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A West Point Cadet sends this along with the photo below: I'm a cadet at West Point, and tonight at our game against the Air Force Academy, a big sign emerged, and it was shown to the Corps of Cadets, who cheered wildly, and then shown to the Air Force cadets, who also cheered.

A Sudbury biology professor woke up yesterday to hear radio guys snickering about how he studies flying squirrel sex. Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde doesn't, really, but that's what Ontario's Conservative party is accusing him of doing. What the Laurentian University professor does study is "reproductive fitness" -- which animals are best at bringing up healthy offspring in the face of disease, famine, or in this case, climate change. He can't study all animals in all places, so he picked one: the flying squirrel population of Algonquin Park. They're easy to catch, and they'll nest in man-made boxes similar to birdhouses. That makes...

Refugee rodent wins two rounds against government With ministerial dispensation, Sabrina the flying squirrel gets to stay in Canada By COLIN FREEZE Friday, April 1, 2005 Page A8 TORONTO -- It's a rare baby squirrel that takes on the government and changes the laws of the land. But Sabrina, the refugee rodent, appears to have done just that. This morning, Sabrina's handlers will announce in Toronto that they've successfully resisted Ottawa's deportation efforts. The celebrated U.S.-born flying squirrel that was imported as a baby last year can now stay in Canada for good. The federal government went to great lengths...

A flying squirrel named Sabrina is at the center of a fight between Canada, which wants to deport the rodent, and its owner who says the creature is harmless and has bonded to him.   Ottawa wants to send the animal back to the United States, citing a 2003 ban on importing rodents into the country after a monkeypox outbreak south of the border last year.   Naturalist Steve Patterson, who brought the squirrel across the border last June after filling out the necessary papers, said the government is simply being stubborn.   "The good the squirrel can do...

Try the new drinking game sweeping the nation! Here's how to play: 1) Turn on CNN, MSNBC,CNBC,ABC,CBS or ABC. (I know, it's painful) 2) Everytime John F***ing Kerry says 'Vietnam' drink a beer. 3) Go into an alcohol induced coma. It is that easy.The first person's liver to fail is the winner! Note: You will need several cases of beer per participant. Estimated time of liver failure is 5 minutes.

$1000 dollar Haircut? Not By My Calculations I did a little research. Then I went to an independent source to confirm that research. Here is what I found about the $1000 dollar haircut cost. Corroborated by a phone call to Signature Flight Support in San Francisco [also located in DC], the Flying Squirrel [Gulfstream V] would consume approximately 660-700 Gallons [5500-5700 pounds] of Kerosene to fly from Washington DC to Pittsburgh. Also Corroborated by Signature Flight Support was my calculated mileage including pattern approach and departure[300 nm x 2]. To fly a Gulfstream V to Pittsburgh, and back, from Reagan...

Wed Jun 4, 3:30 PM ETSenator Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), D-N.Y., greets a group of elementary school children on Capitol Hill Wednesday, June 4, 2002. Her new memoirs, titled 'Living History', is scheduled to be released Monday, June 9. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)