Hells Angels bikers are spying on Ontario police officers and feeding whatever information they can find into a sophisticated computer data bank.  Click.

Click. Chemical Cocktails on the Web

Click. Our desert planet The word most often used to describe Cappadocia, Turkey, is "otherworldly."

Click. An e-gold exchanger is visited by the Secret Service, in what could herald a campaign against pseudo-anonymous currencies online. Gold-Age officials say they want their computers and records back. 

Click. Solano County: Vallejo Man Accused Of Kidnapping Boys A 32-year-old Vallejo man has been charged with attempted murder, assault, conspiracy and kidnapping of two Vallejo teenage boys.

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony C. Sutton Click.

The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Anthony C. Sutton Click.

Bay of Pigs 40 Years After Click.

The Next Ruling Class. Click.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. LIE, CHEAT & STEAL DO IT WITH THE DAZZLE OF A ROBERT BYRD.

IF NOTHING ELSE IS WORKING OUT, How to retire rich in sunny Mexico

Click. Stem Cells Found To Revive Hearts. New hope for those hit by a coronary

Click. New studies reveal adult stem cells may be as effective in growing new blood vessels and heart muscle as those taken from an embryo or fetus. Ethical concerns could be eliminated, which would allow scientists to freely research the use of these tissues in treating damaged organs.

Click. Turning Sci-fi Into Fact 

Click. Dispensing Hope Bill Gates wants to save millions of children by improving health care in the Third World. But can even his fabulous wealth overcome the serious obstacles standing in the way of his dream?

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Click. Game for a Laugh  Stichomythia and word-hoarding, both to comic effect, in a new play by David Mamet.

Thanks to a recent film adaptation of "The House of Mirth," the novelist Edith Wharton is back in vogue. Click.

Click. Buddha, the biography of a world-historical figure about whom nothing is truly known.

Click. IBM escapes Holocaust suit Class action dropped.

Click. Graphic Evidence Documents released late Thursday in the fatal dog mauling case paint a disturbing picture. The papers reveal a history of violent behavior by the dogs and a sexual relationship between the owners and the dogs.

Click. Killer Dog Had Attacked Blind Woman. Unsealed evidence cites previous assaults

Click. Creating a market for Star Wars

Click The highly trained Arafat elite that officially doesn't even exist

Click. Big-bank ATMs called a 'rip-off' A consumer group complains that the cost of withdrawing money from a cash machine at a bank other than your own has nearly tripled since 1995.

Click. Boeing says it will once again push headlong into the frontiers of commercial aviation and build a revolutionary jetliner that will look and perform like none built before.

Click. Eight rules for starting a successful Internet company If only they had listened.

Click. Missile Defense To Include Laser Weapons Bush Pentagon envisions 'space force' as new branch of military.

The Secret Empire.  The U.S. Military in the 21st Century. Click.

America Come Home (Part II). Click.

Click. "I'm Not Dot-Com; You're Dot-Com." Eighty percent of San Francisco dot-coms will die in the next year, a poll says. So how come nobody's worried? That's because they used to be dot-coms, but now they're solvent "enterprise solution" companies. It's the other guys who are in trouble.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Workplace harassment of gays and lesbians because of their sexual orientation is "appalling" but does not violate federal law, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

Click. What patients at the "Hutch" weren't told about the experiments in which they died.

Click. The Illinois House has approved a sweeping legislative package designed to crack down on wrongful convictions and misconduct by prosecutors.

Click. The Masculinization Of The X Chromosome: Many Genes For Early Male Sperm Production Reside On The X Chromosome

Click. Mechanism For Generating Autoimmunity-Suppressing Cells Identified

Click. Two Spacecraft Watch A Towering Inferno On Jupiter's Moon Io

Click. NYU Neuroscientist Examines How Brain Responds To Fears That Are Imagined And Anticipated, But Never Experienced

Click. Protein Regulation Study At Yale Confirms Suspicions On How Hereditary Blindness Occurs

Click. New Technology Expands "Molecular Photography" Options

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Click. Salvaging what lies beneath The oceans hold a vast trove of sunken treasure, and new technology has brought it within reach. But coming regulations could shackle commercial salvage.

David Powell has A Fascination for Fish in all their marvelous variety. Click.

Click. Altered Ego  There isn't a tinker or a soldier, but there is a tailor and a spy, played by Pierce Brosnan, in a film adaptation of John le Carré's novel "The Tailor of Panama."

Click. Galactic find The weird black hole exciting astronomers.

Zapatistas on the March. Many compared it to marching through a dream. Click

Click. Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America is hooked on prisons.

Click. The business of law and order
The booming private-prison industry is due for a bust.

Click. Alliance With KLA Haunting US in Balkans

It's the new era of male grooming. Click.

A great sea dog of the age of Elizabeth, Martin Frobisher roamed the globe in pursuit of swag-sack booty and plundered gold. Click.

Click. Russia To Sell Missile System To Iran Klebanov did not specify which of Russia's most lethal air defense systems - the S-300 or the Tor-M1 - could eventually be sold to Iran.

Click. Black Gold Fuels Caspian Competition Western diplomats believe that Iran and Russia are gradually combining forces to limit U.S. influence in the race for the oil hidden underneath the Caspian Sea.

How the City of London Created the Great Depression by Webster Tarpley. Click

Click. Novel Compound Inhibits HIV Replication In Cell Cultures, Suggesting Possible New Type Of AIDS Drug

Sales of software for toddlers is exploding, but the debate over the wisdom of giving software to infants is just beginning. Click.

Who were the First Americans? The tale usually told is of hunters walking across an arctic land bridge from Asia. It may have been a little more complicated than that. Click.

Treasurer/tax collector Dick Larsen has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Santa Barbara County alleging a Salomon Smith Barney broker offered call girls to county officials to induce them to invest the county's billion-dollar fund with his company. Click.

Click. A Appeals court says threats against abortion doctors protected

Click. Critic appalled as board gives Edison 90 days to fix problems

Click. Ol' College Pry For the cost of a few T-shirts, many marketers find they can collect all the young-adult customer information they want.

Click. Judge blocks DOE from using report    A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Energy from using a report favorable to the National Ignition Facility in budget talks or other presentations before Congress.

Click. Berkeley marijuana ordinance jeered. The Berkeley City Council voted this week to adopt a more conservative version of a medical marijuana ordinance, dashing the hopes of activists who say the new law doesn't allow users to grow enough plants to soothe chronic health conditions.

C lick. Charges fly at Sunol school board meeting The superintendent says President Mike Cerny violated the Brown Act by pushing through two votes without public input .

Click. Mouse Model Of Food Allergies Reveals Cause Of Inflammation

Click. Individual’s Genes May Dictate Better Heart Failure Treatment

Click. Enzyme Involved In Cocaine Addiction Identified By Scientists At Yale And Rockefeller Universities

Click. Sandia To Release Enhanced Shock Wave Physics Software; Provides Greater Detail For Simulating A Projectile Penetration

Click. Relapsed Smokers Can Be Successfully Re-Treated

Click. Cat's Purr May Really Mean 9 Lives

Click. Viagra + Ecstasy = "Sexstasy"

Click. S.F. Diocese Fails to Block Suit By Priest Who Reported Abuse
San Francisco's Roman Catholic Archdiocese failed to persuade the state Supreme Court yesterday to block a suit by a priest who was placed on leave after reporting suspected child abuse by a fellow priest.

Click. Gayle Bishop's Jail Release Backed. County supports 'good time' credit

Click. Police Search for Man Who Grabbed Child Union City police are looking for a man they say grabbed a 13-year-old boy on his way home from school yesterday afternoon.

Click. Outlaw role seen in Colombia effort

Is Bush Using a Phony 'Energy Crisis' for Cover on the Environment? Beyond Alaska and CO2, the administration continues to blame California for its slide to the environmental right. Why they'll probably get away with it. Click.

THE REVENGE OF BILL GATES (aka Napoleon). AMERICAN GOES INTO THE HAILSTORM AND SEIZES 0 AND 1.

Click. Microsoft patents binary code Yep, 0's and 1's have now been patented.

Click. HailStorm, Savior of the Web HailStorm is the first significant step toward saving the Internet by providing it with a business model in the form of a payment infrastructure to charge users for services.

Click. HailStorm will put all your data in one convenient place -- and leave Microsoft with the keys. 

Click. San Francisco District Attorney Hallinan defends marijuana crop at trial

Click. O'Neill Sells Low to Lift Himself Up Troublemaking treasury secretary relents, promises to sell vast Alcoa holdings.

Click. WWII Probe Eyes Abuse vs. Italian- Americans.

Click. Shut office signals shift on women President Bush has quietly closed the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach, shutting a small but symbolic office in one of many indications that his administration intends to reshape the government's approach to women's issues.

Scientists taking part in a pan-European experiment seeking to finally lay to rest the homeopathic "memory" effect appear instead to have found statistically robust evidence for the effect -- though they have no idea why Click.

SEARCH ENGINES CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE SEARCH, YET WANT PAYMENT. Click.

BUSHISMS
 "I assured the prime minister, my administration will work
 hard to lay the foundation of peace in the Middle—to work with our nations in the Middle East, give peace a chance. Secondly, I told him that our nation will not try to force peace, that we'll facilitate peace and that we will work with those responsible for a peace." Photo opportunity with Ariel Sharon, Washington, D.C., March 20, 2001

"There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the—the precious part, so to speak—I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment."  Media round table, Washington, D.C. March 13, 2001 

"A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses—Hispanically owned or otherwise—pay taxes at the highest marginal rate."  To the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Washington, D.C., March 19, 2001 

IT'S BEEN "GODLESS COMMIES," "QUEERS," AND "RAG-HEADS." NOW IT'S "CHINKS." Click.

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Click. Ninth Circuit: Employee late to work due to obsessive-compulsive disorder can sue under ADA

Click. Court weighs mental handicaps and death penalty

Whenever John Dugan needs a sip of water, he reaches for a bottle. The stuff out of his tap is loaded with cancer-causing arsenic. Click.

Click. Oakland schools to decide whether to turn campus policing over to city cops

Click. Dog Attack Indictments  Murder and manslaughter against owners come hours after Knoller suffers anxiety attack, Noel issued driving ticket.

Click. Medical Group: Regs Would Create National Database Of Patient Records
"This Administration should not be a party to the covert implementation of an essential piece of the Clinton Health Security Act that was rejected once Americans learned of its implications.”

Click. Visionics Sees All With Facial Biometrics The FaceIt system is so sophisticated that it can be used at points of entry into a country, such as airports, and allows immigration staff to instantly, and automatically, identify people passing through the immigration channel.

Click. Hormone The Trigger For Fat Metabolism; Scientists Closer To Tests In Humans

Click. Drug Resistance Found To Vary By Ethnicity

Click. Ancient Tick Found In New Jersey Leaves Experts Guessing

The days of feeding leftover food to pigs may be numbered. Click.

2001: The Year of the Worm. Fast-spreading code is the weapon of choice for Net vandals  Click.

here's a company in Oregon that is trying to eliminate the mouse as we know it. The company is called Naturalpoint. Basically, you place a reflective dot on your forehead or, for laptop users, a plastic ring on your finger. Then when you move your head or your finger, the mouse goes where you point. The demo on the news showed a gamer making the game look where he looked, allowing him to keep both hands on the keyboard". Click.

Solar power collected in space and beamed to Earth could be solution to our planet's growing energy problems Click.

Click. S andia planning new nuclear labs LIVERMORE -- Design plans are under way for a new facility at Sandia/California National Laboratories where scientists will work to develop information systems for the nation's nuclear weapons complex.

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Slouching toward Hollywood. Click.

Click. Can Joan Cusack save the television sitcom, at least temporarily?

Click. God's own IPO -- killingthebuddha.com

Has the right finally won the culture wars? Michael Bérubé doesn't think so (Click.). Are the wars over? Yes. (Click), says Andrew Sullivan, No. (Click) answers Natasha Berger.

Graveyard chronicles. Click.

Click. In a Spin Over Heeler-Wheelers

Click. San Francisco Investor Named Ambassador to France. Bush nominates GOP supporter to coveted post

Click.  Police smash international child porn ring - Blue Orchid.

Click. His brilliant Career: George Soros

Click. Not Easy Being Greenspan The chairman of the Fed, once a hero, now looks like a goat.

Click. OF SHRIMPS AND SPIES They want to cut Headstart, environmental and other social spending, but the budget hawks overlook the national security establishment as a source for savings, even though the spooks have racked up some monumental failures.

Click. Since its inception, supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer, has had intimate ties with intelligence agencies like the CIA as well as the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate.

Click. McVeigh letters offer no explanation

Pharaoh Akhenaten lurked in obscurity until the 20th century, when he was reclaimed as a tortured genius and visionary artist. Click.

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FDA takes closer look at popular painkiller Evidence that many Americans may poison their livers by unwittingly taking toxic doses of acetaminophen has the government considering if consumers need stiffer warnings about the popular over-the-counter painkiller.

The idea that fantasy violence incites hostile acts in the real world is a grotesque lie. But it's a lie endlessly retold by TV panic-mongers. Click.

Click. SHOCKING REPORT: Smuggled meat blamed for foot and mouth disease

TAPE CONFIRMS CHEMTRAILS ARE A MILITARY OPERATION? Click.

WELCOME TO FUTURE FELONS OF AMERICA. Click.

Click. Arctic Submarine Uncovers Evidence Of Giant, Ancient Ice Sheets

Click. Inherited Variants Of Three Genes Affect Breast Cancer Treatment Response And Outcome

Click. Natural Substances In Fruits And Vegetables May Be Potential Treatment For Prostate Cancer

Michigan researchers have created a vaccine that appeared to stabilize - and in one case, reverse - hard-to- treat cancers in children. Click.

Click. Magnetic appeal: New therapy that fights depression sparks current of optimism  

Madness and pain are linked with the great works of our culture. Take poetry, the art that most attracts moody, depressed souls. Click.

Click. Is this Jesus Christ? Reconstruction from skulls.

Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem by Rembrandt 1630
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The matriarchal society of the Mosuo is being threatened by Chinese men.  Click.

Loutish poet, messiah, ascetic, and gay, Arthur Rimbaud seemed to live by his famous dictum, "I is somebody else." Click.

While terrorists shoot they say we must talk. Click.

America's war on Christianity. Click.

Click. Energy brokers electrify market In Houston, it's simply known as "the power corner." Separated by just a few city blocks, four major power wholesalers run Byzantine trading systems that sway energy prices across the nation with minimal oversight from the government.

Click. Top energy regulator to propose rate increase

Click. The Net as Corruption Disruption Latin American countries are finding the Internet is one way to try to discourage corruption by government officials. Citizens in Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic and other countries get to see how much public officials have in the bank.

Click. Terrorists 'helped By CIA' To Stop Rise Of Left In Italy U.S. intelligence services instigated and abetted rightwing terrorism in Italy during the 1970s, a former Italian secret service general has claimed.

Click. Louima Case: Jury Heard Half a Story.

Click. Oakland business at center of Supreme Court pot case For the nation's budding medicinal marijuana movement, ground zero is now a small storefront operation in downtown Oakland that has managed to thumb its nose at the powers of the federal government for several years.

Click. Berkeley weighs marijuana limits   After more than two years of discussion, the City Council is expected to pass a medical marijuana ordinance Tuesday, but must first decide which of two versions to embrace.

Click. Will mad cows kill the Big Mac?

Watching insiders can aid outsiders. Click.

Bush can't ignore Iran's terror outpost. Click.

France against software patents. Click.

Click. Recording Industry Secret Spying

New study backs theory of "Grassy Knoll".  96% chance of second gunman in JFK assassination. Click.

Click. It isn't easy being a Silicon Valley hippie

Click. Moscow doesn't matter any more. And neither do we

Click. CIA Technologies Transform Mass of Information Into Useful, Searchable Text

Click. Hackers Attack Sandia Computers National-security secrets are being stolen from the Sandia National Nuclear Laboratory by foreign governments intent on waging information warfare with the U.S.

Inside the all-powerful Federal Reserve. Click.

Click. Commercial Alert Calls Web-Filter Company N2H2 a "Corporate Predator"  Web-filtering company N2H2 Inc. gathers data on children as they surf the Web in school and sells it to marketers and the Defense Department.

THE SLA OPERATION
Breaking...

VOICES OF GUNS. Click.

RUSSELL LITTLE AND JOE REMIRO. Click.

Click. Soliah in Context

Click. Soliah.com

Black Abductor: SLA Fiction before Fact. Click.

Click. INSIDE THE HEARST KIDNAPPING by Mae Brussell and Stephanie Caruana, published by The Berkeley Barb

Click. WHO KIDNAPPED PATTY HEARST by Mae Brussell

Click. Seventy-Year Quest For Galactic Dark Matter Ends With Discovery Of Population Of Cool White Dwarfs In The Halo Of Our Galaxy

Click. NASA Image Reveals Giant Chip Off The Antarctic Ice Block

Click. Human Trials Of New Vaccine Technique Prove Promising For Allergy Sufferers

Click. Transplants Of Sibling Stem Cells Show Promise For Immune Disorder

Click. Do Old Glaciers Cause New Earthquakes In New Madrid, Missouri?

Click. Testosterone gene linked to early puberty in girls

Click. More powerful MRI attractive for brain research
Doctors soon may peer inside a brain routinely to watch how it's working.

Click. Fermilab's new tunnel vision West suburban Fermilab has begun laying plans for the biggest and most expensive atom smasher in history.

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Click. Homes where elders nurture Can parakeets, potted ferns, small children and even potbellied pigs help solve California's nursing home crisis?

Click. Death to the Minotaur How the geeks and Goths of Wizards of the Coast sacrificed their sex-for-all idealism for Pokémon-size profits and Magic moola.

Click. The Rotten Apple Oscar Awards

THE SLA OPERATION
Breaking...

VOICES OF GUNS. Click.

RUSSELL LITTLE AND JOE REMIRO. Click.

Click. Soliah in Context

Click. Soliah.com

Black Abductor: SLA Fiction before Fact. Click.

Click. INSIDE THE HEARST KIDNAPPING by Mae Brussell and Stephanie Caruana, published by The Berkeley Barb)

Click. WHO KIDNAPPED PATTY HEARST by Mae Brussell

Click. Robot to Counsel Families

Click. Leaked list names the men who run the IRA

Click. Guerrilla hero vows to break Taliban's grip

Click. Timothy McVeigh's former attorney may testify against bombing co-conspirators

Click. Embryos raise hope of cure for deafness

Click. Bush team says economy 'under a dark cloud'

Click. How blacks helped to win the West

Click. Hillary hits at 'harm offensive' Looks like she just started her run for President.

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Click. Pristine Lake at the Bottom of the World,  Quest to study enormous body of fresh water under Antarctic ice

Click. Researchers Find Big Risk of Defects in Cloning Animals. Problems include heart and lung flaws

Click. Technique to grow marble may save statues

Bush Mocks his Bushisms. Click.

Click. Cheney's Company Assisting US Balkan Troops

Click. Will Republicans be Bush's worst enemies?

Click. Afghan feminists fight the Taleban on the web.

Click. Texas cattle to be tested for mad cow disease.

Click. Security Chief Sees Cyberterrorist Threat

Click. U.S. Told To Make China Its No 1 Enemy A historic shift of emphasis in U.S. military deployment from Europe to Asia, with China supplanting Russia as America's principal foe.

Click. N. Korea Might Have Nuke Bomb Skills North Korea is believed to be capable of making one or two nuclear bombs and may have about 3,000 nuclear experts trained in Russia and China.

Click. Chinese Army Liaison Chief Defects To U.S. A senior Chinese military officer has defected to America, giving Washington an intelligence coup that could further damage Sino-US relations.

Vice Principal Target of Attack, Officials Say. Anger management courses once ordered for alleged gunman

Click. More schools turn to on-campus police EL CAJON -- Take a walk through Granite Hills High School, or neighboring Santana High: Amid the blackboards and the basketball hoops is the same incongruous sight: police officers with gun.

Click. Use a Spam, Go to Prison. A congressman wants to ban spam with concealed routing information.

Click. Indian government reeling after website exposes high-level arms procurement corruption

Click. Mold puts return of SR man's medical marijuana on hold A dangerous mold of mysterious origin is growing on marijuana and other items in a Sheriff's Department evidence room and it's expected to cost at least $64,000 to clean up, county officials said.

Click. Deep in Cheyenne Mountain, Son of Star Wars stirs

Click. West Point is realm of the elite

Bossi evokes Fascist past with torch-lit march. Click.

Online Pedophilia Part 2: why Feds, legislators and prudes love pedos. Click.

Bush Is Using False Alarmism to Plunder the Environment and Pay His Donors.  Click.

Bush proposes cuts in programs aimed at helping abused and sick children. Click.

Click. "IF JENNA BUSH IS A POTHEAD, IS IT NEWS?" 

Click. Democrats.com charges Judicial Watch with "Recount Malpractice"

VILLAGE IDIOT WANTS CITIZENS TO DRINK ARSENIC. It is a sad day when money trumps science in our government. It's sadder still when the health of millions of Americans rides in the balance. Click.

BAY OF PIGS: CIA BOASTED ABOUT MANIPULATING NEWS. Click.

Click. Farewell to Chads as Florida Updates Voting System. Punch card ballots to be replaced by an optical scanning system.

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Click. US Supreme Court strips workers of right to sue for discrimination

Click. N avy group named in harassment suit   A husband and wife have sued the Tailhook Association, a naval aviators' organization, and a Sparks, Nev., hotel for alleged sexual harassment during the pilots' convention last August.

Click. Obssessive primper wins appeal
SAN FRANCISCO -- A hospital worker who was fired because her obsessive primping and dressing rituals made her repeatedly late has won another chance to make her case in court.

Click. Man sues city for releasing vicious dogs

Click. Alleged injury to reputation insufficient to seal documents A federal magistrate enforces the presumption of judicial openness by denying a motion from the New York Stock Exchange to seal a request for sanctions against it.

Click. Reporters not liable over newsgathering tactics A state appeals court found that the Seminole Tribe did not have a valid claim when members turned over confidential documents to reporters covering casino mismanagement.

Click. A Lamp to Show the Way?  A new energy-efficient lamp has been developed at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Will it light the way out of the California energy crisis?

Click. HDTV Gives Surgeons Better Vision

Linux kernel to have NSA inside? Click.

Click. L aser fights brain clots, cell damage LIVERMORE -- Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientists are developing laser technology to eliminate blood clots from the brains of stroke victims and protect against brain cell loss.

Click. Private Labs Help Companies Fight Computer Crime in Secret

Click. Doctor Says the Environment May Heal

Click. Intimate Partner Homicide And Pregnancy

Click. Unprecedented: Top Two at DOT From Same Company The appointment of Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta and the nomination of Michael P. Jackson as his chief deputy represent the first time that the two top DOT officials would come from the same company.

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RETIRE RICH IN MEXICO. Click.

SHAKESPEARE THE TAX DODGER. Click.

Click. The Jerk finds his inner adult Meeting Steve Martin today, it is difficult to remember him as the hyperkinetic comedian who won laughs by sporting a fake arrow through his head and coining the catch phrase, "Well, excuuuse me!" After much soul-searching, during which he took a three-year break from show business, the former self-styled wild and crazy guy has re-emerged as a quiet sophisticate who epitomizes style and elegance.

Preserving Cherokee culture. Click.

Click. Bush's Massive Tax Cut Discriminates Against Women, the Poor

Click. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives Discriminate

Click. Bin Laden allies 'seize control' in Taleban struggle

Click. Bush Ends CIA's Broker Role. Agency no longer security conduit for Mideast rivals

Click. Cold War is long over, but the Great Game must trundle on

Click. CIA's Role in Building KLA

Click. Warlords, Criminals Promote Balkan Unrest

Western powers reject NATO intervention against Albanian insurgency in Macedonia. Click.

Unmanned spy planes could be headed to Macedonia Click.

Click. Britain: Foot and mouth disease "an epidemic waiting to happen"

Click. Don't be fooled: We will pay more for power

Click. Santa Clara College to Ban Greek Chapters. Fraternities, sororities ending

Click. Copycat crimes in schools often motivated by rage From Columbine to Santee, authorities say, teen-agers on the margins of school society were willing to gamble their lives for power and notoriety.

Click. SLA: Sara Jane Olson continues to profess her innocence

Click. Judge's decision will protect 11 million SoCal acres

Click. Mexican expatriates celebrated by Fox

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Click. Court calls digital archive of magazine a 'new work' Use of a photographer's photos in a CD-ROM version of back issues of the National Geographic magazine violated the photographer's copyright in his work, the 11th Circuit appellate court held.

Click. Companies crack down on loose lips.

Click. Lori Berenson Takes The Stand

Who's tracking who? Click.

Click. The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a wristwatch-like device for adult diabetics that automatically -- and painlessly -- checks blood sugar levels every 20 minutes.

Click. Deleting Gene Changes Sex Of Mice

Click. Hopkins Scientists Discover How Huntington's Kills Cells: Block Death In Cultures

Click. Amoebas Use "Midwives" To Reproduce

Click. Rocket, Please "Phone Home"

Click. Experimental Drug Decreases Age-Related Blood Vessel Stiffening

Your e-mail is less secure than ever -- but with encryption so rarely used, taking steps to ensure your privacy can in itself arouse suspicion. Click.

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SO WHERE IS MY FLYING CAR? Click.

To reach those who have "crossed over," TV clairvoyant John Edward may have crossed one line too many. Click.

SITCHIN: ADAM’S ALIEN GENES

A TRIBUTE TO JOHN LENNON AND THE SIXTIES FROM HAVANA. Click.

Scientists are evaluating a 'New Mars,' thanks to the constant stream of data relayed from the Mars Global Surveyor. Click.

Click. In their never-ending quest to make games more real than reality, developers are working on products such as the game you can smell, the joystick that vibrates like whatever's on the screen, and game characters that look exactly like the players.

Click. Russia hits back over 'spies' Russia indicates it is likely to make a tit-for-tat response to the expulsion of dozens of its diplomats from the US on suspicion of spying.

Click. Bush's Energy Policy Will Backfire, Feinstein Warns. She wants federal price controls now

Click. Rolling blackouts continue in US's largest state. What underlies the energy crisis in California?

Click. Berkeley rolls up its power sleeves   The city isn't waiting for the state to solve the power crisis.

Governor Davis's new science institutes could further undermine the University of California's mission – and be hazardous to your health. Click.

Click. Interview with a Net pedophile Online Pedophilia Part 1: the chat rooms.

Click. End Near For Ex-Devil Church. Former LeVay home now in disrepair

Click. The Day Reagan Was Shot Selections from previously undisclosed White House transcripts.

Click. The Genetic Archaeology of Race

Click. After techies, US wants Indian teachers

THOUSANDS OF BRITONS COULD DIE OF MAD COW DISEASE. Senior academic warns incubation period seems much longer than previously thought. Click.

U.S. Pacific commander calls North Korea No. 1 enemy. Click.

Click. Lords back cannabis use

Click. Making up Cold War rivals meet to discuss the Bay of Pigs.

Click. Skull an Evolutionary Riddle. Leakeys' fossil find in Kenya brings more questions than answers

Click. China Detains Researcher of Women's Issues

Nambian President orders gay purge. Click.

HOW LOW the LAW
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Click. Agencies have set up required electronic reading rooms, but have yet to fill them with the information they must provide electronically, the General Accounting Office reported.

Click. Louima to Get $9M

Click. High Court Limits Workers' Rights To File Lawsuits

Alien, who claimed that she and her family were abused by her father, stated a sufficient claim for persecution of particular social group under 8 USC 1101 to qualify for political asylum.   Click.

Click. Men With Chronic Schizophrenia Lose Brain Volume Faster

Click. Weeds In Disturbed Areas May Be Source Of More Medically Important Compounds Than Plants In Tropical Rainforests

Click. MGH Researchers Shed New Light On How Pain Killers Work

Click. Researchers Determine That MS And Diabetes Are Closely Linked Diseases

DARPA'S NEW SOLDIER'S RADIO. Click.

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Click. The Ergonomic Rocking Chair 

Click. Sigourney Weaver weaves a spell in Heartbreakers

For women who've lost that loving feeling the idea of a physical fix is very seductive. But is it the answer? Click.

International Day of the Rebel Woman. Click.

Click. California orders steps to safeguard state from livestock disease Gov. Gray Davis ordered two state agencies to look for weaknesses in the state's efforts to block the spread of two animal diseases that have hurt the agriculture industry in Europe.

Click. Sub's Skipper Admits Errors. Surprise testimony about 'honest' mistakes, despite lack of immunity

Click. Stiff Penalties for Ecstasy Dealers. Recommended terms for mood drug longer than for selling cocaine

Click. Priests Abused Nuns, Reports Say

MEXICO'S PRESIDENT FOX CALLS FOR GLOBAL DRUG LEGALIZATION. Click.

Click. US to Hand Out Cash to More Iraqi Groups

Click. Bush's Scientology Ties

WESLEY K. CLARK'S WAR IN THE BALKANS. Click.

Click. Two wars, Contras and a Ponzi scheme

Click. Microsoft's ambitious Dot-Net strategy takes a few more steps. But its first products, code-named "Hailstorm," could very likely arouse the suspicions.

Click. CIA Director's Constructive Self-Criticism

Click. Senator Helms Attacks LUKoil

Click. Why did the US media black out the Civil Rights Commission report on the Florida vote?

Click. Choppers sold to U.S. end up in Colombian military

Click. American 'body-bag syndrome is holding back Nato'

Click. Taped secrets of day Reagan was shot

Click. Free masons: Secrets and ties  Meet the PR man brought in to improve the freemasons' image.

Click. T rade offices guide entrepreneurs OAKLAND -- When setting up shop in Mexico, only deal with rich people. Stay away from lawyers and don't negotiate at lunch. And never, ever bribe. Except with traffic cops.

Click. Sassy Back Talker Is Not a Terrorist, State Court Rules.  Appellate judges reverse conviction of teenage student

Click. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GIVING A KID A BREAK? Zero Tolerance Policies Teach Our Children About Power, Not Justice.

Click. Profit Goals Lowered at Mercury News as Publisher Quits in Protest

Click. A 12-year research study comparing gay and straight couples has found that . . . at the end of the study, which lasted from 1987 to 1999, 20 percent of the gay couples had broken up, while nearly 40 percent of the straight relationships dissolved.

Click. Chowchilla busnapper denied parole for 13th time  More: Click.

Click. Napa child care center first in U.S. Therapeutic facility to serve special needs children Calling it the first of its kind in the nation, Napa County's Health and Human Services Agency is opening a therapeutic child care center.

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Click. Police in Scotland are to carry out DNA tests on everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the charge, to see if they are linked with unsolved crimes.

Click. Out of $150 Billion Exported in 1992-2000, at Least $15 Billion were Removed Abroad with the Help of Illegal Schemes by Russia's Respectable Banks

Click. The Chemical Papers: Secrets of the Chemical Industry Exposed

Click. Grand Jury critical of Napa DA Lieberstein denies bias against females, citing inherited male staff
The Napa County grand jury issued a stinging critique of the internal operations of the district attorney's office Monday, alleging low staff morale, favoritism in awarding overtime pay and a possible bias against female attorneys.

Click. Appeals court delivers blow to director Francis Ford Coppola

Click. Season's Flu Shot Prices Skyrocket. Fewer manufacturers will make vaccine

Click. A Pacemaker for the Brain. Device offers relief from Parkinson's A little-heralded device that has achieved remarkable results controlling symptoms of Parkinson's disease is gaining new attention even as hopes for a cure seem to dim...

Click. Study Finds New Drawback for Estrogen. Long use linked to risk of death from ovarian cancer

Tai Chi, in an ancient Chinese exercise that combines slow movement with meditation, may help relieve the pain of arthritis. Click.

Click. It's the biggest energy hog in your house — the refrigerator.

Traditional slaughter and butchery practices used in the 1980s are likely to be the cause of the vCJD cluster in Leicestershire. Click.

The Ministry of Agriculture inquired about incinerating animals infected with foot-and-mouth two weeks before the outbreak became public knowledge. Click.

Click. Secret research funding. Commercial sponsors. Professorial payoffs. How corporate cash is corrupting the University of California.

Claude Monet Painting in a Garden
Near Giverny, John Singer Sargent 1885

Upbraider of emperors and favorite of Popes, 12th century nun Hildegard of Bingen healed the sick and terrorized her detractors. Click.

Actor, playwright, and defiant scourge of US power, Harold Pinter writes works that are once lyrical, hard-nosed, implicitly brutal and rhythmically dead-on. Click.

Click. Climbing the Family Tree  The Ancestry Industry. 

LUCKY THE CAT SURVIVES L.A. FREEWAY HELL. Click.

Why do cats purr? Not just because they're happy, but to keep themselves healthy. Click.

Click. The Macedonia Mess Shows NATO Folly As time goes by, Russia's vehement opposition to NATO's cynical war in Kosovo looks better and better.

Click. China: Huawei's Massive U.S. Connections China’s global power base is expanding through its multinationals.

Click. Sub's Sonarman Broke Safety Rules. Model sailor testifies he got 'lazy' before trawler fatally rammed

Click. Justice for Myrna Opsahl: Will the real Patricia Hearst please stand up?

Click. Behavioral Genetics Under Public Scrutiny

Clerk. With its ''HailStorm'' Web services, Microsoft wants us to essentially move our lives onto its computers.

Click. The CIA's neo-Nazis Strange bedfellows boost extreme right in Germany. By Martin A. Lee

Click. The Life Of A Spy's Wife

Click. Arms dealer with CIA ties pleads guilty to bank fraud

Click. James Bamford: My Friend, The Spy

Click. Surveillance Sensors Harass Marine Mammals

Click. The Age of Robo Sapien?

Click. In the refugee camps of Colombia, children play act stories from their real-life experiences. These are plays of pursuit and sudden death.

Click. Nothing is free about free trade.

Al-Fayed v. Central Intelligence Agency Asking the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, to carefully consider the standard of review for denial of expedited processing of FOIA requests.

FREEMAN DYSON ENVISIONS BIOTECH SOLUTIONS TO RURAL POVERTY. Click.

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500,000 seized in RP drug bust goes to local, state agencies . Half a million dollars seized in a Rohnert Park drug bust will soon be divided among law enforcement and state agencies as part of the largest asset forfeiture case ever to go through Sonoma County courts. Click.

Using computers in a local library, a Brooklyn busboy pulled off the largest identity-theft in Internet history, victimizing more than 200 of the "Richest People in America" listed in Forbes magazine, authorities say. Click.

Click. New addition to the List of Big Lies: "We need bankruptcy reform"