Monday, July 07, 2003

WASHINGTON – It may be hard to believe, but it's perhaps becoming more important than ever that US forces find Saddam Hussein, or incontrovertible evidence of his death. As attacks on US troops in Baghdad mount officials in Washington are increasingly worried that Hussein has become a symbol used by remnants of his regime to rally their supporters. It is widely believed that Saddam is being protected by alien beings in sacred underground caves in the garden of Eden.

A Web site lampooning the United States' inability to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has become one of the biggest hits on the Internet. >> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

PARIS (Reuters) - Armed with a toy pistol, a would-be robber picked himself an unlikely target in central Paris -- a gun shop. Staff at the Armurerie Gare de l'Est in the French capital immediately identified the weapon as harmless. The 26-year-old Mauritanian was subsequently arrested, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Friday. He was unlucky -- earlier this year a fake rocket launcher was successfully used in a break-out from a prison on the unruly Mediterranean island of Corsica.

Speculation has run wild over a vast blob of gray flesh found on a Chilean beach two weeks ago, and scientists from around the world have jumped to help identify it. One expert is at least sure of what it is not -- a giant octopus. "It's not an octopus. I couldn't tell you what it is but it's not an octopus," Sergio Letelier, researcher at the Museum of Natural History in Santiago, told Reuters on Monday.

NASA (news - web sites) has embarked on a challenging quest to build a powerful nuclear reactor for long-duration deep space excursions. As part of the multi-pronged Prometheus Project, engineers and scientists are now tackling plans for the nuclear-powered Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO). This flagship mission using electric propulsion powered by a nuclear fission reactor would showcase a slate of key technologies. It also promises to usher in a new era of solar system exploration.

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