Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BIN LADEN AUDIO TAPE In his latest message to Al Jazeera television, Osama bin Laden is warning Muslim allies of the United States to be ready for the consequences of supporting America against his al Qaida network. Advertisement The message says the suspected terrorist mastermind also praised those who bombed a nightclub in Bali and killed a U.S. soldier in Kuwait last month. Al Jazeera sources told United Press International they received an audio cassette from al Qaida earlier this week, which contained bin Laden's message. Initial tests indicate the voice may be bin Laden's. -- Will the Muslim allies of the United States listen to bin Laden? -- If bin Laden is alive, why wouldn't he send a video tape? EINSTEIN Nearly 50 years after his death and nearly a century after he first set down the beginnings of his world-famous theory of relativity, a major new museum exhibit examines Albert Einstein, UPI reports. One of the most recognized faces on the planet, Einstein can be found on posters in college dorm rooms around the world and his image has been used to sell everything from cameras and computers to cars and soft drinks. Advertisement As writer James Gleick has put it, "We talk as though humanity could be divided into two groups: Albert Einstein and everybody else." -- Some think Einstein's fame is partly the product of his personality and his unique appearance -- the wild hair and those deep-set eyes. Do you agree? -- Clifford Will, a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis, says there have been lots of physicists who have been equally smart, or even smarter than Einstein. Do you think there will be another Einstein? (Thanks to UPI's Dan Falk) INTERNET FILTERS The Supreme Court, in what could become a landmark free speech case, agreed to decide whether a federal law that requires public libraries to install Internet filters on their computers violates the First Amendment, UPI reports. The 1996 Telecommunications Act compels telecommunications companies to provide Internet access to public schools and public libraries at a discount. For the year ending in July 2002, that discount amounted to about $58.5 million. A separate federal law, the Library Services and Technology Act, also gives federal assistance to libraries in the form of grants to link to the Internet. In fiscal 2002, the aid amounted to more than $149 million. Advertisement Beginning in 1998, some members of Congress began to worry that instead of performing an educational service, Internet-connected computers at libraries were serving up online pornography. However, the Children's Internet Protection Act says the library cannot receive aid under the two funding programs unless it installs a filter that keeps "all persons" from accessing obscenity or child pornography, and keeps children from accessing anything that is "harmful to minors." -- Some believe one man's pornography can be another man's literature or medical information. Do you agree? -- Do you think Internet filters violate the First Amendment? (Thanks to UPI Legal Affairs Correspondent Michael Kirkland)
