Ghosts of Vietnam. Click.

Behind Cheney. Click.

Click. Bush meat

Burger Tampering. Click.

Click. "So, How Was Your Trip?" -- CIA Chats With Business Travelers

Click. Study -- Kids Of Gay Parents Healthy, But, You Know ... Different

Click. US Reviving Iraq Coup Option

Click. S.F. Mayor's patronage army - Brown fattens payroll with loyalists, colleagues, friends

Click. The Sunday Times "Rich List"-Britain's wealthiest 1,000

A VISIT TO THE LEFT. UNCENSORING "PROJECT CENSORED" Click.

Google restores the Usenet Archives.  Click.

Click. Defense expected to ask court to delay Sara Jane Olson trial again

Click. 25-year-old SLA case goes to trial in L.A. Olson the soccer mom facing charges today as Soliah the alleged '70s terrorist

Click. The far-right Austrian Freedom Party under the magnifying glass

British intelligence built bombs for IRA. Click.

Click. Two hundred of Germany's top codebreakers were secretly brought to Britain in the dying days of the second world war to operate against the Russians.

THE OSS SITE. Click.

Skolnick - The Japanese Mafia In The United States. Click.

Click. My Mother the Flying Car

Click. 3G Phones Hold $1 Trillion Promise

Click. Great Expectations Jane Swift is about to give birth to twins. She’s also the governor of Massachusetts. This working mother, who already has a 2-year-old daughter, says she can handle the pressure.

Click. GERMANS PROPOSE EUROPEAN UNION GOVERNMENT

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Fed corruption or wild goose chase? HUD contractor saves taxpayers billions, yet fights 4-year probe.
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Click. Mark Fuhrman is trying to "solve" the mysterious, contentious death/murder/suicide of Vincent Foster.

Justice Antonin (or Anthony to his good friend Dubya. Click.) Scalia led the charge for the US Supreme Court's historic decision to halt vote recounts in Florida and effectively hand the presidency to George W. Bush. Now Scalia's son Eugene is in line to be nominated. Click. by Bush to be the top lawyer for the Department of Labor. Eugene's job in a law office where top Bush attorney Ted Olson is a partner was the source of conflict of interest allegations against his father. Click. at the time of the recount case; Scalia Sr. dismissed the allegations.

Click. Brand New ABM Fraud by Al Martin

Click. Potential New Anthrax Therapy Discovered; Findings Could Lead To Novel Treatments Against Other Bacterial Infections

Click. Research Shows Therapeutic Cloning Technique May Work In Mice; Offers Hope For Treating Parkinson’s Disease And Other Neurological Disorders

Click. World's Most Advanced Science Ship Stages At Taiwan For Major Expedition

Click. Molecular "Gateways To Death" Identified

Click. Biologists in Norway use a computer program to "read" the scientific literature and successfully predict gene interactions

Click. SPINAL CORD NERVE AND OTHER NERVE REGENERATION POSSIBLE. 

Click. Tastes Like a Red Light Two scientists are developing a device that might eventually allow the blind to make their way around by following electric currents on their tongues.

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Click. At Stanford meeting, experts on aging advise revamped image of elderly

Click. Solving A Tibetan Mystery: How Did The "Roof Of The World" Come To Be?

Click. Springtime for Mel Brooks "The Producers" sets records for Broadway ticket sales and brings joy back to the stage.

Female condoms gain acceptance as safer option for women. Click.

Feminist activism and the internet. Click.

Promise Of Cures Lures Tourists To Cuba Click.

Click. Villagers recollect U.S. raid led by Bob Kerrey

Click. Cabal of lawyers drives Bush further to right

Click. Peter  Romanowski - the man behind the Marin Supervisor Rose recall
JFK AND DEEP POLITICS....

Deep Politics II: Oswald, Mexico and Cuba. [  Chapter III  |  Chapter IV  |  Chapter VI of Deep Politics II 

Click. "Miami-Dade Reversal -- A Cuban Terrorist Payback To Bush Family?"

OLD MIAMI-CUBAN CONTACTS AND THE BUSHES. Click. Was the CIA involved in rigging the election?

Click. The student-led Italian 'Reggio Approach' is the latest method in alternative education to hit Pleasanton.

Click. Brit Undercover Agents Want in From Cold.

Click. Businesses built on missing genes in mice

Click PORPHYRIA: THE PURPLE PAIN.

HIV hideout in memory T cells crushes hope of cure. Newest research suggests HIV infection will last a lifetime. Click.

Click. Iraq tested bomb meant to cast radioactive cloud. '87 experiments called 'moral barbarism'

Click. The Senate unanimously passed a bill that would make it possible for police to record conversations without a search warrant.

CIA Opens Nazi Files, Including Hitler's

Click.   A year ago, Michael Chabon was just another lyrical genius, writing critically acclaimed works such as the one that inspired the film "Wonder Boys."

Click. Patty Hearst story to be told again as US settles old score

Grover Norquist: 'Field Marshal' of the Bush Plan Click.

Click. State Supreme Court's wild card could be key in upcoming votes.

Click. Willie Brown Inc. How S.F.'s mayor built a city based on 'juice' politics (Part 1)

Click. Iraq tested bomb meant to cast radioactive cloud. '87 experiments called 'moral barbarism'

The Business Of Sex Click.

Click. Rights group slams Australian plans for collecting DNA samples at birth

Click. Why do we sacrifice our best to protect our worst?

Spray-paint protester swims to nuclear sub

Click. CIA admits employing Nazis

Click. Releasing 25 years of secrets is full-time job at spy agency National Security Agency workers sift through documents

THE SEALED FBI STUFF. Montreal Independent Media Center Cop Docs. Click.

Click.  House Hearing on Combating Homeland Terrorism April 27, 2001

8,640,000 SECONDS OF BUSH. Even a Boob Can Outfox the Democrats. Click.

Click. Shroud imprint could be a priest

Click. Crater Bruno Mystery

Black Magic in Greece's Golden Age. Click.

Ancient Egyptian Treasures in the Grand Canyon. Click.

Click. Global Manipulators Move Beyond Petroleum

Click. E-Commerce, Big Brother & Global Corporate Order

Click. China vs. New World Order: The Final War and the Dark Millennium - Part One
Click. China vs. New World Order: The Final War and the Dark Millennium - Part Two

FBI hunting for PoizonB0x and Pr0phet - as peace offerings to China. Click.

Large retailers have implemented surveillance systems that record and interpret customer movements, using software from Almaden's BlueEyes research project. BlueEyes is developing ways for computers to anticipate users' wants by gathering video data on eye movement and facial expression. Click.

How Can Rossotti Reform the IRS? Click.

Click. IRA moles plead for protection British soldiers recruited to infiltrate IRA were cleared to carry out terrorist operations. Click. Sinister role of secret army unit

Click. Demise of a Catholic hat-check girl

Secret weapons in Italy's leadership contest

Click. Teachers have clinched an unprecedented deal to be paid extra for marking test papers.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. THE IRRELEVANT JUDGE MARILYN HALL PATEL: Judge powerless to stop copyright infringement on Napster

Click. San Jose State College discusses student fee to cover energy costs

Click. Feds Buy Citizens’ Most Personal Information Banned by law from snooping around in the private lives of American citizens, the FBI, IRS and about 35 other inquisitive government agencies buy information about citizens from huge personal data-gathering companies.

Click. Cops look for links in attack on child San Jose kidnap compared to others.

Click. Bishops' child abuse shield

GREEN MARS! A hardy microbe from Earth might one day transform the barren ground of Mars into arable soil. Click.

Modern human beings might have outlasted relatives such as the Neanderthals not because of genetic advantages, but by a slice of "cosmic luck". Click.

What to do when computers become smarter than us. Built-in unconditional "friendliness". Click.

Click. Google restores Usenet archive, plans posting

Click. Wireless Nets Are Snoops Gold Mine.

Quantum cryptography -- using light particles to communicate in code -- is the only sure way to talk in secret. Click.

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As director of the National Portrait Gallery, Marc Pachter has grand plans for displaying artwork to reacquaint Americans with their heroes and heritage. Click.

SURRENDERED WIVES!  THE NEW WOMAN?  Click.

Click. 38 years, and she still gives her all

1001: WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL SOCCER BEGINS. Click.

Click. A brief history of mob rule

Is Bob Kerrey a war criminal?  Yes. Click.

Bob Kerrey. Vietnam was no joke. Click.

Click. Henican: Horrors Were The Tactics of Battle

Click. James Brady: Bob Kerrey in Combat

Click. Does Taiwan Want War?

Click. U.S.. military proposed terrorist attacks on Americans; then publicly blaming Castro and Cuba

An Invasion Foretold. Terror Triumphs in Colombia. Click.

Click. Up to 8,000 Tamil guerrillas living in Toronto, RCMP says

Click. IBM Dream: Self-Policing Networks Big Blue has a multi-billion dollar plan: to create a system by which computer networks will protect themselves from destructive acts of human and nature.

Click. Big Blue's Crime Spree IBM is probably one of the last companies one would expect to rally its employees to deface public property.

Click. Shayler Case Begins.

Click. From Start-Up to Bust-Up Former CEO Philip Greenspun, who was forced out of his role by venture capitalists, and later forced out of the company altogether, writes about his experience, frustration, and lawsuit with ArsDigita.

The Cloverdale Pomo tribe has made an agreement with two gaming companies to finance an 88,000-square-foot Indian casino at the south end of Cloverdale that could open within two years. Click.

Click. You Can Hide From Prying Eyes Researchers at the Information Hiding Workshop present technologies designed to help you shield your online identity.

Click. Here's a news flash: Google research director Monika Henzinger has always been a woman. When, she wonders, will it stop being news?

Click. Pentagon Bracing For
Chinese Computer Attacks

Click. Extremists to close lab?

BUSHISMS OF THE DAY
"Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself."—On how far we'd be willing to go to defend Taiwan, Good Morning America, April 25, 2001 

"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."—On the Kyoto accord in an interview with the Washington Post, April 24, 2001 

Click. Hillary launches her party political career

Click. President George W Bush has picked John P. Walters, a top anti–drug official during his father's administration, to be the nation's next drug czar.

Click. All the president's businessmen George Bush's America: Julian Borger on how corporate America bought itself a president.

Click. 100 things we've learnt about Dubya in his first 100 days

Click. Florida's Katherine Harris considers run for Congress

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Judge declares Coastal Commission unconstitutional

Click. Pelican Bay gang conspiracy trial set to start in January

Click. S.F. city attorney Louise Renne won't run in fall race

Click. Feinstein, Boxer given a say over judges Bush forms 1st bipartisan panel to fill U.S. court seats in state.

Click. Steven W. Brennan: Crime and 'Punishment' in the Navy

Click. UPS slides through customs

Click. Dump cleanup costs soar The cost of cleaning up the largest dump created by FBI mole John Christopher has ballooned to $21 million.

Click. Household Ant Invasions Are Determined By Weather, Not Pesticide Use, New Study Finds

Click. Scientists At Penn Track Epileptic Seizures

Click. Purdue Team Develops Watermark To Protect Electronic Documents

Click. 'Off-pump' heart bypass raises hopes, concerns It was just as he was being wheeled into surgery last January that David Liebniz, a 41-year-old chemical engineer with a good brain and a bad heart, learned he would be part of a new and unusual trend: ''executive heart surgery.''

Click. Three promising stem cell studies fuel debate over embryo use

Click. First US Case Of Sexually Transmitted Typhoid

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Click. Archeologists have identified the oldest city in the Americas, a massive 4,600-year-old urban center called Caral in the Supe River valley of Peru.

Leonard Nimoy is rumored to be directing the next Star Trek movie and reports suggest he may also make an appearance as Mr. Spock in the film. Click.

Click. Animators create "virtually" human characters

Click. E-marketing on a Shoestring 

Click. Bush stance on Taiwan creates stir 

Click. China warns U.S. over Bush remarks China said today that already badly strained relations with Washington were damaged even further by President Bush's blunt warning about America's will to defend Taiwan.

Click. Germans' Wealth Restricted to Small Group

Click. Marin D.A. and opponent trade accusations

Click. Marin graduate wanted in SLA case on the run for 25 years MORE: Click.

Click. World Bank bonds are bought by institutional investors, trade union pension funds, and university endowments. This gives us a powerful tool to exert influence over an institution promoting an unsustainable model of globalization.

Click. Bush in a China shop

Click. Police seize 45 Mafia suspects in three states MORE. Click. Mob Takes A Big Hit

Click. Cartoons Aren't Just for Boys

Click. From NASA to Web Savant

Click. An unmanned U.S. spy plane capable of spotting a raft in the ocean from 61,000 feet is being tested off the coast of Australia.

Click. Libertarian, or Just Bizarro? The director of tech studies at the libertarian Cato Institute is calling for "splinternets," or parallel Internets that wouldn't have to deal with nuisances such as government regulations.

Click. Parole officials see treatment for Downey more likely than punishment

Click. Jury views car in Vallejo child kidnap case

Click. Studies aim to dispel an AIDS-polio theory There is no evidence to support the explosive theory that careless American polio researchers set off the worldwide AIDS epidemic by transferring the virus from chimpanzees to humans in the 1950s, according to four studies to be published tomorrow.

Click. World Trade Organization agreement aims at privatizing public services

Airborne Laser (ABL) program destroying Scud-type theater ballistic missiles during their launch phase. The Air Force program would mount a chemical laser aboard a modified Boeing 747-400F freighter. The system would generate a laser beam that would be fired at launching missiles from a rotating turret in the nose of the aircraft. RW and Lockheed Martin
Source: Airborne Laser

Hail Koizumi. A New Day for Japan. Click.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Indian programmer wins suit against US firm  San Francisco: Foreign technology workers who can prove they are working in the US under illegal, harsh contracts can make their recruiters pay their legal fees, a judge has ruled. The attorney who represented the Indian programmer who brought the case is saying he's about to bring lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of foreign workers laboring under such agreements.

Click. Journalists protest gag order preventing journalists from reporting on gag order

Click. S.F. District Attorney won't fight venue change in dog attack trial

Click. Artificial Lung On The Horizon, Reports University Of Pittsburgh Researcher At International Society For Heart And Lung Transplantation Meeting

Click. A "Four-Piston Engine" Drives Earth From The Inside, New Study Shows

Click. Laser Treatment Reduces Scarring After Heart Attack

Click. Researchers Develop White Wine With Cholesterol-Lowering Benefits, Discover Israeli Wines Healthier Than French Wines

Click. Effective Acne Treatments Remain Elusive, Hopkins Researchers Find

Click. Drug helps shy children, study finds. Luvox is recommended only if therapy fails

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Click. Females trick males into long-term relationships, say scientists.

Click. Roman armor of Hadrian's Guard discovered More: Click.

Click. Disney buys Shyamalan supernatural thriller

Click. Cartoons Aren't Just for Boys

Click. Journalists protest gag order preventing journalists from reporting on gag order

Click. Japanese maverick grabs reins Japan's next prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, promises tough love for the country.

Click. New Leader In Japan Wants Right To Wage War

Click. FBI Busts Russian Hacking Ring

Click. Bush defies China with Taiwan deal Beijing warns of retaliatory action against the US over arms package.

How Israel Uses U.S. Weapons to Threaten Our Troops. Click.

Click. Defense secretary given 90 more days to unload stock

Click. Wall Street downgrades California's bonds

Click. Suspect in shooting belies stereotypes. San Jose woman viewed as good-natured

Click Euros Continue Echelon Probe

Click.  How PR opinion-shapers undermine environmental protection

Click. All Porn, All the Time An interview with investigative reporter Gary Webb about the "post-censorship generation."

Click. NSF Ships To Probe Biological Enigmas Of The Frozen Southern Ocean

Click. Secret Night Camera Exposes Skull & Bones Rituals

Click. Colombia Deports Cocaine Convict

Click. SuperBra offers support, easy access The SuperBra is the world's only combined brassiere and firearm holster, designed by a female security specialist for female gun owners who had been resigned to carry their personal weapon in a purse or waist pack.

Click. Jurors in Curtis Dean Anderson trial watch videotape

Click. Board will investigate Sunol's superintendent The escalating rancor between school officials in this tiny district reached a boiling point Tuesday night, as the board voted to investigate school Superintendent and Principal Diane Everett.

Click. S.F. considers rescinding its Sunol quarry arrangement

Click. Alameda County supervisor Haggerty eyes Assembly seat  

Retrenched dot-com workers are finding an unlikely shelter from the economic downturn: the porn industry. Click.

Click. Presidency of dunces

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. "No such agency" The author of a pioneering work on the NSA delivers a new book of revelations about its mysterious cover ups, eavesdropping and secret missions.

Click. LOCKERBIE: Baggage handler says American agents used Pan American Airlines to smuggle drugs
4/25/01The claims made on the eve of the Lockerbie trial by Roland O'Neill, from Frankfurt, could throw allegations that Libya was behind the bombing into complete disarray. It would also seriously undermine the position of the Scottish prosecution team which is preparing the criminal case against Abdel Basset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. 

Click. Reward offered for arrest of last SLA fugitive, James Kilgore.  MORE: Click.

FISH IS THE ULTIMATE FOOD. Click.

Click. Doctors Find Early-Warning Indicator For Autism

Click. "Synthetic Life" -- Scripps Research Institute Scientists Make Bacteria Do What Nature Doesn't

Click. Countering The Body's Own Harmful Response To Stroke

Click. Study Clarifies Brain Mechanisms Of Cocaine's High

Click. Research Improves Treatment Of Bladder Cancer

Click. Autism's huge increase pushes hunt for causes California shattered its record for new autism cases as 700 additional children and young adults registered at regional centers during the first three months of 2001.

Click. Babies who later develop autism or retardation could be treated from birth, suggests new research.

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Click. Witch casts spell to protect Nessie

Click. I'm all woman, says Miss France

Click. Gays protest choice for GOP faith summit. Anaheim minister once urged quarantine of AIDS patients

Click. The Dangers of Boozing and Banking

Click. Lucas Shoots for 'Stars' With Digital

Click. Early Shrine Found Under Site of Jesus' Grave

Click. CIA Error Led to Downing of Aid Plane

Click. Russia tries US student for drugs, amid spy hints

Click. Police seek motive for fatal shooting at San Jose school bus yard

Click. When money and hatred undermine the First Amendment By Martin A. Lee

"It appears, as new facts emerge, that the vast power of the state was used to destroy him." Click.

Click. Gangster No 1 For 37 years, mafiosi Bernardo Provenzano has been on the run, masterminding the ruthless activities of the Cosa Nostra from safehouses in the Sicilian mountains. But finally the net is beginning to tighten around the man they call the Accountant.

Plum Island Lab In Foot-and-Mouth Frontline. Click.

Click. Debating the Ban on Virtual Porn

Click. Brand New ABM Fraud by Al Martin

Click. IBM Bets a Billion on Informix The world's largest computer maker will pay cash for the database software business.

Click. Big Blue Wages Open Warfare

Click. IBM's Open Systems Arsenal

Click. IBM's e-Marketplace Gamble

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click.  A federal jury concluded that former Chicago Police Officer Joseph Miedzianowski was a crooked cop for much of his 22-year police career.

Click. 8-year old girl testifies against man accused of kidnapping, molestation

Click. Vallejo girl testifies in kidnapping trial. 8-year-old tells of sexual assault without crying, though her father leaves courtroom

Sonoma County authorities criticized the governor and state attorney general on Monday for being unresponsive to their pleas for help in uncovering how gang-related street crimes are being orchestrated from behind bars at Pelican Bay State Prison. Click.   FOR MORE. Click. 

Click. FBI raids Seattle media center after security leak 

Click. The Sacramento branch of the NAACP on Monday said it plans to investigate the alleged beating of a 17-year-old African American scholar-athlete by two white sheriff's deputies during a traffic.

Click. Mutated Clotting Gene Raises Risk Of Heart Disease In Blacks, Not Whites

Ancient tree stumps uncovered in a South American earthquake have provided an unprecedented weather record from 50,000 years ago. Click.

Click. Blood Medicine May Ease Cocaine Withdrawal

Click. Mom's Warmth Influences Kid's Ability To Get Along With Others

Click. Yale Physicists First To Create A "Squeezed State" Of Atoms, Which Could Lead To Improved Sensitivity Of Navigation Systems Used On Planes And Ships

Click. Scientists Identify First Factor That Enables Parasite To Infect Humans

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Click.

The Power Of Yoga It bends. It stretches. It turns you into a human pretzel. But can the power of yoga really cure what ails you? Click.

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Philip K. Dick had many academic champions. How did he return the favor? By denouncing them to the FBI. Click.

Click. The soul of Hart "Dazzler'' is a hyped-up title - it sounds like it needs an exclamation point - for the biography of a man most people know for his collaboration with others: as George S. Kaufman's co-writer, or as Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews' director, or even as Kitty Carlisle's husband.

Click. Small Tribe Founded Europe New genetics research claims Europeans are much more recently descended from a small band of Africans than previously believed.

The myth of matriarchal prehistory. Click.

Click. Once Thought Extinct, Siamese Crocodile Is Photographed In Thailand

Click. The US jungle drugs watch

War on Drugs: Military Perspectives and Problems Click.

Click. Brazil's top drug lord arrested in Colombia

HELL'S ANGELS INVADE CANADA! Click.

Click. Jimmy Carter: Peru could give US a lesson on how to hold elections.

SKULL AND BONES IS A JUST A CHARITY. Click.

Click. Duke of Argyll dies

Click. Triumphs, troubles shape generations Prescott Bush paved moderate path for son and grandson; wounded by friend's betrayal, he put high price on loyalty.

Click. Quebec Crackpots?

Click. Curtis Dean Anderson trial begins today in Vallejo

Click. Calpine plans to provide one out of every 10 megawatts in the US.

Click. Women in tech fields see gender as a professional handicap

Click. BUSH IS DETERMINED TO RESURRECT THE SPOOKS OF IRAN/CONTRA

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Top US lawyer seeks mobile-phone cancer cash

Click. Is this the end of corporate porn? Internet Savior - or Big Brother?

Backlogs at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department crime lab have forced police departments across the region to use expensive, private facilities to analyze DNA evidence. Click.

Click. Groups to offer global e-commerce conduct code

Click. Canada's 'COINTELPRO' revealed: RCMP spies haunted local campuses for years

Click. Workplace Stress And Fear Of Lay-Offs Can Lead To Increased Rates Of Worker Illness And Injury

Click. Scientists propose using HIV virus to smuggle in a cancer cure

Click. Interview: Brain Transplant Pioneer "With the significant improvements in surgical techniques and postoperative management since then, it is now possible to consider adapting the head transplant technique to humans."

Click. Intelligent Nanostructures Report On Environment -- "Nanoskin" May Aid In Inhabiting Mars

Click. Statins Reduce Levels Of Protein Linked To Inflammation, Heart Attack And Stroke

Click. HIV Nef Protein Plays Both Offense And Defense In Battle Between AIDS Virus And Body's Immune System

Click. Chronic Periodontal Disease Could Lead To Diabetes

Putting children to the test: Clinical drug trials on babies and youths can save lives. But drug trials are always risky, posing a dilemma for parents. Click.

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Click. Deadheads May Not Be Grateful Jerrygarcia.com launches Monday amid dozens of already-existing websites dedicated to the Grateful Dead. The new site is headed by his third wife and will showcase never-before-seen art created by Jerry. But is it rightfully hers to control?

Dostoevsky could "touch God" during seizures. Are our deepest religious feelings just affects of the limbic brain bubbling up into consciousness? Click.

Click. Elephants' famously long memories could be the key to their families' survival. 

Click. US Aided Peru Shootdown of American Aid Plane

Click. U.S. On Alert For Smallpox Terror Attack The U.S. government has ordered 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine from a British company in a sign of the growing alarm that terrorists could unleash lethal viruses in future battles against Western states.

Click. Europe in Space: Overtaking the Cold Warriors Representatives of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company and the Russian Aeronautics and Space Agency agree to pool resources on several projects.

Click. Trade off for summer power could be increased pollution
Pollution regulators worry a surge in emergency diesel generator use in this summer of predicted power outages is going to spew tons more pollution into the skies, and slow California's struggle to clean its air.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, RADIO INTERVIEW WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD RELEASED.  Click.

Click. Powerful alliance aids Bushes' rise Financier George Herbert Walker provided money and support for the climb to power.

Click. Spy bugs found in Whitehall

Click. Vietnam Communist Party chooses moderate new leader

Click. ALL ABOUT FTAA.

An interesting read already leaked to the Internet...FTAA – NEGOTIATING GROUP ON INVESTMENT:
CLICK. REPORT OF THE NEGOTIATING GROUP ON INVESTMENT

LIVE COVERAGE OF THE FTAA SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS. Click.

WEB SITE PICK OF THE DAY. Click.

Click. USS Iowa returns to San Francisco for first time since 1951

Click. Unmanned airplane takes off on attempt to cross Pacific

Click. Restoration of S.F. Bay inches closer

Click. Another side of Silicon Valley

Click. Napster To Take Fingerprints

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. FBI shelved hunch about Russian spy in agency. Search focused instead on finding infiltrator in CIA

Click. States pay price as sex criminals stay locked up. Cost estimated at $180,000 a year per prisoner, including legal fees

US pursues AIDS-drug profit abroad As jubilation swept the world AIDS community last week following the pharmaceutical industry's capitulation in a bitter dispute over anti-AIDS drug prices in South Africa, one party deeply involved in the drama escaped criticism: the US government.

Click. How Just Is Our Military Justice?

Click. STIMULATING NEURAL GROWTH. Using a motorized device to slowly pull connected neurons away from each other, the Penn researchers have discovered that the connecting nerve fibers, called axons, grow longer in response to the strain. In addition, the researchers have grown these elongated nerve fibers directly on a dissolvable membrane, ready-made for transplant.

Click. Lurking ticks can transmit bacteria When Sharon Furrer returned from a day of hiking at Suisun Marsh in February and found a tick in her 21/2-year-old son's ear, she figured her doctor would know what to do.

RACHITT: Shuffling towards highly evolved genes.  Click.

Click. Solar-charged cell phones.

Click. Researchers want wasps that prey on pests to reproduce

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Click. Exploration of vernal pools serves as Earth Day symbol On Saturday -- John Muir's birthday and the start of Earth Day celebrations -- a group of nature lovers set off from Mather Regional Park in Rancho Cordova to take a closer look at the vernal pools Muir found so dazzling in April 1869.

Click. California to get three new Mormon Temples

TED MAHER HELD HOSTAGE FOR DEATH OF SAFRA? Click.

Click. Two indicted in mail bombing that killed teen at San Jose home

Click. Grape debate splits state An unusual international trade argument is cracking California's table grape industry along north and south lines.

Click. D.C. Culture: Clean? How About Mercenary

Click. NO WOMEN'S SEAT AT THE PRESIDENT'S TABLE George Bush should have continued the progress achieved in providing women a seat at the policy making table. But he chose to turn off the phones and close down the White House Office of Women's Initiatives and Outreach.

Click. Tipped by a wary probation officer, police in San Jose have arrested a registered sex offender who they say enticed three young boys into his home and photographed them.

Click. Police yesterday arrested a 27-year-old San Jose man with a history of sex offenses on suspicion of crawling through the window of a home and attempting to kidnap a 7-year-old girl. Click for more news

Click. Mysterious Masonic desk keeps its secrets

PANIC EXPECTED IN THE GOLD MARKET? by Sherman Skolnick. Click.

Click. Treasury ordered accountable for Fed Just two days after the Department of Treasury was able to convince a court-investigator it had no control over actions of the Federal Reserve, the agency is now being ordered to make sure it does. The court-appointed investigator in the trust fund lawsuit on Thursday issued an order requiring the Treasury to make sure the Fed preserves all trust related documents.

Click. Euro-Imperium: The New Rome

Click. Bush Daughter Off Limits Online Yale University forces a student newspaper to delete an article on the president's daughter. So much for free speech.

Click. Pentagon urges ambitious plan for missile defense

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Click. Judge rules that past council members liable in Rampart cases

Click. Grey-market dealers celebrate legal victory

Click. U.S. District Judge Charles Legge is leaving the bench after 17 years to join a private mediation firm.

Click. Women-owned firms get tiny share of federal contracts 

Click. POLICE SPYING 101

Click. INFORMANTS FILL PRISONS

Click. The day before an Indianapolis man went on trial Friday for dealing 20 kilos of cocaine, prosecutors learned they had a big problem: the evidence was missing.

Click. Drug lords join trade in rare animals

Napster turns to digital fingerprints

Click. Aptos survivor of amoeba baffles scientific world. Virulent organism lies dormant in man's brain
No one knows why Hayden Dryden survived an attack by the same rare amoeba that killed a Rohnert Park toddler earlier this month and an Orange County boy in March.

RACE AND GENDER DETERMINE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA. Click.

Click. Workers Mired in E-mail Wasteland

Click. Is Foot and Mouth Disease Industrial Espionage?

Click. The foot-and-mouth battle is won, but now the trade war begins Britain's meat and livestock exports will be knocked out for three years by foot-and-mouth disease.

Massive Chinese dust cloud sweeps across the U.S.A. Click.

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THE TAILOR OF PANAMA PREMIERES. Click.

Screaming manager needs training. Click.

Click. Latest Attack on Fritz Springmeier 

Why they hate china.  Click.

State and federal disease control experts are trying to determine if a deadly amoeba caused the death of a 3-year-old Rohnert Park girl. Click.

Sonoma County District Attorney Mike Mullins, who has come under fire for pursuing medical marijuana cases, said Thursday he will try to establish guidelines that could result in fewer prosecutions. Click.

Click. Bill Gates Tells All

Click.  North Korea may also have biological weapons in addition to chemical weapons, says Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin.

Click. Corus launches MOJO format 'for guys only'

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Click. Biology Yearns to Be Free Should big companies have the exclusive ability to look at the molecular machinery that makes us tick? Scientists at the Molecular Science Laboratory in Berkeley ponder possible answers.

Click. Attorney general taking two energy companies to court

DNA printing for children at the local Safeway? Click.

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Click. Firing blanks? US military plans to use airborne lasers against enemy missiles could have a serious flaw.

Click. Linking Records Raises Risks A government oversight agency believes there are under-examined privacy risks in the practice of freely combining research data from public projects.

Click. Hacktivists Target Trade Summit

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Click. COPS SEAL OFF QUEBEC CITY

Attention Wal-Mart workers: Please do not report injuries. Click.

Click. Accused teen gunman draws support from around nation

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Click. FBI Crashes Parody Party The author of a faux "Trenchcoat Mafia" website says the feds paid him a surprise visit Thursday morning. The agents purportedly failed to see the humor in his Columbine rip off and were looking for explosives.

Click. The children of Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange during the war in south-east Asia may well be at greater risk of contracting leukemia, a new study has suggested.

Click. Mother Is Just Another Face In The Crowd To Autistic Children

Click. Miniature Unmanned Planes Descend On Arctic For Research

Click. With An Eye On Safety, UF Experts Explore Cellular Mechanisms Of Gene Therapy

Click. Form Of Cholesterol Singled Out As Cause Of Chest Pain, Heart Attack

Click. Bug uncovered: Genetic blueprints for two antibiotic-resistant superbugs are sequenced, raising hopes and fears.

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Princeton unseals Lindbergh documents. Controversial manuscripts written by Charles and Anne Lindbergh on the eve of World War II and thousands of letters in response to them were unsealed by Princeton University earlier this month. Click.

Click. The Man Who Saved Blogging?

Click. Deep-Burrowing Nukes Would Destabilize Globe

Click. Discrimination lawsuit filed over California voting systems  

Click. Hainan Dim-Sum: Feeding a Bully's Sinister Agenda

Click. NASA unveils new "X" plane built for hypersonic flight

Click. Man who hacked NASA computers arrested again on wire fraud charges

Click. Making HAL Your Pal What happens when artificial intelligence becomes far smarter than humans? What will keep it friendly?

Click. MS Office Helper Not Dead Yet

Russia is Finished. Click.

Click. TEAMSTERS AND TURTLES UNITE AGAIN AT QUEBEC DEMONSTRATION.

Stock option tax hits hard. Click.

Click. Marin District Attorney Paula Kamena and challenger Thomas Van Zandt engaged in their first face-to-face duel last night in a turbulent forum marked by harsh accusations, outbursts from the audience and a door-slamming exit by a disgruntled protester.

Click. Kamena's Guidelines And The Recall - By Reverend Lynnette Shaw

Click. Kamena Kayoed By Recall Election - By Stephen Simac

Click. Alternative to Kamena Emerges - By Louis Nuyens

Click. THE WOMAN IN THE FRONT ROW - by Cindy Ross 

Click. Court Case Ensnares Marin's First Female District Attorney - By Jim Scanlon

Click.  Jury selection began Wednesday in the trial of Curtis Dean Anderson, accused of kidnapping and molesting an 8-year-old girl in August.

Click. Jury selection begins in girl's kidnap case Vallejo -- Jury selection began Wednesday in the trial of Curtis Dean Anderson, accused of kidnapping and molesting an 8-year-old girl in August.

QUEBEC CITY - On the eve of an international summit marked by the tightest security in Canadian history, police arrested six men they say were headed for the Summit of the Americas armed with a cache of explosive materials. Click.

Click. The Day Democracy Died in Russia 

Click. Program to Help Small Farmers Now Virtually Run by Industry

How I lost it all online. Click.

Slavery and South East London. Click.

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Click. Drug firms concede S. Africa's right to cheap drugs

Click. Report Faults INS For Loss Of Weapons, Computers Agency officials could not account for more than 61,000 items worth about $70 million; ''The fact that INS weapons ended up in the hands of criminals is cause for serious concern.''

Click. Federalist Society becomes a force in Washington.

Click. Carrying a razor blade on school grounds isn't illegal, but it should be, says a state appellate court.

Federal sites fall short of protecting privacy. Click.

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