TOO OBTUSE?
"On paper, CNN 'Newsnight' anchor Aaron Brown has some good qualities. He is bright, even cerebral. He has a smooth set of pipes that are easy on the ears. He often asks smart, layered questions that go beyond the obvious. But as was the case in the days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the war on Iraq is again proving that he is just too studied, too enigmatic, and frankly, too weird, to be anchor material." [The Boston Globe] {In other words, he doesn't hype and pitch the war. When he first started, they were pitching his style as "a different kind of journalism." But now that the war is here and sensibilities have deteriorated...}

IT TAKES GUTS
"Curious about the colon? Wondering about colorectal cancer prevention, early detection and treatment? You're in luck! As part of the National Cancer Education tour, a giant colon replica will be traveling to 20 cities in the United States from February 2003 to November 2003. The Colossal Colon, a 40-foot-long, 4-foot-high replica, was modeled after a real colon taken from colonoscopy film footage. Exhibit visitors who crawl through the colon will see various stages of disease from polyps to full-blown colon cancer. The Colossal Colon was created in honor of Amanda Sherwood Roberts, who died from the disease last year. "We're trying to educate as many people as we can so nobody has to go through what we had to go through," said Amanda's father, Bernie Sherwood. [Wired News] {If you crawl through The Colossal Colon and come out the other side, what does that make you?}