First, there's the article regarding the anti-cocaine virus. Apparently they injected rats with a virus and the rats were no longer significantly affected by cocaine. I personally would rather see chemists working to make cocaine better, but that's a totally different issue. The issue here is the headline: Now, a Virus that Cuts the Craving for Cocaine!

Do not ever ever ever put an exclamation point in your headline, especially for something like this.

The other article was about the first private flight into space. The article came from the AP, although I read it on the ABC news website. Apparently even children can submit articles to the AP and get them published on major websites. Here's an exciting excerpt from the article in question:

"It was really an awesome sight," he said of gazing down at the Earth's curvature from 62 miles above, of seeing the planet in all its various colors and gazing at the California coastline from Los Angeles to San Diego."

Wow. I understand it's not fair to nitpick on small grammatical and spelling errors (I make plenty of them) but this whole article reads like it was written by a second grader. And let's face it, I don't publish on ABC.com. Here's another masterfully crafted paragraph:

"Although Monday's flight appeared to go flawlessly, Rutan revealed afterward that there was a serious malfunction in SpaceShipOne's trim system, used to adjust stability and steering, causing it to miss its atmospheric re-entry point by 22 miles. There was also a large bang during the flight, but the team did not know what caused that."