Kralik Jr., 43, was killed in front of an Addison home in July 2000 after an aerial mortar shell he lit struck him in the head. The homeowner and the man thought to have brought the fireworks to the pre-Independence Day party were charged with unlawful possession of explosives and obstruction of justice. Both were placed on two years' probation and sentenced to 240 hours of public service.
In the Downers Grove home where Delves grew up, his father, William Delves, 58, said he bears no anger toward his son or anyone at the party honoring a friend who was getting married in a week or so. He said he is glad his son lived life enthusiastically but hopes his death will serve as a warning.
"These are some guys who wanted to blow off some bombs, get drunk and have a bachelor party," William Delves said. "There was a risk and they knew it."
Photos chronicling the younger Delves' life covered the house's kitchen table Tuesday -- his wedding day; holding a nurse shark he'd caught during a trip to the Florida Keys; smiling widely as he drove shirtless. Friends and family remembered him as exuberant, eternally smiling and seemingly always charmed.
"He was the luckiest fisherman ever," said childhood friend Jerry Bednar, 26, who lives across the street in a rented house. "He got 23 fish on a trip to Canada one time. My brother got six."
Since graduating from Downers Grove South High School, Delves had held several jobs -- bartender, mechanic, gardener -- but most recently had followed the lead of his parents by becoming a house painter.
He and his wife were buying a home in Romeoville but enjoyed the white house they rented in the 5600 block of Katrine Avenue for its huge back yard, where he built many of his trademark bonfires in a homemade pit. In addition to being the center of good times, Delves was remembered as eternally helpful, Bednar said.
"I'd be spreading rocks in the driveway on a Saturday and he'd bring his shovel," Bednar said. "I needed a car and he sold me his old truck for 500 bucks. That's the kind of dude he was."
Delves and Jillian married in November in the Florida Keys after more than four years of dating. She called her husband protective and gentle despite his adventurous streak.
"I never felt more pretty and special than when he made me feel that way," she said.
But his mischievous streak was part of the attraction.
"He always wanted to find out what was over the hill," she said. "He was invincible."
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"The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance,
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
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and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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