

A childhood hero of mine turns 85 today.
I like the reporter's name. Thanks to Jeff Meyerson for the link.
Angler hooks 2m crocodile in city drain | NEWS.com.au: "By Damon Guppy October 25, 2007 10:34am Article from: The Cairns Post.
A WELL-FED 2m crocodile has been found in a drain in the centre of Cairns.
The crocodile was the last thing Stanley Leszczewicz expected to catch when he tried his new lure in a Portsmith drain yesterday morning.
The 2m croc emerged from the murky water and latched on to the lure, much to the keen fisherman's amazement.
'It went for my line but I retrieved it,' Mr Leszczewicz said. 'I didn't want to hook on to him.' "
abc news: Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
NASA gathered the information under an $8.5 million safety project, through telephone interviews with roughly 24,000 commercial and general aviation pilots over nearly four years. Since ending the interviews at the beginning of 2005 and shutting down the project completely more than one year ago, the space agency has refused to divulge the results publicly.
Just last week, NASA ordered the contractor that conducted the survey to purge all related data from its computers.
The Associated Press learned about the NASA results from one person familiar with the survey who spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss them.
A senior NASA official, associate administrator Thomas S. Luedtke, said revealing the findings could damage the public's confidence in airlines and affect airline profits. Luedtke acknowledged that the survey results "present a comprehensive picture of certain aspects of the U.S. commercial aviation industry."
Dickerson permitted Simpson's 2005 memoir, "Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang," to be presented as evidence during the trial.
Prosecutors argued that a visit by Simpson to the jewelry counter two days before the robbery was similar to scenes in the book."