This isn't really work safe.

Mudd people Photo Gallery by Joergen Gotfredsen at pbase.com

] People sometimes behave badly, rudely, or in other
] socially unacceptable ways; this can happen either
] accidentally or on purpose. You may have been one of
] these rude people if someone gave you a CivilCity Card.
] Did you recently behave badly in one of the following
] ways?

CivilCity.org: Advocating Respect for People, Places, and Things

Listened to the Morning Edition NPR at this link (RealAudio req'd.) 5 minutes long. Pretty interesting blurbs from a battalion in northern Kuwait getting ready for combat. They're switching to MRE's, getting combat ammo, and breaking the seals on their biosuits. This battalion was scheduled to go home this week. Looks like they're staying and getting ready for war instead.

A friend who served in Desert Storm said, "Sounds familiar." I think it will hit in the next couple of weeks, what do you think?

Locked and Loaded

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Three men have died trying to retrieve a mobile phone from a pit latrine in the Kenyan town of Mombasa.

University student Dora Mwabela dropped the phone into the latrine while she was answering a call of nature, the Daily Nation newspaper reports.

She offered a reward of 1,000 shillings ($13) for anyone who could recover the phone, worth 6,000 shillings.

Most Kenyans survive on less than $1 a day.

...

"The fumes inside must be extremely poisonous considering the short time it was taking to disable the retrievers," he said.

The cell phone was not found.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Latrine deaths over Kenyan cell phone

] SALT LAKE CITY, March 14 -- The self-styled "Prophet of
] God" suspected of kidnapping Salt Lake City teenager
] Elizabeth Smart may have been driven by a revelation
] telling him to gather seven young wives into a polygamist
] family, police and media reports said today -- with
] Elizabeth and, possibly, her favorite cousin as the first
] "wives."

Polygamy Cited as Motive in Kidnapping (washingtonpost.com)

] The Hubble Space Telescope has detected an extensive
] atmosphere of hydrogen enveloping and escaping from a
] newfound planet of a distant star, scientists have
] reported.
]
] .
]
] The discovery comes as no surprise, astronomers say, but
] it is important nonetheless as apparent confirmation that
] the extrasolar planets observed so far not only are much
] like the solar system's Jupiter in size but also are
] similarly huge gaseous bodies.

IHT: Hubble detects a new, distant planet

] A long dry period punctuated by three intense droughts
] probably played a major role in the mysterious collapse
] of Mayan civilisation in Mexico, according to a new
] study.
]

News in Science 14/3/2003 Fall of Mayan cities blamed on long dry spell

] ALIEN WATCHERS in the SETI@home project haven't yet found
] any alien life forms in four years of scanning the skies
] and getting folk to use their PC downtime to process the
] results.
]
]
] But their endeavours have turned up a few leads - five
] billion, in fact, according to the team.

SETI homes in on alien signals

] Mars radiation 'serious risk' to astronauts
]
]
] Nasa's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has confirmed suspicions
] that the radiation on Mars could endanger astronauts sent
] to explore the planet.
]
]
] Scientists say the high radiation levels also suggest any
] extraterrestrial life would have little chance of
] surviving unless it were shielded beneath the planet's
] dusty, cold surface.

Ananova - Mars radiation 'serious risk' to astronauts

] The cruisers and destroyers are armed with Tomahawk
] missiles, satellite-guided weapons which would be used in
] the early days of any war in Iraq to destroy key
] installations.
]
]
] Originally the US had planned to fire missiles from the
] eastern Mediterranean through Turkish airspace.
]
]
] However the Turkish parliament recently voted against the
] deployment of US troops on its soil, therefore the ships
] will instead pass through the Suez canal into the Red Sea
] and fire through Saudi Arabian airspace.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US beefs up firepower