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Will Washington start a full-out war against Iraq this weekend? George Friedman, of Strategic Forecasting, says, “This is the best weekend militarily to do it. There is no moon, and if you ever have been on the desert in special operations, you know you don’t want a moon when you need to take bridges and other strategic posts?[The president] really has no choice. His biggest problem is that right after Sept. 11 (2001) he was decisive, and now he has dragged this out so long.” He’s dragged the stock market down along with him.
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Bigfoot has been spotted in Rae Lakes, a small, isolated community in the Northwest Territories of Canada. John Bernard Bourne moved there three years ago from Ontario to teach a group of indigenous people called the Dogribs. As he listened to the local lore, he noticed stories about the Bushman?a tall, hairy creature who lurks in the bush ready to abduct anyone traveling alone. People who are taken are never seen again, or if they are, they’re found mute and mentally deranged.
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Scientists know there are more than the 3 dimensions we experience (4, if you include time as one of them), but they don’t know what or where they are. “We have a number of hints from experiments and theoretical ideas that make us think they’re probably out there,” says Joseph Lykken of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Discovering these extra dimensions could tell us why the cosmos is expanding more rapidly than ever and what the mysterious dark force is that we can detect in the universe. And this all ties in with string theory.
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Archeologists are worried that the extraordinary ancient relicts of Iraq may be injured or destroyed during the upcoming war. Iraq is supposed to be the site of the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel, and its early civilizations invented writing and the wheel. It’s also the home of ancient batteries, which are in the museum of Baghdad.
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