"If there were any innocent people that were killed there, the numbers being reported, I think, are unfounded."

Posted by at December 31, 2001 11:56 PM

Years before Barry Hughart's first novel, Bridge of Birds, was published, he wrote a first draft titled A Bridge of Birds. Episodes and dialogue that later appeared in all three published Master Li novels are found in this draft, but there are also major differences; for example, Li Kao is only a nineteen-year-old, and Number Ten Ox only makes a brief appearance as a village idiot!

Posted by at December 31, 2001 03:29 PM

Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history, was buried into the tomb 22 years after her husband.
Authorities said they have found evidence of eight attempted robberies of the tomb, which all ended in failure and have lent even more mystery to Qianling, the only Tang tomb which has not been looted.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 12:47 PM

...some international-law scholars suggest that President Bush's plan for military tribunals itself violates international law. This view is based on a serious misreading of international treaties on how wars should be fought.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 11:24 AM

Pittman reports that "the Bush administration doesn't need to do anything to censor media outlets; they do it themselves." The Washington Post, for example, reported that CNN Chairman Walter Isaacson ordered news staff to limit reports of Afghan war casualties and use World Trade Center deaths to justify the killing of Afghan civilians by the US military. After the deaths in the US, it "seems perverse to focus too much on casualties or hardship in Afghanistan," Isaacson wrote in a memo quoted by WorkingForChange, which also quoted Brit Hume, anchor for the conservative Fox News Channel, saying that neutrality is inappropriate in covering this war because the enemy are "murderous barbarians."

Posted by at December 31, 2001 11:23 AM

A Reuters cameraman in the stricken village in eastern Paktia province said he could see huge craters blasted by bombs. Amid the destruction were scraps of flesh, pools of blood and clumps of what appeared to be human hair.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 10:58 AM

These shifts are both instructive and worrisome, Baldessari said. "Are we going to have all horizontal art for a while? Will it get that bad?" he asked. "We live in a fragile world, and it's good that we think about it once in a while. I am continuing to do what I do, because otherwise it would be censorship."

Correspondents say his departure leaves the country without a clear consensus on how to resolve the crisis, which has prompted mass street protests.
Power should have passed automatically to Senate Chairman Ramos Puerta, but he too resigned minutes later on grounds of ill-health.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 10:27 AM

Elsewhere, the fully empowered Muslim woman sounds like a self-assured, post-feminist type -- a woman who draws her inspiration from the example of Sukayna, the brilliant, beautiful great-granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, who was married several times, and, at least once, stipulated in writing that her husband was forbidden to disagree with her about anything.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 10:22 AM

[George Fernandes, the Indian Defence Minister] warned Pakistan not to consider the use of a first strike, which he said would be tantamout to national suicide. "We could take a strike, survive and then hit back," he said. "Pakistan would be finished. I do not really fear that the nuclear issue would figure in a conflict."

Posted by at December 31, 2001 10:19 AM

During their relationship, Mr. Leblanc lost his virginity and he paid for Ms. Dubreuil's breast implants, the court heard.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 08:01 AM

What happened in cyberlaw during the past year that was significant and enduring -- or at least interesting? That's the question Cyber Law Journal put to several well-regarded law professors and legal practitioners.

Posted by at December 31, 2001 07:55 AM

The advertising campaign by Media Markt, a unit of German retailer Metro AG, showed a woman wearing a low-cut top barely concealing three voluptuous breasts and the caption ``There's more inside than you think.''

Posted by at December 31, 2001 07:24 AM

"Under Canadian law,'' the ad reads in part, "a 200 lb. man who drinks almost six beers in two hours can drive and is not likely to be charged with impaired driving."

Posted by at December 31, 2001 07:16 AM

"We believe the Americans were always a few hours behind them, dropping bombs on villages they just left," said Habib Rahman, a village elder in the Zamar Khel district, where a huge bomb fell on the house of a man named Akal Khan, killing four family members, including two women.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 06:03 PM

Yamasaki received the World Trade Center commission the year after the Dhahran Airport was completed. Yamasaki described its plaza as "a mecca, a great relief from the narrow streets and sidewalks of the surrounding Wall Street area." True to his word, Yamasaki replicated the plan of Mecca's courtyard by creating a vast delineated square, isolated from the city's bustle by low colonnaded structures and capped by two enormous, perfectly square towers -- minarets, really. Yamasaki's courtyard mimicked Mecca's assemblage of holy sites?the Qa'ba (a cube) containing the sacred stone, what some believe is the burial site of Hagar and Ishmael, and the holy spring -- by including several sculptural features, including a fountain, and he anchored the composition in a radial circular pattern, similar to Mecca's.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 05:57 PM

Chief Suddle said police recovered 124 submachine guns, 248 rifles, one recoilless rifle, two mortars, 342 mortar bombs, rockets and almost 30,000 rounds of ammunition.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 05:31 PM

The Banque Royale, as it officially became in 1718, was a roaring success at first, especially when it became linked to Law's Mississippi company. But when it was noticed that Law had issued twice as much currency as France's total supply of gold and silver, confidence and the bank both collapsed, and Law headed into exile.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 02:48 PM

The centre says 46 year old Gong Shengliang was sentenced to death for having founded the group and having been involved in more than a dozen cases of rape and "immoral conduct".

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:50 PM

"I'm expecting a moderate slowdown next year. I believe seven percent is achievable but it depends on how the global economy will behave and when it will begin to recover," Liao said.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:50 PM

If the Korean press does not work to be even more accurate and even more impartial, then readers in 2002 will ignore the press that beat state authority in 2001. If it does not accept readers' advice, that it abandons its authoritativeness and become more modest; if it does not learn to speak of the dark areas in our society and those who alienated from it, then its hard-earned freedoms will be meaningless.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:45 PM

The smuggled weapons allegedly included a 10cm blade hidden inside a lady's comb, a razor-sharp toughened-metal stiletto concealed in a pen, and a steel cleaver which could be hidden in a wallet.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:43 PM

The deal on Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force, which the United Nations Security Council authorized to fill the security vacuum after last month's defeat of the Taliban, paves the way for the arrival of about 3,000 troops.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:36 PM

Corporations are helping us to reach Nirvana by not allowing us to own property. They figure if we simply license everything, we won't own it and all of us will become Zen masters with no attachment to the physical world.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 10:56 AM

The tone of the poll respondents wasn't an indictment of American power so much as a plea that the United States use this great power to solve problems that create instability. The poll respondents suggested the need to do more to alleviate poverty, for example; they also urged the United States to help create a Palestinian state that would defuse tensions in the Middle East.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 02:37 AM

"I put my money in the bank for them to look after it - not to be stolen," read one protester's banner.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:59 AM

Cuban police beat up five dissident journalists as they tried to cover an opposition event on Christmas Day, a local reporters association and an international press watchdog said Friday.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:58 AM

"I put my money in the bank for them to look after it - not to be stolen," read one protester's banner.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:56 AM

Pressure has been growing in Afghanistan for a halt to the American bombing, and Mr. Fahim said there would be no need for bombing once a few remaining border areas had been cleared of final resistance. Earlier, his spokesman said that suppressing that resistance would take no more than three days, after which the bombing must stop.
The United States, though, said it had received no request to stop the bombing, and declined to make such a promise.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:54 AM

"When a man faces a woman for the first time, some of them suffer from a lack of basic knowledge. This can create sexual problems in the future."

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:51 AM

Officials at the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) said on Saturday they planned to drape the shrine in the northern city of Agra with olive green cloth so that it blended with the surroundings.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:49 AM

Wellie Chao, chief executive of Xerxes, an e-commerce consulting business in Manhattan, said that while studying at Harvard he found a file with hundreds of his classmates' passwords on his computer after a hacker used the computer to steal passwords. "You could see who had a crush on whom based on which girls had which guys' names as passwords," said Mr. Chao, who once also had a password based on a girl's name.

Posted by at December 30, 2001 01:10 AM

Printed in fine shadings of blue and green and brown, these bills are not just money but history and myth. For Portugal, a small nation that ranks as the poorest in the European Union, the bills evoke the far grander days of 500 years ago when Portuguese navigators challenged the oceans in their wooden boats, exploring the distant realms of Africa, India and the Americas.

Posted by at December 29, 2001 11:29 PM

The Chinese state administration of cultural heritage will move the more than 2,000-year-old temple out of the reaches of the mighty Yangtze, which will submerge the collection of delicate pavilions and pagodas by 2009, when the massive Three Gorges dam is complete.

Posted by at December 29, 2001 11:10 PM

"Donations of this type reflect certain political realities which are followed by all major corporations," Bennett said Wednesday about Enron's $50,000 checks on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Posted by at December 29, 2001 11:06 PM

It also accuses Chretien of showing contempt for the findings of the APEC inquiry, which examined the treatment of student protesters during Vancouver's APEC summit in 1997.

Posted by at December 29, 2001 09:32 PM

Through an agreement with PeoplePC, (NASDAQ:PEOP) which sells low-cost PC and Internet access packages on a subscription basis, the nation's No. 2 tobacco giant plans to offer its users hardware and Internet access packages discounted from PeoplePC's usual rates.
[...]
"Reynolds developed the Web site featuring the Doral cigarette brand, and we've teamed up to bring Doral smokers an easy and affordable way to get online. Some of our smokers may not have access to a computer, so we believe this is a great tool."

Posted by at December 29, 2001 07:31 PM

The Indian army told some 5,000 people in 17 villages in Kashmir to leave their homes within 36 hours, officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 07:45 PM

Early on, Bush let that word "crusade" slip and pandemonium broke loose. Bush was among those who were unaware that the Crusades comprised a "holy war" by the Christians (who were the ones who started it) against the Muslim world (which, by the way, in the end managed to repel the invaders). He retracted the gaffe and then spoke of "infinite justice", which was even worse.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:55 PM

They justified their actions by opportunistically blaming the American public for a lack of interest in global affairs. In April 1997, CBS News President Andrew Heyward told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that °ƒit°Øs just a fact of television ratings life that almost without exception it°Øs very difficult to score a number with international news.°± NBC News Vice President Bill Wheatley told the same newspaper that °ƒa lot of foreign news after the Cold War seemed to be less vital ... more complicated, less directly linked to many Americans. How do you cover the former Soviet Union and make sense of it?°±

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:54 PM

Earlier this week, the United Nations' World Food Program said it had been unable to deliver food to Kandahar because militiamen were stopping their trucks and demanding $100 each to pass.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:53 PM

Afghanistan's women can't vote. The US press goes on about the two women cabinet members in the interim government, but Afghan women don't even have the vote yet, much less any identification papers that would allow them to register to vote, even if it were legal. And there are no protections for women who want to cast off the burqa (the Northern Alliance is as socially conservative as the Taliban). A democracy can't exist with over half its population disenfranchised.
[...]
The Afghan interim president, Hamid Karzai, is a CIA man. This obvious fact is left out of the US media's biographies of Karzai, but the foreign press is quick to point out that he worked for the CIA during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and is working for them now, stirring up the southern Pashtun tribes against the Taliban. And he'll work for them in the future, too.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:47 PM

Evidence of ambivalence towards domestic security is everywhere. More than 100 bills have been introduced into Congress with the label "homeland security" on them. Yet compared with the $15 billion doled out to the airline industry, the cash they provide for things like emergency health care is puny. When the governor of California posted troops on bridges in response to a terrorist alert, he was widely criticised for panicking the public.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:58 PM

Tens of thousands of soldiers, squadrons of fighter jets, artillery and ballistic missiles face each other along the border that reaches from the Himalayas in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south. Both sides say they don't want war, but each says it is ready.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:47 PM

In all, more than 350 police officers from Canada and the United States made the trip to this community about 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg where Strongquill spent 14 of his 20 years on the force.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:46 PM

The SOM-Gazette poll asked: "Do you think Jean Chrtien should seek another term as prime minister?" To this, 39.9 per cent of respondents said yes and 55.5 per cent said no.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:45 PM

The 75 members are part of the long-range patrol task force, which will support Operation Apollo in operations in the Middle East. The Auroras will do surveillance for the coalition forces off Afghanistan, Robitaille said.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:43 PM

Groups on both sides of the Northern Ireland struggle, such as the Real IRA and the Loyalist Volunteer Force, are listed, but the Irish Republican Army, a group formerly considered terrorists by the British government but which has committed itself to the peace process, is not.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:33 PM

"This place has to be sanctified. It has to become a place, when anybody comes, that they immediately feel the power, strength and emotion of what it means to become an American. ... This is too important a place."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:31 PM

Human rights watchdogs have expressed concerns that describing the captives as "detainees" instead of "prisoners of war" could impinge on rights guaranteed by international law, including the right to meet with Red Cross officials, and due process should any of them face trial.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:30 PM

"Canadians know that the men and women serving in the military are brave and operate in hostile conditions, but their helicopters don't fly and machine parts aren't available," Mr. Wright said yesterday. "The issue is whether the military is living up to its responsibilities."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:29 PM

The militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad - in a faxed statement to Associated Press news agency in Beirut - said the dead man was one of their members and was killed during an attempted ambush.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:26 PM

The trend is worsening. Babies as young as only a few months old are being raped almost daily. Many black South African men infected with AIDS erroneously believe that by having sex with a virgin -- even a baby -- they will be cured of AIDS or their HIV infection.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:22 PM

For years, it was scoffed at as ''McPaper,'' that light and fluffy thing that showed up in front of your hotel door bristling with short articles and Larry King's musings. But even in an industry where old reputations die hard, USA Today has emerged - particularly in the post-Sept. 11 world - as a newspaper with ambition, energy, and gravitas.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:20 PM

The court said the sentence reflected a judgment that Pasko's crime had little impact on the nation's security. His lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, said it reflected both the thinness of the evidence against his client and a political calculation that the lighter sentence would cause less protest.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:12 PM

The standard the regulations provide would allow the military judges to consider any evidence that "a reasonable person" would find useful. That means that evidence like the videotape of Osama bin Laden boasting of the Sept. 11 attacks and any intelligence interceptions would be admissible.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:11 PM

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:51 AM

Engineers understand that the difference between 95 percent and 96 percent reliability is often infinite. Some problems are tractable within a certain tolerance, and asymptotic to infinity above that tolerance. The Internet is full of best-effort algorithms, timeout mechanisms, asynchronous communication, and stateless clients. This is the fault-tolerant realpolitik of a public network composed of uncoordinated actors with conflicting agendas.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:16 AM

The study found that up to 5% of the net - potentially 100 million hosts - is completely unreachable.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:07 AM

Yet when I returned to Russia recently, my expectations were ambushed once again. I caught a new mood of optimism, one which is mirrored in the stories of two men whose fortunes I have been following for the last decade, Aleksandr and Nikolai.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:01 AM

Finding Bridget a mate has produced all sorts of entrepreneurial solutions. Lots of them are on the Internet, allowing the hunt to continue through working hours. Adam Klein, a consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton who was until recently running a search site called Ask Jeeves, says that over two-thirds of those who came to search were women, mainly aged between 18 and 35. That contrasts with sites such as Google, used mainly by men. Half an hour before people leave work for home, the site regularly sees a surge in seekers. Lots of women are hunting for dating sites, he says, "one of the fastest growing sections of the Internet".

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:56 AM

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:53 AM

SPS is characterized by fluctuating muscle rigidity in the trunk and limbs and a heightened sensitivity to stimuli such as noise, touch, and emotional distress that can set off muscular spasms. People with SPS are often too disabled to walk or move, or are afraid to leave the house because of stimuli-triggered spasms and frequent falls. The incidence of SPS has been estimated at one in every one million persons, but according to Dr. Dalakas, "the disorder is so often misdiagnosed -- as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, psychosomatic illness, or anxiety and phobia -- that its actual incidence is probably much higher."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:28 AM

"By the time we get them, they already believe it's right," said David J. Farber, a professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chief technologist of the Federal Communications Commission "If you're willing to bootleg music, you're willing to bootleg anything."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:14 AM

22 Metcalfe
Silhouettes
Angel Gabriel
Dancing statues
War memorial
Parliament Hill
Flags
Smokestack
Utility boxes
Gigi's New Look
Security guard
Not the new Kuwait embassy
St. Patrick Street
Mother and child
Seal
Please enter by another door

Hardly a tree among them!

Posted by at December 25, 2001 04:32 PM

Researchers have warned that more than 12,000 forts, castles and other archaeological sites which stand along Scotland's shoreline are disappearing into the sea.

Posted by at December 25, 2001 08:20 AM

At noon on Monday, December 24, 2001, ordinary people all over the world will call into question the growing and dehumanizing effects of increased video surveillance, automated face recognition, and Covernment (Corporate Government) tracking in public places, as well as private places.

I photographed CSIS for World Sousveillance Day. Will post later.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 07:41 PM

"No doubt that the world would be better without some people such as Bush, Rumsfeld, Lieberman and many other U.S. officials because they are corrupt," al-Thawra said in the front-page editorial.
"Those people are war mongers because they have personal interests with oil companies and weapons manufacturers."

Posted by at December 24, 2001 07:35 PM

The gunmen who may have been waiting in the vicinity then stormed the house and tying up family members, got one of them to lead them uptstairs to the room of Chief Bola Ige where they led his wife and son to an adjourning room and locked them up.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 07:02 PM

Mugabe says he does not expect the Commonwealth to suspend Zimbabwe from membership. In a meeting this week, Commonwealth foreign ministers considered the suspension of the country, citing concerns over human rights and the rule of law.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 06:58 PM

"The unjust Israeli tanks, cement barriers and guns prevent me from participating with you at our annual celebrations," Mr Arafat told a disappointed crowd.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 06:45 PM

The Pentagon said on Monday that airstrikes resumed on Sunday with a B-52 heavy bomber attack on caves and ammunition dumps north of Kandahar, using precision-guided munitions in the drive against Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 06:42 PM

"The threat posed by terrorism remains constant here in Canada and around the world," Minister McLellan said. "The Government of Canada is following through on its commitment to ensure that law enforcement and national security agencies have the tools they need to protect the security and safety of Canadians from terrorist activity."

Posted by at December 24, 2001 06:41 PM

Posted by at December 24, 2001 05:27 PM

Today the telejournalistic firmament includes the meteoric Fox News Channel, as well as twenty-six television stations owned outright by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (which holds majority ownership in a further seven). Although ultimately thwarted in his bid to buy DirecTV and thereby dominate the US satellite television market, Murdoch wields a pervasive influence on the news--and not just in New York, where he has two TV stations, a major daily (the faltering New York Post) and the Fox News Channel, whose inexhaustible platoons of shouting heads attracts a fierce plurality of cable-viewers. Meanwhile, Time Warner has now merged with AOL--so as to own the cyberworks through which to market its floodtide of movies, ball games, TV shows, rock videos, cartoons, standup routines and (not least) bits from CNN, CNN Headline News, CNNfn (devised to counter GE's CNBC) and CNN/Sports Illustrated (a would-be rival to Disney's ESPN franchise). While busily cloning CNN, the parent company has also taken quiet steps to make it more like Fox, with Walter Isaacson, the new head honcho, even visiting the Capitol to seek advice from certain rightist pols on how, presumably, to make the network even shallower and more obnoxious. (He also courted Rush Himself.) All this has occurred since the abrupt defenestration of Ted Turner, who now belatedly laments the overconcentration of the cable business: "It's sad we're losing so much diversity of thought," he confesses, sounding vaguely like a writer for this magazine.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 04:45 PM

Posted by at December 24, 2001 04:45 PM

Today the telejournalistic firmament includes the meteoric Fox News Channel, as well as twenty-six television stations owned outright by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (which holds majority ownership in a further seven). Although ultimately thwarted in his bid to buy DirecTV and thereby dominate the US satellite television market, Murdoch wields a pervasive influence on the news--and not just in New York, where he has two TV stations, a major daily (the faltering New York Post) and the Fox News Channel, whose inexhaustible platoons of shouting heads attracts a fierce plurality of cable-viewers. Meanwhile, Time Warner has now merged with AOL--so as to own the cyberworks through which to market its floodtide of movies, ball games, TV shows, rock videos, cartoons, standup routines and (not least) bits from CNN, CNN Headline News, CNNfn (devised to counter GE's CNBC) and CNN/Sports Illustrated (a would-be rival to Disney's ESPN franchise). While busily cloning CNN, the parent company has also taken quiet steps to make it more like Fox, with Walter Isaacson, the new head honcho, even visiting the Capitol to seek advice from certain rightist pols on how, presumably, to make the network even shallower and more obnoxious. (He also courted Rush Himself.) All this has occurred since the abrupt defenestration of Ted Turner, who now belatedly laments the overconcentration of the cable business: "It's sad we're losing so much diversity of thought," he confesses, sounding vaguely like a writer for this magazine.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 04:43 PM

If the results are generalised, a waste of one dollar in ten represents a huge aggregate loss to society. It suggests that in America, where givers spend $40 billion on Christmas gifts, $4 billion is being lost annually in the process of gift-giving. Add in birthdays, weddings and non-Christian occasions, and the figure would balloon. So should economists advocate an end to gift-giving, or at least press for money to become the gift of choice?

Posted by at December 24, 2001 04:38 PM

What Richardson demonstrated in essence (and what has been reinforced by the small handful of people who've followed up his work over the past half-century) was that war follows a stochastic distribution: that is to say, it's neither absolutely random, nor yet is it definable in a systematic pattern, but something between the two. The pattern is there, but we cannot attribute one-for-one a causal relationship that would account for every specific case.
In other words, the incidence of war is independent of the volitional element. It makes no odds, whatever whether a rational decision has been taken - war, like weather, just happens.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 04:16 PM

Now the company sees a market among those who have artificial organs and limbs. These folks will have up to 60 words of relevant medical information implanted on chips. If the patients are brought unconscious into an emergency room, technicians equipped with special scanners will easily decipher the body's internal topography.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 03:49 PM

Say goodbye to Birkenstock sandals and woolly jumpers -- tomorrow's eco-warrior will like nothing better than swimming naked in defense of cleaner oceans.
That, at least, is the hope of researchers in Singapore, who are developing a breed of fish capable of detecting water pollutants by changing color.

Posted by at December 24, 2001 03:40 PM

Folks, Saudi Arabia attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. It doesn't matter whether the command came from that bloated hog King Fahd or the fanatic religious leadership he can't control. What is obvious to everyone except the Bush Administration is that our ally, Saudi Arabia, harbored, supported and created the terrorists who launched a war against the United States 100 days ago.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 09:42 PM

Police - who happened to be at a Christmas party in the same banquet hall - say shots rang out at another function on the lower floor of the building at about midnight. RCMP officers rushed to the chaotic scene where a couple in their 20s had been celebrating their wedding with about 100 guests.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:39 PM

French police said that Raja - who also goes by the name Abdel Rahim - tried to take the same flight on Friday but was pulled aside by police after raising suspicions.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:36 PM

Coast guard officials said they believe the ship, built like a fishing boat, may have been sent by Pyongyang as it resembled two suspected North Korean spy vessels chased from Japanese waters in March 1999.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:34 PM

``He's a regular person, not a man of significant financial means, and so it's a puzzle to us and to him particularly that he was kidnapped by this group."

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:27 PM

"As commercial stocks run out, this shortage will become more and more serious and it can be expected that by mid January, Zimbabwe will have run out of its staple food," said Eddy Cross, the MDC secretary for economic affairs.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:23 PM

Mr Rodriguez Saa, a 54-year-old provincial governor, was speaking immediately after being appointed to serve as replacement president for Fernando de la Rua, who resigned last week in the wake of rioting and protests which left at least 25 people dead.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:18 PM

Posted by at December 23, 2001 04:15 PM

"I can't give you my name because I am not legal," says a fellow from Aylmer, Que., who for the last six years has sold trees from the same curb on the Upper West Side. "But there are Canadians selling trees all over Manhattan. There are more tree lots than pharmacies."

Posted by at December 23, 2001 01:33 PM

"I was trying to think about what I wanted when I was a precocious 7-year-old," Tilden said. "I wanted to take a bug apart and find out how it worked. Rather than kits where you put things together, these are working creatures designed so you can open them up and mess with their heads. This is the kind of thing young kids want to do, but they can't open up their dogs or cats or goldfish."

Posted by at December 23, 2001 01:31 PM

The holy men have been accused of forcing boys to stand holding their ears for hours, and even spearing one in the bum with a trident.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 01:28 PM

Posted by at December 23, 2001 01:26 PM

"All I know is that I'm being sued for unfair business practices by Microsoft. Hello pot? It's kettle on line two," explained Robertson.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 01:21 PM

The town was packed with Christmas shoppers when the victim, who was with a friend, was surrounded by a gang of about 15 youths in the Friary Centre and led to a car park where she was raped repeatedly between 11.30am and 1pm, police said.
A Surrey police spokesman said the girls were surrounded in the shopping centre before being chased by the youths. The rape victim's clothes, including her trousers and underwear, were pulled from her as she tried to escape down an escalator.

The future is coming up Burgess.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 11:47 AM

That official said that if the passenger on the American Airlines plane did have plastic explosive in his shoes and was trying to detonate it by lighting a shock cord, "it was a pretty clever attempt to get past the metal detectors by using a bomb that didn't require any metal."

Posted by at December 23, 2001 11:40 AM

Posted by at December 23, 2001 08:49 AM

Mitnick's had a ham radio license for about 25 years, and he applied two years ago for what's normally a routine renewal. He's not accused of making any illicit radio transmissions or any offenses that fall under the FCC's jurisdiction -- it's just that official Washington firmly believes computer hacking must be an unforgivable venal sin.

Posted by at December 23, 2001 08:44 AM

politechbot.com: Did Univ. of NC at Wilmington divulge a professor's private email?

Reaction from John C. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

politechbot.com: More on Univ. of NC, private email, and a twist on open records

politechbot.com: Univ of NC student's father replies to Politech: "abusive and libelous"

Posted by at December 22, 2001 06:26 PM

The survey found more than two-thirds of British consumers are concerned the world is becoming too Americanised, while 72% agreed with the statement: "Multinational corporations have grown too powerful".

Posted by at December 22, 2001 05:59 PM

He says in the lawsuit that he is just a cook who likes to ride motorcyles for fun.
[...]
Boucher is being detained as he awaits trial on 15 counts of first-degree murder.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 05:37 PM

"The doubts reflected there should serve as a warning to the U.S. government on the limits of world support should the military campaign extend beyond the borders of Afghanistan," Mr. Riehle said.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 05:27 PM

There was no explanation for why criminal conspiracy charges have not been laid against Ikhlef.
According to documents filed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) with the Federal Court of Canada, Ikhlef was a close associate of Ressam and one of several Algerians who made up a Montreal-based terrorist cell with connections to bin Laden's Al Qaeda.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:54 PM

Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere told the Montreal newspaper La Presse that dismantling of Ahmed Ressam's terrorist cell is no long-term solution. Other people remaining in Canada have ties to the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, said the judge, interviewed in his Paris office.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:51 PM

None of it had any effect on the streets as the shooting continued for several hours.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:44 PM

Argentina is our neighbor and friend and we have witnessed recent events with concern and compassion. We hope that all Argentines can come together to find a solution that leads the country back to sustainable growth and prosperity. We applaud the great strength displayed by Argentina's institutions through this period, and reiterate our confidence in the country's standing as one of the Western Hemisphere's leading democracies.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:43 PM

Mizuo Tamura, 55, a manager in the environmental section in the Kajiki municipal government, was arrested for breaking Japan's Firearms and Swords Control Law early on Thursday, the newspaper said in its online edition.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:42 PM

News reports quoted a high ranking representative for the provisional Somali government as saying on Friday that the eight suspected persons were arrested during several operations and they have been interrogated by the Somali intelligence.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:40 PM

"My administration shares fully the Congress' deep concerns about the political and economic hardships visited upon Zimbabwe by that country's leadership," Bush said. "I hope the provisions of this important legislation will support the people of Zimbabwe in their struggle to effect peaceful democratic change, achieve economic growth and restore the rule of law."

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:39 PM

Question: How could TIME even consider bin Laden for Man of the Year? I'm a TIME subscriber and could not believe they would consider someone of his caliber.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:31 PM

Human Rights Watch today said it was gravely concerned about the detention of Siamak Pourzand, a 73-year-old journalist who was arrested on November 29 and whose whereabouts remain unknown.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:29 PM

"In the discharge of duties both the government and private media have to exhibit a good sense of judgement and belonging. They have a duty to disseminate the nation building message," Matshediso said.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:23 PM

Throughout the two hours it takes for Enza to get made up and dressed up for the evening's party, I've been trying to ask him if he seriously thinks he has a shot. Over and over again, I ask the same question: "Is this a joke?"
He never quite admits it is but, finally, when I ask him if he understands there's no chance he will win, he says, "Totally. I just want people to enjoy the ride. Political races are always so boring. There's nothing wrong with shameful self-promotion, either. Politicians do it all the time.
"Now, where's my bra?"

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:14 PM

Armed British marines patrolled outside the ceremony to ensure security at the first peaceful and undisputed handover of power in decades.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:11 PM

Tribal leaders from the eastern Afghan town of Gardez have repeated allegations that a convoy of dignitaries from a neighbouring town was bombed by United States warplanes.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 04:10 PM

The essential facts in this case are undisputed. Defendants 2600 Enterprises and Eric Corley, a/k/a Emmanuel Goldstein,1 are the registrants of the domain name "fuckgeneralmotors.com." When an Internet user enters this domain into a web browser, he is automatically linked to the official website of Plaintiff Ford Motor Company ("Ford"), which is located at "ford.com".

Posted by at December 22, 2001 03:04 PM

Foreigners continued to govern Nauru until 1968. By then some two-thirds of the phosphate was already gone -- with all the destruction that entailed. In a terrible indictment of its own stewardship, the government of Australia declared Nauru uninhabitable and offered to resettle the population on a deserted island off the coast of Queensland. The Nauruans, determined to win control of their own affairs, opted instead for independence. In a final act of exploitation before bowing out, Australia, New Zealand and Britain forced Nauru to borrow against its future earnings from mining to buy out their shared phosphate company.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 02:42 PM

...Richman opened a window in an eggshell and inserted microscopic protein-soaked beads on an embryo's face. When she came back two weeks later, she could hardly believe her eyes.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 02:38 PM

...Oscar-winning screenwriters can use their additional income and prestige to enable a more debauched lifestyle, if they are so inclined, Redelmeier noted.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 02:30 PM

Colin Wood, a 30-year-old financial services worker, has anted up $685 to spend two weeks alone in a decommissioned nuclear bunker east of London.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 02:28 PM

"If the amendment is enforced, all one would have to do to take away a domain from its legal owner is register a trademark," Lesnikov said. "Someone who registers their domain in the .ru zone is completely unprotected."

Posted by at December 22, 2001 02:01 PM

Perhaps the most likely scenario is this: at some near-future date -- perhaps as early as 2010 -- individuals may no longer be able to do the kinds of things they routinely do with their digital tools in 2001. They may no longer be able, for example, to move music or video files around easily from one of their computers to another (even if the other is just a few feet away in the same house), or to personal digital assistants. Their music collections, reduced to MP3s, may be moveable to a limited extent -- unless their digital hardware doesn't allow it. The digital videos they shot in 1999 may be unplayable on their desktop and laptop computers -- or even on other devices -- in 2009.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 01:49 PM

On the back of the portrait, a label identifies the sitter as "Shakspere . . . age . . . 39 ys." The general style and tests of the paint, label and wood have dated the picture between 1597 and 1640. The date written in a corner of the painting is 1603. Art, theatre and costume historians, along with forensic scientists, genealogists and paleographers (experts in ancient handwriting) will take part in the meeting.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 01:46 PM

They say the lead lawyers on the case tricked others into signing off on a proposal that serves the Microsoft public-relations engine and lawyers' egos, but their clients not at all. They also say the lawyers who negotiated the settlement failed even to calculate damages to the class members they represent.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 01:20 PM

Brazil's sites are some of the most hacked in the world. Last year, the number of hacked sites increased 10 times.

Posted by at December 22, 2001 01:16 PM

The woman was questioned at length by police and finally released, along with her child, after police officers determined the child had not suffered any visible injuries.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 06:42 PM

"Paris will take any decision about my future." He told colleagues his comment was due to his "grasp of the English language letting me down". The French embassy insisted the comment referred to Israel's geographical size and said the word "shitty" was not used.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 06:27 PM

Six people have been killed and over 60 wounded in gunbattles with Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip, as the militant group Hamas said it was suspending attacks inside Israel.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 06:26 PM

A Church of God pastor, a group of Aylmer, Ont., parents and the Family and Children's Services of Elgin-St. Thomas came to an agreement on eight points which include that: no party shall make any statements to the media, parents of the children in question must advise the FACS if they intend to use corporal punishment and that the family make all efforts to ensure the children don't receive e-mail from anyone outside of the Church of God.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 06:20 PM

Not only did the tapes depict the brutal rapes and tortures of Mahaffy and French, they also documented a similar attack on Homolka's sister Tammy and a fourth victim identified only as Jane Doe.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 06:18 PM

"The first thing you have to say is it is classic Freud, he's made no concessions to the fact that he's painting the Queen, so there's no flattery, no smoothing over the effects of time.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 03:25 PM

The problem is in a tool called "universal plug and play" that is included in Windows XP. Beyond standard plug and play, with which computers recognize new peripherals, universal plug and play allows individual devices and even home appliances to connect and communicate with one another.
The unintended consequence is that universal plug and play also apparently allows people to seize control of a computer when it connects to the Internet, even if it isn't being used to check e-mail or view Web pages.

Posted by at December 21, 2001 11:40 AM

Earlier Thursday, de la Rua's sent in riot police to quell the violence after 20 people died across the country in two days of rioting sparked by the government's failure to end a punishing recession marked by double-digit joblessness, hunger and rising poverty.

Posted by at December 20, 2001 10:08 PM

In an experiment named Laughlab, a joke about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson emerged a clear winner Thursday from 10,000 entries.

Posted by at December 20, 2001 08:51 PM

Posted by at December 20, 2001 08:28 PM

A White House spokesman described the 20-year-old as someone who fought against the United States in an armed conflict and was therefore being treated as a "battlefield detainee" under the Geneva Convention.

Posted by at December 20, 2001 03:15 PM

Finding the factors of the number 15, namely 3 and 5, required a seven qubit computer made of five flourine and two carbon atoms.
The computer was programmed by radio frequency pulses and detected by nuclear magenetic resonance instruments like those commonly used in hospitals.

Posted by at December 20, 2001 03:02 PM

The study also discovered cabernet sauvignon grapes were more effective than wines made from other grapes.

Posted by at December 20, 2001 03:01 PM

When questioned by police, Fu, who practised Falun Gong for three and a half years, calmly admitted that he had killed his family members with a kitchen knife, but claimed that the flesh of his family members had "rotted" and he did this to help them "jump out of their bodies" and enjoy "absolute happiness" with him.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 08:12 PM

The park service plans to allow people into the statue -- one of New York's most popular tourist attractions -- sometime next year, he said.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 06:45 PM

The fires were fuelled by such things as documents and office furniture. As demolition and rescue crews toiled to clear the debris, air pockets would open, causing flare-ups.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 06:29 PM

"Make him leave his hair the way it is and his face as dirty as it is and let him go wandering around this country and see what kind of sympathy he would get," Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Posted by at December 19, 2001 06:27 PM

"The National Assembly, in accordance with the unanimous recommendation in the report by the commission on culture and concentration of media ownership, asks the directors of the Southam News enterprise to publish a statement of principle and of commitment to the quality and diversity of news, this in order to maintain and preserve the original character and autonomy of its Quebec daily, the Gazette."

Posted by at December 19, 2001 06:19 PM

In Entre Rios province north of Buenos Aires vastly outnumbered police looked on helplessly as hundreds more looters filled cars and shopping carts with goods and fled with their booty, shielded by smoke billowing from piles of tires set alight by fellow looters.
"There are people in our neighbourhood dying form [sic] hunger," one angry looter told local television. "We've only taken food. It's not much to ask."

Posted by at December 19, 2001 06:10 PM

Hundreds of al-Qaida - including some top commanders - were allowed to escape by commanders in the Afghan eastern alliance that led the assault on Tora Bora, an alliance official said. Two alliance commanders have been rebuked for conniving to let bin Laden followers flee into Pakistan, the official said.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 06:06 PM

"We will not have regional peace as long as the apartheid press is allowed to continue as the leading mouthpiece...We are saying they must now be brought to book, because what they are doing is criminal. They want a region which is at war with itself," Moyo told reporters.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 05:55 PM

The lawyers for the 17 defendants - the European members of Nato - had argued that the human rights court did not have the right to judge because the bombing took place in a country which is not a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 05:48 PM

Al Qaeda fighters who have escaped appear to have blended in with Pashtuns whose tribal lands straddle the Afghan-Pakistani border and who have proved reluctant to alert the army, which is viewed with suspicion, Western and Pakistani officials said.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 05:45 PM

Qasim said that many of the girls were used as concubines by Taliban officers, some of whom kept a dozen or more. He said many others were sold as sexual slaves to wealthy Arabs through contacts arranged by the al Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. Proceeds helped keep the cash-strapped Taliban afloat, he said.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 05:40 PM

Waxman is proposing the implementation of a two-dimensional barcode "stamp" that would contain the sender's identity as well as the date, time and place the postage was paid. The technology is currently used by companies that provide Internet mailing services, such as Stamps.com.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 05:30 PM

It has become necessary to notify all divisions that CCE [Coca Cola Enterprises] has become the target of pending lawsuits from 16 states including Washington and California. CCE has estimated that the total cost of the suits could exceed $110 billion dollars.
3,600 employees or former employees of CCE, have or will file suits ranging from Sexual to Racial Discrimination in the immediate future. Internal sources have gained information speculating that many of the suitors are working to integrate their law suits into one national law suit against CCE. CCE believes the outlined action will be catastrophic for CCE and the Coca-Cola Company.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 05:16 PM

According to the officials, the underwater thieves caused irreperable damage to many buildings built in Roman and Byzantine times, which were later covered by the sea.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 04:42 PM

Kim's Dilema: Required to notify her boss, via email, just before she leaves the office. Boss leaves every day at 2:00 PM
Solution: She scheduled the following email...

Posted by at December 19, 2001 03:41 PM

programmer: Peter?
Peter: hey man
programmer: How are things going?
Peter: we're filing for bankrupcy this week

Posted by at December 19, 2001 03:36 PM

The Joint Task Force 2 unit was formed as a top-secret unit in the early 1990s to take over the counter-terrorism role previously filled by the RCMP. Its members are some of the army's most skilled troops, including sharpshooters and explosives experts.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 03:33 PM

"By understanding what happens to matter during a supernova we gain a better understanding of how the basic building materials of our universe are created and distributed throughout space," said Shotter.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 02:58 PM

First visited this site back on the taxpayer's dollar in 1999. Apparently the 'design your own engagement ring' is getting popular. The one I prefer is as simple as it is expensive.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 02:36 PM

"The man's name is Abu Abdur Rahman, and he told us Osama was with them until the 28th day of Ramadan," said Mr. Khan. "Osama had told them to pray, then suddenly disappeared."

Posted by at December 19, 2001 01:04 PM

...this fantasy classic is an imperfect fit for any screen, large or small. The book is too complex, the world too intricate, and the background too intensive for an abbreviation to remain true to the original.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 12:57 PM

A spokesperson for the Australian Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries says people are exposed to similar substances every day.

Which makes it fine.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 12:35 PM

Within the hour it had received royal assent from Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson at a ceremony in the ornate Senate chamber.

Posted by at December 19, 2001 01:28 AM

According to Emforce, some 24.12 million domestic Internet users receive 38.9 billion occupational ad e-mails for such things as weight-loss schemes, lures to pornographic sites or other marketing efforts.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 08:19 PM

In any case, there is no longer any doubt that more Florida voters intended to vote for Gore than for Bush: according to the Times, some eight thousand Gore overvotes, net, were lost because of bad design (the notorious "butterfly" of Palm Beach) or confusing instructions (the two-page Duval County "caterpillar" ballot, which directed voters to "vote all pages"). But those votes were irredeemably spoiled, and the consortium did not consider them. In terms of those votes that were arguably valid, Florida -- still -- is too close to call. In every scenario, the margins are smaller than the five hundred and thirty-seven votes by which Bush officially prevailed -- and smaller, too, than the margin of error.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 04:43 PM

Gilles Dore, a lawyer for several other bikers, told Quebec Superior Court Justice Rejean Paul he has tried to interest colleagues but they don't want to be tied up in a lengthy trial.
They are also concerned about getting paid because the government has frozen the bikers' assets, claiming they are the proceeds of crime. The bikers are also not eligible for legal aid.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 03:20 PM

"I wasn't trying to find scenes that would fit. When you add up all the images - from a spunky Mary Pickford to Ben Affleck as a heroic soldier, you feel the changing, enduring and endlessly interesting American character"

Would that be the same Mary "America's Sweetheart" Pickford that was born in Toronto, which happens to be in Canada?

Posted by at December 18, 2001 02:59 PM

"There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100m," Wagner said. "They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed."

Posted by at December 18, 2001 02:53 PM

He also told reporters he doesn't believe drinking alcohol has affected his duties as premier.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 01:56 PM

AdCritic.com has enjoyed a sucessful life as a leader in the area of archiving television and radio advertising and related information for both consumers and the advertising industry. Our business, although strong, has been unable to weather the current economic realities beseiging the United States today. The short answer: we became so popular so fast that we couldn't stay afloat!

Posted by at December 18, 2001 01:39 PM

As of July 31, 2000, we have had 37 clients. 23 orders were implemented until completion of Phase III. Of these, 11 have resulted, or are likely to result in, successful outcomes, i.e. marriage.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 01:34 PM

We hereby, the undersigned, in spirit of our raped childhood's, ask that George Lucas give over his reign as director and writer of Episode III to one Peter Jackson. To allow complete control of all necessary story lines and dialogue for Peter Jackson to make a film as he sees fit.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 01:32 PM

Those matching samples are at Fort Detrick; the Dugway Proving Ground military research facility in Utah; a British military lab called Porton Down; and microbial depositories at Louisiana State University (LSU) and Northern Arizona University. Northern Arizona University received its sample from LSU, which received its sample from Porton Down. Dugway and Porton Down got their samples directly from USAMRIID.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 01:29 PM

They are thought to have been buried there in the 1930s by a local philanthropist.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 01:06 PM

Stare as long as you will, but the chromey sculptures don't look very much like their inspirations. The fiberglass women's hair and plunging gowns vary, but their faces do little more than suggest their stars' visages and seem pretty interchangeable. The gazebo is topped by a little spire whose neon shaft of letters spells "Hollywood," but otherwise the shrine is dark -- the footlights aren't on, and not even the barn-door lights on a nearby pole are working. The goddesses' name plaques seem to reflect the town's transient nature. They haven't been drilled in with masonry bolts but are instead held in place by some kind of industrial glue -- great globs of which have dripped down and frozen on the pedestal.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 12:38 PM

"The good thing about the Pistols now is that they can really play," Giddings said.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 12:09 PM

Posted by at December 18, 2001 12:03 PM

In a humane and sensible world, the fact that some people got their kicks this way would have no bearing on whether paraplegics and cancer patients could get the drugs they needed to relieve their suffering. But in a world warped by the crusade against unauthorized intoxication, a bunch of idiots snorting OxyContin powder can make life so unbearable for people in pain that they're driven to suicide.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 12:02 PM

The roster of 13 jettisoned businesses -- including six based in Silicon Valley -- reads like a roll call of boom-time companies whose glory has faded: 3Com, Palm, CNET, CMGI, RealNetworks, Inktomi, Novell. Replacing them are an array of biotech and pharmaceutical companies -- including four based in the valley -- with names like Invitrogen and Cephalon and Cytyc.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 11:55 AM

The first point to note is that on patterns containing up to five or six dots the subjects simply did not make errors. The performance on these small numbers of dots was so different from the performance with more dots that it was given a special name. Below seven the subjects were said to subitize; above seven they were said to estimate. This is, as you will recognize, what we once optimistically called "the span of attention."

Posted by at December 18, 2001 11:16 AM

The ONA study suggests that many publishing companies still have not effectively communicated their multi-platform, 24-hour news vision to all of their staffers. Their readers get it -- their readers use all sorts of devices and techniques to get their news. But news staffers apparently don't understand this yet -- or if they understand it, they don't like it. They don't see online news as a credible part of the media mix -- they see it as a less credible part.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 11:11 AM

"We were surprised to find that while women behaved badly with their mobile phones when drunk, men were far more cheeky once they'd sobered up."

Posted by at December 18, 2001 11:07 AM

They say the animals could be bred in poor countries, where the need for a malaria vaccine is the greatest and where a large manufacturing facility would be too expensive to build.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 11:00 AM

While nobody could argue that living at high altitude or traveling to a training session in the mountains is unethical, using a device to simulate the effects of altitude is a different matter.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 10:49 AM

This is hardly the profile of a pedophile or aficionado of child pornography as described so forcefully by the government's chief investigator in his sworn affidavit.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 10:44 AM

Robinson said: "They've destroyed an awful lot of evidence. We're doing the best we can to analyze the scientific and computer materials.... We'll continue this analysis right up until the time of the hearing on Jan 3."

Posted by at December 18, 2001 10:34 AM

The manufacturers have continuing access to the computers so they can service them and keep them free of glitches. This process was authorized by the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. Senior government officials have now told Fox News that while CALEA made wiretapping easier, it has led to a system that is seriously vulnerable to compromise, and may have undermined the whole wiretapping system.

Posted by at December 18, 2001 09:29 AM

...Vivendi Universal Entertainment, to be headed by Barry Diller, current boss of USA Networks, one-time head of the Paramount film studio and the man whom Rupert Murdoch hired to create the Fox television network.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 07:55 PM

"We don't know whether they're analysing the data they do have, we don't know what they know, and without reporting to the public, the public can't determine whether the environmental policies that are in place are effective."

Posted by at December 17, 2001 07:11 PM

"The commercial sexual exploitation and abuse of children is nothing less than a form of terrorism -- one whose wanton destruction of young lives and futures must not be tolerated for another year, another day, another hour," UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy told Reuters news agency.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 07:07 PM

During interrogation, Afroze, 25, also claimed that a member or members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, posing as computer programmers, were able to gain employment at Microsoft and attempted to plant "trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP," according to Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, a New Delhi information systems and telecommunication consultant.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 07:05 PM

He added that there were certain positions and social roles in the society that were not suitable for women.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 06:37 PM

Any such proposals in the past foundered on a distrust of centralized government as old as the American republic. Opponents raised the specter of prying bureaucrats with access to databases full of personal information, of Gestapo-like stops on the street and demands to produce papers, and the kind of unchecked police authority that would erode constitutional protections.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 06:06 PM

Albert's address was on a card registering "Cocoa Fernandez," the poodle, as a Republican. Cocoa got on the [Florida] voter register in July.

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 06:00 PM

[Gregory Pasko] was arrested on November 20, 1998 at the airport of Vladivostok, after his arrival from Japan. Russia's fleet intelligence service accused him of espionage, saying he had divulged information about the combat readiness of Russia's Pacific Fleet to the Japanese television station NHK.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:50 PM

The presidential spokesman said that before attacking the national palace, the commandos had attempted to assault the national penitentiary, but had been rebuffed.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:44 PM

"I checked my bags in. The person said, 'Are these your bags, sir?' Yes they are. 'Did you pack them yourself.' Yes I did. They arrested me."

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:37 PM

"You are our guests, but it is no longer safe," said commander Gul Lali, who now heads the militia that is trying to bring order to Kandahar after two months of bombing by the United States and more than a week of deadly fighting by rival tribal factions.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:21 PM

The sex offenders have served their jail sentences but have since gone missing and unlawfully failed to notify police of their whereabouts.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:20 PM

On December 13, 1998, the charred bodies of Norbert Zongo, editor of the newspaper L'Independent and three other people were found in a car, 100 km outside Ouagadougou. The demonstrators were marching to protest the fact that, three years later, no one knows why they were murdered. It is the latest in a long wave of protests touched off by the killings.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:17 PM

"We're going to hear layoff announcements into the first quarter of next year," said Frank Fernandez, chief economist of the Securities Industry Association, a trade group. Mr. Fernandez said that he believed that Wall Street profits would bottom out by the second quarter of next year but that firms might not be ready to expand again for another two or three years.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 05:14 PM

"Bowel disease is not sexy," laments Mort Weiseberg of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, as he drops off a bag of bagels to a supporter. "It's very difficult to find people who want to contribute to bowel disease."

Posted by at December 17, 2001 04:52 PM

The impending announcement follows the government's plans last week to convert power distributor Hydro One into a public company through an initial public offering which could be worth as much C$7 billion ($4.49 billion).

Posted by at December 17, 2001 04:27 PM

Howard W. Lutnick, chairman of the bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, is writing a book about his company's struggle through the deaths of more than 600 of its 1,000 employees in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 04:22 PM

Police have obtained confessions from men who, according to records, were in jail when the crime occurred. They have obtained confessions refuted by DNA evidence. They have obtained confessions that contradicted the facts of the crime.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 04:00 PM

"Even I was told to wear umcwasho on the day that everyone was told. I am very proud of the tradition and what it stood for, so I would like to encourage young maidens to take up the woollen tassels," she added.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 03:34 PM

You can go with me to meet my family and see where I live. At home I have to do my housework and look after my younger brother. Come and visit my school and see what subjects I study and the uniforms I wear. See what I like to do at the weekend and the holidays I have been on around Thailand. If you are interested in Buddhism, you can see what I do when I visit my local temple and also read about when I was a novice monk. My website has over 800 pictures, 95% I took myself. I think Thailand looks very different to where you live.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 02:58 PM

Fourteen male "guinea pigs" were confined to bed for 90 days, lying in a strict six-degree head-down tilt position.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 02:56 PM

Police have agreed not to prosecute if Germer undergoes counselling and agrees in writing to use his real name in any more communications with them.
The emails, which began in April, were sent to police and some city employees, including the mayor. The sender used the name "Giblet Gravy".

Posted by at December 17, 2001 02:53 PM

The four "deadliest" cars of all time have made the list because rates of death haven't changed since 1984, even with improved safety features.
The four cars are:

• Chevrolet Camaro
• Chevrolet Corvette
• Ford Mustang
• Pontiac Firebird

Posted by at December 17, 2001 02:43 PM

After years of observation, Wang said, the foundation found that Taiwanese media often overstep their role as an information provider and think of themselves as police instead.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 02:28 PM

In one finding, the jury found a video patent to be valid but not infringed upon by Broadcom. In the second decision, the jury found an Intel patent related to networking to be invalid.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 01:56 PM

Anti-virus firm MessageLabs, which operates primarily in the UK, said that it has detected 1,628,750 email viruses this year compared to 184,257 in 2000. The company also said that it detected one virus per 370 emails this year, compared to one in 700 in 2000 and one in 1400 in 1999.

Posted by at December 17, 2001 01:12 PM

Details of bin Laden's Canadian operations, obtained exclusively by the National Post, show al-Qaeda has suspected supporters in Canada's largest cities, many of them engaged in functions such as fundraising that feed the international Islamic terror network.

Posted by at December 15, 2001 12:56 PM

The Civic Hybrid goes on sale in Japan starting Friday, and will be sold in the United States starting in the spring of 2002 for about $20,000. Honda will produce 2,000 cars per month for the U.S. market.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 04:39 PM

Witnesses reported at least seven major blasts.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 01:09 PM

Today, in a bizarre penultimate twist in this month's dramatic collapse of the Taliban, those same patients still occupy three adjacent rooms in Ward D. They demand top medical care, but they also stand ready at the slightest provocation to blast themselves and anyone nearby to bits.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 11:12 AM

The Afghan mujahideen fighters would strap dynamite to a camel and send it towards a Russian base. Then, as the animal wandered near troops or equipment, they would set it off with a remote detonator, to deadly effect.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 11:05 AM

"I do not want to engage any advocate to defend me. I have decided to confess on my own. It is also not true that I am mentally sick and I do not want to undergo any psychiatric treatment."

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:58 AM

The MSP concept envisions a family of systems capable of missions like replenishing on-orbit satellites and surging space-based surveillance assets during a crisis. It could also be used to conduct precision strikes against terrestrial targets.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:55 AM

This show of piety and humility sounds very much like Bin Laden playing to the fundamentalist gallery. He meant to impress and inspire the faithful to follow in his footsteps. In another part of the tape, it is claimed that since September 11, the numbers of applicants for places at Muslim study and prayer centers is up. His horrific deed was thus justified in the eyes of his Saudi friend.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:39 AM

The woman who helped found the Reform Party and became its first MP has been dumped from the movement in a decision Thursday night by the Canadian Alliance's national council.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:37 AM

From: MCDonnell, Gerry
Sent: Tues, September 11, 2001
9:12 AM
To: NY OFFICE
Subject: Plane Crash If anyone is there please call me immediately at extension 7273. I need to check on your safety and to see if there is anything I can do to help you.
Gerry McDonnell

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:22 AM

In the electronic age, everything can be deleted with a keystroke. But it turns out that some bits and bytes are no less emotionally charged than mementos like clothing and handwritten letters. Many of those involved in the events of Sept. 11 have done whatever they can to preserve voice mail and e-mail and even instant messages that in some cases are the last electronic imprint of a person's life.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:19 AM

The American Accreditation HealthCare Commission, URAC, says the newly approved sites are among the largest and busiest health Web sites including WebMD, WellMed, IntelliHealth, the Health Insurance Association of America, Healthwise and Healthyroads.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:11 AM

A starting prosecutor grosses less than $10,000 a year. Mr. Schoenteich says that in one township office, 18 prosecutors share three desks. Many others are not equipped with a computer or a fax machine. Their libraries are out of date and some say it is impossible to access the latest law journals.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 10:06 AM

"I will have some difficulty in inviting some white men here," said Mr Mugabe, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper. "I would rather invite Asians or the Caribbeans, but for the EU as a bloc, I doubt."

Posted by at December 14, 2001 09:54 AM

"If prices of basic foodstuffs like grain and wheat are going up this can have a negative impact on the poor and can have political consequences"

Posted by at December 14, 2001 09:37 AM

[Morgan Tsvangirai] said that police had demanded that he produce a licence for a walkie-talkie he used to communicate with his personal security guards.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 09:34 AM

The landmark ruling said that the government had to provide the drug nevirapine to all women giving birth in public hospitals, and institute a comprehensive programme to reduce mother-to child transmission nationwide.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 09:30 AM

"People were running for their lives. Two government ministers were stoned and when they tried to leave the campus, the crowd pulled three policemen into the bush, stabbed them and took their AK-47s"

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Benedict's computers and floppy disks, seized during a February 1995 raid on his home in New York's Finger Lakes country, fared no better.
Prosecutors stashed 27 U.S. Postal Service mailbins in the soggy basement of the Geneva, New York, post office. After a few floods, the computers had rusted and the disks were encrusted with a filmy white substance.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 08:31 AM

A graphic complaint prepared for:
Joseph Crosby
General Manager

Lisa Rinker
Front Desk Manager
DoubleTree Club Hotel

2828 Southwest Freeway
Houston, Texas

Posted by at December 14, 2001 08:03 AM

The point is, notwithstanding the vicissitudes of humor, the democratic tradition of ridiculing and teasing politicians enjoys a long and honorable heritage. London°Øs Tate Gallery is currently advertising an exhibition devoted to the eighteenth-century caricaturist James Gillray with the line, °ƒDon°Øt Limit Yourself to Laughing at the Politicians of Today.°±

Posted by at December 14, 2001 07:53 AM

"Brindley [was] experimenting with drugs that could give a man an erection on demand. Rumors of his research got him invited to the AUA convention in Las Vegas, where one American challenged him to support his controversial data 'beyond charts, tables and graphs.' Brindley decided to do just that. Just before he took the podium, he went to a nearby men's room and injected himself with his experimental medication. Then, after presenting his data, Brindley stepped in front of the podium, unzipped his fly and presented himself. There it was, for all to see, the, uh, 'evidence.' Never before had so many penis doctors seen another man's erect penis. And in this comical moment, modern medicine, male sexuality and man's relationship with his penis, were changed forever."

Posted by at December 14, 2001 07:46 AM

And, despite all the consumer concerns with genetically modified food, Dr. Louise Greenberg says testing and regulations for G-M products are more rigorous than other types of food.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 07:33 AM

The devices remove heat by waving a small blade in alternate directions, like the motion of a classic hand-held Chinese fan. They consume only about 1/150th as much electricity as conventional fans, and they have no gears or bearings, which produce friction and heat.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 07:15 AM

"Why is it that when a drag queen runs for office, people consider it a joke? But if (Stockwell Day) shows up in a wet suit or if the prime minister of Canada shows up in a dinghy, it's considered serious and worthy of national attention," she said, referring to recent media pictures of federal leaders.

Posted by at December 14, 2001 07:02 AM

"The short answer is that now journalists may have a problem with hyperlinking," [University of Minnesota professor Jane Kirtley] said. "The court found a qualitative difference between a newspaper printing an address and a Web site linking to an address," she said.

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Said he: "I have no fear that if what Nigeria comes out with from the National Conference is not exactly what we Ndigbo want, we may talk about secession. We do not want to break up Nigeria but if you treat us as a goat, we will behave like a goat, even like a he-goat."

Posted by at December 13, 2001 06:34 PM

Very extensive. Via Bushwacker.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 04:44 PM

Taken to this extreme, you can see the real cost of using a credit card irresponsibly. That sushi actually cost them $80, and the two lattes were $20 each. With each hot dog, they were actually swallowing 20 bucks instead of 4.
It's even worse if we look at what would have happened if they'd been investing that money over the years instead of paying off the trip. Plopping $125 into an IRA each month for 44 years, earning a slightly-below-market-average 10% a year, would net each of our friends well over $1 million. Yikes!

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Last week, in a bid to stop his hand being amputated, Mohamed Ali told the Islamic court in Sokoto where he was charged with theft, that he had renounced his Muslim faith, was now a Christian and therefore could not be tried under Sharia law.
But the young man stunned the court on Thursday when he admitted he had lied.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 04:01 PM

The judge on Monday found in Haselton's favor in four separate cases for $500 apiece. In each case, he ruled that the defendants, none of whom bothered to show up, had sent Haselton deceptive e-mail solicitations prohibited under Washington state's 3-year-old anti-spam law.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:43 PM

Sklyarov and his employer, ElComSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow, were charged with releasing a program that let readers disable restrictions on Adobe Systems Inc. electronic-book software. The program is legal in Russia.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:40 PM

"By not following an open competitive process in selecting the private operator of the after-hours clinic, Cancer Care Ontario did not ensure that it was receiving the best value for funds expended," he wrote.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:38 PM

HE HAS been selling newspaper titles in Canada, backing a new one in New York and trying to quash rumours that he is selling them in Britain. What exactly is Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger, ex-Canadian, newly ennobled Briton, up to?

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:31 PM

The Caliphate State and its imprisoned leader have been closely observed by German domestic security services for years. But only now does the country have the power to dismantle the organization, one of whose aims is to topple the secular government of Turkey and replace it with a fundamentalist Islamic state.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:24 PM

The European Union welcomes the announcement of the re-opening of the Friendship Bridge between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. This action by the Uzbek government should allow the volume of humanitarian aid entering Afghanistan from the north to be greatly increased.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:22 PM

The Pokomo, a farming community, have protested at the government decision to disarm local homeguards saying it would make them vulnerable to attacks by the pastoralists who have sophisticated weapons.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 03:16 PM

Reporters' representatives were quoted by local media as saying the measure would put journalists in danger and was an admission the government was powerless to defend the press.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 02:56 PM

[Irma Flaquer Azurdia] had drawn the ire of this country's military with her column "What Others Don't Say," in which she openly criticized the government and the army, accusing both of committing thousands of human rights violations.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 02:52 PM

Grigory Pasko is accused of passing classified documents on the combat-readiness of the Russian Pacific fleet to Japanese media.

BBC is loaded with interesting stuff today.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 02:51 PM

The Panasonic Biometrics Group's $200 Authenticam shows that advanced biometrics are entering the mainstream, and what still needs to be done.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 02:32 PM

The government is considering a booklet embedded with holograms, a three-dimensional photographic image, and other security features.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 02:21 PM

These are a few of many key Maori figures throughout Maori history and today in whom we would like to give honour to.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:49 PM

"We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (...Inaudible...) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for," said bin Laden, according to the translation.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:48 PM

Send digital Pulp Fiction postcards over the Internet to friends, family, loved ones and all those other "special" people on your mailing list. All you need are their email addresses!

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:46 PM

Since they now charge $12 USD a year. Apparently they think they'll make money even though there are thousands of free e-card sites out there.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:36 PM

On December 10th, a US district judge appeared to echo Apple's concerns, asking why Microsoft did not just distribute the money to schools and let them buy whatever computers and software they liked. Microsoft has countered by saying that by providing its own products it could help more schools than if the schools went out and bought programs on the open market.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:29 PM

"The use of alternative health care increases with income and level of education. Perhaps because some of the costs of alternative health care are out-of-pocket, use tends to be greater in the higher income groups," the report said.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:18 PM

[Prof. David Criswell of the University of Houston's Institute for Space Systems] conceded that some people might be concerned that the system could fall into the wrong hands, possibly transforming the gentle microwave power beam into a new type of weapon that could blast the Earth from space.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 01:08 PM

Mr Forth's remarks prompted a less generous comment from Labour MP Kevin Hughes who said that anyone who had been married to Baroness Thatcher for that long "deserves a medal as big as a dustbin lid".

Posted by at December 13, 2001 12:59 PM

We are compiling some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' first post about his "pet project". If you come across other noteworthy posts while searching the archive, please forward them to us at usenet-timeline@google.com. Please note that while your own first post was undoubtedly of great personal historical value, we will only be able to include submissions of interest to a wide range of users.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 12:28 PM

Since 1996, the Ministry of Correctional Services has been using an electronic ankle "bracelet" that monitors selected inmates out on temporary absence passes by sending radio signals to a receiver.
When the inmate goes outside a set radius from his or her home, the box alerts a central computer in North Bay, the inquest was told.
But the ministry does not yet use technology to create exclusion zones -- such as around an abused spouse's home -- to prevent an offender from entering without triggering an alarm.
Sampson said the ministry wants to use such a device, and possibly others, and intends "very shortly" to approach the private sector with its specifications.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 12:18 PM

At a brief hearing in Congress this morning, both the chairman and the ranking Republican on the committee suggested that the proposed settlement, rather than resolving the epochal litigation between the government and the company, could prompt a new round of legal proceedings because its terms were too vague and difficult to enforce.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 12:11 PM

A team of Dutch research doctors conducted a study of 344 heart attack survivors and found that more than one in 10 of them had experienced "emotions, visions, or lucid thoughts" while they were considered "clinically dead"-meaning that they were unconscious with no signs of pulse, breathing or brain activity at the time. Some of them reported having "out-of-body" experiences. The survey itself took two years to conduct and is the largest study to-date on the NDE phenomenon.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 12:07 PM

"Russia has no fears for its security. Russia can be unconcerned with its defence systems. Maybe other nations should be concerned if the United States chooses to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty," [Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Kasyanov] told the Associated Press news agency.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 11:41 AM

A. Alfred Taubman, 76, the real estate developer and former Sotheby's chairman who is still its largest controlling shareholder, was found guilty last week of conspiring with the former chairman of Christie's, Sotheby's auction house archrival, to fix fees charged to sellers in a scheme that eliminated competitive choice and cost customers millions of dollars. He faces up to three years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 2.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 11:41 AM

NASA scientists said they were excited by the initial indications of hydrogen deposits, describing the readings sent back as clearer, more definite and much earlier than had been expected.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 11:37 AM

The motive remains unclear. No group has admitted carrying out the attack - which Indian Home Minister LK Advani said was similar to an October strike against the Kashmir state assembly by separatist militants.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 11:34 AM

Batzel, meanwhile, finds herself in the unenviable position of having to prove to friends, associates and clients she's not a Nazi descendant and her home isn't full of art stolen from SS victims. And across the world, Cremers laments that the controversy has already cost him his job and could lead to the destruction of his beloved Museum Security Network.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 11:33 AM

Cerf predicted users would try to illegally connect laptops to the network for convenience, or transfer information onto insecure floppy disks.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 11:23 AM

Some letters appear to be dated long after Bolander's computer ended up in a police evidence room. And Bolander admitted last month in a written statement that he traded child porn with plenty of people -- but never Benedict.

Posted by at December 13, 2001 10:52 AM

"At first, I was afraid people would think it was disrespectful," co-owner Julie Higginson said. "But it's the ultimate compliment. I can't think of a single other political leader you would want to put on your underwear."

Posted by at December 13, 2001 08:31 AM

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce

Posted by at December 13, 2001 02:46 AM

``One of our greatest glories is closure of offending newspapers. Based on our assessments, by doing this, we have done the greatest service to the people,'' IRNA quoted him as saying.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 09:51 PM

On 19 Dec 2001, from 12:00-12:30pm PST, the Tele-Actor will visit the UC Berkeley Microlab Clean Room. In the meantime, please register and try our Spatial Dynamic Voting interface.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 09:23 PM

I plan on selling all of the 200 items listed below as a single package, and I'm not willing to break any of it up. Among these records are many classics, collectors items, and out of print rarities, so please make reasonable bids. If you have any questions about individual records, just ask. I intend to take the best offer I recieve.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 06:57 PM

"I'm very proud of my daughter, at least she's not writing software manuals," said Rebecca Goran, "that's more than I could bear."

Documentation is sleazy work.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 03:59 PM

"The Agency concludes that ... obesity, per se, is not a disability for the purposes of Part V ("Transportation of persons with disabilities") of the Canadian Transportation Act," the ruling reads. "Notwithstanding this, the Agency finds that the evidence suggests that there may be individuals ... who have a disability for the purposes of Part V of the CTA which can be attributed to their obesity.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 03:41 PM

WELL, THERE'S NO POINT IN MY APPEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE AFTER IT'S MARKED UP. THAT'S REALLY A SILLY SUGGESTION, IF I MAY SAY SO. I'LL MAKE MY PROPOSAL -- MY IMPASSIONED PLEA TO THE SENATE AFTER THE COMMITTEE HAS MET AND MARKED UP THE BILL. WHY SHOULD I GO OVER AND APPEAR BEFORE THAT COMMITTEE AFTER THEY'VE MARKED UP THE BILL? WHAT A SILLY PROPOSITION.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 03:10 PM

Byrd knew that a Senate rule prohibits committees from meeting for more than two hours while the main chamber is in session, but this is usually bypassed daily with unanimous consent. On Wednesday, Byrd refused to consent, which required committees to halt what they were doing after 11:30 a.m.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 03:08 PM

Canadian officials insist the government isn't bowing to U.S. pressure. They say it's a response to the unparalleled terrorist attacks exactly three months ago.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 01:20 PM

Sheriff's deputies arrested [Daniel Searfoss] again on voyeurism and stalking charges in November at a flea market where he was again accused of using his sneakercam to look up women's skirts. Investigators seized 45 videotapes from him, some four hours long, and were still reviewing them.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 01:12 PM

Security expert Norm Inkster, a former RCMP commissioner, said it is the first he's heard that Al Qaeda had a direct presence in this country.
"I haven't read anything suggesting Al Qaeda had cells or people here," Inkster said in an interview yesterday.
"I think it re-enforces the need for Canadians to be vigilant," he said, adding the new information suggests Canada is vulnerable to infiltration by groups like Al Qaeda.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 01:10 PM

"Obscenity is unprotected speech, but not all material is obscene from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," said Wirenius. "Material may be considered obscene in Utah, for example, but not in New York. Whose standards are supposed to be applied to the Internet?"

Posted by at December 12, 2001 01:09 PM

Microsoft announced on Tuesday it will be using Predictive Networks' technology to track the viewing habits of people who use Microsoft TV interactive television products.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 01:06 PM

"The men in the crowd listen to us, but the women don't. They need discipline," one soldier said.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 12:52 PM

The Immigration and Naturalisation Service stipulates that new citizens must be of good moral charcater and lists a range of offences that would block an application, ranging from murder to polygamy or being an "habitual drunkard".

Posted by at December 12, 2001 10:17 AM

Ow, who was aware of the data's sensitive nature, planned to use the information about the chip's design and testing as a resource at his new job and to retaliate against a former supervisor, Nadel said.

Posted by at December 12, 2001 09:44 AM

Testified he didn't recall seeing a pry bar -- such as the one Benedict claims to have been threatened with -- at any point that evening. But the state police insist Loftus was the one who broke down the door, and a report prepared by the state police reads: "Point of Entry: South Side Porch. Mode of Entry: Forced open door by prying."

Posted by at December 12, 2001 09:29 AM

The groundbreaking decision will infuriate big drug firms which have been trying to coax African governments into de facto recognition of copyright agreements by offering cut-price medicines.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 10:30 PM

Welcome to a site put together by some Montreal Gazette reporters and editors on their own time. It is part of a protest against the decision by Southam News to force 12 of its major metropolitan newspapers to run "national editorials" written at the corporate headquarters of parent company CanWest Global Communications Corp.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 08:11 PM

She came up with language using mnemonic characters that appealed to logic, such as "a" for add and "b" for bring. She designed control panels that put the numeric keypad next to the keyboard and persuaded engineers to replace the UNIVAC's black exterior with the gray-beige tone that came to be the universal color of computers.

Gosh, might be handy to have a few more chicks in computers. We might be, y'know, intelligent.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 07:52 PM

Philip Bond, the Commerce Department's under secretary for technological policy, said cyber-pirates steal an estimated $12 billion worth of technology and goods a year, according to the Business Software Alliance. American leadership in computers and software is "very much at stake" because of piracy, he said.

...assuming the $12 billion existed to begin with, which is unproven.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 07:50 PM

According to Pynnonen, the vulnerability also may affect users of Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail readers, which rely on IE to display messages in Web-page or HTML format. Qualcomm's Eudora e-mail reader, which optionally uses IE for HTML display, could also be vulnerable, he said.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 07:36 PM

Fortress America, safe and stupid.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 07:34 PM

The attorney general also announced a list of 23 unindicted coconspirators. In addition to bin Laden, they include bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Zawahiri; all 19 of the Sept. 11 hijackers; a man the FBI has identified as the intended 20th member of the hijack team; and bin Laden's alleged financial manager, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 05:16 PM

Welcome to a site put together by some Montreal Gazette reporters and editors on their own time. It is part of a protest against the decision by Southam News to force 12 of its major metropolitan newspapers to run "national editorials" written at the corporate headquarters of parent company CanWest Global Communications Corp.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 05:11 PM

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All great designs are a result of evolution.

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"The tech support line I handle is strictly a for-pay service, no freebies. The clients get charged by the minute so I like to give it to them slow. I feel sleazy, but the more billable time, the bigger my bonus," explained Heather. "Some of the people want me to make at home visits, but Tony my manager said that's strictly forbidden. No fraternizing with the clients outside of the building."

Posted by at December 11, 2001 03:38 PM

It just might be that, during the Reagan/Bush years, we were visited by creatures from outer space and their meeting with Messrs. Reagan and Bush would be alarming to the general population even 20 years down the road. It is, of course, one of the duties of the very brilliant and very gifted to look out for the rest of us, to provide a shield, if you will..

Posted by at December 11, 2001 02:20 PM

They've been in the office since Friday to protest against the government's proposed anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-36.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 02:03 PM

Misconception #1: If you maximize the number of accessible business artifacts (documents, charts, reports, and so forth), you increase the chances that individuals will locate precisely what they need to solve business problems.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 02:01 PM

"I should be credited with peace in Bosnia, not for war," he said.

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Posted by at December 11, 2001 01:59 PM

More than 100,000 U.S. service members sent to the region in 1990 and 1991 have reported a range of maladies, including fatigue, muscle pain, memory loss and sleep disorders. But previous studies had found no definitive links, although several suggested that the ailments might be due to chemical exposures, stress or prophylactic medicines administered to soldiers.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 01:48 PM

Posted by at December 11, 2001 11:28 AM

The dilemma was solved, however, in the early nineteenth century, when women working at large, vibrating sewing machines in textile mills became suspiciously eager to work lots of overtime.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 11:28 AM

...floating above its actual location in a patient. Blood vessels, muscle tissue and other internal anatomy are all visible.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 11:06 AM

[Sydney University physicist Karl Kruszelnicki]'s survey was not conclusive, but its findings included the fact that hairy overweight men produce more belly button fluff than slim, hairless women.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 10:57 AM

Files and entire directories mysteriously appeared on seized computers while they were stored in police evidence rooms. It took prosecutors nearly five years to uncover illegal image files on Benedict's PC -- in an obvious, top-level directory titled "GIF."

Posted by at December 11, 2001 10:55 AM

The sound is like the noise from a huge electrical power generator. The moon generates as much wattage as about 1,000 nuclear power plants.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 10:51 AM

"We're not the competitor; the competitor is every credit card company and every major retailer whose customer loyalty Microsoft is purchasing," said Sun spokesman Jonathan Schwartz. "They're under siege now from the same monopoly dominating the desktop."

Posted by at December 11, 2001 09:50 AM

Making it impossible to fill our Q-zones with Duff Goodness, representatives from 20th Century Fox have stopped production of "Duff" beer at a family-owned brewery in Dunedin, New Zealand. "Duff" is the brand of suds that Homer and his buddies swill at Moe's Tavern on Fox's "The Simpsons." The (real) Duff family opted to comply with Fox's request, fearing the wrath of Rupert Murdoch's legal team. The new incarnation of the beer will be called "McDuffs," and Fox will help pay for the re-labeling of the beers and brand promotion. Mr. Duff professes himself no fan of the show and claims to be puzzled by the commotion surrounding his eponymous brew. "I have been amazed at how many Americans come in here and mention it. Grown adults, people in their 50s and 60s, and they all watch that programme," Duff said, according to Independent Newspapers Ltd.'s Stuff paper in New Zealand. Fox successfully shut down production of another Duff brewer, The South Australian Brewery company, in 1996, though the Duff cans are still a collector's item among "Simpsons" enthusiasts.

Posted by at December 11, 2001 09:35 AM

The appeals court said that right to private property trumps the ability for someone else to make use of your property and call it free speech ("None of these cases hold the First Amendment permits trespassing").

Posted by at December 11, 2001 09:33 AM

"The Northern Alliance were criminals to our mothers and young daughters," the women shouted at a small demonstration in the Pakistani capital. Children accompanying them waved banners and pictures of Northern Alliance fighters killing Taliban.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 09:38 PM

According to the statute, anti-dumping investigations will be conducted on the condition that imported products enter China at a price lower than their actual export value, and actually cause damage, or pose a potential danger, to domestic enterprises.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 09:31 PM

"There can be no sanctions smart enough to affect Zimbabweans alone. Our destinies are intertwined," Mudenge told visiting ministers of the 14 nation Southern African Development Community in Harare.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 09:22 PM

Control of the press and later its intimidation and attempted repression was implemented as a necessity for the retention of fading power and diminished legitimacy. Propaganda in the form of the Ministry of Information took on a grotesque and Kafkaesque quality.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 09:20 PM

"It's not a commodity, as the baby will be loved and cherished on its own merit.
"It's not just being produced as a spare part."

Posted by at December 10, 2001 06:36 PM

Researched and written by five leading women scholars and sponsored by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Women's Business Council, this report examines the current state of venture capital for women entrepreneurs interested in, and capable of, high-growth venturing. The Diana Project explores the eight myths, or stereotypes, that have the potential to inhibit a woman's chance of gaining access to equity capital, thereby creating a negative context for entrepreneurial growth.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 05:21 PM

Researchers may learn that the substance doesn't have therapeutic use, but the research will no longer be banned. Or, they'll learn that it does have therapeutic use, but the government will not follow its own rules -- to approve drugs that are safe and have therapeutic value -- which Gilmore said would be key knowledge, as it would instigate reform. Or, they'll learn that the drugs do have therapeutic use, and people will use them.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 05:13 PM

Prediction! Kausfiles will be roundly condemned as unpatriotic for this item. But within two months the essential point?that it's in Bush's political interest to keep the war going?will be such a staple of punditry that you will switch channels when you hear it.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 04:39 PM

Last year, Canadians spent about $110-billion on their Visa and MasterCard credit cards, equivalent to 10 per cent of Canada's gross domestic product, and three times as much as was charged in 1990. At the end of last year, $35-billion of that was still outstanding -- and depending on the card, the interest rate on that outstanding balance could be anywhere from 18 per cent to 20 per cent. And those are the cheap credit cards. Department store cards such as those from Sears and Zellers, or cards issued by gas stations and other retailers, often have rates closer to 30 per cent.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 03:13 PM

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has heaped praise on Canada for suggesting the new NATO joint council. When he discovered Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley at an international meeting in Romania last week, Mr. Ivanov interrupted the meeting to hug Mr. Manley and express his fondness for the Canadian minister.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:48 PM

The law, passed Friday on the 60th anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, came after decades of vitriolic debate between pacifists determined to maintain Japan's "peace constitution" and those who argued that the time had come for Japan to commit combat troops to international peacekeeping efforts.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:47 PM

Four public Internet points across the capital have been installed with a new channel, which provides advice and helpline information for victims of abusive relationships. Cityspace, the IT company that provides the i-plus network of kiosks for the Greater London Authority (GLA), reports that the level of response has been encouraging, with an average of eight women a day using the kiosks for advice on mental or physical abuse.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:45 PM

Some members of the audience seemed uncomfortable with this vision of the future. But while Mr. Huber blithely agreed that it was "Orwellian," he insisted that "it can be done with due regard to civil liberties."

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:32 PM

Under the slogan "Support Breasts - not Dictators", protestors will urge British consumers to boycott the firm [Triumph International] until its Burmese factory is closed.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:30 PM

On the tape, it is a bright Sunday morning in Kala Jangi. Dozens of prisoners have been taken out of the prison and placed outside, near the center of the compound. Waiting for them are the Americans, Johnny "Mike" Spann, and another CIA agent known only as Dave. Spann is wearing blue jeans and a black jumper. A Kalashnikov rifle is strapped across his back. Dave is dressed in a black tunic that reaches below his knees, with tan trousers beneath. Walker had apparently been pointed out to Spann as a Westerner, or someone who spoke English.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:28 PM

Making good on an election promise to spur economic development, the provincial Liberal government is chipping at a backlog of dozens of applications from tourism companies that aim to capitalize on B.C.'s many untouched mountaintops, river valleys and glacier-fed lakes.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:24 PM

Estranged wife Sabiha, who abandoned him after he took another wife aged 17, revealed the "suicide" plan on Russian TV channel, TV6.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 02:22 PM

The Internet, home to strange phenomena, is haven for a group of women who write what is called "slash" fiction. The stories began as fan fiction around 1976, and featured the sexual pairing of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Those stories came to be labeled K/S, and then "slash" for short, and started to feature other pop culture males seized by passion -- Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, of course, Hercules and his buddy Iolus, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, etc.

Why is everyone acting like it's so odd that women like mano-a-mano porn, when it's predictable for men to like fema-a-fema porn?

Posted by at December 10, 2001 01:51 PM

Posted by at December 10, 2001 01:36 PM

"Since principles of defamation law may be applied to the Internet... this court determines that Narco News, its website, and the writers who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist in defamation suits... Furthermore, the nature of the articles printed on the website and Mr. Giordano's statements at Columbia University constitute matters of public concern because the information disseminated relates to the drug trade and its affect on people living in this hemisphere..."

Posted by at December 10, 2001 01:36 PM

I think there's a common misperception, especially among the younger cohort online, that design is an endeavor that concerns the decoration of a surface in an attempt to achieve aesthetic distinction or beauty.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 01:32 PM

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam says art researchers have authenticated the piece, called Man In A Red Beret.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 01:25 PM

Robert Trivers, a Rutgers University evolutionist, used to kid Zahavi that if you took his idea to the logical extreme, you'd end up with a bird where both sexes fly upside down to show each other how good they'd be if they were flying right side up.
[...] ...Zahavi said, "But they do fly upside down," and proceeded to rattle off bird species in which somersaults and other inversions are part of the mating display.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 01:12 PM

"We're resolving matters," her lawyer, Richard Peck, said outside court.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 12:07 PM

The remedies in the Proposed Final Judgement specifically protect companies in commerce -- organizations in business for profit. On the surface, that makes sense because Microsoft was found guilty of monopolistic activities against "competing" commercial software vendors like Netscape, and other commercial vendors -- computer vendors like Compaq, for example. The Department of Justice is used to working in this kind of economic world, and has done a fair job of crafting a remedy that will rein in Microsoft without causing undue harm to the rest of the commercial portion of the industry. But Microsoft's greatest single threat on the operating system front comes from Linux -- a non-commercial product -- and it faces a growing threat on the applications front from Open Source and freeware applications.
The biggest competitor to Microsoft Internet Information Server is Apache, which comes from the Apache Foundation, a not-for-profit. Apache practically rules the Net, along with Sendmail, and Perl, both of which also come from non-profits. Yet not-for-profit organizations have no rights at all under the proposed settlement. It is as though they don't even exist.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 12:02 PM

The number itself -- 2^13,466,917 -1 -- is called a Mersenne prime because it has the particular form of 2^P -1, where P is itself a prime number. Only 39 have so far been found; the first four have P as 3, 7, 31 and 127. The new number is the 39th.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 11:55 AM

"If you consider the cost of cloning a bull or a cow, it meant that you needed somewhere around 15 host cows just to carry these gestations," Smith said in a telephone interview. "With what we did here, you would need only two recipients. So the cost of producing a clone has reduced dramatically."

Posted by at December 10, 2001 11:52 AM

Despite a written agreement, NASA has arbitrarily trimmed the Canadian allocation by a third and prospective commercial buyers are hanging back because of the uncertainty, Garneau said.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 11:50 AM

According to Skylove.com, the largest Korean chatting service portal in terms of subscribers, which took a seven-day survey recently of 6,078 of its members, 86 percent of respondents answered that they believe in fortune telling.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 11:43 AM

The Winning Couple will be selected from among all eligible submissions based on creativity and originality of their duct tape prom attire.

Posted by at December 10, 2001 11:02 AM

Two reports in the Dec. 7 issue of Science suggest the warming could allow water to return to the Martian surface, turning the frigid planet into a "short-sleeve environment."

Posted by at December 10, 2001 10:43 AM

So the challenge for me has been to set the IE cache, cookies, URL history and typed URLs to a RAM drive so they're never written to disk. This would enable you to accept cookies for more convenient surfing without leaving traces of your comings and goings on your machine. Not even the most sophisticated forensics tool can re-construct your surfing history if it's never written to disk in the first place, after all.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 06:52 PM

In this new biological application, attaching quantum dots directly to cells eliminates the need for external electrodes. The procedure is entirely non-invasive, similar to the use of fluorescent dyes to mark cells. And since molecular recognition is used, it is a "smart" technology that can pick precisely which capability will be controlled on each neuron to which a quantum dot is attached. Taken to the logical extreme, biologists could remotely control any neural function by activating select neurons.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 06:44 PM

...a jailed American who claims to be an ex-naval intelligence agent is spinning another story about the death. Part of his fantastical conspiracy theory is that Bastien had been working as an intelligence agent and was murdered because he knew too much. Delmart Vreeland, 35, has sworn information in a Toronto courtroom that suggests Bastien obtained highly sensitive information about terrorist plots -- including foreknowledge of attacks that took place Sept. 11 on U.S. targets.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 06:29 PM

Details remain sketchy, but according to Wood, all members of the group were recently delivered "hundreds of hours" of tapes and have been sifting through them to select potential material for the project. In the interview, Wood says he has already been comparing notes with Stones guitarist Keith Richards over what should be released from the tapes.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 05:05 PM

"If a company is saying this, and analysts are getting information pointing out that the industry is slowing, what do you do? Do you go against the company's word or do you use what's at your disposal?"
The vast majority of analysts were choosing the latter option, continuing to take Nortel's word to the bank. But the disconnect between the signs of slowdown and Nortel's public message grew increasingly large.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 03:25 PM

Send your erotic (and generally "objectionable") origami diagrams in for publication.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 01:21 PM

In 1569, Pope Pius V considered cocoa liquid so vile tasting that he declared the drinking of it would not break the communion fast.
Back then, most chocolate was consumed, and appreciated, in liquid form. The Aztec king Montezuma drank liquid chocolate all day to enhance his libido.

Posted by at December 09, 2001 01:06 PM

"At first they were reasonably friendly but then a little kid threw a stone at me. More stones followed and then I found myself being punched and beaten in the face."
He knocked a couple of his attackers to the ground but was then rescued by a Muslim religious leader, who forced the mob back and guided him to a police wagon.
"Without his intervention I would now be dead," [Fisk] said.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 09:40 PM

On Oct. 8 and again on Oct. 12, Pakistani border guards at a dusty checkpoint in the Khyber Pass waved on convoys headed into Afghanistan. Western intelligence officials said that under the trucks' tarpaulins were rifles, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade launchers for Taliban fighters.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 09:32 PM

To use Mr. Gerson's language, it's sick that amid a Justice Department crackdown that indiscriminately (and often pointlessly) rounds up young men for questioning on the basis of their ethnicity, the administration is not practicing such profiling at the venue where the strongest case can be made for it -- the airports where 19 hijackers jump-started their crime.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 09:28 PM

In a case that's drawn international scrutiny, children's services wouldn't likely wait for the parents to strike their children before moving in, Mr. Mitchell said. The parents have not yet told the group of their intent, said Steve Bailey of the St. Thomas agency. Until they do, he added, the agency won't act.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 09:28 PM

"They are good people," Ghafar said, "but they are not organized well."

Posted by at December 08, 2001 09:24 PM

A group of women politicians in Germany is fighting to ban men from peeing in public.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 06:43 PM

The states contend their plan eliminates the settlement's ``carefully crafted carve-outs'' that give Microsoft a way to avoid compliance. They argued for tougher enforcement provisions and a process open to the public. The states said their plan would restore competition and take back Microsoft's ``illegal, ill-gotten gains.''

Posted by at December 08, 2001 06:34 PM

A nude Evergreen State College freshman burst from a dorm and began assaulting people, striking two female students and a couple walking their dog before officers subdued him Wednesday afternoon, campus police said. "It appears the individual was under the influence of drugs," said Art Costantino, vice president of student affairs.
The student also tossed a flower pot through a window and shattered a Jeep's windshield with his head, police said. He was taken to St. Peter Hospital and was later booked into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of second-degree assault. No serious injuries were reported.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 05:49 PM

Jimi Hendrix lived, loved and experimented here, with drugs and other things. Janis Joplin did not only have a love affair with Southern Comfort but also had a short liaison with Leonard Cohen. The canadian rock poet, too, loved the hotel: It's one of those hotels that have everything that I love so well about hotels. I love hotels to which, at four a.m., you can bring along a midget, a bear and four ladies, drag them to your room and no one cares about it at all.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 04:16 PM

Sure, the Web continues to offer a vast, unprecedented array of gratismaterial. But professionally produced sites need to pay their bills, and relying on advertising alone is a risky proposition in an economic slump. As senior vice president of editorial operations for Salon.com, I've become very familiar with these realities. For content sites like Salon.com, charging for subscriptions -- once considered anathema on the Web -- is now an essential move for survival.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 03:25 PM

These positions are putting the ministers at odds with the European Parliament, which two weeks ago voted in favor of tighter controls on law enforcement access to these logs, and against a ban on spam.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 02:58 PM

War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 02:30 PM

The statue, which is set to be sculpted from a 40-tonne block of pale-grey granite, will be a tribute from the former city of Nepean in an attempt to recognize the accomplishments and personality of Pierre Trudeau the man, not the politician.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 01:57 PM

Mr Pashtoon said that Mullah Omar was being held in a "(Taleban)-friendly environment", but his group would demand that the Taleban Supreme Leader be handed over, probably to the new Afghan government, at a tribal meeting this morning.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 01:49 PM

But isn't one person's mistake another's standard usage?
Often enough, but if your standard usage causes other people to consider you stupid or ignorant, you may want to consider changing it. You have the right to express yourself in any manner you please, but if you wish to communicate effectively, you should use nonstandard English only when you intend to rather than fall into it because you don't know any better.

Posted by at December 08, 2001 11:41 AM

"It was like hearing you lost a relative," says Roth. "It was like `Holy shit' -- I think those were the words."

Posted by at December 08, 2001 10:53 AM

Due to production and testing problems at the plant, Peoples said, some were duds. Others exploded. Many developed cracks and should have been discarded, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But employees tell us after-hours - with government inspectors gone - that they were ordered to seal the cracks with an unapproved material called loctite.
"And Eagle Picher did this not on hundreds, not on thousands, but on millions of batteries that they sold," Peoples said.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 06:07 PM

"If I had a gun now, I would shoot you!" he yelled at two American reporters. "Get out of my face!"

Posted by at December 07, 2001 06:06 PM

"This will create the conditions necessary for the broad-based and legitimate distribution of creative works and recordings on the Internet"

Posted by at December 07, 2001 05:52 PM

Franks said the military does not have a "sense of comfort" regarding the stability of both Kandahar or Spin Boldak.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 05:27 PM

"In a hate crime, the offender is motivated by the victim's personal characteristics, and in the case of email viruses, the maker is clearly singling out those who open email attachments when they've been told a thousand times not to," said California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. "Like any other segment of the population, people of stupidity need protection from bias."

Posted by at December 07, 2001 04:33 PM

Companies cannot afford to have their networks clogged and Internet access shut off, yet the message doesn't seem to get through. Gus Malezis, the Canadian country manager at Network Associates, suggested to me better education is needed, but what kind of turnip doesn't understand office PCs are company property and must be treated as such? Remember, this worm was disguised as a screen saver. The Anna Kournikova Virus was masquerading as a picture. These are not projects being shared amongst peers or budgets that need urgent approval.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 04:21 PM

A communications team from AlertNet member Mines Advisory Group is sending daily photographic dispatches directly from Angola during the first week in December, showing how people get on with their lives in a village surrounded by land contaminated by mines. This photo gallery follows a MAG community liaison team in discussions with a village about landmines and unexploded ordnance in their community.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 03:46 PM

Polaroid Corp. (OTC BB:PRDCQ.OB - news), which slashed jobs and retiree benefits before filing for bankruptcy protection in October, wants to reward top executives with up to $19 million in bonuses and incentives as they dismantle the instant camera and film maker topay off creditors.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 03:00 PM

Who is more likely to win the Canadian Alliance leadership vote?
Total Votes for this Question: 1724
So far, 22%? have voted for Current leader Stockwell Day
So far, 78%? have voted for Drag Queen Enza (Supermodel) Anderson

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:55 PM

"Baseball didn't go into this blindly," Pohlad said. "They did a lot of market studies. They had a point system, the performance of baseball teams at a given town and they developed a lot of statistics that said Montreal and Minneapolis - or Minnesota - simply doesn't meet the test of being able to field a winning team because of the economics.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:52 PM

If that dating estimate proves accurate, it would mean that an ancient civilization had designed and erected these vast stone structures in the Americas only 500 years after human settlements first became organized in cities and states.
They would also have been built long before the wheel was invented in Sumeria (3500 BC), or the sundial in Egypt (3000 BC). The three pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau are thought to have been constructed between 2900 and 2200 BC.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:50 PM

The Canadian Press tested the system in a random, unscientific sampling of mail delivery, sending a dozen Christmas cards containing money-sized paper from locations across the country between Nov. 23 and 26 to an Ottawa residence.
Two weeks later, only half had arrived.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:47 PM

Gay couples would receive almost all the benefits of married couples, including health and insurance benefits, a new tax status and the right to benefits after divorce or death under the draft bill, which could become law by spring.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:46 PM

This achievement is a first in mammals, and may hint at ways of reversing some types of blindness in people. Scientists also hope to use a version of the technique to treat people with spinal cord injuries.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:44 PM

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:41 PM

The police then shot and killed him, helping to write the final scene of a paranoid drama authored by [Milton William] Cooper himself. Cooper was a well-known -- notorious, even -- figure in American fringe culture. He first rose to such demi-prominence in UFO circles in 1988, claiming to have oodles of secret information gleaned from his days with U.S. Naval Intelligence. (His detractors point out that this experience seemed to be nothing more than working as an aide in an audio-visual department.)

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:38 PM

Judge Eugene Scheibel cited the fact that both men were facing financial ruin as reasons for the lighter sentence. Both men lost their jobs and their pensions after the incident.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:36 PM

Government rules bar women wearing trousers to such workplaces as schoolrooms, government buildings and post offices, said a spokesman at the teachers' union, part of the Public Sector Workers Union organizing the protest.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:34 PM

Inaccuracies? Well, I just found out that it wasn't Bob Hope who said, "I don't get no respect." Apparently it was the late Billy Crystal. How embarrassing.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 02:29 PM

Internet users, however, report being less anxious about interacting with others. They also report experiencing lower levels of powerlessness and alienation. Additionally, they feel less technophobic and are more inclined than non-users to be free-speech supporters.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 01:50 PM

In October, hundreds of genetically modified moths were released into an Arizona cotton field. The test is bound to stir up controversy: It is a big step toward extending the frontier of genetic manipulation beyond plants and into the wild kingdom of insects.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 01:48 PM

Take a small town, remove any trace of history, character, or charm. Allow nothing with any redeeming qualities within city limits -- this includes food, motel beds, service personnel. Then place this pathetic assemblage of ghastly buildings and nasty people on a freeway in the midst of a harsh, uninviting wilderness, far enough from the nearest city to be inconvenient, but not so far for it to develop a character of its own. You now have created Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 01:43 PM

They may also offer an objective way to measure what is now an intensely personal sensation.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 01:06 PM

"It wasn't something that we jumped into and said, 'Okay, we'll supply your heroin,' " says Ian. "We did a lot of research. We realized that the heroin was controlling him - so if we could take control of the heroin, then we'd got some chance of getting him away from it."

Posted by at December 07, 2001 01:04 PM

To find out, they studied daily growth patterns preserved in the enamel of fossil teeth. The researchers found the 1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus -- who carried itself upright and was thought to develop like modern humans -- actually grew up more like an ape. The creatures shortened their growth by dodging adolescence.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 11:44 AM

No, I don't agree with many of the current policies of the Canadian Alliance Party. They have not been supportive of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans community in Canada. But I can see they desperately need my help, and as leader I can fix the party from within to make it a more inclusive and representative national party. And surely a Supermodel can make the Canadian Alliance take notice of our community and its strengths.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 09:33 AM

"Around 10,000 people, the majority of them Taliban soldiers, have been killed. During the last two weeks the casualties were so heavy that we were unable to resist the bombing and our defence lines were broken,"

Posted by at December 07, 2001 09:32 AM

He has no cash for meals, just vouchers, and he can't even get a job as a waiter. He's an asylum seeker, an incredibly talented one. Having only started playing the piano aged 11 because they needed a pianist for school assembly, he didn't have a piano to practise on until he was 13. Yet he won a music scholarship to Britain after the judges listened to a tape recording of his work. After five years' training, he wanted to return to his country to play in concerts and teach classical music to black children. But Robert Mugabe had other ideas.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 03:54 AM

The BBC Correspondent in Gaza City says she was woken up by a loud explosion, and saw clouds of smoke rising into the sky in the area of the main police station.

Posted by at December 07, 2001 12:17 AM

Daily Telegraph critic Richard Dorment was enraged: "My difficulty with Julien's work is fundamental and insurmountable: I hate it."

Posted by at December 06, 2001 09:24 PM

"The confidential information the state collects about Californians should be kept private," Davis said in a statement. "There is too great a risk that unscrupulous people will use this information for identity theft, to falsify records or to invade our privacy in other ways."

Posted by at December 06, 2001 06:51 PM

Disposable cell phones can be purchased and used anonymously. People--including terrorists--can pay cash, communicate with each other and then grab a new phone, making it difficult for law enforcement to track criminal activity. Ashcroft and his lackeys contend that changes in the law are needed immediately because the new phones offer anonymous communication.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 06:03 PM

Stern published an interview Wednesday with an unnamed German businessman who said that in 1993, Enany approached him about purchasing missiles, biological and chemical substances that were intended for Arab friends with connections to bin Laden.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 05:31 PM

He said he had demanded his mainly Uzbek Jombesh-e Melli faction be given the foreign ministry in the transitional government.
Instead, it got the portfolios of agriculture, mining and industry - and a rival alliance faction, Jamiat-e Islami, took foreign affairs, as well as defence and interior.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 05:22 PM

"This evidence appeared overwhelming, and yet we know now, obviously, that it was underwhelming," said Rob Warden, director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern Law School. "When we see the vast numbers of errors that occur in these relatively few DNA cases, what does that say about the rest of the system? We can only wonder about how many innocent people we've executed and how many hundreds, thousands of people are languishing in prison for crimes they did not commit."

Posted by at December 06, 2001 05:02 PM

"I have been all around the world and I have not seen such a successful programme in terms of putting prisoners back into the system," he said.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 04:19 PM

Tin Yat Chin, 44, was charged with impersonating a federal agent to rob Chinese immigrants with phony promises he could deliver green cards for their family members.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 04:04 PM

Denis Belanger, Cogeco vice-president engineering and development, says it finished migrating its 90,000 customers on Nov. 16. He credits his company's success to reading the writing on the wall. Back in February 2000, he says, Excite@Home suffered a major system failure.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 04:02 PM

"This is a puppet administration set up by outsiders. This administration cannot resolve the problems of Afghanistan," the Taleban former ambassador in Islamabad, Mullah Abdossalam Zayif, told the Afghan Islamic Press news agency.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 03:57 PM

Members of the Canadian army's secretive anti-terrorist unit Joint Task Force Two or JTF-2, are on the move and may be heading to Afghanistan.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 03:49 PM

Posted by at December 06, 2001 03:23 PM

Yassin's house arrest came as a result of action taken by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who, under growing pressure from the United States and Israel to crack down on terrorists. was scheduled to meet Thursday with retired U.S. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni. Arafat promised Zinni in a meeting earlier this month he would devote 100 percent of his efforts to fighting terrorism.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:57 PM

They accused both police and rioters of raping women during the fighting between mostly ethnic Nubian landlords and their Luo tenants which started on Tuesday.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:49 PM

The prototype pajamas include five sensors, which are built into the cloth and have no direct contact with the baby's skin, thereby minimizing any discomfort to the child. The sensors monitor the baby's breathing and heartbeat and are connected to a small detection unit that triggers an alarm if it detects any abnormalities.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:39 PM

Karzai says Omar agreed to put himself under the protection of tribal leaders but he did not specify what Omar's ultimate fate would be. He said that remained to be decided.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:19 PM

Mora ejaculates into glass vials as part of an international artist exchange agreement. The seven glass vials, which he says represent seven members of his family, are placed in a cooler, which has been strung up between two trees at the Banff Centre.
The artist has also been wheeling the cooler around the streets of Banff on a small cart.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:15 PM

The wooden tabot, or tablet, represents the ark of the covenant.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:06 PM

The Plain English Campaign's John Lister said there was no malice attached to the award. "All we look for with this award is a quote that leaves us baffled. The Tracey Emin quote does that in a unique way," he added.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 02:04 PM

The decree, signed last month, ruled that cocoa and coffee beans could only be exported in 60-kg or 65-kg jute bags rather than in bulk, arguing that would preserve the quality of the beans and limit the risk of loss or robbery.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 01:50 PM

Flood wants to wear a harness with handles so patrons at bars can pay to pick him up and toss him onto an air mattress or a padded area, his lawsuit said. The lawsuit, which does not seek damages, contends the ban is unconstitutional.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 01:01 PM

NGOs and Gypsy leaders are queasy about separating children from their parents, no matter how abject their home life. But the most successful Gypsy schools are boarding ones, such as the partly state-financed Gandhi College in the Hungarian town of Pecs. Its 200 pupils are from southern Hungary. Some of them do go on to university and in time, the school hopes, will provide the embryo of a Gypsy intelligentsia.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 12:59 PM

After noticing fingerprints and scrawls in what appeared to be dust covering the sphere, they touched the surface. Phillips and Allen traced the words, "Kilroy was here" and Tom's name. The "dust" was actually pigment that had not yet been treated with sealant.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 12:57 PM

"The picture is bleak," Prof. McKay said. "We're on a downward spiral in terms of the health of our children. . . . Studies have found that 35 per cent of Canadian children are not active for even 10 minutes a week."

Posted by at December 06, 2001 11:55 AM

But before the show could begin, Olson pled guilty. Then, facing reporters, she claimed she was innocent, but knew she couldn't get a fair trial after the Sept. 11 massacre. The judge, who was pissed off, called her back in a week later to ask her if she was guilty or not. She said she was, and reaffirmed her plea. A week after that, she reversed herself again, said she lied about being guilty because no jury could give her a fair trial. The judge called a hearing, which was held yesterday, and said he would put Olson on the witness stand to be cross-examined. She once again withdrew her plea.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 01:42 AM

This council will rule the country for up to six months, during which an especially-appointed independent commission will make preparations for a loya jirga, a traditional grand assembly of tribal elders. It will decide on a transitional administration to run the country for another two years or so, during which a new constitution will be drafted and, eventually, elections will be held. The agreement also provides for foreign peacekeepers to provide security in and around Kabul.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 01:07 AM

"It's a very positive thing that women have a role in this interim government; it will be no easy task but at the same time it is not difficult to see and identify the great needs facing women in Afghanistan," Dr. Samar said in a statement Wednesday.

Posted by at December 06, 2001 12:25 AM

"This morning I got the news from my commanders in the mountains," said the Afghan commander, Aleem Shah. "Zawahiri is dead."

Posted by at December 06, 2001 12:07 AM

"The [Defence] Department has frequently said that the Canadian Forces have never been more capable," Ms. Fraser said. "But until steps are taken to manage equipment readiness more adequately, these claims should be taken with a grain of salt."

Posted by at December 05, 2001 11:44 PM

An "external agency" operating in a similar fashion to not-for-profit agency Nav Canada will be announced as a means of pulling together all elements of airport security, The Canadian Press has learned.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 11:34 PM

The mob ambushed his car, stopping it and breaking the windows. Lindor managed to escape the rock-throwing crowd and sought refuge in a nearby home. The mob dragged him out and hacked him to death with machetes.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 11:26 PM

Gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas freed their leader soon after he was placed under house arrest by Palestinian security forces.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 11:25 PM

Posted by at December 05, 2001 11:04 PM

Apparently I'm nearly Gandhi. I better turn in my Evan Piccone blazer.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 10:54 PM

The Future of Ideas is also a deeply iconoclastic work, at least when measured against the standard assumptions of American politics. Lessig is sometimes cast as a trustbusting progressive after his brief involvement as "special master" in the Microsoft antitrust case (appointed by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to advise the court, he was subsequently removed after Microsoft protested that he was biased against the software giant). Lessig's positions can seem contradictory: The book is fundamentally a celebration of decentralized innovation, and yet it is deeply distrustful of too much power concentrating in the hands of the private sector. Lessig is no middle-of-the-road New Democrat: He's a radical critic who doesn't fit readily into any existing ideological camp. In a sense, you can see his politics as distinctly net-native, closest in spirit to those of open-source software, the semi-anarchic collective movement that engineered the now-legendary Linux operating system.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 09:53 PM

Declan, Karl Auerbach is right that California law gives him, as a company director, an "absolute right" to inspect the premises and properties and documents of the organization that he's a director of, at any time. I am currently a director of at least half a dozen organizations, have sat on the boards of many others, and take this right very seriously. Without it, I would have personal responsibility for the organization's deeds, without even the authority to determine what the organization is doing!

Posted by at December 05, 2001 09:51 PM

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:57 PM

Holograms are typically constructed with interfering beams of light, which provides more information about a subject than simple illumination can. The additional information helps build a three dimensional image of a three dimensional object.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:43 PM

The Entomopter concept originated at GTRI with U.S. military interest in palm-sized "micro air vehicles" that could surreptitiously explore underground bunkers and other structures. For that mission, a 50-gram Entomopter with a 15-centimeter wingspan could fly through ventilation ducts and using insect-like legs, crawl through narrow passageways or half-open doors. Development of that version continues in parallel with the Mars version.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:42 PM

The procedures to which he objects were endorsed by the Audit Committee of the ICANN Board, to whom the Board has delegated responsibility for this general area. He is always welcome to take his objections to the full Board should he wish. So far, he has not chosen to do so.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:40 PM

The label said the album is expected to arrive in stores here some time in between Dec. 19 and 21.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:28 PM

The scam defrauded art sellers out of more than $400m in the 1990s.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:24 PM

They argued that parliamentary privilege exempts employers on Parliament Hill from being subjected to a host of laws. That means that MPs can't be sued for libel for allegations they make in the House of Commons, and in this case, parliamentary privilege means that employers on the Hill can't be sued for discrimination.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:17 PM

Your Statement's use of violent crime statistics is also highly misleading. You rely on a limited and outdated period (1984-94) for your claim that juvenile crime rates are increasing. In fact, the FBI's 2000 Uniform Crime Report figures show that for youths aged 10-17, rates of violent crime are at their lowest level since 1987. In the ten-year period between 1990 and 2000, juvenile violence arrest rates fell 27% (including a record 68% drop in homicides). Yet throughout the 1990s, there was if anything an increase in fantasy violence on TV and in films, music, and video games. Far from suggesting a relationship between violent media and real-world violence, the crime statistics for the last decade suggest the opposite.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 08:16 PM

Posted by at December 05, 2001 07:14 PM

This summer I had a telephone call from the Secret Service to ask me about a piece I had published online called "Why I Want to Fuck George Bush," an homage to JG Ballard's classic essay.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 07:11 PM

To all intents and purposes, their revenue possibilities are now extremely limited. Say they get $1.8 million yearly from subscription (up from the $600,000 that they are currently running at) and a generous $2 million from advertising; that still only gives them $3.8 million in annual earnings. Let's give this some context, operational expenses for the last quarter were $3 million.
A more likely scenario would be for their combined forward revenue to be about half that, which at the present burn rate would give them approximately 3 to 4 months to live.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 06:52 PM

Looking for hard to get, never before exposed images and sounds from the vast territory of the former Soviet Union? Russian Archives Online represents prominent archives like the Russian State Film & Photo Archive Krasnogorsk, Russian State Archive of Scientific & Technical Documents and various other institutions of the Russian State....one of the largest owners of images and sounds in the world.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 06:44 PM

on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:13:29PM -0500, Dunne, Frank P wrote:
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Posted by at December 05, 2001 06:23 PM

"Government On-Line is a submission to the God of efficiency -- bring costs down," Mike Gurski, the commission's senior policy/technical advisor on policy and compliance, told an audience at the Security & Privacy For Government On-Line Conference. Paraphrasing University of Toronto professor Janice Stein, Gurski said such a devotion to financial savings could be dangerous. "By submitting to the God of efficiency, you often dethrone the God of accountability," he said.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 04:47 PM

Hilton Matiza (21), an MDC member from Harare, the capital, has been told he will be removed from the country tomorrow and sedated with a sleeping drug if necessary to get him on the plane. In Zimababwe, he says, he was set upon twice by Mugabe's Zanu-PF gangs and imprisoned without charge by the authorities after it was discovered he was an opposition supporter.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:28 PM

The operative is a 46-year-old of Russian origin identified in the lawsuit only by the pseudonym "Mitford." A statement from his lawyers says he was among mid- and lower-ranking agency employees "falsely blamed" for the mistaken bombing, which left three Chinese journalists dead.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:27 PM

In the toughly worded report, Fraser blamed the "chronic problems" with federal grant programs squarely on the federal government, complaining that too much money is being spent without the scrutiny of elected politicians.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:26 PM

"When an artist walks into a lab and sees equations written on the board, his usual response is to say, 'I don't understand any of this -- it must be brilliant,'" said Ken Goldberg, a robotics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "But when an engineer wanders into an art gallery and sees stuffed animals, he's very likely to say, 'I don't understand any of this -- it must be garbage.'"

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:22 PM

Ellison has suggested airport security would be improved by requiring travelers to provide their names and social security numbers to airport security personnel. Security personnel could then compared the travelers' thumbprints with those stored in a national security database to ensure accurate identification.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:20 PM

And while hard-core gamers insist their favorite activity is a harmless pastime, their loved ones sometimes suspect that their hobby has turned into something a little more compulsive, which raises the question: Is there such a thing as gaming addiction or is the very concept a crock of excrement?

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:18 PM

"You must live up to your commitment to promote national reconciliation, protect human rights, encourage relations with your neighbours. You must serve your people in a democratic and transparent manner"

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:15 PM

"The provisions of this act are not going to come into play typically for the officers on the front line. They will be implemented by officers specially trained for this purpose," said Chief Vince Bevan.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 01:11 PM

Last week at the Materials Research Society Conference in Boston, the team reported that tests on paint chips taken from a corner of the painting were a success. The paint chips the team treated went from black to Monet's blues and greens. Right now, the painting looks almost entirely black, but Miller said that if the oxygen stream were applied across the full surface of the painting, the ''Waterlilies'' could become viewable again.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 10:42 AM

Auberon Waugh, who died in January at the age of 61 and was the son of the writer Evelyn Waugh, once said that the prize was intended to highlight "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of sexual description in the modern novel - and to discourage it".

Posted by at December 05, 2001 10:30 AM

A Canadian firm specializing in arbitration won't be settling any more cybersquatting disputes, saying Friday that its reputation for being fair has driven away the trademark holders who file complaints and thus decide who makes money in that business.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 10:21 AM

Edith Piaf believed that Ste. Thrse restored her sight. Jack Kerouac said she was his inspiration. Mother Teresa of Calcutta took her name.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 10:19 AM

"I love all of you," said Thurmond, twice married to former beauty queens. "If you're women, I love you even more."

Posted by at December 05, 2001 10:09 AM

>While I have great doubts about the wisdom and cost-efficiency of >following up a comment like this, given that I have a really hard time >imagining what kind of person could actually read that as a threat that >warranted investigating, it doesn't seem like Lee's civil liberties were >violated in any way, and he wasn't dragged off to some secret chamber for >the third degree.

Posted by at December 05, 2001 09:51 AM

"They're killing our people with machetes and clubs because they want to force us out of our land. They want our residences," Fatma Nynazwa said of gangs. She was trying to help an injured man when police grabbed him and threw him into a truck. They punched and kicked her before she managed to escape.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 09:30 PM

On Sunday, Nov 25, I left a message on my home answering machine ("I'm going to Kandahar this morning, I'll be out of touch for a while.") and caught a bus for the border. After walking across the line I split a cab with a Pakistani aid worker from one of the many Spin Boldak refugee camps. The cab stopped at the Taliban border post, but the driver returned about 15 seconds later. "Nobody there," he said, and drove on.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 07:08 PM

Carrying the idea even further, some solid-state physicists are trying to show that the laws of relativity, long considered part of the very bedrock of the physical world, are not platonic truths that have existed since time began.
They may have emerged from the roiling of the vacuum of space, much as supply-and-demand and other "laws" of economics emerge from the bustle of the marketplace. If so, then solid-state physics, which specializes in how emergent phenomena occur, may be the most fundamental science of them all.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 06:33 PM

It is the first film project for all but one of the 400 actors. Some of the crew have been specially trained after being unemployed or in trouble with the law.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 06:29 PM

>To sign these agreements would be to abandon my Director's obligations of
>independent judgement - I would be agreeing to allow my decisions to be
>controled by ICANN's management - by exactly the same people whose actions
>I am obligated to review. >
>To add insult to injury the "agreements" that ICANN has demanded that I
>sign are cast in the most condescending of language and contain unfounded
>assertions against my personal integrity.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 06:27 PM

Unesco sets out specific requirements for its Member States for the protection of endangered customs and languages. These include teaching in schools, setting up national folklore councils to represent interest groups, providing moral and economic support for individuals and institutions studying, cultivating or holding items of folklore; encouraging events such as fairs, festivals and exhibitions; encouraging press coverage; encouraging regions, municipalities, etc, to establish jobs for folklorists to co-ordinate activities in the region, establish museums and libraries to keep documentation relating to folklore.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 06:20 PM

In an ombudsman-style role, Radwanski is the official thorn in the side of all the people promising government efficiency and improved access to services through the Internet. He takes pains to point out the dangers of linking databases and giving some people more information on citizens than they need to know. He points out the differences between privacy (the right to control information about yourself), confidentiality (your obligation to protect other's information) and security (the process of addressing threats to information). He asks why we need so many levels of authentication or digital identities for what should be simple transactions. He is touching all the bases.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 05:56 PM

...each story must contain the following four elements: 1.) a setting, 2.) one or more characters, 3.) conflict, and 4.) resolution. Plus of course, the whole thing can only be 55 words long, not counting the title, which must be no more than 7 words long. (There are also some technical details about what really constitutes a word, but I won't bore you with those here.)

Posted by at December 04, 2001 05:35 PM

Each year, more than one million U.S. high-school students take time out of their school day to fill out a survey asking their names, addresses, grade-point averages, races, religions and social views. The organization that sponsors the survey, the National Research Center for College and University Admissions, tells the schools it will broaden students' higher-education options by distributing their names and profiles to hundreds of colleges and universities across the country.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 04:21 PM

Posted by at December 04, 2001 04:16 PM

The 36-year-old artist's latest work, Self/Portrait, uses signals generated by the human heart as a way of visually representing constantly changing emotions and feelings.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 04:14 PM

The prospect of the resulting establishment of the P3P protocol as the market standard has been receiving mixed reviews from privacy experts. Some have hailed it as a huge advance in consumers°Ø ability to protect their privacy. Others have denounced it as an attempt by big business to ward off privacy legislation by foisting an impressive-looking but fundamentally flawed privacy tool on unwitting consumers.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 02:40 PM

Mr. Heard belongs to one of the more peculiar subsets created by the aftermath of Sept. 11, people who found their way onto one or another of the lists of dead but who are in fact alive. Many were distant from the towers when they crumbled. Others narrowly eluded death. For logical or illogical reasons, however, their names got swept up among the many who did die in the ruins of that day.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 02:13 PM

Brame has served as a top official of American Vision, an Atlanta-based group that seeks to replace America's secular democracy with a "Christian" regime based on "biblical law," including enforcement of the harsh legal code of the Old Testament. He has also served as an advisor to the Plymouth Rock Foundation, a Plymouth, Mass., group with similar views.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 02:00 PM

Aleem Shah, a frontline commander for Hazarat Ali, a minister of the self-proclaimed, pro-American government here, the Eastern Shura, said the first of the fighters would leave Jalalabad at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. He said that some American special operations soldiers would be with them. Hundreds of Afghan fighters also will head for Meleva, a valley southwest of Tora Bora, where Qaida forces have also been seen in recent days, he said.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:55 PM

The military recovered 200 kg of improvised explosives, 20 litres of improvised anti-personnel and armour mines and 600 electronic blasting caps among others from the building known as the Cabatangan complex in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:53 PM

"The (Palestinian) people's choice is resistance," he said, adding that all Palestinian forces, including Arafat's Palestinian Authority, "have to get involved in the uprising."

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:48 PM

Even the determination by his cabinet, after a stormy five-hour session later the same night, that the PA supports terrorism, is not quite a declaration of war. Nevertheless, it risks the breakdown of Israel's current coalition government. It also certainly paves the way for an intensification of military reprisals that have already begun.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:45 PM

"I know there are many members of my party who think the time has come to leave the government," Mr. Peres said Tuesday in Bucharest at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "Upon my return home we shall meet and we shall decide."

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:31 PM

"They are introducing chaos into international affairs," Mandela said. Referring to Washington's outstanding UN membership fees, he said it was "unacceptable" that that country was "dictating policy to the United Nations (though) they have not paid their dues".

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:21 PM

The more than 80 girls had earlier pleaded with the provincial administration to bar their parents from forcing them to undergo circumcision.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:19 PM

In response, Zimbabwe's state-controlled newspaper lashed out at South Africa on Monday, accusing President Thabo Mbeki of betraying Zimbabwe and of joining Britain in trying to undermine Mugabe. Britain, the former colonial ruler of Zimbabwe, has been particularly critical of the violence and intimidation there.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:18 PM

Tom Ridge On Monday, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge issued the warning, saying there had been an increase in perceived terrorist threats. "Ladies and gentlemen of America, we're at war," he said.

So Ridge can declare war?

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:15 PM

Only in the one case where Congress got involved has there been any real sense of striking a balance between liberty and privacy on the one hand and public safety on the other. Where the administration acts unilaterally, the result often seems skewed in favor of security, with constitutional rights as an annoyed afterthought. On the bright side, Bush, unlike such liberal heroes as Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR, has yet to grossly infringe the rights of Americans. For that he deserves a small bit of-provisional-credit.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:07 PM

The bill failed overwhelmingly on a procedural motion, in part because it was bundled with another contentious but unrelated measure that would have allowed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Republican leaders had hoped to force a vote on the issues by packaging them into an amendment to an unrelated bill governing retirement benefits for railroad workers.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:05 PM

President Fernando de la Rua ordered that bank account withdrawals could not exceed $250 a week for the next 90 days. For needs beyond that, payments can be made by check or credit card.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 12:57 PM

Pashtun leaders complained that their efforts to negotiate a surrender in Kandahar have been frustrated by the fears of Taliban fighters that they will be killed if they give up. These fears, combined with orders for a fight to the finish from the Taliban leader, Mohammad Omar, have increased the danger of a bloody street-to-street struggle for the historic walled city, they said.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 12:56 PM

Now, at age 20, when many young Americans might be settling on a college major or thinking about a career, Walker is making international headlines, dubbed "the American Taliban" by the media worldwide.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 12:55 PM

Yesterday [Ashcroft] went out of his way to stress that all of the hijackers had come to the United States directly. In addition, he revealed for the first time that our most infamous terrorist export, Ahmed Ressam, was caught at the Port Angeles ferry terminal because of a tip from Canadian sources.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 11:53 AM

You'll notice I'm using the word "Christmas," another practice for which I am often taken to task by fellow atheists. But there's a reason I use that word. It's because that's the name of it. Someday the word may drop out of common usage the way "Michaelmas" did. But I'm not living in "someday." I am living in today, like many of the rest of us. And if someone wishes me a "Merry Christmas" I do not feel a powerful urge to rip his throat out. I let is pass, and smile at the thought that someone wishes me well, however superficially. I should be so lucky that a cheerful "Merry Christmas" is the worst thing that happens to me on any given day.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 11:12 AM

"Either put up the money, write the check and let us see you're serious, or quit telling me Arkansans want their taxes raised," Huckabee said. "Because, I'm convinced that Arkansans would say today, 'My taxes are high enough.'"

Posted by at December 04, 2001 11:03 AM

If I was a work of art, I would be M. C. Escher's Lizards. I am a bizarre juxtaposition of the real and the unreal. Based in the realm of mathematics, my two-dimensional appearance belies a complex and free-willed behaviour which both delights and confuses people. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test

Posted by at December 04, 2001 10:54 AM

Even before the book's appearance in stores next month, its uncomfortable title has elicited considerable hand-wringing among the mostly white staff of its publisher, Pantheon Books, where some executives have even refused to say its name. It has also become the source of a certain mischievous amusement on the part of its African-American editor. And as advanced word spreads among other African-American scholars, the title has provoked denunciations from some who vehemently disagree with Mr. Kennedy's thesis even before they have read the book.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 10:40 AM

``This is by far the best-preserved prehistoric village in Italy and one of the best in the world. Everyday life in the ancient Bronze Age is preserved there,'' Giuseppe Vecchio, the director of the excavation, told Reuters.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 10:26 AM

To add insult to this significant injury, AT&T isn't doing nearly enough to repent for its sins. It's offering two free days of service for every one day the disruption lasts. If you are an AT&T customer, that alone should be grounds for canceling the service. Just downing someone is worth a month free, losing their e-mail another month or two, and each day without service should be good for a week of free broadband. This is something else regulation could do--make it really expensive for Internet providers to screw their customers.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 10:02 AM

Partly to woo public opinion, partly out of cost concerns, Kamen is introducing Segway to industry first. He hopes companies like the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon.com, and Michelin North America will latch on to them, and their orders will help create economies of scale that are needed to drive prices down to $5,000 from an initial range of $10,000 to $8,000.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 10:00 AM

Information sharing is a key part of that integration, and under the agreement, the RCMP will become the first international police force to have access to the FBI's fingerprint database. It contains images of 42 million sets of fingerprints.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:15 AM

A United Nations spokesperson said Monday night the four groups - representing the Northern Alliance, those loyal to former King Mohammed Zahir Shah and two smaller groups of exiles - have agreed to set up a 29-member ruling council.

Posted by at December 04, 2001 01:13 AM

Flavius: Give me a Martinus.
Claudius: Don't you mean a MartiNI?
Flavius: If I wanted two, I'd ask for it.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 10:53 PM

I had never thought about Costco "paying more than they have to" but it makes a lot of sense as a long-term strategy because, in the short term, they could clearly realize higher earnings now if they negotiated a lower purchase price on the champagne.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 03:16 PM

Detroit Metropolitan Airport officials awarded $33.1 million in new contracts to political donors of Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara last year, a Detroit News investigation found.
That amounts to 86 percent of the money from the 44 contracts placed out for bid.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 02:52 PM

"Barring potentially dangerous persons from participating in certain events [where the person is] notoriously known by the police forces for having committed recognised facts of public order disturbance"

Posted by at December 03, 2001 01:30 PM

With a male-female ratio of 1,000 males to every 933 females, the Indian government is very concerned about any form of sex determination. The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation & Prevention of Misuse) Act of 1994 comes down strongly on anyone who misuses prenatal sex determination facilities. The act also prohibits advertisement of such facilities.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 01:11 PM

NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown says the space agency is weighing "several options for shuttle privatization," which means "we would become a customer of a private company."

Posted by at December 03, 2001 01:07 PM

Coupland: Oh, even while I am writing. Writing a book is this long trance you go into for the duration. You have to be really careful what you read because, like paint in water, it colours the whole thing pretty quickly. And because I can't sleep without reading and it has to be fiction, during the really intense part of the writing process, the safest thing to do is reread my favourite books because they are what influenced my writing to begin with.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 11:22 AM

Purse snatching and pocket picking.

...fubu purse snatchers...

Posted by at December 03, 2001 11:17 AM

She emphasizes that the SmarTruck isn't designed to eliminate assailants, just immobilize them. The Urban Assault Vehicle, in contrast, had more deadly attributes. Not only did it sport a missile launcher, but it was a Winnebago.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 11:14 AM

Thin Film's memory technology combines the properties of specially developed polymers and a unique system architecture. Ultimately, the result will be an all-organic memory system with manifold advantages: in speed, production, energy consumption, storage capacity and cost.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 11:09 AM

At an average speed of 8 miles an hour, or three times walking pace, Mr. Kamen says the Segway can go 15 miles on a six- hour charge, for less than a dime's worth of electricity from a standard wall socket.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 09:41 AM

With no spots available at the immigration holding centre near Pearson, or area jails, the refugees had to be released, officers say. Among those, the RCMP and CSIS said, were a dozen men suspected by police of having ties -- or information about -- al-Qaida terrorists.

Posted by at December 03, 2001 02:24 AM

It means the implanting of human cells into fertilized animal eggs for medical purposes will be allowed.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 05:11 PM

All very impressive, but on a jet crammed with passengers a °ƒlaser beam of lead°± is hardly conducive to safety. This is where the O°ØDwyer VLE comes into its own. The gun is equipped with a second barrel, which can be loaded with non-lethal projectiles similar to bean bags that would knock an assailant flat without penetrating his skin or the aircraft°Øs fuselage.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 03:15 PM

Two worries have already emerged. One follows the words of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, when he said America was not in a position to take prisoners of war and, at the same time, that he hoped foreign recruits to the Taliban's side would not be allowed to return home. This came horribly close to an invitation to kill even surrendering combatants, a practice long forbidden by the rules of war. Lawyers may argue about the nature of this "war", whether it is civil or international, whether foreigners are mercenaries or regulars, and whether those who fight for al-Qaeda and the Taliban are soldiers or mere terrorists. But the killing of prisoners, however nasty they may be, breaks a cardinal principle of warfare.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 03:10 PM

The Islamic resistance group Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombings in Haifa and Jerusalem, which occurred as a U.S. envoy was in the region trying to forge an Israeli-Palestinian truce. Hamas and its sister group, Islamic Jihad, had vowed revenge against Israel's killing nine days ago of a top Hamas militant in the West Bank.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 03:07 PM

2 December: Sunday morning, as Israelis held their breath for the Sharon government to stop the hideous cycle of terror peaking Saturday night atthe Jerusalem pedestrian mall, Palestinian terrorists struck again. Snipers shot dead Professor Baruch Singer, a scientist at the Nahal Sorek nuclear reactor, who was driving his jeep on a road between Elei Sinai and Nisanit, in the Gaza Strip.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 03:02 PM

The Montreal computer programmer, who admitted his journalistic career began on Sept. 11 after the terrorist attacks in the United States, defended his Taliban captors in an interview with Canadian reporters Sunday and condemned the U.S. attacks on the desolate country.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:51 PM

...Justice Nordheimer said he had concerns about what happened in France because Ouzghar was found guilty without even knowning he was on trial.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:48 PM

"Can a weblog edit users comments without opening itself up to liability in case of a slander suit? I run a political weblog and have a policy similar to slashdots in terms of the comments posted belonging to their owners. I'm worried about instituting something like lameness filters as it seems like as soon as you start regulating what your users post you have agreed to edit them for other reasons as well. Can someone point me to a good resource on issues like this. Those of us who aren't owned by publically traded companies are better off avoiding potential problems rather than hire lawyers to help us wiggle out later."

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:47 PM

The UN system is treating water issues as technical matters for hydrology experts and health consultants, whereas they should be top priority political matters. How the family of nations will manage its common water resources in coming decades requires summit level decisions quickly. Based upon our current knowledge, it is not fanciful to assert that nations might fight wars within this century to protect water sources. Water might become a precious commodity sold through pipelines and tankers, as oil is today.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:38 PM

Riot police equipped with helmets and shields responded by driving back the demonstrators with water cannon, truncheons and tear-gas grenades. Police said that at least 20 protesters were arrested. Earlier, Jewish community leaders and the German government had described the decision by the 6,000-member NPD to hold a march near the Jewish quarter of Berlin as "an unbearable provocation".

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:35 PM

Several miles away, Earl Karboviak has been hearing government helicopters flying over his farm since Sept. 11. He wonders if he will still be able to go get his horse back if the border is tightened up. A couple of times a year, Dakota strays too far north and Karboviak -- after making an international phone call to the Canadian farmer who is his nearest neighbor -- hikes past a century-old cast-iron boundary marker to retrieve his animal. If you're getting the impression that the border has been a bit loose, you're right.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:32 PM

The women, all now in their 70s, belong to the Li ethnic group of south China's island province of Hainan where Xinhua says Japanese troops set up several "comfort houses" during the occupation.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:30 PM

The request was made as it emerged that Saddam Hussein is funding a number of terrorist training camps in Somalia used by a militant Islamic group with close ties to al-Qa'eda. According to Iraqi dissident groups based in London, Saddam has agreed to provide funding, training and equipment to the Somali Islamic group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya in return for assistance from the Somali authorities in avoiding United Nations sanctions. Mr Bush placed al-Itihaad on his list of outlawed terrorist groups after the September 11 incident.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:28 PM

A key part of the Bush administration's national energy plan, opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, faces its first Senate vote late on Monday.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:23 PM

The law also would permit the government's Media and Information Commission to strip journalists of a planned licence to work that would be available only to Zimbabwean citizens. Special ministerial permission will be required for a Zimbabwean to work for a foreign news organisation.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:17 PM

"Because of the airstrikes, they were suspicious somebody was calling in those airstrikes, somebody on the ground, dressed like me, with a satellite phone...
"This makes them suspicious of anybody who's a foreigner, who's carrying maps, and so they thought I was a spy," he said.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:15 PM

Israeli officials blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and the United States demanded that he act against those responsible for the attacks.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:09 PM

"I was happy and could not believe what was happening. All the crimes the US has committed in the world. This just shows, what goes around comes around, even to the US."

Posted by at December 02, 2001 02:07 PM

Posted by at December 02, 2001 01:56 PM

"(The researchers) got between 95 to 98 percent pure brain cells, which means we could have human brain cells in unlimited numbers," said Dr. Lorenz Studer, a neural stem-cell researcher at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "That's quite an exciting finding."

Posted by at December 02, 2001 12:21 PM

"I've made 40 albums and its about time for me to get out."

Posted by at December 02, 2001 12:12 PM

What a Christmasy name she has - like she was born to sing Christmas music. Word that the Canadian singer has released a new Christmas album, Baby It's Cold Outside, has been greeted with a resounding, "Well, duh." [Holly] Cole performs tomorrow and Tuesday at the Winspear Centre with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 12:06 PM

Besides Freud and Einstein, Schmutzer photographed prominent artists, musicians and art patrons, including writer Arthur Schnitzler, composer Richard Strauss and cellist Pablo Casals. The artist also etched official portraits of the last German emperor, William II, and the last Austrian emperor, Karl I.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 12:01 PM

The birth is likely to intensify debate over a law that says only males can inherit the world's oldest hereditary monarchy, into which no boys have been born since 1965.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 11:58 AM

Unlike Earth, Mars lost its water over millions of years through a combination of chemical reaction and the bombardment of asteroids and comets.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 11:56 AM

The 29 female students were paid ?53 ($75) each. So far the findings reveal women are aroused by both straight and lesbian sex.
They found straight men generally weren't aroused by gay sex and gay men generally weren't aroused by straight sex.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 11:21 AM

While Chicago-based Boeing doesn't expect fuel cells to replace jet engines on commercial airliners, the company said they may eventually replace gas turbine auxiliary power units. The auxiliary power units, typically located at the rear of the airplane, produce electricity and air for airplane systems while on the ground and for backup use in flight.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 11:13 AM

Harrison gave his album the working title of 'Portrait of a Leg End', a pun on his celebrity and the squashing foot graphic used for the opening sequence of the Monty Python surreal comedy television series.

Posted by at December 02, 2001 11:11 AM

Provide a creative means for remembrance and healing.
Illustrate the enormity of the AIDS epidemic.
Increase public awareness of AIDS.
Assist with HIV prevention education.
Raise funds for community-based AIDS service organizations.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:34 PM

Because HIV and AIDS is a life-threatening disease and because of irrational fears about HIV infection, many people are, at best, uncomfortable with or, at worst, actively hostile to people who are HIV positive.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:30 PM

A new report released today, "AIDS Epidemic Update 2001", says the number of HIV infections in Eastern Europe is rising faster than anywhere else in the world. Reported figures are largely underestimated but even so, the latest figures reveal there were more than 75,000 reported new infections in Russia by early November, a 15-fold increase in just three years.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:28 PM

Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 4.13pm Thursday June 28: 42 164 219

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:27 PM

You would never imagine to look at her, to hold her, that Mariana has HIV. However, like 34 other children in this orphanage of 125, she does.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:25 PM

Download PDF resource guide on How to Slow the HIV Epidemic in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union from soros.org.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:23 PM

In language agreed to by Canada, Australia, and several Latin American and European countries, the draft declaration makes explicit the goal of reducing incidence among "men who have sex with men, sex workers, [and] injecting drug users and their sexual partners," as well as prisoners and refugees. The United States proposes striking this list and replacing it with the vague and anodyne phrase, "vulnerable individuals," including those engaging in "risky sexual behavior." The Vatican prefers a similarly euphemistic reference to "people who have multiple sex partners." Egypt suggests substituting the judgmental phrase, "homosexuality among men, prostitution, and other forms of irresponsible sexual behavior."

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:21 PM

The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, has called for funds of between $7bn and $10bn a year to tackle HIV/Aids. The unbelievable truth is that in response to this, a set of countries enjoying unprecedented wealth is proposing a global fund which is unlikely to attract more than $1bn, with no guarantee of further money to follow. Yet 23 of the world's poorest countries are set to repay twice that amount in debt this year.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 02:20 PM

What: Link and Think is an observance of World AIDS Day in the personal web publishing communities. Formerly "A Day With(out) Weblogs", the project involves hundreds of webloggers, journalers, diarists and other personal website publishers, each linking to resources about HIV/AIDS or publishing personal stories about how the AIDS pandemic has affected them.

Posted by at December 01, 2001 01:42 AM

According to a transcript provided by a representative for Gore, the former vice president said ``... we stopped at a little family restaurant in Tennessee. We were eating there by ourselves. It was a low-cost restaurant called Shoney's.''

Posted by at December 01, 2001 01:22 AM