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Watching lots of violence on television and playing violentvideo games makes kids mean and physically aggressive. A newstudy shows that the longer a kid is exposed to high levelsof TV and video game violence, the more the child is likelyto threaten and bully other kids. “Long before kids throw apunch or pick up a weapon, they’re probably treating [other]kids in a relationally aggressive way,” says David Walsh, ofthe National Institute on Media and the Family. “This is thekind of thing that becomes the breeding ground for moreovertly violent behavior as these kids get older.”
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A U.S. spy satellite has spotted activity at the Tajifactory in Iraq, where they think Saddam Hussein is makingbiological or nuclear weapons. After the 1991 Gulf War,weapons inspectors found out the plant had produced hundredsof liters of Botulinum toxin. Iraq is also making mobilebiological-weapons vans there. Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld says, “They’re buying dual-use capability. Abiological laboratory can be on wheels in a trailer and makea lot of bad stuff, and it’s movable, and it looks like mostany other trailer.” The Bush administration says it will notstand by and allow Iraq to develop these kinds of weapons.
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Comets may be composed of the mysterious “dark matter” thatmakes up 90% of the universe “because they are disappearingand nobody knows where,” says Robert Foot of the Universityof Melbourne in Australia. “If I’m right, there is aninvisible mirror universe occupying the same space as ouruniverse, complete with mirror galaxies, mirror stars andperhaps even mirror life.”
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Pollution in southern Asia produces a brown haze made up ofsoot, particles, aerosols and other pollutants that affectsrainfall and farming, and causes respiratory disease inhundreds of thousands of people. “The haze is the result offorest fires, the burning of agricultural wastes, dramaticincreases in the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles,industries and power stations, and emissions from millionsof inefficient cookers burning wood, cow dung and other’bio-fuels,'” says Dr. Klaus Toepfer, of the UN EnvironmentProgram (UNEP). “There are also global implications, notleast because a pollution parcel like this, which stretches[two miles] high, can travel halfway round the globe in aweek.”
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