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ATS Weekly, Edition 009, September 13, 2005
The anguish was palpable at Ground Zero yesterday, as family members made their way down a long ramp into the vast emptiness of the World Trade
Center site, then took turns reading out the names of their lost loved ones. Into this somber setting marched about a dozen 9-11 conspiracists, who
claimed a patch of sidewalk to preach what they called the truth. "These people weren't killed by Arab terrorists. You've been lied to!" shouted a
woman who looked vaguely like Joey Ramone, holding up one end of a banner that read, "9-11 World Trade Center: Controlled Demolition."
9-11 Conspiracists Invade Ground
Zero
The giant reptiles that flew above the earth until about 65 million years ago could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans
of at least 18 metres, a paleontologist said on Thursday. That would be almost the same width as the 64 foot fully extended wingspan of an F-14 Tomcat
fighter aircraft and roughly five times bigger than an albatross, which ranks among the birds with the largest wingspans in the modern world.
Fossils Reveal Flying Prehistoric Giants
Greyhound Bus Lines complained to Louisiana's prisons department to stop referring to a temporary New Orleans jail, that was once its bus station,
as Camp Greyhound, a prisons official said on Monday. The Greyhound bus station in New Orleans was converted into a makeshift jail by police trying to
restore law and order in a city rife with crime and lawlessness in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit.
Greyhound Bus Complains About New Orleans Jail Name
Be on the lookout: It moves at the speed of a trolling boat motor or a bobbing log. Length, could be 12, 15 or a gazillion feet long. Color might
be green, could be pink and people in the know aren't ruling out purple. These are the legends of the monster in Herrington Lake.
Tales Still Surface
of Creature in Herrington
Astronomers have witnessed the most distant cosmic explosion on record: a gamma-ray burst that has come from the edge of the visible Universe.
Gamma-ray bursts are intense flares of high-energy radiation that appear without warning from across the cosmos. They can release as much energy in a
few minutes as our Sun will emit in its expected 10-billion-year lifetime.
Most Distant Cosmic Blast Sighted
University scientists say they have found strong proof that the human brain is still evolving. By comparing modern man with our ancestors of 37,000
years ago, the Chicago team discovered big changes in two genes linked to brain size. One of the new variants emerged only 5,800 years ago yet is
present in 30% of today's humans, they believe.
'Proof' Our Brains Are Evolving
It came from the deep, lying just underneath the water's surface like a creature waiting to strike. In August 2003, the blob was spotted in a
secluded lagoon off Daddy Tucker Drive, and would draw an assortment of reporters, gawkers and specialists to the scene.
It Came From a
Little Egg Lagoon
Paul Hellyer, one-time cabinet minister and a political chameleon who went through Liberal and Tory colours before founding two political parties
of his own, has a new cause - UFOs. Hellyer is to be a featured speaker at a UFO conference in Toronto later this month, and organizers are making
much of his credentials as a former defence minister in the Pearson administration 40 years ago. Skeptics are, well, skeptical.
Hellyer Says Yes to UFOs
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