A basset hound whose grandfather gained fame as Biggles, the face of Hush Puppies shoes, has hit the limelight himself, making it into the new 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the dog with the longest ears.

President Bush sought foreign leaders' money and troops to help rebuild postwar Iraq on Wednesday, as a senior U.S. official said weapons inspectors would report no proof Baghdad had the banned arsenal used to justify the invasion.

A Swedish man has been charged after Australian customs officers found eight dangerous snakes, including four dead king cobras, strapped to his leg after he arrived on a flight from Thailand, officials said on Wednesday.

Hopes For A Space Elevator Continue To Climb
Tue Sep 23rd, 2003 at 09:48:25 AM PST
Last week, the Space Elevator 2nd Annual International Conference was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, co-sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Institute for Scientific Research Inc. (ISR). Science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke delivered the keynote address via satellite from his home in Sri Lanka. "I'm happy that people are taking it more and more seriously," said Mr. Clarke, whose novel "The Fountains of Paradise" (1978) revolved around a space elevator.

No longer merely theoretical, research and development dollars are actually being spent on fleshing out how best to build these sky high beasts of burden.

The United States may have to alert thousands more National Guard and Reserve troops within weeks that they are needed for duty in Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking general said Wednesday.

An Air Force translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terror suspects has been charged with espionage and aiding the enemy, officials said Tuesday, three days after disclosing the arrest of a U.S. Army chaplain working at the same base.

In his distinctively quiet-spoken manner, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan trounced the Bush administration's foreign policy doctrine of unilateral preemptive strikes at the United Nations General Assembly.
- "Until now it has been understood that when states go beyond (self-defense), and decide to use force to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, they need the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations."

The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for at least 3,000 years, has broken in two and climate change is to blame, say American and Canadian scientists.

just got back from the states
visited family and friends
did some camping and sailing in Maine
also visited Cape Cod peninsula