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Posted Monday, July 1, 2002, at 4:42 PM ET

One Brief, Shining Moment
In the National Review Online, Dave Konig commemorates the Cheney presidency: "The dreamy new president was seen in Vegas, palling around with the swinging superstars Wilfred Brimley, Charles Durning, and Dick Van Patten. The tuxedoed, boozy entertainers (dubbed 'The Fat Pack' by an adoring press) knocked back Lime Rickeys with the dashing new president at the exclusive show-business haunt 'The Undisclosed Location.'"

Would ET Visit Earth?
Space.com's Seth Shostak says "the numbers don't give much support to this somewhat self-indulgent idea."

Fictoid #11: The Terror Crop Dusters
Edward Jay Epstein debunks the myth of "a pattern among conspirators to use crop dusters for terrorism."

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