NP? news from the War that never ends

[Doug Millison]

Blicero lives!
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/16/nhawk16.x
ml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/16/ixhome.html
Stephen Hawking:  "I don't think the human race will survive the next
thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents
that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach
out to the stars."


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/printedition/calendar/la-000081342oct12.sto
ry

CBS Sitcom Plot Rises From Trade Center Ruins
 
 	 By ELIZABETH JENSEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
NEW YORK -- In another sign that the entertainment industry is starting to
process and incorporate the events of Sept. 11 rather than shy away from
them, CBS Television President Leslie Moonves said Thursday that his
network is considering a pilot for a comedy series whose plot arises out of
the terrorist attacks. [...]


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011016/aponline090253_000.htm
The Associated Press
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001; 9:02 a.m. EDT
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The compound of the International Committee of the
Red Cross was struck Tuesday by a U.S. bomb which destroyed wheat and other
humanitarian supplies, committee officials and witnesses said. One Afghan
security guard was injured. [...]