] From July 13th to 23th, 2003, 2300 miles of solar raycing
] will challenge teams from around the world. High tech and
] high efficiency solar cars will cross the Great Plains,
] climb the Rocky Mountains, and dash over the Great
] American Desert to the finish line in Southern
] California.

American Solar Challenge Homepage

..or is it humor. The longest living "headless" chicken.

Mike's True Story

] Researchers at Holloman AFB have broken their own two
] decades old land speed record for rail vehicles. The
] rocket powered sled covered the 3 mile track in roughly 6
] seconds. Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach
] 8.6 or about 6,400 mph - it covered the last 1.8 miles in
] just 1.3 seconds. The previous record of 6,122 mph was
] set on Oct. 5, 1982. Other accounts are at the Alamogordo
] Daily News, the Denver Post, and CNN

where can I get one???

Land Speed Record Broken: 0-6,400 in Six Seconds

] A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the
] first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved
] virtually intact from the surface of the ocean.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Super squid surfaces in Antarctic

] A number of Pacific island nations are discussing using
] new Japanese technology that can both desalinate seawater
] for drinking and produce electricity by exploiting the
] difference in temperatures between the surface of the sea
] and the depths of the ocean.

some good news for a change. NYT requires free registration.

Japanese Technology May Help Islands Reap Pacific's Waters

Delicate threads of spider's silk are about to solve a major problem in photonics: how to make hollow optical fibres narrow enough to carry light beams around the fastest nanoscale optical circuits.

To make the fibres, Yushan Yan and a team of engineers from the University of California at Riverside give the silk thread a glassy coating, and then extract the silk by baking. They soon expect to be able to make hollow fibres with cores just two nanometres wide - or 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.

New Scientist | New Technology

] A Russian space capsule now docked at the international
] space station will be used to bring the space station
] crew back to Earth now that the U.S. shuttle fleet is
] grounded, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said today.

HoustonChronicle.com - Russian craft to bring space station crew home

] LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Pioneer 10, the first
] spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen
] silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a
] mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said
] Tuesday.
]
] What was apparently the spacecraft's last signal was
] received January 22 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's
] Deep Space Network. At the time, Pioneer 10 was 7.6
] billion miles from Earth; the signal, traveling at the
] speed of light, took 11 hours and 20 minutes to arrive.

CNN.com - Pioneer 10 falls silent after nearly 31 years - Feb. 25, 2003

] A bacterial infection that overpowers most antibiotics
] has escaped the confines of hospitals and is showing up
] in alarming numbers among the general public in
] California, according to health officials.

For a long time now, this has been one of my pet issues.

Just in case you have not heard the line yet, unless you need them, I mean really need them, do not take antibiotics. You will be doing your fellow man a great disservice if you over use them. Also, (easy one) do not spend any more time in hospitals then is necessary. Remember, those germ things evolve faster then you do.

I didn't like the "Gay Men" slant of this article.. Left a bad taste in my mouth in reguard to how AIDS wasn't taken seriously till it started killing people enmass who were not gay.

Superbugs. Get used to that phrase.. You will have trouble finding someone skilled in the medical field who dosen't think we will see more of them..

The super-bugs have arrived!

Although there are several possible benign explanations for the image -- such as a barely perceptable jiggle of the camera as it took the time exposure -- NASA's zeal to examine the photo demonstrates the lengths at which the agency is going to tap the resources of ordinary Americans in solving the puzzle.

S.F. man's astounding photo / Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated