10 Years Ago – In October 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 September 2002 headline gleanings - I forced myself to pick 10.
- A Florida man who was lost at sea for more than two months was rescued 40 miles off the coast
- Canada plans to create 10 huge new national parks and five marine conservation areas over the next five years to protect unique landscapes and animals
- Enrollment at major Canadian schools by U.S. citizens has risen by at least 86 percent over the past three years, to about 5,000 students.
- King Tut - an abnormal curvature of the spine and fusion of the upper vertebrae, a condition associated with scoliosis and a rare disorder called Klippel-Feil syndrome, which makes sufferers look as if they have a short neck.
- Sniper keeps D.C. area on edge
- Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Peruvian archeologists have discovered a complete mummified human skeleton in the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu
- Bacteria found in a 2,000-year-old piece of cheese could be the final evidence that this food was a continuous source of infectious disease in the ancient Roman world.
- All 115 hostages killed in the raid that ended a Moscow theater standoff died of health problems stemming from the gas used by Russian forces to end the siege
- About 150,000 years ago, an anomalous ice age was triggered by an increasingly salty Mediterranean Sea, a development that's occurring today and may start new ice sheet growth in the next few decades
