It is a national holiday commemorating the end of Apartheid and their first democratic election in 1994. Los Angeles millionaire Dennis Tito arrived on the International Space Station, Alpha, Monday. He is the first American to go into outer space without NASA's support. Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire into a crowd of anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. This healthy chick was the 100th California condor born in captivity and is a candidate to be released into the wild by the end of 2001.
Condors are an endangered species due to loss of viable habitat and environmental hazards.
The chick is part of a breeding program that has helped double the number of condors living in the world today. Cheney suggested that if we don't build new plants, the entire country could face the energy problems currently plaguing California. Some people feel the U-S should resume building nuclear power plants because they provide more energy at lower costs and the plants themselves are cleaner and more efficient. It would also minimize the invasive oil drilling in such areas as the Alaskan wilderness. The U-S, however, has not built a new nuclear plant in twenty years.