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1.Oregon man's wallet resurfaces after 63 years (news.yahoo.com)
BAKER CITY, Ore. – Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but getting it back more than 60 years later helped him remember the past.
The leather stayed smooth and the zipper moved as easily as it did in 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers in the Baker Middle School gym while cheering for the Baker High basketball team.
Fulton's Social Security card and a bicycle license for his job as a drugstore delivery boy were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War II ended.
"After that long, my gosh, it stayed in good shape," Fulton, 78, told the Baker City Herald. "It's hard to believe." read more -
2.Tasing of 72-year-old woman was appropriate, officials say (www.truthring.org)
Travis County law enforcement officials are standing behind the actions of a constable who used a Taser on a 72-year-old woman during a May traffic stop, saying the officer acted properly in a dangerous situation.
Deputy Constable Christopher Beize used a Taser on Kathryn Winkfein after she resisted arrest when he pulled her over for speeding, according to an incident report.
Winkfein was driving west on Texas 71 in western Travis County on May 11 when Beize pulled her over, the report says.
Beize wrote a citation for Winkfein for going 60 mph in a 45 mph construction zone, but the 4-foot-11-inch woman refused to sign it and told Beize that he was “going to have to take her to jail,” the document says. Beize told her she was going to be arrested for refusing to promise to appear by signing the top of the citation, the report says........
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3.Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary (news.yahoo.com)
EIN GEDI, Israel – Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive in the 30-foot- deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard.
After 14 hours a search party pulled him from the hole unhurt, and five years later the 69-year-old geologist is working to save others from a similar fate, leading an effort to map the sinkholes that are spreading on the banks of the fabled saltwater lake.
These underground craters can open up in an instant, sucking in........
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4.Viruses, bacteria and other microbes started mutating out of control (atsnews.abovetopsecret.com)
In 1997-98, viruses, bacteria and other microbes started mutating out of control. Disease-causing agents have been evolving extremely rapidly, and strangely, since then. Life scientists reported an "evolutionary crisis," and "accelerated evolutionary processes." As early as 2002, scientists warned of new infectious diseases appearing and old diseases reemerging due to a "complex interaction of... more
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5.Wasp Spray (www.snopes.com)
Is a can of wasp spray a preferable alternative to pepper spray for protection against assailants?
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