Eye on the Earth
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A glimpse of our changing natural environment and how humans may be impacting it.
Mystery piano in woods perplexes police
(CNN) — Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.
A police officer examines an oddly placed piano in the woods of Harwich, Massachusetts.A police officer examines an oddly placed piano in the woods of Harwich, Massachusetts.
Discovered by a woman who was walking a trail, the Baldwin Acrosonic piano, model number 987, is intact — and, apparently, in tune.
Sgt. Adam Hutton of the Harwich Police Department said information has been broadcast to all the other police departments in the Cape Cod area in hopes of drumming up a clue, however minor it may be.
But so far, the investigation is flat.
Also of note: Near the mystery piano — serial number 733746 — was a bench, positioned as though someone was about to play.
The piano was at the end of a dirt road, near a walking path to a footbridge in the middle of conservation land near the Cape.
Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project for Takeoff
Pentagon mad-science division Darpa is helping build thought-controlled robotic limbs, artificial pack mules, real-life laser guns and “kill-proof” soldiers. So it comes as no surprise, really, that the agency is now getting into the flying-car business, too.Darpa hopes its “Personal Air Vehicle Technology” project, announced yesterday, will ultimately lead to a working prototype of a military-suitable flying car — a two- or four-passenger vehicle that can “drive on roads” one minute and take off like a helicopter the next. The hybrid machine would be perfect for “urban scouting,” casualty evacuation and commando-delivery missions, the agency believes.
Man ‘killed wife, wanted her eaten’
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A philandering husband allegedly strangled his wife to death, smeared her in peanut butter and dumped her body in a ditch hoping wild animals would devour the evidence, a report claims.New York police say William Walsh, 29, has admitted to killing wife Leah after the pair had an explosive argument about his infidelities in the early hours of October 26.
Walsh dumped her body then tried to make it appear like she had been kidnapped by making public pleas for help, police allege.
Now a report in the New York Post claims Walsh’s morbid plan included having his wife’s body eaten by wild animals. Police earlier stated the dead teacher’s body was found covered in peanut butter.
‘Pregnant man’
The “pregnant man” is pregnant again. Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy talk with CNN’s Larry King
Thinking outside the square finds light in oven
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FOR her 10th birthday, Nicole Kuepper received an inspirational present from her parents - her first solar-energy kit.It sparked a fascination with solar technology that last night led to Ms Kuepper, 23, winning two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for her scientific research.
She has developed a simple, cheap way of producing solar cells in a pizza oven that could eventually bring power and light to the 2 billion people in the world who lack electricity.
Urine Bottles: Another Result Of High Fuel Prices?
AP) Police say there’s been an alarming rise in urine-filled plastic containers found along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon.A litter crew for the Oregon Department of Transportation picked up an estimated 200-300 urine filled plastic bottles, along the highway, about half of which were found in a short stretch dubbed “Three Mile Hill.”
Police: Pa. Man Rams Home With Semi During Fight
AP) Authorities say a Pennsylvania man rammed his house with a semitrailer during a fight with his roommate and tried to run down police called to the scene.State police say 20-year-old James H. Rosenberg injured no one Thursday.
Authorities say Rosenberg rammed a pickup into a garage door, then drove the semi through the door and hit a car. That vehicle hit a stove that crashed through a wall into the living room.