Until recently, no one had ever heard of Jill Price. Her friends and family knew her memory was remarkable, but nobody in the scientific community did. Her road to stardom started in June 2000 (Monday, June 5, to be exact), when she stumbled upon a Web page for James McGaugh, a UC Irvine neuroscientist who specializes in learning and memory, and decided to send him an email describing her unusual ability to recall the past. McGaugh wrote back 90 minutes later. He tells me he was skeptical at first, but it didn't take long for him to become convinced that Price was something special; he soon introduced her to two of his collaborators, Larry Cahill and Elizabeth Parker.

The three researchers interviewed Price many times over the next five years, but they kept the story to themselves. Finally, McGaugh and company were ready to share what they had found. In February 2006, their article, "A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Remembering," appeared in the journal Neurocase. Shortly thereafter, the UC Irvine press office peddled the story to The Orange County Register—and Price's world was turned upside down.

New York City. Easter Sunday, 8am. I was one of a few customers in Jimmy’s Diner and I was seated at a table reading the New York Times waiting for the appropriate time to leave for the subway.  When I turned to get a pen from my briefcase, I accidentally knocked my cup of coffee over. Its entire contents emptied into my open briefcase!

An independent study cleared Sinar Mas Group, the world’s second-biggest palm oil producer, of destroying rainforests in Indonesia, according to a statement from PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Tbk.

The report, by Control Union Certification and BSI Group, “clearly demonstrates that the environmental campaigner was wrong in much of its campaign and exaggerated throughout,” PT Sinar Mas Agro, said in a statement. Sinar Mas Agro, also known as PT SMART, is a unit of Singapore-listed Golden Agri-Resources Ltd., part of Sinar Mas Group.