10 Years Ago – In April 2002
/Many years ago I started collecting headlines/news blurbs as a way of honing my reading of news. Over the years, the headline collection has been warped by the sources of news I was reading…increasingly online. Reviewing the April 2002 headline gleanings - I forced myself to pick 10.
- Wildfire scorches parts of New Mexico
- A new census in the solar system doubles the number of large asteroids thought to lurk between Mars and Jupiter.
- Despite decades of legal protection, the billion or so monarch butterflies that overwinter in Mexico are losing the cloudbelt forests they depend on
- China tops list of world executioners
- Thousands of mummies, most of them from the Inca culture five centuries ago, have been unearthed from an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in Peru,
- Huge colonies of Earth microbes are living off of hydrogen gas released by common rocks, raising the possibility of similar life forms on Mars
- Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl dead at 87
- Cooking tomatoes -- such as in spaghetti sauce -- makes the fruit heart-healthier and boosts its cancer-fighting ability
- Four whooping cranes taught to migrate by human trainers have completed the return trip to Wisconsin from Florida on their own
- Being the firstborn child in a family may make a person more likely to develop coronary disease
As usual, my interests are reflected in these top 10: space exploration (2 and 6), earth systems and exploration (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9), food/health (8 and 10).