Good gawd, it’s John Fleck Day at the Albuquerque Journal, with at least 3

articles on the front and back of Section B (one of the three sections I read on Sundays) and one more inside. This must be the annual

issue they submit for awards. Meanwhile, Flecky (as Duhbya calls him) is riding into the wind (whatever direction he’s riding) in a bike

race. mjh

ABQjournal: Scientists: Earth’s Beginnings Can be

Found on MoonBy John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer

It is hard to think of the moon, floating serenely above the horizon on a

warm summer evening, as a violent place.

Barbara Cohen is not fooled.

There was a time in our solar system’s deep past

when the moon, the Earth and our other planetary neighbors were battered like overmatched, punch-drunk boxers. Massive chunks of asteroid

pounded them again and again.

ABQjournal: Election 2004: A Look at Nuclear Issues By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer

Kerry, Bush Disagree on the

Military Utility of Atomic Weapons and Ways to Curb Their Spread

John Kerry and George W. Bush offer voters a clear choice on what

has become the central national debate about the future direction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal— the question of whether to pursue a new

nuclear bomb designed to destroy underground enemy bunkers.

[mjh: this is two articles — weapons and waste — rolled into one Web

article]