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1. A White House aide resigned after it was discovered that he plagiarized a professor for a newspaper column on education. He later explained that he wanted to show students what NOT to do. Cheating on a column about education! We haven’t seen anything like this since the environmental secretary published a memo on the skin of a baby fur seal. Actually, we should be thrilled that anyone in the Bush administration is even reading academic papers.

2. Presidential candidates and their staffs have been spending a lot of time in Rhode Island recently. The candidates have to coordinate well with each other there, since there isn’t physically enough room in Rhode Island to have two rallies at the same time.

3. Scientists have now learned that bats fly in much the same way as insects. To find this out, they made bats fly through wind tunnels filled with fog and lasers. They paid for the experiments by selling the film footage to music video makers.

4. Obama t-shirt sales are surging, which is good, since with everyone downloading his speeches for free, that’s the only way he can make money.

5. The airplane manufacturer Boeing has lost its contract with the US military to build planes that refuel other planes in flight. However, fliers on commercial airliners may be able to hire Boeing to supply them with food in-flight.