Complete List of Grammy Nominations for the 43rd annual awards ceremony to take place in LA on 2-21-01. AP

Elephant Tramples Man And Keeps the Corpse. The animal pulled the man from a tree after he had climbed up to escape a rampaging herd, breaking the man’s legs. Enraged by villagers trying to extricate the man from its grasp, the elephant trampled him to death and has refused to part with the corpse for more than two weeks. Reuters

[via Slashdot]: Does 2001 mean monoliths to you? Apparently it does to someone in Seattle, joining a gleeful tradition of anonymous art in that city. Seattle Times

Alarm over NATO uranium deaths. The cancer deaths of six Italian soldiers who served with the NATO peacekeeping force in the Balkans raises concern about the use of depleted uranium weapons, valued for their armor-piercing capabilities, in that theater. A heavy metal almost twice the density of lead and only mildly radioactive in its native state, it turns on impact with a solid object into a burning vapor creating radioactive dust. US and British military officials have always denied the level of alarm about DU, which began with suspicions it was implicated in Gulf War Syndrome.

“We’ve always known
that it was a danger
only in absolutely
exceptional
circumstances like, for
example, picking up a
fragment with a hand
on which there was an
open wound, while in
normal circumstances it
isn’t dangerous at all.

But now we’re starting
to have a justified fear
that things aren’t that
simple,” worries Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. BBC

Arafat ‘accepts’ US peace plan. One more upswing on the roller-coaster-ride to hopes for Middle East peace. Arafat reserves the right for his approval to be subject to his own “interpretations and principles.” Ehud Barak, briefed on Arafat’s response, has gone on record to state his doubts that Clinton can make progress in brokering a peace before the end of his term of office. Barak called an urgent meeting of his top ministers, whose rhetoric has been increasingly confrontational. The Israeli deputy defense minister states Israel will continue its policy of assassinating Palestinian leaders involved in attacks on Israelis.

The Typing of the Dead: I’m not a gamer but this still caught my attention: ‘If you think you’ve seen everything there is to
see in gaming, you’re wrong – if you haven’t
tried out The Typing of the Dead, that is.
Sega has created possibly the weirdest game
ever, a title that’s so unexpected it defies logic
when one tries and figure out the frame of
mind of the individual at Sega of Japan who
said “Hey, we’ll make a typing game, and
make it fun.” The Typing of the Dead is the
kind of game that, like Dance Dance
Revolution and Beatmania makes people
look on as you play, and with good reason:
you’re killing zombies with precise key
strokes! Who wouldn’t be intrigued at the
prospect.’