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Are creative people crazy? Well?yes.

Connie M. Strong of Stanford University has found that creative people share many personality traits with the mentally ill. Both creativity and manic depression, also called bipolar disorder, may exist due to the same genes. Bipolar disorder causes people to have extreme mood swings from happiness to despair. Some of these people self-medicate with drugs or alcohol and they can become suicidal when in a depressed period. Depression is sometimes thought of as ?unipolar,? since depressed people never go into the ?up? cycle.
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It seems like an earthquake happens somewhere every day. Scientists are trying to learn how to predict them and to understand what causes them. Now Maya Tolstoy of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University says ocean tides may be the basic cause of earthquakes, including those on dry land.

Cracks on the ocean floor cracks take in water and spit it back out, as the tides rise and fall. Tolstoy found that earthquakes occurred at an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean when the tides were at their lowest point and pressure was reduced on the volcano. The tides pump water in and out of cracks in the volcano, building up, then reducing pressure. Reduced pressure at low tide means the cracks can pump in more water.
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We?ve learned over recent weeks that the FBI and the CIA had many warnings about upcoming terrorist attacks that they either downplayed or ignored. We?ve been told that during the Clinton years, the CIA was told to stop recruiting a certain type of low-life (possibly criminal) agent and instead of using moles to infiltrate foreign governments, to rely on technological snooping instead.

Now we learn that we did have agents inside al-Qaeda after all?to no avail. They knew attacks were coming, but didn?t get enough specific information to predict the date or type of attacks.
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Sensitive military aircraft parts ended up on eBay last week and a few were even sold, before the U.S. Air Force yanked them off the site. Norb Novocin, the dealer who put the parts up for sale, bought them legitimately in an unclaimed property sale from a warehouse, where they had been in storage. They are used in the SR-71 spy plane, the F-16 fighter, KC-10 aerial tankers and C-5 Galaxy giant cargo jets.

The parts are coded ?D,? meaning that if they are not used, they must be destroyed rather than sold. The shipment got lost 12 years ago on its way from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to Georgia.
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