Plane With 46 People Missing in Peru: "A Peruvian airliner carrying 46 people, including eight children, disappeared Thursday amid cloud-covered mountains in the Amazon jungle. Heavy rain hampered the search effort."

T-Mobile Sidekick with Camera Attachment for $49.99: The T-Mobile Sidekick is available for $49.99 on Amazon.com until January 27th. The normally $249 device is priced at $49 after two mail in rebates, and the requires activation of a $39.99 a month service.

A Microsoft Watch Will Provide Much More Than Time: "All of the watches will have a small, rectangular liquid crystal display and the ability to receive short data messages, much like a pager. This technology will allow the watch to identify where it is and what the local time is - and the local weather forecast - as the wearer travels."

Once Again, the French Storm the Cash Registers: "Under French law, retail stores are allowed to run sales only twice a year, in January and August. Today marked the start of a merchandising offensive that can last legally for only four to six weeks."

First speed of gravity measurement revealed: "The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time. The landmark experiment shows that it travels at the speed of light, meaning that Einstein's general theory of relativity has passed another test with flying colours."

Spam costs businesses $13 billion: "A study to be released this week attempts to quantify the annual cost of spam: $8.9 billion for U.S. corporations, $2.5 billion for European businesses and another $500 million for U.S. and European service providers."

Tiny, remote New Mexico town up for sale: " community center, an airstrip, 259 homes and over 1,000 acres of nearby land? $3.2 million. Owning a once-humming mining town in a remote corner of New Mexico? Priceless. Playas, a virtual ghost town since Phelps Dodge Corp. halted operations at a nearby copper smelter in September 1999, has been put up for sale by the mining giant."

Gold Touches 6-Year High, Oil Nears 2-Year Peak: " Gold nudged its highest level for six years Monday, oil hovered near a two-year peak and the dollar dipped as signs the United States and Britain were preparing troops for an attack on Iraq kept markets volatile."

Team aims to crack Antarctic ice secrets: "The Pine Island Glacier, the world's largest, may be on the verge of slipping into the sea far faster than anyone previously thought, according to the preliminary results of a ground-breaking survey mission to Antarctica."

The Death of Rural Nevada: "Conventional wisdom within the Silver State's media and political establishment has long assumed that the state's city folks don't really care about what's going on out beyond the outskirts of Las Vegas and Reno. But an important new study suggests urban Nevadans are much more supportive of their cow-county compatriots than most observers ever suspected."