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Snakes on a Plane. Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? Four baby pythons escaped their cage during a Qantas flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne on April 14. Workers searched the aircraft for the 6-inch reptiles - which are non-venomous, and can grow to about 3 feet - but after two flights had to be canceled to accommodate the fruitless search, the airline gave up and fumigated the plane. "They're not endangered, so a decision was made to fumigate," said Qantas spokesman David Epstein. "If these snakes turn up, they will be very much dead snakes...
...Zuckerberg must be at least partially right, because no one is leaving. In fact, Facebook continues to grow. Are users too addicted to quit? It’s more likely that Facebook usage became so widespread that, like cell phones and e-mail, people of a certain age would be more inconvenienced by signing off than by sticking with a flawed system...
...sounds like an ebb and flow; we conserve animals for a little while so they can grow in numbers and then we hunt them again...
...bike-sharing program, set to launch in 2010, that aims eventually to residents access to 6,000 communal bicycles. The Harvard program will begin with only eight loanable bicycles, but the Committee intends to use the initial responses of students as a barometer for how fast the program should grow, McKinnon said. “The hope is that over time we will expand the program into either every single house or, at the very least, every neighborhood of houses,” stated McKinnon. Alex Gation, an employee at the Quad Bike Shop in Cambridge, said he thought...
...Elaine C. Kamarck, emphasized the centrality of a young generation—born between 1982 and 2003—to the rise of the Democratic party in the 2008 election, and said that the influence of this “Millennial” voting bloc would only continue to grow. In March 2008, Winograd and Hais published their book “Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics,” which accurately predicted a win for democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after years of republican domination. The two authors cited statistics yesterday stating that...