@ The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that isotonic drinks work better than water to alleviate the effects of the "Economy Seat Syndrome".

@ Popular wildlife viewing website AfriCam.com is back online.

@ Unique visitors to online Travel sites increased 9% worldwide from December to January, to 94.3 million people, or 30% of the worldwide audience, exceeding the previous pre 11/9 record of 94 million.

@ Biometric passports for British may be introduced by 2006

@ Priceline And Ebay Team Up To Provide Enhanced Travel Services. 42 percent of eBay users purchased online travel in the last year, representing $8.4 billion in gross merchandise sales.

@ WebSideStory, Inc. reports that 52% of Internet surfers worldwide are using direct navigation and bookmarks to locate Web sites, rather than relying on search engines and Internet links.

@ Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows vast amounts of water-ice beneath the surface of Mars, possibly.

@ The U.S. Department of Commerce said that as of September 2001, 54% of Americans, some 143 million, were using the Internet, with 2 million new users being added every month.

@ Washington Carnegie Institute scientists announced that E. coli bacteria, found for example inside hamburgers can survive at extremely high pressures, therefore life as we know it could be found even in Jupiter's moons.

@ Worldres.com survey finds that 83% of their customers reserving hotel rooms online consider price the primary factor.

THE GEORGE ORWELL COLLECTION:
Source: Wired.com
The Jacobs family ( not Adams?) are the first to volunteer to permanently implant a microchip, "VeriChip", in their bodies. "The world would be a safer place if authorities had a tamper-proof way of identifying people, she said. I have nothing to hide, so I wouldn't mind having the chip for verification," Leslie Jacobs said. "I already have an ID card, so why not have a chip?"