And just out from ScienceDaily:

Jupiter Captured Comet For 12 Years In Mid-20th Century

The article itself is at the address below, and comes complete with
intimidatingly-labeled orbital diagram:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914111825.htm


-- Bill Spruiell

-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Subject: Headlines

At 02:55 PM 9/15/2009, Spruiell, William C wrote:
>I'm not sure every headline is assumed to be present tense. . . .

DD: I worked in the press both as editor and as "BOY! Remember that 
Headlines are written by word smiths. They enjoy working the 
ambiguity and pun routes. The real object of the Headline is to 
entice the reader to read further into the article.

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