Our Future: Did WALL-E Guess Right?

The Mayans have predicted the end of the world for this Friday. Some huge disaster (a firestorm, the next Ice Age, what have you) is supposed to happen and the entire human race is going to be wiped out. Or...is it? A select few might possibly be spared from peril and board a jumbo jet much like the one in the classic Disney movie, WALL-E. Who wouldn't want their own hovering chair to sit in all day without taking a single step for the rest of their life, or a little robot to clean every possible surface for you? While this lifestyle seems flawless, Earth will become a barren wasteland and will not be able support plant, animal, or human life. That is, until a cute little garbage-plucking rust bucket saves the planet by discovering a budding plant.

Oldest Cold Case Closed After More Than 50 Years

Maria Ridulph vanished from her neighborhood street corner fifty five years ago. Jack Daniel McCullough was identified a couple of years ago, who went as John Tessier at the time. He was 17 years old when he kidnapped Maria. McCullough claimed he was framed by corrupt police, however, he was recently convicted of the abduction and murder of Maria. He was never a suspect because his alibi was that he was miles away at the time and left Sycamore, the town in which the kidnapping occurred, to join the Air Force and eventually the Army.The case went cold, but citizens of the town remembered Maria by putting up a monument in her honor. Maria Ridulph's mother, on her death bed, told Maria's younger sister that "John did it, and you have to tell someone" and the case was finally reopened in 2008. Investigators say this is the oldest cold case to be given a trial and lead to a conviction.


http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/justice/oldest-cold-case-sentencing/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Typhoon Bopha Draws Close to Philippines

Citizens of the Philippines continue to wait in the darkness for the arrival of Typhoon Bopha that is rumored to be worse than a storm that occurred in 2011 that had more than 1,200 deaths. Millions of people are in Bopha's path, in areas unprepared and remote. The typhoon is becoming a super storm with sustained winds of about 150 miles per hour, which is the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. Sendong, the storm in 2011, had half that wind speed and that is why people are fearing the worst. Flash floods, landslides, homes getting blasted by high winds, uprooted trees, and power outages are expected. The storm is supposed to make landfall around 8 A.M. Tuesday. (7 P.M. Monday our time)



http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/03/world/asia/philippines-typhoon/index.html?hpt=wo_c2