DEPARTMENTS

MARCH 2008 – NO. 22

Super Bowl XLII and a chance at a perfect 17-0 season, by the New England Patriots at the hands of the New York Giants. Remnants of the Gambino crime family, after an anti-Mafia sweep in the U.S. and Italy results in mass arrests. 4 paintings totaling in value over $162 million, stolen from the Foundation E.G. Buhrle, a Zurich museum. The paintings were by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet. 6 students dead and 18 injured after a gunman opens fire at Northern Illinois University. A broken National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite, and the troubling amount of unused hydrazine fuel on board, successfully destroyed in space by a U.S. Navy missile, on the first shot. Adventurer Steve Fossett, declared legally dead by a judge in Illinois, 5 months after he disappeared in the Nevada desert. The Brown Pelican, from the Endangered Species list, after a successful campaign and 20 year rebound. 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef, in the largest meat recall in the United States. Americans, in the 4 acting categories at the 80th Annual Academy Awards, after Javier Bardem (Spain), Tilda Swinton (England), Daniel Day-Lewis (England and Ireland) and Marion Cotillard (France) take the prizes instead.

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