I kept watching that 286pound monster ("20 stone six") they had playing the tight head prop, mainly because I was a tight head myself in the old days. He was plainly bushed. They should have gotten him out of there.The foundation grants wishes to children with terminal or lifethreatening illnesses, and with some helpful donations from the NHL (sticks, gloves, pucks, other memorabilia), Atkinson hopes to see a lot of money raised for a cause that means so much to him. "That's what motivated me. When I looked up the Marty Lyons Foundation, which is a local foundation, it seemed like a good fit right away.

"A galactic Internet might be in use already, but by aliens, not by humans yet," says Italy's Claudio Maccone, writing in the current Acta Astronautica journal. Maccone is a cochairman of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) permanent committee of the International Academy of Astronautics. In his wideranging report which ponders ever