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News: Long but interesting article about latest theories of how the Universe works -- Comment: Among the latest findings -- less than five percent of the Universe is ordinary matter, 73 percent is mysterious dark energy that is causing the Universe to expand faster and faster every year, and there are some questions that scientists still do not know how to ask, let alone answer, scientifically. Was there anything before the Big Bang? Is there a role for life in the cosmos? Why is there something rather than nothing at all? Will we ever know? I like to think about weird stuff like this when I'm peering through my ETX at night. News: Gyrating stock market is freaking everyone out -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49323-2002Jul23.html Comment: One casualty is plans to privatize a small part of Social Security. My mother-in-law points out, with some justification, that some people would lose their Social Security money if they invested it in the stock market. But not reforming Social Security is not an option. In 20 years the outflows will overcome the inflows of contributions. Privatizing at least some of the Social Security system is one of a number of options that will eventually have to be explored. Remember, our political system is designed to make it very difficult to achieve change unless conditions are so dire and drastic that it forces a consensus to unite around a solution. We'll be there soon for Social Security and then we'll fix it. But it will be much more difficult and expensive the longer we wait. Click here to see current comments and add your own. 11:04:37 AM 
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