Counter Intelligence: Aliens, ESPN and Paper Shredding

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Updated 9:23 AM EST, Thu, Nov 20, 2008

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Read this and you'll look smart. You don't have to be intelligent to impress people -- you just have to fake it. Here's a daily list of fascinating articles that will wow your friends, surprise your co-workers and make you seem sharp at a cocktail party or over the lunch counter....

Hours after Salon.com published a story about two Americans killed by friendly fire military officials apparently were ordered to shred boxes full of documents on the two men.
If a quantum particle in the right circumstances rolls across a tabletop and reaches the edge it doesn't fall off -- instead, it stays on the table and rolls back.
Scoring the Bowl Championship Series was a coup for ESPN -- but can the company justify its $500 million price tag?
A new study suggest that an asteroid struck Mars with such great force that it could have wiped out the planet's entire magnetic field.
A growing fashion trend in Japan is described as part Marie Antoinette and part Paris Hilton -- bringing old-style European royalty into the 21-st century.
NASA faking the moon landings, aliens landing at Roswell and the "Paul is Dead" theory are among 30 of the best conspiracy theories of all time. See what made the grade here.
The military has banned disks and USB drives after a rapidly spreading worm infected its computers. The suspension poses a significant problem for the military, which heavily relies on takeaway storage since bandwidth, often scarce in the field and networks are unreliable.