Moon Farmer November 2001 Archive
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Posted by at November 30, 2001 10:42 PM
Although Western European cities were always suspected as being targeted, this is the first time that obliteration of specific cities is confirmed from top-secret planning records. The Hungarian document describes a highest-level command exercise indistinguishable from actual war plans -- such as was the 1964 Warsaw Pact plan for an attack on Western Europe published on the PHP website in May 2000.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 08:49 PM
Mullah Omar's offer was coupled with his attempt to rally the dwindling ranks of his Taliban hard core into standing and fighting the Americans who are increasing their firepower at an air base outside Kandahar.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 08:47 PM
"Bush and his American administration -- should not be blinded by the illusion of alleged victory in Afghanistan to mix up their cards [and attack Iraq] under the so-called 'war on terrorism'," the official al-Qadissiya newspaper said in an editorial.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 08:15 PM
The Crown Prince said: "I wish to remind you of the unjust attack being waged these days by the foreign media against the Saudi kingdom. I mean foreign papers, and you know who is behind them..."
"These papers, behind which stands 'you-know-who,' criticize your religion, criticize the things most precious to you, your faith and your holy scriptures? There is no choice for them but to understand that you are strong in your faith in Allah the exalted, and in your devotion to your faith, your belief, and your loyalty."
"You know who", Abdullah ibn Abd Al-'Aziz? Whut?
Posted by at November 30, 2001 08:14 PM
"I don't know, to me, when you say We, it seems like that should mean all of us. You know, me, the other soldiers, him," said 22-year-old Saudi Salaam Rabdul as U.S. fighter jets strafed his hilltop lookout. "But there's no him here. Only me and the other soldiers."
Posted by at November 30, 2001 08:04 PM
``It is perfectly normal that committees will reach out to executive agencies for input about changes they want to make and language that facilitates that,'' Justice Department spokeswoman Susan Dryden said. ``In this case, the intelligence committees reached out to the Justice Department for technical guidance.''
Posted by at November 30, 2001 07:57 PM
You know the millennium has gotten off to a bad start when a guy like Osama bin Laden is up for Time magazine's Man of the Year. That's right: Time's editors have whittled down their choices to a handful, and the chief Evil One is a top contender, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee. Though the Person of the Year designation is often thought of as an honor, it is supposed to be a way to recognize the individual (or individuals, or even an abstract concept) who has had the most impact on current events in the past year. Adolf Hitler was named Man of the Year, and so was Ayatollah Khomeini. Joseph Stalin was Man of the Year twice. Even so, if Osama "wins," it will very likely spark a rash of subscription cancellations and even some advertiser pullouts. But Jim Kelly, Time's managing editor, says he is more concerned that bin Laden's followers would seize on the issue as something to rally around.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 07:42 PM
Bill C-42 says: "If it is necessary, in the opinion of the Minister (of Defence), for the protection of international relations or national defence or security, the Minister (may)...designate as a military security zone an area of land or water."
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:53 PM
The officers, who were fired from the Saskatoon force after their conviction this fall of unlawful confinement, have requested a sentencing circle.
Sentencing circles focus on healing for both victims and offenders and are usually reserved for aboriginals.
However, Night's lawyer said the officers have shown no remorse and do not deserve a sentencing circle.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:47 PM
Defensive measures designed to confuse the interceptor, are next on the check-list for the president's Son of Star Wars plan.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:42 PM
The government said the law was designed to curb unprofessional journalism and to protect personal privacy.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:32 PM
Jehad Al Iweiwi has had the plate for seven years but has now been ordered to remove it.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:27 PM
"The shady deals. The crazy debt. I knew there was something familiar about those guys," said Banco del Argentina director Ernesto Caballo.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:03 PM
The incompetence of the Northern Alliance soldiers -- who, guided by the US and British special forces, failed to search the prisoners properly and thus allowed them to smuggle in knives and grenades hidden in their clothes -- must be seen as a key factor in the disaster. The men were also housed next to the fortress's well-stocked armoury.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 05:00 PM
Appeal from the amended final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lewis A. Kaplan, District Judge), entered August 23, 2000, enjoining Appellants from posting on their web site a computer program that decrypts the encryption code limiting access to DVD movies, and from linking to other web sites containing the decryption program.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 04:56 PM
The San Diego website goes by the name of "usqueers.com." Among others, it called for the death of people like former President Ronald Reagan, Rev. D. James Kennedy, evangelist Pat Robertson, and American Family Association founder Don Wildmon. An old-fashioned "Wanted" poster had appeared on the website with the following words: "WANTED: To Experience a Horrible Death By Any Means Soon Well-Known Het[erosexual] Supremacists, Deserve It As Their Reward" -- then listed the names.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 04:54 PM
Ken Hechtman, the Montreal-based freelance journalist who has been filing reports for the Mirror from Pakistan and Afghanistan, has gone missing, the Mirror was informed Tuesday. Initial reports said that he was being held by gunmen in the Afghani border town of Spin Boldak.
Reporters from USA Today and the British daily The Guardian called the Mirror offices with the news that Hechtman was being held alone, in a cell, under armed guard and for ransom.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 04:02 PM
The victims were mostly foreign Taliban supporters who had been taken prisoner following the fall of Kunduz. The U.S. launched air strikes on the fortress after the fighters apparently began attacking their guards last weekend. The brutal battle lasted for days.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:56 PM
The Immigration Department tried to impose a news blackout on the case, but media outlets were allowed access to documents.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:55 PM
In October, 2000, Houghton Mifflin announced it would donate to charity all the royalties it had collected from Mein Kampf since 1979, as well as any future royalties. Ms. Glaser said three charities, all based in the United States, are receiving Mein Kampf money and know where it's coming from. "We hired a consultant to find the best people to receive it."
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:53 PM
Several Taliban commanders are said to be negotiating conditions for their defections.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:48 PM
Mahmoud Sharif, deputy head of the bank's strongroom section, said yesterday: "He came with the key, opened the lock, took the money and locked it again.''
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:37 PM
Mahmoud Sharif, deputy head of the bank's strongroom section, said yesterday: "He came with the key, opened the lock, took the money and locked it again.''
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:32 PM
Gore, who became a vice chairman for U.S. investment firm Metropolitan West Financial Inc earlier this month, said playing with his grandchildren has become another priority since leaving office.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:31 PM
Many successful No-Stylists make no secret of the way they choose to write. When critics attack, the No-Stylists just take it -- all the way to the bank. "I have no illusions," occasional No-Stylist John Grisham told the Memphis Commercial Appeal in 1991. "I'm not trying to write great literature, can't do it. I'm just trying to write the best commercial novels I can."
Posted by at November 30, 2001 03:04 PM
In Japan and Taiwan, stores sell tubes of eyelid glue and pre-cut tape that women use to create a fold. Other girls, says Caroline, "hold their eyelids back with toothpicks to 'train' them into place." But for those who balk at sticking toothpicks and forks in their eyes (visions of "A Clockwork Orange") there is a third option -- plastic surgery -- where a permanent crease is stitched into place and excess fat is sucked out of the eye socket.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 02:57 PM
Robert Tools, the first person to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died Friday of internal bleeding and organ failure after living with device for 151 days. He was 59.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 02:48 PM
A judge told bankrupt Excite@Home it could turn off its high-speed Internet cable service as early as Friday night, which could affect millions of subscribers in Canada and the United States.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 02:26 PM
"In most cases it's a risk that can be managed. If they were sure someone would kill themselves they would only do these experiments under extremely controlled conditions, if at all," said Service.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 02:22 PM
"We were all hoping that bandwidth would be traded like natural gas and power, and it would be the next really big commodity," said Jerry Samuels, a former energy trader who is now vice president of bandwidth brokering firm RateXchange.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 01:52 PM
Download or view the UCLA Internet Report 2001 in PDF format
Posted by at November 30, 2001 01:01 PM
"These findings are creating an unprecedented look at how the Internet is changing social, cultural and economic behavior," Cole said. "We can see the impact of the Internet on last year's non-users as they become this year's new users, on modem users as they move to broadband, and on last year's users as they gain a year of online experience. We are even able to see some patterns of behavior within that tiny portion of people who stopped using the Internet, to see if they stay offline permanently, or, if and when they return, what brought them back."
Posted by at November 30, 2001 12:59 PM
The sums are fairly simple: divide the number of visitors by the resident population. Sydney is way down the list, with 4 million residents and the same number of visitors; so Australia's largest city scores a puny tourist saturation index of 1. Rome and Rio do better, each with three times as many tourists as inhabitants. Edinburgh and Tokyo both score 5. But none of these even make the top 10 (actually, it's top 11 because Florence and Paris tie for last place, each with an index of 7).
Posted by at November 30, 2001 12:42 PM
The FBI alleges Mohamed discussed placing explosives in Outremont because of its predominant Hasidic Jewish community. The terrorists allegedly planned to use a gasoline truck for a larger and more serious explosion.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 07:43 AM
The Somalia prime minister added that if the US and Ethiopia have confirmed information on the existence of al-Qaida organization inside Somalia " we are ready to co-operate with them ( the US and Ethiopia) in order to fight this organization."
Posted by at November 30, 2001 04:56 AM
"He died with one thought in mind - love one another," De Becker said.
Posted by at November 30, 2001 04:39 AM
The Taliban still control the city center, the travelers said, but their ranks appear to be thinning, and they have lost significant ground in the outlying areas and may be surrounded, the Kandahar residents said.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:33 PM
The program will provide foreigners long-term visas that could lead to permanent residency or citizenship, Ashcroft said. He stressed that even illegal immigrants with valuable information could be aided.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 10:53 PM
There is still a possibility that the image can be retrieved using chemical or even nuclear techniques, but the result will be a technical reproduction rather than the work of Leonardo. When it comes to restoration, warns Professor Pedretti, there is no such thing as a routine job?especially when dealing with a Leonardo.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 08:04 PM
An upstairs room of the house had been used as a workshop. What appeared to be a Russian rocket had been disassembled, and a canister labelled "helium" had been left on the worktop. On the floor were multiple copies of documents about anthrax downloaded from the Internet, and details about the American army's vaccination plans for its troops. The number of copies suggests that seminars were also taking place there.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 08:04 PM
'We looked at art that goes back to the dawn of humanity and found it had one common feature: animal-human hybrids,' said Dr Christopher Chippindale, of Cambridge University's museum of archaeology and anthropology. 'Werewolves and vampires are as old as art, in other words. These composite beings, from a world between humans and animals, are a common theme from the beginning of painting.'
Posted by at November 29, 2001 07:55 PM
Shohdy Naguib was arrested on Thursday night on charges of "distributing immoral materials" for having published his father's poem on a server outside of Egypt, Abu Saada says.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 06:44 PM
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Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:55 PM
"We've designed iSee to be useful to a wide range of ordinary people," said an IAA operative who declined to be identified. "The demonstrated tendency of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) operators to single out ethnic minorities for observation and to voyeuristically focus on women's breasts and buttocks provides the majority of the population ample legitimate reasons to avoid public surveillance cameras."
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:51 PM
Significantly, the consensus involved the Northern Alliance, which now controls most of Afghanistan, abandoning its demand that the former government of its titular leader, Burhanudin Rabbani be returned.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:26 PM
Haji Zaman Ghamsharik, the chief of defence for the ruling council of Nangarhar province, said he is 90 per cent sure that Mr bin Laden is in the Tora Bora area of the White Mountains, 35 miles south of Jalalabad. He confirmed that he had met with "American representatives'' and that he is sharing intelligence with them on the al-Qa'ida leader and up to 2,000 guerrillas believed to be holed up in a heavily defended cave complex.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:25 PM
So who coined the phrase "invented the Internet" and attached it to Gore? His Republican opponents, who faxed out a press release suggesting Gore had claimed to have done exactly that.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:24 PM
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:15 PM
Back in the late 1970s I had an occasion to speak with a retired CIA official. We shared a brief discussion about constitutional freedom. The gentleman's assurance seemed to imply that, while what he was saying would never be uttered in any official capacity, he spoke for the majority in our intelligence community. Essentially he told me that Americans didn't give a twit for the Bill of Rights if the defense of it threatened their "lifestyle." As long as the vast majority of Americans can continue to drive their boat-sized automobiles, he told me, and to go about their daily lives in their current fashion, the Bill of Rights is nothing more than a proud fable. It's kind of like the story about Washington throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:13 PM
The aggressive FBI dragnet -- championed by Attorney General John D. Ashcroft -- has provoked much commentary and criticism for its impact on civil liberties. Now, in a series of on-the-record interviews, eight former high-ranking FBI officials have offered the first substantive critique of the Ashcroft program, questioning whether the new approach will have the desired effect.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:10 PM
Although UN and Western diplomats and media as well as the Northern Alliance often refer to the former Afghan king Zahir Shah as an ethnic Pashtun who would safeguard his community's interest in Tuesday's power-sharing talks, only two out of the eight delegates chosen to represent him at the inter-Afghan conference in Bonn speak Pashto.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 04:03 PM
Nearly 4 percent of girls aged 16 to 18, and more women in all age categories except for the 36 to 45 range, said they use multiple online screen names, each with its own personality.
Been there, done that.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 02:09 PM
The rumor, after all, is that Ginger is a "personal transportation device" that uses a gas-free Stirling engine, "and of course if there is this new power source involved, it could change the whole dynamic of (the United States') relationship with the Middle East," Schumacker said.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 02:09 PM
In March 2000, Computer XPress, a California company that sells computer-related products, sued one of its competitors over, among other things, criticisms expressed on Internet bulletin boards and in a complaint to the SEC. The trial judge decided that none of the issues in the case pertained to issues of public interest that were within the protection of the anti-SLAPP statute (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation). That law recognizes that First Amendment rights are threatened by the financial hardship and chilling effect of defending a frivolous lawsuit.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 02:05 PM
"We're baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education, one of the few markets left where they don't have monopoly power," said Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, in a court filing on Tuesday.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:52 PM
Investigators are reviewing all possibilities to what might have happened, from Wiley jumping from the bridge to him being a target of some kind of terrorist-backed kidnapping because of his research.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:37 PM
Two senior officials, who requested anonymity, said the captives include Sayef Abdel-Rahman, close bin Laden associate and the son of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 as the ringleader of a plot to bomb the United Nations, the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York City.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:24 PM
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, which monitors the environmental affects of the North American Free Trade Agreement, estimated carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. electricity sector could increase from 14 percent to 38 percent by the year 2007. Emissions from the electricity sector now account for 35 percent of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:21 PM
"I have a deep and abiding fear that in the name of national security, we may sacrifice civil liberties, and in so doing endanger our democracy and the democratic process," read the release.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:17 PM
At the same time the commander of another anti-Taliban tribal force said his soldiers have advanced to within five kilometeres of the Kandahar airport and are closing in on the city.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:15 PM
Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's antivirus research lab, said that provided a hypothetical keystroke logging tool was used only by the FBI, then Symantec would avoid updating its antivirus tools to detect such a Trojan.
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Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, disagrees. He says it it wrong to deliberately refrain from detecting the virus, because its customers outside the US would expect protection against the Trojan. Such a move also creates an awkward precedent.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 01:13 PM
In Pakistan, at least 75 people have been diagnosed in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in the largest outbreak of the disease ever recorded. Eight have already died. All the infected are refugees recently arrived from Afghanistan or people living close to the border. An isolation ward surrounded by barbed wire has been established at the Fatima Jinnah chest and general hospital in Quetta.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 12:48 PM
Clearly the quickest way for the world's most wanted man to obtain the ultimate deterrent would be to get a ready-made weapon from just across the border, so how safe is Pakistan's arsenal and how secure is the man with his finger on the button?
Posted by at November 29, 2001 12:47 PM
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal agencies have been scrambling to reconsider and sometimes delete sensitive online information regarding nuclear or biological weapons. But the data rarely disappears for good. The federal agency Toxic Substances and Disease Registry quickly pulled a potentially dangerous report from its web site after the Sept. 11 attacks. Entitled "Industrial Chemicals and Terrorism," the document listed sources for homemade nerve gases and improvised explosives. But the report currently lives on in several locations on the web, including the site for the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, a personal web site for a UC Santa Cruz graduate student, and the Internet Archive, a running history of the web that regularly indexes the internet through a webcrawler. The Archive allows for retroactive removal, but site owners hope this option is not overused, as the historical accuracy of the project will be compromised. Site purveyors can also use insert a few lines of code into the HTML, a process known as "robot exclusion," which lets search bots know they should move along.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 12:08 PM
Their situation was pressing. Less than 10 kilometres away, American bombs were blasting Taliban defences, and the northern alliance tanks were being ordered to encircle the city.
What unfolded next was recounted in detail Wednesday by Mullah Mohammed Khaqzar, a Taliban official who said he was called to the meeting by a leadership that didn't know he had been in secret contact with the northern alliance for months.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:55 AM
"Our official stand is that once a transitional mechanism is established, and the need for international force is inevitable, we are not opposed to the arrival of an international force," said Younus Qanooni of the alliance, one of four factions at the talks.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:52 AM
Pakistan-based AIP quoted the witness as saying the Taliban told the crowd the man had been giving information to the United States and directing its bombing, now in its 54th day.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:50 AM
CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, who reported that Spann's body was en route to the United States, said it was still unclear how he died.
Fitting.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:49 AM
Rahman has been an important and popular figure in Al Qaeda, intelligence sources said. He has been widely used in recruiting for the network, they said, because he was believed to be carrying on the work of his father, Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik who is being held in one of the highest-security federal prisons in the United States. The father remains an enormously influential figure in the jihad, or holy war, movement even as he languishes behind bars.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:48 AM
The new fighting involved about 30 rebel stragglers left behind in the retreat of the main body of guerrillas from the mainly Christian city of 750,000 people on Wednesday, southern military commander Lieutenant-General Roy Cimatu told reporters.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:46 AM
Canadian warships are on duty in the Arabian Sea, but this country's aircraft have yet to find a base from which to fly, said Defence Minister Art Eggleton.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:42 AM
"We consider it hate literature," she said. "With freedom of expression, the line is drawn on hate literature. It's a corporate decision. It's what we stand for."
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:37 AM
The Erotic Computation Group seeks creative, hard-working, team-oriented, and sexually competent graduate students. Successful applicants possess varied skills in computer programming, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Special sexual abilities are also important assets. Oral and written communication skills are essential, as our work is regularly presented to visitors and submitted to major conferences and journals.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 11:08 AM
Posted by at November 29, 2001 10:58 AM
Its failure, then, has more in common with that of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund run by Nobel prize-winning economists and other geniuses, than with that of PG&E, a California electricity utility that recently went bust. Like LTCM, Enron was admired for its innovative use of financial theory and for its risk-management skills -- until it was too late. Enron's financial dealings were hugely complex. They will take many months to unravel. Only then will the consequences of Enron's failure be clear for the firms with which it had dealings, and for the American and world financial systems as a whole.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 10:20 AM
Welcome to the first (that we know of) Sovereign Jurisdiction in Cyberspace of the 21st century. These are exciting times and since our announcement of Sovereignty on the 1st of January, 2001, we are looking forward to the growth of our new eEconomy. That was not spelled wrong folks, we meant eEconomy and you guessed it, it stands for electronic economy. With your involvement we will be able to make the eEconomy of Atlantys rival that of current nation-states and be the staging ground for the upcoming information revolution and become truly the first information based society.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 09:50 AM
Del Russo acknowledges that he didn't charge Maxwell with assault in order to ensure his imprisonment. He invoked the assault statute, he says, in the belief that it described Maxwell's behavior most accurately, although he now understands that people believe he was ''overreaching, going after a rabbit with a howitzer.'' Jerejian suggests that the prosecutor intended to overreach, recognizing that this case presented an opportunity to expand the definition of sexual assault and facilitate prosecutions of suspected pedophiles on the Internet.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 09:18 AM
What the man presented was a Bronze Age torc, a strand of twisted gold worn round the neck or upper arm of a child. A rarity more than 3,000 years old, it is regarded as extremely valuable.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 09:04 AM
Liberal sources say Mr. Tobin is furious at Mr. Martin's staff for allegedly revealing to The Globe and Mail that his cherished high-speed broadband project would not get immediate funding in the coming budget.
Mr. Martin's office vehemently denied the charge, with some in the Martin camp suggesting the leak may have come from Mr. Tobin's office as a way of preparing the ground for his eventual defeat on the issue.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 09:03 AM
He was savoring a meal of shrimp, scungilli and clams at a rear table, his back to the door, when four hitmen burst in and opened fire.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 09:00 AM
The ceremony to inaugurate the US$2.65 billion pipeline, the largest foreign investment in Russia to date, came amid a slump in world oil prices and demands by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that producers cut back.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 08:47 AM
Neighbours said they had called police two years ago to tell them that they thought there might be a corpse inside the condo. It was unclear what led them to the conclusion.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 08:45 AM
Dr. O.H. Frazier, who led the surgical team, said the bleeding was related to the patient's previous cardiac surgery and heart failure, which required blood thinning treatment and other medications.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 08:39 AM
In the new version of the exhibition, the finger is pointed at individual units rather than the German Army as a whole. The 707 Infantry Division, commanded by the anti-Semitic General Gustav von Bechtolsheim, is exposed as a particularly vicious unit. About 19,000 people, mainly Jews, were killed under his command in Belarus in the months before December 1941. The general died in 1969, a locally respected war veteran.
Posted by at November 29, 2001 12:43 AM
Posted by at November 28, 2001 11:37 PM
"It's an incredibly unfair law," said 59-year-old Vancouver resident Gail Meredith, one of two representative plaintiffs for the B.C. Supreme Court action. "To pay for this for years and years and then not benefit is just not fair. It's very hard to have your relationship denied when somebody you love has died."
Posted by at November 28, 2001 11:02 PM
Then why not sell the idea of Canada without fear? The answer is that in Quebeckers, feeling for Canada is an "emotion too deep to be exploited," in the felicitous phrase of McGill University historian Desmond Morton. Economics is safer ground.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 10:57 PM
What was most striking about Mr. Landry's lunchtime speech to the Toronto Board of Trade was that the Premier was, for the first few minutes anyway, terrified.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 10:54 PM
"It's difficult to do, given we have a war situation in the region. Several officers from our embassy in Islamabad have been tasked with trying to make the appropriate contacts and endeavouring to get the information required."
Posted by at November 28, 2001 10:49 PM
President Obasanjo, who reacted to the request by the National Assembly for explanation on how the 2001 budget was spent, said it was not possible to spend money that was not available.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 10:35 PM
She had interviewed the gun- carrying Alliance fighters and faced having to stay in the area overnight because it would be unsafe to travel after dark. The pair tried to bribe translator Mohammed Mohammadullah into delaying her departure and told him they planned to "have their way" with her.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 10:24 PM
Ms Del Ponte said the tribunal was also facing a lack of co-operation from the authorities in Bosnia Hercegovina, where another indicted politician, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, is believed to be living.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 10:17 PM
Posted by at November 28, 2001 09:24 PM
In July, Day promised to step down 90 days in advance of a leadership convention. That convention has been scheduled for late March.
Not that long ago I would've been overjoyed by this. Today I'm ambivalent, at worst, toward anyone publicly attacking the wrong-headed antiterrorism legislation Chretien is ramming through. Even Stock, evil goon that he is, knows that what Chretien is doing is no good.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 08:16 PM
One scientist of neurotheology unabashedly summed up their beliefs with the declaration that, "instead of God creating our brains, our brains created God".
Posted by at November 28, 2001 07:32 PM
"These findings illustrate how altered experience can affect brain organization. It was once thought that brains were just hard-wired at birth, and particular areas of the brain always did one function, no matter what else happened. It turns out that, fortunately, our genes do not directly dictate the wiring of our brains. Our genes do provide a developmental strategy -- all the parts of the brain will be used to maximal efficiency," Shibata says.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 07:27 PM
Cross media ownership laws were outdated and should be scrapped because new technologies ensured a diversity of opinion, [Australian] Communications Minister Richard Alston said today.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 07:25 PM
The epicentre of the catastrophe remains sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 25m people were living with the disease this time last year, and deaths from Aids were 2.4m.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 07:19 PM
"We don't feel a need for an outside force. There is security in place," said Northern Alliance delegation leader Younus Qanooni, speaking in Bonn as talks to form a new government entered a second day.
Err, bullshit?
Posted by at November 28, 2001 02:09 PM
While the government is not against the broadband idea per se, Mr. Martin has led the charge among those who believe now is not the time for such a big expenditure. Instead, avoiding a deficit should be the government's top priority, Mr. Martin's supporters say.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 01:31 PM
"Suddenly, discussing searches for Earth-like planets seems quite reasonable," David Charbonneau, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, said in a statement.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 11:10 AM
Temporal context: how we begin, how we end up, is a frequent theme in Joni's songwriting. Disappointment, as she quipped once, is her favorite theme. How is it that we can experience aesthetic arrest, become enraptured in the beauty of youth and fresh love, only to end up measuring ourselves by the furnishings in our livingroom and all that "isn't good" anymore? Is her critique that love fades? Or that we *make* it fade? Is her critique that we use beauty for the wrong reasons? Or that we are hurt more by our belief in romantic versions of love (as rendered in a song like "Centerpiece") when, disappointing as it might be, "love" requires more than its own idealizations? Often "love" reduces itself to essential banalities. Joni offers us ironic contemplation as strength.
Posted by at November 28, 2001 08:26 AM
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Posted by at November 27, 2001 05:58 PM
Because copyright law now also precludes "derivative use" of copyright material, people cannot develop new material based on copyrighted work without permission. Lessig said this radically changes how human culture will evolve, since "the property owner has control over how that subsequent culture is built."
Posted by at November 27, 2001 03:57 PM
Some acquaintances, particularly American officials, paint her as an apologist. One official said that conversations with Ms. Helms were like "seeing documentary footage of Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose."
But journalists who have worked with her in Afghanistan in the past describe her as well connected, well informed and reasonable.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 02:00 PM
"One of the lessons of September 11 is that we are beginning to understand there is a combustible mix of poverty, lack of education, coupled with poor governance in states that are not necessarily failed, but are weak in many respects," said Birdsall, who will serve as the center's president. "It is in our enlightened self-interest to address those problems."
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:45 PM
Spain, France and Great Britain were singled out for fulsome gratitude.
Then, as if visibly recalling some dusty page from an aide's briefing book, Ashcroft stopped in mid-sentence.
"And I shouldn't have started naming, because I certainly don't want -- I mean, our Canadian friends are at work full time to help us almost all the time, and we're in constant touch with them."
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:42 PM
The IPI also expressed concern that the government was using the terrorism issue to lay the foundations for new media restrictions, including a ban on "false statements prejudicial to the state or that incite public disorder, violence, affect the defence and economic interests of the country or undermine public confidence in the security forces".
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:23 PM
"I take great exception to being called a terrorist, I'll carry on reporting the truth," said Basildon Peta, who files for Britain's Independent and South Africa's Star. "I'm now getting death threats on a daily basis, today I found a box of live ammunition on my doorstep," he added.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:20 PM
An amendment to the definition of a "protected computer" for the first time explicitly enables U.S. law enforcement to prosecute computer hackers outside the United States in cases where neither the hackers nor their victims are in the U.S., provided only that packets related to that activity traveled through U.S. computers or routers.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:18 PM
Kids who tag buildings with graffiti, skip school, or even talk back to adults run the risk of being entered into a database program that will be used to monitor their behavior as they grow up, according to police sources.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:04 PM
Under the law, airlines had two months to begin the electronic transmission of passenger lists for all flights to the United States. But the commissioner of customs, Robert C. Bonner, sent letters to the airlines last week saying that they must comply earlier, by Thursday, or else customs inspectors will search "all hand-carried and checked baggage on every flight arriving in the United States." The searches could add hours to the clearance process for overseas travelers.
Mr. Bonner sent the ultimatum to 58 carriers, including Saudi Arabian Airlines, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Aeroflot and Air China, Beijing's main international carrier. China Eastern, based in Shanghai, and China Southern, based in Guangdong Province, also received the letters. Mr. Bonner said any delay could put security at risk.
The Customs Service said it had received hardly any responses. A spokesman for the Jordanian airline said it would comply. Other carriers said they did not know much about the new requirement or were still studying it.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 01:03 PM
About 500 marines dug in today at a primitive desert airstrip less than 80 miles southwest of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, but still within easy helicopter striking distance of the city. Officials said the Marine vanguard, along with another 500 marines who were expected to land Tuesday, will intercept military traffic, cut off escape routes for enemy fighters and, given credible intelligence, strike at leaders of the Taliban and at Osama bin Laden's organization, Al Qaeda.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 12:51 PM
"I'm not talking about some vain fountain of youth," Mr. West, the company's president and CEO, told U.S. News and World Report. "I'm talking about ending the suffering of aging: macular degeneration, cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease."
Posted by at November 27, 2001 10:41 AM
Overall, this is not a revolutionary work redefining our concepts of virtual community, nor does it want to be. It is a handy book on designing online interactions, with compelling examples and rich narratives that make for a quick, fun read.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 10:35 AM
Shanahan was against all discrimination. When she was at George Washington University, she was thrown out of a sorority when it discovered she was half-Jewish. She remembered that as a pivotal moment.
She said: "I knew I had to reject that because it wasn't true that I was a terrible person just because my mother was Jewish. And if I rejected that, recognized that plainly was false, what was true? And it took me an awful long time, several years really, to come to a truth that is so simple that we ought all be born knowing it, which is that everybody's an individual and deserves to be judged as an individual, and that any statement that categorizes a group of people is stupid, inaccurate, unfair and unjust."
Posted by at November 27, 2001 10:22 AM
Since May, 148 students have been accused of copying term papers in Professor Lou Bloomfield's introductory physics course. Bloomfield referred the students to the university honor committee after a homemade computer program detected numerous duplicated phrases in his students' work during the past five semesters.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 10:16 AM
"This action was carried out at the request of the Islamic State of Afghanistan," Putin said, using the name of the Afghan government of ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 12:39 AM
"In exchange for the captured journalists, what's left of the Taliban regime would demand that Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners be freed and the bombing campaign stopped," said Reynald Doiron, a department spokesman.
Somewhere, Nixon is smiling.
Posted by at November 27, 2001 12:34 AM
``Every 45 minutes: light dark, light dark. So biorhythms are totally out of whack,'' Linenger said, adding he began waking throughout his sleep period.
Others aboard suffered similar problems, Linenger said.
``You'd be talking to them middle of the day, they'd just fall asleep in the middle of the conversation,'' he said.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 09:42 PM
"It was a clever tactic...whereby they hijack the California case and use it to lend value to meritless cases elsewhere," Crew said.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 09:38 PM
Claude Vorilhon, the 54-year-old former sports writer now known as Rael who founded a religious movement based on the premise that life on earth was genetically created by visiting extra-terrestrials, said on Monday he welcomed the claim by Advanced Cell Technology Inc. that it had cloned a human embryo.
"Very happy, and a bit amused because we did that some time ago," Rael told Reuters.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 09:36 PM
The trial schedule was pushed back by U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose, Calif., to allow time for defense attorneys to have evidence translated from Russian into English, Sullivan said. In the meantime, hearings were set for April 1 and March 4 for attorneys to discuss motions in the case.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 09:31 PM
According to the lawsuit, MasterCard used a Volkswagen van with the same orange-and-white coloring as the one Hoch and Marble drove, used video shots of stadiums photographed through bridge girders that resemble scenes in their film, and had music similar to theirs.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 08:56 PM
At first I thought it was a joke, but then I realized that some brilliant company I'd never heard of nor written about, PrintCafe.com, felt it was a good use of their time and money to surf Fuckedcompany's message board archives and hire fancy lawyers to try and sue anonymous posters. They're trying to subpoena me for my records -- but being as there are no records, they're gonna have to try real hard.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 08:49 PM
...and criticized the anti-terrorism bill as "a deal with the devil."
Posted by at November 26, 2001 08:22 PM
Under the new rules, any Quebec native who wishes to obtain a Canadian passport must present either a birth certificate issued by the province after 1993 or a certificate of citizenship.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 06:09 PM
"It appears that the letter sent to me may contain enough spores to kill well over a 100,000 people, but it also may well have evidence, fingerprints or anything else," Leahy said.
But it may contain a Fruit-Roll-Up and a coupon for 10% off at Denny's. It's appalling that public figures bandy phrases like "kill 100,000 people" when a little patience would show exactly how many people could have killed. But didn't.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 05:57 PM
"If someone were to say, 'Best guess, what do you say?', I would say it's dirt," said Todd Fraser of P.E.I.'s Department of Aquaculture and Environment.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 05:44 PM
Igor Aleksander, a computer scientist at Imperial College, said the experiment demonstrates a saying by the famous mathematician Norbert Weiner: "What gives a person the edge is the amount of information they get about everyone else."
Posted by at November 26, 2001 04:32 PM
If Quebec's ad agencies are to profit from the challenges of globalization, they are going to have to master English.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 03:13 PM
If Quebec's ad agencies are to profit from the challenges of globalization, they are going to have to master English.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 03:10 PM
The word cannot be used in food labelling in future if it is used for any "meat-based" product containing too much fat and an excess of tendons from pigs, birds and rabbits and not enough "skeletal-attached muscle".
Posted by at November 26, 2001 03:05 PM
The court for misdemeanours convicted the editor-in-chief and a reporter of the weekly al-Muwajaha newspaper, but defence lawyers for the two men said the pictures were published for a scientific article and were not intended to have sexual overtones.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 03:03 PM
They are doing science by press release," he said.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 03:00 PM
Posted by at November 26, 2001 02:54 PM
When I open up a box of Christmas lights, it reminds me of my childhood," Krivda said. "It brings me a certain element of comfort. We think younger people might feel the same way about opening a box that holds a computer. We call it keyboard comfort."
Posted by at November 26, 2001 01:37 PM
Right-wing attitudes toward gays clearly experienced a significant shift after the September 11 deaths of gay firefighter Fr. Mychal Judge, and Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham. Patrick Phillips, an ex-GI and self-described member of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," says these events changed his mind about allowing gays to serve openly in the military. "If Mark Bingham (a gay Republican, I might note) could step up and help make sure that Flight 93 didn't smash into anything more populated than a farm field -- well, it's time to admit that I was wrong," Phillips said in a post to my own Web site.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 11:24 AM
Four groups are to be represented at the conference. The Northern Alliance itself will be there, although its leader, Nurhanuddin Rabbani, who remained the internationally recognised president of Afghanistan during the five years of Taliban rule, last week dismissed the talks as "largely symbolic".
Posted by at November 26, 2001 11:04 AM
Mary Jane Bitos, 26, insisted in an interview with her lawyer that the man who killed her husband, Luc Ethier, 36, and injured her in the same Oct. 10 attack, was a stranger she later identified in a police lineup.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:52 AM
If the man was confirmed as a soldier, it would be the first known U.S. combat death in Afghanistan since Washington began attacking Taliban forces hosting Saudi-born exile Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) on Oct. 7. Bin Laden and his al Qaeda guerrillas are prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 4,000 people.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:48 AM
King Gyanendra accepted a cabinet recommendation that will allow the government to use the army for the first time to hunt down Maoist rebels fighting to establish a socialist state since 1996. The police were previously used against the rebels. The cabinet's recommendation came in the wake of a devastating rebel attack Sunday night that killed at least 34 soldiers, said police officers and government officials in a mountainous village.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:46 AM
"We distribute our drugs and then find them in the bazaar"
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:45 AM
It was a weekend of passionate, fierce debate and tempers continued to flare Sunday. One speaker, apparently angry at being cut off, rushed the stage in fury.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:43 AM
Speaking to the paper, Dr Mohammed Hashem, the director of Kabul's Malalai Maternity Hospital, said that if a woman's X-ray indicated she had a tumour in her womb, he was not allowed to perform a proper examination. He could only reach under the sheet which covered every inch of his patient and hope that by touching her abdomen he could detect with his hands what his eyes were not permitted to see.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:38 AM
"South Africa's infants are under siege. Now is the time for President Thabo Mbeki to break his silence on the abomination destroying not only the country but eating away at our nation's soul," the Sowetan newspaper said in a front page editorial on Monday.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:27 AM
James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, called the New Bedford case highly positive "because it shows that more and more students are willing to come forward and inform on classmates." Snitching was unacceptable before Columbine, Mr. Fox said, but is "now O.K., and is often the only thing to do when you can prevent a tragedy to classmates."
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:11 AM
Many in Quebec are hailing Radio-Canada reporter Normand Lester as the new martyr, a victim of the CBC's federalist agenda; his latest book, a strident pamphlet that paints English Canada as a ferociously xenophobic colonial power, became an instant bestseller. The first printing of 5,000 copies was sold out in less than three days.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:09 AM
"While the left believes the rule of capital is absolutely evil and the right believes it is the final aim of history, Social Democrats occupy a position of compromise,'' Gorbachev said in an address to the congress. "They are not against capital, but against wild capitalism.''
Posted by at November 26, 2001 10:07 AM
"At least one antivirus software company, McAfee Corp., contacted the FBI on Wednesday to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software and alert a criminal subject."
[...]
Network Associates has shown that it is willing to compromise its integrity by selling intentionally faulty products. For this reason, it is no longer appropriate or wise for those concerned about the security of their networks, systems, or confidential data to use them.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 08:37 AM
Posted by at November 26, 2001 08:08 AM
10.-- Stan Winston Creatures by Stan Winston Creatures. How to make a monster; the visitor; Queen of the lair. Ages five and up. Graphic depictions of gore, mutilation, pain, suffering, with highly questionable value as playthings for five-year-olds.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:58 AM
"Our specialty is discovering, crawling and indexing publicly available information," said Google spokesman David Krane. "We define public as anything placed on the public Internet and not blocked to search engines in any way. The primary burden falls to the people who are incorrectly exposing this information. But at the same time, we're certainly aware of the problem, and our development team is exploring different solutions behind the scenes."
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:50 AM
Using standard printing methods, the Power Paper material can be layered onto paper or any other flexible material. The resulting battery is about half a millimeter thick -- the same thickness as the paper used to make milk cartons.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:35 AM
ASI is helping sponsor a project to build a commercial manned moon base and plans its first lunar flight in the next 10 years.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:31 AM
It is the idea of Councillor Arimateia Dantas, who says he has personal motivation after losing out in love because of premature ejaculation.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:25 AM
Someone has stolen a $100 bill from an artwork titled, I Dare You to Steal This $100.
Good.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:21 AM
If it weren't for the power reduction inherent in the new design, it could be expected to need around half a kilowatt per square centimetre, a power density higher than that in a nuclear reactor and one that would present a severe challenge to even the most ardent overclocker.
Posted by at November 26, 2001 07:18 AM
Although this is not the first time such a claim has been made, it is the first time a research institute with an established track record in the use of cloning and other novel cell technologies has come forward with the announcement.
Posted by at November 25, 2001 05:47 PM
In short, I have a problem with plots. My books have all the plot of a want ads column. The editor of my first novel, a vigorously caffinated New Yorker, had one simple cure for plotlessness: kill someone. It was his holy rule. If he was writing instructions for a cake mix, Step One would not be "beat eggs" but "beat eggs to death."
Posted by at November 25, 2001 04:23 PM
15 Q. (By Mr. London) Let me ask you this, Mr. McCullagh. There
16 are quotations in that article attributed to Mr. Bell, correct?
17 A. Yes.
18 Q. All right. And can you tell the members of the jury if
19 those quotations accurately reflect what Mr. Bell told you in an
20 interview that was done in preparation for that article?
21 A. I don't recall.
22 Q. So, I'm sorry, is it your testimony that you publish things
23 without verifying the accuracy or checking your notes to see if
24 in fact it reflects what someone has told you in an interview?
25 A. No.
1 Q. All right. Where it says that McCullagh stated in the
2 article that Bell plans to exact revenge on the system that
3 imprisoned him, did Mr. Bell tell you something to that effect?
4 A. Where in the article, please?
5 Q. In Exhibit 100.
6 A. What paragraph?
7 Do you mean the second paragraph?
8 Q. Correct. "... he plans to exact revenge on the system that
9 imprisoned him."
10 A. What is your question?
11 Q. Did Mr. Bell tell that to you?
12 A. I don't recall.
13 MR. LONDON: Your Honor, I want to declare the witness
14 to be a hostile witness.
Posted by at November 25, 2001 02:32 PM
The best defense against "guys with guns" is women with guns. This is especially true if the woman is alone in her home, protecting her daughter from rape or her young son from being kidnapped into the military.
Posted by at November 25, 2001 01:41 PM
Like the rest of Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda properties now linger in eerie limbo. The buildings have been seized by the new local government, such as it is. In the sandy hills outside town, a listless guard keeps watch over a deserted terrorist camp. "I'm just watching it," he said, "until the government decides what to do with it."
Posted by at November 25, 2001 01:28 PM
After 12 days under siege, and 10 days of negotiations, most Taliban fighters decided to avoid the bloodbath expected in a promised fight to the finish.
Posted by at November 25, 2001 01:15 PM
Stoneking said U.S. warplanes had bombed the fortress to help end the fighting.
Posted by at November 25, 2001 01:14 PM
Peace alone will not be enough to persuade archaeologists to do fieldwork in a country with millions of land mines, though. Archaeologists, Dr. Hammond says, would need to include a new line in their grant proposals -- for a "herd of goats" to walk first through suspicious terrain.
Posted by at November 24, 2001 06:47 PM
"Many of our soldiers are computer literate and grew up with computers," says Seay, referring to the youthful members of the military as the "twitch generation." "We are creating the type of technology that allows us to embed a soldier in any environment."
Posted by at November 24, 2001 06:31 PM
The NWAC represents women on and off reserves. Brown says the Indian Act perpetuates a system that's so male-dominated that 72 per cent of aboriginal woman choose not to live on a reserve.
Posted by at November 24, 2001 05:02 PM
"These things we can not compromise upon," she said. "And we are quite a strong voice."
Posted by at November 24, 2001 04:58 PM
The current Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, has urged Japan to hand over Mr Fujimori for allegedly sanctioning two massacres and on charges of dereliction of duty, abandonment of office and embezzlement.
Posted by at November 24, 2001 03:00 PM
They have been greeted by their northern alliance enemies with handshakes, and shouts of "Welcome!"
Posted by at November 24, 2001 10:59 AM
This means that the tiny piece of semiconductor -- also called a "quantum dot" -- can get to within nanometers of the neuron's surface. And that, in turn, offers the prospect of the strongest signal yet achievable between hardware and wetware.
Posted by at November 24, 2001 09:35 AM
Turkey had around registered cases of 1,200 AIDS as of June, Ertugrul said. Officials say many cases involve men who have sex with prostitutes from former Soviet states.
Posted by at November 24, 2001 08:11 AM
The highest court in the US state of Wisconsin has upheld a ban preventing a man who owes thousands of dollars in child support from having any more children.
Good. How exactly does that work?
Posted by at November 24, 2001 07:48 AM
"I thought, the day after Thanksgiving is so busy, it would be a day they would probably do something," she said. "But then I thought, `What are they going to do, bomb every single mall in the world?' "
Posted by at November 24, 2001 01:31 AM
Though the Catholic Church has long been criticized for being out of touch with modern life, or being too slow to change, the timing of the first Papal e-mail shows how John Paul II could be a model for many corporate enterprises. Instead of being pushed or pulled into an IT strategy, the Pope turned to technology only after he was too ill to travel.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 04:45 PM
Posted by at November 23, 2001 04:10 PM
On the first day, the delegation arrived about 4:30 p.m. and spent about two hours in the museum, breaking objects with stones. The next day, they returned with axes. When Taliban soldiers from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice joined in, they used sledgehammers, Mohebzadah said.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 04:08 PM
Mr. Gore comes off as a sincere but hapless figure, in thrall to the opinions of newspaper editors who never cared for him.
Yet whenever Mr. Toobin takes his readers inside the back rooms, it is the ruthless character of modern Republicanism that stands out.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 02:53 PM
Posted by at November 23, 2001 01:54 PM
Although the network's most senior bosses have always kept a close eye -- through various ultra-secret lines of communication -- on what their agents are doing, that may now change. After the American attack on Afghanistan, al-Qaeda's foot-soldiers have reportedly been given the green light to attack "targets of opportunity" without authorisation at the highest levels. But if the network is plotting any really spectacular attack on western targets, that conspiracy will almost certainly have been under way since long before September 11th.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 01:53 PM
Several hacking tools, the two most popular being Back Orifice and SubSeven, allow full control over a remote PC infected by the program, including keystroke logging and even recording a conversation if a microphone is connected to the PC. Both programs have been incorporated into Trojan horses and are several years old.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 01:31 PM
It certainly does not have the grandeur of 24 Sussex Drive nor the rich setting of Stornaway, but the apartment located on the 16th and 17th floor of the Price Building, which towers over Quebec's Old City, is befitting of what Quebec Premier Bernard Landry calls the leader of the Quebec nation.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 01:14 PM
"We need bombing because, behind this front line, there are Taliban forces as far as Kandahar. And they are all local armed people," the general [Haji Sher Alam] added.
The signature vapor trails of huge B-52 Stratofortress bombers crossed the horizon far behind the Taliban lines several times during Thursday's fighting, but the bombers headed onward, apparently to other targets.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 12:45 PM
"The United States will destroy you! Project Afganistand!!! Knock them out! You will pay for this you stupid fools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless the United States of America!"
Posted by at November 23, 2001 12:37 PM
"I would not be able to detect it beforehand in order to prevent the terrorist from being a terrorist and doing an attack," he said.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 12:06 PM
Describing opposition work as "terrorist activities," the government said the new bill also would prohibit courts from granting bail to suspects in allegedly politically motivated crimes, The Herald, a state-run newspaper, reported.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 11:14 AM
"Some youths will submerge themselves in Internet bars for long periods, playing unhealthy games and adversely affecting their development as normal students," the newspaper said.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 11:10 AM
Along with denying all internet access to Somalis, the closures have severely restricted international telephone lines and shut down vitally needed money transfer facilities.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 11:08 AM
"Osama bin Laden didn't have enough competence and ammunition to blow up the Pentagon and hopes the UN will sponsor a broad-based government for Afghanistan and bring peace to the country. the World Trade Center." As for who had really done it, he declared, "It was done by terrorism, maybe by some other parties," adding that possibly American members of al-Qaeda might have been responsible.
The mullah, who was 13 when civil war broke out, said he hopes the UN will sponsor a broad-based government for Afghanistan and bring peace to the country.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 11:04 AM
This commons was built into the very architecture of the original network. Its design secured a right of decentralized innovation. It was this "innovation commons" that produced the diversity of creativity that the network has seen within the United States and, even more dramatically, abroad. Many of the Internet innovations we now take for granted (not the least of which is the World Wide Web) were the creations of "outsiders" -- foreign inventors who freely roamed the commons. Policymakers need to understand the importance of this architectural design to the innovation and creativity of the original network. The potential of the Internet has just begun to be realized, especially in the developing world, where many "real space" alternatives for commerce and innovation are neither free nor open.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 10:47 AM
"The program is finished," said Najibullah Sheerzio, the Taliban foreign ministry representative in Spinbaldak. "We had the press conference, and we showed you the refugee camps."
Posted by at November 23, 2001 10:14 AM
Wealth counseling might be required-evidence from the United States suggests that instant riches can be immensely dangerous for one's mental health-although years of Taliban rule and Soviet occupation has probably drained the country of such experts. In fact, $25 million might simply be just too much because it may pose a threat to that individual's life. If you're a multimillionaire in today's Afghanistan, you probably have no choice but to become a warlord since you'll need a small army to protect yourself in the middle of the night.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 10:13 AM
"We know we are creating addicts," Shah said. "The only reason we are doing this is because we are poor. If I could find another job, I would stop growing poppies."
Posted by at November 23, 2001 10:09 AM
All presidents,sooner or later, are frustrated by that Constitution and its deliberate checks and balances on the power wielded by the three branches of government established after a revolution against monarchy. It was only forty years or so after the American Revolution that the 7th president, Andrew Jackson, was reputed to have reacted to a Supreme Court decision he did not like by saying: "The Court has made its decision, now let?s see them enforce it."
Posted by at November 23, 2001 10:04 AM
Former Priceline front man and major shareholder William Shatner has been plunged into a row over accusations that he can be heard breaking wind on a Star Trek video.
Posted by at November 23, 2001 09:33 AM
The China Daily newspaper quoted Mr Liang as saying: "For mankind in the 21st Century, space application will become as essential as electricity and oil in the 19th Century."
Posted by at November 23, 2001 08:15 AM
The move "would give Russia a right of equality, but also a responsibility, and also an obligation that would come from being part of a consensus-building organization," Robertson said. Creating such a council would represent "a huge change, a sea change, in the way we do business."
Posted by at November 22, 2001 08:10 PM
"He looks at the Pope as the symbolic head of the crusaders and a natural target."
Posted by at November 22, 2001 08:08 PM
Even worse, Canadian taxpayers would be forced to pay for a Legal Aid lawyer to help them fight extradition to the United States on the basis that they may be put to death.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 08:06 PM
In Mazar-e Sharif, 110 miles from Kunduz, Northern Alliance warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum insists a surrender has been agreed after a meeting with top Taliban commanders, including Deputy Defence Minister Mullah Fazil.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 01:23 PM
If you haven't decided what to do for Buy Nothing Day and beyond, consider this simple, effective jam. George W. and Tony Blair say shopping is the best way to protect First World freedoms and support the new war. We say, "Buy Nothing - For Peace!"
Posted by at November 22, 2001 01:09 PM
Posted by at November 22, 2001 12:55 PM
Mubarak, who on Wednesday reshuffled his Cabinet and introduced new measures to deal with worsening economic conditions, said the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia costs Egypt more than $700 million in foreign currency a year.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 12:46 PM
He says it would create a division among Quebecers and all those who first swear allegiance to Canada would see it as a P-Q trick.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 12:41 PM
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed the long-range Global Hawk had joined the hunt, even though testing of the aircraft had not yet been completed.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 12:29 PM
Russia and NATO were "essential security players in Europe" and "there can be no lasting solutions to the most serious security challenges we face unless NATO and Russia cooperate".
Posted by at November 22, 2001 12:28 PM
The Reuters news agency quoted Northern Alliance Interior Minister Yunus Qanuni as saying talks on a surrender of Taleban forces had failed.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 12:27 PM
Posted by at November 22, 2001 10:16 AM
Inventions come in all shapes and sizes. Some are as simple as purple catsup. Others push the limits of quantum physics. The real measure of an invention is not just how well it works or how impressively it is engineered, but how it changes our lives.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 10:08 AM
Anyone who claims that facial recognition technology is an effective law enforcement tool is probably working for the one of the companies trying to sell it to the government.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 09:55 AM
Nothing was left to chance or the imagination under the Taliban. Merchants importing products like shampoo would find that Taliban customs officials had gouged out the eyes of the female models on the boxes. The merchants were then required to display the products with black tape over female faces, or be subject to a beating or jailing.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 09:51 AM
The Reader's Edition, edited by Danis Rose and published by Picador under the Macmillan imprint, contains material, including punctuation and correct spelling, which Joyce did not include in the final draft.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 09:42 AM
The low gravity off the coast of India is thought to be due to the remains of some old tectonic feature, which was left over from the collision of the Indian sub-continent into the Eurasian tectonic plate that gave rise to the Himalayas.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 09:38 AM
High-ranking federal sources say Atomic Energy of Canada will be offering to rehire Mohamed Attiah today, two months after his security clearance was suddenly revoked, his contract terminated and his life virtually ruined -- all within minutes of his being interviewed by two federal intelligence agents.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 09:00 AM
"Some idiot doesn't really understand the seriousness of the consequences here, if and when they are caught," said Rowan, who received a summons for misdemeanor criminal tampering for stealing the penises.
Posted by at November 22, 2001 07:21 AM
Fourth: food. I bought a box of Cheez-Its recently, clearly wrote "Osama" on the front, and put it on the top shelf. Today, my Cheez-Its were gone. Consideration. That's all I'm saying.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 11:43 PM
The wrongful death suit springs from the shooting of Dudley George. He died in a confrontation with Ontario Provincial Police at Ipperwash Provincial Park in 1995.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 11:38 PM
The Crown says the trial judge felt Brown's total lack of remorse would make an apology and community service meaningless, so the jail sentence was in order.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 11:35 PM
That "the one place where the only vial that had English on it said anthrax kind of gives you pause," Pace said.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:20 PM
At a media industry conference this week in Barcelona, Spain, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC's) news chief said he was startled by the contrast between US and European small-screen coverage of the 40-day-old war.
"It's like watching two different wars," said Tony Burman, executive director of Canada's national public broadcaster.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:13 PM
About 200 species of birds including the Siberian crane, shoveller duck, crested poacher and Arctic tern begin their journey from Russia and central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to India at the end of October or the beginning of November each year.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:11 PM
About 200 species of birds including the Siberian crane, shoveller duck, crested poacher and Arctic tern begin their journey from Russia and central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to India at the end of October or the beginning of November each year.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:08 PM
First, a virtual Buddha would be generated, using high-tech photographic and computer technology. Then a 20-foot replica would be built at the Afghanistan Institute and Museum in the northern Swiss town of Bubendorf. The replica would be used as the model for rebuilding the full-size Buddha on location in Afghanistan.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:04 PM
The Playboy official did not say how Marines will be involved in the campaign or why Playmates responding to e-mails would need to wear full bunny regalia.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:01 PM
The official said many people still see computer hacking and other electronic crimes as mainly a moral issue, without realizing the associated material damage and risk to life.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:59 PM
Although too simple to have any immediate applications it could form the basis of a DNA computer in the future that could potentially operate within human cells and act as a monitoring device to detect potentially disease-causing changes and synthesize drugs to fix them.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 04:21 PM
If you go through the trouble of dressing up in thousands of dollars of Darth Vader riot gear, with heavy masks, Kevlar jackets, carry plastic shields, long truncheons, equipment, just to frighten off demonstrators, hauling out a garden hose just doesn't work.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 01:21 PM
"This is the most damaging series of cartels the commission has ever investigated due to the sheer range of vitamins covered, which are found in a multitude of products from cereals, biscuits and drinks to animal feed, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics," EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 01:20 PM
"He assured us that we were welcome to have a larger participation of women in our activities, there would be no restrictions on women and they would not have to wear burqas. Headscarves would be enough," said Falt.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 01:15 PM
Flanked by Taleban soldiers clutching Kalashnikov rifles, Mr Agha dismissed recent reports that Mullah Omar was prepared to leave his southern stronghold of Kandahar and said the Taleban leader had a "religious duty" to remain in the province.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 01:14 PM
That was only the beginning of the Saudis' unhelpfulness. When Washington asked for background information on the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Saudis stonewalled. While 94 airlines agreed to identify passengers on planes flying to the United States, Saudi Arabian Airlines refused. A month after the attacks, The New York Times reported that "Saudi Arabia has so far refused to freeze the assets of Osama bin Laden and his associates." Of particular concern was Riyadh's unwillingness to shut down the Islamic "charities" that are Al Qaeda's lifeline.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 01:09 PM
"They are not freedom fighters. No country will be permitted to provide sanctuaries to terrorists," Blackwill said.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 10:32 AM
It's time for the 2nd annual SatireWire Poetry Spam, where we award prizes to those who can find poesy in piles of trash. And once again, the Spam Poets at SatireWire have some actual samples for you to peruse (at right), with scintillating titles such as This is NOT Spam, Why Don't You Trust Me?, and the catchy Spam Rap. And each of these poems, every last one of them, was created using ACTUAL PHRASES from ACTUAL SPAM EMAILS.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 09:50 AM
The DMX Platform provides a sophisticated digital media transactions engine that securely sorts, translates and processes global commercial transactions, manages content buyers and sellers, and automatically synchronizes media between devices. The DMX Platform also includes the revolutionary xTream Media Browser technology that enables people--for the first time-- to browse and download a large volume of media while on the move, in a fraction of the time that they can through existing technologies. Users control what they want to download to which device, according to bandwidth available.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 08:21 AM
The article claimed the student's husband committed suicide and left behind a note blaming Kashner.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:39 AM
Sources in Ottawa have confirmed that, thanks to an apparent regulatory loophole, the newly minted Lord Black of Crossharbour has not had to turn in his special "green category" passport carried by members of Canada's Privy Council.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 07:25 AM
...Newsweek's Michael Isikoff found the proof, months ago, in the form of notes that Judge Lewis wrote on faxes he sent to two state canvassing boards. Isikoff has now posted a story with this information on Newsweek's Web site. The annotated faxes show, in Isikoff's words, that "just hours before the U.S. Supreme Court issued [its order] Lewis was actively considering directing the counties" to count the overvotes. (One of these faxes is reprinted here-that's Lewis' handwriting in the upper right corner.)
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:39 AM
Only in the most "crystal clear" case - where it could be proved a person was actually fighting on the ground - might a charge of treason be brought.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:35 AM
Lakhdar Brahimi said a religious leader and another unidentified person formally approached the UN in Islamabad on Monday night saying that Taliban commanders from inside Kunduz wanted to surrender unconditionally and wanted to do it to the UN.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:30 AM
To critics of the sale of content filters, software company executives say that they are only providing politically neutral tools. "Once we sell them the product, we can't enforce how they use it," said Matthew Holt, a sales executive for Secure Computing, of San Jose, Calif., that currently provides Internet-filtering software to the Saudi government under a contract that expires in 2003.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:29 AM
...Turncoat Taliban commanders who have joined the hunt for bin Laden have told U.S. agents that bin Laden has asked those closest to him, including his son, Mohammed, to reward him with a "martyr's death" rather than allow him to be captured by the "infidels," U.S. military and intelligence sources said last night.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:27 AM
...I think it's terribly important to recognize that the war -- the military campaign against terrorism is something very different from the long-term development of the role of women and other members of society representing all groups in a country like Afghanistan or any other.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:23 AM
"We just lost four of our colleagues yesterday. They're putting their lives on the line every day to cover this story. And for someone to sit behind a desk at the Wall Street Journal and criticize our hair, our demeanour and our makeup, is absolutely abysmal."
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:16 AM
"A lot of people like myself who were in the party in the '80s (and) quit the party are very cynical about the potential for change. Young people, the NDP's not even on their radar map."
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:13 AM
City officials said yesterday that the trade center tally, which dropped by at least 200 over the last weekend alone, could continue to fall, perhaps to 3,000, as duplications and errors are resolved. Unofficial compilations by news organizations, using information from companies, the airlines and other sources, so far have reached no higher than 2,950.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 06:11 AM
"I won't make a decision for a good while because I received a mandate from the people with an increase in the number of seats and I have to respect the mandate."
Posted by at November 21, 2001 05:30 AM
"I don't trust him completely, and I don't trust the government completely," a former nurse named Linda said of Mr. Tobiason after buying a $10 CD from him last weekend. One element of her mistrust of the government was the F.B.I., which she said is "taking away civil liberties all the time."
Posted by at November 21, 2001 05:24 AM
The judge agreed Fast really is suffering from Alzheimer's and isn't faking his condition. But he ruled because the case is actually a civil proceeding and not a criminal trial it can go ahead.
Under civil law a party to an action doesn't have to be present.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 05:19 AM
As in previous years, software locked in the pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available. It hasn't shipped until it's shrink-wrapped.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 03:46 AM
It watches for a suspect to start a popular encryption program called Pretty Good Privacy. It then logs the passphrase used to start the program, essentially given agents access to keys needed to decrypt files.
Posted by at November 21, 2001 02:07 AM
One wonders how this will impact White House and other agencies' covert monitoring of which federal workers are viewing which web-pages using tax-funded computers. (The "law enforcement, regulatory, or supervisory purposes" exception might cover things like that, but if the Sec. 639 prohibition is to have ANY value, then those exceptions need to be more precisely defined than they are.)
Posted by at November 21, 2001 01:55 AM
The workers were given a one-day suspension after telling their employer they didn't want to work in an area that housed mail that had come from a U.S. postal office where anthrax had been detected. The employees - two men and a woman - said they've asked Canada Post repeatedly since last month to test the massive warehouse for the deadly spores, but the agency has refused.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 09:04 PM
O'Neill investigated the bombings of the World Trade Centre in 1993, a US base in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam in 1998, and the USS Cole last year.
Jean-Charles Brisard, who wrote a report on bin Laden's finances for the French intelligence agency DST and is co-author of Hidden Truth, met O'Neill several times last summer. He complained bitterly that the US State Department - and behind it the oil lobby who make up President Bush's entourage - blocked attempts to prove bin Laden's guilt.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 08:44 PM
They centre around the arrival of a new director of computer services, who didn't renew the contracts of four ethnic employees.
They were all replaced by francophones.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:58 PM
"While Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, would never for a fraction of a second deny the existence of the Quebec nation, why does Jean Chrtien, a Qubcois himself, have an attitude that is totally opposed?
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:58 PM
On Tuesday, Ms. McLellan said the government would narrow the definition of terrorism in the bill, clarifying it to make it clear that it does not include things such as illegal strikes or minor property damage during protests, which critics had charged would have fallen under the bill's old language.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:47 PM
Prime Minister Jean Chretien says he'd like a clearer explanation of controversial comments by Premier Bernard Landry linking the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. to Quebec sovereignty.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:43 PM
"I could still see the dust of the pick-up trucks carrying the Taliban out of my village," he wrote, "and some friends and I went and dug up the boards of a chicken coop where I had hid the computer. They might have beaten or killed us if they'd found it. It was forbidden, although they used computers all of the time." He claims American commandos are skulking around dressed as Northern Alliance tribesmen.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:39 PM
The Daily News, whose offices were bombed last January and whose editor and publisher were arrested ten days ago on an accounting fraud charge, said the two journalists had their notebooks and cameras confiscated, and were denied access to their lawyers.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:27 PM
Lawyers say they believe it is the first time Egypt has tried preachers in a military court.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 07:18 PM
US consumer giant Procter & Gamble is withdrawing an advert for shampoo from the show, saying it avoided "morally ambivalent" programmes.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 06:59 PM
Imagine the difficulties. U.S. special forces happen upon a cave entrance having been pointed there by a local Afghan warlord thinking about all the Toyota pickups he could buy with the $25 million reward. There's a fierce shootout and the terrorist-in-chief goes down in a hail of bullets. Or the Air Force is summoned to finish the job with a bunker-buster bomb. The moment of vengeance has arrived, even possibly "closure" for the loved ones of his victims. But two weeks later, there "he" is again on Al Jezeera, wearing the flak jacket and linens, AK propped up against he wall behind him, ranting about Lawrence of Arabia and how his nuclear and chemical arsenal is strictly a deterrent. Will the real Osama bin Laden please stand up?
Posted by at November 20, 2001 06:43 PM
On Tuesday Cisco Systems released the results of a survey in which one third of the living Nobel Laureates endorsed the Internet as a tool that can speed innovation while expanding knowledge, education and excellence in human behavior. It would have been really funny if some of them had branded it as the work of the Devil, but perhaps the silence of the other two thirds speaks for itself.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 06:02 PM
A U.S. news report said the 1996 letter informed a man named Amro Abouelmaati that his citizenship certificate was enclosed. The house apparently had been abandoned in a hurry when the Northern Alliance took over Kabul last week.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 05:46 PM
The newspaper Bild estimates that one in five glasses of beer served in the Berlin area is a low grade "no name" beer. Erich Dederichs, manager of the German brewers' association, said that leading brewers such as Schultheiss and Kindl had fallen victim to the scam where "beer bandits" steal barrels and fill them with cheap beer.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 05:16 PM
Kass ... has crafted and promulgated, as a core aspect of his philosophy, an entire pseudo-intellectual defense of "yuck" reactions, which he terms "the wisdom of repugnance." Kass's eponymous 1997 anticloning article in the New Republic is a grand piece of anti-intellectualism, complete with digs at "philosophical cleverness" and "philosophisms." To a large degree, this was a way of covering up the fact that Kass didn't have a rational argument. "Repugnance," he contended, "is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power to express it." And again: "We are repelled by the prospect of cloning human beings not because of the strangeness or novelty of the undertaking, but because we intuit and feel, immediately and without argument, the violation of things that we rightfully hold dear."
Posted by at November 20, 2001 05:09 PM
How will little magazines survive? Traditionally, they have patrons: people or, more rarely, corporations who bet against hope that this one time, this particular magazine will make it. That quixotic impulse seems unlikely to flourish in our throttled economy. The future may lie with foundations, although most of these have a bureaucratic horror of controversy that is deadly to reporting and criticism. Sometimes I indulge the fantasy that the answer is to be found in the public sector -- that in some distant rosy future, government will see that the little magazine is as essential to the nation's intellectual health as the arts are to its cultural health, and start a no-strings-attached national endowment for young journalists working at marginal publications.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 05:06 PM
Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 04:30 PM
Head teachers in primary and secondary schools should desist from forcing students to repeat classes for lack of exam fees, the PS said. "Why do you force them to repeat? This should not happen at all in our schools and I do not want to hear of students being denied registration any longer," said Kiptoon.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 04:21 PM
CHECKMATE is the only product of it's kind that can actually monitor your spouse's sexual activity outside of the relationship!
Posted by at November 20, 2001 04:11 PM
It sounds too good to be true, and it almost certainly is. But the other way to defend the deal is to point out that, even if it was a bad idea to start with, abandoning it could be even worse -- a view that, unsurprisingly, Ms Fiorina chose not to advance, but is being quietly put forward by the deal's supporters.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 03:57 PM
If approved by a federal judge in Baltimore, the agreement could help Microsoft increase its presence in schools, where rival Apple Computer has traditionally had a leading presence. Under proposed terms of the settlement, Microsoft would donate software, services, training and licenses for reconditioned computers--an array valued at more than $1 billion--to 14 percent of the nation's poorest schools, said lawyers representing consumer plaintiffs.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 03:55 PM
China's official news agency, Xinhua, said, "Their behaviour violated Chinese laws governing parades and demonstrations and cults."
Posted by at November 20, 2001 03:54 PM
The document seemed innocuous enough: a survey of government data on reservoirs and dams on CD-ROM. But then came last month's federal directive to U.S. libraries: "Destroy the report."
Posted by at November 20, 2001 02:37 PM
Buried in the more than 300 pages of the new law is a provision that ''any person engaged in a trade or business'' has to file a government report if a customer spends $10,000 or more in cash. The threshold is cumulative and applies to multiple purchases if they're somehow related - three $4,000 pieces of furniture, for example, might trigger a filing.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 01:08 PM
An international team of scientists say that small magnetic grains found in the Martian meteorite are not similar enough to those formed by terrestrial bacteria to be evidence of life.
Posted by at November 20, 2001 12:56 PM
Shadtastic
Posted by at November 20, 2001 04:10 AM
A group calling itself the Western Independent Nation organized the gathering. Spokesman David Sawkiw said formation of one unified federal party for western separation was one common goal for the various groups in attendance.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 08:46 PM
The deal commits industrial countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels 5.2% below 1990 levels. Canada, based on its projected industrial growth and inability to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases, is likely to be 25% over the Kyoto target by 2010. To meet the target will require a major downward shift in the economy, Paton warns. And when it fails to meet that target, Canada will be profoundly embarrassed on the world stage.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 08:29 PM
Webster's mother was at the vigil, as well as a friend who found him just before he died. Tim Chisholm spoke of his grief and feelings of helplessness:
"The experience is of having somebody that you really care about die in your arms, and you can't control it. You have no control over it, and they're beaten very badly."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 07:23 PM
These include moves to allow road- building in national forests, reverse the phaseout of snowmobiles in national parks, make it easier for mining companies to dig for gold, copper and zinc on public lands, ease energy-saving standards for air-conditioners, bar the reintroduction of grizzly bears in the Northwest and, environmentalists say, make it easier for developers to eliminate wetlands.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 07:22 PM
From the White House bunker, Cheney ordered the evacuation of everyone designated as a successor to the president, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Cong. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois; the president pro tempore of the Senate, Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia; and the entire Cabinet (except Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who remained at the Pentagon), as well as the rest of the congressional leadership. The Secret Service tried at least twice to convince Cheney to evacuate as well, "but I didn't want to leave the node that we?d established there in terms of having all this capability tied together by communications . . . and if I?d left . . . all of that would have been broken down . . . so I thought it was appropriate for me to stay there in the White House."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 07:12 PM
He said the delegation reported the Taliban had been considering handing over control of their southern stronghold to former mujahideen commander Haji Bashar, but the idea was abandoned after Mullah Omar revealed his dream on Friday.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 07:08 PM
Andrei Illarionov, the Kremlin's iconoclastic economic adviser, often prescribes more bitter economic medicine than his counterparts and frequently has been right. He prefers to withhold judgment on whether a turnaround is at hand.
"If you would start to conduct the wrong economic policy," he said, "then in a relatively short period you could destroy all these achievements. It's like cycling. You have to push the pedal every day."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 07:05 PM
Even before the events of Sept. 11, he was feeling, well, dubious about the feature's snarky tone and its poor fit with the year's other 11 issues. "People remember it fondly," he said. "But I'm not sure that those people have read it in a long time."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:58 PM
?The United States strongly suspects that Iraq has taken advantage of three years of no U.N. inspections to improve all phases of its offensive biological weapons program,? Bolton said. ?The existence of Iraq?s program is beyond dispute.?
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:56 PM
There are still worries that the final rout of the Taliban may be a murderous affair. In Kunduz especially, where American bombers continue to pound Taliban positions, there are fears of a bloodbath. Hopes of avoiding one through a negotiated surrender are made harder by the presence of thousands of foreign fighters -- Pakistanis and Arabs, but also, according to some accounts, Chechens, Uighurs from China and even Indonesians. They know that soldiers from the victorious Northern Alliance have been particularly brutal to captured foreigners.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:54 PM
There are still worries that the final rout of the Taliban may be a murderous affair. In Kunduz especially, where American bombers continue to pound Taliban positions, there are fears of a bloodbath. Hopes of avoiding one through a negotiated surrender are made harder by the presence of thousands of foreign fighters -- Pakistanis and Arabs, but also, according to some accounts, Chechens, Uighurs from China and even Indonesians. They know that soldiers from the victorious Northern Alliance have been particularly brutal to captured foreigners.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:54 PM
"The principal role that we hope they will have if, whenever and if they go there - because there is no final conclusion - will be to make sure that (aid gets) to the people who need it," [Chretien] said. "And the troops will be there to help pave the way.
"We don't want to have a big fight there."
Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day snapped a sarcastic reply. "I don't know if the prime minister is watching news, but there is a big fight there."
I hate to say anything nice about Stockwell Day, so I won't, but I nearly did.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:47 PM
"Since the events of Sept. 11, if there is one conclusion to draw in relation to the project of Quebec sovereignty and the sovereignty and liberty of all peoples, that is it."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:44 PM
The screen was an old canvas cloth painted white, the wooden chairs were splintered and the ceiling tiles had fallen out. There was no popcorn and a musty smell filled the air.
Still, the entertainment-starved Kabulis filled all 750 seats and 250 more were standing in the aisles.
When the film broke down at one point, howls of frustration filled the theatre. When it was fixed minutes later, the crowd roared with approval.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:42 PM
"This is a race for the best minds, the best talent and the best technology we can find in the realm of biological, chemical and radiological warfare," said Cleland, who was joined by CDC Director Jeffrey Koplan, Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes and several public health advocates.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:38 PM
"Prior to 9/11," he said in an interview, "there were a lot of people who thought that the only thing the terrorists could do is what they have already done. Now we know they can do something really catastrophic."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:36 PM
"It's very frustrating to see Afghanistan right there across the river and not be allowed to get there, knowing the desperate needs on the other side," said Louis Sida, the emergency co-ordinator for Save the Children.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:30 PM
"You're not going to see the end of me until the undertaker tells you I am gone," the media mogul said after turning in his Canadian passport.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:28 PM
The state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Monday that the two witnessed the assault of a man in Bulawayo by MDC supporters who made him confess that the murder of war veteran Cain Nkala was the work of Zimbabwe's central intelligence organisation.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:24 PM
"I thought of killing myself many times," she said of life under the Taliban. As a woman she was not supposed to leave home without a male relative; as a widow she had no choice. Buying groceries could bring a beating from the religious police. "Only my love for my students saved me."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:20 PM
But he said the alliance would never allow safe passage for the foreign militants in the town who have been fighting for the Taleban, as has also been demanded by Mullah Dadullah.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:18 PM
"They took the journalists, and when the journalists turned to look at them, the gunmen shot."
Posted by at November 19, 2001 06:17 PM
The haul, in Los Angeles, could have been sold on for as much as $100m. It included 31,000 copies of Windows software, forged certificates of authenticity, end user manuals and CD case liners. It was all but indistinguishable from the real thing.
Two containers of fake Marlboro cigarettes were also found.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 05:43 PM
Posted by at November 19, 2001 04:43 PM
Before a crowd of dignitaries at the Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec, Chrtien told Mandela that he has honoured Canada by joining the Canadian family.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 03:16 PM
With most of Afghanistan now in the hands of opposition groups, and the Taleban reduced to two shrinking pockets of control around Konduz and Kandahar, bin Laden and his al-Qaeda supporters found themselves alone and for the first time on the front line of the war.
Posted by at November 19, 2001 01:02 PM
Some Taliban leaders have expressed willingness to surrender -- but not to the Northern Alliance. A group of Afghan tribal elders in Peshawar, Pakistan, announced that the Taliban commander of Afghanistan's northern zone, Mullah Dadullah, and the Konduz governor, Haji Omar Khan, were willing to surrender to the United Nations.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 09:39 PM
Probably not, say U.S. officials and most independent analysts, who are skeptical of claims by Mr. bin Laden that he has nuclear weapons or other sophisticated devices capable of causing much greater numbers of casualties than those of Sept. 11.
But they caution that his supporters have dabbled in chemical experiments and shown an interest in acquiring nuclear materials that could be used in conjunction with conventional explosives for a "dirty bomb."
Posted by at November 18, 2001 09:35 PM
After displaying images of this weaponry, and papers littering the floor, Simpson [of the BBC] shows us his two most horrifying finds: A piece of paper with the word "ricin" on it, and plans for a thermonuclear device!
[..]
...those words appear on a semi-famous document that has made the rounds on the Internet since the late 1980's. It's a reprint of a scientific parody called "How to Build an Atom Bomb" from a humor newsletter called The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). At the time this document was originally written (1979!), the newsletter was called the "Journal of Irreproducible Results".
Posted by at November 18, 2001 09:32 PM
Jean-Jacques Pascal, head of France's DST counterintelligence agency, said a number of "neo-Afghans," or Algerians who trained in Afghan terrorist camps, had resettled in Europe.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 09:21 PM
Even before the meetings began, police arrested at least a dozen people from a group of protesters who said the meetings of the G-20, International Monetary Fund and World Bank are designed to maximize corporate profits, not to help poorer countries.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 09:15 PM
British and American special forces have narrowed their search for Usama bin Laden to a hilly area of just 30 square miles in southeastern Afghanistan, defence sources revealed Saturday.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 08:29 PM
Not a single tree. Astonishing!
Posted by at November 18, 2001 07:49 PM
Posted by at November 18, 2001 07:01 PM
In what may be a sign of the times, one depressed dot-commer is offering free Prozac to depressed consumers as part of a promotion by the drug company.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 06:37 PM
The law will cover text and images placed on the web, including email sent to mailing lists that are archived on the web, and messages to newsgroups.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 06:17 PM
A few months ago, I published an article outlining my opinion and experience with spammers in general and one in particular. That article, Fun with spammers, has drawn the attention of the subject spammer?s lawyer, and I am being threatened with legal action.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 06:16 PM
To better understand how self-assembly works, Whitesides and his coworkers have recently shown that selectively coating the surfaces of microscopic gold plates with a sticky organic film can, under the proper conditions, trigger thousands of such plates to self-assemble into three-dimensional structures. So far, Whitesides's team has created a relatively large functional electronic circuit using a similar technique. The next step will involve shrinking the circuit to the micrometer scale, creating more complex three-dimensional structures out of silicon.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 05:39 PM
The concern is that only people with the means might be able to afford these changes so that, for example, rich people would see at night while poor people wouldn't. That's not a problem of germ-line genetic modification, however, but of a capitalist and market-oriented society.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 05:35 PM
Posted by at November 18, 2001 05:32 PM
That's certainly the case for a Harry Potter slasher from southern England known as Acassha, who admits that some may find it odd that a 19-year-old straight woman enjoys writing and reading what looks on the surface like gay porn.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 05:27 PM
You can do this for fun (it's like playing "Mad Libs," or those surrealist word games we all played as tots) or, for even more fun, you can use it to obtain speaking opportunities on behalf of your adopted organization, whether it be the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the European Union, the White House, or even just any old c o r p o r a t i o n .
Posted by at November 18, 2001 05:21 PM
The allure of moonlight on snow-covered vines proved strong, and wineries are now in the unexpected position of fending off civilian volunteers. Klaus Reif sees why. "You start at midnight and work until eight," he told me. "It's ten to fourteen degrees, and with the wind chill it feels like thirty below. But it's amazing. People don't talk. They work along, quiet and peaceful. Some nights there's a snow layer and a full moon, and you hardly need any light. It's an awesome feeling."
Posted by at November 18, 2001 05:14 PM
Wooley was almost caught in January 1998 when an anthropology professor at a German university saw the war club for sale by an Ontario gallery. Perusing an auction sale catalog on the Internet, Christian Feest quickly recognized the distinctive war club, also called a prophet stick, because he had photographed it 17 years ago.
Posted by at November 18, 2001 02:13 PM
In a recent experiment by dollmaker Mattel to test local creativity, 20 design students in Hong Kong were given two days to dress up the venerable doll.
Posted by at November 17, 2001 07:33 AM
There is nothing that dismays the Chomskyites more than American success, regardless of the consequence to the people on whose behalf the protesters protest. Better a thousand Kuwaiti women be shipped off to Republican Guard rape camps than the U.S. keep Saddam's hands off the world's economic jugular. Better the Taliban dig its claws into the neck of a nation than the U.S. actually be seen as a liberator. Better that evil triumph, as long as flawed men don't act.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 12:14 PM
This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it [America] will fall to the ground.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:52 AM
In two separate 9-0 judgments, the court said reporters can now publish details of police tactics used to entice confessions from murder suspects in Manitoba and British Columbia. Both cases ended in acquittals.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:39 AM
"They were forced to play their taped material, then their material was erased,'' [CBC spokesperson Ruth-Ellen Soles] said, adding, "But everyone was released and everyone's fine."
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:34 AM
Mr bin Laden and his kind may be sloppy historians and faulty interpreters of their own faith, let alone others. But even now he could win the propaganda war, and make his predictions of a clash self-fulfilling, unless serious people in the "Christian West" and the "Muslim East" are prepared to take his arguments seriously and demonstrate that there are no such places.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:31 AM
A Microsoft spokesman described the offer as a formality, but it is the latest in a series of moves by the company to woo states that declined to sign on to the settlement deal. Although several of those states left open the possibility that they would agree to the deal after further study, so far they are pushing ahead with preparations for court hearings on how the company should be penalized for breaking antitrust laws.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:25 AM
"Hi. This is the captain, I would like you all to remain seated. There is a bomb on board and we are going back to the airport. They have our demands..." the hijacker says.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:03 AM
In particular, said one senior law enforcement official, "no links have been established" between the hijackers and the four men believed to be the strongest terrorism suspects: two men from India arrested Sept. 12 on a train in Texas, a former Boston cabdriver arrested outside Chicago and a former flight school student who was arrested in Minnesota in August. Some authorities emphasize the possibility that investigators, whose efforts have been frustrated by uncooperative witnesses, might still uncover evidence linking the jailed suspects to the plots or other terrorist or criminal activities.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 10:01 AM
Among many stinging rebukes directed at his native land, Lord Black quoted with approval poet Irving Layton's accusation that Canada's political and intellectual communities tend to regard "cowardice as wisdom, Philistinism as Olympian serenity and the spitefulness of the weak as moral indignation."
Posted by at November 16, 2001 09:58 AM
Definitely not my best picture. Appear to be relocating within the next few weeks though, which increases the range of urban shots. Stoops!
Posted by at November 16, 2001 08:01 AM
Mr. Jenssen, a die-hard James Bond fan, was shopping for a DVD of the film "Licence to Kill" at his favorite online outlet based in the Netherlands. To his surprise, the thriller was priced at 65.95 guilders ($26.34), a 20 percent increase from the price Mr. Jenssen paid for "The Spy Who Loved Me" in December. Mr. Jenssen immediately clicked over to a British Internet shop, which lies outside the euro bloc, and bought the DVD at the price he had been accustomed to paying at the Dutch retailer.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 07:54 AM
The bottom line of a study the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released this week is that even if the cost of the drugs was substantially cut access to "highly active antiretroviral therapies" through public health systems is out of the question.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 07:37 AM
"You could inject several million of these molecules and they would circulate around, find their targets cells, be taken inside and then kill the cells," said Scheinberg. "These are extraordinarily potent drugs."
Posted by at November 16, 2001 07:35 AM
"Call for Altria" doesn't have the ring of the company's "Call for Philip Morrrrrr- isssss!" slogan from radio's golden age. But that might be the point. The company has taken this action, its executives say, to reduce the drag on the company's reputation that association with the world's most famous cigarette maker has caused.
Posted by at November 16, 2001 07:32 AM
In terms of internal trade, SAS found "a strong market for military weapons destined for poaching in the wildlife reserves throughout Congo", with evidence revealing that this trade is "widespread and highly profitable" due to the low prices of weapons (particularly outside Brazzaville) and due to "the relative impunity with which poachers operate". Most weapons are reportedly sold directly from Brazzaville, Impfondo and other regions near wildlife reserves.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:28 PM
The use of missile-firing Predators is particularly noteworthy. It was only in February that the first test-firing of a Hellfire air-to-surface missile from a Predator was carried out, at the Indian Springs base in Nevada. The aircraft in question had been fitted with a laser designator, which illuminates a target and enables a missile (usually launched from another aircraft) to home in. So it was a logical step to launch missiles from the Predator itself. During the tests three missiles were fired, all of which hit their targets.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:26 PM
Posted by at November 15, 2001 08:17 PM
Far from being flawed, he argues, the deregulation-inspired model that has driven Enron's (and Dynegy's) growth is still sound. In his view, Enron's problems are not related to its hugely successful businesses in gas and power. He has "looked under the hood" and found that Enron "might need a new paint job and some new tyres, but its engine is sound."
Posted by at November 15, 2001 06:25 PM
"The greatest challenge is to find a way of discussing things with people, and particularly with young people, in terms of the world today and the framework of thoughts today rather than the one of Nov. 15, 1976," Parizeau said following a reception celebrating the release of a book about the PQ.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 05:58 PM
Gowing said the British special forces had told him: "When a war is not declared, journalists are legitimate targets where they are inconvenient."
Posted by at November 15, 2001 05:32 PM
Russia has said it will not scale back exports to help support plunging prices. Brent crude today fell to $16.80 a barrel, the lowest level since June 1999.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 05:29 PM
Elk Grove Township-based United said the Tasers will be available to pilots in the event of a hijacking to defend the cockpit. United along with other airlines has also reinforced cockpit doors with special metal bars.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 05:27 PM
Section V further provides that upon a finding by the Court that Microsoft has engaged in a pattern of willful and systematic violations, Plaintiffs may request a one-time extension of the Final Judgment of an additional two years, along with such other relief as the Court may deem appropriate. This provision is designed to supplement the government?s traditional authority to bring contempt actions. By permitting Plaintiffs to seek a two-year extension upon a showing that Microsoft has engaged in a pattern of willful and systematic violations, this provision is designed to ensure th! at M icrosoft will comply in good faith with the terms of the Final Judgment.
So behave, Microsoft, or we'll watch you some more!
Posted by at November 15, 2001 05:02 PM
Opposition sources say there could be as many as 20,000 to 40,000 Taliban soldiers in the largely Pashtun city, which is the Taliban's ethnic power base.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 01:47 PM
Now this is nice looking, and much more space-economical as well.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 12:39 PM
By producing pheromones similar to a female snake's, the newly emerged male can fool other males into forming a mating ball around it. These tangles of up to 100 male snakes form around real females when they're ready to mate.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 10:49 AM
No matter how you count it, Gore should have won Florida, and hence the presidency. And that's not even factoring in Gore's enormous lead in the national popular vote -- only one candidate in the history of the country, Ronald Reagan, received more votes.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 10:23 AM
The Times discovered the partly burnt documents in a hastily abandoned safe house in the Karta Parwan quarter of the city. Written in Arabic, German, Urdu and English, the notes give detailed designs for missiles, bombs and nuclear weapons. There are descriptions of how the detonation of TNT compresses plutonium into a critical mass, sparking a chain reaction, and ultimately a thermonuclear reaction.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 10:13 AM
Abdul-Mawlood, who like most Afghans uses no surname, did not believe the Taliban are finished quite yet. "They are still very strong in that area," he added, referring to the one remaining pocket of Taliban strength in the north, near Kunduz.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:49 AM
"Some have been killed, others are hiding, and there are no particular reports of senior leadership having been located," said Rumsfeld during a tour of the World Trade Center wreckage.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:35 AM
"Human life continues to be treated with contempt, while cynical efforts are made to drag children as young as 12 into the horrendous cycle of violence that has plagued the country in recent years."
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:29 AM
Meanwhile, a defiant Mullah Omar exclusively told the BBC's Pashto-language service: "We would prefer death to the government of fascists."
And he said a plan for the "destruction of America" was going ahead.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:12 AM
Any individual subject to this order shall, when tried, be tried by military commission for any and all offenses triable by military commission that such individual is alleged to have committed, and may be punished in accordance with the penalties provided under applicable law, including life imprisonment or death.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 09:01 AM
Roughly 2.8 billion people live in cities, according to The State of World Population 2001, a new report from the United Nations Population Fund. By 2015, that number will have risen to 3.9 billion, nearly three-quarters of them in the developing world. In 2015, there will be 23 mega-cities --those with 10m or more residents -- compared with only five in 1975. Big cities often have big problems with pollution, water scarcity and poverty, so better planning will be vital in this new urban world.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 07:10 AM
In Canada, if a male is going to die between the ages of 10 and 49, he's more likely to die of suicide than any other cause.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 07:02 AM
"Are we getting excited?" screamed the disk jockey. "Let's hear some noise!"
"Yay," said the crowd dutifully.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 06:53 AM
This inspired bust of the MSXP "Suddenly everything clicks" poster is situated at an incredibly busy junction near Liverpool Street Station - tens of thousands of people will see it every day. We spotted it from the top of a bus and it made our day. It's all 100% cut-and-paste and it's really high up - so mad props to whomever did the Spiderman routine to get all the way up there.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 06:38 AM
The artists contended in their brief filed on Nov. 7 that the big recording labels may not indefinitely own some of the sound recording copyrights they are suing over in the landmark suit against Napster, said Jay Rosenthal, a lawyer for the Recording Artists Coalition (RAC).
Posted by at November 15, 2001 06:32 AM
When .NET's 'Express Purchase' technology inputs your credit card details into an e-tailer's site, the technology allows the browser to cache the details, thereby putting the information in the computer's hard drive, for any later user of the same PC to access.
Posted by at November 15, 2001 06:03 AM
In a fit of sheer brilliance, the Canadian federal government decided to host the G20 within spitting distance of the Byward Market, which includes or is very proximate to houses, schools, small food shops, restaurants, malls, highrises, lowrises, two of the main bridges to Place du Portage (loaded with thousands of civil servants), the National Gallery, the biggest bus interchange in a transit system serving a million people, the American embassy, the Governor General's residence, the Prime Minister's residence, and Parliament.
This entire area will be emptied or kept under guard, which will cost businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of hosting this global economic summit.
I'd sell my pineal gland to be there -- would've driven up but I have a contract for web monkey work with the aforementioned government who claimed they wanted me to work this week, and has sent me no goddamn work, so I'm sitting on my ass in New Brunswick instead of covering Tear Gas Summit Winter 2001 like I would be if I was in the closest thing I've got to a hometown. Admittedly, New Brunswick was my idea... and the book is going well. There's at least an outside chance of hitting episode 37 by the end of this weekend (depending on whether the work magically shows up after all, some benevolent fairy offers me a pittance to drive like a banshee to Ottawa tomorrow for the weekend, or a plane falls on me.) But if you've wondered why I'm peculiarly non-opinate on this weblog, it's 'cause I'm savin' all my love for my work... Although I've also been doing a lot of photo.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 11:00 PM
When the news anchor asked if Kandahar had fallen into the hands of the opposition, Agha said: "That is not correct; it is false news. We are here in Kandahar. The situation here is stable. Life here is normal, and there is no danger for the city of Kandahar and the districts around it."
Posted by at November 14, 2001 10:34 PM
"They raped me and my nine-year-old daughter. How can I stay in that country?" says Shefali Das, 40, of Bhola in southern Bangladesh. Now a refugee in Bongaon, West Bengal, Shefali lives in fear of being deported. "We have been threatened with death if we go back. We have already lost our honor, now we will lose our lives," she says.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 10:33 PM
Despite these territorial losses, the Taleban leadership remained defiant, claiming to be regrouping after what they called a tactical withdrawal from some cities.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 10:10 PM
CTV News has learned that Canada is preparing to send 1,000 ground troops to Afghanistan. A 48-hour stand-by alert has been issued to a combat unit based in Edmonton.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 10:09 PM
However, the irony is that I do not believe that The Shops at Willow Bend (an impressive new shopping mall in Plano, Texas) or the Taubman Company (the developers of said shopping mall) actually sucks. In fact, I'm a great fan of The Shops at Willow Bend, and I'm thrilled that the Taubman Company did such a great job of designing and building the mall. And I'm especially pleased that the mall is located right up the street from my home in Dallas.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 09:03 PM
The men were put to trial after police raided a Nile boat restaurant in May and accused them of taking part in a gay sex party. Egyptian law does not explicitly refer to homosexuality, and prosecutors leveled charges including debauchery and contempt of religion.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 06:26 PM
A new Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll shows sizeable segments of the public support other "taboos," too: One in 3 could accept government-sanctioned torture of suspects. One in 4 could envision a scenario in which they'd back use of nuclear weapons.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 04:04 PM
Rina Amiri, who left Afghanistan when she was a child in 1973, says it is no surprise that the Taliban regime's attack on women's rights has coincided with a growing extremism. ''When you shut out the women you don't leave voices that can be a moderating force,'' she said. ''It is the women who supply a stable, cohesive community .... If the international community wants stability they have to empower the women as well.''
Posted by at November 14, 2001 03:53 PM
The 100 former staff at the Moulinex plant in Cormelles-le-Royal have set a deadline of the end of the day, after about 30 workers set fire to part of the building yesterday.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 03:41 PM
The first hours of daylight revealed a power-vacuum in the city. In some quarters looting broke out immediately, while in others armed local pro-UF groups, that had earlier been hidden, moved in to take control. A small number of Pakistanis and Arabs who had failed to escape during the night were hunted down and killed by local mobs. In the Shahr-e-Nao Park in Central Kabul, three Pakistanis were shot and beaten to death while jubilant crowds of local men and boys chanted "Death to Pakistan, death to Musharraff".
Posted by at November 14, 2001 03:36 PM
The charity Medecins du monde hopes to create a stockpile of plastic guns as children are asked to make a symbolic gesture by giving up one of their toys.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:58 PM
Tang made the statement at a UN meeting, known as "the Six Plus Two" meeting on Afghanistan. The six countries are China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan - all countries bordering Afghanistan. The two countries are the United States and Russia.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:56 PM
Const. William Barlow still doesn't know what his duties will be, but the patrol officer hopes his mother, renowned Canadian activist Maude Barlow, won't get caught in any violent skirmishes.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:54 PM
A ZIMBABWEAN High Court judge has defended the right of the Press to expose corruption, dishonesty and graft wherever they occur and to name the perpetrators of the malpractices.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:52 PM
"I'm still reeling at the BBC being first in and taking Kabul," said the home secretary. "Well done John Simpson, eh?"
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:45 PM
Abdullah said that in certain areas of Mazar-i-Sharif Taliban were putting up resistance and clashes were continuing, "but we have put a complete siege around them, and since they are positioned in residential areas our forces are taking care not to harm civilians."
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:41 PM
If you illegally read someone else's e-mail in Argentina, you might end up spending from 15 days to six months in jail. And sending spam without identifying it as such, and including your real name, could saddle you with a fine of more than $25,000.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:06 PM
The U.S., meanwhile, had taken a most peculiar position on globalization. There was a huge gap between what America and its European allies preached and what they practiced. They told developing countries to eliminate subsidies and trust free markets, yet they continued to subsidize their own agriculture massively. The U.S. used anti-dumping laws to keep out foreign goods that undersold American products, and tried to set up global cartels to protect aluminum and steel. While America and Europe worked to force developing countries to open their markets, they kept their own markets closed to many imports from developing countries, such as agriculture and textiles. America and Europe were--quite rightly--accused of hypocrisy.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 02:01 PM
Mr. Kneen said that in his opinion, breaking into the conference facility where delegates of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the G20 are meeting this weekend does not constitute "violence."
Posted by at November 14, 2001 01:50 PM
"She's been in and out of Canada several times in the last year without incident," said Mr. Kneen. "We're wondering why all of a sudden there's a problem."
Posted by at November 14, 2001 01:48 PM
Muscle strength was measured before, during and after the training sessions. Among those who imagined moving their pinky, the finger's muscle strength increased by 35%. Elbow strength in the second group increased 13.4%. Those who did not do any imaginary exercise showed no muscle strength gain.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 12:46 PM
In the case of setting up a Martian settlement, Taylor said, it may be cost effective to ship out needed water, oxygen, hydrogen, major metals, and food from a lively lunar operation, at least initially. "As we begin to settle the Moon and Mars, we must also keep track of changing economic conditions, such as launch costs or substitutes of one material for another," he said.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 12:33 PM
Nokia is also offering to license its browser and other software to other cellular hardware companies. This is a move that seems aimed at competitor OpenWave, but also puts the company directly in the path of Microsoft's Stinger and Pocket PC-based cellular operating systems and applications.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 11:46 AM
IBM had said the students' method could only work in laboratory conditions and that a bank's physical security measures would prevent attack. However, Dr Nicko van Someren, chief technical officer of Ncipher - one of the world's largest suppliers of cryptographical engines to financial institutions - told CW360.com: "This is a significant security breach. Security managers should be worried but not panicking."
Posted by at November 14, 2001 10:58 AM
Support for the technology increased after the September 11 terrorist attacks, particularly once it was learned that some of the suspected hijackers spent time in Virginia Beach.
Some tourists, citizens and council members called the system an invasion of privacy.
Others said you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 10:07 AM
If the proposed amendment to the draft directive on electronic data collection and privacy goes through, all website owners will have to get the permission of visitors to their sites before installing cookies on their machines.
It's my computer; I want say over what you put on it. Good show, EU.
Posted by at November 14, 2001 08:29 AM
For the past two months, Idiocy Watch has been our attempt to keep up with all the dumb and outrageous things said about America and the terrorists. While it will continue to appear from time to time here in the Notebook section of TNR, it is retiring as a fixed feature at TNR Online. For the final installment, we invite readers to vote for the comment they consider to be the dumbest and most outrageous to date.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 03:51 PM
...Leahy's insularity appears to have made the bill less protective of civil liberties. Had Leahy been more open to working with his fellow senators, some observers say, he might have had enough support in his committee to alter the [wiretap] bill more to his liking.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 03:47 PM
The engines burned noisily for several minutes as the plane circled the field at more than 212 mph, then sputtered and cut off. The plane glided for several more minutes, then landed safely and coasted to a stop.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 03:31 PM
Women, already casting off their veils, have been told they can go back to work, and girls to school - activities banned by the city's strict former rulers, whose troops fled south towards their heartland.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 03:06 PM
First, it is an established fact that Gore beat Bush in the national popular vote by over a half million votes. (*) Secondly, Consortium interpretations of the voting data conclude that thousands more people voted for Gore in Florida than Bush. The problem for Gore is that many more votes in his favor were declared invalid than similar votes for Bush. Third, discounting such invalid votes, Consortium interpretations conclude that Gore still beat Bush statewide in Florida by a thin margin of under 200 votes. Which brings us back to the Supreme Court decision.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 02:41 PM
...politicians and TV commentators hate complexity and nuance, and love generalities and easy-to-digest theories, so it this more simplistic "us-versus-them' version of 'the clash of civilizations' that has become the foreign policy flavor-of-the-month.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 02:37 PM
It appears that Russia may now waive some of its objections to the testing of new anti-missile systems by the Bush administration. In particular, Russia may agree to ?overlook? American plans for a provisional deployment of five interceptor missiles at Fort Greely, in Alaska, next spring. But Russia has still talked only about allowing the testing of anti-missile systems; it has not yet said it would tolerate the deployment of any new interceptors, over and above the very limited defences which are permitted under the ABM treaty.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 02:25 PM
Go read Fred Lapides weblog GoodShit before someone steals his new mailbox.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 02:23 PM
It was unclear whether the TV station had been deliberately targeted by U.S. forces.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 02:15 PM
An Italian court found 77-year-old Michael Seifert guilty of murders, rape and torture in that country during the Second World War. He immigrated to Canada in the 1950's and was recently convicted in absentia.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 02:09 PM
"In this day and age, Washington can no longer afford to hand any interested individual a road map to the chemical calamities they could cause with the toxic materials located in communities nationwide," Smithson testified at a House Transportation subcommittee hearing last week on "Right to Know After September 11th." The hearing examined the policies governing public disclosure of chemical hazards at various industrial facilities.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 12:37 PM
The Registry is a charitable body operating under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, affiliated to the University of Oxford. It has been set up to fulfil Washington Principle VI with respect to Nazi Confiscated Art, which states: ?Efforts should be made to establish a central registry of such information?. The Central Registry was established through an initiative of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 11:58 AM
Today we're presented with images in movies, on TV and in the press that are of such good quality we don't even think to consider whether the picture is of something that exists in reality or if it was generated by computer software. Of course, the right tools combined with the skills of computer graphics (CG) artists are central to the final result.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 11:29 AM
The High Court ruled in October that Jesus in a Camper Van contained "substantial" copying from Guthrie's I Am The Way.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 11:27 AM
The new findings show that African American Republicans who voted in Florida were in excess of 50 times more likely than the average African American to have had a ballot declared invalid because it was spoiled.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 10:39 AM
Looting was widespread. Alliance soldiers, who have received extensive backing from the United States, plundered Taliban bodies and bunkers, stealing shoes, bags of sugar, flashlights and anything else that they could find. "I got 700,000 afghani!" a soldier who was leaving an abandoned Taliban bunker shouted, flashing a wad of bills worth $20. "I got 700,000!"
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 10:28 AM
"We gave them warnings to surrender," Mohammed Muhahiq, a spokesman for the opposition Shia militia, the Hizb-i-Wahdat, said. "They asked us to send representatives over several times, but unfortunately they shot them. Finally we gave the order to attack them. Some 200 of them [Pakistanis] have been killed."
Posted by at November 13, 2001 10:26 AM
Does that mean George W. Bush is the rightful winner of the 2000 election? No. To be sure, Dubya's occupation of the Oval Office is consistent with the U.S. Constitution, and Chatterbox certainly recognizes Bush as his president (a courtesy Dick Armey famously failed to extend to Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton). Bush is certainly welcome to stay in the White House through 2004. As a matter of democratic principle, though, Chatterbox thinks the president of the United States ought to be whoever wins a plurality of the popular vote. In this instance, that would be Al Gore.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 10:25 AM
Two months after the World Trade Center put this troubled country back on the map, this sleepy government town has become a bit like Casablanca: Everyone's waiting for a visa. And there are vultures, vultures everywhere. One day, the price to get to the top of the list is supposed to be $1,000. The next day, it's $3,500. How much of it goes to the nice Pakistani journalist who's hooking you up? Who knows?
Posted by at November 13, 2001 10:09 AM
"The greater density of cells could be one way by which nature ensures that women can perform adequately despite the smaller size of their brain."
Posted by at November 13, 2001 09:38 AM
"Clinicians consider Ritalin to be short-acting," said Baizer. "When the active dose has worked its way through the system, they consider it 'all gone.' Our research with gene expression in an animal model suggests that it has the potential for causing long-lasting changes in brain cell structure and function." Ritalin is the drug of choice for the treatment of attention deficit disorder in children.
Posted by at November 13, 2001 07:37 AM
"We had a lovable correspondence. He was very enchanting and a charming person," the woman was quoted as telling tabloid Ilta-Sanomat on Monday. It said she was a 58-year-old Muslim and a citizen of Australia who had lived in Finland since 1971.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:49 PM
"We should evaluate the situation. We should try our best not to enter Kabul. That will be a focus," [Abdullah Abdullah] said.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:04 PM
LESSIG: The innovation of the Internet was originally tied to its architecture of neutrality. Anybody had the right to develop for it, and the network itself couldn't discriminate against new innovators. But every major change that's going on right now around the Internet is a change to undermine that neutrality, so those who control the legal system or control the physical network are able to veto innovations they don't like. So you get the right to innovate depending on whether AOL or AT&T or the music industry likes your innovation.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 07:06 PM
The report also details significant progress in efforts to eradicate the so-called "digital divide" that persists along racial, gender and economic lines. Women now make up 52 percent of U.S. Internet users, and 51 percent of African-American households are online, a 35 percent growth over 2000 and only slightly below the 60 percent penetration rate among white households.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 07:04 PM
Morrison, who has been in a relationship for three years, relies on a distinction between "chastity" and "celibacy" to keep her vow and stay in line with official church teaching. She cited the Heidelberg Confession from 1562, a foundational Presbyterian statement, for support.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:55 PM
Microsoft officials and vendors said software pirates had found ways to circumvent the system's new security features.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:53 PM
"The fact that deception requires extra work in a number of brain regions may indicate that the deception involves inhibition of the 'default' response - truth," adds Langleben. "Interestingly, this agrees with the traditional definition of deception dating back to Saint Augustine: 'Deception is denial of truth'."
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:47 PM
The London Times is reporting the 55-year-old Stallone is at work on the script for a fourth entry in the "Rambo" series, in which the title hero launches a one-main invasion of Afghanistan to do battle with the Taliban.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:39 PM
Russian officials have privately acknowledged that in the last year there have been dozens of violations of their own rules regarding nuclear security, that there has been at least one loss of fissile material, that Taliban emissaries have tried to recruit Russian scientists and that there have been at least two efforts by terrorists to stake out a secret Russian nuclear storage facility, according to senior officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Western governments.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:28 PM
Details of the Bosnia indictment were not available, but it was expected to accuse Milosevic of responsibility for the deaths of hundreds and perhaps thousands of people during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. It was delayed by several weeks to include evidence from the recent exhumations of mass graves of Bosnian civilians.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:24 PM
Their official line is that the Bin Ladens are above suspicion - apart from Osama, the black sheep, who they say hijacked the family name. That's fortunate for the Bush family and the Saudi royal household, whose links with the Bin Ladens could otherwise prove embarrassing. But Newsnight has obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of other members of the] Bin Laden family for links to terrorist organisations before and after September 11th.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:52 PM
[The first manual is from January 2001, but worth reviewing. The second two documents -- USA PATRIOT Act powers and attorney-client wiretapping -- are post-Sep-11. --DBM]
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:47 PM
It is here that I wish to praise those who have decided against the easy way out and instead have gone on the faith that good ideas and inspiration really matter. It is important to make it known that there are people who appreciate thoughtful decisions so I wish to mention a few things that make this world more enjoyable, though in this society they are always only exceptions.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:14 PM
The Angolan soldiers crossed the border in hot pursuit of Unita rebels.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:09 PM
Clear-headed, clever and deeply unostentatious, [Canadian war correspondent Lyse Doucet] has neither Ms. Banfield's residual insecurity with the subject matter nor Ms. Amanpour's gaudy egotism. Besides--as she told me over her satellite phone on Friday--she abhors flak jackets. ("Listen, I'm in Islamabad. I'm here to clarify things. I'm not going to give a false impression of danger by wearing one. There isn't a war going on here on the roof of the Marriott.")
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:09 PM
"When we came they pushed us and threatened us," said one woman. "If the Americans really want to help the poor people here they shouldn't drop everything from the sky. They must give it to us directly."
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:03 PM
This bombing is not rattling "every window-pane on the Shomali plains", as the BBC World Service reported last week; in the 14th century, which pervades most of the country, houses don't have glass in their windows - and anyway, the raids are momentary and geographically spread out. Every day, we groan as we read another colleague's copy describing how "yesterday's bombing was the most intense yet". You would be forgiven for believing that, at this rate, the plains will soon look like a First World War battleground, all stumps and craters.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 04:00 PM
Normally workers have to block off at least one lane of traffic for a full day while an exposed worker walks along the crack and seals it manually. The robot's speed and precision enables it to complete in about an hour a job that would take a day for a human to finish.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 01:16 PM
Four weeks ago, Ajeeb introduced what its founder says is the first free online service that instantly translates Arabic websites into English. The company, a division of Arabic-language programming firm Sakhr Software, has been running an English-to-Arabic translation service for more than a year.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 11:56 AM
Posted by at November 12, 2001 11:55 AM
American Airlines flight 587 from New York City to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic crashed shortly after take-off from John F. Kennedy airport on November 12, 2001, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said. The wide-body Airbus A-300 twin engine passenger jet crashed five miles from the airport in a residential area of Rockaway, in the Queens borough of New York City, said FAA spokesman William Shumann. (Michael Sales/Reuters Graphic)
Posted by at November 12, 2001 11:12 AM
All metropolitan area airports -- Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark, N.J. -- were closed after the crash, which took place in the Rockaway section of Queens. All bridges and tunnels into the city were closed except to emergency vehicles. The United Nations was partially locked down.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 11:11 AM
One plan to test a poison gas weapon in France was disrupted by European intelligence agents in March, officials said. The foiled test was an apparent prelude to unspecified future attacks. The terrorists wanted to try out what they called "the product"--a vapor that suffocates victims when inhaled. Authorities believe the product was hydrogen cyanide, a potentially lethal substance commonly used in metallurgy and gas chambers.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 10:03 AM
"[The FBI] think it's a hoax," Johnson said. "But we still don't know why they wanted the gum."
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:45 AM
Gore sought a recount of a small number of disputed ballots while the review indicates his only chance lay in a course he advocated publicly but did not pursue in court -- a full statewide recount of untallied votes!
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:29 AM
...the media generally which assumes that every new development is a permanent one. Mark my words, if the Northern Alliance took control of Mazar-e Sharif today, tomorrow the talking heads will be predicting victory before Christmas, which is just as baseless as yesterday's pronouncements that we were losing.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:24 AM
Herat is the most valuable prize in western Afghanistan. It also sits on the main highway that heads south to the Taliban's spiritual headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:05 AM
Officials alleged Wednesday that Liban Hussein's company, Barakaat North America Inc., is part of an underground network that funnelled millions of dollars to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:03 AM
The only way Mr. Gore could have pulled ahead, the results show, was to persuade the courts to order a full statewide recount of all votes. Even then, the margin would have been so slender that different recounts of the same ballots might have yielded different results.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 09:01 AM
But if Gore could have forced a statewide review of all untallied votes, the study suggests he would likely have become president by an edge of between 42 and 171 votes. Gore had publicly called for a review of all contested ballots, but his lawyers never pursued the tack in court.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:53 AM
"But this latest media recount was an undertaking that turned up additional inconclusive data. The election was settled last year and the American people have moved on. The data's inconclusive and people around here [the White House] have felt for a long time the country has moved on."
Nonsense.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:52 AM
The text reportedly accepted by a ministerial working group states that the World Trade Organisation's intellectual property rights accord, known as TRIPS, "shall not prevent (WTO) members from taking measures to protect public health".
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:42 AM
The Israeli army said merely that troops were in Tell to arrest people who participated in attacks against Israelis, and did not confirm any deaths.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:40 AM
Gore's narrow margin in the statewide count was the result of a windfall in overvotes. Those ballots -- on which a voter may have marked a candidate's name and also written it in -- were rejected by machines as a double vote on Election Day and most also would not have been included in either of the limited recounts.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:39 AM
"Already the phrase 'distinct society' is weak because Quebec is a nation and a people. So this withdrawal of a distinct society really shatters and abandons any notion of a proud and dignified Quebec."
Being Canadian is undignified and shameful?
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:36 AM
The proposed judgment will be published in US newspapers and then be open to a 60-day public comment period. After the close of the public comment period, the court will hold a conference about whether there is the need to hold a hearing on the proposed final judgment.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:32 AM
The move would leave California as the only state requiring sales of electric cars over the next several years, cutting the market for them roughly in half. California's plan begins with the 2003 model year, which goes on sale in just 9 to 10 months. It requires that at least 10 percent of the cars sold by each manufacturer be much cleaner than current cars, and that 2 percent be zero-emission vehicles, or ZEV's -- in other words, electric-powered.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:29 AM
McGeough said the vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade that exploded not on impact but when it hit the ground. Three reporters were thrown off the carrier, while the others managed to hang on.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 08:25 AM
Inside Creative Writing sprang from Mr. Butler's own fascination with the Internet. In addition to using it as a research tool, he was enchanted by Web sites that revealed the quotidian activities of ordinary people. "The act of writing a short story has been behind the veil," he said. For the first time, he said, the Internet is allowing people anywhere in the world to watch this kind of human behavior.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 07:32 AM
Linux is the long term threat against our core business. Never forget that! You should be smothering your accounts from every angle and if you see Linux and/or IBM in there with it, then get all over it. Don't lose a single win to Linux.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:59 AM
But in the next phase of the study, men in another group were allowed to control how long they viewed a particular face by pressing a key. Breiter's team found that they ``expended effort'' to see the beautiful female faces for a longer time, but for all other faces they tried only to ``make the faces disappear faster.''
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:31 AM
"Neither the public or the private facility has a monopoly on success," Sampson said of jitters over a private U.S. company taking the reins of the $85-million, 1,184-bed prison.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:19 AM
Categories that rose to the top in the judging included Canada's now famous icewines, which needed 87 points to earn a medal. The white wine categories were led by chardonnay; while in reds it was the merlots and merlot-cabernet blends that showed the strongest results. Riesling, gewurztraminer, pinot noir and other lighter reds proved weaker areas.The surprise of the judging was the success of the syrah, alias shiraz, wines now just beginning to emerge from British Columbia's warm south Okanagan region.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:18 AM
Johnstone has been urging parents who drive their children to and from school not to idle their cars outside. "Allowing your car to idle next to the school means children - including your children - are inhaling pollutants coming from your car," he said in his newsletter.
It's amazing that people have to be told this.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 06:09 AM
In principle, he says, you could design a centimeter-square chip to detect a billion things simultaneously, even variations in an individual's DNA.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 05:59 AM
Compaq Canada has entered into an exclusive agreement to be the preferred distributor of access to the Celera Discovery System (CDS)-- Celera's proprietary bioinformatics platform of database content, analysis and visualization tools -- to the non-profit research community in Canada. The CDS includes detailed, annotated data derived from Celera's groundbreaking work in sequencing the complete human genome and complete mouse genome, as well as integrated publicly available data.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 05:55 AM
Memories fill the pages in between: the holes he cut behind the ears of his toy bear to resemble the scars from surgery on his own damaged ears, the chemistry experiments, the sound of Russian bombs thudding above ground as he huddled in a cellar, his dash across the Austrian border to escape Hungary's Communist government.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 05:45 AM
Besides weapons, the expo displays debugging devices, the latest in streetlights, devices for traffic police to measure speed on the roads and even innovative fashions for snipers. There also is something to make a Russian customs officer smile -- a sensitive device said to be able to detect any narcotic.
Posted by at November 12, 2001 05:27 AM
The move is expected to cause new anxiety of arbitrary mass evictions of white farmers as Mugabe attempts to build up support ahead of presidential elections due by the end of March 2002.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 04:54 PM
Instances of torture include a 16-year-old youth who said he was soaked in freezing water, made to carry a heavy wooden beam while manacled and then beaten.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 03:50 PM
The hijackers were "blessed by Allah to destroy America's economic and military landmarks". He freely admits to being behind the attacks: "If avenging the killing of our people is terrorism then history should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents and this is legal religiously and logically."
Posted by at November 11, 2001 03:48 PM
Executed prisoners are China's primary source of transplantable organs, though few of the condemned, if any, consent to having their organs removed, people involved with the process say. Some of the unwitting donors may even be innocent, having been executed as part of a surge of executions propelled by accelerated trials and confessions that sometimes were extracted through torture.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 12:49 PM
"In mice (the vaccine) protects 90%, but again it's mice -- but it's do-able," [Dr. Kenneth Rosenthal of McMaster University] said. "We actually do hope we could get into phase 1 (trials using humans) within a few years."
Posted by at November 11, 2001 12:44 PM
"If you have...a country that is hit by, say, AIDS or malaria, who can say that country can be a good trading partner?" Rugumayo asked.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 12:39 PM
The New York Times reported Sunday that the United States had identified three possible weapons of mass destruction sites in Afghanistan used by bin Laden's al-Qaida network, and had avoided bombing them.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 12:37 PM
Then why does it all sound so familiar? So cozy and comfortable? Was it the row after row of dark blue suits, broken only by grim clusters of highranking uniforms all drizzling ribbons and medals? If everything has changed (as we all knew that it had on that first day) why does it all wear the same old outfits and say the same old words?
Posted by at November 11, 2001 10:25 AM
"This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the President's father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group."
Posted by at November 11, 2001 10:18 AM
The lines started forming all over Taiwan on Thursday. People mobbed supermarkets and corner stores to buy bottles of rice wine, a potent brew that is an essential ingredient in Taiwanese cooking.
The price of the wine will increase five-fold after Taiwan enters the World Trade Organization because, under the terms of its membership, the government must dismantle the monopoly that has controlled prices.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 10:14 AM
Most immediately, however, the city's seizure would open a strategic road link into Afghanistan from Uzbekistan about 40 miles to the north. It would allow the United States and its allies to transport substantial quantities of military gear and ammunition to the Northern Alliance, and would provide a route for far greater humanitarian relief supplies than U.S. air drops have been able to supply to up to now.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 10:08 AM
Northern Alliance Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah told Reuters on Sunday the opposition would prefer to await a political agreement before entering Kabul, but might take the city if there was a power vacuum.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:49 AM
Even when the lights go out momentarily in the shopping mall where he displays his products, he says to himself, "My God, what's happening?"
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:43 AM
At one point in the march, demonstrators stomped on a U.S. flag in the street. An elderly woman on the sidelines swept it up in her hands and kissed it before the flag was handed back to marchers, who then threw it back on the ground.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:37 AM
The Quebec Liberal party's general council unanimously adopted a proposal Saturday that calls for the inclusion of a mention of Quebec's "specificity" within the framework of the Constitution.
Screw that. Screw Quebec. I was born in British Columbia, and I say British Columbia is every bit as bizarre and unique as Quebec. So how about Quebec just shuts the hell up and quits acting so stupidly superior? Equal to British Columbia is a remarkably high rating -- but I'll never stand for "better".
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:36 AM
Alberta intends to lead a challenge to determine exactly what the word "comprehensive" means in the Canada Health Act, Klein said.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:31 AM
The veterans are seeking six billion shillings ($76 million) compensation, charging torture, imprisonment, unlawful detention, loss of land, property and loss of loved ones during the colonial period, Kenya's People on Sunday said.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:29 AM
In a historic initiative that will incense civil liberties groups, David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, will lay the order before the House of Commons in the next 48 hours, to be followed by anti-terrorist legislation which will be rushed through in the next four weeks.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:21 AM
Mir said the first time (1997) when he went to meet Laden, the latter had entertained him with many things to eat, including roasted sheep. "But when I met him last time, he could offer me only bread and tea. That shows that his position is not good. If he was not able to entertain his guests, so how could he manage a big army of volunteers in Afghanistan? I don't think he has many people. Actually the Western media and governments are projecting him as a King Kong," the Ausaf editor said, and added that bin Laden is not capable of doing what has happened in the US.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 09:19 AM
In addition to the weekend and picture effects, they found that auctions that last longer attract more bidders and end up attracting higher sale prices. Experience also seems to play a hand. More experienced sellers are able to attract higher bids, based on their reputation as a seller.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 07:46 AM
Though, there are differences between the original and the photocopy, including slight variations in their paint schemes, attributed to the randomness of development in a host womb. Margo II, during walks, also trudges up hills differently than her original. But Warren can still see the mirror image of his Margo.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 06:56 AM
Posted by at November 11, 2001 06:39 AM
Andrei Knyazev, 46, lost control of his car on Jan. 27, according to investigators, and struck two women on a sidewalk in Ottawa. One victim was killed, and the other was left seriously injured.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 06:30 AM
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World did not dignify the ruling with comment. Instead, it published a two-page spread entitled "Osama had booze-filled sex romps with hookers," based on a "secret FBI dossier" which explained that Mr bin Laden's hatred of America originated from an encounter with a girl from Chicago who laughed at his small penis. Mr bin Laden is not expected to sue.
Posted by at November 11, 2001 06:26 AM
But it put the WTO on notice that a trade round could only succeed if it addressed the gap between rich and poor nations, and ensured that all countries would gain from globalisation, as it staked its claim to lead the group of developing countries.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 04:37 PM
The investigators have been able to identify at least one briefcase weapon acquired by Al Qaeda from Central Asian rogue groups.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 04:33 PM
"When I saw the fall colours for the first time in my life, I said I'll never be a portrait photographer," said Malak. "I want to photograph the entire country."
Posted by at November 10, 2001 11:19 AM
Rather than protesting by carrying signs, or by marching, citizens will protest by going on shooting sprees. Armed with their own photographic or videographic cameras and recording devices, and shielded with masks or disguises, ordinary citizens will dish out some accountability while remaining anonymous to the massive proliferation of face tracking surveillance.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 11:18 AM
"The RCMP came in and told us to report anybody who is looking for things like gas masks," said Dan Ferran, manager of Irving Rivers work clothing shop. "They said to keep an eye out ... because you never know, if those protesters get armed, you don't want to see that."
Posted by at November 10, 2001 10:38 AM
Miss Clinton left with her Secret Service bodyguards shortly afterwards, stopping to buy a copy of the Morning Star from a vendor, and making "yet more noise", according to Ms Beinart.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 10:35 AM
"We want Canada to evolve and modernize its way of practising federalism," Mr. Mr. Charest told delegates at a Liberal party meeting to adopt a new constitutional position. "Before proposing constitutional amendments, we have to prepare the way and establish a climate of confidence."
Posted by at November 10, 2001 10:20 AM
``The Shopping Boyfriend is the ultimate retail therapist: enthusiastic, attentive, admiring and complimentary,'' said Carol-Ann Stewart from drinks company Lucozade Energy, which behind the pilot scheme.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 07:30 AM
In this special editorial for ALA, Opera CTO Hakon Lie debunks Microsoft's claim that browser blocking at MSN.com has anything to do with 'web standards.' Though he is hardly an impartial observer, Lie's argument is worth reading, because it is based on the time-honored method of comparing a product to the claims made for it.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 07:29 AM
"We missed the Industrial Revolution. We will not miss the Information Technology Revolution," said Matthew Coon Come, head of the Assembly of First Nations, the national organization of native people in Canada.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 07:11 AM
It's unclear how the waxing and waning of gamma activity in the rhinal cortex and the hippocampus boosts memory, the researchers note. Preliminary evidence suggests that gamma waves in the hippocampus render cells more capable of receiving incoming messages, they say.
Posted by at November 10, 2001 07:10 AM
What makes Saudi-binladin-group.com so interesting is not just that it was once an official SBG website, but that it was registered on Sept. 11, 2000, with a pre-set expiration date of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a "whois" search of the Internet domain registry VeriSign.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 08:17 PM
The British government is also intent on opposing the expansion of the war beyond Afghanistan and is horrified at elements within the Pentagon pushing for an all-out assault on Iraq.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 08:15 PM
Schuett got a $2,500 signing bonus when he signed up with San Jose-based Valiant Networks. In October, he lost his job after just six months. Soon after, he received a letter from Valiant threatening him with a collection agency if he didn't return half the bonus.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 07:06 PM
Saying that maintaining a combat-capable force is "essential" to ensuring that Canada has a legitimate voice on the international stage, the report prepared for the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (CMSS) says that the authors are "somewhat incredulous of recent statements by senior military leaders that the Canadian Forces are more combat capable today than they were a decade ago."
Posted by at November 09, 2001 05:08 PM
The Taliban confirmed that opposition troops had entered southern parts of Mazar-e-Sharif "after heavy American bombing," according to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press. The agency said Taliban forces were assembling outside the city.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 05:08 PM
The precautions followed the Oct. 17 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi by militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group said the killing was meant to avenge Israel's assassination of PFLP leader Mustafa Zibri in his office.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 05:05 PM
"Providing Internet service is a monopoly of the state.... Any organization providing ISP shall dismantle their installations or transfer them to the state sector within six months," the paper quoted a council decree as saying.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 04:06 PM
"They told us we had to follow them, because they too had abandoned school (to join the rebellion)," he said. "Some of them I recognised because we had studied together, and shared school meals at the same table. One knew me and said 'I'm glad you are with us now, let's go to the forest together'."
Posted by at November 09, 2001 04:01 PM
One of its shareholders is the Al-Barakaat group of companies, whose interests include banking and telecommunications services. Several Barakaat operations have been named as having links to terrorist groups in a new blacklist published by the US Treasury on 7 November.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 03:59 PM
When anti-globalisation protesters laid siege to the G8 summit in Genoa it took steel barricades, ranks of riot police and clouds of tear gas to allow the world's industrial leaders to do business.
The detailed objections of the more thoughtful campaigners may have been drowned in the uproar, but world trade was a headline issue.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 03:51 PM
The bill, which came into force yesterday, requires lawyers, bankers, realtors, investors and other financial agents to secretly report to the government when they suspect a client may be involved in money laundering.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 03:46 PM
The U.S. army is using it in Washington because of the anthrax scare. It was standard equipment at the Sydney Olympics and the system is being shipped to Singapore, Denmark and Korea.
But National Defence hasn't placed a large order even though Canada has admitted it needs a decontamination system.
[...]
The federal government's competitive bid process will take until 2005.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 02:52 PM
Until Sept. 20, Mohamed Attiah worked as an engineer at AECL. Attiah, 54, was born in Egypt, and his name sounds like that of Mohammad Atta, one of the alleged ringleaders of the Sept. hijackings.
A third man, named Mohamed Attia, was arrested in Toronto. Police say he had a homemade bomb.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 02:47 PM
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft approved the eavesdropping rule on an emergency basis last week, without the usual waiting period for public comment. It went into effect immediately, permitting the government to monitor conversations and intercept mail between people in custody and their attorneys for up to a year at a time.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 02:39 PM
The change is more symbolic than material. AtRandom was already publishing both electronic versions and paper versions of all their books and that policy will continue at the other imprints.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 02:05 PM
True to their [legal] profession, they have outlined a detailed list of points that must be rebutted in order to qualify for the reward. The qualifying entry must address topics such as materialization, instrumental trans-communication, near death experiences and out of body experiences-among many others.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 12:56 PM
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Robert Jones granted the temporary restraining order requested by Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers and blocked Ashcroft and the DEA from pursuing doctors in the state.
Posted by at November 09, 2001 12:47 PM
Even when Bush is riding high, nearly half of Americans don't believe he won the election fair and square.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 06:03 PM
"Most Americans will be shocked, appalled and outraged to learn that their Constitution does not grant them the right to vote. The 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments prohibit 'discrimination' in voting on the basis of race, sex and age -- but does not extend to (Americans) the right to vote," Jackson said, recalling Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's admonition to Al Gore's lawyers during last year's Florida dispute that no such protection exists. "Even though the right to vote is the supreme right in a democracy, the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore told Americans there is no explicit fundamental right to suffrage in the Constitution."
Posted by at November 08, 2001 06:01 PM
The sources confirmed that these bodies are of US Special Forces troops who lost their lives on the course of the campaign in Afghanistan.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:59 PM
The same amount of money put into military efforts must go toward socioeconomic efforts in the country, Mr. Axworthy said.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:42 PM
While the committee didn't set a figure for an increased defence budget, it did point out a Conference of Defence Associations study that concluded the annual shortfall was $1-billion and recommended the $11-billion budget be boosted by $5-billion over five years.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:41 PM
The bathroom did have water, even hot water as promised. No soap or toilet paper. I asked the floor lady. Toilet paper and shampoo appeared. She offered to change money too, at a pretty good rate. It was, it turned out, a full service kind of place. When she returned with the money, she offered me a prostitute too -- eering, laughing, and making obscene gestures all at the same time. No thanks.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:26 PM
``Once we work out some specific objectives, the creative community will be invited back in,'' one source said.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:23 PM
Nyarota said he was told their arrests were part of a police probe into the investment structure of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), which publishes the Daily News.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:21 PM
According to the Daily News story, the president said Dissanayake had pleaded with her to become an absolute dictator. Dissanayake told Kumaratunga to gag the independent news media, which were critical of the government, and then made this statement: "Madam, the government is very weak and it could collapse at any time. If necessary I will even kill an editor or two who is critical of the government."
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:19 PM
"I think it's best that I share with Mr. Putin the acceptable level of offensive weapons before I do with you," Bush told a reporter during a news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:16 PM
Abu Okasha, a spokesman for Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami, told the BBC that the fighters were killed on Thursday south of the key northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:10 PM
Still passing around electronic peace petitions? The United Nations wants you to know that it is not interested. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, the U.N.?s online information center put up a message that entreats folks to quit forwarding petitions and other emails to the U.N. and its officials. The web site says that the organization has received an overwhelming number of email messages tied to a petition asking the U.S. not to go to war. ?While we were heartened by this effort, the United Nations Secretariat (to which we are employed) is an implementing organ for the actions and programs agreed upon and supported by its 189 Member States,? the site says. ?If individuals really want their voices heard by these decision-makers, they should contact their governments and mission to the UN to express concerns and views.? Despite this plea, however, well-meaning but misguided electronic anti-war petitions are still making the inbox rounds.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:08 PM
Pilot projects in developing countries show that the birth rate declines when women have an equal say in family planning, the report notes.
[What a shocker! -- GT]
Posted by at November 08, 2001 05:03 PM
Jeffrey Loria, owner of the Montreal Expos, is negotiating to buy the Marlins from John Henry, and Henry is negotiating to buy the Angels from the Walt Disney Company. Selig denied yesterday that those talks are having any impact on his disclosure of the two teams he says will be eliminated before next season.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 03:15 PM
"I don't really know anything more than anyone else does," [Expos pitching ace Javier Vazquez] said in an interview. "I'm reading as much as possible, and going on the Internet to try to find out the latest news."
Posted by at November 08, 2001 02:45 PM
"I think it will show more or less ... the ultimate limit for Moore's Law," Schon said.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 02:30 PM
Holmes, 72, had planned to end his life with the help of a doctor under Oregon's assisted-suicide law, the only one of its kind in the nation. But his doctor has turned him down because a new directive from U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft effectively blocks the Oregon law.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 02:28 PM
Martin has argued that decriminalizing marijuana possession would free up police resources to fight other crimes, a move he says could save about $150 million in court costs.
Posted by at November 08, 2001 02:00 PM
``Judge Fogel's ruling holds that if you have a U.S.-based Web site, you are subject to U.S. law and you are protected by the First Amendment. Foreign court orders will not be enforced.''
Posted by at November 08, 2001 01:58 PM
"Arabs live in Afghanistan, but they have no such camps which can be used against any other country," Zaeef said. "If necessary, Afghans will fight for 100 years, but they won't abandon Islam. Jihad is now mandatory."
Posted by at November 07, 2001 04:22 PM
[The Treasure of Bactria] was excavated in 1978, when the county's former Communist ruler President Najibullah sealed it in seven trunks and hid it in a vault carved out of rock, protected by a steel door, bolted shut by seven locks with keys held by seven different people.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 03:25 PM
Posted by at November 07, 2001 12:38 PM
...Taiwan would scrap its "no haste, be patient" policy which had restricted China-bound projects, and replace it with the so-called "aggressive opening, effective management" approach to help lift the economy.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 12:04 PM
The report follows a previous opinion of the Assembly on the draft Council of Europe Convention on Cyber-crime, and reiterates the Assembly's request that an additional protocol be drawn up to the Convention as quickly as possible, defining and criminalizing hate messages, and taking into account "unlawful hosting" on Internet sites.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 12:00 PM
"You can't take pictures here," the guard told him.
"Says who?" Scheide asked.
"Says me," the guard yelled.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 10:40 AM
After an initial wave of international support and sympathy following the attacks on Washington and New York, the United States has seen signs of wavering opinion not only in Muslim countries, angered by reports of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, but in Europe.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 10:36 AM
Now Conyers is in a snit because some DOJers might have been having, gasp, some favorable-to-Microsoft conversations! Personally, I think it's reasonable to be concerned by clandestine influence-peddling talks -- of any kind. Conyers, alas, seems only interested in condemning the kind of clandestine talks that could lead to a settlement in the Microsoft case.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 10:01 AM
The list includes Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, chairman of the ruling council, and his deputy ministers, including those responsible for aviation, army staff, intelligence, martyrs and repatriation and preventing vice and propagating virtue.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 09:37 AM
Cows are sacred to Hindus in India but are eaten over the border.
Posted by at November 07, 2001 07:43 AM
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"Any viewers enjoying these photos should remember that they were donated to an institution, not discarded, and that is why they are available here today. Never throw any porno away! Much of our heritage has been destroyed by so many obvious threats: prudery, shame, stupidity among others. So if you have a collection of erotica, please put it in good hands before you leave the planet!"
Posted by at November 07, 2001 07:07 AM
Richard Blumenthal, attorney general of Connecticut, vowing to pursue the Microsoft antitrust case
Posted by at November 07, 2001 06:44 AM
The suspects had agreed to sell the officers 2.56 pounds of uranium of a quality which could be used to develop a nuclear weapon, the police official told Reuters.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:46 PM
A stealth bomber flies over Bank One Ballpark before Game 7 of the World Series Sunday Nov. 4, 2001, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:40 PM
"They're sitting around and not talking and may have information that could save American lives here and abroad," Bill Shine, the executive producer of the Fox News Channel, said of current government detainees. "And people are starting to say how can we get information out of them while respecting their constitutional rights."
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:38 PM
The Delta team stormed the complex, and found little of value: no Mullah and no significant documents.
"As they came out of the house, the shit hit the fan," one senior officer recounted. "It was like an ambush. The Taliban were firing light arms and either R.P.G.s" -- rocket-propelled grenades -- "or mortars." The chaos was terrifying. A high-ranking officer who has had access to debriefing reports told me that the Taliban forces were firing grenades, and that they seemed to have an unlimited supply.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:34 PM
5,000 pages of U.S. government documents covering the activities of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda (Arabic for the Base) network, archived on CD-ROM. Osama bin Laden (Osama bin Ladin) and al Qaeda (al Qaida) have been accused of several acts and conspiracies against the United States, including the September 11th, 2001, attack on New York's World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon building.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:29 PM
"They would say bin Laden was an honored guest. It would not be appropriate to expel him," said Inderfurth. "They would say he was under their control, which we knew was not the case."
Asked if the evidence was clear enough to convince the Taliban of bin Laden's guilt, Inderfurth said, "There was enough evidence that we got the U.N. Security Council to go along, 15 to zero, on a demand that they turn over bin Laden."
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:27 PM
Seventh Day Adventist pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana is being jointly tried with his son Gerald Ntakirutimana. At the time of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Elizaphan was pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist church at Mugonero in Kibuye, western Rwanda. Gerald was a medical doctor at the infirmary which lay in the same complex. The two are charged with five counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:26 PM
National president of NACOMYO, Alhaji Isaaq Kunle Sanni, who addressed a press conference before they took off chronicled what he described as the atrocities of the US against the world, describing the American government as "evil personified."
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:25 PM
But Israel's defence ministry says it will maintain a security blockade around Ramallah - the seat of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank - after the withdrawal.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:23 PM
"This bill is obscene," said Rocco Galati, lawyer for the CIC. "You might as well delete the Constitution from our landscape." He told committee members, "You are invoking extraordinary measures that we haven't seen since June 21 of 1941 (Second World War) and October of 1970 (War Measures Act)."
Posted by at November 06, 2001 09:18 PM
Southeast Asian economies are already suffering from a sharp decline in exports and the growing threat of deflation. China's entry into the WTO will heighten trade tensions in Asia, with regional governments likely resorting to protectionist measures to counter Beijing's strength. This will lead to even sharper conflicts, and a trade war may break out in the short term.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 06:24 PM
"What we found is that sunspots are not static but consist of very strong, downward flows of plasma - electrically charged gas - travelling toward the interior of the Sun at speeds of about 4,800 kilometres per hour (3,000 miles per hour)," Kosovichev said.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 06:21 PM
However, Jamie Jones, an A&E charge nurse from Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, warned a totally open policy could have drawbacks.
"You are going have a lot of flipped-out parents."
Posted by at November 06, 2001 06:20 PM
Yet, as George Orwell noted, "any fair-minded person with journalistic experience will admit that during this war, official censorship has not been particularly irksome." By and large, most U.S. reporters agreed with him. No one wanted to report anything that might jeopardize Allied operations or hurt civilian morale. Even when confronted on the battlefield with what would now be denounced as Allied atrocities, reporters kept quiet.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 04:38 PM
As panicky residents in Mississippi cry anthrax, FBI scientists are still begging their administrative superiors to talk to a Virginia resident who, as a Soviet researcher, helped make the lion's share of the world's biological weapons. Then there's the robotics firm in Little Italy that designs deep-digging probes for NASA's Mars missions 35 million miles away, but doesn't know who to call to help look through the World Trade Center rubble a few blocks south.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 04:32 PM
Nichols' attorneys asked Judge Ray Dean Linder if former FBI Agent Dan Vogel could testify that he had received 22 affidavits from Oklahomans who had seen McVeigh in the company of Middle Eastern men in the months, weeks, and days leading up to the bombing, and on the day of the attack.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 04:30 PM
?This war is fundamentally religious,? he claimed. ?It is a question of faith, not a war against terrorism, as Bush and Blair try to depict it.?
This tirade may seem bizarre, almost comical, to most westerners. [...] But government leaders in many Muslim countries know that Mr bin Laden?s analysis, however far-fetched, is finding a ready audience among many of their citizens.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 04:03 PM
Both Russia and India are eager to convince the West that they are each already fighting their own front-line battle against terrorism, thereby hoping to be given free rein to choose their methods.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:55 PM
The bomb mangled more than a dozen cars and shattered windows along Corazon de Maria street in northeastern Madrid as thousands of people headed to nearby offices and schools. The street parallels the main highway to the international airport and is in one of the capital's busiest areas.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:51 PM
Ashcroft said assisted suicide is not a ``legitimate medical purpose'' for prescribing, dispensing or administering federally controlled substances. However, he said pain management is a valid medical use of controlled substances.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:50 PM
(indieWIRE/11.05.01) -- Iranian authorities arrested filmmaker Tahmineh Milani ("Two Women") last month and held her for eight days on charges yet to be made public. Milani's arrest is the most recent action in an ongoing struggle between religious conservatives and reformers in Iran. Journalists, academics and even translators have been sentenced to prison for over ten years for distributing information the right-wing judiciary disapproved of. Milani is the first filmmaker to be arrested.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:44 PM
In announcing the appointment today, the State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher, said Mr. Dobbins would travel extensively in the Middle East and South Asia to confer with Afghan tribal leaders and major representatives of the Northern Alliance and southern Pashtun factions, many of whom consider one another mortal enemies.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:43 PM
If confirmed, the capture would be the opposition's biggest breakthrough since the United States began its bombing campaign nearly a month ago, a New York Times correspondent, Dexter Filkins, reported from Khoja Bahauddin, near Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:42 PM
Within an hour of the explosion, police arrested a man and woman suspected of carrying out the attack.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:35 PM
The request includes help in combating nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; medical services; special forces; air transport and naval forces to protect shipping lanes, Schroeder told a news conference. But specific decisions on deployment would have to be made by parliament, he said.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:34 PM
The wife of a Canadian man and five of her accomplices have confessed to killing him in Kuwait last month in a plot to collect his insurance money, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:22 PM
Jean-Guy Carignan, the Liberal MP for the Qubec City riding of Qubec-Est, was charged after a 20-year-old woman suffered minor injuries when hit by a car on Oct. 3, 2000.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:21 PM
I am the author of a web site, which as you note uses the domain names jerryfallwell.com and jerryfalwell.com, that parodies your client, Jerry Falwell. The parody both reminds the public of your client's hateful remarks about the causes of the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States, and evokes his criticism of the hypocritical attitudes that some Christians display toward compliance with biblical dictates, by suggesting that he himself ignores a significant biblical dictate. This is a completely non-commercial web site, which exists for the sole purpose of expressing, through a parody, my opinion that your client is a jerk.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 03:19 PM
``The temperature changes caused by global warming are increasing the length of the season in which the animal can grow, develop and reproduce,'' he said. ``As a result, animals that reproduce later in the season have a greater opportunity to leave their genes in the population.''
Posted by at November 06, 2001 12:49 PM
Interest in backyard bat houses has increased among Florida homeowners since July, when mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus were first detected in the state.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 12:39 PM
"No bags of any kind will be allowed in any of the keynote programs," the site states. "This includes backpacks, laptop bags, shopping bags, briefcases, etc. No cameras will be allowed."
Posted by at November 06, 2001 12:33 PM
On one short trip, two-thirds of the networks we discovered using a laptop and free software tools were found to be wide open.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 12:32 PM
The judge is now expected to dismiss the federal settlement agreement and start remedy hearings to decide on penalties against Microsoft.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 12:31 PM
Camera buff Gabrielle Taylor gives us an in-depth, zoomed-in, focused look at digital cameras. If you have any interest at all in digital photography, you?ll learn a lot in this fact-packed article.
Posted by at November 06, 2001 12:13 PM
Code named Eclipse, the software is to be used in the movement to build a variety of integrated Internet-based applications on a Linux-based operating system as well as Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 07:40 PM
The three airports from which the September 11 terrorist hijackers departed -- Logan in Boston, Washington Dulles and Newark International -- had some of the lowest rates for detecting weapons among the 25 U.S. airports with the largest passenger volume. Industry experts believe that rates should not vary greatly airport to airport. The detection rates are the percentage of violations that involve weapons.
The nation's top 25 airports are listed below alphabetically, broken down by the number and type of weapons security screeners detected between 1991-2000.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 05:09 PM
"What has changed is Sweden's freedom to maneuver. It's now possible to do things with other countries that couldn't have been done before the Cold War ended," says Dahlgren, noting Sweden's participation in joint NATO military maneuvers that would have angered the Soviet Union of a dozen years ago.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 04:42 PM
Countries can object just once to the setting up of a panel and if Canada renews its request at next month's meeting of the disputes panel, the request will go through automatically, the officials said.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 04:39 PM
In addition to the arms embargo, the UN has already banned Liberia from trading in diamonds, accusing it of selling them on behalf of a rebel group in neighbouring Sierra Leone, in exchange for weapons.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 04:38 PM
A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 04:36 PM
Gurung had been arrested Saturday night and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and attempting to board an aircraft with a weapon, both misdemeanor charges. Gurung, who said he was from Nepal, was initially released on bond and told to appear in court December 19.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 04:28 PM
While the case was fictional, senior prosecutor, Ontario Ministry of Attorney General and prosecutor in the Moon case Scott Hutchison said he sees Internet-related cases all the time. There are lots more to come. He added the only thing that made this case unique was it was an American citizen committing a crime in Canada; It's much more likely to be the other way around.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 04:05 PM
Two committees from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will hold concurrent meetings in Ottawa.
I would give my left ovary to get back up to Ottawa in time for this. Book's stable enough to travel and the bucolic splendors of New Brunswick (as illustrated in the Hypercube picture of the day are wearing pretty darn thin.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 02:22 PM
Asked if the state is likely to change its position before a court hearing tomorrow, she said, "Most likely not."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 01:26 PM
We are pleased to return to the Burbank Star Motor Lodge for this annual extravaganza which features models and designers from around the world, showcasing the latest trends in Meat Hat fashions.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 12:54 PM
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...after Sept. 11, said Joel Tractenberg, partner and copywriter at Tractenberg Advertising in New York, which created the ad, "people went from thinking we were comic geniuses to sociopaths really quickly."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:59 AM
Janet Daley, in the right-leaning British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, went further: "A whole swathe of this country's educated class is unable to distinguish between right and wrong. There is no other possible conclusion. There are apparently thousands of people out there who think that it is quite acceptable to see the mass murder of innocent people as a message that needed to be delivered."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:56 AM
Bin Laden was in the city mainly to "boost the morale of the people who have been braving the carpet bombing (by the US) for the last couple of days", the 'Pakistan Observer' quoted "reliable sources" as saying.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:50 AM
During previous hunger strikes by Horne, militant supporters threatened to assassinate 10 leading scientists and animal breeders if he died.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:39 AM
Bizarrely, the area where security was most obviously breached -- airlines -- is the one area that is taking longest to sort out. All agree that airline security needs to be improved. However, while the Senate believes baggage screeners should be federal employees, the administration and Republicans in Congress are loth to add 28,000 potential union members to the federal payroll. The House Republicans got their way, and there will now be further weeks of wrangling over a compromise before America gets the airline security bill it so badly needs.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:37 AM
The heightened strain between the South Asian adversaries - who continue to daily trade artillery and small arms fire across the volatile Kashmir frontier in what the Indian Army calls a 'no-war-no-peace' situation - comes at a crucial, albeit highly avoidable, juncture in the US-led alliance's war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:34 AM
The dismal U.S. employment figures - which translate to 415,000 people losing their jobs in a month - mean "the U.S. economy will definitely be on the downside in the coming months," he said, and "unless something pretty unlikely happens," Canada will follow.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:30 AM
"You think this is democracy?" he asked. "We don't have democracy in our country. Before it was (Burhanuddin) Rabbani and (Gulbuddin) Hekmatyar who killed us with their rockets," referring to the country's rulers before the Taliban took power in 1996.
"And now the Taliban will kill us with their guns," he added. "The people in this country have no tongue with which to speak anymore."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:19 AM
Abdulla Noman, who works for the U.S. Department of Commerce issuing visas at the American Consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, was arrested Thursday in a Las Vegas Strip hotel room, authorities said. He is being held in federal custody.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:17 AM
"Understanding the complexity of the world is one of our brain's most difficult tasks," he said. "It needs more than our hours of awake time to get the job done."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:16 AM
[Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang] Schuessel stirred controversy on Austria's national day last month, saying, "the old cliches - Lippizaner, Mozart chocolate balls and neutrality - are no longer applicable in the complex reality of the 21st Century".
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:15 AM
Somalia has been a center of Qaida activity since 1993, when Mr. bin Laden sent several top lieutenants to provide assistance to General Mohammed Farah Aideed, a local warlord. General Aideed's forces killed 18 U.S. Army soldiers serving in a UN peacekeeping force in October that year. Television images of a dead American being dragged through the streets of the capital, Mogadishu, shocked the Clinton administration and precipitated its decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from the country.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 10:14 AM
Generally, people said they don't want to see the job-creation programs paid for through cuts to health care or education, higher taxes or by running up a deficit. Even new security requirements would not justify cutting health care spending or raising taxes, according to 82 per cent of respondents.
But the ranks of people willing to tolerate a deficit or tax increase appear to be growing -- 43 per cent cent said they would not mind a deficit, and 37 per cent said they would rather have a rise in personal taxes than a deficit.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:54 AM
"You've got people saying Yes, we should be more strict," said Bourque.
"But also Yes, we should remain true to how we've defined ourselves as Canadians as being a welcoming country for people from around the world."
In other words, change the process, not the values, he added.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:52 AM
The official China Daily newspaper said 11 tons of liquid sodium cyanide had leaked into a tributary of the Luohe river in Henan province, about 800 kilometres southwest of Beijing, following a traffic accident.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:49 AM
The study addresses a simple question: how many of the 15 recognized antiretroviral drugs for treating AIDS have been patented by their makers in how many of Africa's 53 countries?
It calculates that only 22 percent of the 795 patents theoretically available across Africa have been awarded, in most cases because the companies that own the patents have not bothered to apply.
And yet, everyone acknowledges that anti-retroviral drugs are still too expensive to be widely obtainable in Africa at prices people can afford.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:48 AM
Flynn believes that the new [Canada-US border] controls are imposing a horrendous economic cost. Even worse, they are ultimately unworkable. "We will never have the manpower to keep this up. We're inspecting in the dark. We have no sense of what's high risk and what's low risk."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:45 AM
At hotels, guest houses where the foreign media teams were staying, guides, receptionists, taxi drivers and other made contacts with the foreign journalists and began to guide them about the individuals, places, organization and even some sensitive issues about which they had neither an a idea nor any understanding.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:37 AM
Michel Peyrard of Paris-Match, who was freed on Saturday night, said he had taught his Taliban guards the words of a French pop song, "Les Champs Elysees" by Joe Dassin. When American aircraft raided Jalalabad, the city where he was being held, the guards climbed on to the prison roof and sang: "Hey, Mr Bush, aux Champs Elysees."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:36 AM
It will be the first time a Christian cleric has appeared on the station.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:33 AM
Pakistan's leader said Saturday he would not press Rumsfeld for a temporary end to the military campaign by the beginning of Ramadan. While saying he would like the campaign to be short and would prefer an end by Ramadan, Musharraf said he understands it is difficult to set timetables on military objectives.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:30 AM
"I didn't want the fighting to destroy the country," the commander, Mohammed Hasham Habib Gorzovani, also known as Hasham Khan, said by telephone Saturday. "I wanted to surrender in peace."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:29 AM
Meanwhile, 83% of respondents said they believe it is important or very important for companies to have emergency plans for the safety of staff, though almost half of those responding -- 47% -- said "little or no thought has been given to the subject." Only 29% said they have plans or are in the process of developing such plans for the protection of employees.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:26 AM
If his reception is less than entirely welcoming, Adams wouldn't be the first foreign dignitary to be accused of terrorism. Last June, Canadian Alliance MP Rob Anders denounced Nelson Mandela as a terrorist.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:24 AM
The fighters died when American missiles hit a hotel used as a Taleban base in western Kabul, eyewitnesses told Reuters news agency.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 09:22 AM
The above applet is a rendering of a great many weblogs, and all the links that interconnect them. Each little box represents a weblog (and each can be clicked on, highlighting it and showing its name and URL), and each line represents a link. When a particular weblog is selected, outgoing links will be colored tan, incoming links red, and mutual links black.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 07:43 AM
The states appear to be deeply divided over how to proceed with the case, in light of the judge's instructions, possible resistance from the Justice Department and the resources required to continue the nearly 4-year-old antitrust battle, sources said. The states largely focused their attention on numerous apparent loopholes in the consent decree and the limited scope of the agreement...
Posted by at November 05, 2001 07:25 AM
The agreement: Devil's in the details
The key word to the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Department of Justice appears to be "except."Posted by at November 05, 2001 07:22 AM
Since Antinori and Zavos told the world they intended to clone humans to help infertile couples have children, they have been ostracised by much of the international medical community.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 07:20 AM
Cheviot writes: "It seems Apple's new iTunes 2 installer deletes the contents of users' hard drives if the drives have been partitioned. I personally lost more than 100gb of data. More information is available at Apples Discussions board. (registration required). Apple has pulled the installer, but for hundreds, if not thousands, the damage is already done."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 07:03 AM
Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs [4000 years ago].
Posted by at November 05, 2001 06:59 AM
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The capacity of Internet links between Latin America and the rest of the world has quintupled over the past year, a faster rise than for any other region, according to TeleGeography. Its "Packet Geography 2002" report calculates international Internet bandwidth per person for 65 countries. The worst-connected region is Africa, with 13% of the world's population but only 0.15% of international Internet connections.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 06:46 AM
"No other profession makes a difference to so many young peoples lives."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 06:43 AM
The virtual newspaper might be pressing its way into our lives, but Liz Alderman, the deputy business editor at the IHT, still prefers holding a bit of history in her hands. Here are some sites for the real thing - vintage newspapers.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 06:39 AM
Asked whether the U.S. settlement would have any effect on the EU probe, Torres said: "It's much too early to say. There might be certain features in the U.S. settlement which might or might not have an impact on the Commission's own investigation involving Microsoft."
Posted by at November 05, 2001 06:33 AM
Selling ring tones is big business in Europe and Asia, but the industry is still relatively unregulated. Several industry insiders estimated that up to 65% of all ring-tone companies aren't properly licensed.
Posted by at November 05, 2001 06:31 AM
The soldiers chased them, and then the two sides engaged in a four-hour gunbattle, the official said. The troops found 10 bodies at daybreak and recovered a large amount of arms and ammunition from a nearby guerrilla hide-out.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:28 AM
``He was standing there and shooting,'' Marcus told Israel radio. ``I got out of the car. I fired. I emptied an entire clip. He fell. Then two soldiers came, and I showed them where he was, and they shot him with their M-16s,'' he said.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:26 AM
We need more kids with ponytails and earrings that are computer literate,'' Cetron said.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:22 AM
It could not be learned whether the agency was successful in retrieving its classified records from the wreckage.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:12 AM
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) will be able to intercept communications between Canadians and foreigners, whether by phone, fax, e-mail, street-corner whisper, or encrypted smoke-signals -- all without the muss and fuss of having to get a judge's permission.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:08 AM
The Pentagon could not give details of what really happened near Kandahar "because it doesn't want to appear that it doesn't know what it's doing." Another senior officer says, "I don't know where the adult supervision for these operations is. Franks -- the general in charge of the U.S. Central Command -- is clueless."
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:07 AM
"Even though it is at an early stage, we do believe it is a dissident grouping - probably that group that is behind this."
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:04 AM
Mr Arafat urged Israel to "withdraw its troops from areas under Palestinian sovereignty, raise the blockade imposed for the last 14 months and suspend its policy of murdering Palestinian activists".
But Mr Peres replied: "You must understand there are limits to what we can do. We want to be your neighbours and friends, but we don't want to commit suicide".
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:03 AM
U.S. security officials said the Israeli passports were discovered in the investigation that immediately followed the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington. They said the passports were either stolen or forged.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 10:01 AM
Filling 11 volumes and circulated both in book form and on CD-Rom to terrorist instructors, it offers guidance on how to inject frozen food with biochemical agents to create mass panic, rig up a door lock to explode when the handle is turned, and bring down a plane with a missile.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 09:59 AM
But several academics gathered in Montreal for an international conference on online education fear this revolutionary tool will negatively affect the quality of education at universities. David Noble, a professor of history at York University in Toronto, does not use e-mail. He never has.
[Like getting sex tips from a nun -- GT]
Posted by at November 04, 2001 07:20 AM
The U.S. cost of the space station, for instance, has grown from an estimated $17.4 billion in 1993 to roughly $30 billion because of launch delays and unreasonable budget caps set by Washington, the panel said.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 07:16 AM
I think there's a laugh a minute.
Posted by at November 04, 2001 07:11 AM
Whatever the public rhetoric, there's little love lost between the Taliban and Iranian regimes. Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to deny that this self-exculpatory, paranoiac Islam is an ideology with widespread appeal.
Posted by at November 03, 2001 07:57 PM
The US Defence Department said in a statement: "The landing severely damaged the helicopter. Four members of the crew were injured, none life-threatening.
Posted by at November 03, 2001 07:54 PM
The newspaper said that the former officer told of a training camp called Salman Pak in Iraq where members of bin Laden's terror network had trained as pilots and on how to seize control of aircraft.
Posted by at November 03, 2001 07:51 PM
Professor Seigfried Meryn says men already have higher rates for all major causes of death, shorter life expectancy and women can now do their jobs just as well.
Posted by at November 03, 2001 05:01 PM
The technology also filters content within websites: Wired News was accessible via the browser, but the headline for a story about a debate in the Supreme Court over depictions of sex between minors in movies was changed from "High Court Tackles Kid Porn" to "High Court Tackles Kid ****." The story itself was blocked.
Posted by at November 03, 2001 03:43 PM
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...in Quetta, a Pakistani border town where armed escorts must accompany any journalist who leaves the Serena Hotel, the desk took to calling a correspondent in her room to inform her: "Madam, your gunman is here."
Posted by at November 03, 2001 08:12 AM
Stephen Schwartz, publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, holds the famous Doomsday Clock, which symbolizes the threat of world nuclear holocaust, Friday, Nov. 2, 2001, at the University of Chicago. After three years of immobility, the board of the Bulletin will deliberate later this month on recent world events and maybe decide to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)
Posted by at November 03, 2001 08:08 AM
The U.S. Central Command said F-14 Tomcats from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt have since destroyed the damaged helicopter. The location of where in Afghanistan the accident happened was not disclosed.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 09:09 PM
"Three Michigan men suspected of having knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks were arrested on charges of possessing false documents," Ashcroft said Wednesday.
This is the first time a senior U.S. government official has acknowledged that any of the more than 900 men detained after Sept. 11 were tied to the attacks.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 09:05 PM
The order amends - and some argue, reverses - a 1978 law that allowed journalists, historians and other interested parties to read presidential papers twelve years after the term of office finished.
The law, known as the Presidential Records Act, was the result of a lengthy legal battle over the papers of Watergate president Richard Nixon.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 03:39 PM
"It's done to ensure that there would be a continuity in government should our president be incapacitated for any reason,'' Card said.
[Woodshed? -- GT]
Posted by at November 02, 2001 03:35 PM
The Media Owners Association and Advertising Practitioners Association said on Oct. 30 they were surprised to learn that draft legislation they described as "an attempt to censor the media" had already gone through the first of three required readings in Parliament.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 03:27 PM
Children could "mistake the colourful yellow bomblets released by cluster bombs for either air-dropped food packets - which are also yellow - or for toys," Andrew Wilder of the group Save the Children told a House panel Thursday.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 03:20 PM
Sultan Bashir Mohammed, a top Pakistani nuclear expert now in custody for suspected links with the Taliban, is a believer in djinns, described in the Holy Koran as beings made of fire. A proponent of "Islamic science," he has written papers suggesting that these entities could be tapped to solve the energy crisis. He has also spoken about the possibility of developing souls and communicating with them.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 03:18 PM
"We think it's really important that we have a number of short-term spending increases," said David Robinson, an economist with the Canadian Association of University Teachers. "Put together a package that's worth at least $10 billion, something that's equivalent to about one per cent of GDP. That's the same kind of package that we're seeing in the United States."
Posted by at November 02, 2001 03:06 PM
By cobbling together a handful of browser-based bugs with flaws in Passport's authentication system, Slemko developed a technique to steal a person's Microsoft Passport, credit card numbers -- and all, simply by getting the victim to open a Hotmail message.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 02:48 PM
Brashers believes that sometimes, people need to back away from the onslaught of information, even if it's difficult to do so. Even if effort is made to avoid seeking out the information, because of the media exposure to the problems it's easy have unexpected and accidental exposure to updates that break into regular programming.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 12:24 PM
The CIA chief was seen in the lift, on his way to see Bin Laden, and later, it is alleged, boasted to friends about his contact. He was recalled to Washington soon afterwards.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 12:02 PM
afghanmagzine.com hopes to change that by promoting and raising awareness to the arts, culture and history of the Afghan people. Through the humanities, we hope to build a bridge between the West and Afghanistan.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:53 AM
Instead of rewarding the CIA with billions of additional dollars to fight terrorism, shouldn't you hold accountable those shortsighted and perilously na?ve U.S. intelligence officials who ran the covert operation in Afghanistan that got us into this mess?
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:51 AM
...she's never seen anything as incomprehensible as the municipal ballot Montrealers will be asked to fill out for the megacity vote on Sunday.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:42 AM
Their recommendation comes as a Senate committee threw its support behind a five-year lifespan for most of the controversial bill's provisions, siding with lawyers, opposition MPs, Liberal backbenchers and even a couple of cabinet ministers.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:38 AM
The UK government must now decide whether to suspend the assembly or call fresh elections and Friday afternoon Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid was holding urgent talks with all the province's parties.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:35 AM
The pins in passengers' Remembrance Day poppies, an international symbol of respect for war veterans, were sharp, and so a potential danger to fellow passengers and crew members on the awaiting flights.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:34 AM
Some 52 percent of [Protestants] say they do not believe decommissioning chief General John de Chastelain's report, compared with an overwhelming majority of Catholics who believe it is a "significant" development.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:31 AM
Rustavi-2 director general Nika Tabatadze said the company had gone through a tax audit a week earlier and was clear of any debt to the state, according to the BBC, which quoted Tabatadze as saying, "This all is clearly happening on a political order from the authorities."
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:20 AM
"If you went to a war zone 15 years ago you went with two large suitcases -- one a portable darkroom and the other a scanner and wiring machine," says Simon Walker, the Times photographer who has recently returned from Quetta. "You also had your cameras and loads of film stock, and you still needed to find a phone line. Now I carry two digital cameras, mini hard disks instead of film, a satellite phone and a laptop. I can file from anywhere in the world."
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:17 AM
...short-term sales gains from the current [automotive] promotions probably won't be enough to save a bleak upcoming quarter.... airlines pocketed a multibillion-dollar federal payout ... but they're either too incompetent or too stingy to ensure a level of security that would help reassure the public.... an estimated 83% of brokers and 60% of direct-marketed mutual funds didn't have measures to detect and report suspicious behavior that might be linked to money laundering....
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:14 AM
With a team of doctors and security officials supervising, editorial offices on one floor of the newspaper were closed off.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 11:04 AM
The delays have complicated a campaign to oust the Taliban and capture or kill the accused terrorist Osama bin Laden. More than three weeks into the bombing, the Northern Alliance shows little sign of being ready to advance. At the same time, the bombardment has complicated efforts to form a "Southern Alliance" among the Pashtuns dominant the south of Afghanistan. Angered by the attacks, some Pashtuns seem to have rallied to the Taliban.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 10:50 AM
Two tests on a letter delivered in the eastern state of Thuringia confirmed the presence of spores, a health authority spokesman said.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 10:48 AM
"We hold only that a preliminary injunction cannot be used to restrict Bunner from disclosing DeCSS. The order granting a preliminary injunction is reversed." And then, for a final twist of the knife, "Defendant Andrew Bunner shall recover his appellate costs."
Posted by at November 02, 2001 08:57 AM
The Internet was a parallel universe of pure data, an exciting new frontier where a lawless freedom prevailed. But it now seems that this was simply a glorious illusion. For it turns out that governments do, in fact, have a great deal of sovereignty over cyberspace. The Internet is often perceived as being everywhere yet nowhere, as free-floating as a cloud -- but in fact it is subject to geography after all, and therefore to law.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 08:48 AM
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Advocates of using some embryos for the promising research dropped the language from a huge spending bill on Thursday in the face of a White House veto threat. In return, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., an abortion foe, dropped his plans to offer amendments that would have banned human cloning and put tight strictures on stem cell research.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 08:23 AM
Whatever you do, don't buy new. That's my credo for the coming days regarding labels associated with the RIAA (since buying new is fine with me if the label is not associated).
Posted by at November 02, 2001 08:08 AM
Things are different under Mr Greenberg. In the United States, which still accounts for half the business, surveys show customer satisfaction falling below levels at rivals such as Wendy's and Burger King. McDonald's market share is flat, with customers defecting not only to obvious rivals, but to coffee shops and delicatessens. Add in nasty distractions such as mad-cow food scares in Europe, and the company's performance is now as soggy as some of its burgers.
Posted by at November 02, 2001 08:01 AM
The bridges at risk, according to Governor Davis, are the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges in San Francisco, the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles and the Coronado Bridge in San Diego.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:22 PM
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In addition, John Ashcroft will receive $2 billion in cash and stock in exchange for harassing Oracle, Sun and AOL-TW for the next 5 years.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:33 PM
Researchers at Bell Labs have been busy examining a type of biomaterial found in brittlestars to see if nature's blueprint for the undersea creature can yield some ideas about improving designs for optical networks and other computing components.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:31 PM
"If I won, that means most of the school was down with it. I just don't see what the big deal is - I mean, what if I was wearing an elbow costume? That's part of the body. Would they suspend me then?"
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:29 PM
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Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:27 PM
The Pakistani Government has fallen under the banner of the cross. The Almighty God says: To the hypocrites give the glad tidings that there is for them but a grievous penalty; yea, to those who take for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Is it honour they seek among them? Nay, all honour is with God.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 05:11 PM
In Jerusalem, Sharon defended the targeted killings of Palestinian militants. "What will bring peace earlier, that they (Palestinian militants) kill another 30, 40, 50 Israeli citizens, or that they be stopped on their way there?" Sharon said.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 05:08 PM
The problem: America wants the Biological Weapons Convention to work well but it does not want to give anyone the right to make surprise checks on its facilities. This would be seen as a loss of sovereignty. Foreign Report explains.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 05:06 PM
"We wish that this death penalty issue can be discussed more openly in the States among younger audiences, because I think it's more difficult to change the mind of an older audience."
Posted by at November 01, 2001 04:48 PM
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 01:48 PM
MacKay wants a free vote on the bill in the House, which Chretien rejected.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 01:38 PM
You request an emotion (or reasonable facsimile), and I will try and act it out for you. The frame on the left shows the currently filled emotions. The list in the right frame shows requests that are waiting to be filled.
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This site is maintained by The Yes Men, an international group of men and women who use any means necessary to agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their undercover escapades to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. Click here to read about our use of this site.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 10:44 AM
As the nation again stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men stopped by police in the Midwest last weekend but released - even though they possessed photographs and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 10:24 AM
"There was a sigh and murmur from the crowd when they finished. It had taken about five minutes. Taleban guards threw me into the back of the pick-up. One was crying too. Nothing was said. Even now I am unaware why I was chosen for amputation".
Posted by at November 01, 2001 10:22 AM
Police sources told The Toronto Sun yesterday that the Toronto-to-Afghanistan phone call was intercepted by the RCMP and Canadian Security Establishment as late as last Saturday.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:57 AM
"If it reassures parents and reduces the number of people on the streets, I don't know why we would stop doing it," said T.M.R. councillor Suzanne Caron, adding only three out of five gates would be closed. "There are lots of little children, and we are only trying to give them a controlled environment."
But on top of segregating one of Montreal's poorest neighbourhoods and one of its richest - average family income in Park Ex is about $32,000 compared with about $104,000 in T.M.R. - the sticky issue has divided people within T.M.R.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:52 AM
Mr. Stickney said that since sentencing circles are a part of the Canadian Criminal Code, they should be available to anyone who requests them -- no matter what their race.
But Mr. Joseph said the goal of a sentencing circle is to rehabilitate people so they can rejoin a community.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:48 AM
The former MI5 officer had challenged a High Court ruling in May that he could not use the Human Rights Act as part of his defence against allegations that he broke the Official Secrets Act by giving intelligence secrets to a newspaper in 1997.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:45 AM
Mr Emonson has told the Victorian County Court, sitting in Ballarat, that one student tried to strangle him with a cord, while he had been drenched by another student and had spent the rest of the day at school in his soaking school suit.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:43 AM
News of the cabinet's ouster came in the wake of a scandalous security service raid on an independent television station this week that prompted opposition calls for Shevardnadze and his team to step down. Thousands of demonstrators, mostly students, gathered outside parliament Thursday to demand that the government go.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:34 AM
The 54-year-old Olson admitted to possessing bombs and attempting to explode them in two incidents - one at the Hollenbeck Police Station in Los Angeles and another near a House of Pancakes restaurant in Hollywood on Aug. 21, 1975.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:32 AM
This year, however, piles of mail might go unopened, as postal workers grapple with how to handle such a large volume while dealing with the ongoing anthrax danger.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:30 AM
While other secret services point to Prague as one of Iraq's people trafficking hubs in Europe, a BfV spokesman told Handelsblatt that the Czech Republic could not be seen as an isolated case. The spokesman said that people, including some with "secret service backgrounds", had also been smuggled into Germany from Poland and Austria.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:27 AM
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the expanded list and new rules that will give immigration authorities wider discretionary powers to refuse visas to those with suspected ties to terrorists.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:24 AM
Although fighting continues between the army and Hutu rebel groups, a new administration, incorporating both the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis ethnic groups, is seen as a vital step towards ending eight years of civil war.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:22 AM
...after it failed to defeat a no-confidence motion tabled by disgruntled members of the Transitional National Assembly (TNA).
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:21 AM
Reacting to two separate publications in the Chronicle and Free Press at a press conference in Accra, Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor, Minister of Defence, urged the media to crosscheck their information, especially on matters concerning the nation's security.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:07 AM
The tour was the first time Western journalists have been allowed into Kandahar, where the Taliban's headquarters are located, since the U.S. air attacks began Oct. 7.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:06 AM
"Society is becoming more dangerous and more violent and our officers see that at the border," said Serge Charette, national president of the Customs Excise Union.
But while border guards have the power to arrest suspicious people, Minister of National Revenue Martin Cauchon, who is responsible for the Canada Customs Revenue Agency, says they don't need guns to do it.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 09:00 AM
The UN nuclear watchdog, which is holding a special session on nuclear terrorism on Friday, warned that security at some nuclear sites and centres where radioactive material is stored was disturbingly weak.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 08:58 AM
"If you have to drive 10 miles to buy a Powerball ticket, you're 16 times more likely to get killed in a car crash on your way than you are to win."
Posted by at November 01, 2001 07:07 AM
It is almost impossible for us to contemplate a man who falls in love with little girls without wanting to put him in prison. The subtleties, for those of us still mired in the paranoias of the 20th century, are hard to grasp. When one thinks of a paedophile, one thinks of a lustful, over-the-top, drooling Nabokovian love, but that is not Lewis Carroll.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 07:00 AM
Vitek Boden, of Brisbane, was sentenced to two years after being found guilty of 30 charges involving computer hacking, theft and environmental vandalism.
"They said, 'what was you arrested for kid?' and I said 'litterin'' and they all moved away from me on the bench...
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:19 AM
By making her decision Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman likely was seizing the last opportunity to set her own standard. A conference committee of Senate and House members was expected to decide as early as today whether to pass legislation requiring the EPA to set a standard no higher than 10 parts per billion, the standard Whitman put in place.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:17 AM
The gatekeeping requirement was dropped for all specialties in 1998. The researchers found that the number of visits to specialists did not change.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:09 AM
Justice department officials were said to be comfortable with the settlement terms, according to Reuters, but over the next two days they will have to persuade the 18 state attorneys general, many of whom have been pressing for more drastic remedies against Microsoft.
Posted by at November 01, 2001 06:01 AM
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