SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 10:37 A.M. ET: 

More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt.  The new study was prompted by the August 2008 discovery of powerful oxygen-busting compounds known as perchlorates at the landing site of another Mars probe called Phoenix.

The organic material would be covered under Obamacare, but the death panel ruled that's more than 60 million years old, just outside the age limit.

January 8, 2010