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Internet users are well aware they are trading off privacy when they dial up their modems. In a recent TIME/CNN poll conducted by Yankelovich Partners, 61% of respondents said they were "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" that information about their Internet usage was being collected without their knowledge...
...Still, they believe the situation has changed somewhat since the disco bombing, and there have been a lot more actors involved in building this cease-fire - the Russians, the Europeans, Kofi Annan. The Bush administration has taken a more multilateral approach - their more humble goals make them less leery of involving others than the Clinton administration was. And if Powell can come back with a timetable for implementing the Mitchell recommendations, that would be a big step forward...
Aside from that detail, the Einstein connection made the idea of dark energy, or antigravity, seem somewhat less nutty when Schmidt and Perlmutter weighed in. Of course, some astrophysicists had lingering doubts. Maybe the observers didn't really have the supernovas' brightness right; perhaps the light from faraway stellar explosions was dimmed by some sort of dust. The unique properties of a cosmological constant, moreover, would make the universe slow down early on, then accelerate. That's because dark energy grows as a function of space. There wasn't much space in the young, small universe, so back then...
Given all the pomp and circumstance, I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I was fairly unmoved by my daughter's sixth-grade graduation. These days--when 9 out of 10 kids actually make it through high school--matriculating into seventh grade just doesn't feel to me like a diploma-worthy experience...
...England Journal last week. After studying 482 subjects bitten by deer ticks in a part of New York with a lot of Lyme disease, researchers concluded that a single 200-mg dose of doxycycline dramatically cut the risk of contracting the disease. That good news is tempered somewhat by the fact that 80% of patients who develop the infection don't remember ever being bitten by a tick. (The bugs inject an anesthetic into the skin to mask the pain and in their nymph stage are so small--about the size of a poppy seed--that they are easily overlooked...