NEWSGRIDS APRIL 2001
April 30, 2001
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Putin Agrees On Arms Sales To North Korea
Ghosts of Vietnam. Click. Click. Why Are We Still In Vietnam? As Bob Kerrey's past resurfaces, so do questions about America's long war.Behind Cheney. Click. 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 |
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Transient riding a bike arrested in San Jose girl's assault
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A VISIT TO THE LEFT. UNCENSORING "PROJECT CENSORED" Click. Rival interests battle over desert. It's a back yard on the grandest scale. The desert's increasingly coveted "lawn" of Joshua trees, creosote and sand dunes stretches across 25 million acres of California, nearly one-fourth of the state.Click. Google restores the Usenet Archives. Click. Click. Defense expected to ask court to delay Sara Jane Olson trial again 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. |
Fed corruption or wild goose chase? HUD
contractor saves taxpayers billions, yet fights 4-year probe. 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 |
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'Leg pump' gives heart patients new lease on life
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. |
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. |
April 29, 2001
April 28, 2001
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Pentagon misled Bush on Iraqi air strikes, insiders say
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. 8,640,000 SECONDS OF BUSH. Even a Boob Can Outfox the Democrats. Click. |
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The End of the End of the Paranormal by Joseph
Felser
Click. Shroud imprint could be a priest 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 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. |
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. |
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Scientists use gene injections to make blind dogs see More: Click. Fungus on Mars. Click. 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 Quantum cryptography -- using light particles to communicate in code -- is the only sure way to talk in secret. Click. |
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. |
April 27, 2001
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Is Bob
Kerrey a war criminal? Yes. Click. Click.
U.S.. military proposed terrorist attacks on Americans; then publicly
blaming Castro and Cuba 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 Click. Extremists to close lab? |
BUSHISMS
OF THE DAY 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 |
April 26, 2001
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Pentagon Predicted Peru Tragedy 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:
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Microsoft
security fixes infected with FunLove virus
Is this the worst security screw up ever?
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 |
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Shayler vows to put state on trial Renegade MI5 agent David
Shayler has arrived at court promising to put the British state on trial.
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 Hail Koizumi. A New Day for Japan. Click. |
April 25, 2001
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CIA nor the Pentagon will reveal the name of the company hired by the CIA
for aerial interdiction duties in Peru, saying such information is
classified. Click.
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 protectionClick. All Porn, All the Time An interview with investigative reporter Gary Webb about the "post-censorship generation." |
X-FILE!
What is happening at the South Pole? Click.
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. 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. |
BUSHISMS
OF THE DAY! "It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce." —Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001 "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."—Declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001 "We must have the attitude that every child in America—regardless of where they're raised or how they're born—can learn."—New Britain, Conn., April 18, 2001 "It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children."—Remarks on "parental empowerment in education," Washington, D.C., April 12, 2001 "This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end."—Washington, D.C., April 10, 2001 "The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race." —Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001 |
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 Click. Reward offered for arrest of last SLA fugitive, James Kilgore. MORE: Click. |
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Quadriplegic Gets Pig Cell Injection.
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. |
Click. Witch casts spell to protect Nessie Click. I'm all woman, says Miss France Click. The Dangers of Boozing and Banking |
April 24, 2001
| CBS News
has learned the crew of a CIA surveillance plane, flown under the name of
a front company, witnessed and recorded a Peruvian jet shooting down a
plane carrying missionaries mistaken for drug couriers. Click.
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. |
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Putin is out to get me Vladimir Gusinsky, the once-mighty Russian
media magnate whose empire is being dismantled by the Russian government,
believes President Putin is building a totalitarian state.
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
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BIG
BLUE GOES TO WAR! Click. Big Blue's Big Brother Lab Imagine knowing the name of every single person who lived in this world. One of IBM's lab scientists shows how existing technology could make this scenario possible. 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 Click. E-ink invention Electronic paper comes a step closer. |
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 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. |
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New Research Confirms That Natural Selection Is Acting On The Current Human
Population
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. 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. |
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. Click. Once Thought Extinct, Siamese Crocodile Is Photographed In Thailand |
April 23, 2001
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Foot-Mouth Disease Could Spread To U.S. President
Bush's top environmental official said on Sunday that the highly
contagious foot-and-mouth disease could strike in the U.S.
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. |
Bilderberg
agenda was partially revealed. The Trilateral Commission held its annual
three-day meeting behind closed doors in history-rich London. The subject
for all sessions was how to achieve world government as quickly, quietly
and efficiently as possible. Click.
SKULL AND BONES IS A JUST A CHARITY. Click. 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? |
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Teacher recalls 'six years of hell'
Six years ago, Neil Shumate entered San Quentin amidst the spittle and
curses of fellow inmates who recognized him. Last week, he walked out of
prison to begin a second life -- as a new grandfather, reconciled husband
and registered sex offender.
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 |
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. 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. 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. |
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. |
April 22, 2001
| Nasty Job for Task Force 399. U.S. Special Forces are about to
join Thailand's war on drugs from Burma; a tense border and geopolitical
pressures complicate their mission. Click.
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. |
Authors claim Rudolf Hess had a double. Click.
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Trade off for summer power could be increased pollution
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. ALL ABOUT FTAA. An interesting read already leaked to the
Internet...FTAA –
NEGOTIATING GROUP ON INVESTMENT: LIVE COVERAGE OF THE FTAA SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS. Click. WEB SITE PICK OF THE DAY. Click. Click.
U Click. Unmanned airplane takes off on attempt to cross Pacific Click. Restoration of S.F. Bay inches closer |
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 |
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. |
April 20, 2001
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State prepares for energy costs that could hit $100 million a day
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. |
A federal
grand jury has issued sweeping indictments that accuse the "Nuestra
Familia" prison gang of orchestrating killings and street crime
across Northern California from behind bars at Pelican Bay State Prison. Click.
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. |
Federal
Reserve banks destroyed records related to the trust assets of an
estimated 300,000 American Indians throughout the country. 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. 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. 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. |
Our
minds evolved not as survival machines, but as courtship machines. Click.
Napster turns to digital fingerprints Click.
Aptos survivor of amoeba baffles scientific world. Virulent organism lies
dormant in man's brain 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. |
THE TAILOR OF PANAMA PREMIERES. Click. Click. Three Days in Vegas A stripper, a nerd, and his ten thousand dollars, in Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World," based on a story by Paul Auster.Screaming manager needs training. Click. Click. Latest Attack on Fritz Springmeier |
April 19, 2001
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Martial-Law Option Studied As Response To Foot-Mouth Disease
Minnesota state officials might ask the
Minnesota Legislature for authority to declare martial law in Minnesota
counties or regions if foot-and-mouth disease strikes livestock herds.
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. |
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THE WOMAN IN THE FRONT
ROW - by Cindy Ross
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' Lockerbie. Foreign Devil by Cockburn Click. Click. Bush's dangerous Mideast policy 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. |
NY
Observer Penetrates Secret Skull And Bones Rites. Click
Click. Attorney general taking two energy companies to court DNA printing for children at the local Safeway? Click. CLUBBING THE PRESS. Click. 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. COPS SEAL OFF QUEBEC CITY Attention Wal-Mart workers: Please do not report injuries. Click. Click. Accused teen gunman draws support from around nation Click. QUEBEC: PROTESTING MORE OF THE SAME 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. |
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Breakthrough in 'superbug' battle Scientists
in Japan report an important advance in the fight against dangerous
drug-resistant bacteria.
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. |
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. |
April 18, 2001
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Iranian Scud Attack Raises War Fears
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. |
MARIN
D.A. KAMENA - THE RACE HEATS UP!
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. |
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FAMILIES FIGHT FEARS OF INFECTION Medication given at school after teen's
death Livermore--Nearly 1,300 students and their parents streamed into
the Livermore High School gym Wednesday, nervous but calm as they lined up
to take a meningitis-fighting drug.
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. |
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. Is FCC quelling free speech? C |