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NEWSGRIDS MAY 2001
May 31, 2001

Click. US Gulf Forces on High Alert

Click. Matthew (Max) Kennedy keeps up tradition, may run for Congress

Click. Kennedys seen anxious over Max's planned run

Click. China suspected in port deal. China has clinched a deal to develop a major deep-sea commercial port in western Pakistan, giving Beijing a potential staging ground to exert influence along some of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

US military readies to meet threat of war in space. Click.

Click. Iran: political crisis overshadows presidential campaign

HOUSE BILL PROPOSES LIFTING BAN ON ASSASSINATIONS
BUSH ADMINISTRATION WASTING NO TIME IN MOVING TOWARD WAR FOOTING. Click.

On May 24, 2001, Bush sent Congress a letter explaining his decision to extend the alleged "national emergency" declared by Clinton in 1999, one which enabled him to launch his war in Belgrade without Congressional approval. Click.

Click. Democrat Doves Back Powell

Click. AIDS Rate Among Young Gay Men in U.S. Soars 

Click. SIMULATING DEMOCRACY Eschewing Protests, World Bank Meeting Goes Online

Clean Elections at Stake. Click.

Click. Power monster GAZPROM that fuels Russia's foreign policy

Cybercrime justifies world government. Click.

Click. The Oslo Hit Squad. CIA snipers roam the Holy Land by Barry Chamish

Click. Report: Ressam's target was Los Angeles International Airport

Private eyes 'compromised' Spain's not-so-secret service. Click.

Click. Worst nightmare Terrorists could easily make an atomic bomb from MOX fuel, says a confidential report.

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA

Click. California Utilities' Donations Ultimately Led to Blackout Crisis

Click. As California officials cut deals in recent months to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase electricity, they signed agreements not to reveal the terms of those contracts to the public.

Click. Pierce's cure would involve genetics Genetic engineering could end the threat of the grapevine-killing bacteria spread by the glassy-winged sharpshooter, but would likely bring the wine industry new confrontations with environmentalists and foreign retailers.

Witness protection granted to "someone" in the San Francisco dog maul murder case. Click.

OK CITY BOMBING HAUNTS.....

Click. Federal prosecutors lied to get harsher penalty in case related to Oklahoma City bombing.

Click. Fortier’s sentence cut by 1 1/2 years

Click. McVeigh? What About Blacks Waiting to Die?

Oklahoma City bombing reports by  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph. Excerpted from his book, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton:

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revealed that "the Justice Department's inspector general lists the Oklahoma bombing case as one of the worst examples of de facto evidence tampering by the crime labs."

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  Relive the Oklahoma City tragedy through the eyes of a family that lost two children in the Murrah Building's daycare center, and their subsequent horror to discover rampant official lying in the tragedy's aftermath.

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established clearly that a bomb squad truck was in Oklahoma City shortly before the blast.

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Overwhelming evidence that Timothy McVeigh "was accompanied by other men at every stage" of the crime, and that the FBI intentionally sought to avoid prosecuting other parties complicit in the worst terrorist act in American history.

Click. McVEIGH CHARGES FRAUD, ASKS STAY.

Click. Silicon route to Mumbai underworld ZAP Infotech promised an expressway to Silicon Valley for a pittance, but aspiring techies found that Zap's trail led straight to the Mumbai underworld

Get ready for the search engine wars. Click.

Blair savaged over Microsoft visit. Click.

A strip club allegedly frequented by Bill Gates is under scrutiny by the US Government over links to pimps, the Mafia and fraud. Click.

Click. Canadian privacy czar shouldn't be so private, by Michael Geist

Click. Microsoft and allies counter attack over antitrust accusations

Click. Movie studios, 2600 describe free speech impact of DVD case

Click. How Echelon Works

Click. More on Echelon, intercepts, and a quick history lesson

Click Hailstorm: Open Web Services Controlled by Microsoft

AOL's bomb threat check list. Click.

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?

Click. Companies that shaped world history

How drug money works in real estate. Click.

The In's and Out's of begging for money online. Click.

Click. An experiment in micro advertising.

Click. Going public: IPO review for 2000 A look at last year's top IPOs, VC firms, and banks.

Click. Sittin' Pretty Richard Rainwater believed in oil when everyone else fell for tech. He made a ton of money.
HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Partial remains of murder victim lost in mail, officials say. Click.

Click. Gotti’s Nephew Testifies for Government

Use of DNA as a dragnet. Click.

Click. Hearing in police misconduct case, The Oakland Riders, accusers in court. Hearing on alleged police misconduct

Click. 50,000-volt penalty for talking is ruled illegal. L.A. judge's use of stun belt in court rejected

Police, medical marijuana backers seek odd alliance. Click.

Christopher Reeve joins scientists who are suing the Bush administration for halting stem cell research. Click.

Hold FBI Accountable in Bari Case. Click.

Russia urged to not restart executions. Click.

Click. Con man bilks Microsoft Silicon Valley investors out of millions,

Click. Details on Scientology critic's arrest in Toronto

Another 55 pages of Columbine documents were released Tuesday, mostly FBI investigative reports that should have been among 11,000 pages turned over in November. Click.

How identity thieves thrive in the information age. Click.

Florida County puts court records on line. Click.

Click. New pathogens may take advantage of populations with low immunity.

In the first attempt to rejuvenate a human heart through the use of arm muscle cells, UCLA researchers implanted the cells into a 62-year-old heart attack victim. The technique has worked in animals and in safety trials in three human patients. Click.

Click. Authorities are investigating a possible case of the human variant of mad cow disease in the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe, the health ministry in Paris said late today.

Click. Voicebox transplant man can sing.

Joint Juice. Click.

Click. New class of blood-pressure drugs is going unused

Click. Preparation For Martian Samples Quarantine Facility Must Begin Soon To Be Ready For First Mission, Report Says

Click. Natural Immune Response Reduces Nerve Damage; May Lead To Improved Treatment For Spinal Cord Injury

Click. Brain's Visual Cortex Doesn't "Tell" All It Knows

Click. Exercise And Heparin May Grow New Blood Vessels, Improve Hearts In Children With Blocked Arteries

Click. Researcher Finds Links Among Stress, Pain And Immune Function

A well-timed one-two punch from viruses may be the cause of multiple sclerosis Click

Click. Space revolution Smart satellites due for launch next summer will be able to plan their own missions. 


The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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Click. St. Petersburg, an urban sleeping beauty.

Click. UFOs in the land of the rising sun 

Men are more likely than women to divorce their spouses when the spouse suffers a serious illness such as brain cancer, suggests a new study Click.

A former Navy SEAL commander questions Ventura's claim that he hunted man in Vietnam. Click.

National Book Network is launching a new division geared to give small publishers more distribution options. Click.

Anne Heche, the former lover of actress Ellen DeGeneres is reportedly to marry the cameraman she met while making a documentary on her partner. Click.

Click. Australia's swimming legend, Dawn Fraser, officially launched her tell-all autobiography today.

If you missed the riots and protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle a year and a half ago, you may soon get another chance. Video-game players can march down the middle of a city street to the beat of loud music, launch a rocket or brick into a storefront window, even punch out an officer in riot gear while playing "State of Emergency." Click.

Click. Single dose starts cocaine addiction. Findings on brain chemistry may apply to other drugs as well

May 30, 2001

Computer users across Europe should encrypt all their e-mails, to avoid being spied on by a UK-US eavesdropping network, say Euro-MPs. Click. 

Click. Jospin's Plans for EU Superstate

Click. Wave of mass redundancies throws Jospin government into crisis

Click. Practical Proposals of Jospin's Speech Welcomed by Germany.

Click. Bush to "Bribe" Backers of Missile Plan

Click. McVeigh Eyes Execution Stay After Agent's Shocker

Click. Taliban vows to never hand over bin Laden
space
Japanese cult member gets life sentence

Click, U.S. commandos set to capture Bin Laden, but held back

Click. bin Laden's protectors.

space
Doomsday cult responsible for sarin gas attacks. Click.

Click. Terrorist Tells of L.A. Bomb Plot

Click. Drug trafficking in the Pacific has a distinct Russian flavor

Misconduct, Corruption by U.S. Police Mar Bosnia Mission. DynCorp at work! Click.

CIA Documents on Ron Brown declared secret. Click.

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA

Click. California county to sell last rural Chinatown to descendants.

Click The IRS has questioned $91 million in tax-exempt securities the Los Angeles Unified School District sold in 1997 to pay for the Belmont Learning Center, the unfinished downtown high school sitting atop a shallow oil field. 

Click. Farm influence sways state power policy

Click. The dot-com bomb  After the crash: the real story of how the boom and bust ripped San Francisco apart.

Click. Japan starts 3G phones trial. Third-generation mobile phones promise users fast and "always on" access to the internet, e-mail and video streams. They can be up to 40 times faster than current mobile phones.

Click. MIT has invented a 96-bit code that can tag trillions of objects. Almost everything you buy could have a radio tag, and it won't just track price -- it will track whereabouts. 

A gadget that reacts to audio signals embedded in TV programs and tells your PC to surf over to web pages related to that show. Click.

China's dot-com boom went bust, but it gave birth to a revolution. Click.

Click. The price of Internet freedom 

"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all."—Pres. Bush's remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001

Click. Senator Biden's a New Thorn for President Bush

Click. With Democrats assuming control of the Senate, a mom-in-
tennis-shoes from Shoreline has made herself a player.

Our Man in Little Havana: The secret Cold War history of Otto Juan Reich, George W. Bush's Frightening Nominee for Assistant Secretary of State of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Click.

Click. The Coming Democratic Majority Senate committees may be just the beginning.

Click. McCain on the March and Gore floats trial balloon in Tennessee.

Click. Propaganda's Triumph by Robert Parry.

Try telling these children that net porn is a victimless crime. Click.

Criminals who create a demand for this sick kiddie porn trade.
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America's love affair with power, sex and death. Click. 

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

SEE WHAT EXTREMELY HOT IMPORTANT CASE THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS BEEN WORKING ON! Click. 

Relief for Local FBI agents and their pricey informants. THE OVAL GOLF BALL. Click.

Click. 'Mass branding' of sex offenders order by Texas judge

Click. New twist in cases over right to die. Patient.s is in twilight state, not in a coma

Bronx cops: We were conned by body-parts killer. Click.

Click. Lawyer says judge unduly swayed jury

Click. Disabled golfer can use cart.

Click. Judge won't drop murder, manslaughter charges in death by mauling dog case.

Lawyers for former SLA fugitive Sara Jane Olson filed a 17-page motion  enumerating conflicts of interest they say are so complex they require a full-scale inquiry by the court. Click.

Click. Feds must make their websites accessible to the handicapped.

Click. San Francisco Police Department conducts first training class on mental illness.

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?

Click. Small Business Builder: Sell to Uncle Sam

Click. Can Time Inc.'s magazines  survive AOL?

Click. White abalone, once a delicacy, gets federal protection

Click. Livermore lab test finds plague in prairie dogs

Click. Federal researchers find a gene that indicates a higher risk for schizophrenia. Knowing which patients have the gene can also help doctors choose the right medication.

Click. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory researchers have proposed a new breed of high-tech, high-speed missile hunters, dubbed Advanced Technology Kill Vehicles.

Solar system scientists plot new strategy. Click.

Click. Quarantine urged for Mars sample return 

Genetics to create new flavors, fragrances. Click.

Dinosaur robot struts its stuff. Click.

How the brain sees. Click.

The High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft, or HESSI, is scheduled for launch. Click.

Click. Babies Have A Different Way Of Hearing The World By Listening To All Frequencies Simultaneously

Click. Study Shows Obesity Bad For The Mind, Too

Click. Sacramento Firm, Lab Scientists Seek To Test Rocket Technology To Produce Pollution-Free Electricity

Digital Rights Gain a Foothold
The teaming of a company that deals with digital security and one that tracks downloads is good news for copyright holders.

Click. Laid Off -- Got Mail?

Click. DNA ON DVD?

Click. Don't believe the hype


Ground Swell
Edward Hopper, 1939

Girls in every port.  They had a high time on the high seas. Click.

SEX AND SPORTS: Click. Strictly male delivery

Click. Lenore Skenazy: I Just Touched Abe Lincoln, at a Distance

Click. Kids shine when left to build their own devices

Click. The Tell Chuera Riddle A team of archeologists will be working together on the Syrian steppe for clues as to why the once booming city fell into decline

Click. Lutheran bishop quits after gay ordination. He admits disobeying church rules. More: Click.

Four women writers explore humankind's relations with the planet's other inhabitants. Click.

Click. With software programs that allow musicians to mix and master like never before, personal computers are now required equipment for music makers.

Click. Mari Matsunaga, a technophobe, is one of the top women on the Web.

Click. Blogging as a Form of Journalism

Click. New book asserts animals show the instinct to do good

CyberPounce is a collection of online toys and games intended to amuse felines and their owners. Click.

Stones that could be Britain's pyramids. Click.

May 29, 2001  

France's Jospin envisions an alternative EU. Click.

A retired Los Alamos scientist who spent the past decade gathering firsthand information on China's nuclear weapons programs is fighting U.S. efforts to block publication of his book. Click.

Click. Bush picks Rep. James Rogan to head Patent Office

Click. U.S. rethinks nuclear aid to Russia

Click. US Offers Russia Arms to Abandon ABM Treaty

Click. Scientology critic seeks asylum in Canada, reportedly arrested

Click. Russia wary of U.S. offer on defense. Moscow not swayed by anti-missile plan

Click. EU to Set Up Spook Agency

Click. Faint Voices Rise From Cuba

China clones sheep, pigs, plants, rabbits, cows. Click.

Click. Stakes are high for Davis meeting with Bush

The Internet has not clicked with everyone. Click.

Click. Keith Henson Busted in Canada

Click. Q&A with Martin Cooper. The inventor of the portable cell phone talks about blazing new trails in broadband wireless.

Click. Internet Explorer knows where you live

With over 164 government sites that are selling treasury notes, bonds, homes, horses, cars and more the US Government raked in over $3.6 billion in sales last year, that's almost a billion more than Amazon's $2.8 billion in sales. Click.

McDonald's is currently testing an electronic payment system using wands. You just wave the wand in front of a sensor and it deducts the payment from a pre-paid account. Click..

Click. How Amazon Is Beating the Costs of Shipping

Click.Lou Gerstner brought IBM back from the brink. Can it survive without him?

NATO WON'T BACK BUSH'S STAR WARS PLAN. Click.

Reversal: U.S. Senate and White House by Sherman Skolnick. Click.

Click. More on NSA Tapping Undersea Fiber Cables

Seafood Linguini, Exploding Hockey Pucks and "Marshmallows" by Al Martin

The Americans who stopped My Lai. Click. 

US Postal Service is going to sell undeliverable packages on eBay. Click.

Latest blame for the arrival of syphilis in Europe. Click. 

New site pushes the arrival of humans in the Americas back 3,000 years. Click..

China's new lab focuses on cosmic rays. Click..

Las Vegas entrepreneur wants to build a space station. Click.

Click. Spaniards fear a Website Inquisition

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Dead bodies, autopsy photos, and privacy rights

Click. Napa County's Grand Jury -- a group of 19 citizens mandated by law to investigate local government -- has recently targeted one public entity desperately in need of reform: itself.

An alleged pedophile ring operating for years in eastern Ontario. Click.

Click. Hackers, some from organized crime, steal credit card data from safe havens in Europe, Asia

Click. Brazil's Comuna: Does this music-trading software herald the death of capitalism?

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?

Click. Mineral interests led investor to a gold mine  How Will Edwards survived the tech bloodbath better than many. 

Click. U.S. Marshals arrest Lernout & Hauspie CEO Gaston Bastiaens.

Click. Buy Stuff, Get eSpaceTickets Toward Trip to Space 

A pioneering procedure offers the hope of a less painful technique than traditional heart bypasses. Click.

Click. Tiny protein molecules are big players in solving the mystery of brain function

Click. Dopamine-Dampening Gene Linked To Prefrontal Inefficiency, Schizophrenia

Click. New Class Of Drugs To Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Click. Prototype Space-Return Vehicle Successfully Completes Final Test Flight

Click. Listening To Music Of Choice During Outpatient Eye Surgery Lowers Patients' Cardiovascular, Emotional Stress

Click. E. Coli Bacteria May Be More Useful Than You Think

Click. Standing Tall: Plains Indians Enjoyed Height, Health Advantage

Click. High Blood Pressure A New Risk Factor For Kidney Rejection

Click. A new glimpse into the genetics of autism

Click. NASA taps robot fleet for next-generation Mars missions

Click. Brave New World for prostate surgery 


Ground Swell
Edward Hopper, 1939

Click. Descendants want justice for Salem's witches

Click. Sonoma State to offer classes to retired seniors this fall

Click. Break for breadwinners. Japanese men seek shelter through support groups, sabbaticals

Click. After facing the specter of an early death, reporter had a change of heart 

Click. A look at Thad Carhart's memoir "The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier.''

Click. The French and their flings--a fictional affair.

 Little separates France, U.S. in sexual behavior, study says

Click. The writings of Chester Himes—his mystery novels and his more personal work.

Click. Profiles of Worm Writers

May 28, 2001 

CIA Goof in Wen Ho Lee Case: Mistaken Identity

Click. Isolated from the world since the Taleban takeover, Afghanistan is being kept alive by the United Nations and western aid.

Daschel told President Bush yesterday to forget about a Star Wars missile defense system - and a whole lot of other things he wants. Click.

Click. Giuliani Praises Billionaire Bloomberg, a Potential Successor As Mayor

Click. Indians reclaiming the Great Plains. Way of life restored as whites leave

Click. UN bid to save child soldiers criticized

Click. Skinheads riot at Third Reich castle

Click. Euro Army Unveils Germanic Anthem

Click. Governor turned cocaine baron is captured after two years on the run

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA.....

Click. Sunol residents fight to keep distinctive character of village

Click. Tribal land rush. Native Americans bet future on Bay Area casinos

Click. Fremont cars damaged in rash of pipe bombs

Click. School-trip chaperone has critical meningitis. Lafayette pupils possibly exposed

Click. HOT THREAD: Why did America enter the Second World War?

Probe urged on French sect list. Click.

The enduring myth of Star Wars. Click.

Nazi's started the Star Wars idea. Click.

Russia already has a Star Wars system. Click.

An FBI agent, Pitts, arrested in 1996 for spying for Moscow told investigators he knew of suspicious activity by fellow agent Robert Hanssen. Click.

Kissinger's war crimes documented. Click.

Click. Jesse Helms went far to support Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet

DNA Terrorism. Click.

Germany, UK breaching human rights with NSA spy link-up by Duncan Campbell Click.

Schmoozing the Reds: AOL's secret China plans revealed. Click.

FTC blesses Amazon's privacy sleight-of-hand. Click.

Snitch a customer program was stupid, says Microsoft. Click.

Cheap and easy web heists. Click.

Computer wrist watches tell more than time. Click.

Click. Deutsche (American) Telekom – From Local Hero to Global Player?

Click. Complete layout of sunken Alexandria . 

Who Killed 22 Star Wars Scientists? Click.

Spotlight shines on anew on Bilderberg. Click.

Click The Strange case of Major Edwin A. Walker and the Kennedy assassination.

Click When They Kill a President by Roger Craig - an eyewitness' unpublished manuscript.

Nixon and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Click.

Otto Rahn and the quest for the Holy Grail. Click.

Click. The greatest hacker of all time. 

NASA'S POSITION: Mars loses face, gains nature trail. Click.

RICHARD HOAGLAND WON'T QUIT: FACE ON MARS IS CAT-MAN FACE, NOT A HILL OR POTENTIAL TRAIL.

Click. The Split Faced Glyphs of the Maya,


Click. A Decade old Prediction Confirmed


Click. The Hominid-Lion Connection


Click. The Face 2001 - More Evidence of the Internal NASA War?

Click. The FACETS Mars Initiative ... and the Mysterious NASA Response


Click. John Glenn Finally Tells the Truth

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Update on the legal status of web links, from OJR.org

Click. FBI searches home of EarthLink co-founder  

Ashcroft Protects Terrorists By Snuffing Out McVeigh by Jeffrey Steinberg. Click.

Newly discovered McVeigh document backs claim of defense witness Kuper that he saw a John Doe with McVeigh on the day of the OKC bombing and told the FBI about it 2 days later. Click. 

Federal investigators believe they have enough evidence to indict Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.). Click.

Providing Photos to defense attorneys in pornography case at heart of dispute Click.

Click. Graffiti cops fighting an endless battle

Click. Steal This Book! Abbie Hoffman's masterpiece. A sort of 70's Anarchist Cookbook, it goes into detail about living for free, pulling pranks, monkey-wrenching and smashing the state. All the things "they" don't want you to know about. Isn't it ironic that it's now available on the Internet?

Click. Care about politics to stop the move to privatize water

Click. DIG, DEMOCRATS, DIG  If the Democrats had the creativity and bloodlust of the Republicans, gobs of fun could be had with U.S. Senate investigations.

Click. Viagra 'works for women'

Click. Berkeley scientists are developing tiny dust motes that could shed light on how energy is used and promote conservation.

Click. An Off Switch For Epilepsy?

Click. One Year After Surgery, Robotic Heart Grafts Are Still A Success

Click. We get CJD and bile duct cancer so others get rich

Click. Epidemic of pig meningitis infects humans

Click. Warning: this little piggy could give you meningitis

Click. 'It's time we returned to the Moon'

Click. The nation's war on cancer. Here is a survey of cancer-related Web sites.

Click. Has the ultimate cancer cure arrived? Indian Cancer researchers have taken a giant step on the road to discovering the ultimate cancer cure by developing a drug that selectively targets the cancer cells without harming the healthy ones.

Click. GM bugs that do the same job as the components of a microchip are revealed in the US.

Click. Flying start for bird-breeding technique

The famous Martian meteorite ALH84001 does or does not contain meaningful fossil evidence of ancient Martian microbes? Click.

Click. Studies show higher rate of hepatitis C in vets' groups


Ground Swell
Edward Hopper, 1939

Click. Marie Darrieussecq wrote a book about a woman who turns into a pig and it sold millions. Three novels, two husbands, one baby and an admirer in Jean-Luc Godard later, she is France's undisputed literary sensation.

Click. Vatican Challenged. Catholic bishops want more power. Even cardinals have begun calling on Rome for a greater voice in church liturgy and policy

Click. Cat 'hoarders' are usually victims of mysterious obsession
Some see themselves as Mother Teresa

Click. Mother Teresa will be declared a saint 'within months'

Click. War-torn zoo has become a jungle

Click. Vatican's rebel archbishop weds Moonie

Click. Vatican says married archbishop is 'outside the church'

Is this a picture of Shakespeare we see before us? Click.

Hollywood boosts the military. Click.

Click. Wacky new German reality TV show

Click. "Our Song"  A girl's life. 

May 26, 2001

James Jeffords. That one Yankee could so upset the balance in Washington illuminates how much opportunity exists for the Democrats should they be able to act like a party of principles. Click   

Click. The man most responsible for guiding Sen. Jim Jeffords to a new political identity has a long history with party-switching.

Click. Jeffords' defection highlights GOP fragility.

Click. Jeffords: Bush's education budget will cost him second term in 2004

Click. Arafat pleads for support...  

Montana Indians take on oil chief in the battle of Weatherman Draw. Click.

Click. Rumsfeld Warns of 'Pearl Harbor' Surprises

Rumsfeld's Revolution. Click.

Click. New twists to the Andean drug war Efforts to wipe out the coca crop and stop the flow of cocaine are attracting more money and more allies than ever before.

Click. Chelsea to follow father to Oxford

Click. Chelsea may follow father or Raleigh

Click. Clintons bask in past and future Oxford prospect

Click. Chinese-American congressman Wu barred entry to Energy Dept.

Click. Washington state forest closed after discovery of meth lab. Manufacturers use federal lands to escape detection

Vast right wing conspiracy on a cruise to Caymon Islands. Click. 

Click. No face on Mars says NASA.  More: Click. Highest Resolution pictures available. Click.

Ancient craters may have been traps for large animals. Click.

Click. Earliest Scots discovered Amateur archaeologists have discovered the earliest known evidence of human settlement in Scotland - dating from 8500BC.

Biologists unleash a voracious beetle to chew its way through the US Southwest. Click.

Tutankhamen's pea crop. Click.

The pre-Inca Chachapoya. Click.

Bilderberg group meets in Sweden this week. Click.

Evidence suggests the Soviet Union, fearing its fate at the hands of a growing Pacific power, used agents in Washington and Tokyo to manipulate the U.S. and Japan into open warfare. Click.

They interned Italians too. Click.

Click. China warns Dalai on choosing Living Buddhas

Click. Sharon - The comfort of the wink and the blink

Click. Britain’s angry tribes Some of the disaffected people who feel mainstream politics is passing them by could make their mark on Britain's election

Click. Before U.S. entered WWII, Flying Tigers volunteered

Profile. The Duke of Edinburgh. Click.

Click. Simulating democracy can be a virtual breeze World Bank recently canceled a global meeting set for Barcelona in late June—and shifted it to the Internet.

Click. How well is WHO doing?

Katarina Witt, Ice Skating Star, vs. the Stasi. Click.

A report on the global spy network Echelon recommends all Europeans use encryption and open source software. Click. More: Click.

Companies are bracing themselves as Big Brother goes live on the net and one million office workers may log on to play the game.  Click.

Hacking made simple from Asiaweek Limited. Click.

Preparing for The Next Pearl Harbor Attack.  America’s whole information infrastructure on which the modern U.S. economy is based now is vulnerable to attack. Click.

Click. Silicon ally: Indo-Paki bhai-tech

Click. Viewers of reruns of Law and Order can see sponsored imagery interpolated where it had not been before as a result of an agreement in principle to allow the insertion of computer-generated make-believe items like cans, bottles, signs and logos into scenes.

Click. The anti-Spam conference allows a professional spammer to explain himself.

Think your office is too small to be a hacker's dream? Think again. Click.

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA.....

Click. Yosemite tragedy led to reward fund aiding hunt for missing intern

Click. Canadian company reaps the benefits of California's power problems

Click. Davis asks U.S. to limit firms' prices. Governor argues 2 generators manipulated market

Click. Enron's secret bid to save deregulation. PRIVATE MEETING: Chairman pitches his plan to prominent Californians

Click. Bonuses sought for PG&E execs

Click. Texas CEO denies firm manipulated prices. Conflicting testimony on gas supplies

Click. Sacramento County knew that Cindy Dewey had a criminal assault record when they hired her to work in Child Protective Services, but decided to give her the job anyway.

COMPUTER GAMES FOR YOUR CAT TO PLAY. Click.

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?

Russia Tries to Get Off Money Laundering Black List. Click.

Patently Absurd The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is fast heading toward irrelevancy.

SEC Orders Foreign Firms to Report Activities. Click.

Click. How Big Is Porn? Porn industry fans say the business grosses as much as $14 billion annually. We say more like $4 billion.

The decision of the Cayman Islands court not to reveal the names of Ansbacher account-holders should not be viewed as a victory by those holding the accounts. Click.

Click. Tech Giants Court Genome Crowd Leaders look toward red-hot genomics and bioinformatics for salvation.

Click. Biotech patents fester after Festo Patent holders are finding that their rights are not so far-reaching as they were before the November 2000 decision in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki.

Click. Hernando de Soto sheds light on why much of the world sees capitalism as something desirable but inaccessible.

If you liked Survivor, you'll love proxy season. Click.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. Cox pulls name from consideration for court seat Republican Rep. Christopher Cox of Newport Beach, Calif., asked the White House on Friday to withdraw his name from consideration for nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

San Francisco U.S. Attorney Ropbert Mueller given interview for FBI's top job

Five organized-crime figures were convicted in a series of cases that officials say show the mob controls the adult entertainment industry in Suffolk County, New York. Click.

Click. Marin Judge drops contempt threat against Tony Serra

Click. Couple get lesson in how not to smuggle drugs A tip for the criminally minded: Try to keep your dope in your truck. Don't let a big bag fall out on the freeway. And for heaven's sakes, don't go running after it as a federal agent drives by.

Why the government's rush to execute McVeigh? Click.

Click. Investor activists seeking changes in corporate civil rights and environmental practices this year picked five companies to press for votes giving shareholders a say on including gays in corporate anti-bias policies.

Vancouver - the next Amsterdam for drugs. Click.

Click. Hanssen Attorneys Plan To Fight Death Penalty

Three active cases of Mad Cow disease have been diagnosed on the island of Guadeloupe, a few hundred miles east of U.S. territory in Puerto Rico.  Click.

Scientists around the world are in revolt against moves by a powerful group of private corporations to lock decades of publicly funded western scientific research into expensive, subscription-only electronic databases. Click.

Click. 'Birth of a superbug'

Click. Patients do well after robot heart operations

NASA sending probe to collide with Comet. Click.

Aggression is an acknowledged side-effect for about one in 1,000 people who take antidepressants such as Zoloft, an Australian expert said yesterday. Click. More: Click.

Click. Snoring linked to ADHD in young children

The next generation of small planes could usher in a new age of travel. Click.

Click. Dutch scientists watch as bacteria suddenly develop antibiotic resistance, thanks to a stolen gene.

Oldest dinosaur ever found. Click.

Click. Surgeons See Into Their Patients

Click. Stick It in Your Ear Portable gadgets that can translate language as fast as you can speak are almost ready to emerge from the lab.

Click. The idea that multiple sclerosis is triggered by two separate viruses receives a boost.


Ground Swell
Edward Hopper, 1939

Click. Injunction lifted against publication of 'Wind Done Gone'

Robert Blake's funeral speech to Bonny Lee Bakley. Click.

Click. Hay-on-Wye literary festival

Click. Greetings From the Rambo Hotel Only seven photographs of Arthur Rimbaud were previously known to exist. A newly discovered photo of the poet in Aden has brought new information about his life there to light.

Slipping down Orwell's dark memory hole, the bloody, brutal events of Tiananmen Square are slowly being erased from history. Click.

Writers write about themselves, whether they want to or not: diction, grammar, tone, imagery are all deeply autobiographical. Click.

A Portrait of the Artist as Apprentice. Click.

Click. Male judges disagree with women's literary prize pick

Click. More seniors work because they must

Click. Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Becomes Nun

Click. How to keep the carcinogens down while grilling

May 25, 2001

Click. Israel May Force Arafat Into Exile

Click. US Senate approves record tax cut for the wealthy

Click. How sweet it is! The Democrats control the Senate!

Click. Legislature hangs Governor Davis out to dry 

Click. Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam

Click. Report Downplays Echelon Effect

Click. Cheap and Easy Web Heists

Click. The Font of All Personality

Outages could be fatal for disabled. Click.

Click. Movie about Japanese American war camp distributed to all schools, libraries

Click. Federal decision on shrimp dismays environmentalists

Click. More outage notice ordered

The Secret of Pearl Harbor - FDR's role exposed. Click.

Click. Covert Action in Africa (Halliburton)

Click. The military of the 21st century

VARIETY: 'Pearl Harbor'' a film that will live in infamy...

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA.....

Click. Nine tribes' casino plans put on hold Gov. Gray Davis won't approve any more agreements with Indian tribes to allow casinos until the federal courts resolve a legal challenge to California's Indian gaming law.

Click. Attorney General Lockyer comes out swinging at oilman. Davis has plenty of company in depths of poll

Click. Pittsburg schools' e-mail catches flak from NAACP. Board member mentioned race

Click. Cat owner says it started with 2 fecund felines. 'All of a sudden' there were 196

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. "I feel like God was there for me"

Click. Reprieve for grandmother - Bills would prevent deportation Zhenfu Ge, the Chinese grandmother facing deportation and separation from her Sausalito grandchildren, received new hope yesterday.

Judge delays decision on freeing rapist

Click. N .Y. mayor finds new way to dump his wife: fire her

Click. FBI violated privacy rights, judge rules. Documents seized in S.F. minority contract probe are inadmissible

Click. Judge demands straight answers from El Paso Corp.

Click. Another 1A vs. privacy case: Lawsuit over autopsy photos

Click. Researchers find how Alzheimer's clutters brain. Defective protein gums up cells' normal cleanup work

Click. Text Messaging Could Damage Your Kidneys

Click. Fossil Of Tiny Mammal From Early Jurassic; Discovery Provides Important New Evidence On The Earliest Evolution Of Mammals

Click. Researchers To Test Skeletal Muscle As Replacement For Damaged Human Heart Muscle In Humans

Click. Scientists Find Solution To A Mystery Surrounding Alzheimer’s, Huntington's And Other Neurological Diseases

Click. Treating Acne With Antibiotics Leads To Resistance

Click. Wake Forest First In World To Perform New Brain Tumor Treatment

Click. Gulp! University Of Rhode Island Professor Studies How Sharks Eat

Click. Real-Time 3D Models For Engineering And Architecture


May Morning in the Park
Thomas Eakins, 1879-80

Click. Blake's wife to be buried at cemetery of the stars

Click. Levi Strauss pays $46,532 for oldest pair of its denims

Click. 'Sopranos' a hit in Italy

Click. The Momo Mystery

Click. Mysterious Big Cats

Click. Columbus Secretly Discovered America 7 Years Earlier

Click. Scientists say Japanese underwater pyramid man-made.

May 24, 2001

Click. Rumsfeld: Give Pentagon More Cash

If less than 0.1 per cent of the renewable energy within the oceans of the world could be converted into electricity, it would satisfy the present world demand for energy more than five times over. Click.

Click. Prosecutors give hundreds more documents to McVeigh 5/24/01

McVeigh prosecutors plan quick strike. Feds will give court their view on papers withheld from trial, pre-empting defense. Click.

Click. U.S.'s Defenseless Department Congress' General Accounting Office says that the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center is about as effective as Bob Dole without Viagra.

Click. MP Calls Euro-Currency "Nazi"

Click. Central Asian Islamists Threaten 'Bloody Wars'

Click. Lawyers must work in hospital emergency rooms to get treatment for patients by fighting bureaucracy.

More of a threat than the suitcase bomb--the "dirty bomb" -  a conventional bomb covered in highly radioactive material. Click.

Click. NASA serves warrants on Greenville Tube Company in Arkansas.

NSA taps into underwater cables. Click.

Listening for secret nukes, hearing giant meteors. Click.

JEFFORDS BOLTS THE GOP! "Increasingly I find myself in disagreement in my party," Jeffords said. "I understand that many people are more conservative than I am and they form the Republican Party. Given the changing nature of the national party it has become a struggle for our leaders to deal with me and for me to deal with them." Click.

Click. Bully Boy Bush's Big Blunder

Click. Will Trent Lott pay for losing the Senate?

Click. A Snub by Bush Set the Stage for Switch

Click. Why did he do it?

Click. Peter Peterson, Ambassador to Vietnam, resigns, and sets sights on running for governor in Florida

Click. How Karl Rove tricked the media into trashing the messenger while ignoring the message

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?

WALL STREET FRETS OVER JEFFORDS. Click.

Click. Marc Rich group pulls mgt. coup

Click. President's son is China's unseen tech mogul

Click. Carly Fiorina's strategy to get Hewlett Packard, the doyen of Silicon Valley, back on top.

ERDMAN. Follow the money, not gold prices. Click.

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA.....

Click. Be there or be square. Bush to meet Davis during California visit

Click. Burton, Hertzberg demand FERC puts price caps on electricity

Governor Davis to order 1-hour notice of blackouts in California. Plan also in works to give law enforcement even earlier alerts.

Click. Search for missing Modesto woman remains fruitless

Top Ten Hackers and Top 10 Ports they're attacking this week. (ending 5/23/01) Click.

By 1999 an investigation code-named Moonlight Maze (which continues today under a secret name) revealed wholesale mapping and looting of U.S. government and private computer networks. The Pentagon's public computer network was thoroughly excavated, as was the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command's network. NASA also came under intense attacks, spurring the space agency's inspector general to tell reporters that the breaches were "massive, really very massive." Click.

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has released the NAVSEA Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Guide for NAVSEA Headquarters, Field Activities and Industry Partners, collectively known as the Enterprise. Click.

Click.  Fear the Trojan hidden programs.

This watch registers what its wearer hears every minute of the day. Click.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. A Chicago woman who stole nearly $250,000 from her employer to finance a shopping addiction was spared from prison in a ruling Wednesday by a federal judge who found that she shopped to "self-medicate" her depression.

"Dirty trick" telephone calls attacking mayoral candidate were unethical and deceptive but not illegal, says L.A. District Attorney. Click.

Click. 90 Arrested on Net Fraud Charges

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas wants all Americans to be assigned new Social Security numbers that the government would have to keep secret. Click.

Click. Supposed legal barriers against human cloning in the US would not hold up in court, say legal experts.

Click. Martinez California Coach pleads guilty to molesting players

During FBI Director Freeh's 8 years as America's Top Cop, the bureau behaved more like the Keystone Kops. Click.

Click. Ashcroft warns of online anonymity, tells firms to report attacks

Inside the San Francisco Police Auction. Click.

THE BEGINNING OF THE FEDERAL CRACKDOWN ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Click. Federal judge seizes Calif. man's medical marijuana at government's request 

Click. The "human hatchery". A test tube baby microchip that carries out every stage of in-vitro fertilization automatically. More: Click.

Click. Swarm of small worlds around Pluto

Click. Bigger breasts? Grow your own

Click. The Plapple.

Click. Researchers Shed Light On Gambling And The Brain

Click. Scientists Switch Memory Recall On And Off In Fruit Flies

Click. Scientists Find Heavy HIV Levels In Patient Fluids Less Than 30 Days After Start Of Flu-Like Symptoms

Click. Steller Sea Lions Disappearing

Click. Factors Related To High Levels Of Dust Mite And Cockroach Allergen In Beds

Methadone may stimulate the HIV virus in infected patients. Click.

Click. A common drug boosts the mutation of a virus until it self-destructs.

Click. A re-engineered polio virus is used against deadly brain tumors.

Click. Doctors call for regulations on using live donors of livers

Bacterial study gives new meaning to term "dirty money".  Click.

Click. Discovery increases chance of finding another Pluto.

Canadian University works to sustain life in deep space.  Click.


May Morning in the Park
Thomas Eakins, 1879-80

Disease as the wild card of history and art.