10 Years Ago – In May 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 May 2002 headline gleanings - I forced myself to pick 10.
- The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 6 percent in April, the highest in nearly eight years
- The 165-pound titan arum, the rotten-smelling giant of the plant kingdom, unfurled its single stinky flower after beginning a dramatic growth spurt last week
- An abandoned South Dakota gold mine may become a new inner sanctum for physicists working to unravel the inner workings of atoms by isolating subatomic particles.
- The lifespans of people in developed nations are increasing at a remarkably constant rate, suggesting that there is no natural limit on life expectancy
- Famed biologist, author Stephen Jay Gould dies at 60
- China to Launch Moon Mission in 2010
- Yosemite Falls restoration project set to begin in June
- Chandra Levy's remains found in D.C. park
- The discovery of 11 small moons orbiting Jupiter brings the number of that planet's moons to 39
- British archaeologists think that a gold earring-clad archer, found in a 4,300-year-old burial site in Amesbury, England, may have been a king during the heyday of Stonehenge.
My interests in science is reflected in the mix (botany in item 2, physics in item 3, physiology in item 4, space in item 9 and archaeology in item 10). The other fit into a people/places/politics category.
