COMMENTERRY—

Scientific achievement and Anna Nicole who?

A tip of the hat to scientists from Norway for planning an arctic vault designed to insure the preservation of the world’s seed crop in the event of some global catastrophe.

Worried also about the loss of crop diversity, scientists plan to construct a subterranean structure deep underground in the permafrost on the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, far above the flooding level that could occur with melting of the earth’s glacial ice.

The project, now in the design stage, is expected to be operational late in 2008.

This news comes from a recent on-line article in Science Daily.

Meanwhile, news featured on our more pedestrian sources continues its incessant blab about the unfortunate death of this woman named Smith of vastly questionable achievement with a propensity to spawn offspring of equally questionable parentage—the first father said to be a 16 year-old fry cook and the second in doubt among some foreign prince, her sometimes lawyer and assorted boyfriends.

With respect to the decedent, may we refocus on events more worthy of mankind’s contemplation?