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Responding to the bombshell revelation that senior bankers at Citigroup actively helped Enron hide billions in debt, Enron Lawyer of Last Resort Robert Bennett deftly summed up the real reasons for the current economic crisis: “Most of the problems — not all of them — are things that have been legal and acceptable.” And while honest lawyers are about as common as undercompensated CEOs, in this case, Bennett is actually telling the truth.
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Scientists have decided that so much of the human world is becoming fat that this represents a kind of evolution, which can be compared to the basic change in our species that took place 200 years ago which Europeans all became taller, due to improved diets. But while taller people who eat better are healthier, this new evolutionary shift toward obesity makes us less healthy than before. Diabetes and heart problems may become a permanent part of our future as human beings.
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Since the Mariner 9 spacecraft went into orbit around Mars in 1972, satellites have taken photos of strange anomalies like the “Face” there, and most scientists agree, after looking at recent satellite images, that there are signs of primitive life on that planet. But no one has ever seen the “canals” on Mars, that were seen by the astronomer Percival Lowell in the early 1900’s. Sky & Telescope magazine has finally figured out why.
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Earth’s second moon has been discovered by a Canadian amateur astronomer. So far, it’s known only as J002E3, and circles the Earth every 49.5 days along an elliptical path which is sometimes as far away as 520,000 miles from Earth. Some scientists think it’s an asteroid?although most asteroids orbit the Earth, not the moon. Some think it could be space junk that’s been sucked into orbit. If it’s an asteroid, then according to its reflected light, it?s about 50 yards wide; if it?s space junk that was painted white (and thus reflects more light), it could be half that size.
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