Scientists have announced the probable observation for the first time of one of the most elusive subatomic particles, the Higgs Boson, at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. The particle has long been predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. If confirmed by further experiments, the discovery marks a major step forward in our understanding of the universe. It's too bad that the discovery wasn't made years earlier at the Superconducting Supercollider, a high-energy physics lab that was to have been built south of Dallas but whose funding was cut by Congress under the "leadership" of former Texas Senator Phil Gramm. We always seem to find money to fight wars, however.