10 Years Ago – In August 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 August 2002 headline gleanings - I forced myself to pick 10.    

1. Overfishing of shark prey in the Atlantic Ocean means sharks are coming closer to shore to find food
2. A quest for oil in the North Sea has turned up an ancient well-preserved impact crater
3. Global warming is causing squid to grow abnormally large and speeding up their breeding cycles,
4. Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian birth-brick. It would have been one of pair used to support a woman's feet during childbirth.
5. Maryland to poison pond to kill Snakehead fish
6. A dense blanket of pollution, dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud," is hovering over South Asia
7. Prague prepares for the worst as waters rise
8. 100th birthday celebrations of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
9. Nearly one million volunteers and soldiers in China's Hunan Province are racing against time to stop what could become the biggest flood in decades
10. An ancient skull found on a London riverbank with a large hole in it shows that brain surgery was performed at least 3,750 years earlier than thought. The skull dated by English Heritage to 1750 B.C. 

As usual - the list is heavily skewed toward science and technology.