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Why do humans continually go to war? Are wars always started for profit motives? Scientists are divided on question of whether humans are innately peace-loving or aggressive.

Heather Whipps writes in LiveScience.com that scientists are studying Australopithecus afarensis, an early ancestor who lived five million years ago. He was small and furry and not strong enough to do much fighting, so scientists assume he was definitely peace-loving. He was mostly a vegetarian although, like today’s chimps, he dined on insects when he could get them. Researcher Robert Sussman says this doesn’t fit in with the stereotypical image of the “cave man” as a spear wielding hunter.
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Bird flu expert Robert G. Webster is attempting to answer the question we’re all asking: Will bird flu change from being a dangerous disease of birds (and the people who care for them) to being a disease that humans pass from one to another?

Webster, who works at the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, is the scientist who discovered the link between human flu and bird flu (H5N1), which is now only present in birds. At the moment, it can be transmitted to humans only through the droppings of infected birds, which is the reason that Asian children and women have been contracting the disease, since they live in countries where it is traditionally their job to take care of the family?s poultry.
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As far as we know, we’re the only news organization that has pointed out why China and the U.S. are suddenly so interested in going (returning, in our case) to the moon: to scoop up the precious Helium 3 fuel just lying on the surface.

China’s first piloted mission was launched in October, 2003, and lasted less than a day. Leonard David writes in space.com that the Chinese space agency is planning Shenzhou 7, a human spaceflight that is set for 2008, and Shenzhou 8, a mission that will include a half hour space walk, for 2009 or 2011. China?s eventual goal is to build its own space station. They want to send a lander to the moon in 2012, and are aiming to send a robot to the moon in 2017 that can return moon dust to Earth for testing.
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UK businesses have made huge profits from the war in Iraq, and certain select US businesses, like Dick Cheney’s former company Halliburton, have too. This couldn’t have been the major reason we went to war in the first place?or could it?

Robert Verkaik writes in The Independent that British businesses have made billions of dollars in the three years since the coalition invaded Iraq. These businesses include private security firms, banks, public relations specialists, urban planners, architects?and of course, oil companies.
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