Everyone between southwest England and the Bay of Bengal had the same occupation last Wednesday--star gazing. Well, star-and-moon gazing, to be exact. But the last solar eclipse of the millennium wasn't all celestial. A roundup:
In Serbia, the Ministry of Health released a bulletin warning that the eclipse "can induce rapid heartbeat, spasms, itchiness, jump of blood pressure, higher blood sugar and frequent urination"; 26 Jordanians were admitted to hospitals but released when doctors found their eclipse-related illnesses to be "psychological."
Designer Paco Rabanne had predicted that the Russian Mir station would fall on France during the eclipse. Revelers held...