China’s pair of spacemen land safely

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8167

China's second crewed spaceflight ended successfully on Monday as the Shenzhou VI craft returned to Earth. Touchdown prompted celebrations and plans for an ambitious new mission in 2007, which will include a spacewalk.

The capsule carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng parachuted down to a field in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia to bring their five-day mission to a close, reported Xinhua, China's official news agency.

Emerging from the module, the two took a few seconds to adjust to the Earth's gravity, before being presented with bouquets of flowers and waving to assembled recovery teams and ground-control staff. "Our journey was very smooth," a smiling Fei told state television. "The living and working conditions inside the cabin were very good. Our health is okay."

The successful mission, followed for the past 115 hours by millions of people across China, marked another step in China's progress as an emerging space power.

haha. amusing.

Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007415

Oh Boy.

I know someone who could use this treatment.

Text-Messaging Addict Receives Treatment

October 16, 2005 12:00 a.m. EST


Joanna Wypior - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Edinburgh, Scotland (AHN) - A teenager from Paisey, Scotland, who has not been identified, has recently been treated for a text-messaging addiction. The 19-year-old spent approximately £4,500 on text messages.

He had sent about 700 text messages a week plus 8,000 e-mails a month, for which he was later fired from his job for. According to the text addict, the majority of the messages sent were to his girlfriend, who he later broke up with.

The text-messenger says: "When you look at your mobile and you've got a message you wonder who it could be.

"It's kind of comforting when you get one. I like it, it's like a game of ping-pong, as you send one and get one back.

"There are quite a lot of people I know who text a lot and they don't really know that help is available, or they might not see it as a problem."

The text-messenger claims that there was something comforting about receiving text messages on his mobile phone and there was always an element of curiosity when he received a message.

According to Professor Patrick O'Donnell, a psychologist from Glasgow University, he says new technology could bring new dangers which could signal the beginning of a worrying trend.

Madame President....

Condi vs Hillary for 2008?

In an extract from his provocative new book, one of Bill Clinton's former key advisers argues that in 2009, America will have its first woman President - but will it be squeaky clean Condoleezza Rice or controversial Hillary Clinton?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1592978,00.html


and as an aside... Commander in Chief rocks! Tuesday nights on ABC