Tuesday, September 02, 2003

JANESVILLE, Wis. - A 40-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing a computerized tracking device that uses a global positioning system to keep track of jail prisoners on home detention.
"He apparently didn't know what he had because he would be awfully stupid to steal a tracking device," said correctional officer Thomas Roth, who runs the home detention program at the Rock County Jail.

LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers have warned British space monitors.

Mon Sep 1, 7:20 AM ET
The Netherlands Monday became the world's first country to make cannabis available as a prescription drug in pharmacies to treat cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis patients.

Sun Aug 31, 9:33 AM ET
A Russian cargo space capsule, the only remaining supply lifeline to the International Space Station, successfully docked on Sunday with the outpost manned by a U.S.-Russian crew, a spokeswoman for Mission Control said.

Tue Sep 2,12:49 PM ET
"If we could 'see' black holes, they would be of two different types," Barger says. "One type would have the symmetry of a sphere. The other type would have the symmetry of a top. The latter type of black hole possesses the axial-symmetric shape because it has spin."
Another theory suggests there are five dimensions of space-time involved with a nonspherical, rotating, donut-shaped "black ring."