5 Tishri 5767 * 27 September 2006: Ten Days of Repentance/World Tourism Day

Greetings.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Demography's bottom line”
  
• “NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels”
  
• “Chinless ophthalmologist favors another war, plans to bring human shields to Golan Heights”
  
• “Treasures looted by Rome 'are back in the Holy Land'”. (Finding this article also led me to “THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT ANTIQUITIES” and “Another Outrageous Claim By Arafat: Ancient Jewish Temple Was In Nablus, Not Jerusalem”.)
  
• “Hizbullah inspires 63% of Palestinians” (Oops.)
  
• “New Yorkers 'stalk' victims in city-wide game”
  
• “Subway Sleuth Clears Dinosaur of Cannibalism”
  
• “Billionaire spends millions mapping mouse brains”
  
• “Our World: Bush's information offensive”
  
• “From corruption to cleanliness” (And some people naïvely think that tradition is not relevant to the modern world.)
  
• “Happy 5767- but how did we reach that number?”
  
• “New vaccine would target ear, sinus infections”
  
• “Clinton's Global Initiative” (For shame!)

Today’s weird thing, submitted by Barry, is “Trans Global Highway. A proposal by Frank Didik”. I am impressed with this ambitious idea. Though the planet clearly is not ready yet, at least for certain parts of this project, I eagerly await a future era sufficiently peaceful as to make national borders no more restrictive than state borders in the US today, when something as obviously useful as this becomes possible. Enjoy.

Aaron