January 2004


Boston, MA A study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Womens Hospital has found that participants who regularly drank coffee significantly reduced the risk of onset of type 2 diabetes, compared to non-coffee drinking participants. The findings appear in theJanuary 6, 2004 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has captured its first color image of Mars. It is the highest resolution picture ever taken of another planet. (JPL/NASA; Jan 6, 2004)

Andrew Orlowski, The Register (UK), reports:

Exclusive Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, who broke the DVD encryption scheme, has opened iTunes locked music a tad further, by allowing people to play songs they’ve purchased on iTunes Music Store on their GNU/Linux computers.
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