  Consistency of Einstein-de Sitter model with the recently observed SNe Ia by
the Hubble Space Telescope is examined. The model shows a reasonable fit to the
observation, if one takes into account the extinction of SNe light by the
intergalactic metallic dust ejected from the SNe explosions. Though the fit to
the new data is worsened considerably compared with the earlier data, it can
still be regarded acceptable. We should wait for more accurate observations at
higher redshifts (as expected from the coming space missions such as SNAP and
JWST) in order to rule out a model, which seems to explain all the other
existing observations well (some even better than the favoured $\Lambda$CDM
model), is consistent with beautiful theoretical ideas like inflation and cold
dark matter, and is not as speculative as the models of dark energy.
