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SAT 2005-APR-30
Supernatural
freep.com/ ... 13:36:15
MARK SCOTT 1936-2005: Acerbic radio personality was much-loved, reviled... He began each radio show with the soaring guitars of George Thorogood and the Destroyers from "Bad to the Bone," and he always ended with the clarion cry of "Excelsior!" In between was
a singular mix of conservative and libertarian talk
, occasional health and fitness insights and rightist certitude that made Mark Scott one of the highest-rated -- and in some circles, most-hated -- radio voices in Detroit during the 1980s and '90s....
cbsnews.com/ ... 13:35:24
The United Methodist Church reversed itself Friday, deciding to reinstate a lesbian minister who was defrocked after revealing her relationship with another woman.
Theory of Education
desmoinesregister.com/ ... 13:34:31
Two Des Moines Roosevelt High School students say their right to free expression was violated when they were directed this week to change their anti-abortion T-shirts that administrators said might have disrupted school.
washingtontimes.com/ ... 13:34:09
A St. Louis charter school principal is accused of cheating on state standardized tests by ordering teachers to help students finish incomplete test sections.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:25:06
A federal judge allowed a history teacher's lawsuit to proceed against school-district officials who barred him from providing supplemental handouts to students including the Declaration of Independence because the historical documents contain some references to God and religion.
1000 Words
abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:18:36
It really doesn't get much worse than this," said.. Hoffman Estates Police Lt. Rich Russo.. who would not discuss a possible motive for the killings. The autopsies showed that both children tried to fight off their attacker...
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:10:31
"I never ever thought that she left because she had cold feet," Wilbanks' mother, Joyce Parrish, originally told CNN, before the true circumstances were revealed. "She and John are crazy about each other. ... She told me how many times she loved John."
Modern Family Life
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:31
CORRY, Pa. -- ...Danielle Bimber had no names for the boys because she never intended to be their mother. But leaving the hospital without them, her job seemingly done, the surrogate mom grew uneasy. Where was the couple who had hired her? When would they come to the hospital to take the newborns home? Why had they stopped visiting after the first day?... with the hospital preparing to put the children in foster care, Danielle obtained permission to take the boys home... would soon become engaged in a bitter battle with the triplets' biological father... 63-year-old math professor said complicated paperwork was partly to blame for his early absence....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:55:49
BOULDER, Colo. - A 14-year-old girl who claimed she shot her father to death to help him commit suicide has been charged with second-degree murder... after finding him in pain after he had tried to shoot himself to death....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:50:36
Dhaka - A married couple who spent eight years in prison after being convicted of killing the wife's son have been freed after he turned up alive... his father - who he said had kept him hidden in different places - had lodged a false case against Ms Khatun. Ms Khatun has now taken shelter with a human rights group...
But is it Art?
rogerebert.suntimes.com/ ... 12:33:48
(Ebert:) Palindromes... a brave and challenging film for which there may not be much of an audience.... no heroes without flaws and no villains without virtues... no matter who you think the heroes and villains are.... The plot circles relentlessly, setting up moral situations and then pulling the moral ground out from under them. The movie is almost reckless in the way it refuses to provide us with a place to stand. It is all made of paradoxes....
Yuck!
cbsnews.com/ ... 02:53:51
...before and 2 1/2 years after she began using meth...
Cascading Weirdness
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:24:42
Kids across America as well as some young adults are falling for an elaborate Internet hoax suggesting rap star Tupac Shakur, murdered nine years ago, is alive and well... According to a 2002 survey,
83 percent of Tupac Shakur fans believe he is still alive or coming back in a resurrected form....
nytimes.com/ ... 12:37:16
A bride-to-be whose disappearance prompted a widespread search and commanded national media attention went to the police in Albuquerque early today, telling investigators that
she had gotten cold feet days before her wedding and fled.
... had taken a Greyhound bus from Georgia to Las Vegas, then boarded another bus on Friday to Albuquerque... "It has been determined
Jennifer had some issues the family was not aware of.
The family would appreciate some time and space to assist Jennifer in dealing with these issues."...
cnn.com/ ... 03:00:51
Wilbanks, 32, told her family she was released by the two strangers. They abducted her Tuesday night before driving to the southwestern U.S., according to Pastor Alan Jones, who was supposed to preside at her wedding Saturday in Duluth, Georgia.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:57:02
WOONSOCKET, R.I. Apr 29, 2005 He didn't have any money. But police say that didn't stop Wayne Glaude, 22, from soliciting sex from an undercover officer Thursday night. Instead, police said, he offered steak.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:55:57
New Trike-Bike Design - No Training Wheels Needed - Could Take Fear Out of Junior's First Solo Ride
cbsnews.com/ ... 02:52:02
President Bush and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah holding hands as they stroll.... When it comes to two men holding hands, America's got issues....
foxnews.com/ ... 02:50:20
A 32-year-old woman who vanished just days before she was to be married was found alive early Saturday in New Mexico.... no immediate details....
Extraterrestrial
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:51:48
Scientists say they have photographed a planet outside the Solar System for the first time... about five times the size of our Jupiter... 200 light-years away near the southern constellation of Hydra...
nypost.com/ ... 12:46:57
Here's why nobody in the press or public believes the alleged affair between Cruise, 42, and Holmes, 26, is real, no matter how many glossy magazines do cover stories hyping the notion in the coming weeks:
reuters.com/ ... 00:55:59
An unmanned Titan 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening to place a classified military payload into orbit, ending nearly five decades of Titan launches from Florida .
Transport Tragedy
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:54:36
....Union Pacific Railroad train operator Rod Bomberger saw the children and stopped his train in plenty of time, then radioed a warning to a second train coming from the opposite direction... The second train stopped just inches short of hitting the children...
Only Natural
newsbox.msn.co.uk/ ... 13:35:04
Scientists in Hong Kong and Britain have discovered a gene responsible for hearing, a breakthrough that could eventually lead to a cure for congenital deafness.
Justice?
rogerebert.suntimes.com/ ... 12:28:40
(Ebert:) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room... No matter what your politics, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will make you mad... a con game almost from the start... Strange, that there has not been more anger over the Enron scandals.... If the crisis had been created by Al Qaeda, if terrorists had shut down half of California's power plants, consider how we would regard these same events....
suntimes.com/ ... 12:26:29
EAST MOLINE -- Ronald Schickel, convicted of choking Michael Chambers to death after a 2000 wedding reception in Countryside, walked out of prison Thursday morning after serving just 16 months of a 54-month sentence for involuntary manslaughter... It's complicated math that allowed Schickel to go free so early....
Human Right
reuters.com/ ... 12:53:08
Kenyan Women Take Risks with Backstreet Abortions
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:25:21
Some say forcing a 13-year-old to give birth is illegal and cruel....
Science Marches Onnnnnn
cnn.com/ ... 12:24:39
RENO, Nevada -- On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs... "It's mice on a large scale...." falls firmly within the new ethics guidelines the influential National Academies issued this past week for stem cell research....
US Military
cbsnews.com/ ... 02:51:10
Amputee GI Sets Example In Iraq
Under Tyranny
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:32:04
Farmers with magic mushrooms growing on their property could be arrested for possession of controlled drugs under legislation rushed through Parliament before the election.
Police Riot
firstcoastnews.com/ ... 13:31:41
...That night, police charged Lewis with reckless driving and DUI. He says no field sobriety or breathalyzer tests were done. Lewis went to trial and was found not guilty. Cleared of the charges, he is now suing the Navy, some of the police officers and high ranking Naval officers. "It's hard to forget being treated like a terrorist being tortured. It's a hard thing to forget."...
ksdk.com/ ... 13:27:20
URBANA, Ill. -- A federal jury ordered two state police supervisors to pay more than $600,000 to a former lieutenant who said he was moved to a desk job because he pursued evidence linking a political contributor to a double murder.
sfgate.com/ ... 13:26:52
After eight years and three trials, a group of protesters whose eyes were swabbed with pepper spray during a series of anti-logging demonstrations finally won their case Thursday against Humboldt County sheriff's deputies and Eureka police -- but were awarded only $1 each in damages... Police and deputies
put pepper spray directly into the eyes of the protesters
, who had chained themselves together, in hopes that the burning would force them to unlock their shackles....
Rebuilding
reuters.com/ ... 12:54:45
...cooperatively owned Colors eatery in Greenwich Village which expects to open in September.... will honor the group's 73 co-workers who died when Windows On The World -- a top-floor World Trade Center restaurant -- crumbled to ashes.... will also stand as a model of justice in an industry that regularly exploits immigrants... "Our workers will be treated with dignity, working in their own business, with good pay and health benefits...."
Big City Stories
suntimes.com/ ... 12:25:57
Chicago -- He's accused of ripping off 13 banks since 2003. But despite a sizable girth, prominent scarring on his face and a $5,000 reward for his capture, no one could catch the "Bandaged Bandit." Then the man believed to be the bandit did what no one in law enforcement could imagine: He walked into their path.
WW2 - still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:23:12
Ironically, the bad press Japan gets for its restrained apologies obscures the fact that since 1945 it has been the very model of a world citizen, guided by an American-inspired constitution that bans war as an instrument of foreign policy.
Threats
canoe.ca/ ... 13:33:52
Dynamite, fertilizer and fuel oil -- the same deadly combination used in the Oklahoma City bombing a decade ago -- were found in the possession of a former Calgarian who was arrested in a stolen truck... "The suspect isn't what you'd call real talkative on the subject..." what was found in the truck would be enough to destroy a three-storey building if distributed among key support columns and used in a confined space....
abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:56:37
A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito. Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High. The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.....
9/11 - still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:55:40
Two of the Sept. 11 hijackers used a public-access computer at a New Jersey college library to buy tickets for the plane they seized and crashed into the Pentagon... Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., said..
"We put Americans' lives at risk if we foolishly provide sanctuaries - even in our public libraries - for terrorists to operate...."
Violence
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:56:53
An airstrike on a suspected insurgent camp killed three civilians and four militants in central Afghanistan.... Afghan security forces opened fire during a celebration in a western city, killing a mother and her daughter....
reuters.com/ ... 12:52:56
Three car bombs targeting military patrols exploded in Baghdad on Saturday, killing four people and wounding 16....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:52:22
Experts have examined a mass grave containing what are believed to be the bodies of some 1,500 Kurds, mostly women and children, in southern Iraq... believed to have been killed in the late 1980s after being forcibly moved from northern Iraq....
reuters.com/ ... 12:42:21
A bomber and two veiled women attacked tourists in separate incidents that killed two people in Cairo on Saturday, targeting a museum and a tourist bus... seven people injured near the museum... two veiled women opened fire on the bus in southern Cairo but missed... One of the women then shot dead the other and the second was wounded, possibly by herself....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:53:44
An airport police officer was killed Friday as he struggled with a suspect who stole his patrol car and slammed into a fire hydrant... officer had been hanging partly outside the car... suspect.. gained control of the police car after the officer stopped him and they got into a fight... After he crashed the officer's car, [suspect] carjacked a sports-utility vehicle, hit a curb and flipped over....
People Die
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:34:46
A mother died of a heart attack in a New York hospital after flying from Ireland for a facelift and nose surgery without telling her husband.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:52:17
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Six children died and... an 18-year-old man.. lost his hands and feet .. on Friday... when a hand grenade they found and were playing with exploded... all members of the same family.... apparently left over from the conflicts of the 1980s... apparently left over from the conflicts of the 1980s....
FRI 2005-APR-29
Lasting Contributions
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:39:07
The 350th episode of The Simpsons will be screened in the US on Sunday... Writers are already working on the next series, its 17th - a TV sitcom record....
History - still with us
turkishpress.com/ ... 12:33:40
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a number of rare Pharaonic seals of soldiers sent out on desert missions in search of red paint to decorate the pyramids, Egypt's culture minister said Thursday. The 26 matchbox-sized seals belonged to Cheops, who ruled from 2551 to 2528 BC, in whose honour the greatest of the great pyramids of Giza southwest of Cairo was built, and show Pharaonic soldiers' ranks
Digital Consequences
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:01:22
Voice and video files streamed over the net could be made untappable and ultra-secure in the next few years thanks to a breakthrough by Toshiba.... Simply put, quantum cryptography involves encoding bits of encryption data onto particles of light...
[oh yeah... simple...]
Theory of Education
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:25:11
A father who protested a pro-homosexual book his 6-year-old son had been given in school spent a night in jail after being arrested by police.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:57:42
PHILADELPHIA... one child brought her mother's diabetes testing needle to school and started pricking her classmates... as many as 19 third-graders, including one who is HIV positive, were pricked by the same needle.... a substitute teacher allegedly ignored children's complaints that the little girl was stabbing them with the needle... one of the children who was stuck with the needle is HIV positive....
Only Natural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:45:19
Peru's "little mermaid" - the baby born with legs fused together from her thighs to her ankles - celebrated her first birthday Friday in the public hospital where doctors hope to perform risky surgery to repair her rare birth defect.
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:35:26
Army Pvt.
Robert C. White III
, 21, of Camden, N.J., died April 23 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:35:09
Army Sgt.1st Class
Allen C. Johnson
, 31, of Los Molinos, Calif., died April 26 in Khanaqin, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his patrol.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:34:51
Army Spc.
David L. Rice
, 22, of Sioux City, Iowa, died April 26 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when his HMMWV rolled over.
US Military
mcall.com/ ... 10:53:14
"It is the unanimous decision of us all that you should be put to death,'' the jury foreman said... Akbar, a Muslim, has become the first U.S. soldier since the early Vietnam era to receive death for murdering a comrade during wartime....
Transport Tragedy
ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:45:39
A bus carrying more than 30 people crashed into a truck in southeastern Brazil on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 18, authorities said.
Viet Nam War - still with us
csmonitor.com/ ... 12:33:58
Lessons of Vietnam linger for US
Under Tyranny
chron.com/ ... 12:30:26
...The local homeowners association had sold the house, valued at about $250,000, saying Bernhardt failed to pay a $420 assessment fee. "It was so devastating... I was just stunned..." another example of the excessive power of homeowners associations and the need to reform the use of foreclosure sales to collect fees....
WW2 - still with us
reuters.com/ ... 11:02:08
60 years after the Fuehrer killed himself on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler still casts a long shadow. As weary of their past as many young Germans are, there is still a lingering fascination over history's greatest villain.
Threats
medicalnewstoday.com/ ... 19:38:07
Eighteen new cases of
polio
have today been announced in Yemen, bringing the reported total number associated with an outbreak in the country to 22. Yemen had been polio-free since disease surveillance began in 1996 - a genetic investigation is ongoing to determine the precise origin of the outbreak....
rednova.com/ ... 12:24:22
Investigators have taken several computers from the home of a missing bride-to-be to examine e-mails for clues to her disappearance..
alertnet.org/ ... 12:20:23
A posting on an Islamist Web site stirred speculation over the fate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and prompted a flurry of denials on Friday that the world's most wanted man was dead.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:19:59
"A nuclear missile concealed in the hold of a freighter would give Iran or terrorists the capability to perform an EMP attack against the United States homeland without developing an ICBM and with some prospect of remaining anonymous...."
nytimes.com/ ... 10:59:18
The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday that American intelligence agencies believed North Korea had mastered the technology for arming its missiles with nuclear warheads, an assessment that if correct, means the North could build weapons to threaten Japan and perhaps the western United States.
Violence
ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:43:03
A string of highway shootings since mid-March has left four people dead in Southern California and raised fears of a return to the bad old days of the 1980s, when the Los Angeles area gained a reputation for freeway gunplay.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:42:30
The mother of a 9-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl who were fatally stabbed more than 100 times each inside their suburban Chicago home was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder... The stabbings came five years after the couple's 3-month-old daughter died in a fire at an Elk Grove Village town house where the family then lived. The cause of the 2000 fire remains undetermined, but foul play was never suspected... Elk Grove Village Police.. will investigate that fire again....
apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:38:22
Insurgents set off at least 17 bombs in Iraq on Friday, killing at least 50 people, including three U.S. soldiers
sfgate.com/ ... 12:32:35
The 45-year-old Canadian citizen killed his Vallejo host earlier this year, buried him in the backyard of his lifelong home, and then spent several weeks spending a "substantial" portion of his nest egg on trips to Texas, New York and Puerto Vallarta
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:27:07
Unidentified arsonists set fire to Jerusalem's only "gay" bar this week ahead of plans, blasted by top religious figures, to bring a world homosexual event here this August
cbc.ca/ ... 10:50:39
At least 24 people were killed in Iraq on Friday after nine car bombings rocked Baghdad and a nearby town. Eighty-nine people, mostly Iraqi police and security officers, were injured in the attacks.
THU 2005-APR-28
WW2 - still with us
boston.com/ ... 22:47:06
On April 28, 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.
Extraordinary Life
boston.com/ ... 22:00:13
An 80-year-old woman rescued her 67-year-old neighbor from an apartment fire, carrying the ailing woman down two flights of stairs.
Modern Family Life
boston.com/ ... 22:01:48
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands -- Police did not arrest a woman accused of trying to run down an officer with her car because she was expected to give birth within 24 hours....
boston.com/ ... 22:01:02
A man hired to repossess a pickup truck drove off with a sleeping toddler in the back seat. The 2-year-old girl was found about 40 minutes later, still asleep.
boston.com/ ... 21:59:39
WEEHAWKEN, N.J. -- A pregnant woman traveling home in a taxi went into labor and gave birth Thursday while her cab was stuck in traffic at a tunnel toll booth.
Prehistory - still with us
theinquirer.net/ ... 15:20:48
A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.
english.eastday.com/ ... 15:19:43
Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated. The finding challenges the "Out-of-Africa" hypothesis of modern human origins....
But is it Art?
cnn.com/ ... 15:21:40
TULSA, Oklahoma -- Eleven-year-old Thomas Adams thought Warner Bros. had gone daffy when he saw the company's plans for a new cartoon called "Loonatics," based on Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals. The grimacing, hollow-eyed, power-fisted prototypes of a futuristic Bugs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner struck the boy as dark and scary. In the words of Daffy Duck, he found them "dethh-picable." Now, nearly two months after starting an Internet petition drive against the TV series' fall debut, Thomas has gotten the company's attention.....
reuters.com/ ... 13:53:06
Norwegian police expressed skepticism about a newspaper report Thursday that thieves had burned Edvard Munch's missing masterpiece "The Scream" out of fear that investigators were closing in.
Supernatural
reuters.com/ ... 13:41:24
...The prophecy -- widely dismissed by scholars as a hoax -- is attributed to St. Malachy, an Irish archbishop recognized by members of the Church for his ability to read the future. Benedict, believers say, fits the description of the second-to-last pope listed under the prophecy before the Last Judgement...
...St. Malachy was said to have had a vision during a trip to Rome around 1139 of the remaining 112 Popes. The new pope would be number 111 on that list, and is described in a text attributed to St. Malachy as the "Glory of the Olive."... the Order of Saint Benedict, a branch of which is known as the Olivetans... On Wednesday, Benedict dedicated his papacy to "the service of reconciliation and harmony between peoples." ... "...will... carry the olive branch...."
Whoops!
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:18:53
...His wife unwittingly discovered the camera, installed in the ceiling, after she turned on the television and saw her naked husband in the bath...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:36:12
The Chicago Tribune apologized Thursday for publishing a photo caption that misidentified a man as a high-ranking mobster, a day after a second man sued the newspaper over a picture wrongly identifying him as a mobster.
Broadcast is Dead
sun-sentinel.com/ ... 15:16:14
The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it will not consider an appeal from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh over prosecutors' seizure of his medical records during an investigation into whether he illegally purchased painkillers.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:15:55
Randi Rhodes: "This was just a stupid, stupid bit!"
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:27:46
Anti-TV campaigners want us to switch off the box this week... a new book in the US is challenging the notion that TV has "dumbed down" over the years...
Love is Strange
thisislondon.com/ ... 13:19:56
Growing numbers of teenagers are taking part in a new group sex craze known as 'daisy chaining'... Colleagues are coming across reports of groups of young people having sex in large groups. As we understand it, it involves groups of older teenagers going round to each other's homes and having sex in a similar way as swinging....' Charities warned that the practice could lead to a rise in young people contracting sexually-transmitted diseases....
[um... duh?]
apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:18:26
FORT RUCKER, Ala. - An Army officer was acquitted by a military judge Wednesday of raping a soldier in her barracks room... also acquitted on an adultery charge but convicted of having sex without informing his partner that he had genital herpes....
Extraterrestrial
thisislocallondon.co.uk/ ... 11:17:04
IT has taken 26 years for.. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to make it to the big screen... How then does first-time director Garth Jennings' film manage to look so rushed?... streamlining sacrifices, bafflingly for what is a comedy, most of the humour.....
startribune.com/ ... 11:15:09
For 20 years, fans of the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" have wondered when the 1979 novel would be made into a movie. That question is finally put to rest today, but the film's release is sure to pose others
Human Right
suntimes.com/ ... 21:59:05
The achievement gap between blacks and whites has stayed the same since 1990, and absent significant changes, the gulf could persist for much of the 21st century, according to new research by a University of Chicago economist.
palmbeachpost.com/ ... 15:17:16
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. The state's social services agency went to court to block a 13-year-old girl who is pregnant and living in a state shelter from having an abortion, and the girl wants to challenge the judge's decision.
Only Natural
nc-es.fws.gov/ ... 21:52:27
The last confirmed Ivory-billed Woodpecker was found in the mid-1940s in mature hardwood forest of northern Louisiana in what is now Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge. More recent reports from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida have not been confirmed by photographs.
news.scotsman.com/ ... 20:38:48
THE House of Lords has ruled that the creation of so-called "designer babies" to treat siblings with genetic disorders is lawful.
medpagetoday.com/ ... 20:38:30
Vitamin D and calcium supplements -- the inexpensive routes to bone health -- may be ineffective in the prevention of fractures.
news.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:38:12
For more than 60 years, scientists thought the ivory-billed woodpecker was extinct. Now new evidence suggests it is alive and well and living in Arkansas...
freeinternetpress.com/ ... 15:18:14
Thousands of toads are also exploding in central Denmark
reuters.com/ ... 13:42:08
A family of "missing" gorillas reappeared in Uganda, scotching speculation in the national media that they had been lured to neighboring Rwanda.
Why people go vegan
reuters.com/ ... 13:41:49
Oregon came a step closer to bidding au revoir to foie gras after the state's Senate passed a bill to outlaw the production and sale of fattened duck and goose livers....
Theory of Justice
reuters.com/ ... 13:37:27
A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism. [click here for all the smarmy details]
US Military
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:24
The Army honorably discharged an officer who had gone to court to challenge his assignment to Iraq, saying he had properly resigned more than a year earlier.
Viet Nam War - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:24:01
Veterans still feel Vietnam scars... 300,000 war veterans are homeless across America on any one night. Half of them fought in Vietnam.... "I was excited when I got the call-up, because it meant I was finally going abroad. But I don't think I was ready for what war was all about...."
Police Riot
boston.com/ ... 22:00:41
A state trooper directing traffic at a deadly car crash was arrested on a drunken driving charge after other officers said they smelled alcohol on his breath.
Threats
news.independent.co.uk/ ... 15:17:56
A leading Russian scientist has claimed that the
sarcophagus entombing Chernobyl's broken nuclear reactor is dangerously degraded
and he warned that its collapse
could cause a catastrophe on the same scale
as the original accident almost 20 years ago.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:16:50
The "Decision-Hour" for Iran is rapidly approaching. The Financial Times announced yesterday in a front-page article that the Pentagon has notified Congress of the pending sale to Israel of 100 "bunker-buster" bombs that could be used to attack Iran's secret underground nuclear facilities...
Fine Dining
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:35:54
Miami --
Seven men... of Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian descent.. doctor.. real estate agent.. insurance broker.. restaurant owner... all U.S. citizens... have sued a South Florida Denny's
restaurant franchisee and one of its managers
for $28 million
, saying they were kicked out because of their ancestry and compared to Osama Bin Laden....
People Die
abcnews.go.com/ ... 15:22:12
J.B. Stoner, an unrepentant white supremacist and anti-Semite convicted in the civil rights-era bombing of a black church, has died. He was 81.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:25:40
A cemetery in Australia will soon be offering people the chance to be buried feet first... an environmentally-friendly and cheaper option... "When you die, you are returned to the earth with a minimum of fuss and with no paraphernalia that would affect the environment..."
World Without Borders
chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 13:56:55
The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Kuomintang (KMT) Party, whose leader Lian Chan has just arrived in Beijing today in a historial visit, are reportedly to end decades of hostilities at a meeting between their leaders on Friday
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:21:17
The changing face of Jerusalem... Look to the horizon, and you'll see the wall... It's defining what Jerusalem is...
Under Tyranny
azcentral.com/ ... 15:21:01
Filmmakers aghast at 'scrubbed' feature films
nytimes.com/ ... 13:16:46
The House passed a bill on Wednesday making it a federal crime for any adult to transport an under-age girl across state lines to have an abortion without the consent of her parents.
Unclear on the Concept
apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:16:10
On Wednesday, the [Houston TX] City Council passed a series of library regulations.. prohibits sleeping on tables, eating, using restrooms for bathing and "offensive bodily hygiene that constitutes a nuisance to others." .. Two council members voted against the ordinance, saying it was a direct attack on the homeless... [One council member called it] "targeting a community..."
Violence
cbs4boston.com/ ... 13:13:31
Revere Mass... [woman] walks her purebred pug every night... Wednesday.. a man with a knife approached.. demanded she turn over her pet... [she] refused... [he] slashed her in the hand and chest... superficial wounds.. police.. searching for the man... dog.. is just fine....
channels.netscape.com/ ... 11:23:25
...Retired businessman Frank Calabrese is suing the Tribune Co. for more than $1 million in damages, claiming defamation. His picture ran Tuesday as part of a package about the indictment of several mobsters - including one named Frank Calabrese Sr. - on charges of plotting at least 18 murders....
suntimes.com/ ... 11:19:50
HOFFMAN ESTATES -- Two children were stabbed to death in their suburban Chicago home, and authorities were questioning their parents Thursday morning after finding several knives they believe were the murder weapons... "We are not looking for anybody else at this point in time...." mother.. was in the home Wednesday night when the children were attacked.. husband arrived later and called 911...
abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:18:19
DULUTH, Ga. Apr 28, 2005 The case of a woman who disappeared just days before she is to be married is now considered a criminal investigation
WED 2005-APR-27
Whoops!
newsday.com/ ... 22:51:59
FRESNO, Calif. -- A man attempting to burglarize a car over the weekend locked himself in the trunk and was swiftly arrested....
Theory of Education
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 22:48:58
...[UK] documentary.. shows pupils swearing in class, searching for porn on the internet, assaulting each other and refusing to co-operate with or respect their teachers.... Pupils drift into lessons, sometimes 15 minutes late. They use mobiles and hide under desks. They arrive with crisps and other food despite notices on the doors prohibiting eating or drinking during the lesson. They get up and leave lessons despite being told to sit down....
timesleader.com/ ... 22:46:14
WILKES-BARRE Two Coughlin High School ninth-grade students have been suspended from school and charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly engaging in sexual activity in an empty hallway inside the school.... no one saw.. but word.. got back to faculty members... "very nice kids and high-achieving students..."
abclocal.go.com/ ... 22:45:03
A 5-year-old preschooler says his teacher took him to her car, made him pull down his pants and spanked him with a belt... Raleigh family is looking at legal action... Wake County deputies and school officials look[ing] into abuse allegations.... "I was crying and then she spanked me..." has bruises....
reuters.com/ ... 16:50:20
...a growing number of U.S. schools ..teach Chinese -- a hot language thanks to China's surging economy and growing world clout....
Now
That's
Funny!
reuters.com/ ... 16:48:53
LOS ANGELES -...guerrilla artists have erected mock guard towers to protest what they see as a disturbing proliferation of gated communities....
Preternatural Patterns
reuters.com/ ... 16:45:59
A performance artist... attempts to kiss a photograph of Blair for eight hours in a marathon display of affection for the British leader....
Yuck!
canada.com/ ... 22:51:13
A Windsor hairstylist who suffered "recognizable psychological injury" after discovering a dead fly in a bottle of Culligan water has been awarded more than $340,000 in damages.
reuters.com/ ... 16:42:53
Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Transport
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:42:42
...air passengers are risking their health... oxygen levels in the blood dropped so low in 54% of passengers that they would need extra supplies....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:41:51
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, has landed safely, completing its maiden flight.
Unclear on the Concept
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:41:28
Togo's opposition presidential candidate has declared himself president with 70% of the vote, despite official results giving him only 38%.
Lasting Contributions
cbsnews.com/ ... 00:05:14
Philip Morrison
, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb and an early leader in the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, has died. He was 89.
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:54:34
Army 1st Sgt.
Timmy J. Millsap
, 39, of Wichita, Kan., died April 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:54:15
Army Cpl.
Kevin W. Prince
, 22, of Plain City, Ohio, died April 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:54:02
Spc.
Gary W. Walters Jr.
, 31, of Victoria, Texas, died April 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
US Military
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:53:43
This week, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Air Force and Coast Guard had no change in their numbers. The net collective result is
1,147 fewer reservists
mobilized than last week.
estripes.com/ ... 22:53:23
First Lt. Derek Ping and wife Jamie kiss outside of a chapel at West Point following their religious wedding ceremony April 8. They received their civil marriage certificate five months earlier, thanks to a Montana law that allows couples to be married without appearing in person.... double-proxy marriage a legal ceremony requiring neither party to be present....
Great Quake of 2004
news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:50:22
The devastating 2004 Sumatran earthquake, which caused the worst tsunami in modern times, should have left a detectable scar on Earth's gravity field, European scientists said Monday.... already been said to have shortened the day by fractions of a second, shifted the North Pole by an inch, and made the planet less fat around the middle....
Theory of Justice
sun-sentinel.com/ ... 22:51:34
A Burger King customer who berated the employees when a drive-thru clerk told him the restaurant was out of french fries has been convicted of multiple charges and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
wftv.com/ ... 22:43:48
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Seminole County judge claims he has a mental disorder and that's what caused him to send 11 people to jail for being late to his court....
Science Marches Onnnnnn
reuters.com/ ... 16:49:23
"It ought to send a chill through a lot of defendants to know after 32 years you can still test for DNA...."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:47:47
A tabletop experiment created nuclear fusion - long seen as a possible clean energy solution - under lab conditions... the amount of energy produced was too little to be seen as a breakthrough in solving the world's energy needs...
Only Natural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:46:14
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that 29 peanut farmers in Texas can proceed with their lawsuit against Dow Agrosciences after the chemical giant's weed killer unexpectedly destroyed their crops.
cbsnews.com/ ... 00:04:34
A woman who agreed to be a
surrogate mother
for a childless couple gave birth Tuesday to
five boys.
Rebuilding
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:44:47
..."We made all this happen," said Mario Arbid of the hundreds of activists who have camped in Martyrs' Square since Hariri's Feb. 14 assassination. With the last Syrian soldier walking across the border into Syria on Tuesday, camp residents say they are ready to leave. But the fight for independence has not ended, they point out, and the activists will return if necessary....
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 16:49:42
Ahmed Ressam, convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport after he was caught on the U.S.-Canada border with a car full of explosives, is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday in Seattle.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:46:29
Thousands of Israelis poured into the Gaza Strip's main Jewish settlement bloc Wednesday to protest this summer's planned withdrawal from the area Israel occupied for 38 years, but the rally was marred by low turnout and a mortar attack.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:43:56
IOLA, Kan. - A 10-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murder in the shotgun slaying of his father....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:43:34
Militants mounted a series of attacks near Afghanistan's lawless border with Pakistan, killing a U.S. soldier and at least four Afghan police officers, while three Afghan civilians were wounded by gunfire following the bombing of an American patrol....
reuters.com/ ... 16:42:29
At least five people were killed by gunfire during a political demonstration on Wednesday in Haiti
Digital Threat
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:45:20
A federal magistrate has ruled that two North Carolina universities do not have to reveal the identities of two students accused to sharing copyrighted music on the Internet.
newsday.com/ ... 16:41:11
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act... passed on Tuesday by the House, proposes up to 3 years in prison for anyone who electronically distributes a movie that hasn't been released on video or DVD, or songs or software that haven't been released to the public....
news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:38:53
President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation
aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs.
.. ...gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs....
Transport Tragedy
abcnews.go.com/ ... 16:36:24
A passenger train rammed into a bus that tried to dash through a railroad crossing Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and injuring another 60. Witnesses said people, some of them on fire, jumped out of windows after the crash.
Threats
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:41:34
...disclosure of secretly recorded comments from the kingdom's chief justice encouraging young Saudis to travel to Iraq to wage war against Americans....
reuters.com/ ... 16:42:12
President Bush was hustled into an underground shelter on Wednesday amid fears an aircraft had entered the restricted airspace around the White House... false alarm....
upi.com/ ... 16:39:13
A recent article in a scientific journal describes two outbreaks of smallpox in 1901 that were attributed to infected letters, and bioweapon experts said it is possible terrorists could spread the deadly disease in this manner today.
cnn.travel.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 00:09:04
United Airlines flight from New York to San Francisco [diverted to Chicago] ... two passengers reported that another one appeared suspicious... man was carrying two vials of medicine, an MP3 player and wires for his laptop computer
Sick, Sick, Sick
drudgereport.com/ ... 16:37:56
...announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]." ...aired during opening minutes of The Randi Rhodes Show [on Air America]....
"Even joking about shooting the president is a crime, let alone doing it on national radio... we are taking this very seriously," a government source explained....
cbsnews.com/ ... 00:07:24
A college production tells the story of Matthew Sheppard, a student beaten to death because he was gay. And soon, it could be banned in Alabama. Republican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, under his bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.
TUE 2005-APR-26
Unclear on the Concept
reuters.com/ ... 15:16:46
Bangladeshi customs officials found luxury cars, large-screen television sets and refrigerators in a container declared to be carrying metal scrap -- so they.. used bulldozers to crush a Mercedes Benz and a Toyota car and other luxury goods at a railway container terminal in Dhaka... They wanted to befool us by saying they brought in scrapped metals...so we are giving them the same. They, or anyone like them, will not forget this"... Cash-strapped Bangladesh is trying hard to increase domestic revenue...
[Wouldn't it have been a little smarter to sell the vehicles to raise that domestic revenue rather than destroy them?]
Theory of Education
reuters.com/ ... 15:12:41
The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a fraternity whose members hazed a pledge by repeatedly firing a BB gun at him... shot on April 8 at least 30 times and was later treated at a local hospital for welts and bruises....
Sex can be Dangerous
reuters.com/ ... 15:10:30
Best to Eat Like the Greeks After Heart Disease...
[...or even better (DUH!) BEFORE!...]
reuters.com/ ... 15:09:34
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta... study of more than 5,600 men between the ages of 15 and 29 found that
more than three-quarters of those who tested positive for HIV were unaware they were infected
. Moreover, before being tested, a majority of these men thought themselves at low risk of having the AIDS virus, and half had had unprotected sex with another man during the previous 6 months....
Chappaquiddick
drudgereport.com/ ... 14:57:41
Ted Kennedy remembers "The sad anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal...."
Whoops!
drudgereport.com/ ... 14:56:15
Galveston, Texas... President Bush: "Do you still have Splash Day? You have to be a baby boomer to know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying whether I came or not on Splash Day. I'm just saying, Do you have Splash Day?" ...Bush was unaware "Splash Day" is now a fully gay and lesbian event on the beaches....
Digital Consequences
abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:51:43
Computer storage technology is getting so cheap a person could record every conversation of a lifetime and decades of photographs, but experts must improve search systems so users can make sense of such mind-boggling amounts of information, Microsoft's top research executive said Tuesday.... button-sized computers of the future that could be worn on a shirt and equipped with cameras and other sensors to record all a person's movements, activities and conversations....
reuters.com/ ... 13:57:10
Web search leader Google Inc. said on Monday advertisers could now choose the Web sites that carry their ads and it was introducing animated graphical advertisements.
Transport
themoderatevoice.com/ ... 13:54:27
Skydiver Killed After Hitting Plane Shows Fate's Quirkiness
reuters.com/ ... 13:53:57
... at least 73 people killed in Japan's worst rail accident in four decades.... More than 150 of the 440 injured in the crash were in a serious condition...
Yuck!
newsday.com/ ... 13:44:04
CARROLL, Iowa -- City officials are perplexed over the discovery of mysterious chunks of flesh that have been clogging up city water lines.... "There was no hair and no real bone. There were varying degrees of the substance, whatever it is...." said drinking water was not affected by the blockages and is safe to drink... Chlorine levels have been temporarily increased as a precaution...
Sex -- always attractive
thisislondon.com/ ... 15:04:06
...ITV1 show This Morning... presenter Lorraine Kelly... welcomed [Robert] Downey Jr to the show by telling him: "You look fantastic, you look really well."
The 40-year-old actor replied: "Thanks. I was going to say that
your t*ts look great too!
"
A clearly shocked Kelly, 45... "Thank you, that's nice."
..Downey Jr..: "Particularly today."
Kelly..: "Oh good, well I'm glad I made you happy." Gazing down at her cleavage and adjusting her top..: "I didn't realise they were so out."
..co-host.. on his first day as temporary replacement..: "Let's move swiftly on."
Kelly.. "I think we should."...
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:29:06
Peruvian virgin turns down $1.5m
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:59:05
Army Spc.
Robert W. Defazio
, 21, of West Babylon, N.Y., died April 24 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:58:48
Marine 2nd Lt.
Heinz Ahlmeyer Jr.
of Pearl River, N.Y.
Marine Sgt.
James N. Tycz
of Milwaukee, Wis.
Marine Lance Cpl.
Samuel A. Sharp Jr.
of San Jose, Calif.
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class
Malcolm T. Miller
of Tampa, Fla.
died while on reconnaissance patrol operating near the U.S. Marine base in Khe Sanh, Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, May 10, 1967.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:56:17
Navy Hospitalman
Aaron A. Kent
, 28, of Portland, Oregon, died Apr. 23, from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Fallujah, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:55:59
Army Sgt.
Anthony J. Davis Jr.
, 22, of Long Beach, Calif., died April 23 in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his Stryker military vehicle.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:55:42
Marine Pfc.
Robert A. Guy
, 26, of Willards, Md., died April 21 as a result of a non-hostile incident near Al Karmah, Iraq.
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!
ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:19:25
Afghan farmers have begun harvesting this year's opium crop
, exposing the limits of a U.S.-sponsored crackdown on the world's largest narcotics industry despite claims Tuesday by President Hamid Karzai that drug cultivation was down sharply.
Only Natural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:18:54
Gov. Janet Napolitano signed into law Tuesday a ban on the sale of junk food in Arizona's elementary, middle and junior high schools.
Human Right
reuters.com/ ... 15:18:33
A Swedish lesbian couple who were thrown out of a Stockholm restaurant in 2003 for kissing won an appeal Monday against an earlier court ruling that cleared the restaurant owner of sexual discrimination.
Great Quake of 2004
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:06:59
...Much has changed since the 26 December tsunami destroyed their homes and livelihoods along the coastline of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Gone are the big boats laden with huge catches returning home and the dozens of eager buyers cackling incessantly as they haggle for the prize catches. No more women clutching straw baskets waiting to sell fish, or sandy stretches that doubled up as mile-long playgrounds for the children who occupied themselves all day....
Justice?
apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:05:14
PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) - A herd of buffalo somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale neighborhood Tuesday, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners before officers managed to corral them in a tennis court....
sfgate.com/ ... 13:46:34
An Oakland woman alleges that Berkeley police violated her First Amendment rights when an officer ticketed her last year for honking in support of a labor union's picketing outside the Claremont Resort and Spa to protest rising health care costs and other issues.
news.com.au/ ... 13:40:49
JUDGE Ian Dodd slept and snored through the evidence of an alleged rape victim in the fourth and most shocking case of his appalling performance on the bench. And while the judge has admitted to being asleep - and the Judicial Commission has upheld the woman's complaint - no action will be taken to discipline him. The judge has not even apologised directly to the woman....
Slow Learners
reuters.com/ ... 15:14:51
A Roman restaurant owner called the police Monday after a smartly dressed customer got up and calmly declared that he didn't have any money to pay the bill. Identity checks showed that 96 complaints had been filed against the man for pulling that same stunt across Italy over the past 12 years...
Viet Nam War - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:07:24
Three decades since the end of the Vietnam war, the families of more than 1,800 US soldiers who went missing in action are still waiting for an end to their uncertainty.
Digital Threat
guardian.co.uk/ ... 14:58:22
Fad of filming violent attacks on mobile phones spreads
World Without Borders
thinkprogress.org/ ... 14:52:55
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah visited President Bushs Texas Ranch yesterday. Heres what President Bush did and did not do during the visit:
Threats
reuters.com/ ... 15:08:39
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A black student has confessed to sending racist hate mail to three fellow students at her Christian college, apparently because she was unhappy and wanted to be pulled out of the school... "The notes became her way to leave the school (Trinity International University) by implying it was not a safe campus...." charged with disorderly conduct and a hate crime...
reuters.com/ ... 14:54:11
A United Airlines plane from New York to San Francisco was diverted to Chicago on Tuesday after a passenger reported suspicious materials, but police investigating the complaint said the items turned out to be vials of a harmless herbal extract.
signonsandiego.com/ ... 14:53:49
A TACA Airlines plane bound for Central America was grounded at San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday when a flight attendant thought she heard a passenger say he had a bomb in his carryon luggage.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:56:32
Jordanian rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Iraq's most wanted fugitive recently eluded capture by American troops, but left behind a treasure trove of information... Zarqawi's computer and 80,000 euros (about $104,000 U.S.)... "a very big hard drive...." recent pictures of Zarqawi...
Aftermath
washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:54:46
U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war
Under Tyranny
news24.com/ ... 13:45:50
Amman - A Jordanian man shot dead his divorced sister... a 31-year-old mother... after seeing her photo on his friend's camera-equipped cellphone... fifth example of a so-called honour killing in Jordan this year.
Those found guilty usually face sentences of a maximum of one year in jail under Jordanian law.
... At least 19 women lost their lives in honour killings in Jordan last year....
WW2 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:06:12
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, 91, is one of the last living eyewitnesses to Hitler's final days. He escaped Hitler's bunker just 24 hours before the dictator shot himself.
expatica.com/ ... 13:42:35
Only one in two Germans below the age of 24 know that the term 'Holocaust' is used to describe the mass murder of Jews by the Nazi regime... four out of five Germans were aware of the effects of the Nazi regime's views on race.... men tended to be better informed about history than women. On the Holocaust question, for example, twice as many women as men did not understand the term.... eastern Germans tended to know history better than those in the west...
Violence
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:38:17
Iraq shooting: Differing accounts... The US military says the car carrying Mr Calipari was speeding... Soldiers used "hand and arm signals, flashing white lights and firing warning shots" to get the driver to stop... When the car did not stop, soldiers shot into its engine block...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says an Italian agent who was in the car with Mr Calipari has given his version of events. "A light was flashed at the vehicle from 10m away... The driver at this point stopped the car immediately and at the same time there was gunfire for about 10 or 15 seconds. A few shots reached the vehicle - one killed Mr Calipari and another bullet injured Ms Sgrena in the shoulder."...
Rebuilding
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:35:30
...Thirty years on and you have to pinch yourself at the transformation. The jungly marshes are fast disappearing, pumped out by a steel forest of cranes and engineering equipment hired by South Korean, Taiwanese and Hong Kong development companies. The area where the Vietcong fired their 122mm rockets is now a rapidly expanding executive housing estate, decked out in the sort of pastel colours favoured in Florida coastal resorts....
MON 2005-APR-25
History - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:38:25
The woman featured in Robert Doisneau's classic photograph of a couple kissing outside Paris city hall has sold her original print at auction. The picture, Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, sold for 155,000 euros (£105,000) - more than 10 times what it was expected to fetch.... said she was selling her original print and other items to finance a film production company she wants to start with her husband....
Preternatural Patterns
ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:04:26
Experts and medical groups say numerous physical and psychological changes can be a tip-off that adolescent girls are abusing anabolic steroids
google.com/ ... 16:35:23
Google search on "exploding frogs"
local6.com/ ... 16:31:16
Hamburg, Germany.. Scientists.. baffled.. strange deaths of hundreds of toads.. in and around a pond...
As many as a thousand toads have died after their bodies swelled to bursting point and then exploded
.... Scientists are looking at a fungus that may have been spread by foreign race horses from a nearby track...
Sex can be Dangerous
reuters.com/ ... 16:55:10
NEW DELHI -- ...Twenty-nine-year-old... born with both male and female genitals.. became a man to marry a female relative was dumped after the surgery... suing her for breach of trust...
wftv.com/ ... 16:29:48
COCOA, Fla... 29-year-old, 360-pound sixth grade teacher... charged.. with... raping a 13-year-old.. boy.. repeatedly after school, at school, every day for months... been at Endeavour Elementary School for 10 years...
Yawn
worldscreen.com/ ... 14:15:55
George Lucas... is looking to develop a live-action TV series based on.. Star Wars....
Transport
abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:03:46
AMAGASAKI, Japan -- A seven-car commuter train... carrying 580 passengers... behind schedule.. may have been speeding.. jumped the tracks Monday and hurtled into an apartment complex, killing 57 people and injuring 440 in Japan's worst rail accident in 40 years... inexperienced, 23-year-old driver... overshot the last station before the wreck... not clear how many of the dead were passengers or if bystanders and apartment residents were among the victims....
Extraterrestrial
universetoday.com/ ... 14:12:09
The Soyuz
capsule
carrying the crew of Expedition 10 and ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori
landed safely
in north-central Kazakhstan early Monday, approximately 85 km (53 miles) from the town of Arkalyk. Recovery personnel reached the spacecraft within minutes of their touchdown, and the crew was airlifted out safely. Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov spent a total of 192 days in space, and completed two spacewalks.
Only Natural
rxpgnews.com/ ... 14:15:12
WHO Assessment of the Marburg haemorrhagic fever Outbreak
... an extreme test of international capacity to hold emerging diseases at bay.. Two factors make the rapid detection of outbreaks of Marburg haemorrhagic fever difficult: the extreme rarity of this disease and its similarity to other diseases seen in countries where deaths from infectious diseases are common. Neither the source nor the date of the initial cases in Angola can be presently identified with any certainty....
...In theory, the measures needed to end the Angolan outbreak are few in number and straightforward in nature. Rapid detection and isolation of patients, tracing and management of their close contacts, infection control in hospitals and protective clothing for staff work to interrupt chains of transmission and thus seal off opportunities for further spread.
Such straightforward measures are complicated by the distinct features of this disease. The sudden onset, dramatic symptoms, and rapid deterioration of patients, and the absence of a vaccine and effective treatment, invariably incite great anxiety in affected populations. This anxiety, in turn, can interfere with control operations, especially when communities begin hiding cases and bodies because of suspicions about the safety of hospitals.
In the current outbreak, such suspicions are understandable. Very few patients with laboratory-confirmed Marburg haemorrhagic fever have survived...
ohio.com/ ... 14:11:06
A rare late spring snowstorm dumped over a foot of snow onto parts of northeastern Ohio and knocked out power to about 80,000 electricity customers in the Cleveland area on Sunday....
Reasons for Repeal
bloomberg.com/ ... 14:05:53
Federal agents arrested Haji Bashir Noorzai, an Afghan drug lord with close ties to the Taliban... indicted by a grand jury in New York on charges of conspiring to import $50 million worth of heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan into the U.S. and other countries....
[Cut funding for terrorists and gangsters... eliminate the black market... repeal! repeal! repeal!]
WW2 - still with us
reuters.com/ ... 19:04:10
A German army officer responsible for drafting battle-front maps for Adolf Hitler's daily briefings said that a week before the Nazi dictator killed himself they were relying on "enemy" news for Germany's defense.
Viet Nam War - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:53:01
BBC--In pictures: The Vietnam War
Cold War - still with us
usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 16:26:49
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia.
Big City Stories
You couldn't sell a fiction novel with stuff like this...
cbs2chicago.com/ ... 14:20:48
...Joey "The Clown" Lombardo... "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, and his brother, Michael, who were buried alive in an Indiana cornfield... Among those charged were two retired law enforcement officers... The Chicago Outfit, a criminal enterprise also known as the Chicago Syndicate and the Chicago mob... Lombardo.. previously convicted.. of corruption involving the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund...
suntimes.com/ ... 14:07:10
FBI agents have begun rounding up and arresting reputed mob leaders across the Chicago area as part of its case involving as many as 18 Outfit hits... expected to result in the most significant mob prosecution in Chicago history... Operation Family Secrets... M&M Amusement, an alleged illegal video poker business that Mickey Marcello runs in Cicero... Frank Calabrese, once the top mob loanshark in the city...
Current
cnn.com/ ... 16:24:40
The bodies of two toddlers reported missing over the weekend were found Monday in a pond near their rural Georgia home
foxnews.com/ ... 14:08:47
...2-year-old girl and her 3-year-old-brother ...reported missing Saturday evening after last being seen at their Warren County home, in east Georgia about 100 miles from Atlanta....
SUN 2005-APR-24
Yuck!
sfgate.com/ ... 20:09:13
The line stretched out the door. The parking lot was full. And no one seemed to be avoiding the chili. "It's still finger-licking good," said San Jose resident Jonathan Riga, 52, unable to resist the obvious in describing the most famous item on the menu at Wendy's....
fool.com/ ... 20:08:10
The Big Lebowski
(1998)... "I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways... I can get you one by three o'clock this afternoon... With nail polish..." ...I have to admit, that line was one of the first things that came to mind...
Theory of Education
washingtontimes.com/ ... 11:16:02
..."He came home and told me about it after school, and he said, 'I just stood there, Mom. I didn't even know what to do. We all just stood there and didn't even finish it,'" Mrs. Pulciani-Johnson said, quoting her son. Margo Lucero, the eighth-grade guidance counselor at the school, substituted the phrase "under your belief system" as she led the recitation of the Pledge on Wednesday....
Sex can be Dangerous
chron.com/ ... 11:15:00
...the lawsuit may be made a class-action. That could mean notifying a lot of other men who used credit cards to pay for lap dances in recent years. And that might not go over very well in some households.....
US Election 2008
nypost.com/ ... 11:13:56
...two weeks ago... [Sen. Hillary] Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States." Two days later, [Sen. John] Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his eyes and said, 'What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?' . . . He was very serious...."
Digital Consequences
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:21:05
One step on from virtual reality, augmented reality takes the real world and digitally distorts and transforms what we see around us... When I walked past a paper mill I could see the inner workings, and hear the sound of the mechanics thumping in my ears. In 1943 Doctor Albert Hoffman invented LSD in Basel, and there is an amazing section of the tour that plunges the user into full-blown psychedelia....
Transport
apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:19:48
DELAND, Fla. - A man who was skydiving in central Florida struck the wing of... the airplane that he jumped from Saturday morning... losing both his legs in the accident. ..later died... [the man's name:] Albert Wing III...
Only Natural
hosted.ap.org/ ... 13:47:48
Alaska -- Record-setting snow depths and water-content measurements have hydrologists warning of the potential for spring floods along several major Interior rivers.
usatoday.com/ ... 11:26:12
vast fields of far-flung wreckage exist beneath the blue-green ocean off Hawaii.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ ... 11:23:58
...A group of monkeys descended on an Orissa village, quaffed down pots of an intoxicating brew lying in the open and then set upon the villagers, injuring three of them... The intoxicating 'pana' drink had been prepared from marijuana leaves as part of an offering to Hindu gods on the occasion of the Oriya new year Friday. The villagers had kept it in pots outside their huts to ferment, an official said....
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:22:00
A French computer science student has stunned the world of mathematics by working out the 13th root of a 200-digit number in his head in under nine minutes... "As this was my first attempt, I was cautious." On June 3, he will try to find the right answer in less than three minutes. In a few months, he believes that he will break the one-minute barrier. "If I do that, without being pretentious, it will probably be the best piece of mental calculation ever," he said....
news.independent.co.uk/ ... 11:18:52
Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification....
Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism....
Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body... if the gene were to escape to wild relatives of the rice it could create particularly vicious superweeds that were resistant to a wide range of herbicides....
Digital Threat
newscientist.com/ ... 11:23:21
...Rather than attack PCs or email inboxes, their latest trick is to subvert the very infrastructure of the internet, the domain name system (DNS) that routes all net traffic.... redirect internet users to bogus websites, where visitors could have their passwords and credit details stolen, be forced to download malicious software, or be directed to links to pay-per-click adverts.... DNS cache poisoning or polluting.. was first done by pranksters in the early years of the internet, but it had limited impact and security patches eliminated the problem. Now new loopholes have opened and poisoning appears to be back. This time experts can't be sure how much damage it might do....
Supernatural Threats
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:19:40
Pope Benedict XVI will strive during his tenure to re-Christianize Europe by making the way for greater religious freedom on the continent and then converting millions of the Muslims who now populate the area, asserts geopolitical analyst Jack Wheeler.
Under Tyranny
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:09:53
A 27-year-old Australian beauty student is facing a firing-squad sentence in Indonesia for smuggling marijuana she claims was planted in her luggage.
Violence
chron.com/ ... 11:20:49
The child, 18-month-old Aiden Naquin, was shot in the head at his family's mobile home park the night of April 12 when five members of the MS-13 gang tried to rob his father, Ernest Naquin, of money he had obtained from an alleged Xanax sale that occurred minutes earlier
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:19:14
Iraqi Shias have admitted taking part in brutal attacks on members of their own religious community after being recruited as paid hitmen for the Sunni terrorist leader, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:25:26
An Afghan man killed his daughter for allegedly committing adultery, officials said Sunday, but denied reports that she was stoned to death.... The man she had visited was beaten as a warning but remained alive....
reuters.com/ ... 10:24:31
A bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad Sunday...
A sailor was killed by a bomb during combat operations on Saturday in Falluja...
A second U.S. soldier was killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near a military convoy near al Haswah, west of Baghdad.....
abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:11:40
A car bomb exploded outside a police academy in Saddam Hussein's hometown on Sunday, and another one went off moments later as authorities rushed to the scene, killing at least six Iraqis and wounding 33... occurred as recruits at the academy were about to travel to Jordan for a training program...
SAT 2005-APR-23
Yuck!
abclocal.go.com/ ... 15:51:43
...Davila thinks justice is finally being served. Bertha Davila, bought mobile home: "I told her God sees everything, and one day I'm going to get my money back."
sfgate.com/ ... 15:51:28
... tests showed that the digit wasn't cooked...
...Officers raided Ayala's home around 9 p.m. Thursday and found her alone watching "Meet the Fockers" on video...
aolsvc.news.aol.com/ ... 12:24:14
according to a person knowledgeable about the case who spoke on condition of anonymity, the attempted larceny charge stemmed from San Jose police interviews with people who said Ayala described putting a finger in the chili. The source said the interviews were with at least two people who did not know each other and independently told similar stories... still did not know where the finger came from....
sfgate.com/ ... 12:19:25
The Bush administration said Friday that it would enforce a nearly 3-year-old federal law that
requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a fetus that survives an abortion.
Modern Family Life
cnn.com/ ... 12:37:35
FRESNO, California -- ... the city's worst mass murder [trial]... testimony of incest, child brides, vampire aliases, coffin beds and an apocalyptic obsession that led a one-time bank teller to turn his extended family into a reclusive cult....
zwire.com/ ... 12:19:01
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state must provide new birth certificates for children born in Virginia and adopted by gay couples in other states... "We couldn't let our son go through his life with a birth certificate that was a lie," said upstate New York resident Diane Pineiro-Zucker, who adopted her son, now 6, with her partner of 25 years after he was born in Virginia. "It's been a long, hard fight, but it was worth every bit of it."...
Supernatural
comicbookresources.com/ ... 12:03:12
The new Superman (picture)
usatoday.com/ ... 12:02:53
Nicolas Cage is revved up to play Ghost Rider
Theory of Education
cnsnews.com/ ... 12:16:51
A conservative legal group is threatening to sue a Michigan school district over the administration's confiscation of several copies of a science book that teaches the theory of intelligent design in tandem with the theory of evolution.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:14:39
"The ACLU is obviously engaged in religious bigotry in cases concerning homosexual groups, they argue that Prince fully applies, but now, when it clearly applies, using the ACLU's own standard, to a religious club, they are seeking to overturn the Prince decision,"
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:57:30
A lawyer has threatened to sue police officers who handcuffed an allegedly uncontrollable five-year-old after she acted up at a Florida kindergarten. [Video footage of the tantrum and arrest available]... Three officers rushed to the scene and handcuffed the girl, by that time apparently calm, after pinning her arms behind her back....
Preternatural Patterns
ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:02:28
KENNEWICK, Wash. - A woman was jailed after police and wildlife agents found hundreds of wild birds - many of them dead or neglected - littering her home and yard... 400 birds - including wild magpies, hawks, owls, pheasants and quail... Some were in cages, others were perched on curtain rods and still others were in trees or bushes outside... Dead birds in various states of decay were scattered throughout the house and yard... chickens and roosters, pigeons, a goose and peacocks, as well as a couple of dogs and a cat... all.. appeared to be neglected....
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:10:32
Army Pfc.
Gavin J. Colburn
, 20, of Frankfort, Ind., died April 22 along a supply route in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle.
Only Natural
cnews.canoe.ca/ ... 12:20:55
Scientists think they have found a gene that predisposes men to prostate cancer in... mitochondria...
thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 12:20:01
AN ARTIFICIAL nose that can tell whether someone is ill from the smell of their breath is being developed by Scottish scientists.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:59:42
A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces.
themoderatevoice.com/ ... 11:40:23
...leukemia, the most common cancer among the young, could be warded off if a child interacts with a large number of other kids and picks up common infections....
Justice?
reuters.com/ ... 03:00:46
Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to 500 euros ($650) if they don't walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city's council.
Under Tyranny
zwire.com/ ... 12:45:44
NJ couple ...both pleaded guilty April 14 to federal charges they employed an illegal alien, first in their Evesham home and later in their residence in the Sewell section of Washington Township, so they could have cheap or free domestic help.... could face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for "concealing, harboring and shielding from detection" a Sri Lankan woman they illegally brought into the country to be a domestic servant.... held her a captive in their homes, forbidding her to go outside, even to get mail or take out trash... she entered the country thinking she had come on a three-month visa to care for a sick child.
When she arrived at Philadelphia International Airport, authorities said Manal confiscated her passport and return ticket and told her she had to stay in the country for five years.
... cooked, cleaned, took care of their three children, did laundry and cleaned their cars... worked seven days a week, sometimes for as many as 17 hours a day... had been promised a salary of $300 a week but was not paid... overhearing the couple talk... the woman feared for her life... Feb. 21, 2004... fled from the Jishi's Sewell residence without a coat or shoes and ran to a neighbor's house for help and police were notified... a settlement agreement was reached awarding the woman $225,000 for back wages and damages....
World Without Borders
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:22:25
Belize, the only English-speaking country in Central America, disappeared off the map for the past week and almost no one noticed.
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
wesh.com/ ... 12:41:01
Someone's posting sex offender fliers outside his house, but he's not the man on the flier and he's not a sex offender
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:16:33
....a religious leader whose salary is paid by the PA added a new accusation, preaching that the U.S. war effort in Iraq and elsewhere, including "Palestine," attempts to force Muslims to convert to Christianity...
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 15:51:58
The U.S. military said on Saturday it had detained six Iraqi men in connection with the shooting down of a commercial helicopter this week in which 11 people were killed, including six Americans.
reuters.com/ ... 12:02:29
...A car bomb attack on an Iraqi National Guard convoy killed nine troops on Saturday...
...An attack on a U.S. patrol in western Baghdad killed two civilians... three American soldiers and seven Iraqi civilians were wounded....
...One Iraqi National Guardsman was killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb at Yusufiya, about 47 miles south of Baghdad...
... two suicide car bombers wounded seven Iraqis on a road 10 km (six miles) south of the southern city of Basra...
...A journalist was shot dead in Mosul... a second was wounded... during a gunfight between insurgents and security forces...
WW1 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:51:51
Perparations are being made in Turkey to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli.
en.wikipedia.org/ ... 11:51:38
Battle of Gallipoli from Wikipedia
bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:50:55
Battle for Gallipoli: February 1915 - January 1916
eyewitnesstohistory.com/ ... 11:48:46
Battle At Gallipoli, 1915
9/11 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:00:18
Profile: Zacarias Moussaoui
cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 03:00:05
In a ``statement of facts'' compiled by prosecutors and signed Friday by Moussaoui, he acknowledged that Osama bin Laden gave his personal blessing and offered words of encouragement for the attack. The man Moussaoui called his "father in jihad" selected the French citizen to learn to fly a Boeing 747 airliner so that he could pilot it into the White House. "Sahrawi, remember your dream," bin Laden told Moussaoui. Abu Khaled al Sahrawi was one of the names Moussaoui used....
Don't Give Them Ideas
edition.cnn.com/ ... 02:58:50
In the first five days of a cigarette lighter ban on airplanes, travelers have surrendered 142,709 to airport screeners, a Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman said Thursday... has resulted in thousands of complaints from passengers....
sci-tech-today.com/ ... 02:58:12
"For the first time ... today's teens are more likely to have abused a prescription painkiller to get high than they are to have experimented with a variety of illicit drugs including Ecstasy, cocaine, crack and LSD," said Roy Bostock, chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
mtv.com/ ... 02:57:47
Racially motivated hate mail led school officials at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, to move dozens of minority students off its Bannockburn campus on Thursday.
FRI 2005-APR-22
History - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:16:23
The Flower Portrait [of William Shakespeare] which bears the inscription 1609... is a fake which dates back to the early 19th century....
Why people go vegan
signonsandiego.com/ ... 14:06:11
SACRAMENTO The powerful farm lobby yesterday blocked legislation that would have barred ranchers from killing chickens by feeding them into wood chippers....
Sex can be Dangerous
hosted.ap.org/ ... 14:04:30
WINONA, Minn. (AP) -- High school students here are being admonished for wearing buttons inspired by the sometimes raunchy off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues" and have been threatened with expulsion if they wear risque T-shirts inspired by the show.... I (heart) My Vagina"... T-shirts bearing "I (heart) My Vagina" for girls and "I Support Your Vagina" for boys....
Yuck!
reuters.com/ ... 11:52:48
A woman who said she found part of a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili last month has been arrested and charged with larceny in connection with the incident... the origin of the finger was still unknown...
Transport
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:50
A gas tanker burst into flames after colliding with a train in central Mexico state Friday, immediately killing the truck's driver
Digital Consequences
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 14:08:54
Welcome - not to the house of the future, but to the house of the present. For according to the software giant Microsoft, every piece of technological gadgetry installed in their west London show home is available to those in search of the ultimate in luxury.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:57:14
A copy of the original Electronics magazine in which Moore's Law was first published has turned up under the floorboards of a Surrey engineer.
cio-today.com/ ... 11:53:47
Having Microsoft's Linux support announcement come from Ballmer is an especially intriguing move, given the executive's past comments. In 2001, Ballmer stated that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:35
Yahoo Inc. may have resolved its dispute with a family over accessing the e-mail account of a Marine killed in Iraq, but legal experts say such conflicts are bound to be more common as e-mail becomes a crucial component of our lives.
Supernatural
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:30:07
Popes through History
thisislondon.com/ ... 11:27:38
sneak preview of... the new Superman Brandon Routh... in his superhero costume... does not need any fake padding.... all-new film sequel, provisionally titled Superman Returns,...
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 14:15:39
Army Spc.
Jacob M. Pfister
, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y.
Army Pfc.
Kevin S. K. Wessel
, 20, of Newport, Ore.
died April 19 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their dismounted patrol.
defenselink.mil/ ... 14:14:48
Marine Cpl.
Kelly M. Cannan
, 21, of Lowville, N.Y.
Marine Lance Cpl.
Marty G. Mortenson
, 22, of Flagstaff, Ariz.
were killed April 20 as the result of the detonation of an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.
Only Natural
lasvegassun.com/ ... 14:13:32
...some popcorn kernels resist popping into puffy white globes... Unpopped kernels, it turns out, have leaky hulls that prevent the moisture pressure buildup needed for them to pop and lack the optimal hull structure that allows most kernels to explode....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:12:40
A huge
iceberg the size of Luxembourg has smashed into a slab of ice that sticks out from Antarctica.
The icy mass, which is called the B-15A, is so heavy it broke off a 5km-long section of the Drygalski ice 'tongue' and could cause more damage....
Human Right
reviewjournal.com/ ... 14:06:25
CARSON CITY -- City and county governments would have a tougher time taking private property through eminent domain laws under a bill approved unanimously Wednesday in the Assembly.
365gay.com/ ... 11:53:24
Washington - Microsoft... is accused of bowing to a conservative Christian group and pulling its support for an LGBT civil rights bill...
Reasons for Repeal
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:44:07
...cocaine with the canapés is part of day-to-day life for her and many others...
US Civil War - still with us
thejacksonchannel.com/ ... 14:11:04
VICKSBURG, Miss. -- Crews working on a sewer line unearthed a dangerous Civil War relic in a Vicksburg neighborhood near Military Park Wednesday.... explosive contained enough black powder to possibly injure residents and cause damage to nearby homes... was likely buried during the siege on Vicksburg in 1863....
Digital Threat
thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 14:08:16
CONSTANT text messaging and e-mailing causes a reduction in mental capability equivalent to the loss of ten IQ points... temporarily reduces the performance of the brain...
Police Riot
sptimes.com/ ... 14:07:04
Tasered nine times, woman hires lawyer.. They claim what happened during and after her arrest amounted to excessive force. Officials say it was justified....
World Without Borders
csmonitor.com/ ... 14:14:07
..."fair trade" lumber. It's modeled after fair-trade coffee, where growers are paid above market price for following sustainable farming practices. And it's catching on....
washingtontimes.com/ ... 14:11:54
After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proved that Caucasians roamed China's Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived.
nynewsday.com/ ... 14:02:31
The Minuteman Project... announced Wednesday that it was entering a new phase and would stop its patrol activities... will focus on protesting businesses that employ illegal immigrants, pushing for immigration reform and organizing Minuteman branches nationwide....
Clinton Era -- still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:54:55
What happened to Elian Gonzales? "He's just a normal little boy" - is what almost everyone in this small, dusty Cuban town will tell you when you ask....
9/11 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:51:56
Spain's 11 September 'connection'
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
washingtonpost.com/ ... 11:28:54
PBS, they say, is being forced to toe a more conservative line in its programming by the Republican-dominated agency that provides about $30 million in federal funds
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 11:29:13
A car bomb blew up outside a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad as prayers were ending on Friday, killing 10 people and wounding 15
journaltimes.com/ ... 11:28:10
RACINE - An 8-year-old Julian Thomas Elementary School student attacked and seriously injured the school's principal with a wooden pole Thursday morning.
Sick, Sick, Sick
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:54:03
Pope Benedict XVI has responded firmly to the first challenge of his papacy by condemning a Spanish government bill allowing marriage between homosexuals.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:24:06
An Iraqi insurgent group says it shot down a commercial helicopter that crashed near Baghdad on Thursday - and that it shot dead the only survivor. The Islamic Army posted a video on the internet purporting to show the wreckage, and the shooting.
WW2 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:22:17
...attending the two-day.. annual Asia-Africa summit... Mr Koizumi said: "In the past Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations. Japan squarely faces these facts of history in a spirit of humility." The wording repeats previous Japanese apologies - but analysts say the international setting gives the statement added weight.
THU 2005-APR-21
Mechanical Disaster
nytimes.com/ ... 23:36:31
Two retired city detectives accused of betraying their badges to become paid Mafia killers were formally arraigned in Brooklyn yesterday, pleading not guilty to committing at least eight murders for the mob.
edition.cnn.com/ ... 23:36:08
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- An explosion and fire in a coal mine in Turkey's western district has left at least 17 people dead
Preternatural Patterns
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:21:14
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is preventing some information related to al-Qaida terror leader Osama bin Laden from being released, invoking a law that permits the feds to withhold data if it "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
Sex can be Dangerous
boston.com/ ... 18:19:47
A strip club owner who attempted a creative end run around Boise's public nudity ban has been charged with three misdemeanor counts of aiding and abetting his dancers to break the city code... Teague said the club not only turns into an art studio on Monday and Tuesday for its art nights, but it's a private club and thus exempt from city rules....
Transport
cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 14:28:13
Highway deaths on U.S. roads increased slightly in 2004 to 42,800, with sport utility rollover fatalities rising sharply
Supernatural
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:33:26
Germany's top-selling newspaper Bild was furious at the coverage of the new pope by British newspapers, which had accentuated Benedict XVI's past as a teenager in Nazi Germany.
wpherald.com/ ... 23:32:11
"Nazi pope a clear and present danger to the civilized world," read the headline of a reader's letter in a forum of NYTimes.com, The New York Times' Web site. It wasn't the worst abuse leveled at Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, a German. Type the words "Nazi pope" into the Google search line, and you will get nearly 700 mentions....
edition.cnn.com/ ... 14:26:22
Pope gets new e-mail address... benedictxvi@vatican.va; in Italian, benedettoxvi@vatican.va; in Spanish, benedictoxvi@)vatican.va; in French, benoitxvi@vatican.va; in German, benediktxvi@vatican.va; and in Portuguese, bentoxvi@vatican.va.
chronwatch.com/ ... 14:21:12
Earlier this week, I had several discussions regarding the conspicuous unfair and mischaracterizations in the media regarding the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Language such as ultra-conservative, hard-liner, poloarizing, etc... So what do I see as I open "USA Today" on page 9D? This headline: "For US Catholics, new Pope could be polarizing.".... most Catholics are thrilled with this choice. But, as usual, the media continues to expose its bias and ignorance regarding the facts.
Digital Consequences
cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 14:31:25
"The only Web site I know with a siren is the Drudge Report," Gore said.
cube.ign.com/ ... 14:21:54
Sony and Toshiba are expected to make an announcement later this month that they have abandoned the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats respectively and are working on a new medium that will bring together both standards.
csmonitor.com/ ... 01:40:11
3-D imaging - once a laughable Hollywood experiment - is reaching new levels of realism.
Whoops!
boston.com/ ... 18:20:04
The two Norwegians thought they had the perfect escape vehicle for their heist -- a rowboat. They overlooked one thing: Neither knew how to row a boat.
nbcsandiego.com/ ... 01:36:50
"Yesterday was a total screw-up in the words I used," the governor [Schwarzenegger] said at a press conference. "Because instead of closing, I meant securing.
I think maybe my English, I need to go back to school and study a little bit."
US Military
defenselink.mil/ ... 18:17:25
This week, the Air Force announced an increase, while the Army, Navy and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Marine Corps had no change in their numbers. The net collective result is
155 fewer reservists
mobilized than last week.
Justice?
boston.com/ ... 18:20:55
BAKER, Fla. -- Two seniors at this rural Florida Panhandle community's only public school have been suspended and others were punished after they violated their principal's ban on T-shirts that read "Kiss Our Class Good-bye" or "Holy Ship, we're graduating."...
csmonitor.com/ ... 14:19:10
If nothing else, the bizarre trial of Zacarias Moussaoui - the only person in the US charged in connection with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - may have highlighted the difficulties of trying suspected terrorists in established civilian courts... Mr. Moussaoui himself has been erratic and belligerent. He has filed rambling letters with the court... The case has also raised serious legal issues, notably the degree to which an accused terrorist can have access to the testimony of other imprisoned terrorist suspects....
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 18:17:45
Army Maj.
Steven W. Thornton
, 46, of Eugene, Ore., died April 18 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, when he collapsed during physical training.
defenselink.mil/ ... 18:17:02
Army Cpl.
Tyler J. Dickens
, 20, of Columbus, Ga., died April 12 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, of injuries sustained April 6 in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq, when his guard tower caught fire.
defenselink.mil/ ... 01:41:27
Army Pfc.
Sam W. Huff
, 18, of Tucson, Ariz., died April 18 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on April 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her HMMWV.
Only Natural
apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:33:48
The first comprehensive survey of glaciers on the Antarctic peninsula has shown that the rivers of ice are shrinking, mostly because of warming of the local climate.
cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 18:23:35
...Although hydrogen sulfide gas is toxic in high doses, it may activate some of the mechanisms that cause other animals to go into hibernation... a finding that may help save human lives. ...
boston.com/ ... 18:18:59
BRANSON, Mo. -- Animal control officials are trying to track a black panther that apparently has been roaming southwest Missouri... On Monday, a resident, who had reported seeing the panther in his yard several times over the past six weeks, videotaped the cat panther as it walked through woods behind his home....
reuters.com/ ... 14:33:20
Chinese men have no reason to feel inferior about the size of their penises
csmonitor.com/ ... 01:40:53
Even small changes can trigger big effects, which no one foresees because the links aren't always apparent.
Human Right
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:33:00
Spain's lower house of parliament has approved the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children.
thekcrachannel.com/ ... 01:39:23
Connecticut
became Wednesday the second state to
recognize same-sex civil unions
, and the first to do so without court pressure.
WW2 - still with us
bloomberg.com/ ... 23:35:07
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will apologize for the pain his country inflicted on neighboring Asian nations before and during World War II, the government said today.
Violence
bangornews.com/ ... 23:34:03
PORTLAND, Maine Portland police fear that a shooting this week at a tattoo parlor may have been the prelude to a turf war among motorcycle gangs and are planning a crackdown in hopes of preventing further violence.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:32:15
A commercial helicopter has crashed about 20km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, killing all 11 people on board, after apparently being shot down.... Those who died were six US security contractors, three Bulgarian crew members and two Filipino guards....
Digital Threat
lasvegassun.com/ ... 01:39:41
Google Inc. is experimenting with a new feature that enables the users of its online search engine to see all of their past search requests and results, creating a computer peephole that could prove as embarrassing as it is helpful.
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 01:38:50
...Even Andrew McKerney,
the managing director of the manufacturers, said the machine was "evil"
- before correcting himself and describing it as merely "very efficient"... The on-street version of the six-foot tall device spots a car as it parks and sends a text message to a traffic warden within seconds if the motorist either doesn't pay or overstays....
World Without Borders
newschannel5.tv/ ... 23:34:36
Border Patrol agents called for backup today after arrested more than 100 Brazilian immigrants. The agency did not have enough room to process the group, and said they were baffled by the numbers.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:33:35
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Declaring an end to "a period of agony in our community," Muslim, Christian and other religious leaders signed a pledge to strengthen interfaith ties in the aftermath of the slaying of an Egyptian Christian family.
rollingstone.com/ ... 14:25:19
Talk about scene stealers... not Nicole Kidman as an African-born U.N. interpreter or Sean Penn as a widowed Secret Service agent... It's the United Nations building, pushing sixty, that turns on the charisma in its film debut -- a smashing one -- in
The Interpreter
. ...
azcentral.com/ ... 01:37:54
U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued nearly 80 undocumented immigrants in the desert ... When their guide was going to abandon them Monday, some of the immigrants ganged up on him and took away a phone they knew he was carrying and called 911....
WED 2005-APR-20
Digital Consequences
cube.ign.com/ ... 21:29:53
Namco has gained rights to use the Peanuts in video games, the company announced today. A licensing agreement with United Media gives Namco use of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, and other characters from the classic comic strip franchise.
US Executive Branch
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:09:32
Condoleezza Rice tried out her rusty Russian in a Moscow radio interview Wednesday, only to get caught out by a question on whether she might run for president.... "Da (Yes)," Rice answered in Russian, before realizing her misunderstanding and hastily adding "Nyet" (No) -- seven times....
Extraterrestrial
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:07:39
The Spitzer telescope has detected what looks to be an asteroid belt around a star some 41 light-years from Earth.
Modern Family Life
apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:06:44
NASHUA, N.H.... Pheasant Lane Mall... In response to recent "disorderly and disruptive" incidents, ...From 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, mall security guards now stand outside two entrances to make sure anyone under 16 has a parent or someone over 21 with them....
Transport
thisislondon.com/ ... 18:02:27
New details have been revealed of plans to charge London motorists up to 80p a mile to drive on city roads.
Hi-tech satellite tracking systems are expected to be introduced in 2015 and will mean significant investment in the transport network.
However, trials of a separate system of an electronic tag and beacon system are to take place in Southwark this year.
news.scotsman.com/ ... 17:58:51
An airliner carrying 157 passengers skidded off a runway into a river at Tehrans Mehrabad airport tonight, killing a child. Several passengers were reported injured.
Supernatural
uk.news.yahoo.com/ ... 17:59:48
The brother of Pope Benedict XVI Georg Ratzinger, 81, said he was "very concerned" and "shocked" upon hearing that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been elected as head of the Roman Catholic Church because of his age and frail health.
suntimes.com/ ... 00:10:33
"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me-- a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord...." the oldest elected since Clement XII, who was chosen in 1730 at 78 but was three months older than Ratzinger...
Viet Nam War - still with us
sfgate.com/ ... 00:09:13
Catherine Leroy.. In 1966, at age 21, Leroy bought a one-way ticket to Laos en route to the battlefront in Vietnam. She had only her Leica, what little money she'd saved and a will to tell compelling stories on film. "Photojournalists were my heroes..."
Today
boston.com/ ... 00:07:14
ON APRIL 19th...
...1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
...1782, the Netherlands recognized American independence.
...1933, the United States went off the gold standard.
...1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces.
...1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Truman, bid farewell to Congress, quoting a line from a ballad: "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
...1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed.
...1995, A truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.
...Pop singer Mark "Flo" Volman (The Turtles; Flo and Eddie) is 58
Yuck!
thekansascitychannel.com/ ... 18:05:07
...a Vietnam veteran... 54... was arrested... for spitting on Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda during a book-signing stop in Kansas City Tuesday night....
boston.com/ ... 00:04:14
GLEN GARDNER, N.J. -- Discovery of a bag full of rotting animal parts hidden in the ceiling above the school lunchroom forced the closing of Voorhees High School on Monday.
Whoops!
boston.com/ ... 00:01:38
Proof that it does pay to recycle, a man who inadvertently cast his $4,296 federal income tax refund check into his home's recycling bin got lucky when a worker at a nearby recycling center happened upon it and returned it.....
Oh! The Irony!
kansascity.com/ ... 21:28:40
...When [Mort] Walker [creator of Beetle Bailey] returned home from the service after World War II, he was shocked to discover that his vast collection of comic books, big little books and meticulously clipped newspaper comic strips were all gone. They just threw it away, he said. My mother said, I thought you outgrew those, Mort.' ....
boston.com/ ... 00:01:07
Providence firefighters spent part of Tuesday morning trying to subdue a stubborn blaze -- in their own fire truck. Engine 11 was completely burned....
Justice?
local6.com/ ... 18:01:52
...Juror No. 2386 .. had been sitting in a courtroom for two days as part of jury selection...
..."You yawned rather audibly there. As a matter of fact, it was to the point that it was contemptuous," Superior Court Judge Craig Veals said.
"I'm sorry, but I'm really bored," the juror said.
"I'm sorry?" the judge responded.
When the juror repeated his statement, he was admonished by the judge for having a "lousy" attitude.
"Your boredom just cost you $1,000 I'm finding you in contempt," Veals said. "Are you quite so bored now?"
... The fine later was reduced to $100....
Human Right
womensenews.org/ ... 21:29:28
Less than 4 percent of editorial cartoonists on major syndicates are female. That would almost be laughable, says Sheila Gibbons, if it didn't reflect such a sad and serious sidelining of women's wit and wisdom.
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:03:41
...New Hampshire... when a bill came up in early April to consider allowing robotic traffic cameras at the busiest crossroads, mocking laughter from the gallery preceded the measure's demise.
"The idea that we were going to be photographed [by the government] was anathema to most of us,"
says Neal Kurk, a Republican from Weare, N.H....
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:00:07
The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill banning homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals from being foster parents.
Reasons for Repeal
sci-tech-today.com/ ... 17:59:31
A cannabis-based medicine formulated by a UK company to help sufferers of multiple sclerosis has been approved for use for the first time -- in Canada.
Only Natural
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:07:09
South Korea's busy capital Seoul faced an added complication on Wednesday when
six elephants escaped from an amusement park
, causing chaos.
suntimes.com/ ... 00:10:50
Concerned about steadily expanding waistlines, the government sacked its one-size-fits-all food pyramid Tuesday in favor of a dozen
different guides geared to individual nutritional needs and lifestyles.
boston.com/ ... 00:03:42
WYMAN TOWNSHIP, Maine -- A 90-year-old woman.. who lives alone.. looked outside her window and saw the bobcat lying on its side with the head of her 20-year-old cat, Smudge, in its mouth... Luce ran out the door, grabbed an aluminum snow shovel and pushed it down on the bobcat's neck. But it held on tight.
"Then I took hold of its head with my hand and pulled on its tail, and Smudge popped out...."
Smudge hightailed into the house with the bobcat hot on her heels. Once inside, the wildcat calmed down and appeared more bewildered than aggressive, Luce said, wandering from room to room before walking into the bathroom....
US Military
cbc.ca/ ... 17:59:06
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has recommended Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
suntimes.com/ ... 00:00:07
The mysterious death of his son in Iraq has left a Portage man seeking answers from the U.S. Army... died Sunday of non-combat related injuries in Muqdadiyah, Iraq... [father] has been told that his son died in his sleep... "Tell me how he died... Don't mince words. All the 'I'm sorries' in the world isn't going to bring my son back."...
Rebuilding
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:07:58
Change comes to Syria's Lebanon 'home'
Threats
washtimes.com/ ... 18:05:35
...Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological explosive -- or dirty bomb -- for an attack...
OKC Bombing -- still with us
washingtonpost.com/ ... 17:58:20
"It's always difficult as each year comes. It all brings back a lot of memories of what happened that day," said Roy Sells, who lost his wife. "You relive it like it was yesterday. But then, in a couple of weeks, it settles down and you try to go on with your life the best you can."
nytimes.com/ ... 17:56:52
...Ms. Anderson is particularly honored here as the heroic nurse who rushed into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to give aid moments after a truck bomb exploded 10 years ago Tuesday. She was almost immediately killed by falling debris, becoming one of the 168 fatalities....
...Carrie Ann Lenz, 26, was showing sonogram pictures of her expected baby, five months along, to her colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration when the blast struck, Glenn and Jolene Short, friends from the Draper Park Christian Church, recalled. The name Michael James Lenz III is also etched on the frosted glass of her chair....
...A sprinkling of New York City fire and police uniforms populated the crowd, emphasizing the bond that has grown between the two very different places because of their similar tragedies....
..."I have to thank God for the experience I have had... It's a bond that maybe you wish you didn't have, but you do have. And you have an obligation to share...
I'm afraid we'll have more opportunities to share
... It's very heartbreaking...."
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 18:08:11
Iraq's caretaker prime minister survived an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber on Wednesday
nytimes.com/ ... 17:51:04
The new Iraqi president said today that more than
50 bodies had been discovered in the Tigris River
and suggested they were victims of a massive kidnapping south of Baghdad that Iraqi officials insisted was a hoax just three days ago....
World Without Borders
usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 17:50:14
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said ... the United States needs to "close the borders."
Aftermath
suntimes.com/ ... 00:00:41
The largest political bloc in Iraq's new government demanded the execution of Saddam Hussein if the ousted leader is convicted of war crimes, and said Monday that President Jalal Talabani should step down if he is not prepared to sign the death warrant.
TUE 2005-APR-19
Digital Consequences
sun-sentinel.com/ ... 12:13:11
The Associated Press will begin charging newspapers and broadcasters to post its stories, photos and other content online, a pricing shift that reflects the growing power of the Internet
US Election 2004
cnn.com/ ... 12:12:52
A supporter of President Bush is suing the Republican National Committee and one of its suppliers, claiming they stole his design for the ubiquitous "W" bumper sticker logo in the 2004 campaign.
Supernatural
suntimes.com/ ... 23:56:57
Chicago... on Fullerton underneath the Kennedy... A shape on an underpass wall... attracted hundreds Monday who wanted to see for themselves if it really looked like Virgin Mary.... Mexican immigrants.. said it looked like Our Lady of Guadalupe... Polish immigrants thought it might be connected with the death of.. Pope John Paul II..
reuters.com/ ... 13:06:10
His choice of name seemed intriguing because the last Pope Benedict, who reigned from 1914 to 1922, subtly repudiated the strict Vatican orthodoxy practiced under his predecessor Pius X... Benedict XV also tried in vain to end World War I, opened the Vatican to international diplomacy and sent so much wartime aid to Turkey that Istanbul erected a statue to him... Ratzinger's
stern leadership of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith,
the modern successor to the Inquisition
, delighted conservative Catholics but upset moderates and other Christians whose churches he described as deficient....
bloomberg.com/ ... 11:57:17
Pope Benedict the 16th
As a young priest he espoused progressive ideas on theological debates, until the student revolutions of 1968 instilled a distrust of the left in him that caused him to shift to a more conservative stance.
reuters.com/ ... 11:53:36
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
of Germany has been elected pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:50:06
White smoke has been seen from the Sistine Chapel chimney indicating that a new pope has been elected. The bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out shortly after 1800 local time (1600 GMT) to confirm the news....
capitalnews9.com/ ... 11:49:46
Smoke is coming from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel -- but it's uncertain whether it's the white smoke that would signal election of a new pope.
Cascading Weirdness
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:43:42
The mother of Michael Jackson's young molestation accuser claimed that she feared her children would be spirited away from the star's Neverland Ranch in a hot air balloon.
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:22:49
Army Sgt.
Angelo L. Lozada Jr.
, 36, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Army Sgt.
Tromaine K. Toy Sr.
, 24, of Eastville, Va.
Army Spc.
Randy L. Stevens
, 21, of Swartz Creek, Mich.
died April 16 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, while conducting combat operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:55
Army Pvt.
Joseph L. Knott
, 21, of Yuma, Ariz., died April 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his convoy was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire and an improvised explosive device.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:42
Army Pvt.
Aaron M. Hudson
, 20, of Highland Village, Texas, died April 16 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained April 15 in Camp Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:28
Army Pfc.
Steven F. Sirko
, 20, of Portage, Ind., died April 17 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:15
Army Spc.
Aleina Ramirezgonzalez
, 33, of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, died April 15 in Tikrit, Iraq, when a mortar struck her forward operating base.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:20:59
Marine Capt.
James C. Edge
, 31, of Virginia Beach, Va, was killed April 14 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.
Only Natural
physicsweb.org/ ... 11:48:07
An international team of physicists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US says it has found strong evidence for the "quark-gluon plasma" --
the state of matter thought to exist in the first millionth of a second
after the Big Bang. However, the researchers found that instead of behaving like a gas of free quarks, antiquarks and gluons as expected, the matter
behaves more like a liquid
....
forbes.com/ ... 11:47:36
The first successful operation to
transplant
insulin-making cells, called islets, from a living donor has
allowed a woman to stop using daily insulin
to treat her diabetes
sciam.com/ ... 11:40:31
Happy People Are Healthier
Threats
washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:17:57
...An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland, said one of the distinguished scientists who testified at the hearing, is one of only a few ways that the United States could be defeated by its enemies -- terrorist or otherwise. And it is probably the easiest....
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:16:18
...a "continuing imminent threat"... involves Nichols' connection with Abu Sayaff, the Philippine wing of al-Qaida, whose master bomber is the now incarcerated Ramzi Yousef....
headlines.agapepress.org/ ... 12:10:05
...During his address, Fu displayed an electric-shock baton that had been smuggled out of China. He explained that Chinese police used such devices to torture and interrogate Christians. But when the Christian minister showed the device and described its inhumane use, the U.N. ambassador from China reportedly registered a complaint, claiming the baton made the delegate "feel threatened." After his speech, Fu's U.N. badge and the baton were confiscated, and he was ordered to leave the U.N. complex.....
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:09:06
...Where the previous session had definite anti-American tones, this session was all American and Apple Pie. The earlier session had been in Arabic this one was in English... This is a small mosque in a small town in the deep South....
wpherald.com/ ... 11:49:25
MOSCOW -- A bomb scare at her hotel in Moscow Tuesday prompted U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to briefly change plans.
Under Tyranny
allheadlinenews.com/ ... 11:48:56
Charging the arabic news network with inciting violence in southern Iran, government authorities are shutting down Al-Jazeeras offices in that nations capital city... 200 people are under arrest following clashes in Irans Khuzestan province, an area near the Iraq-Iran border....
Police Riot
apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:42:36
Truelove is spearheading the [Mesa AZ Police] department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations....
The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.
9/11 - still with us
cbsnews.com/ ... 11:41:35
...I will believe that Moussaoui has viably pleaded guilty to a role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks when I hear U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema's words saying so. I will believe it when I see and hear Moussaoui's earnest and harried attorney, federal public defender Frank Dunham, hold a news conference outside of the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va. But I do not expect to see Dunham in front of the cameras or read Judge Brinkema's order any time soon...
OKC Bombing -- still with us
foxnews.com/ ... 12:10:24
Oklahoma City Marks 10 Years Since Bombing
kansascity.com/ ... 11:39:50
...Jim Schuelein will likely bow his head at the base of two green aspen trees he and co-workers planted on the first anniversary of the bombing. Ten years ago he was across the street from the federal building in the state Water Resources Building as it, too, crumbled. Two co-workers, an intern and a financial analyst, were killed....
...Every single time I move my body I feel it, said Mayer. His injuries have prompted 54 surgeries to remove debris from the blast that still riddle his body....
kansascity.com/ ... 11:38:01
P.J. now plays basketball, but only for a couple of minutes at a time before he gets winded. He swims, but can't float because of his damaged lungs.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:36:23
"It seems like another place and another time. This is a completely different city," said Mayor Mick Cornett. At first, the divorce rate tripled among rescuers who witnessed the carnage and the suicide rate jumped. Now there is a new ballpark, a new downtown and 100,000 new residents....
P.J. Allen was one of the most severely injured of those six survivors. Just 20 months old, he was thrown dozens of feet through debris and fire. No one knows how he survived. "When I was in the bombing, I was wrapped in fire," P.J. said. "I had second- and third-degree burns and they said I wasn't going to live, but God came and he healed me.
"I learned what it feels to have God actually touch you."
cnn.com/ ... 11:34:45
Brian Espe was working in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Violence
reuters.myway.com/ ... 11:45:14
An Iraqi lawmaker accused a U.S. soldier of grabbing him by the throat and shoving him to the ground Tuesday after he parked his car in Baghdad's Green Zone.
reuters.com/ ... 11:34:10
Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said a senior official was assassinated in his home on Monday, adding they had misidentified the official earlier. They named the dead man as Major-General Adnan Midhish Kharagoli, an adviser to the defense minister. He was killed along with his nephew when 10 gunmen burst into his Baghdad home. Interior Ministry officials had earlier said the victim was Major-General Adnan Thabet....
MON 2005-APR-18
Whoops!
reuters.com/ ... 15:01:26
Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity of sugar
But is it Art?
reuters.com/ ... 15:01:07
A Berlin couple plan to have their first baby at an art gallery
Preternatural Patterns
reuters.com/ ... 15:00:26
Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003... went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument... patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire....
Transport
ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:59:27
ARLINGTON, Va. - One child was killed and 15 were injured Monday when their school bus collided head-on with a garbage truck at a busy intersection
History - still with us
reuters.com/ ... 14:59:07
Black African Slave Legacy Lingers in Mexico
Modern Family Life
thisislondon.com/ ... 14:50:54
Firms are sending out fresh sperm by courier to women for home insemination within two hours. One of the companies, SpermDirect.co.uk, based in Reading, claims that by providing fresh sperm it gets around new regulations which say donors can no longer have anonymity. The new rule only applies to frozen sperm. However, doctors said today such businesses were putting women and their children at risk as the sperm samples did not undergo testing....
Digital Consequences
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:54:25
Tech giant Intel has unveiled a chip that gives access to wide-reaching wireless networks.
htmlfixit.com/ ... 14:38:13
Why wont Dell offer AMD? ...If Dell were to start offering a successful Opteron based line of servers, the current AMD/Intel market share figures would significantly change almost overnight... Based upon what I have read about the respective technology in the past year, I wouldnt even consider another Intel based system unless there was a serious price difference....
Justice?
reuters.com/ ... 14:58:03
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether the federal government must allow the U.S. branch of a Brazilian-based religion to import a hallucinogenic tea for use as a sacrament... hoasca tea for religious services, even though it contains an illegal, controlled substance that can be potentially dangerous. Members of the religion, O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, believe the tea is sacred and that using it connects them to God. The tea is made from two plants that grow in the Amazon....
reuters.com/ ... 14:57:32
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether one occupant may give the police consent to search a residence, even though the other occupant already has objected... the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that when two people have equal use and control of the premises, one occupant's consent is not valid when the other objects....
Only Natural
theiowachannel.com/ ... 14:50:05
...It's official: Maharishi Vedic City has gone all natural. The town of about 200 in southeast Iowa has become what some experts believe is the first all-organic city in the country. The city council has voted to ban the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers within the city limits....
nydailynews.com/ ... 14:49:02
Sea stories: "It looked like the Titanic," her husband said. "That was what was going through my head."
nydailynews.com/ ... 14:48:01
Tales of terrified passengers on cruise ship hit by freak wave
Threats
suntimes.com/ ... 15:01:55
America's senior military commander in Afghanistan warned Saturday that Taliban-linked terrorists might launch a large-scale attack in coming months in a desperate attempt to reverse their waning fortunes. But Lt. Gen. David Barno predicted the near total collapse of the Taliban within a year.....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:54:39
Iraq's new president has said the insurgency could be ended immediately if the authorities made use of Kurdish, Shia Muslim and other militias.
latimes.com/ ... 14:53:32
...The new report appears to buttress the military's claim that it should be allowed to run Camp Delta [Guantanamo, Cuba] without outside intervention because the camp has become "the single best repository of Al Qaeda information." The declassified summary cites more than 4,000 interrogation reports and says that some indicated Al Qaeda operatives were pursuing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The summary does not elaborate on what that information is or how close the terrorist organization might be to getting such weapons.....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
drudgereport.com/ ... 14:42:43
"Why can't they just photograph conservatives straight?!" blasted this week's TIME magazine covergirl Ann Coulter. ...slammed magazine editors for fronting a photo of her, she claims, which is so distorted "my own mother would not even recognize me!"...same photographer who captured Coulter-nemisis President Clinton in the infamous "Lewinsky" power pose for ESQUIRE....
Violence
edition.cnn.com/ ... 14:41:32
Iraqi security forces found hidden weapons caches during operations south of Baghdad... a firing range, a bomb manufacturing plant and at least one 200-pound bomb... Also, the forces detained a few suspected insurgents....
csmonitor.com/ ... 14:40:43
Iraqi hostage crisis 'grossly exaggerated' -- Leading Sunni cleric charges 'hostage taking' invented to 'inflame sectarian conflict.'... Iraqi forces found some explosives but no hostages in the town. They also said there was no resistance offered when they entered the town. The Associated Press reports that it appears events in the town had been "grossly exaggerated."...
SUN 2005-APR-17
Lasting Contributions
artists.iuma.com/ ... 19:24:37
PuNk version of Oscar Meyer Weiner song [link is MP3]
ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:23:17
George Molchanm
died Tuesday at 82
...The 27-foot-long Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was parked Saturday near Molchan's grave at a cemetery in Merrillville, drawing smiles from dozens attending his memorial. Before priests said the final prayers over Molchan's casket, about 50 mourners sang a chorus of the Oscar Mayer jingle and then blew short blasts on miniature, hot dog-shaped whistles.... The character was created in the 1930s by company founder Oscar Mayer to help market its products. Molchan played Little Oscar with relish for 36 years.
Love is Strange
azcentral.com/ ... 19:09:03
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was charged with harboring an illegal immigrant because he knew his wife was in the country illegally when he married her.
Supernatural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:53:27
Part II: The End Timers Thrive in Lake City, but What Goes on Behind Their Walls and Fences Is Not Always So Pretty
Digital Consequences
computer.howstuffworks.com/ ... 13:17:17
How does a T1 line work?
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:16:56
...nanotech impact study... Nanotechnology's biggest impact on millions in the developing world could be in better energy production and storage methods... could also significantly improve agriculture....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:11:03
The fastest computer in the world now is an IBM Blue Gene system. It recently smashed its own record, clocking up 135.5 teraflops - 135.5 trillion calculations a second... "In the computing business, there has been this drive to always increase the frequency of chips - the faster the frequency, the faster the cycle, the faster the chip... The trouble is, if you get increased speed by increasing frequency, it gets to be really inefficient - you get to the point of diminishing return. It takes more and more power to get higher frequency... People across the industry are saying we are pretty much reaching the units of frequency and we need to find another way..." Blue Gene has been designed to use tens of thousands of chips.. 64 full racks, each holding 1,024 processors.. expected to reach a peak theoretical performance of 360 teraflops this year... Within two years.. petaflop speeds will be reached - a thousand trillion calculations a second....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:43:36
Google maps give fresh perspective
Transport
apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:41:42
A Swiss tourist bus carrying 27 people plunged into an Alpine ravine near the Great St. Bernard Pass on Sunday, and at least 100 rescuers descended to the wreck on ropes to try to aid the injured. Police said at least six people died....
Sex can be Dangerous
northjersey.com/ ... 12:24:36
The ad shows a couple flirting and the woman saying, "In the mood for something different? How about Levitra?" Then she says, "It's the best way to experience that difference."... fails to specify the drug's approved use or give information on side effects... U.S. regulators said Friday....
Why people go vegan
market-day.net/ ... 12:23:34
Fast food giant McDonald's celebrated its 50th birthday on Friday by opening a brand new 24,000 square foot restaurant in downtown Chicago. The new restaurant features 60-foot Golden Arches, seating for 300, a double-lane drive-thru, historic memorabilia and stunning views of Chicago's skyline....
"Every person who gets their start at McDonald's learns lifetime skills such as teamwork, leadership, timeliness, focus and discipline and attention to detail...."
Cascading Weirdness
kansascity.com/ ... 03:48:40
..."all we wanted was to eat dinner at Wendy's"....Cordero and Barragan, both 20, were finishing their usual order of junior bacon cheeseburgers with fries - and sharing a bowl of chili - at about 7:15 p.m. when Cordero noticed a commotion at a table about 10 feet from them.... "They were making a lot of noise," she said. Suddenly, "all of them got up, hunched over like they were going to be sick. I'm eating the chili and she comes up and says, `don't eat the chili. There's a human finger in my chili.'".. "I spit out my food and she scooped the finger out of the chili with a spoon and rolled it on our table on a napkin," Cordero said. "I was like, `Oh my God.' I went outside and got sick."....
History - still with us
news.independent.co.uk/ ... 03:44:04
Thousands of previously illegible manuscripts containing work by some of the greats of classical literature are being read for the first time using ... infra-red light.... The thousands of remaining documents, which will be analysed over the next decade, are expected to include works by Ovid and Aeschylus, plus a series of Christian gospels which have been lost for up to 2,000 years....
Oh! The Irony!
apnews.myway.com/ ... 03:41:22
Garry Kasparov, the world's former No. 1 chess player who quit the professional game last month to focus on politics, said Saturday he had been hit over the head with a chessboard in a politically motivated attack.
Reasons for Repeal
apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:42:11
LIMA, Peru - Police have seized more than a ton of cocaine destined for the United States as it was being packed into a shipment of canned fish at a seafood processing plant....
Extraterrestrial
abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:22:45
A new U.S.-Russian crew and an Italian astronaut floated into the international space station Sunday...
Prehistory - still with us
cnn.com/ ... 03:51:57
In the journal Science, Tamaki Sato describes the discovery of two shelled eggs found inside a dinosaur that died before laying them. A geologist found the fossilized remains in China's Jiangxi province....
Only Natural
news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:05:10
A volcano erupted on the Indian Ocean Comoros islands Sunday, forcing hundreds of villagers to flee in fear of poison gas as the crater spewed ash and flung boulders over molten lava....
earthquake.usgs.gov/ ... 19:02:57
Magnitude 5.1 - CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 2005 April 16 19:18:13 UTC
as a regular earthquake map watcher, it seems to me that after Dec 26, Alaska and California were quavering unusually, but now California has settled down to an unsettling relative quiet of many but very little quakes... but what do I know?
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:14:59
...UK researchers studied dogs which had been paralysed in road accidents, or through spinal cord injuries. All had been unable to move for at least three months. The treatment uses olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) cells, which are present at the back of the nose. They are the only nerve cells capable of constant regeneration. The cells were collected by opening the dogs' skulls. They were then multiplied in the lab, and injected into the spinal cord.... In addition to regaining some movement, one dog appeared to recover some sensation below the injury site.....
nydailynews.com/ ... 12:26:55
A "freak wave" more than 70 feet high slammed a luxury cruise ship steaming for New York yesterday, flooding cabins, injuring passengers and forcing the liner to stop for emergency repairs... broke a pair of windows and flooded 62 cabins... injured four passengers and terrified scores more... "The sea had actually calmed down when the wave seemed to come out of thin air at daybreak.. Our captain, who has 20 years on the job, said he never saw anything like it."
"The ocean is unforgiving; it doesn't care who is out there,"
said Petty Officer Bobby Nash of the Coast Guard in Florida.
apnews.myway.com/ ... 03:42:14
A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck in Southern California on Saturday and could be felt dozens of miles away in downtown Los Angeles, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
OKC Bombing -- still with us
foxnews.com/ ... 19:20:12
FOX NEWS ASKS (finally): Did Oklahoma City Bombers Have Help?
Violence
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:08:09
Capital murder charges have been filed against a 19-year-old illegal alien believed to be a member of MS-13, a violent El Salvadoran gang, for the shooting death of a 19-month-old Houston toddler... Not until [father] arrived at his home did he know that the toddler had been hit twice in the head.... MS-13 has been linked to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups...
axcessnews.com/ ... 19:03:49
A registered sex offender has confessed to the killing of the 13-year-old Florida girl who was first reported missing a week ago....
kansascity.com/ ... 19:03:29
An American aid worker.. Marla Ruzicka, 28.. who helped civilians caught in the crossfire of war was killed by a suicide car bomber on the dangerous road to the airport, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said Sunday...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:52:15
Communist rebels in southern Nepal dragged at least 10 males from their homes, including a 14-year-old boy, and gunned them down for refusing to take up arms with the guerrilla movement....
reuters.com/ ... 12:51:54
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb planted by Taliban rebels destroyed five trucks carrying oil for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and wounded three drivers
keralanext.com/ ... 12:22:15
BAGHDAD: Three American soldiers were killed and 7 others injured in a mortar attack on a U.S. base in the Iraqi city of Ramadi
miami.com/ ... 12:21:39
Florida... Investigators recovered from a pond the partially submerged body of Sarah Michelle Lunde, the 13-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago after a church outing... a registered sex offender Sarah's mother once dated.. [who] made an unexpected pre-dawn appearance hours after the girl was last seen... has drawn investigators' attention, but he has not been called a suspect in her disappearance...
Threats
reuters.com/ ... 12:51:30
Iraqi security forces have recaptured the last of 11 prisoners who escaped from a U.S. jail in southern Iraq
msnbc.msn.com/ ... 12:28:46
...Fearing that Flight 685 might be a 9/11-style plot in the making, U.S. authorities refused the plane overflight rights, and Canada rejected a request to land. Much to the chagrin of its 278 passengers, the KLM jet made an exhausting odyssey back to Amsterdam.... One U.S. counterterrorism official told NEWSWEEK that the two passengers were "bad dudes."...
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 03:41:42
The U.S. military will begin using an elaborate network of cameras and lasers next month to scan the sky over Washington and flash colored warning beams at aircraft that enter the nation's most restricted metropolitan airspace.
SAT 2005-APR-16
Albert Einstein -- still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:22
A new Einstein will emerge, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival, Isaac Newton.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:06
He stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue like the Beatles or Marilyn Monroe. He could've been president of Israel or played violin at Carnegie Hall, but he was too busy thinking. His musings on God, love and the meaning of life grace our greeting cards and day-timers. Fifty years after his death, his shock of white hair and droopy mustache still symbolize genius..... Around the world, universities and academies are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "miracle year" when he published five scientific papers in 1905 that fundamentally changed our grasp of space, time, light and matter. Only he could top himself about a decade later with his theory of general relativity.....
Supernatural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:41:18
Although the people of Lake City didn't realize it, what was happening to their town had happened before and would again: a religious sect migrating to a small community and reshaping its economy and its way of life.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:41:28
Background on cultist
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:42:34
How This Series Was Reported
reuters.com/ ... 12:32:35
Roman Catholic cardinals destroyed the late Pope John Paul's ring and seal on Saturday in a symbolic end to his authority before secluding themselves from the world to elect his successor.
Transport
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:29:17
Traffic congestion in big cities, as well as the high cost of car rental, could one day be a thing of the past, if the technological solution employed by one American company in Boston catches on... Zipcar... [digitized almost-instant car rentals with no paperwork]
Yuck!
seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 12:08:17
Somewhere out there is a woman, dead or alive, who is missing part of a well-manicured finger about 1 ½ inches long.
Letterman: "She went back there for lunch today she's trying to collect all five..."
Leno: "Instead of a spoon, they serve it with nail clippers..."
Wendy's .. doubled its reward yesterday to $100,000 for information...
Extraterrestrial
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:44:56
From Lasers to Computers, Einstein's Ideas Inspired Inventions That Define Modern Life
apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:19:14
...computer-controlled NASA robotic spacecraft... was able to track the satellite 472 miles above Earth without the help of astronauts or human controllers, but ended its approach after the mishap Friday night and sent itself into orbit... was intended to help lay the groundwork for future projects like robotic delivery of cargo to space shuttles and automated docking and repair between spacecraft in orbit....
Preternatural Patterns
foxnews.com/ ... 12:17:41
Fox's Roger Friedman calls for mistrial in Jackson case
Only Natural
msnbc.msn.com/ ... 13:13:24
Aging octopus finally a mom
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:30:14
The partner of a person who has committed suicide is significantly more likely to take their own life... men who had lost their partner to suicide were 46 times as likely to commit suicide themselves, three times the risk for women bereaved this way....
Justice?
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:26:45
Eminem.. Brain Damage, a song on 1999 album The Slim Shady LP...."Way before my baby daughter Hailey, I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey... He banged my head against the urinal till he broke my nose, soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me and choked my throat." .. The song also claimed the principal joined in the assault and Eminem's "whole brain fell out" of his skull... DeAngelo Bailey sued... three-judge panel upheld a decision in 2003 by a judge who composed a rap of her own to explain her opinion... "The lyrics are stories no-one would take as fact/They're an exaggeration of a childish act..." Mr Bailey's lawyer.. said he was not surprised by the ruling and would not appeal.... "I don't think [the justices] would even look at it to be honest with you," he said....
Digital Threat
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:57
Recent tales of the loss of personal data in the US are worrying
OKC Bombing -- still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:11:54
What the Oklahoma City Bombing Took 10 Years Ago, and What Remains
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:06:07
Photo of Baby in Fireman's Arms Froze Okla. Tragedy for World, but Not for Mother, Photographer
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 12:30:46
Iraqi authorities said on Saturday efforts were under way to secure the release of up to 60 Shi'ite hostages threatened with death in a town near Baghdad....
Threats
interestalert.com/ ... 13:15:06
A "no" vote to the European Constitution would weaken the EU and benefit the United States, warned French President Jacques Chirac....
thisislondon.co.uk/ ... 12:19:56
Dozens of toothpastes sold at supermarkets are at the centre of a cancer alert today. Anti-bacterial cleaning products, including dishwashing liquid and handwash, are also affected. Researchers have discovered that
triclosan, a chemical in the products, can react with water to produce chloroform gas.
...
FRI 2005-APR-15
Modern Family Life
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:02:10
A new Carl's Jr. ad campaign promoting spicy hamburgers features a tough-talking unborn baby threatening to rip out part of his mother's womb if she doesn't stop eating jalapeno peppers....
Cascading Weirdness
thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 16:56:46
Michael Jackson will sell his 50 per cent stake in the Beatles back catalogue "in the next few days" in an effort to alleviate his financial woes, sources close to the pop star claimed yesterday....
...may-b on e-Bay? and whattabout dem bones dem bones dem elephant man bones?
grandforks.com/ ... 16:54:08
...No one has a good explanation for how Allman's fingertip - which was chomped off by a spotted leopard that was living on her property just outside town - could have ended up in a bowl of Wendy's chili in San Jose, Calif. And in the latest twist, Allman now isn't sure that Wendy's finger is hers... But it seems like everyone in Pahrump is enjoying the story... "When I heard about the chili story, the first thing that popped into my mind was Sandy," said Rick Neal. "But I never dreamed it would come to this." .. "It's pretty weird, even for Pahrump," added longtime resident Mickey Tillery....
World Zookeeping
brownsvilleherald.com/ ... 16:47:45
Brownsville... A protesting trio from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), one of which was dressed in a chicken outfit.... manager for the KFC... "As far as Im concerned, they are terrorists. Im trying to make a living and they are trying to stop my people from making a living," he said just before cranking the water system at full blast, showering the protesters....
Sex -- always attractive
reuters.com/ ... 12:01:08
Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill that would tax the state's 28 legal brothels, the only regulated bordellos in the United States.
Preternatural Patterns
reuters.com/ ... 11:57:33
A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.
Yuck!
wftv.com/ ... 11:45:44
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A high school student was arrested for biting off part of a classmate's ear during a fight that started after he was cut off while driving into the school's entrance.
timesargus.com/ ... 11:45:21
A Morrisville teenager is being held on $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to charges he raided a tomb in a cemetery and removed the head of the corpse.... 17[-year-old] faces up to 25 years in prison... lengthy "rap sheet"... seven convictions.. was on furlough... suspect allegedly talked of using the man's head as a "bong," a pipe for smoking marijuana.
Whoops!
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:00:20
A Denny's restaurant shift manager inadvertently gave a Border Patrol agent paying for his meal a receipt with the phrase "Border A-- Whole" after sharing the joke with a cook....
reuters.com/ ... 12:02:46
A Swedish rights group cried foul over advertisements for a liquorice ice-cream, saying the posters for "Nogger Black" were racist. Not only could the name of the ice-cream bar made by GB Glace cause offence, but the posters, with graffiti-style text, lampooned black culture....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:51:42
An 81-year-old woman preparing to take a test drive at a car dealership hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall.
wftv.com/ ... 11:42:40
MACON, Ga. -- A high school teacher who wore blackface at a student-faculty basketball game has resigned, saying "it was poor judgment and will never happen again."
Digital Consequences
reuters.com/ ... 11:57:04
A bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference in a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:48:02
Before the cardinals file into the Sistine Chapel on 18 April, the entire area will be swept electronically to ensure nobody has planted a listening device.
nypost.com/ ... 11:39:26
The Wall Street Journal... Earnings plunged by 54 percent at the newspaper's parent Dow Jones & Co., with its fledgling online operations earning more money for the first time than the flagship Journal and the weekly Barron's....
Mechanical Disaster
bloomberg.com/ ... 11:37:13
A fire this morning at a hotel in the center of Paris killed at least 20 people, including eight children.. 56 were injured... Many of the victims were homeless people who were lodged in the hotel by either the government or charitable organizations...
Executive Thinking
investors.com/ ... 17:02:56
...DeLuca believes that to be a good leader, you must have an objective, destination and vision that are clear to you and your employees. "You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis...."
Human Right
adnki.com/ ... 16:57:57
Tehran, 11 April (AKI) - An Iranian army colonel who many years ago converted to Christianity has been summoned to appear before a Tehran court on charges of apostasy, that is publicly rejecting the faith in which one has been raised. Hamid Pourmand, 47, is the first Iranian for more than ten years to be tried for this crime, which carries the death penalty. Now retired, Pourmand is a pastor with the protestant Assembly of God faith in the city of Bushehr, the site of Iran's main nuclear reactor.
csmonitor.com/ ... 16:36:49
Iran eases its social strictures -- In a political trade-off, leaders loosen harsh rules
US Military Casualties
csmonitor.com/ ... 16:36:26
No sooner had Prime Minister Tony Blair called Britain's election than the country was shaken by the dramatic collapse of one of its biggest industrial names. The victim was MG Rover, which filed for bankruptcy last week after a takeover bid from a Chinese automaker foundered. The demise of Britain's last major domestic carmaker is a blow to its once-proud automobile sector....
defenselink.mil/ ... 16:34:47
Marine Cpl.
Michael B. Lindemuth
, 27, of Petoskey, Mich., died April 13 as a result of wounds received from enemy mortar fire at Camp Hit, Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
US Military
defenselink.mil/ ... 16:34:11
A joint, multi-nation project arrangement between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of National Defence of Canada, and the Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was announced today for the cooperative development of a vaccine to protect against plague. Under this agreement, the three nations will work together to develop and produce a plague vaccine that will ultimately be licensed for human use.
Reasons for Repeal
reuters.com/ ... 12:03:13
Australian authorities recovered more than 2,240 pounds of ecstasy tablets hidden in a shipment of ceramic tiles in one of the world's largest seizures of street-ready drugs
Extraterrestrial
reuters.com/ ... 11:49:37
A U.S.-Russian crew blasted off from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS) Friday morning to relieve the team manning the outpost and spend a daunting six months in orbit. ... The new ISS crew -- Russian commander Sergei Krikalev and U.S. astronaut John Phillips -- is scheduled to host the Discovery a month from now when it becomes the first U.S. space shuttle to dock at the station since the Columbia tragedy.....
Only Natural
beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:40:42
The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf... born on Dec. 23...
wholphin
is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the black coloring of a false killer whale.....
Bartlesville - prarie frontier town
examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 17:20:44
Amid Native American pageantry, balloons, streamers and enthusiastic cheers from new employees, the world's largest employer held a grand opening ceremony for its newest facility on Tuesday. The nearly 1-million-square-foot Wal-Mart MDC 7015 (MDC stands for mechanized distribution center) was on display for a crowd of hundreds including local dignitaries and representatives of several local school districts and non-profit groups who were the happy recipients of more than $27,000 in grants from the company.....
examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 17:04:26
Bartlesville - ...accused of offering money for the murder of his sister... said that he would not hire anyone to kill her because he wanted to kill her himself...
Constitutional Threat
realitytvworld.com/ ... 16:52:29
The sources of government or corporate news releases must now be shown by U.S. TV broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission has ruled.
Vigilantism
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 16:50:18
A grandmother has foiled a burglar by throwing a garden gnome at him... "He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."...
WW2 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:03:48
Horrific scenes greeted British troops as they entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. They were accompanied by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby who recorded his first impressions for radio. [Javascript and Flash req]
OKC Bombing -- still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:01
Vice President Dick Cheney will speak Tuesday at a memorial service in Oklahoma City marking 10 years since the terrorist bombing that killed 168 people.
People Die
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:51:23
An Afghan toddler sent to the United States for surgery to fix a life-threatening heart condition died in his father's arms Friday, two days after his joyful return home.. in a refugee village outside the capital... cause of death was unknown - Afghan culture does not allow for autopsies....
Violence
washtimes.com/ ... 16:59:47
One million people facing immigration proceedings have been released into the general population, the government's chief of detention and removal told the Senate yesterday... 465,000 are fugitive aliens who have been ordered deported. About 80,000 of those are criminal aliens who have committed an offense in addition to immigration violations...
apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:58:34
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Militants exploded three bombs Friday in the Iraqi capital, killing at least one civilian and wounding eight others
chron.com/ ... 16:51:17
...As Harris County deputies searched for the gunman today, Naquin, a 27-year-old stay-at-home dad, expressed pained bewilderment as he recounted how a trip to get snow cones last night ended with the death of his youngest son....
nytimes.com/ ... 11:41:05
Investigators have discovered several mass graves in southern Iraq that are believed to contain the bodies of people killed by Saddam Hussein's government, including one estimated to hold 5,000 bodies
Threats
reuters.com/ ... 12:02:07
Canada said on Thursday it was ordering the recall of 21,000 Chinese-made toy guns because the weapons contained soil which could contaminate crops and forests.
drudgereport.com/ ... 11:41:41
The aggressive behavior of a rogue elephant in a Rwandan wildlife preserve has prompted an unusual warning from the US embassy in Kigali, normally more concerned with threats posed by humans. The embassy said visitors to Lake Ihema in northern Rwanda's Akagera Game Park should take extra security precautions because the rogue beast that was becoming increasingly violent....
healthcentral.com/ ... 11:38:33
Two-thirds of deadly flu virus shipments mistakenly sent to labs throughout the world have been destroyed, officials at the U.N.'s World Health Organization said Friday. The agency said it is still tracking down two shipments bound for Lebanon and Mexico....
thousands of labs in 18 countries received samples of the 50-year-old H2N2 virus
, and a global effort has been underway to identify and destroy those samples....
THU 2005-APR-14
Extraterrestrial
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 21:46:51
Scientists have identified the ideal location for a Moon base - a crater where the sun always shines and the temperature is a relatively cosy minus 50C....
Digital Consequences
cnn.com/ ... 21:46:24
HAIFA, Israel -- Student engineers sent their gadgets whirring, spinning and buzzing across a pool of water Wednesday in a competition to re-enact the biblical Jewish crossing of the Red Sea and pour a ceremonial glass of wine -- all without anyone touching anything....
reuters.com/ ... 16:12:22
U.N. Video Game Encourages Kids to Feed, Not Kill
Sex -- always attractive
reuters.com/ ... 12:13:25
"...I'll make believe it's Sophia Loren." --ROBERT GOULET on how he'll handle kissing co-star GARY BEACH in "La Cage aux Folles" on Broadway
reuters.com/ ... 12:11:36
South African nurses are wearing pajamas and nighties to work to demand a higher uniform allowance... health officials.. say they are confusing patients and turning hospitals into bedrooms....
Whoops!
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:57
American Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 200,000 all-terrain vehicles after receiving more than two dozen reports of steering rods separating, which could cause drivers to crash.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:46
Hoover Co. is recalling 636,000 vacuum cleaners after receiving about 250 reports of overheating that caused the handle area to smoke, melt or catch fire.
Theory of Education
wftv.com/ ... 12:03:20
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A ninth-grade student has accused officials at a Southern California high school of discrimination for suspending him for wearing lipstick and eye makeup.
Supernatural
reuters.com/ ... 12:11:04
Indian police have charged 80 people for burying children alive in an ancient Hindu ceremony known as "the festival of pits."
local10.com/ ... 11:59:55
An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired....
Transport
nbc4.tv/ ... 11:59:33
LOS ANGELES -- Police are investigating the second fatal shooting on the 110 Freeway in a two-week period...
nbc4.tv/ ... 11:58:32
GLENDALE, Calif... fatal accident.. apparently caused by a "large metal object" crashing through the windshield of a car...
Yuck!
sfgate.com/ ... 16:11:34
the mystery of the finger's origin
Authorities.. have found no link to a Nevada leopard attack... San Jose Police Sgt. Nick Muyo: "I guess Ms. Allman lost a little bit less of her finger than what we think we have here in San Jose. So obviously, if we have more of a finger than she lost, you might look at that on face value and say it's probably not the same...."
sfgate.com/ ... 16:09:22
...the Las Vegas woman who says she found a finger in a cup of chili at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant last month, has abandoned legal claims against the Wendy's corporation and parted ways with her legal counsel....
Yuck Yuk of the Day:
Police emphasized that the leopard incident was just one of many promising
tips
that had been called in since the March 22 discovery of the 1 1/2-inch
finger
....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:48
A woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack believes it was her body part that allegedly showed up a month later in a bowl of fast-food chili in California... wants to participate in any DNA testing of the finger, which she said she last saw packed in ice in a Las Vegas emergency room. Doctors told her it could not be reattached... hospital said it cannot account for the 3/4-inch fingertip... lost Feb. 23 in the attack at an exotic animal compound at her home.. about 60 miles west of Las Vegas... realizes her lost fingertip is only half as long as the one [litigant] claims to have found....
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:09:58
Army Spc.
Manuel Lopez III
, 20, of Cape Coral, Fla., died April 12 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his HMMWV was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:09:34
Army Spc.
John W. Miller
, 21, of West Burlington, Iowa, died April 12 in Camp Ramadi, Iraq, of injuries received from enemy small arms fire while on route clearance operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:09:11
This week, the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is
4,812 fewer reservists
mobilized than last week.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:08:47
Vietnam War Missing in Action Servicemen Identified --
Army Col.
Sheldon J. Burnett
of Pelham, N.H.,
Army Warrant Officer
Randolph J. Ard
of West Pensacola, Fla.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:07:16
Army Pfc.
Casey M. LaWare
, 19, of Redding, Calif., died April 9 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, from non-combat related injuries sustained April 6 in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:06:49
Marine Sgt.
James S. Lee
, 26, of Mt. Vernon, Ind., died April 6 in Ghazni, Afghanistan, when the Army CH-47 helicopter he was on crashed.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:06:15
WWII Missing in Action Serviceman Identified -- On Dec. 17, 1944, McKee was an aerial gunner on an 11-member crew of a B-24L Liberator that took off from Pantanella, Italy, on a mission to bomb enemy targets near Blechhammer, Germany. The aircraft crashed over Hungary, near the small towns of Böhönye and Felsosegesd, with the loss of two crewmen including McKee. The other nine were able to safely parachute from the aircraft. Following the war, the remains of the other unaccounted-for crewman were found in a cemetery in Felsosegesd.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:04:37
Army Maj.
Edward J. Murphy
, 36, of South Carolina
Army Chief Warrant Officer
David Ayala
, 24, of New York, N.Y.
Army Chief Warrant Officer
Clint J. Prather
, 32, of Cheney, Wash.
Army Master Sgt.
Edwin A. Matoscolon
, 42, of Juana Diaz, P.R.
Army Staff Sgt.
Charles R. Sanders Jr.
, 29, of Charleston, Mo.
Army Spc.
Daniel J. Freeman
, 20, of Cincinnati, Ohio
Army Spc.
Chrystal G. Stout
, 23, of Travelers Rest, S.C.
Army Pfc.
Pendelton L. Sykes II
, 25, of Chesapeake, Va.
died
Army Capt.
David S. Connolly
, 37, of Boston, Mass.
Army Sgt. Maj.
Barbaralien Banks
, 41, of Harvey, La.
Army Staff Sgt.
Romanes L. Woodard
, 30, of Hertford, N.C.
Army Sgt.
Stephen C. High
, 45, of Spartanburg, S.C.
Army Spc.
Michael K. Spivey
, 21, of Fayetteville, N.C.
Army Spc.
Sascha Struble
, 20, of Philadelphia, N.Y.
became unaccounted for
on April 6 in Ghazni, Afghanistan, when the CH-47 helicopter they were on crashed.
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:36:09
Army Staff Sgt.
Kevin D. Davis
, 41, of Lebanon, Ore., died April 8 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV in Hawijah, Iraq.
Only Natural
healthcentral.com/ ... 21:45:15
A rewarding spiritual life may help slow the devastation of Alzheimer's disease.
forbes.com/ ... 21:43:16
...functional changes in [gamblers'] brains' inhibitory and decision-making centers resemble those seen in hard-core substance abusers....
reuters.com/ ... 12:12:01
...women are not impressed by bungee jumping and other risky types of behavior but actually prefer men who take fewer chances....
Science Marches Onnnnnn
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:04:41
The birth of the world's second horse clone has been announced by scientists. The foal is a copy of a world endurance champion, Pieraz, an animal that has been castrated and was therefore incapable of normal reproduction....
Human Right
reuters.com/ ... 12:12:34
A Nevada bill that would impose a 10 percent tax on strip club dancing will be struck down in court if lawmakers pass it, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said on Wednesday. "You can not have a special tax aimed at First Amendment activity based on content...."
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:05:26
Prisoners executed by lethal injection in the US
may have been aware of what was happening to them.... some suffer unnecessarily, and claim
standards do not meet those for putting animals down....
abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:34:11
The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples... said while the county can question the constitutionality of laws governing marriage, they are a matter of statewide concern so the county had no authority....
Under Digital Tyranny
apnews.myway.com/ ... 21:41:21
The Chinese government has become increasingly sophisticated at controlling the Internet, taking a multilayered approach that contributes to precision in blocking political dissent... China's filters can block just specific references to Tibetan independence without blocking all references to Tibet.... effective at limiting discussions about Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square.... Saudi Arabia.. largely controls the Internet by having all traffic flow through a central agency.. Visitors trying to access a banned site get a message saying it has been blocked.. "China is much more subtle than that... You don't know what you don't know. It's more effective than if you see it but know you can't access it."... China.. has the world's second-largest population of Internet users...
Threats
thisislondon.co.uk/ ... 12:21:22
An al Qaeda cell in London could still have the poison ricin, police said today. The
highly toxic substance was made at a Wood Green flat and has never been found.
An al Qaeda supergrass told officials that he and police killer Kamel Bourgass made two batches of ricin... The gang planned to put ricin on door handles of cars and shops in Holloway Road and open packs of toothbrushes in supermarkets and smear them with it. Officers also found recipes and plans for gases and explosives. There was evidence of a plot for a cyanide attack on the Tube with a pump-style spray gun. Detectives are convinced that other terror cells linked to Bourgass are still at large and may have the missing ricin....
smh.com.au/ ... 12:19:27
An Algerian man who plotted poison attacks in Britain and murdered a policeman has been jailed for 17 years after a judge said he was "the prime mover in a terrorist conspiracy ... to destabilise society". But the British Government's attempt to prove the existence of an al-Qaeda network in the country had a setback when four other Algerians charged with conspiring with their countryman, Kamel Bourgass, were acquitted, while a second conspiracy trial of another four north Africans was abandoned....
reuters.com/ ... 12:14:16
The cracking of an al Qaeda poison plot in Britain lends credence to longstanding warnings from police and security services that militants would attempt an attack using toxins.
Digital Threat
data-storage-today.newsfactor.com/ ... 12:22:55
....the
RIAA
is moving quickly to show users and the universities that host Internet2 connections that it
is watching closely
to ensure that the high-speed connections are not abused....
usatoday.com/ ... 12:10:46
More than 400 college students are being sued for allegedly swapping pirated music files over a super-fast computer network called Internet2. The Recording Industry Association of America, the music industry trade group behind the lawsuits, claims that the students have "hijacked" Internet2 and turned it into a tool for massive music piracy.
Internet2 connects computers all across the country. But it uses newer, more experimental technology. That can make it less stable than Internet1 but it's also about 100 times as fast under typical conditions. More than 200 universities and 60 companies belong to Internet2, as do a handful of organizations and government agencies. To join, members must contribute research toward "developing a better Internet," says Douglas Van Houweling, CEO of the non-profit group that runs Internet2. It is not open to the public....
Aftermath
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:09:26
Reluctance by Italian investigators to accept the U.S. version of the killing of an Italian security agent by American troops in Iraq last month is holding up the conclusion of a joint inquiry into the shooting
World Without Borders
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:09:10
The family of a illegal immigrant shot to death on a Texas ranch sued the property owner and a hunter, who allegedly told police he thought the man was a wild hog. The wrongful death lawsuit seeks $8 million for the family...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:06:52
...The textbook refers to the 1937-38 Nanjing massacre, when Japanese troops killed an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people, by the more innocuous title of "incident". It also explains that the country's actions during World War II were motivated by "self-preservation" and a desire to liberate Asia from Western control. Particularly infuriating for South Korea was the Ministry of Education's decision to make four textbook publishers refer to a disputed set of islands - called Takeshima in Japanese, and Dokdo in Korean - as Japanese territory "unlawfully occupied by South Korea"....
Under Tyranny
nytimes.com/ ... 12:02:18
Thousands of people rioted this week in a village in southeastern China, overturning police cars and driving away officers who had tried to stop elderly villagers protesting against pollution from nearby factories....
Epidemic Without Borders
news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:57:24
A 21-year-old woman has been infected by both the deadly HIV/AIDS virus and bird flu, the first such case in Vietnam.... Quang Ninh province bordering China has one of the highest number of HIV carriers in Vietnam, most of them drug addicts and prostitutes....
WW2 - still with us
iht.com/ ... 11:55:41
...67 years later.. a U.S. judge in New York.. approved a $21.8 million award to surviving members of the two families.. which owned the sugar company with other investors. The decision blamed the bank for the families' losses, but it did not name the bank... believed to be one of the largest in the $50 billion restitution programs undertaken since World War II. ...
the huge new award.. provides a detailed trip back to a dark time, showing exactly how the banks' actions helped the Nazis, how lifetimes' achievements were lost in days, and how the process was masked in the language of ledgers, legalisms and banking.... "Having marketed themselves to the Jews of Europe as a safe haven for their property," the decision said, "Swiss banks repeatedly turned Jewish-owned property over to Nazis in order to curry favor with them...."
Rebuilding
foxnews.com/ ... 21:42:24
A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother's plea for help with an unruly child by saying:
"OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?"
....
reuters.com/ ... 11:51:50
Lebanon's pro-Syrian political coalition was in disarray on Thursday, with a key figure saying he could no longer work with President Emile Lahoud, another top ally of Damascus.
Violence
11alive.com/ ... 23:11:43
Eric Rudolph.. planned a series of bombs during the Olympics..
Calvin Thorbourne, who was struck by shrapnel in the back of his leg when the bomb exploded, says Rudolphs apologies strike him cold. "There's nothing he can say to make me feel better about what he did, absolutely not.... My prayer is that he realizes the damage he really did and he clearly he doesnt.
sfgate.com/ ... 16:20:11
Timeline in Eric Rudolph Bombing Case
sfgate.com/ ... 16:13:30
Timeline in Eric Rudolph Bombing Case
ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:13:17
CASTROVILLE, Texas - A man apparently disgruntled over a breakup shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, her mother and 7-year-old brother before committing suicide... also wounded two other family members of the ex-girlfriend....
news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:03:38
A 13-year-old pitcher was accused of clubbing a teenage friend to death with a baseball bat, moments after the friend apparently teased him at a concession stand following his baseball team's first loss of the season....
wnbc.com/ ... 12:03:00
WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y. -- A 14-year-old girl is facing felony charges of making terrorist threats after authorities said she talked about shooting students at her school... to mark the sixth anniversary of the Columbine school shootings on April 20...
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:02:34
A US hostage in Iraq has appeared on a video tape urging his government to "open a dialogue with the Iraqi resistance" to save his life.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:52:25
A pair of car bombs exploded near government offices in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding three dozen others, while insurgent attacks against the nation's nascent security forces left at least eight others dead.... U.S. forces detonated a third car that apparently failed to explode earlier...
news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:33:26
Israeli undercover units shot dead on Thursday a Palestinian militant, member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades linked to the Fatah movement, in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus....
krqe.com/ ... 11:31:07
LAPORTE, Ind. -- There's a yellow ribbon tied around a tree in front of Jeffrey Ake's Indiana home.
Family and friends are waiting for some news of the businessman who apparently was kidnapped by Iraqi militants Monday... entire hometown is praying... an advocate of international business travel who was trying to help postwar reconstruction in Iraq... installing water bottling equipment....
WED 2005-APR-13
Lasting Contributions
investors.com/ ... 11:25:16
"Risks, he'd come to think, always pay off," Kluger wrote. "No matter how they work out, they either teach you what to do or what not to do." -- Jeffrey Kluger in his biography, "Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio...."
Preternatural Patterns
canada.com/ ... 11:10:26
...who the heck is Pete in the expression "for Pete's sake"? These and hundreds of other questions -- many of which you'd probably never ask -- are answered with information found in four recent books that entertain as they inform, and would be as welcome on a browser's nightstand as on a researcher's reference shelf.....
TUE 2005-APR-12
Sex -- always attractive
reuters.com/ ... 20:19:31
U.S. hard-core porn pioneer Al Goldstein, who went from multimillionaire owner of Screw magazine to being homeless on the streets of Manhattan after his sleaze empire collapsed, is making a comeback.
reuters.com/ ... 20:18:42
The Hungarian Interior Ministry looks set to allow prostitutes to tout for business in shopping malls
Supernatural
washtimes.com/ ... 20:16:54
Most young Americans strongly believe in having choices, an attitude that is likely to shape their identification with traditional religions, a study says.
Preternatural Patterns
asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:16:30
..We referred to this other analyst at the CIA, whom I'll try and call Mr. Smith here, I hope I can keep that straight," Bolton said at one point. Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both mentioned a name.. that had not previously come up in public accounts of the intelligence flap. It is not clear whether Armstrong is the undercover officer, but an exchange between Kerry and Bolton suggests that he may be...
Digital Consequences
ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:17:51
More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology product that Apple Computer Inc. says was protected by trade secret laws.
apnews.myway.com/ ... 20:12:29
A small walking man-shaped robot for home security and entertainment is going on sale in Japan for 588,000 yen ($5,450).
Human Right
reuters.com/ ... 20:19:19
Two 14-year-old Singapore brothers have begun a rare campaign in the city state to free their jailed father from death row, where he
faces execution for trafficking about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of marijuana.
Under Tyranny
worldtribune.com/ ... 20:17:12
Chinese Internet sites recently attacked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice using racist language, according to Hong Kong press reports.
Digital Threat
news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:13:03
Data broker LexisNexis said Tuesday that personal information may have been stolen on
310,000 U.S. citizens
, or nearly 10 times the number found in a data breach announced last month.
Violence
cbc.ca/ ... 20:12:03
BERLIN - Four schoolgirls forced off a bus by a knife-wielding man were released after being held captive for six hours, said police in Germany.
MON 2005-APR-11
Science Marches Onnnnnn
asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:07:30
Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans. Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.
Even headless flies
took flight...
Sex -- always attractive
ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:05:37
Andrea Dworkin, a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women's civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence, has died, her agent and family said Monday. She was 58... Dworkin's first book, "Woman Hating," published when she was 27, launched her lifelong advocacy on the ways pornography harms women....
Theory of Education
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:30:49
Computers are being used to mark American university students' essays in a project which could radically alter the teaching role of academics. Qualrus, a program developed at the University of Missouri, offers instant feedback on even complex subjects.
Transport
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:30:06
The current fate of the Segway
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:26:44
COLUMBUS, Wis. - A train smashed into a minivan at a crossing that lacked lights or gates, pushing the vehicle almost a mile down the track and killing its driver and all three passengers.
Mechanical Disaster
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:22:58
SAVAR, Bangladesh - A nine-story garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed after a boiler exploded Monday, killing at least 17 people and trapping at least 200 others
Preternatural Patterns
reuters.com/ ... 12:48:29
Australians in the country's Northern Territory should start smashing cane toads to death with golf clubs and cricket bats in a bid to stop the spread of the toxic creatures, a government politician urged Monday.
reuters.com/ ... 12:21:34
Moment of Magic Earns Tiger a Shot for the Ages
arkansasnews.com/ ... 12:08:45
Howard Dean
called the other day and started talking about Jesus. Yes, that Howard Dean. Yes, that Jesus... he remarked that his
favorite New Testament book was Job...
Sex can be Dangerous
cbs2chicago.com/ ... 12:06:36
CHICAGO.. A woman has filed a lawsuit against.. Edward Hospital and [an employee].. alleging that while she was anesthetized, naked and awaiting surgery.. employee took pictures of her and then distributed them... seeks more than $50,000 in damages...
Whoops!
reuters.com/ ... 12:47:50
Albania's most wanted man fought off special police and eluded capture for years only to blow himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers said Friday.
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 02:44:39
An anti-terrorism exercise involving nearly 1,000 German emergency workers ended with 18 people taken to hospital after a train full of volunteers pretending to be injured or dead caught fire.
Digital Consequences
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:47:35
Millions of news, weblogs, and ordinary websites carry easy-to-set-up RSS feeds which alert people when a site has been updated. Keen lovers of technology and the web have been using RSS for some time as a way to wade through the millions of pages on the web. It is now starting to come out of its niche; and the small, orange badges which indicate a feed is available on a site are becoming a familiar presence.
iht.com/ ... 12:10:22
What President Bush has on his iPod [javascript req for article]
boostmarketing.com/ ... 12:03:10
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has officially designated two
new top level domain names
:
.jobs
and
.travel
.
news.zdnet.com/ ... 12:02:33
IBM and Sanyo Electric have put together a prototype of a
fuel cell system for ThinkPad notebooks
. The methanol-based fuel cell is designed to work with most standard ThinkPad systems and could provide power for up to eight hours
thejakartapost.com/ ... 11:57:58
watchmakers and the gadget freaks among us still seem to be obsessed by Dick Tracy's watch.
sun-sentinel.com/ ... 02:57:05
'Star Trek' Bit Players Cling On.. Even those with fleeting roles can live long and prosper in the world of Trekkie conventions, hawking autographs at $20 a pop... Tanya Lemani... played a belly dancer in Episode 36, "Wolf in the Fold." ... the well-preserved Lemani, clad in a belly-button-baring stretch-knit olive top and slacks, was hawking her "Bellysize with Tanya" video and talking up her soon-to-be released book, "Have Belly, Will Travel."...
cnn.com/ ... 02:45:05
WEST SEATTLE, Washington -- A sixth-grader and two of his friends were suspended after being accused of using phony dollar bills made on a home computer to buy food in the school cafeteria.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:43:44
The United Arab Emirates says it will use robots as jockeys for camel races from next season. The move comes after widespread international criticism of the use of young children to ride camels during the long and often hazardous races.
Family Patterns
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:25:53
CRESCENT CITY, Fla. - Members of neighboring families shot at each other, wounding six people, as part of a long-running feud that victims said peaked when a girl from one family began dating a boy from the other one.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:25:19
IRVINGTON, N.J. - The father of a 4-month-old girl shot and wounded the infant's grandfather Monday, fled in a car with the baby and her mother, and then was in a standoff with police after a chase across the state... grandfather was struck in the leg and was expected to survive...
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:43:22
...Because of your articles and all of the friends of Terri, my Aunt Mae Magouirk is now in the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center and is receiving food, fluids, cardiac care and neurological help. We are overjoyed....
Extraterrestrial
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:28:14
An ice pebble was almost certainly the first thing the Huygens probe struck as it landed on Titan.
Only Natural
reuters.com/ ... 12:49:22
Construction crews in a town near Los Angeles have uncovered the fossilized skeleton of a mammoth, with tusks, believed to between 400,000 and 1.4 million years old... up to 75 percent complete...
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:30:20
Butterflies do not flutter aimlessly around the garden but instead follow precise flightpaths
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:14:50
...the number of tigers in India has dropped alarmingly in recent years, and that forest officials in many game reserves have been covering up the problem.... a team from the Wildlife Institute of India, doing a training course on tracking tigers,
failed to find any evidence of them
in 15 days of looking....
Justice?
mirror.co.uk/ ... 12:01:57
A MUM was today dramatically
cleared of murdering her two children, seven years after she was jailed for the crime
... originally found guilty on.. evidence from paediatrician.. whose evidence in other cases has been discredited....
US Military
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:24
This week, the Army, Air Force and Navy announced an increase, while the Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 1,724 more reservists mobilized than last week.
US Military Casualties
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:03:20
Army Sgt. 1st Class
Stephen C. Kennedy
, 35, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Army Staff Sgt.
Christopher W. Dill
, 32, of Tonawanda, N.Y.
died April 4, 2005, in Balad Ruz, Iraq, when their patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:02:19
Army Spc.
Glenn J. Watkins
, 42, of Carlsbad, Calif., died April 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-born improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:02:02
Marine Lance Cpl.
Juan C. Venegas
, 21, of Simi Valley, Calif., died April 7 as a result of a vehicle accident while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:42
Army Sgt.
Javier J. Garcia
, 25, of Crawfordville, Fla., died April 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, when improvised explosive devices detonated near his patrol.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:08
Army Cpl.
William D. Richardson
, 23, of Moreno Valley, Calif., died April 3, in Baghdad, Iraq, when he came under enemy fire and fell into a canal.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:48
Marine Lance Cpl.
Jeremiah C. Kinchen
, 22, of Salcha, Alaska, died April 4 from an explosion that occurred during combat operations in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:30
Army Sgt.
Kelly S. Morris
, 24, of Boise, Idaho, died March 30, in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained from enemy small arms fire.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:18
Army Master Sergeant
Robbie D. McNary
, 42, of Lewistown, Mont., died March 31, in Hawijah, Iraq, from injuries sustained while performing combat operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:59:57
Marine Cpl.
Garrywesley T. Rimes
, 30, of Santa Maria, Calif., died April 1 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:59:22
Army Sgt.
James A. Sherrill
, 27, of Ekron, Ky., died April 3, in Bayji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:59
Army Staff Sgt.
Ioasa F. Tavae, Jr.
, 29, of Pago Pago, American Samoa, died April 2, in Mosul, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:38
Army Sgt.
Kenneth L. Ridgley
, 30, of Olney, Ill., died March 30 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his unit.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:20
Marine Lance Cpl.
Tenzin Dengkhim
, 19, of Falls Church, Va., died April 2 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:57:57
Army Spc.
Eric L. Toth
, 21, of Edmonton, Ky., died March 30 on a supply route when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
defenselink.mil/ ... 02:57:32
Marine Warrant Officer
Charles G. Wells Jr.
, 32, of Montgomery, Ala., died March 30 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Police Riot
reuters.com/ ... 12:48:09
The German government said on Friday it had started deploying police helicopters equipped with infrared cameras to catch graffiti artists at night despite criticism they are grossly over-reacting.
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
reuters.com/ ... 12:17:46
Reuters Spin like an Exorcist head...
In America's
epidemic of gun violence
, the
worst of any industrialized nation
, the dead make news but the wounded are soon forgotten. With
firearms mayhem in the headlines almost daily
...
[etc etc]
WW2 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:12:13
Israel recognises 'new Schindler' ... German Army officer.. Maj Karl Plagge.. saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazi Holocaust in Lithuania..... Michael Good.. began searching in 1999 for the Nazi who had saved his mother.... unusual for Yad Vashem to bestow the "Righteous Among the Nations" title on a German who was part of the Nazi war machine....
Violence
ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:05:51
Foreigners Still Held Hostage in Iraq
timesleader.com/ ... 23:04:47
..A man abducted his 4-month-old daughter and her mother at gunpoint Monday, then held them in a car surrounded by police for more than three hours before releasing them unharmed... Negotiations continued with the man....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:22:35
The man who detonated a bomb that killed an American and two French tourists at a Cairo market last week was a student who adopted extreme religious views after the death of his father, the government said Monday
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:22:22
Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces launched their biggest Baghdad raid in recent weeks, moving on foot Monday through a central neighborhood and rounding up dozens of suspected insurgents
foxnews.com/ ... 12:00:41
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Police were searching Monday for a South Carolina... ex-convict... suspected of killing two people and raping another in a 24-hour crime spree... a search of [suspect's] residence pointed to an interest in serial killers... "We found a lot of information about serial killers... He just seems to be real interested in serial killers, and he started out heading that way...."
Rebuilding
kaaltv.com/ ... 11:58:31
A
healing ceremony is planned today
at Red Lake High School
Threats
story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:06:50
Police on Monday tackled and dragged away a man with two suitcases who stationed himself in front of the west side of the Capitol and asked to see the president... investigation of the suitcases... revealed nothing threatening... 33 years old, from China and carrying no identification...
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:04:21
"I would be surprised if they did not try to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction," he said. "That would be the most horrible scenario because these extremist groups if they have the weapon, they will use it." ElBaradei said the world is in a "race against time" to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons....
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:03:44
With thousands of police deployed around the Temple Mount plaza and roadblocks slowing Jews from entering Jerusalem's Old City, a senior Hamas terrorist managed to infiltrate tight security and enter the al-Aqsa mosque, where he called on Palestinian worshipers to attack Jews who attempt to ascend the Mount.
reuters.com/ ... 12:20:15
Two cars driven by suicide bombers exploded at the entrance to a U.S. military camp on Monday in the western Iraqi town of Qaim, close to the border with Syria... first rammed into a checkpoint outside the camp and detonated before breaching the gate... U.S. and Iraqi troops helped the wounded after a second car bomber drove up and blew up his vehicle....
...al-Zarqawi.. Internet statement.. "Members of al Qaeda's martyrdom brigades carried out ... heroic attacks on American sites..."
[Not just psychos... dangerous mass-murderous psychos]
reuters.com/ ... 12:18:01
Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas flew an unmanned surveillance drone over northern Israel on Monday, the guerrilla group and the Israeli army said.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:42:48
While the death toll continues to rise in Angola from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, there are intelligence reports that Islamic terrorists might deliberately infect themselves to spread the plague to the West
SUN 2005-APR-10
US Election 2004
ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:52:55
""Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated..." -- former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.. Sunday...
Digital Consequences
reviews.cnet.com/ ... 12:53:03
Wi-Fi is being built into a dizzying array of gadgets, and new types of networking devices are emerging that take wireless networking to the next level. Here are some of our favorites.
cnet.com/ ... 12:52:41
HDTV World ...where you'll get the full skinny on the different types of sets and picture-tuning tips. We'll also tell you how to get HD programming and what you can actually watch--in short, everything you need to know about HD and a bit more....
Lasting Contributions
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:51:30
This weekend, supporters of homeopathy are celebrating the
250th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Hahnemann
- the man widely accepted as the founder of homeopathy... about 100,000 physicians using it globally... In the UK today there are five NHS homeopathic hospitals and the global sale of homeopathic medicines represents more than £1bn globally...
...qualified as a doctor.... disillusioned.. quit medicine to work as a translator... while translating medical texts that he made his biggest breakthrough - the realisation that taking quinine to treat malaria produced the same symptoms as the illness itself...
Family Patterns
timesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:45:11
New research suggests women who smoke while pregnant are putting their grandchildren as well as their children at risk....
Only Natural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:55:46
Health workers who left western Angola after they were attacked by residents fearful of a deadly Ebola-like virus have resumed efforts to contain the disease... Residents... had mistakenly feared the WHO teams were spreading - instead of helping contain - the rare Marburg virus...
astrobio.net/ ... 22:50:46
Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst. The scientists do not have direct evidence that such a burst activated the ancient extinction. The strength of their work is their atmospheric modeling -- essentially a "what if" scenario.... "What's most surprising is that just a 10-second burst can cause years of devastating ozone damage...."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:51:58
A blizzard blew across eastern Colorado on Sunday, piling up wet, heavy snow that shut down airline flights and canceled church services across the region.
WW2 - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:48:39
In pictures: Horrors of Buchenwald...
11 April marks 60 years since US troops liberated the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp in eastern Germany, where about 56,000 people died.
History - still with us
seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 12:44:35
When Salk's vaccine was announced to the world 50 years ago, on April 12, 1955,
church bells rang, fire-engine sirens blared and parents wept.
World Without Borders
newutah.com/ ... 12:37:50
...What Mexico should be doing, in lieu of the saber rattling, is working south of the border to prevent people from crossing illegally into the United States. Its actions suggest that it officially endorses illegal migration -- which it likely does in secret. Americans should be outraged by this affront....
insidebayarea.com/ ... 12:36:19
...Close to 2,000 volunteers will patrol the San Pedro Valley along the Arizona-Mexico border, "spotting intruders entering the U.S. illegally."... What kind of people can devote 30 days without pay to the pursuit of undocumented immigrants? The irony is that the food these hunters consume and the houses they inhabit were undoubtedly harvested and built, respectively, by the same immigrants they pursue. They complain about undocumented immigrants while benefiting from their labor. Project Minuteman is meaningless. Its volunteers, taking justice into their own hands, plan to patrol only 20 miles of the frontier. ..forgetting about the other 1,931 miles of border between Mexico and the United States....
Digital Threat
newkerala.com/ ... 12:32:44
The visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today extended Chinas hand to India for IT handshake... could lead the world IT industry and usher in an Asian century in the hi-tech field....
Violence
ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:57:40
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A bloody brawl between rival religious groups at a mosque in southern Russia led to the detention of 200 people... blood on the floor and walls of the mosque - one of the oldest in Dagestan, the province bordering war-wracked Chechnya... "It's a controversy within Sunni groups and it is all about the election of a new imam" for the mosque....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:56:34
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Police on Sunday shot and killed a prominent gang leader suspected in the killings of Haitian police officers///
ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:54:38
...Sunday, the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed to have kidnapped and killed Najaf police Brig. Gen. Bassem Mohammed Kadhim al-Jazaari while he was visiting Baghdad...
sfgate.com/ ... 12:43:10
Nepal's uncivil war -- silencer of the people... Hopes of democracy fade away as combatants -- Maoists and monarchy -- brutalize civilians in deadly, intensifying rebellion... The conflict has killed at least 11, 000 people since it began in 1996 -- about 8,000 in the past three years alone...
abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:38:10
Militants in Iraq kidnapped a Pakistani diplomat on his way to a mosque for prayers, and a previously unknown group claimed responsibility...
wireservice.wired.com/ ... 12:32:08
Judy Clarke... the lawyer at the center of the deal that will spare serial bomber Eric Rudolph's life has helped keep other big-name defendants off death row _ including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.. [and] helped.. defend Susan Smith, the South Carolina mom who avoided a death sentence after being convicted of drowning her two little boys in 1995.... was assisting with the defense of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only U.S. defendant charged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
walb.com/ ... 12:28:16
"I was told today that they had in fact found all the devices. That he had told them where they were and saw that once all of those devices were found and destroyed, then they accepted the plea agreement," said John Hawthorne, who lost his wife, Alice in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing. Hawthorne says, agreeing to the plea bargain was the right decision, "If taking the death penalty off the table would keep anyone else from getting killed or injured, then you know, I'm okay with that...."
reuters.com/ ... 12:26:31
A Frenchman wounded in a bombing in a Cairo bazaar died on his way back to Paris for treatment, a French foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, bringing the death toll to four.....
Rebuilding
washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:26:08
The United States on Sunday
cancelled its blanket warning against travel to Israel for the first time since the start of a Palestinian uprising
more than 4-1/2 years ago.
SAT 2005-APR-09
Digital Consequences
reuters.com/ ... 13:35:29
Catholic monks living on an island off the west coast of Wales have flown in a satellite dish to watch the Pope's funeral Friday.
Whoops!
reuters.com/ ... 13:35:45
The United States has postponed the launch of a missile that would have forced the shutdown of production at the huge Hibernia oil project off Canada's Atlantic coast
reuters.com/ ... 13:35:09
A thief who stole 25 shoes got a little less than he or she bargained for after realizing they were all for left feet....
Transport
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:24:55
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - A truck packed with high school students skidded off a mountain road in northern Zambia, killing at least 38 and seriously injuring 50....
Preternatural Patterns
reuters.com/ ... 13:33:52
A
baggage handler wearing a camel suit taken from a passenger's luggage
has left Qantas Airways red-faced, with Australia's national carrier investigating a potentially embarrassing security lapse... Passenger.. complained after he saw a baggage handler driven across the Sydney airport tarmac Wednesday wearing the camel suit that had been packed into the baggage he had checked in only minutes earlier....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:25:26
A western Kentucky police chief who had been credited by his mayor with helping combat the scourge of methamphetamine in their small town has been indicted on two meth-related charges.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:24:29
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami strongly denied shaking hands and chatting with Israeli President Moshe Katsav at Pope John Paul II's funeral... Katsav said he shook hands and chatted briefly with Khatami and the leader of another archenemy of Israel, Bashar Assad of Syria....
washtimes.com/ ... 13:13:28
President Bush solicited foreign policy advice from former President Bill Clinton at CIA briefings this week and even told Mr. Clinton that he liked his approach to reforming Social Security.
Yuck!
reuters.com/ ... 13:34:26
A Hong Kong hiker washed her face in a freshwater stream, not noticing that leech had wormed its way into one of her nostrils, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal. Unaware she was playing host to the creature, the 55-year-old woman only consulted a doctor when her nose started bleeding intermittently about two weeks later....
apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:15:33
The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits - including a claim against another fast-food restaurant... Speaking through the front door of her Las Vegas home Friday, Ayala claimed police are out to get her and were unnecessarily rough as they executed a search warrant at her home on Wednesday. "Lies, lies, lies, that's all I am hearing," she said. "They should look at Wendy's. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?"...
The employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers
, and no suppliers of Wendy's ingredients have reported any hand or finger injuries...
washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:09:52
A former employee of Michael Jackson testified Friday that in the early 1990s he saw the entertainer inappropriately touching Macaulay Culkin while the child actor played a "Thriller" arcade game... "I was shocked and I almost dropped the french fries...."
Human Right
nytimes.com/ ... 13:16:16
Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.
Only Natural
apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:14:06
A tiny speck of zircon crystal that is barely visible to the eye is believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old. For the first time ever, the public will have a chance to see the particle Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where researchers in 2001 made the breakthrough discovery that the early Earth was much cooler than previously believed based on analysis of the crystal.
news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:13:09
"Marburg is a very bad haemorrhagic fever, even worse than Ebola.... We have had several Ebola epidemics in the region but none with such a high mortality rate...." world's worst-ever outbreak of the virus was not yet under control.... transmitted through contact with all bodily fluids which also included sweat and tears if you touch a sick person..." can be contained with relatively simple health precautions..
History - still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:30:58
After 25 Years, Mariel Boatlift Leaves a Legacy of Changed Lives.... The exodus from the small Cuban port began when Cuban President Fidel Castro sought to remove about 10,000 people who were seeking to leave the island after crashing through the gates of the Peruvian embassy April 1, 1980. Castro allowed those who wanted to leave the island to depart by boat. He also sent about 2,000 of communist Cuba's most violent criminals across the Florida Straits, along with mental patients and about 23,000 others identified by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as "non-felonious criminals and political prisoners..."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:59
The vaccine bears his name, but Jonas Salk had plenty of help in the victory over polio, and his legacy includes researchers bitterly disappointed that he denied them their share of the glory.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:44
50 Years Ago, Polio Shots Ended Era of Fear, Launched Era of Vaccines.. On April 12, 1955, scientists announced they had a successful vaccine.... viral illness paralyzed tens of thousands of children in the United States and half a million worldwide each year....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:23:15
THIS DAY 2003:
Saddam statue topples with regime
Rebuilding
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:22:46
In pictures: Iraqi lives two years after Saddam... "The situation is not so bad any more, but it is still not always good." .. "Electricity is already better and security keeps improving, although it is still a grave problem." .. "The corruption in Iraq is very bad now. All the ministries are stealing the wealth of Iraq." .. "I am afraid all the time." .. "
My hope lies in God first, and then the government.
" ..
WW2 - still with us
reuters.myway.com/ ... 13:17:16
BEIJING - Thousands of Chinese smashed windows and threw rocks at the Japanese embassy and ambassador's residence in Beijing on Saturday in a protest against Japan's wartime past and its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat.... Anti-Japanese sentiment has been running high in China since Tuesday Japan when approved a textbook critics say whitewashes atrocities committed during World War II, and many Chinese feel the country has not owned up to its wartime aggression....
Threats
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:15:54
An Iraqi cameraman carrying credentials for the United States network CBS is being held on suspicion of rebel activity, the US military in Iraq said.
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 13:34:43
A woman has been arrested after she rammed a car into her neighbor's apartment in an apparent fight over a loud television....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:17:53
...in the province of Ituri, Hilary Andersson finds evidence of cannibalism by some rebels....
azcentral.com/ ... 13:10:51
CANTON, Texas - A man charged with shooting and critically wounding his son's high school football coach got the idea the day before, on his 45th birthday, and expected to be killed by officers' gunfire afterward.... "I don't think anything happened just recently to trigger this," Canton Police Chief Mike Echols said. "He thought up what he was going to do on his birthday...."
azcentral.com/ ... 13:08:42
Eric Rudolph ... on Friday.. struck a plea deal with the government he loathed... to plead guilty to carrying out the blasts in a deal that spares him the possibility of the death penalty and ensures that he will spend the rest of his life in prison.....
sports.espn.go.com/ ... 13:05:29
You'll hear the word "closure" a lot with regard to the Eric Rudolph case, and if you have no idea who Rudolph is, you're probably living a wonderful life. He's the humanoid who bombed Centennial Park at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, bombed a lesbian night club, bombed two abortion clinics, killed two people, maimed a nurse, and injured 120 folks unlucky enough to be caught on planet Earth in the same tiny sliver of lifetime as this unbridled loser. Now Rudolph has cut a deal with federal officials under which he will go to prison for the rest of his natural life but avoid the death penalty. He also already has led authorities to more than 250 pounds of buried dynamite. It was a good trade for the government.
But closure? Well, let's run that one past Richard Jewell....
FRI 2005-APR-08
Lasting Contributions
nytimes.com/ ... 19:32:25
Dale Messick
, a pioneering newspaper cartoonist who fought her way to the top of a man's profession by creating
Brenda Starr
, the glamorous red-haired journalist who fought her way to the top of a man's profession, died on Tuesday in Sonoma County, Calif. She was 98.
Family Patterns
channeloklahoma.com/ ... 19:27:08
...Bobbi Parker told the FBI that Dial threatened to kill her family if she ever left... The girls were 8 and 10 when their mother disappeared....
abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:26:38
The prison warden's wife who vanished along with a convicted killer a decade ago returned to Oklahoma with her husband and was reunited with her daughters Thursday... Dial told reporters he abducted Parker at knifepoint in 1994 and brainwashed her into staying with him as they moved from Houston to Crockett to Nacogdoches, and then the chicken farm five years ago. He said their relationship was not romantic... Parker's boss, Martha Rash, who along with her husband owns the chicken farm where Parker and Dial lived and worked, said Parker had a truck, a highway nearby and plenty of chances to escape....
Only Natural
superforce.com/ ... 11:33:53
24% of the U.S. Presidential Vote swayed by the Full Moon effect
Violence
abclocal.go.com/ ... 19:29:22
The lone suspect in yesterday's two-state shooting rampage has been ordered held without bond in Wicomico County, Maryland. .. appeared agitated during a twenty-minute bail review hearing... cursed the judge, threatened people in the courtroom and appeared to be muttering to himself... judge.. threatened to muzzle... said.. was a threat to the community... charged in Salisbury with the murder of 28-year-old DaVondale Peters, during what police say was a random shooting... also ..suspect in a fatal shooting yesterday in Laurel, Delaware. Four people were wounded in the shooting sprees.
Threats
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:25:59
Italian military jets have intercepted a plane flying over the capital Rome, where world leaders had gathered for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. .. forced the aircraft.. towards a nearby air base to land a few hours after the funeral. .. fears a bomb may have been on board, but no explosives were found....
THU 2005-APR-07
Mass Madness
thisislondon.com/ ... 14:52:24
Miami... One local said: 'I've been working here for 20 years and I've never seen as many sharks as this.'...
story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:51:11
Four kings, five queens, at least 70 presidents and prime ministers and more than 14 leaders of other religions will attend alongside what the Vatican expects will be two million faithful...
Preternatural Patterns
reuters.com/ ... 14:58:18
A Swedish woman who photographed a swan in the river outside the royal palace in Stockholm made a grim discovery when the film was developed: a hand sticking out of the ice.
reuters.com/ ... 14:57:15
Some 40 percent of the 640 taxi and bus drivers surveyed by Lima's San Marcos University suffered from psychological problems and showed psychopathic tendencies....
reuters.co.uk/ ... 14:49:08
Reports that jurors in Michael Jackson's sex abuse trial were making fun of a prosecution witness in the case have been dismissed as an "unsubstantiated rumour" by a court spokesman.
Yuck!
reuters.com/ ... 14:59:53
A Harvard professor who specializes in environmental economics was arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a load of manure from a Massachusetts farm... "He seemed a little befuddled standing there with a truck bed full of manure"... Weitzman, whose research interests listed on a Harvard Web site include the economics of biodiversity and global warming, did not return calls seeking comment. Casey told the Gloucester Daily Times that manure thefts had been a long-standing problem.
reuters.com/ ... 14:48:30
"He put the little boy's penis in his mouth," Chacon said.
"Did you actually see that?" prosecutor Tom Sneddon asked.
"Yes," Chacon replied, adding that Jackson's kisses were "very passionate" and that the singer's hands were "all over" the boy's body.
Family Patterns
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:23:09
...an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration. ... Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state..." been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer.... in defiance of.. specific wishes.. set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin....
seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 14:55:46
Her husband at her side, her children hours away, Bobbi Parker headed home to Oklahoma yesterday for the first time since she vanished along with an inmate after a prison break 11 years ago... authorities believe he kept Parker from escaping by threatening to hurt her family....
sfgate.com/ ... 01:58:47
Tulsa, Okla. -- Race officials cannot explain why Michelle "Shelly" Howard's dragster flipped over and shot backward, killing her and her son....
newsday.com/ ... 01:58:01
New York - A 42-year-old police officer... charged with rape, incest, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse based on allegations by [his daughter] that he raped and molested her several times since 2001.... released without bail... order barring him from having any contact with his 15-year-old daughter....
Digital Consequences
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:04:44
The FTC has canceled the proposed purchase of Hollywood Entertainment by Blockbuster, Inc. The reason given is that competition between them would be eliminated, resulting in fewer choices for DVD-video rental customers. But in reality, the blocked merger demonstrates how out of touch government regulators are with advances in technology and new business concepts....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:54:19
US scientists have designed a
bionic eye
to allow blind people to see again.
Theory of Education
tucsoncitizen.com/ ... 01:53:08
A world history textbook is no longer being used by seventh-graders at a local school amid criticism of the book's focus and portrayal of Islam.... "I received a significant number of e-mails saying (the book) was Islamic propaganda and we shouldn't use it," said district governing board member Christine Schild....
deseretnews.com/ ... 01:52:29
At Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull, Conn., Karwoski's teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to grade work.
Parents objected.
Red writing, they said, was "stressful."
Whoops!
news.yahoo.com/ ... 02:06:05
The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:50:42
Pol: Paper made up quotes about Minutemen.. Councilman claims he never said he wants citizen patrol in New Mexico...
Netsurf Flotsam
absolutetrl.net/ ... 18:42:32
This Day in Music
classicbands.com/ ... 18:40:29
Dead Rock Stars
beloit.edu/ ... 18:40:13
Ethereal Messages -- A History of Beloit College Radio 1907-94, researched and written by Dave de Anguera '91, edited by Frederick Burwell
Only Natural
reuters.com/ ... 14:57:45
One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit Friday.
reuters.com/ ... 14:57:29
Sex, cryptic crosswords and a good run could help ward off dementia and other degenerative conditions by stimulating new brain cells
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:03:03
Video: Man Tackles Escaped Emu in Kansas
msnbc.msn.com/ ... 01:54:00
Dangerous drug-resistant staph infections are showing up at an alarming rate outside hospitals and nursing homes in the United States... doctors are seeing resistant strains among
inmates, children and athletes...
QUICK! What pattern do we see here?
Police Riot
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:21:29
A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail...
Threats
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:21:07
In a Heritage Foundation address to be broadcast on C-Span, author Jerome Corsi warned events are unfolding that likely will lead to a
showdown with Iran this year....
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:20:38
In an open letter to Tehran's leaders, an opposition group called The 70 Million People of Iran, has declared the ruling mullahs will no longer have power over the country as of June 16, and has called on world powers not to honor any contracts with the government after that date.
nynewsday.com/ ... 19:18:26
NEW YORK (AP) _ Federal authorities reportedly arrested two teenage girls on charges that they planned to become suicide bombers and posed a threat to U.S. security... evidence was not described.. girls -- one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea -- were reportedly living in the United States illegally....
Vigilantism
reuters.com/ ... 14:56:19
Militia volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border held a Mexican immigrant against his will and made him hold a joke T-shirt for cameras....
Rebuilding
abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:53:23
Iraq's presidential council was sworn in Thursday and named Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari as interim prime minister, the country's most powerful position, giving Iraq its first freely elected government in 50 years and further consolidating the postwar power shift.
Freedom
voanews.com/ ... 14:53:05
Ukraine's newly-elected president, Viktor Yushchenko, has thanked the United States for supporting Ukraine as it begins a series of democratic and economic reforms. VOA's Victoria Cavaliere reports that the Ukrainian leader is also asking the U.S. Congress for more financial support.
Digital Threat
theaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 02:03:58
...Sony has patented an idea for
transmitting data directly into the brain
, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things
Land of the Free
dailybreeze.com/ ... 01:55:37
Twenty-nine Chinese nationals arrested in the Port of Los Angeles spent two weeks living in cramped cargo containers, eating cheap cookies, going without fresh air, and defecating in buckets as they tried to slip illegally into the United States... "I'm sure they were disappointed. It didn't much show. They are uncertain of what's going to happen to them."...
Violence
apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:20:08
CANTON, Texas -- The father of a high school football player shot... AK-47 rifle in the chest... and wounded the coach with an assault rifle Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, claiming to have a hit list... captured a few hours later, after his truck was found abandoned near a golf course outside Canton... [victim's] condition was not immediately released....
indystar.com/ ... 14:50:24
A conservative activist who criticizes what he calls the leftist domination of college campuses.. David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, had just started a lecture at Butler when he... was struck with a pie Wednesday night at Butler University.... "There's a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I'd call fascists opposing conservatives," Horowitz said. "It's one step from that to injury."...
reuters.com/ ... 14:45:50
A man on a motorbike threw a bomb in the central historic area of Cairo on Thursday, killing up to four people, including an American and a French citizen.. wounded -- four French, three Americans, an Italian, a Turk and nine Egyptians... no immediate indication of.. motive....
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:49:28
Hidden explosives tie FBI to OKC destruction?... The news spin, at least what little surfaced in a period of predictable news frenzy, was that the FBI was embarrassed for not having found this old material 10 years prior. As has happened all too often in the past, however, seeming FBI incompetence provides a cover for a much more troubling story.....
WED 2005-APR-06
Whoops!
reuters.com/ ... 12:46:08
...According to The Washington Post on Tuesday, gamblers [on the next Pope] can back Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Italy at odds of 11 to 4. "Or they can take their chances on Father Dougal Maguire of Craggy Island, Ireland, a long shot at 1,000 to 1." But the Post's reporter was unaware of a key detail that, generous odds aside, would make canny bettors take a pass on Father Dougal. ...McGuire.. appears in the hit British television comedy "Father Ted," which follows the antics of an eccentric group of Catholic priests on a small island off the west coast of Ireland.
Sex can be Dangerous
reuters.com/ ... 12:43:38
An Idaho strip club that attempted to get around a ban on full nudity by giving patrons sketch pads for special "art nights" was cited for violating the city's nudity rules... officials concluded, however, that patrons were not focused on art...
Legislative Ethics
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:42:01
Freshman Sen. Tom Coburn will go ahead with his fight to retain his medical practice while serving in Congress, even though the Senate Ethics Committee has rejected his request.
Extraterrestrial
local10.com/ ... 23:42:14
The movement of space shuttle Discovery to a launch pad Wednesday was delayed after a last-minute inspection revealed a small crack in foam on the external fuel tank
variety.com/ ... 12:33:47
Saturday, 46 days before "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" opens on May 19, the trilogy's enthusiasts began their vigil outside Grauman's Chinese Theater. Problem is 20th Century Fox doesn't plan to open the film at the Chinese, opting instead for the ArcLight a few blocks east...
"Star Wars" or no, the diehards are resolute about keeping their line on Hollywood Boulevard.
"We've heard all this before," said Sarah Sprague, one of the designated spokesmen for the group. In 1999 and 2002, there were plenty of rumors (ultimately false) that the previous two pics weren't going to open at the Chinese....
Slow Learners
observer.com/ ... 12:32:37
...Ms. Huffington, Mr. Beatty and Co., however, are aiming not at the margins but at the center of the media scrum: the news cycle itself, now being deftly nudged, goosed and spun by Mr. Drudgedaily, hourly, instantly. "As the day follows the night, Drudge will inspire its opposite," Mr. Beatty said.
Digital Consequences
maps.google.com/ ... 23:43:30
http://maps.google.com/
thedenverchannel.com/ ... 23:43:03
Online search engine leader Google Inc. has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images
webpronews.com/ ... 12:12:21
Starting next Tuesday, April 12, machines running Windows XP without Service Pack 2 installed will no longer be able to block delivery of the much-discussed update.
Lasting Contributions
chron.com/ ... 02:20:09
Nobel laureate novelist Saul Bellow dies at 89... Author stood atop the group of Jewish-American writers who arose after World War II... complex moral comedies earned him the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature and status as perhaps the finest American novelist of the postwar period...
Preternatural Patterns
drudgereport.com/ ... 23:41:25
En route to Rome, Clinton told reporters the pope.. "i's like all of us - he may have a mixed legacy.....
reuters.com/ ... 12:47:51
...he was lifted off the floor by giant fishhooks pierced through the skin on his shoulders... body suspension practitioners... To hang cost $100; just to watch cost $15 ...
reuters.com/ ... 12:46:37
"Incredible Popeman" -- Pope John Paul II is being reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants.
reuters.com/ ... 12:43:59
Italy's leading news agency has denied reporting that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would attend Pope John Paul's funeral Friday after a story attributed to it circulated widely on the Internet.
drudgereport.com/ ... 12:17:50
...a Juror was overheard by two reporters [one fron UK's SKY TV] saying, "Oh boo-hooo, Michael Jackson tickled me." That statement was followed by laughter from other Jurors.... Jurors 8 and 9 have been observed laughing during the latest witness testimony, frequently cupping their mouths and talking during testimony....
obviousnews.com/ ... 02:17:26
Macaulay Culkin shared a bedroom with Michael Jackson. Britney Spears future choreographer... ... about eight... shared a shower with the singer. So said Jacksons former maid as the hits kept coming Tuesday at the singers molestation trial....
Human Right
timesonline.co.uk/ ... 02:22:24
A European directive controlling the sale of some vitamins and other food supplements, which is due to become law this year, was declared illegal by a top judge yesterday. The health food rules, which affect thousands of products on sale in Britain, were seriously deficient and broke basic legal principles, an Advocate-General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg said.
Only Natural
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:28
High wind and heavy rain caused damage and injuries Wednesday in central Mississippi as lines of violent thunderstorms rolled across the South.
cnn.com/ ... 02:20:44
Sky-watchers from the South Pacific to the Americas will witness the first solar eclipse of 2005 on Friday when the moon blots out part of the sun. It will be a partial eclipse rather than a total one, in which the Earth is cast into darkness. But it will be the last partial solar eclipse visible from the continental United States until May 20, 2012.....
Peace 3000
reuters.com/ ... 12:44:15
An Israeli Arab schoolboy outshone Jewish counterparts to grab a share of victory in a school quiz on the history of Zionism and the creation of Israel
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:38:35
In pictures: Bridging Kashmir divide
Digital Threat
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:37:58
The average home computer user is bamboozled by technology jargon which is used to warn people about the most serious security threats online. Many are often left vulnerable because they have no idea what they are supposed to be protecting themselves against.... "phishing", "rogue dialler", "Trojan".. one in 10.. thought.. "spyware".. was a computer program that kept an eye on unfaithful partners.... 16% had never heard of the term "spam"....
Police Riot
wftv.com/ ... 12:34:14
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County's sheriff may have broken the law when he used driver's license records to track down a woman who wrote a newspaper to criticize his staff's use of Taser stun guns and described him as too fat for basic police work, critics say.
Rebuilding
wpherald.com/ ... 12:11:15
...Talabani promised "to spare no effort to achieve the will of the Iraqi people." He also vowed to restore Iraq's independence and sovereignty.....
....Adel Abdul Mahdi, a prominent Shiite Arab politician, and Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the Sunni Arab president of the interim government, were appointed vice presidents.....
ksbitv.com/ ... 12:09:08
SADDAM'S SEAT HELD BY KURD
Iraq's new transitional assembly took an expected but historic step Wednesday, electing Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the nation's president
Violence
alertnet.org/ ... 23:41:53
A radio reporter in Nuevo Laredo on Mexico's border with Texas was in serious condition after being shot several times by an unknown gunman, the latest journalist to be attacked along the border in recent months.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:39:57
A man opened fire at a crowded convenience store early Wednesday, wounding three customers, and then was shot by officers who happened to be present...
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:35:52
Militants have launched a raid in Indian-controlled Kashmir on a building holding passengers for Thursday's landmark cross-Kashmir bus service. The building in Srinagar was set on fire but police say the passengers were evacuated and that
both militant attackers were shot dead.
swissinfo.org/ ... 12:07:21
A U.S. military helicopter crashed duringa dust storm in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing all nineaboard
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
washtimes.com/ ... 12:35:06
All 55 Republican senators say they have never seen the Terri Schiavo political talking-points memo that Democrats say was circulated among Republicans during the floor debate over whether the federal government should intervene to prolong her life. ...every Republican said the memo was not crafted or distributed by him or her.
Every one of them said he or she had not seen it until the memo was the subject of speculation in major news organs
, particularly ABC News and The Washington Post.
bloomberg.com/ ... 02:23:48
South Korea protested Japan's latest edition of school textbooks, saying they distort events during World War II and the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial era, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The South Korean government expressed its ``regret'' the textbooks for 2006 that passed the Japanese government's approval process yesterday claimed sovereignty over two islands that lie east of South Korea, the ministry said.
chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 02:23:14
The Japanese education ministry yesterday sanctioned its textbooks. Among them is a new history book submitted by the right-wing History Textbook Reform Society.... Japanese middle school children can now be taught from a book that re-asserts the wartime ideology that Japan's invasions of China, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia were justified acts of self-defence. Apparently, it assisted Asia's liberation from European and American domination....
WW2 - still with us
reuters.com/ ... 12:46:58
The remains of thousands of Soviet and German soldiers killed in a climactic World War II battle outside Berlin are still being unearthed and identified 60 years after the fighting ended.
washingtonpost.com/ ... 02:21:23
TOKYO, April 5 -- The Education Ministry on Tuesday approved a controversial new series of school textbooks that
critics say whitewash Japan's militaristic past.
The move ignited immediate outrage among some of the country's World War II-era victims.
Threats
news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:42:41
Italy prepared missiles and a warship on Wednesday to protect the world's powerful at Pope John Paul's funeral as a ceaseless floodtide of pilgrims waited hours to pay their respects to the Polish pontiff.
reuters.com/ ... 12:48:06
People in Florida will be allowed to kill in self-defense on the street without trying to flee under a new law
washingtonpost.com/ ... 02:14:31
Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton will accompany President Bush to Pope John Paul II's funeral, the White House said yesterday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will also be part of the small official U.S. delegation....
9/11 - still with us
nj.com/ ... 02:13:52
Finding quicker ways to evacuate people from skyscrapers during emergencies should be one of the main lessons learned from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
nytimes.com/ ... 02:13:30
The staircases in the twin towers - their number, location, and the weak walls around them - emerged as critical factors in the deaths of many of those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
washingtonpost.com/ ... 02:13:02
National Institute of Standards and Technology study of airplanes striking the World Trade Center... will use the findings... to formulate recommendations... for changes in national building codes for office towers...
fortunate that the attacks took place in the morning...
If the building had been fully occupied, the report found, a full evacuation would have taken four hours and cost 14,000 lives....
TUE 2005-APR-05
Mechanical Disaster
reuters.com/ ... 12:28:00
A Chinese food delivery man was found trapped in a broken elevator on Tuesday, more than three days after he was reported missing
Digital Consequences
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:46:56
..."audio clouds" to control gadgets using movement and sound.... could make using mobile devices on the move safer and easier... responds to movements... also already testing 3D audio systems for devices.... "We hope to develop interfaces that are truly mobile, allowing users to concentrate on the real world while interacting with their mobile device as naturally as if they were talking to a friend while walking." ....
Preternatural Patterns
nydailynews.com/ ... 12:34:16
10 things you probably didn't want to know about Jane Fonda
ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:45:20
OKLAHOMA CITY - A convicted killer together with an assistant warden's wife who both disappeared almost 11 years ago were found alive Monday by investigators acting on a tip from a viewer of "America's Most Wanted...."
Current
drudgereport.com/ ... 12:31:12
This morning, Peter Jennings told his senior staff at World News Tonight that yesterday afternoon he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
money.cnn.com/ ... 12:21:28
ChevronTexaco Corp.
may sell Unocal Corp.'s North American onshore fields and Asian power plants
for an estimated $2 billion after it closes the purchase of its smaller California rival, a source close to the plan said Tuesday.
reuters.com/ ... 02:44:30
ChevronTexaco to Buy Unocal for $16.4 Bln
US Military
wtoctv.com/ ... 12:30:40
Some top honors to a Third Infantry Division soldier killed in Iraq. Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith fought his way to Baghdad with Third ID. Two years ago yesterday, he and his troops held a position near the Baghdad airport. Iraqi troops counter attacked. Outnumbered and outgunned, Smith fought back, covering his soldiers and killing dozens of Iraqi troops until he was mortally wounded. Yesterday,
President George Bush posthumously presented Smith's Congressional Medal of Honor to his 11-year-old son
, David, and honored his efforts.
Only Natural
thisislondon.com/ ... 12:51:20
...described how the singer molested him and gave him $100 bills afterwards... seven years old the first time...
[Peter Pandering]
cbs.sportsline.com/ ... 12:42:25
A college teacher who won a regional boxing title three years ago died from a head injury she sustained in a Golden Gloves competition, apparently becoming the first woman to die in a sanctioned bout.
livescience.com/ ... 12:37:46
...a single gene and its growth-promoting protein (CPG15) may be used to develop therapies for renewing damaged or diseased brain tissue....Over-expressing CPG-15 in rats
gives them bigger brains
...
livescience.com/ ... 12:36:16
...monkeys, dogs and even rats love a good laugh. People, meanwhile, have been laughing since before they could talk....
abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:28:37
Drenching Rain Floods Delaware River, Forces Thousands of People to Evacuate in N.J., N.Y., Pa.
Threats
news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:41:44
The inevitable DUH! of meddling vigilantes....
Volunteers who have converged on the Mexican border to watch for illegal immigrants are disrupting U.S. Border Patrol operations by unwittingly tripping sensors that alert agents to possible intruders....
Digital Threat
voanews.com/ ... 12:27:23
Iraqi authorities say gunmen have kidnapped a top Iraqi army officer... Brigadier General Jalal Mohammed Saleh was pulled out of his car in western Baghdad Tuesday and taken away. He was the commander of a special armored division....
one American Marine was killed by an explosion in Al Anbar province Monday...
a riot erupted at Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq last week.. quickly brought under control.. four prison guards and 12 inmates suffered minor injuries....
support.microsoft.com/ ... 12:26:00
Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2
(list from MS)
pcworld.com/ ... 12:24:19
Companies are taking their time before installing Service Pack 2 on Windows XP machines, with slightly less than a quarter currently upgraded.... overall "more companies are tending to hold back on SP2 than accept it...." update makes significant changes to Windows in the name of increased security [but] can render existing applications inoperable....
ecommercetimes.com/ ... 12:22:26
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Firefox Web browser that could be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.... "The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the JavaScript engine, as a 'lambda' replace exposes arbitrary amounts of heap memory after the end of a JavaScript string...."
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 12:29:44
Saudi forces waging a fierce three-day battle with gunmen have killed a top militant suspected of masterminding al Qaeda bombings in Casablanca... Abdulkarim al-Mejjati...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:44:50
WESLACO, Texas - Authorities checking on a state judge who failed to show up for work found him dead in the den of his home Monday, a semiautomatic pistol and spent shell casing lying nearby. Police are investigating to determine if the gunshot wound was self-inflicted.
reuters.com/ ... 02:43:17
A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol close to Baghdad's international airport on Tuesday, killing one civilian
MON 2005-APR-04
Sex can be Dangerous
reuters.myway.com/ ... 12:38:16
....survey of 580 children with a mean age of 14-1/2 found 20 percent said they had engaged in oral sex, compared to 14 percent who said they had engaged in sexual intercourse.... one-third of the multi-ethnic 9th graders surveyed said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months and nearly one-fourth planned to have intercourse during the period. It was more common for boys to have performed oral sex on girls than vice versa....
usnews.com/ ... 12:36:50
THE BILL CLINTON LEGACY
...more teens engage in oral sex than intercourse, perceive it as less risky, and are less likely to use protection while doing it....
AmerIndians Today
seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 12:28:50
Nearly a thousand places across the country - rivers, buttes, meadows, mountains - are named "squaw," and most American Indians want them to be called something else... American Indians' heightened sensitivity to the word came about in 1992 after an activist announced on a television talk show that squaw is derived from a vulgar Mohawk word. Linguists maintain "squaw" means "woman" in the language of the Massachusett tribe, which once lived on the East Coast.... survey of American Indian tribes.. majority wanted the squaw name to go, [but] each tribe wanted to replace it with a word from its language,
Preternatural Patterns
nydailynews.com/ ... 12:37:28
If Michael Jackson ever left the country, he could live out his days on a tropical island paradise - thanks to his friend Marlon Brando.
entertainment.news.com.au/ ... 12:33:30
MICHAEL Jackson has been crowned the US's most foolish person for the third consecutive year, snatching the dishonour from the likes of President George W. Bush and society heiress Paris Hilton.
chron.com/ ... 01:56:40
Why spring forward? It's the law [says] HINTS FROM HELOISE
Transport
nytimes.com/ ... 01:55:11
The engine of an Amtrak train derailed Sunday in a gorge in southern Washington, sending at least 26 passengers to hospitals
Human Right
reuters.com/ ... 20:06:45
A Chinese man jailed and badly beaten for his wife's murder has been freed after she turned up not only alive but with another husband.... revealing a brutal arbitrariness to China's legal system.... was coerced into confessing to her murder and badly beaten in prison.... International human rights groups say police torture is widespread in China and that suspects are held for long periods without trial. But it is rare for a victim, or the domestic media, to go public about police brutality.....
reuters.com/ ... 20:05:13
Japan... Experts have advised the government that the clashing orange and green striped bedcovers prisons have been using for more than half a century could make prisoners nervous and aggressive....
abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:34:48
Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage
Only Natural
sun-sentinel.com/ ... 12:31:23
FLA -- In the last few months, fish and bird species have been popping up in places they're not normally found. These transients aren't arriving in huge numbers, just an oddity here and there -- an Arctic bird off St. Augustine Beach, spiny dogfish normally farther north found in Ponce de Leon Inlet....
"Something's going on in the North Atlantic...."
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:04:04
A Burmese woman is breastfeeding two tiger cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their aggressive mother.
US Military
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:03:42
British and American nuclear warheads carried by submarines are so poorly designed that they may fail to detonate if fired
Aftermath
reuters.com/ ... 20:07:26
Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of Pol Pot's political enemies were clubbed to death, sparking anger among relatives who say the Khmer Rouge's 1.7 million victims are being traded for profit.
9/11 - still with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:04:38
The U.S. State Department said Monday it was offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture and conviction of the last remaining fugitive wanted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
People Die
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:39:24
Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug.
halifaxherald.com/ ... 12:33:11
Merrill Whynot, who just a week ago talked about buying a new truck with his lottery winnings... $117,012.40 in the March 16 Lotto... and days later won again at a local bingo... $260... died Tuesday night....
Threats
reuters.com/ ... 20:03:20
Self-styled militia members in Arizona said on Monday they had already helped apprehend 19 illegal migrants at the start of monthlong border patrols that have raised fears of violence.
cbsnews.com/ ... 20:02:58
The biggest anti-terrorism drill ever held in the United States got under way Monday with a mock biological attack in New Jersey and a simulated chemical-weapons explosion in Connecticut.
newsday.com/ ... 12:30:19
NEWARK, N.J. -- A school security guard took blood samples from middle school students without permission from parents, raising concerns that disease may have been spread among the children... guard may have used a diabetic testing device to prick their fingers, but did not clean its needle between uses and may have used it herself....
Police Riot
palmbeachpost.com/ ... 01:55:40
Calls for clear policy directing the use of "less lethal" electric weapons, coming from critics of the devices as well as from law enforcement agencies, led an international police organization to compile a set of guidelines that will be released today.
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 20:04:21
CIA interrogations
may have played a role in the deaths of several detainees in Iraq
ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:50
A suicide bomber driving a tractor blew himself up Monday in the second attack in three days near.. [Iraq's] Abu Ghraib prison.... killed the attacker and injured four civilians.... [Some loser who was late to yesterday's party?]
theaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 12:34:20
A bomb blast wounded four soldiers in southern Thailand yesterday
news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 01:56:13
Security forces killed three wanted militants after 12 hours of intense clash in northern Saudi Arabiaon Sunday
bloomberg.com/ ... 01:54:36
U.S. forces in Iraq repulsed a two- hour attack by insurgents on the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, causing an estimated 50 casualties among the gunmen... Seven U.S. soldiers were wounded and evacuated for treatment while 16 returned to duty after being treated for injuries from shrapnel... All detainees in the prison are accounted for while 13 of them were wounded by indirect gunfire....
SUN 2005-APR-03
Sex -- always attractive
sci-tech-today.com/ ... 16:09:45
Yes, very always...
...study... sex is worth all the effort and hassle. ...
enjoyable side.. compensates
for.. time consuming and exhausting.. and risk. [of] busting up favorable gene combinations that already exist.... difference emerged in a harsher, higher temperature, environment. Over 300 generations, the growth rate of..sexually reproducing yeast increased by 94 percent compared with only 80 percent for.. asexual yeast....
Lasting Contributions
time.com/ ... 16:00:32
exhibition.. "Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery...
Digital Consequences
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:59:21
blogs are rocking the boat both East and West.
Preternatural Patterns
newkerala.com/ ... 15:53:56
Most have no idea why we save daylight... Wall Street preferred having fewer hours between the markets being open in New York and London and stores found they had more shoppers while it was still light....
Human Right
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:12:47
A lesbian couple from Connecticut who married in Massachusetts during last year's rush of same-sex weddings find themselves in somewhat of a pickle
there's no legal way for them to divorce.
....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
kesq.com/ ... 16:22:30
When John Paul created new cardinals in 2003, he said he was keeping one name secret.. until the pope announces it or leaves instructions for that to be done... could be a prelate from China... John Paul's faithful secretary -- Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz (ZHEE'-vich) -- has also been mentioned as the possible secret cardinal....
internetpirate.com/ ... 16:21:08
Newsday (New York).. April 5, 1991.. He was one of the two richest members of the United States Senate and one of its most liberal Republicans....Henry John Heinz III...
seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 16:17:57
The Rumor Mill News Reading Room -- JOHN HEINZ WAS MURDERED & HIS SENATE PAPERS SEALED TOO...
seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 16:17:28
Sen. John Heinz III had about $423 million in cash, stocks, trusts and other property when he died in a 1991 plane crash, according to documents released Friday after a newspaper challenge.
Violence
reuters.com/ ... 16:11:50
Three bombs exploded almost simultaneously at an airport, a supermarket and a hotel in Thailand's
restive
Muslim south Sunday, killing one person and wounding more than 50 others... more than 600 people have died in 15 months... Security officials said Islamic militants... "We are treating several armless and legless patients from the two incidents..."
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:58:30
A man wielding a sword has killed one person and injured at least three more at a church in Germany... "Severed limbs were lying all round the church...." motive.. as yet unclear.... One woman in a serious condition....
SAT 2005-APR-02
Lasting Contributions
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:59:23
Pope John Paul II
, one of the longest-serving pontiffs in history, has died at the age of 84. The Pope died at 2137 local time (1937 GMT) in the Vatican on Saturday following a series of worsening health problems including heart failure.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:03:40
Obituary:
Johnnie Cochran
... After the Simpson case, Cochran concentrated more on civil cases, but remained an admired figure in the black community for his quest for justice and his philanthropy, which included helping to fund a university scholarship and a low-income housing complex..
History - still with us
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:01:48
....Around 650 Argentines were killed in the
Falklands
war. Their names are all etched into a black, marble memorial in downtown Buenos Aires. An orange flame burns alongside it, and two guards stand to attention in honour of the country's fallen soldiers. Argentina's Falklands veterans wish that they had been treated with similar respect.....
Transport
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:20:46
The engine of a jetliner caught fire Friday evening as pilots revved up the aircraft for takeoff, forcing the crew to abort the flight and evacuate 131 passengers using an emergency inflatable slide....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spin
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:02:53
The US military is planning to win the hearts of young people in the Middle East by publishing a new comic.
Aftermath
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:02:10
The twin intelligence failures of Iraq and 9/11 have prompted both the US and British governments to shake up their intelligence services.
Violence
abcnews.go.com/ ... 16:16:25
Dozens of insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and detonated two car bombs Saturday while attacking the Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad, wounding 20 American service members and 12 prisoners... carried out by 40-60 militants, began as darkness fell... clash lasted about 40 minutes....
washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:20:10
RED LAKE, Minn. -- As many as 20 teenagers may have known ahead of time about plans for the shooting spree... FBI believes that as many as four students... were directly involved in planning.. attack.... well over a dozen others may have heard about the plot...
FRI 2005-APR-01
Lasting Contributions
phillyburbs.com/ ... 23:33:51
Fox News Channel erroneously reported the death of Pope John Paul II on Friday afternoon... and, within 45 minutes, apologized to viewers for the mistake.
timesonline.co.uk/ ... 22:44:18
They listened to the latest developments on radios and mobile telephones. Each report swept through the sea of people the Pope was unconscious; his heart had stopped beating; a Vatican denial that he had died.
news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:42:13
Karol Wojtyla became a priest in 1946, just as the Iron Curtain descended across Europe. The inspiration he provided as Pope John Paul II helped to tear it down.... "We know what the pope has achieved.
Fifty percent of the collapse of communism is his doing
." -Lech Walesa
Sex -- always attractive
reuters.com/ ... 20:30:38
[...always?]
Organizers of a major erotic festival are closing for business in Manchester due to a lack of interest, which they blame on recalcitrant northern English men.....
April Foolishness
reuters.com/ ... 20:34:04
Canada's top tax collector had the citizens of Ottawa up in arms on Friday morning when he announced a plan to force them to file their taxes electronically if they wanted a refund before Christmas.
washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:07:46
NEW GOOGLE GULP: "Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it's low in carbs!"... and other April Foolishness....
WW1 - less with us
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:57:15
John Howe, a Vietnam veteran who led the unsuccessful effort to get a posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to a black World War I soldier, died Wednesday in his sleep....
Mechanical Disaster
wireservice.wired.com/ ... 02:31:55
A contractor's idling diesel truck may have sucked in a hydrocarbon liquid and vapor cloud, sparking last week's fiery explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 and injured more than 100, investigators said Thursday.
Current
guardian.co.uk/ ... 20:28:31
John Paul II was slipping towards the close of his momentous 27-year papacy last night, his breathing shallow and his heart and kidneys close to failing.
reuters.com/ ... 02:34:37
Pope John Paul was in a "very grave" condition on Friday and appeared close to death after suffering heart failure... had received the "Holy Viaticum" -- a special communion that is offered for those near death....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:30:14
Vatican: "This morning, the Holy Father's health condition is very grave. Yesterday afternoon, 31 March, as has been already announced, following a urinary infection, a state of septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse set in...."
US Military
news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:58:25
The bodies of nine people killed when a US military aircraft crashed in central Albania on Thursday night were recovered Friday
Only Natural
thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 23:37:49
EARLY birds who cannot stay up late and are wide awake before dawn have a defective gene, scientists revealed yesterday.
dsc.discovery.com/ ... 23:37:34
Geologists and mathematicians have been teaming up to create specialized computer models that predict where fast-moving flashfloods of rock and cinder might go, long before they bury whole cities... already identifying safer zones
where people can run if a searing "pyroclastic" flow or mudflow charges down a mountain....
story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:36:41
...an Australian expert warned... Indonesia... faced the prospect of a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes....
the world's biggest super volcano
was Lake Toba, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, site of both the recent massive earthquakes... Toba last erupted 73,000 years ago in an event so massive that it altered the entire world's climate... super volcanos represent.. the greatest potential hazard on earth, "the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space...
A super volcano will definitely erupt...
It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."
expressnewsline.com/ ... 02:31:32
The U.N.'s World Health Organization announced the rising death toll from the deadly Marburg disease, which comes from the same family as the Ebola virus, in Rome Thursday. The agency said 132 cases were so far recorded in Uige Province, in northern Angola. The previous highest death toll occurred in Congo between 1998 and 2000, when 123 people out of 149 cases died.
news24.com/ ... 02:29:22
A United Nations official said on Friday the latest estimates from a massive earthquake which struck north-western Indonesia earlier this week put the death toll as high as 1 300.
Police Riot
news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 23:38:49
The victim of an attempted robbery says she was told by police that she would have to do her own detective work....
OKC Bombing -- still with us
thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 20:28:18
SPANISH police yesterday arrested 12 people in connection with last years Madrid train bombings. Six Moroccans, three Syrians, one Egyptian, one Palestinian and one Algerian were held in Madrid.
abcnews.go.com/ ... 20:27:56
Tipped they may have missed evidence a decade ago, FBI agents searched the former home of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and found blasting caps and other explosive materials apparently related to the 1995 attack....
Violence
ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:45:09
A bomb tore through a shopping and residential center in the Christian heartland northeast of Beirut late Friday, injuring seven people, including an American....
wireservice.wired.com/ ... 20:27:04
A bomb ripped through a shopping center in a Christian resort village east of Beirut on Friday night, wounding at least four people and causing extensive damage
abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:09:05
At least 30 people were killed in a Rio de Janeiro suburb by gunmen the state security chief said he believed were rogue police officers the worst death squad massacre in the violence-torn Brazilian city in more than a decade.
Digital Threat
washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:08:22
The National Research Council has published its long-awaited report, "Signposts in Cyberspace" ... seven years after Congress asked for it. Among the report's unremarkable findings:
* The root structure underpinning the Internet is very strong.
* The servers that run the Internet shouldn't be located near each other in case of natural disaster.
* There should be Internet suffixes added to the list that includes .com, .net, etc.
* Hackers might prove problematic.
Aftermath
ky3.com/ ... 11:56:40
The United States' pre-war intelligence on Iraq was dead wrong, according to the president's Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction.... Missouri's senior U.S. senator... Bond.. a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence... notes that the commission cleared the Bush administration of manipulating the intelligence for political purposes... The Clinton administration cut the intel budget by 20 percent. The Director of Intelligence got rid of spies -- human intelligence that we badly needed in the war against terror....
guardian.co.uk/ ... 02:33:48
A presidential commission investigating the intelligence debacle that preceded the Iraq invasion reported yesterday that the damage done to US credibility would "take years to undo".... American intelligence was described by the report as being in chaos, often paralysed by the rivalry of 15 different spy agencies and affected by unchallenged assumptions about Baghdad's supposed weapons of mass destruction.... occasionally descends into farce, particularly over an Iraqi defector codenamed Curveball.. fabricated tales about mobile biological laboratories and their influence on US decision-makers...
Threats
reuters.com/ ... 12:08:45
The U.S. military in Iraq has detained a U.S. citizen who is thought to be a top aide to wanted Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:30:33
Lebanon's opposition has accused the outgoing pro-Syrian government of trying to sabotage elections.
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