Saturday, December 18, 2010

Whatever Happened to Amelia Earhart?





What happened to Amelia Earhart is such a mystery, but now there might be an answer to this question. There have been some bone fragments found in an island in the South Pacific. It's an island on the course she was traveling over. Along with the three bone fragments they also found old makeup, glass bottles, and shells that had been cut open.
Scientists are going to do a DNA testing to see if this really is her. I'm so hoping that it is. This would be such intense news if it was.


This is super exciting. I play Sims Castaway all the time and in the game it sucks trying to survive on your own, but she actually had to try and do it! If this was her, it's sad to think she wasn't able to get rescued. But it also would add to her awesomeness.

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101218/ap_on_re_us/us_search_for_amelia

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Perfect Town's First Imperfection

In 1989 Disney's then CEO, Michael Eisner, built the perfect town in Florida, he named it Celebration. People started moved in during 1996. Critics viewed the reminiscent of a quaint New England village as something out of The Truman Show or The Stepford Wife. In the 14 years that Celebration has been a town it has been perfect, it's "the kind of town where people give Christmas gifts to their favorite Starbucks barista, where welcoming wooden rocking chairs sit lakeside on a sidewalk without being stolen, where neighbors tend to get suspicious if they notice you're not around."
Recently though, this town faced it's first homicide. 58 year old Matteo Giovanditto's body was found dead in his apartment in Celebration. Neighbors filed a missing person report when they realized that no one had seen him since the day before Thanksgiving. Police haven't given any further details.


This town sounds super awesome, except for the murder part. I would love to live in a place so neighborly and friendly, but at the same time it would all seem really fake because nothing is perfect. I think that this crime kind of brought the townspeople back to the real world, and unfortunately that's what they needed because they're dreamers.

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_death_in_disney_town