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A Blustery Day:Looking For Enterprise

I took up a position along the Pennsylvania-Maryland border,looking for the space shuttle Enterprise to possibly fly over on the way to New York.It was a cool,blustery day.After some weeks of heat,it had become below normal.That alone made it worthwhile to stay outdoors for a while. A man mowing his lawn may have thought I was crazy with my lawn chair and binoculars.I was crazy for history and I needed more fresh air in my lungs,sir.In the end,I didn't sit very much.I walked around watching all the jet aircraft.Most of them headed west,and a few south.No one was going north like the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and its august passenger,the flight test space shuttle Enterprise. It was a memorable time anyway.It's good to be bonkers about something constructive like exploring the heavens.

Mama Bear Resists Tranquilizer

A mama bear shook off tranquilizer when she was darted by Maryland Department of Natural Resources biologists at a housing development in Deep Creek Lake.The mother was worried about her three cubs,which she had given birth to under a resident's back deck.The biologists felt it wasn't a safe place for them to dwell and were attempting to relocate the bruins to nearby Savage River State Forest.Finally,a few more darts did bring her down.She and the cubs were taken to a temporary den in the forest sporting their new ear tags so the officials can keep records on them.
The stock market couldn't shake off the newsy week and ended up modestly lower,with the S&P down 1.9.Many other Americans couldn't shake it off,either,besieged by media coverage of the Japanese catastrophe to the point of irrational reactions to the nuclear crisis 5,000 miles away.
Monday was looking more promising,with the S&P futures climbing 5.40,while 10-year Treasury bond prices fell.New and existing home sales data will draw attention from investors next week.