HIGHS & LOWS OF THE DAY

This Texas judge is either a very kinky person or just hasn't learned to exist in the 21st century.

This guy in Vienna ME also is an anachronism. Sounds like the days of the wild west.

I've heard of super novas and neutron stars but never a quark star or a quark nova. The latter is now thought to have produced the brightest explosion ever seen in the cosmos.

We all know that makeup can enhance features that the opposite sex finds attractive and cover those that have the opposite effect. A recent experiment finds that the same applies to birds.

The drought conditions in the western half of the nation appear to have had an effect on the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park.

It now appears that we humans have shod our feet for nearly 40,000 years. While archaeologic remains only go back about 10,000 years, physiological changes in our feet have indicated when we started the long road towards 6" stiletto heels.

The problem of teens taking suggestive (and more) images of themselves and transmitting them to others is posing a legal problem. They are in violation of our child-porn laws but are willingly making themselves the exploited victim.

When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal.

40 years ago, today, US Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles after winning the California primary. He died the following morning. Today, the New York State Assembly renamed the Triborough Bridge to the RFK Bridge.

"Let's all be careful out there!"