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At a get-together the other night, I observed John Atkinson squinting at his cell phone when he received an in-coming call, and parroted Jon Stewart's remark that the amazing thing about the Mark Foley scandal wasn't that there was abuse in the page system, but rather that a 54-year-old could text message.

I've just recently discovered the blog <I>We Are All Mozart</I>, billed as "A project to create new works and change the perception of the music of our time."

<I>Dial "M" for Musicology</I> recounts the confrontation between champion of the world Mike Tyson and 77-year-old philosopher A. J. Ayer.

Have the changes in our diet in the past century constituted "a very large uncontrolled experiment that may have contributed to the societal burden of aggression, depression and cardiovascular death"?

<I>The New England Journal of Medicine</I> weighs in on an increasingly pertinent question: Does a cell-based breakthrough belong to the cell donor or the people who harvested and developed it?

Here's a Fox News segment on the Trophy Active Defense Systems, a division of General Dynamics. Although the video makes it look like it's all but installed on IDF vehicles, <A HREF="http://www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm"><I>Defense Update</I></A> throws some cold water on the rosy predictions, quoting US Army deputy for acquisition and systems management, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A, Sorenson, who said the project is obviously not good to go. "If this thing was ready to go, my question would be, why wasn’t it on the particular tanks that went into Lebanon?" he said, noting that no Israeli Merkava tanks carried the Trophy system.