Discovered We happily bring you yet another announcement of planets orbiting other stars. I telescope, easily the most advanced in the world at the moment, to find these latest planets. The Keck Web site has a press release with specific details about the stars and planets involved. Anyone keeping score will want to bookmark the SFSU planet search Web site, which provides news and a cool graph of the orbits and masses of all known extrasolar planets.
Nothing inflames passions quite like international bureaucracy.
Sure, you can find fault with some of the WTO's policies, such as some of its less than eco-friendly rulings, but there's something to be said for a stable global free trade environment. Nevertheless, thanks to CNN and the speed of the Net, the WTO suddenly appears as an evil empire right up there with Microsoft and the Trilateral Commission. Revolutionary mobs are about as fond of free speech as most governments. Yahoo has comprehensive links to media coverage. It reserves the cold continent for peaceful purposes only and makes provisions for the free exchange of scientific information among the signatory nations.