Warp factor 8, Mr. Sulu: Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that is farther away from Earth than any galaxy ever seen.
It takes 13.1 billion years for light to travel from the galaxy to our planet — or just slightly longer than it takes to drive from Seattle to Everett after some fumble-fingered driver drops his cellphone, causing a multi-car pileup that closes I-5 (Page A10).
Tax scam 101: The IRS issued $5.6 billion in potentially bogus education tax credits in 2012, a government watchdog says. A lot of that money went to people who “attended” unaccredited degree mills.
An official says the IRS can’t quite suss out spurious claims; The Buzz suggests that instead of shopping on Amazon, IRS employees use their PCs to Google “List of Unaccredited Colleges in the U.S.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1965, Keith Richards composed the opening guitar riff of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
“Just think,” Richards said to himself. “Fifty years from now my masterpiece will be the ringtone on some aging boomer’s iPhone.”
— Mark Carlson and Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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