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The FBI have captured Abdullah Al Muhajir, a U.S. citizen with ties to al-Quaeda, who planned to explode a radioactive ?dirty bomb? in Washington, D.C. FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bomb plot was still in the “discussion stage.”

Al Muhajir (who changed his name from Jose Padilla when he joined al-Quaeda) was captured on May 8 as he flew into O’Hare International Airport in Chicago from Pakistan. The FBI was tracking him as he flew back and forth between Pakistan, Egypt and Switzerland.
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Taxpayers beware: Major renovations are being planned for the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., which include a retractable dome. The new building will have more bathrooms and better parking. “Don’t get us wrong: We love the drafty old building,” says House Speaker Dennis Hastert. “But the hard reality is, it’s no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch. The sight lines are bad, there aren’t enough concession stands or bathrooms, and the parking is miserable.”

Minority Leader Dick Gephardt says, ?Look at the British Parliament. Look at the Vatican…Without modern facilities, they?ve been having trouble attracting top talent.”
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When we have a broken bone, do we have to suffer in order to heal? Despite the advances of modern medicine, maybe we do.

“It’s time to tell the public,” says Thomas Einhorn, an orthopedic surgeon at Boston University Medical Center. “It would seem that a prudent approach is to temporarily avoid the use of these drugs during bone healing.”

He?s talking about the new painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex, which are often given to ease the pain of broken bones. When Patrick O’Connor at the University of New Jersey gave these painkillers to rats, their broken bones didn?t fully heal.
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Go outside and look up at the sky tonight at twilight. You?ll see a solar eclipse and the Sun will look like a crescent, caused by the moon passing in front of the Sun. Depending on where you live in North America, between 20% and 80% of the Sun will be covered. The partial eclipse will last about 2 hours.

Don?t look directly at the eclipse, as this could harm your eyes. Look through a lens with a solar filter or project an image of the Sun onto a screen through binoculars or a telescope (but don?t look directly through them). You can project the image on a piece of paper or anything else light colored.
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