Politicians usually become infatuated with Hollywood only when they have to disguise failed policies with star power: the decline of the Clinton presidency can be dated from the time when the celebrities started outnumbering the Ivy League professors at White House dinners.

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The graphics might be dated, but if screenshots from the original version are any indication, it was already well ahead of its time, so it holds up pretty well.

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The effect of this new provision, which was strongly pushed by the NFL in its negotiations with the NFLPA, is to create a couple of advantages for NFL teams: (1) the Tag numbers will be lower, pulling from a more dated pool of numbers, and (2) teams can now use the Tag designation as a greater leverage point in negotiations that is stronger than it was previously.

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It is thought to be just over 100m years old (Apollo 17 brought back material from the site, which allowed it to be dated), and it is reckoned by Dr Bottke to be the result of the moon encountering one of the first of Baptistina's progeny to arrive in the inner solar system.

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Some waste sites, however, dated from years back and the polluters either could not be traced or had closed down.

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Indeed, one real-estate agent told me that the main reason that he used them wasn't because of their expertise but to keep clients from getting mad at him: When sellers needed to be told that their drapes were dated and their rugs ratty, his stagers delivered the bad news, not him.

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Soil samples from around the stone's socket will be analysed and any organic material found radio-carbon dated if possible.

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