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The Department of Homeland Security has issued an aviation alert, asking pilots and airport personnel to be on the watch for suspicious activity in or around airports. Pilots that fly overseas are on even higher alert.

This may have to do with the recent arrest in Pakistan of Waleed bin Attash, who is accused of planning the bombing of the USS Cole and of playing a leading role in the Sept. 11 attacks. When he was captured, he was carrying hand-written notes from Osama bin-Laden, with instructions for what could be a terrorist attack on an airport.
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Nadav Shragai writes in Haaretz.com that Rabbi Yehuda Meir Getz tried for years to find the lost treasure of the Knights Templar by tunneling underneath the Dome of the Rock in Israel, where the Second Temple once stood. He believed the Ark of the Covenant, which is the box that held the tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments, is buried there. But Palestinians discovered the tunnels and objected. Finally then prime minister Menachem Begin had the opening sealed up.
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First we’re told that lobsters are sensitive to heat?now we learn that fish feel pain. Is it possible to eat dinner without feeling guilty? British scientists found that fish have pain receptors in their heads. “This fulfils the criteria for animal pain,” says researcher Lynne Sneddon.

Bee venom or acetic acid was injected into the lips of some trout, while control groups of fish were injected with saline solution or merely handled. The trout injected with venom or acid began a “rocking” motion, and the ones injected with acetic acid began rubbing their lips in the gravel of their tank.
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Seven-year-old Mourat Zhanaidarov was admitted to a hospital in Kazakhstan complaining about stomach pains. When doctors operated on him, they found he had the dead remains of his twin brother inside him. The fetus had developed into a tumor, but it still had hair, fingernails and bones.
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