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.
- Overfishing of shark prey in the Atlantic Ocean means sharks are coming closer to shore to find food
- A quest for oil in the North Sea has turned up an ancient well-preserved impact crater
- Global warming is causing squid to grow abnormally large and speeding up their breeding cycles,
- Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian birth-brick. It would have been one of pair used to support a woman's feet during childbirth.
- Maryland to poison pond to kill Snakehead fish
- A dense blanket of pollution, dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud," is hovering over South Asia
- Prague prepares for the worst as waters rise
- 100th birthday celebrations of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
- 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
- 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.
