An internal Federal Aviation Administration memo detailing a shooting aboard hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 is not likely a mistake, as claimed, and the government and the airline may be denying the existence of a gun aboard the plane out of fear of being sued by Sept. 11 victims' families, charges a former veteran FAA special agent familiar with the memo and its source.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 08:18 PM

This process, called "neurogenesis", has been observed in the hippocampus and olfactory bulb regions of the brain. The former is responsible for aggregating and processing memories -- although not for storing them. The latter, as the name suggests, deals with the sense of smell.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:21 PM

The teenager stopped at a nearby display Macintosh, pulled the iPod from his pocket and plugged it into the machine with a FireWire cable. Intrigued, Webb peeped over the kid's shoulder to see him copying Microsoft's new Office for OS X suite, which retails for $500.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 04:59 PM

The interesting bit is that Bill Jones' numbers start to tank in December and are still falling. Cause and effect are hard to judge, but it would be interesting to see if his numbers were falling before the first December spam, or after.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 11:14 AM

"I am a taxi driver; I am a carrier. I don't know what I carry. Maybe I carry a nuclear bomb. No one is telling me about it,"

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 06:25 AM

What this state craves is a common sense leader, someone that will do what is right for the people, not what is right for the fringe groups.

Cross out state, Dan, and slug in planet. As Carlin put it, "the planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked!"

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 06:21 AM

Based on interviews in October and November with more than 1,500 children and adults, a team from the two agencies documented charges against 67 people from more than 40 agencies, including most national and foreign relief organizations in the region. The suspects were primarily local men hired to distribute aid.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 06:18 AM

Takes stuff like this to tell me I have a beard. Well, what did you expect, freakin' Galadriel?

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 06:17 AM

"We could have also played cards, but this way was quicker," he added.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 06:09 AM

The Cyber Security and Enhancement Act of 2001 (HR-3482), introduced in December by Texas Republican Representative Lamar Smith, passed the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, according to a spokesman for Smith. The bill proposes freeing ISPs from liability when they report suspected cybercrime, such as an e-mailed bomb threat that crosses their network, assuming they act in good faith. It also calls for strengthened penalties for cybercrime and increased funding for a government-run centre to detect security threats.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:58 AM

The debate Wednesday also revealed the animosity left over from the 2000 election. Bond said fraudulent registration by mail by Democrats in Missouri, especially St. Louis, may have cost Republican John Ashcroft his reelection.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:56 AM

Our prevailing business is the business not of information but of enjoyment, the feeling of feelings, to which we give as much time as we can manage, not only at home but in the car, at work, or walking down the street. We seek and sometimes find a laugh from a sitcom joke, an erotic twinge from an underwear ad, a jolt of rhythm from a radio playlist, a sensation of moving with remarkable speed through a video game. Even the quest for information includes the quest for the delight to be found in retrieving it -- a quest, that is, for a feeling.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:34 AM

The trouble is, though, that the Code of Practice does not specify how a Web site should be made accessible. Guidelines for Web site accessibility are provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and suggest measures such as providing alternative text for graphics, but the Code of Practice does not specifically refer to the W3C guide.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:30 AM

Last night, after a rather acrimonious debate, trustees voted in favour of a plan to add another $23.6 million into revenues.

The money would reflect a number of expenses the board believes the province should be covering, including $5 million to bring its funding level up to the same level of its sister Catholic board, plus another $5.6 million to reduce shortfalls in textbooks and school supplies.

All told, the two proposals add up to about $50 million in hypothetical money.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:28 AM

"The prosecutors want to hold the entire machinery in their hands," Milosevic said. "Perhaps the best would be if we all refrain from our jobs and let them pass sentence.''

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:09 AM

"SEFAC has been repeatedly sanctioned for illegal logging. Its forest operations disrupt the livelihoods of many forest-dependent communities and pose a serious threat to remaining populations of threatened animals such as forest elephants, lowland gorillas and chimpanzees," said Sergio Baffoni, Greenpeace Forests Campaigner in Italy, ”We are shocked that significant volumes of SEFAC timber have recently been located in Italy, France, UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Finland and Spain. Any company buying from Groupe SEFAC should be aware that they are contributing to ancient forest destruction in Cameroon."

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:06 AM

The associations say the programs are ineffective and might actually be encouraging smoking.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 05:02 AM

In the tapes being released, Nixon and his aides talk about Watergate, the scandal that followed break-ins and bugging at his opposition's headquarters.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 04:55 AM

"The distinction sometimes made in certain official documents between a human being and a human person to then apply the right to life and physical integrity only to people who are already born is an artificial distintion without scientific or philosophical foundation," he said.

Pope, when you can have a baby, I'll care what you think about abortion.

Posted by GeeTee at February 28, 2002 04:52 AM

They arrested six gang members and dozens of underlings, in an operation in both Quebec and New Brunswick. More than 600 police officers were involved in the operation from federal , provincial and municipal forces. The officers are all part of an anti-gang task force including all levels of law enforcement.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 07:33 PM

The death of Grigorakos — who was in prison for attempted murder in connection with the family extortion racket — was the third this year in the capital’s overcrowded Korydallos penitentiary, and the second murder. A few days later, on February 7, Albanian bank robber Constantin Papa was found hanged in a Korydallos prison cell. Two other convicts have been charged with murdering Papa, who is understood to have given police crucial information during their hunt last year for Costas Passaris, Greece’s most wanted criminal.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 07:31 PM

all parts are 3mm aluminium or 3 mm acrylic glass
the top 4 nuts keep the thing together,
when you remove the lid you can take it appart like a puzzle
the logo's are laser cut by a friend of mine

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 07:29 PM

Thousands of Moldovans are continuing their protests against the country's pro-Russian Communist government, despite a recent decision by authorities to scrap a measure to introduce the mandatory study of the Russian language in schools. Demonstrators are also protesting against what they call state television's biased coverage of their actions, while some 150 TV journalists are threatening to declare a general strike unless the station's management renounces "Soviet-type censorship."

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 07:23 PM

To begin our story, let us look at how two attorneys became the two most hated individuals in the history of the Internet. Those of you reading this far probably have already guessed that I am talking about Lawrence Canter and Martha Siegel, the famous "green card lawyers" who "spammed" the Internet.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 06:46 PM

He argued that stem cell research could be justified ethically: "We are not talking about destroying life, which begins at the moment of fertilisation of a sperm and an egg. The public must understand that stem cells can be taken out of embryos that are not really embryos as they are not fertilised."

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:29 PM

"I don't know that it's possible for certain to tell what the documents will reveal, but obviously the DOE stonewalled us for almost a year and they presumably had a reason to do that," said Rob Perks, a spokesman for the environmental group.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:24 PM

Using the no-scalpel vasectomy technique, RISUG is injected into the vas deferens tubes -- which carry sperm from the testicles to the penis. It has the consistency of honey and forms a loose plug within the tube and sperm passing through are deactivated and thus incapable of fertilization. However, the tube itself is not blocked as it is with vasectomy or rubber plug devices.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:04 PM

"Daniel Pearl was not representing his government or any political movement. He was a hard-working reporter, pure and simple, who was engaged in normal professional duties," said Warren. "It is completely unacceptable that he should become the victim of a brutal political campaign. Journalism world-wide faces its gravest crisis when terrorists or political tyrants target reporters.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:00 PM

CSEA's original language said in cases where miscreants knowingly attempt "to cause death or serious bodily injury" through electronic means, the punishment would be life imprisonment.

That wasn't strong enough for the committee, which succumbed to pressure from the Bush administration and voted during the 45-minute session for a replacement bill (PDF) promising life terms for computer intrusions that "recklessly" put others' lives at risk.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:57 PM

The children conceived from his sperm, now aged between seven and 13, have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the disease, according to the hospital, which agonized for three years before deciding to tell the parents involved.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:55 PM

[. . . ] parallels can be drawn between the collapse of the beleaguered energy provider and the scandals in the Canadian media sector in the late 1990s, which have left police and securities investigators to sift through allegations of tax fraud, kickbacks and side-deals, off-sheet partnerships and improper investments.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 12:03 PM

"It said that Premier Campbell and I will meet our demise by the end of the month," said Krueger. "And it had the word 'boom' in large letters with exclamation marks around it. It isn't signed."

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 10:10 AM

Two weeks ago an anonymous person emailed every vice president of my company to inform them that I had written unsavory things on my personal website. I have yet to determine who sent the email or why this anonymous someone would hide behind a false email address. Conversely, I have devised several ways to torture said anonymous person when his/her identity surfaces.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 08:52 AM

Chicago, February 27, 2002: Today, the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock," the symbol of nuclear danger, from nine to seven minutes to midnight, the same setting at which the clock debuted 55 years ago. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, this is the third time the hand has moved forward.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 08:50 AM

The draft SSSCA creates new federal felonies, punishable by five years in prison and fines of up to $500,000, for "anyone who distributes copyrighted material with 'security measures' disabled or has a network-attached server configured to disable copy protection."

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 07:58 AM

The company also is developing another implant device that would work in conjunction with the VeriChip to allow satellite tracking of an individual's every movement. The tracker is already attracting interest across the globe for tasks like foiling kidnappings, the company says.

Posted by Shad Muegge at February 27, 2002 07:31 AM

The Tauzin-Dingell bill, which is expected to pass this week, is backed by the Baby Bells. It would encourage the regional phone companies to invest in DSL connections by freeing them from regulations that give competitors access to their local networks at wholesale prices. Without new incentives, the Bells argue, they have little reason to spend money on high-speed fiber-optic technologies that would reach more consumers.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 07:06 AM

In addition, the White House would spend $200 million on federal efforts--and encourage $100 million more from the states--to promote marriage, which many conservatives view as a potent antidote to poverty and other social ills.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 06:31 AM

The plants which resulted were a little different from normal - spindly, with strange colours and misshapen leaves, deformities which the researchers believe are down to genetic damage caused by natural, low-level radiation in the soil.

Still, the plants grew well enough to produce their own seedlings - a remarkable event, given that the seeds of many other plants - including rice, soybean and wheat - remain potent only for around a decade.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:52 AM

Percentage of oil imported by the U.S. last year that came from Persian Gulf countries : 23

Percentage that came from Canada and Mexico : 27

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:48 AM

Alberta officials were also rankled by a suggestion from the Bloc Québécois last week that Alberta should bear the largest cost of meeting reduction targets because it generates the most emissions. Alberta believes the costs should be borne in an equitable fashion because it produces oil and gas for the entire country.

So raise your prices to cover your taxes, then it is equitably spread -- Alberta, you grouse about wanting more control but here you're trying to throw it away.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:22 AM

The minister was briefed that we had been on a successful mission, that we had followed the appropriate rules of engagement, that none of our people was hurt, that we had captured suspected Afghani terrorists, or al-Qaeda terrorists, that they had been transported safely, that they had been turned over to the Americans," Adm. Maddison said of the first discussion, which lasted five to six minutes.

In a second, face-to-face briefing on Jan. 25, Adm. Maddison gave additional details, reminding the minister that the two had spoken about that incident four days earlier.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:18 AM

Unlike users of the former Napster network for exchanging MP3 audio files, users of the Morpheus, Grokster and Kazaa software can exchange any computer file they agree to share. But the EFF lawyers said that the software doesn't work without multimedia-capable computers, without Internet access provided by companies such as AOL Time Warner's America Online, or without software to play the music and video and sometimes copy it to optical disks.

If the makers of the file-sharing software are breaking the law, the EFF lawyers said in one of two filings Monday, then "co-conspirators" include some of the same multinational corporations whose record companies and motion picture studios are joined in one of the lawsuits against the P2P trio.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:12 AM

"Electronic scrap represents one of the fastest growing and most problematic components of California's waste stream," the Romero bill says, echoing what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said about e-scrap across the country.

Spurred by these concerns, manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Sony Electronics and IBM have launched recycling and reuse programs in the United States and elsewhere, often charging consumers a fee of between $10 and $35. Retailers Best Buy and Staples also have conducted product take-back programs on a small scale.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:10 AM

The police even appear to have been given numerous specific tip-offs about Pickton. "Farmer Willie" was apparently a familiar figure in the Low Track, regularly picking up women and taking them back to Port Coquitlam. Moreover, he had been charged in 1997 with stabbing a prostitute at his farm. The charges were eventually dropped, apparently due to lack of evidence to corroborate the woman's version of events, but there was no dispute that she had run out of the Pickton farm screaming and covered in blood.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:05 AM

An advertisement page of "Boyz Magazine", a gay magazine, obtained by the GNA from sources in London shows Ghanaian boys living in Ghana advertising to become partners with these paedophiles in London. They sometimes have their pictures on those pages.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 05:01 AM

A Chelyabinsk law student has taken a German journalist to court after he quoted a song written by the student in an article examining President Vladimir Putin's cult of personality.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:57 AM

Two weeks ago, he said that Gazprom was seeking to change the station's management in an attempt to intimidate the radio.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:54 AM

For the machines behind the music, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is to award technical Grammys tonight to Robert Moog, who developed a groundbreaking synthesizer, and to Apple Computer Inc., the first time a computer company has received a Grammy.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:51 AM

Willson said that "therapeutic or experimental cloning" could lead to an international black market in embryos.

Chad Mulligan said that the population explosion was unique in human history as it had happened yesterday though everyone swore it would happen tomorrow. Evidently he wasn't imaginative enough.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:49 AM

"The kids are in a desperate situation. In order to survive, they have to make the choice between going without food or selling themselves, the only currency they have left to them."

Nolan said the investigation found that the problem was, "widespread, quite possibly endemic and which also included people who were actually in place to provide those refugee children with the care and protection they were entitled to."

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:46 AM

Ms. Adam based her recommendations on a study that found just 5 per cent of new arrivals are French-only speakers, compared to 48 per cent who called themselves English-only speakers. Another 4 per cent could speak both official languages; 43 per cent spoke neither.

Posted by GeeTee at February 27, 2002 04:41 AM

"Right now, copyright is national," Turkewitz said. "There is no such thing as international copyright law. It's a little oversimplified, but these treaties help harmonize the laws and the protections as much as possible. It will take away the reasons for these companies to be moving around because there will be a consistent level. The Internet is only as strong as its weakest link."

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 07:41 PM

Instead of studying people with diseases and finding genes associated with that disease, Olson said, researchers should be looking at the smokers with healthy lungs and the junk-food eaters with healthy hearts.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 04:06 PM

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 03:20 PM

The New North seems so insolent, in fact, that some Americans already think things are getting out of hand. (By week's end, Russia and South Korea, nursing their own grievances, had gone Canadian and challenged the Olympic officials, too.) The online Weekly Standard, which is not usually hostile to unilateral action, lectured the Canadians on the importance of not letting short-term rage run away with the long-term good. The Standard recommended that "Canadians should swallow hard, keep the silver, and use their bully pulpit to shame the sport into reforming the way it's officiated. It's not fair and it's not right, but it would be the noble thing to do." This may be just the beginning of a backlash against the New North, keyed, it seems, to a single alarming thought: what would happen if everybody in the world demanded to have it their way whenever they were really, really sure that they were right? As an anxious American reflection, it had an almost vintage Canadian feeling.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 03:18 PM

A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches in your area, how to hide your own cache, and information on how to get started in this fun and exciting sport.

Posted by Shad Muegge at February 26, 2002 02:06 PM

Dave Johnston, 29, said too many British Columbians are more concerned about the lawn — which has been trampled into mud — than about the concerns of the protesters.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 09:01 AM

No matter how hard Men With Brooms works to be more than a curling movie, curling is what makes it click.

But that's fine, because it's written, directed and starring Paul Gross. Take off your hat, Paul.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 08:19 AM

The video, played on a continuous loop to visitors, shows a group of 10 Cuban men performing a sex act.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 05:12 AM

Barrett demonstrated how to make a movie using just advanced software, images from a digital camera that takes still pictures, and of course, a high end personal computer running Intel's latest, greatest and fastest Pentium 4 microprocessor.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 04:42 AM

This story about John Clarke being detained at the US border is hardly surprising. Clarke's group OCAP is well-known in Toronto and Ontario as an aggressive and confrontational activist group involved in numerous violent confrontations with police. Of course, how one assesses OCAP is a matter of one's own politics.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 04:21 AM

The Libertarian Party contacted me last week and asked if I had a photo of U.S. "drug czar" John Walters. They wanted to license the image for a newspaper ad critical of the War on (Some) Drugs and -- imagine this! -- the White House refused to provide them with a publicity shot.

Posted by GeeTee at February 26, 2002 04:12 AM

In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 01:23 PM

The six-member committee wants the High Court to issue a binding "direction" that would make all cafes in the state of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is the capital) responsible for requiring customers to show photo-identity cards, recording their personal details, maintaining logs of all the sites the users have visited, and restricting minors to machines that do not have cubicles.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 12:58 PM

Napster says the major labels have failed to prove ownership of many of the copyrights they allege were violated, contending that the plaintiffs must prove the songs were "works made for hire" or were assigned to the labels. Patel has ordered a "special master" to review the plaintiffs' documentation on the copyrights they claim to control.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 12:38 PM

"Coming just days before the presidential elections, it looks like yet another attempt by the Mugabe regime to obstruct the conduct of the election and the ability of the people of Zimbabwe to choose, freely and fairly, who should lead them,"

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 12:36 PM

As the gas hits the surface of the pulsar, it speeds up the pulsar's spin. Eventually, the pulsar sucks all the gas away from its companion, leaving a shrunken white dwarf.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 12:33 PM

While many locals worked alongside fisheries officials to help send close to 30 of the beached whales back into the sea, some people got to the five-kilometre long beach stretch before the rescue effort began.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 10:42 AM

"I don't want to make any confessional statement. Police have been trying to force us to sign blank papers," he is quoted as saying.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 09:24 AM

During the meal, it was reported at the time, the bankers bought a bottle of 1982 Montrachet, for £1,400, followed by three bottles of Chateau Petrus Pomerol - a 1945 vintage costing £11,600, a 1946 at £9,400 and a 1947 at £12,300.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 09:15 AM

Broadcast in Dari and Pashto, Afghanistan's two main languages, the show reached a potential audience 22 million Afghans, more than 80 percent of the country's population.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 09:08 AM

Honking horns filled the air in communities from B.C. to Newfoundland. In Ottawa, Canada Day came early on Parliament Hill as revellers crowded beneath the Peace Tower, hugging and singing.

[. . .] Gretzky also showed off a Canadian dollar coin, and revealed that it had been buried under centre ice. The Canadian in charge of producing ice for the hockey venue, along with Gretzky, had the loonie placed under the button before the tournament began.

The American players behaved reprehensibly on the ice -- no finesse -- except for Richter, the American goalie, though half his blocks were dumb luck. He nearly scored for us by dropping the puck down the back of his shirt. You may have seen me telling the Russians to quit whining the other day -- an understandable reaction on my part, I think, considering how stupidly they're acting over the skating gold -- but in the hockey, if yesterday's game (disclaimer: the only one I saw) is any indication, the refs were letting the Americans get away with almost any roughhousing crap they wanted.

If Canada had lost, as the commercial goes, they woulda heard us in Salt Lake.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 08:59 AM

Mrs. Gore told the audience of 650 that she and her husband believe that the "true family values" include all families - "no matter what size, no matter what shape they come in."

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 08:44 AM

Pointing to the ex-chief executive's reputation as a micro-manager, Mr Greenwood said: "It is very difficult to conceive how hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions could be done in partnerships off the books of the company without his awareness."

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 08:39 AM

In a strange twist, there appears to be a North American connection to the gruesome execution of the Wall Street Journal reporter. A few days before Pearl disappeared on Jan. 23, one of the most wanted suspects in the kidnapping, Amjad Hussain Faruqi, allegedly made a call to Canada from his home village in Punjab province and was overheard saying, "I will complete the mission."

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 08:21 AM

The Whois debate has been brewing for some time, but it could come to a boil soon, as Congress, the group overseeing the Internet's address system and privacy advocates all weigh in on how well the system is working. In December, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property sent letters to 50 United States registrars requesting information about whether and how the companies verify customer data and how they deal with complaints about fraudulent information.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 08:19 AM

Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 07:37 AM

Investigators documented children playing amid heaps of ash from burned electronic waste, unprotected workers brushing a suspected cancer-causing substance called carbon black from computer printer cartridges, laborers cracking open cathode ray tubes containing toxic lead and barium, and widespread burning of plastics that is almost certain to produce dioxins. They also found women whose work involved sitting by small fires, heating up computer circuit boards to melt the lead-and-tin solder, producing toxic fumes they could not help but inhale.

Posted by GeeTee at February 25, 2002 07:05 AM

According to former Enron employees, on the sixth floor of the company's downtown headquarters was a set, designed to trick analysts into believing business was booming.

Posted by GeeTee at February 24, 2002 07:22 AM

"What I'm seeing in recent years is the total and complete alienation of youth," he said. "And it is not coming from them; it's coming from the adults who aren't bothering to reach out to them. And it is terrifying. Straight hedonistic drugs and music and misogynism. I walk Church Street in Burlington and I see kids that are walking dead and know it. And that is the biggest change of my lifetime in Vermont."

Posted by GeeTee at February 24, 2002 07:20 AM

Rip, mix, burn.
After all, it's your music.

Posted by GeeTee at February 24, 2002 07:02 AM

Record labels suing Napster for copyright infringement are "attempting the near monopolization of the digital distribution market. The resulting injury affects both Napster and the public interest," District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has finally deduced.

Posted by GeeTee at February 24, 2002 06:45 AM

Several women have complained that they told authorities they had suspicions about the farm, but that police did nothing.

Posted by GeeTee at February 24, 2002 06:41 AM

...because he can no longer cope with the crushing workload.

Posted by GeeTee at February 24, 2002 06:36 AM

Help finish The BraBall! 5,000 or more bras are still needed to finish the sculpture. It will be complete when it reaches 5'4" - the height of the average American woman.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 04:25 PM

"We are a great sports power," Maxim Korotkov-Gulyayev, who organized the rally of some 20 protesters, told Interfax news agency. "If the North Americans want to prove they are stronger, they should not prove it on the shoulders of our athletes."

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 04:18 PM

For terrorists, ``the Internet is probably the best thing to come along since plastic explosives,'' Brill said.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 03:38 PM

[. . .]Sheehan said problems with the volunteers, not opposition from conservatives, prompted the Red Cross to withdraw its support. Also, she said the packets - which included hand-warmers and lip balm - were not what the Red Cross had agreed to and promoted a more "frivolous message."

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 09:42 AM

In Queen of the Damned, Aaliyah's brother acknowledged, some fans might be uncomfortable seeing her play an undead monster who devours beating hearts and slurps blood.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 09:40 AM

In a sample itinerary organizers unveiled yesterday at the National Arts Centre, a week of activities during the Ottawa Blues Festival could include cooking demonstrations by blues musicians, a week-long blues guitar camp, tours of radio stations, visits to hospitals by blues musicians, lectures on the music, discussions of guitar construction by a veteran guitar-maker and open music sessions, held at locations all over town.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 09:32 AM

Researchers on the Human Genome Project would rather use Apple Macintosh computers than anything else to process the massive amount of DNA data they've got on hand -- if only they could.

Unfortunately, Apple's computers are the wrong shape to make into high-power computer clusters. Apple's flagship G4 PowerMacs are powerful number-crunchers, but their upright design makes them unsuitable for stacking into computing clusters -- supercomputers made from cheap, off-the-shelf PCs.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 09:04 AM

The breakthrough Sigma SD9 camera with FOVEON® X3TM image sensor is the world's first image-sensor that features three layers of photo detectors. The layers are embedded in silicon to take advantage of the fact that red, green and blue light penetrate silicon to different depths allowing full-color to be measured at every pixel. The layers are positioned to take advantage of the fact that silicon absorbs different colors of light at different depths, so one layer records red, another layer records green and the other layer records blue, This means that for every pixel on a FOVEON® X3TM image sensor, there's actually a stack of three photo detectors, forming the first and only full-color capture system.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 09:01 AM

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 08:42 AM

Academy Award-winning animator Chuck Jones, who drew such beloved cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig, died at his home yesterday. He was 89.

Posted by GeeTee at February 23, 2002 04:33 AM

A cardiac patient from Perth, who needed an intensive care bed at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital 10 days ago, couldn't find a bed at any Ottawa hospital and had to be airlifted to Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

The Ontario government has cut such an outrageous amount of money from health care tha it ends up making up the shortfall in other stupid places -- surely one airlift costs as much as a year's worth of bed?

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 09:29 AM

Grethen, 44, a former businessman, was convicted last year of six sex crimes involving children -- two counts each of forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties. He is in the Deep Meadow Correctional Center, and his projected release date is Sept. 25, 2024. He faces supervised probation upon his release.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 06:45 AM

The question at the heart of the case is whether vouchers that allow parents to send their children to religious schools violate the constitution's separation of church and state. The example that the justices are being asked to consider—that of Cleveland—could hardly be more perilous for supporters of school choice. In Milwaukee, which also has a large school-choice programme, a third of the 10,000 participants are enrolled in non-religious private schools. But in Cleveland almost all the participating private schools are affiliated with religious organisations. When the Cleveland programme was first set up, a quarter of scholarship children attended non-religious private schools; now, largely because two private schools have opted into the public system as charter schools, only about 4% of voucher pupils attend non-religious private institutions.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 06:41 AM

We believe ours to be a "visual age," but painting is now the least popular of the arts. The original reason for this was the invention of photography, which freed artists to do whatever they liked. Finally, painting died under the adolescent smirk of postmodernism. Still, it's a great time to be a painter.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 06:28 AM

Without the permission of these DNA donors or their parents, the state [South Carolina] has given some of the samples to a genetics laboratory and gave others to the State Law Enforcement Division to help start a DNA databank there.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 06:19 AM

"There's a lot of tinkering and gimmicks right now," says Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse (N.Y.) University. "But what we need now is a genuine mutation in the comedy gene pool."

What they need is to quit paying the actors so much and to start paying the writers more. If every cast member of Friends gave up $50k an episode, they could hire George Carlin.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 06:14 AM

The same techniques MTV uses are applied by presidential script writers. The 'Evil Al-Qaeda Network" conjures images of a sophisticated terror network with nodes throughout the world all tied into OBL's underground HeadQuarters. Lex Luthor even shudders when he thinks about it.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 05:59 AM

For the experiment, students were asked to watch TV consciously. Insofar as this is sort of "Zen and the art of TV watching," I said to them, "I want you to watch TV with acute awareness, mindfulness and precision. This experiment is about observing television scientifically, with Beginner's Mind, rather than watching television passively with programmed mind. Ordinarily, if you are watching TV you can't also observe and experience the experience of watching TV. When we watch TV we rarely pay attention to the details of the event. In fact, we rarely pay attention."

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 05:53 AM

Some Wall Street analysts, however, believe the company is liquidating rather than reorganizing. Enron announced that it is leaving its mirrored downtown skyscraper and leasing smaller, less-showy office space elsewhere in downtown. Enron has occupied the tower, at 1400 Smith St., since 1986.

What a brazen way to suck the last few cash drops out of the corpse.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 05:42 AM

The Russian official version was that the six died when their vehicle hit a mine. Based on interviews with locals and relatives of the dead, Politkovskaya concluded that the six were killed by a small unit of military intelligence troops, who opened fire on the vehicle and then torched it to destroy evidence.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 05:36 AM

"It really calls into question the integrity of the system when relatives of the PM are given high-profile positions. The public would certainly be right to consider the ethics of it all."

Oh. How shocking. You are hearing me talk.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 05:33 AM

Anastasia King, 20, was strangled to death by one of their tenants, Daniel Larson, 21, while her 270-pound husband pinned her to a hallway floor, prosecutors said.

Posted by GeeTee at February 22, 2002 05:31 AM

U.S. officials and executives of the newspaper announced the development after a videotape was delivered to the U.S. consulate in Karachi tonight with gruesome footage showing Pearl being killed with a knife, according to a source close to the investigation. His body has not been found but authorities considered the videotape authentic.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 09:14 PM

Unlike most 20th-century art movements, which were based on formal breakthroughs, surrealism is predicated on a revolution in form and subject matter. There's more to it, in other words, than realist techniques and wacky subjects (think René Magritte). Following Duchamp's lead, artists like Joseph Cornell, Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, and Salvador Dalí (all of whom are included in "Desire Unbound") worked with found objects and assemblage. At the Met you can see Dalí's silly but still strange Lobster Telephone and his Venus With Drawers. The pebbles embedded in the surface of Bather (1928), his marvelously sicko painting, on the other hand, show how experimental and visionary Dalí was, especially early on. And don't miss his Metamorphosis of Narcissus, which Dalí showed to Freud, who found it "tedious."

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 09:08 PM

What about having collagen injected into your scrotum? "I have never heard of anybody doing that. I would not do that, even if asked to. You're running the risk of putting pressure on the testes [never a good plan], and the collagen is temporary—it lasts only three to six months. And collagen is expensive—about $200 [per cubic centimeter]—and to fill an area that large, it would take 10 [cubic centimeters] at least. That's an awful lot of money to spend for three months' worth of discomfort."

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 05:53 PM

By the time the mainstream art world awakened to the telecommunications revolution of the 1990s, a new landscape of exploration and experimentation had already dawned outside its window. Art on this electronic frontier--known variously as Internet art, online art, or net art-matured at the same breakneck pace with which digital technology itself has expanded. Less than a decade after the introduction of the first image-capable browser for the World Wide Web, online art has become a major movement with a global audience. It took twenty years after the introduction of television for video artists such as Nam June Paik to access the technology required to produce art for broadcast television. Online artists, by comparison, were already exchanging text-based projects and criticism before the Internet became a visual medium with the introduction of the Mosaic browser in 1993. By 1995, eight percent of all Web sites were produced by artists, giving them an unprecedented opportunity to shape a new medium at its very inception. Since that time, art on the Internet has spawned countless critical discussions on e-mail-based communities such as the Thing, Nettime, 7-11, and Rhizome.org. Encouraged by a growing excitement over the Internet as a social and economic phenomenon, proliferating news articles and museum exhibitions have brought online art to the forefront of the discussion of art's future in the twenty-first century.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 05:32 PM

Gradually, his activism deepened. In 1999 Horus wrote and directed an experimental play for a Cairo theater called ‘Harem’—a pun on the Arabic word ‘Haram,’ meaning forbidden—a semi autobiographical work dealing with homosexuality and other taboos. The play was praised by many Cairo critics and selected as a entry into an international theater competition in Europe. But some members of the Egyptian nomination committee called the work “immoral” and, after a heated debate, the play was withdrawn. Since then, Horus says, he has had difficulty finding financial support or a stage for his plays.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 05:27 PM

Russia threatened on Thursday to withdraw its athletes from the Closing Ceremony, the cross country and ice hockey events of the Winter Olympics if IOC president Jacques Rogge did not address what it considered was "unfair judging."

Oh, go teach your grandmothers to suck eggs.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 05:24 PM

Hidden in the rolling Yandang Mountains and lush forests of bamboo, dozens of villages in Zeya County in Wenzhou still make pingzhi, a type of ancient Chinese paper.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 05:17 PM

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 05:06 PM

I can envision a single usage pattern in which biometrics would be acceptable, and this pivots on putting profile data in full posession and control of their subjects. For instance, If I had a smart card with a fingerprint reader built in and my profile was created & stored on the card. I've been watching the market for years and never seen any such product released. Keep checking back here and I'll let you know when one exists. Until then, I believe everyone should flatly refuse the use of biometric technologies in any shape or form.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 03:32 PM

While it is possible to boil water and make tea in space, "we don't know how they are going to drink it," says Nakamura. 'It is not possible to keep the tea in cups and we cant have tea floating around. This is one of the problems we are working on.'

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 02:37 PM

The pavilion is made of filtered lake water shot as a fine mist through 13,000 fog nozzles creating an artificial cloud that measures 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 65 feet high. A built-in weather station controls fog output in response to shifting climatic conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 02:19 PM

"Civilized people -- Muslims, Christians and Jews -- all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator," Ashcroft said in prepared remarks released by the Justice Department. "Civilized people of all religious faiths are called to the defense of His creation. We are a nation called to defend freedom -- a freedom that is not the grant of any government or document, but is our endowment from God."

That'll teach the Americans to more or less elect Dubya.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 02:17 PM

When soldiers first visited, they found Illija Panincic had lost much of his ability to speak after six years without human contact. His only neighbour was a brown bear that used to scratch at his door.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 02:12 PM

PayPal frequently locks customers' accounts if it suspects that fraud played a part in a transaction, even if the amount in doubt is a fraction of the total amount in an account, said Gail Koff, an attorney and founding partner of Jacoby & Meyers, which filed the lawsuit.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 02:07 PM

The team, led by Gerald Gabrielse of Harvard University, used powerful magnetic fields to trap antiprotons found in the debris of collisions in CERN's particle accelerator. They then introduced a beam of antielectrons, or positrons, and used an electric field to slow them down and bring the two types of particle together.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 12:42 PM

It's not their fault. As they climb higher, the outside air pressure falls so there is less resistance to the release of body gases %uFFD0 and uncontrollable, pneumatic flatulence occurs. The condition is High Altitude Flatus Expulsion. According to the journal, High Altitude Medicine and Biology, it kicks in above 11,000ft.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 12:40 PM

"Even our Nigerian brothers know that Bakassi has always remained part of Cameroonian territory. What has been going on since their invasion of that piece of Cameroonian territory amounts to nothing but adventurism and we hope that the International Court of Justice will put an end to it so that the two countries will continue to enjoy cordial and neighbourly relations"

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 12:32 PM

Posted by Shad Muegge at February 21, 2002 11:22 AM

Senior Pentagon and administration officials, responding to criticism of a new Pentagon office intended to influence public opinion overseas, said today that Defense Department officials would not be allowed to tell lies to promote American views.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 11:09 AM

"It still has to be determined what the charges will be," said the police spokesman in nearby Gotha, around 250 miles south of Berlin.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 11:07 AM

``If you're watching DVDs you don't want your wife to know about, you might not want to give her your password,'' said David Caulton, Microsoft's lead program manager for Windows Media.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 10:58 AM

The challengers include organizations and businesses that specialize in former copyrighted material, like books, movies and songs. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that they "lack any cognizable First Amendment right to exploit the copyrighted works of others."

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 10:52 AM

The fund will be administered by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, an independent, non-profit corporation. Up to 25 fellowships will be awarded for doctoral and post-doctoral students every year in the humanities and human sciences.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 10:40 AM

The appellant, Roger Guignard, was charged under a City of Saint-Hyacinthe bylaw after he put up a sign complaining that his claim for damage to a building he owned had not been settled.

The sign supplied the dates of his loss and his filing of a claim, adding: "Commerce Group -- the incompetent insurance company has still not indemnified me."

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 10:38 AM

While the Quebec language laws may infuriate those who disagree with government-mandated speech, their complaint should be with the law itself, not with its application on-line. After all, an Internet without the broad range of laws we depend upon is a far more troubling proposition.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 10:27 AM

“How I got out from under Ronnie, if I ever did, is the story of my life,” he says about his father, who died in 1975. Elsewhere, he admits: “Killing him was an early preoccupation of mine, and it has endured off and on even after his death. Probably it is no more than my exasperation that I could absolutely never pin him down.”

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 09:42 AM

Soldiers handling the equipment in training are being asked to use disposable gloves.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 08:40 AM

Moon Farmer has gone over to Movable Type, because it has replicated what I liked about Blogger and added some of its own goodies. We shall see how this works out. I'm still fidgeting the colour scheme.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 04:12 AM

Amid the cruel half-light of dementia, Reagan has moved ever closer towards beatification. Even liberal writers have felt obliged to declare him a great president. There is a campaign to have his face added to the four already carved into Mount Rushmore. Washington's domestic airport has changed its name to Reagan National, and the city council, which had mischievously refused to alter the name of the nearby metro station, has been ordered by Congress to follow suit. (There is something Third World about naming airports after living politicians. Can you imagine the outcry if someone suggested renaming Heathrow Thatcher International?)

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 03:54 AM

Meanwhile Barboza's public defender Marteen Miller said Barboza demanded the government help him in Santa Rosa. ``They owe me and they better do it,'' Barboza told his lawyer while he pounded his fist on a table, according to Miller.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 03:52 AM

...ReplayTV allows users to e-mail one another TV shows that they've "taped." The major television and movie studios also understand this, which is why they've filed suit against ReplayTV and SonicBlue to put the kibosh on ReplayTV's e-mail functionality and a host of other consumer-friendly features -- most notably, the ability to let couch potatoes fast-forward through commercials.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 03:48 AM

It carried two passengers and was drawn by two diminutive horses. Iron Age horses are known to have been the size of ponies.

Posted by GeeTee at February 21, 2002 03:17 AM

Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

Posted by at February 19, 2002 08:14 AM

Mr Bakalli, who said he had met Mr Milosevic while trying to calm tension after clashes between Serb security forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas, testified he had suffered simply by being an Albanian.

Posted by at February 19, 2002 08:03 AM

"The [100] suicides that are accounted for by the coroner are only suicides where people have left a note or where a member of the family has confirmed there was a gambling problem," said Boxenbaum.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 10:13 PM

We've arranged the Bush-Lay letters into several batches and, where applicable, have followed an original letter with the recipent's reply. TSG will upload the correspondence as quickly as we can scan the documents. You'll find the first 15 letters below along with links that will get you to the additional pages.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 10:51 AM

In the end, two local policemen took it upon themselves to point out to the marines that Gibraltar - the intended target of their seaborne landing exercise - was actually a little further on down the coast.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 10:30 AM

Klein has hinted his government may seek to make teachers an essential service, but the province denies provoking the strike. It maintains that a set amount for teacher salaries - six per cent over two years - was earmarked in the last budget to ensure teachers were guaranteed a raise.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 10:21 AM

One of the arguments dismissed by the court was that to force use of metrication on Britain amounted to a restriction of free expression in the commercial field and a violation of human-rights provisions.

In Canada, measures are often provided in both metric and imperial. Metric is, of course, legally required.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 10:18 AM

Mr. Milosevic displayed his trademark defiance, contending that he is a victim of "personal hatred" by some Western leaders "who tried to overthrow me for 10 years, and finally succeeded in a dirty manner. I'm in prison but I'm a free man," he said. "My name is Slobodan with capital 'S,' which means freedom in my language."

Posted by at February 18, 2002 10:09 AM

"It's the same business that has been going on for the past three years," Jean-Baptiste Dhetchuvi said. Fighting between the Lendu and Hema communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed thousands of people in recent years.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 09:28 AM

The amendment requires presidential candidates to reside in the country for one year prior to elections and candidates for parliament to be resident for six months The opposition says the amendment violates a July 1999 agreement with the government on democratic reforms and a framework for holding legislative elections, due March 10.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 09:23 AM

In his report, Dr Bryce claimed that Indian children were being systematically and deliberately killed in the residential schools. He cited an average mortality rate of between 35% and 60%, and alleged that staff and church officials were regularly withholding or falsifying records and other evidence of children's deaths.
Further, Dr Bryce claimed that a primary means of killing native children was to deliberately expose them to communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and then deny them any medical care or treatment - a practice actually referred to by top Anglican Church leaders in the Globe and Mail on May 29, 1953.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 09:06 AM

In Napster°Øs heyday, pirated TV shows were a rarity on the Net. But that changed with the advent of broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 08:58 AM

All across the region, colonial governments cracked down hard, rounding up the cargo prophets and imprisoning them. Planters and other Western commercial interests, who coined the term 'cargo cult', saw it all as madness which demonstrated the ignorance and superstition of their workforce. More liberal whites attempted to explain to the locals that cargo wasn't produced by magic, but by hard work and the product of generations of technological progress, and the only way in which Melanesian societies were going to become rich in cargo was by working and earning it. To the locals, the subtext of this explanation was clear: the whites were politely refusing to give up the secret of their cargo.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 07:32 AM

It is, she tells me, the tradition among the people here to make their own coffins when they reach 60. Old Mrs Huang's coffin is already 40 years old, and it's looking a bit the worse for wear.
"Maybe I'll need to make a new one soon," she says. "Sometimes people have to make two or even three before they actually get to use one."

Posted by at February 18, 2002 06:56 AM

In the end, it took me about an hour, and I had to visit three stores. They charged me 30,000 VN ($2) for "Harry Potter" and $2 more for "The Lord of the Rings." The color is a bit bright on both films--the official DVDs aren't out yet--but both work. Coincidentally, the Viet Nam News on the same day reported that Potter's Asian distributor still hadn't decided whether to bring the movie to Vietnam because of piracy concerns.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 06:42 AM

The authorities say they can't do anything about the vampires without hard evidence and Colombia's freedom of religion laws mean the police can't stop and search people just because they are dressed like vampires.

Posted by at February 18, 2002 06:16 AM

Observers say the Army is using its political muscle to keep ranking officers off the conviction sheet. Another worry is that President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who took office last July with military backing, has so far shown little enthusiasm for punishing human-rights abuses committed by Indonesian soldiers. The Dutch report concluded that members of Indonesia's Battalion 745 - an Army unit that has since been disbanded - killed Thoenes Sept. 21 on a road outside Dili. A subsequent Monitor investigation revealed that a Battalion officer, only hours after Thoenes's death, told the soldiers to keep quiet about that and other incidents. "Don't even tell your wives," he said.

Posted by at February 17, 2002 11:00 PM

"All it takes is one terrorist with a TOW missile obtained on the black market to take out a truck carrying this deadly substance, and we get Chernobyl in our backyard," Goodman said. "This is the stuff of our worst nightmares."

Posted by at February 17, 2002 10:58 PM

[. . .] using couriers and the virtually untraceable hawala money transfer system, they transferred millions of dollars to this desert sheikdom, where the assets were converted to gold bullion. The riches of the Taliban and al Qaeda were subsequently scattered around the world -- including some that went to the United States -- through a financial structure that has been little affected by the international efforts to seize suspected terrorist assets.

Posted by at February 17, 2002 10:56 PM

"Americans are very jingoistic, so many Canadian companies like to assume the American identity when they're down south," says Joseph D'Cruz, a professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
"It's not so much that the Canadian moniker is not appealing. It's more of a bias in favour of domestic (U.S.) companies," he says. "There is a very strong emphasis on buying American, especially after 9-11, but it was also there before.

Posted by at February 17, 2002 10:53 PM

The right-hand man of suspected terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden was arrested several days ago and is imprisoned in the Iranian capital of Tehran, a leading Iranian daily said on Sunday. Iran's Foreign Ministry denied the report.

Posted by at February 17, 2002 10:52 PM

"They just piled them on top and then piled more on top. And then they just left them," said Dr Sperry.

Posted by at February 17, 2002 08:53 PM

The GM mouthwash, which they claim lasts a lifetime, would be squirted in the mouth in a one-off five-minute treatment, costing less than °Ã100.

Posted by at February 17, 2002 08:49 PM

The material is derived from 11 genetically modified piglets which were part of a research project designed to develop swine waste that will be less damaging to the environment.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 09:05 PM

It is not clear how much profit Mr. Lay made on his sales, many of which came while he was encouraging Enron employees to buy shares.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 09:04 PM

In about three years, the Vatican will then release archives that include information about the Vatican's relationship with Germany from 1939 until the end of Pius's pontificate in 1958.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 04:10 PM

The articles all mysteriously fail to mention the Czech "back-up judge" who was in news reports just yesterday. Today the story, as the NYT tells it, is that "with the French judge's vote for the Russians thrown out, the result was a 4-to-4 tie and a second gold medal awarded." But the Czech judge reportedly voted for the Canadians, so the inclusion of his vote would push the tally back to 5-4, in their favor. Today's Papers counsels Sale and Pelletier to reject the duplicate and hold out for solo gold. Of course this would mean prying the gold from the Russian couple's fingertips and ruining their country's 40-year gold medal streak in the pairs competition. It would probably also start some sort of Russo-Canadian land war in Alaska or thereabouts. Yet justice must be done.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 04:04 PM

In a letter to Ashcroft, John Conyers Jr., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked "why the reasons that dictated your recusal in the Enron matter did not also necessitate such a recusal in the Microsoft case?"

Posted by at February 16, 2002 03:58 PM

On February 14, 2002, the Department of Justice made available to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 47 comments received during the 60-day public comment period relating to the revised proposed Final Judgment. These comments represent the comments characterized as °ƒmajor°± in the Joint Status Report submitted to the Court on February 8, 2002.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 03:56 PM

This supersedes all previous notices. Do not write in English below this line.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 01:23 PM

The U.N. said the incident is already under investigation, and promised swift action against those found responsible for giving the Canadians guns.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 01:21 PM

...one of the CIA agents, the trustworthy Jamey Farrell (Karina Arroyave), uses a Dell PC.
[...] in a recent episode, Farrell was exposed as a traitor and committed suicide, bolstering Browell's theory. "She was supposed to be the one everyone trusted," he said.
A character widely suspected of being a traitor -- Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) -- uses a Mac, which convinces Browell that his characterization must be a red herring.

Posted by at February 16, 2002 01:08 PM

"You could have a sail that is perhaps hundreds of miles across," [Dr. Geoffery Landis] told the BBC. "It would be huge but extremely light and then the colony itself that's being pulled by the sail would be just a tiny little speck compared with this enormous sail. It would glide serenely through space, lit up from time to time as the sail hit dust particles on the way."

Posted by at February 16, 2002 05:55 AM

With the ouster of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban from Afghanistan, a nation has begun rebuilding roads, clearing mines, and, um, catching up on porno. Satellite dishes are popping up all over the country, drawn to the hundreds of foreign channels available, including a few featuring lurid material. One, entitled "100 percent hardcore," in actuality offers nothing of the kind, but then gyrating topless women might mean more to men unaccustomed to the sight of a naked ankle. Guesthouses in Kandahar have recently been crowded with enthralled Afghan men, who frenetically try to change the channel when a female Western aid worker passes by. Even with crushing poverty, many have scraped together the cash to purchase six-foot dishes for about $100 and eight-foot dishes with a digital receiver for about $250. Much of the equipment is brought in from Pakistan. "I've been in business a month, and I have sold nearly 400 dishes," said satellite television shop owner Abdul Wasi, according to Reuters. "My shop is always busy. Everybody wants to watch satellite television."

Posted by at February 15, 2002 11:01 PM

"If you take the time to think through what you want to say generally, you'd like to see a response," one anonymous contributor wrote last week in announcing that he was giving up writing on the site. "A conversation even. The insta-erase feature reduces that to haphazard chance."

Posted by at February 15, 2002 10:40 PM

Speculation about the possibility that a second set of golds could end the controversy began Thursday evening, when the news broke that the French judge - Marie-Reine Le Gougne - had admitted to an official with the ISU that her vote had been influenced.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 10:38 PM

"It is quite clear that Clinton wanted to go down in history as the first man to bomb Chinese territory by bombing the Chinese embassy," Milosevic said.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:59 PM

"The judge makes clear that if you go to a prostitute they have a right to have their story heard as well."

Posted by at February 15, 2002 08:42 PM

Although most companies already post investor information on their websites, the SEC proposal would take the practice a step farther. It would require that companies immediately post every filing submitted electronically to the SEC, and not only select documents like annual and quarterly reports.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 08:42 PM

In a move apparently designed to quash free speech and disguise the unfortunate fact that the GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron, the Republican Party of Texas has delivered a 'cease and desist' letter, demanding that the EnronOwnsTheGop.com site be pulled down.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 08:34 PM

Recent discoveries of similarly-aged adornments and changes in hunting practices at widely dispersed sites across Europe and Asia suggests that these modern human behaviours arose simultaneously in many places.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 07:26 PM

    1.4   How the Mail-Order Bride Trade Operates
       1.4.1   Methodology
       1.4.2   Catalogues and Web Sites
       1.4.3   Correspondence
       1.4.4   Organized Prenuptial Trips.
       1.4.5   Services Offered by the Agencies
       1.4.6   Costs and Profits
       1.4.7   Steps After a Bride is Chosen
          1.4.7.1   Marriage in the bride's country
          1.4.7.2   Marriage in Canada
       1.4.8   The Bride's Situation Once in Canada

Posted by at February 15, 2002 06:33 PM

Using specially bred laboratory mice infected with HIV, the researchers found those injected with cocaine had 200 times as much of the AIDS-causing virus in their bloodstreams than did mice that received a placebo. After 10 days of daily doses of liquid cocaine, the mice also had twice as many HIV-infected cells.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 05:38 PM

A five-member boarding party found 20 packages about the size of cement blocks, each wrapped in blue plastic stamped with the words "Freedom for Afghanistan" in English. Peterson said the sailors cut one package open and found what appeared to be hashish.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 12:12 PM

When you use terms like axis of evil, at a minimum what it means is, you don't want to negotiate with them because you don't negotiate with evil.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 12:11 PM

For some time now, the latest motto of Kenyan education policy has been "Free primary school for everyone." This is part of an anti-poverty strategy which the Kenyan authorities worked out with strong support from the IMF and World Bank. But President Moi's dictum was accorded an ambivalent reception. While it delighted Kenyan parents, especially of the less prosperous variety, school principals, the education minister and other school administration officials raised loud objections. Without school fees, they declared categorically, there would be no education at all. As often happens in Kenya, the subject then faded from public view, disappeared from the headlines, and now no one really knows just how to proceed.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 12:09 PM

"I certainly respect the view of the Holy Father and the Catholic Church. In my own judgment, condoms are a way to prevent infection," [Powell] said. "Therefore, I not only support their use, I encourage their use among people who are sexually active and need to protect themselves."

Posted by at February 15, 2002 12:06 PM

"Aware that the representation of Muslim prophets is forbidden, we nevertheless consider that the censorship of this international magazine is in the first place an attack on the free flow of information," the organisation said in a statement.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 11:48 AM

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is investigating whether Enron Corp. and other firms manipulated California's electricity market last year.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 11:46 AM

Kripke, whose study was funded by federal tax dollars, said doctors' recommendations that everyone get eight hours of sleep a night may have been partly influenced by the drug companies that make sleeping pills. He cited a report from a public relations firm representing the medicine Ambien, which gave money to the National Sleep Foundation to alert people about an insomnia "public health crisis" as part of a marketing campaign.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:38 AM

"All federations are involved, not only the Russians," said Russian-born Alexander Zhulin, a 1994 Olympic silver medalist who now coaches U.S. ice dancers Naomi Lang and Peter Tchernyshev. "The Canadians are involved, the French are involved, the Italians are involved. Everybody is trying to bring their couples, their skaters, into first place. Everybody is trying to keep the votes for their own country.…"

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:17 AM

Bourque sources within the Sun media food chain report that "the Sun is working on a story that assorted pro-Martin MPs want the Libreal's enfant terrible kicked out of the Liberal Party for suggesting that comments like those of pro-Martin Scarborough East MP John McKay - that "non citizens" don't deserve Liberal membership cards - smack of intolerance." When reached for a comment, he said -- "If the letter from the MPs isn't accompanied by notarized names, addresses and postal codes, I will regard it as invalid."

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:15 AM

A crowd of about 1,000 pilgrims, who were waiting to set off for the traditional Muslim Hajj, assaulted the minister on Thursday after rumours that he had cancelled a flight to Saudi Arabia.
Nobody was arrested after the incident and all the pilgrims finally left.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:13 AM

One federal prosecutor actually managed to maintain his composure in front of the press and announce that they considered the semen sample to be "fruits of the crime"...

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:03 AM

The bill passed was the Shays-Meehan substitute with the following amendments:

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:03 AM

Two men accused of drilling holes in a woman's skull have pleaded guilty to practicing medicine without a license.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 09:02 AM

Owner Barry Spell says his coolers at Spell Wholesale Florist held roses of all shapes, sizes and colours, but the thief seemed to know to take only the very best.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 08:59 AM

"Our hope is that by flattening the image we can do the kinds of mapping that will let neurologists compare brain structures and the locations that govern different functions," he said.

Posted by at February 15, 2002 08:58 AM

Enron chief executive Stephen Cooper said in statement today that chief risk officer Rick Buy and chief accounting officer Rick Causey had been dismissed.

Buy and Cause-y are to blame? Is this Dickens or Swift?

Posted by at February 14, 2002 09:07 PM

Le May Doan's victory came one day after she set a new Olympic record in the first heat of the 500 m race. It was almost half a second better than the old record which had been set earlier in the evening by Japanese skater Tomomi Okazaki.

Posted by at February 14, 2002 06:54 PM

In a survey released Wednesday of over 1,000 girls aged 13 to 18, 30 percent of the teens said they've been sexually harassed in a chat room. The harassment included unsolicited naked pictures of men, demands for personal details like bra size and requests for "cyber sex."

Posted by at February 14, 2002 03:53 PM

Posted by at February 14, 2002 09:21 AM

Happy Taliban-lentines!

Posted by at February 14, 2002 06:38 AM

WorldNetDaily had its Arabic translator check out the site after a reader raised an objection to the inclusion of the non-existent state. The translator confirms that MSNBC.com's Arabic version includes "Palestine" in a list of 19 countries on the side of the site under the heading "Local Arab News." The "nations" are: "Emirates, Egypt, Saudi, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Mauritania."

Posted by at February 13, 2002 08:46 PM

Ross says nostalgia is one reason for the surprising return of burlesque. The prim placement of pasties and fans leaves plenty to the imagination, even after the slow, sensual peel of the costume. The critical change from the past is that women run the show and women appreciate the spectacle, says Ross. "These Fluffgirls and others really disrupt the homo-social game of men buying and selling erotic fantasy for other men. That's been the history of striptease and burlesque."

Posted by at February 13, 2002 06:04 PM

"That's not our tradition, not the Taliban tradition -- we would not allow the Taliban among our women, and in our homes, and they would not try," said villager Fasal Rabi. He cradled an 18-month-old son scarred and bearing swollen lumps beneath his skin that the family said were shrapnel from the attack.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 05:58 PM

Unlike the American formula, which basically sees the internet and online journalism as print media, in Bosnia and Herzegovina the British formula of the press council, which is not responsible for the internet, has prevailed.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 05:17 PM

The first intake of 20 students are all working journalists, although most have only recently returned to work.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 05:15 PM

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 04:30 PM

Under federal orders, two Vermont schools destroyed copies of a document about water supplies that had raised security concerns after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 04:03 PM

Instead of speaking with "lonely men" as advertised, the recruits spoke with women hired by the same company or another chat service and were billed for long-distance charges, officials said. While the calls could cost more than $1 US a minute, the women were told they could earn $1.48 a minute. Some women lost as much as $2,000.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 02:54 PM

Chretien is scheduled to hold a rare bilateral meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where he's expected to raise the G-8 agenda as well as the continuing issue of the United States-led war on terrorism.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 02:48 PM

Republican party committees shattered all previous fundraising records for the first year of an election cycle by raising $97.4 million in soft money during 2001, a 141 percent jump from the amount raised in 1997 and 69 percent more than they raised in 1999.
The Democratic national party committees also broke previous party records by raising $62.7 million in soft money in 2001, surpassing their record of $49.4 million raised during the first year of 1999-2000 election cycle.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 02:28 PM

The states said they need to see the source code of its monopoly Windows operating system so they can verify the company's claim that it is not technically feasible for the company to offer a stripped-down version of Windows.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 02:21 PM

"Whether it is Vancouver, or Calgary where I am, or Edmonton, or Ottawa or Toronto, the pattern appears to be the same: we just cannot maintain natural high quality fisheries within several hours drive of urban areas because of the large number of anglers that originate there"

Posted by at February 13, 2002 01:43 PM

The company says each 3.5-metre-long robot costs about °Ã52,500 to produce. It says they're 10 times more efficient than humans at detecting and disposing of land mines.

But humans are so much cheaper!

Posted by at February 13, 2002 10:48 AM

"Some of the vampires who damaged the Coffee Board are waiting on the side-lines ready to return when grassroots elections are called"

Posted by at February 13, 2002 10:47 AM

A Middle Eastern mystery has arisen amid the usual transgender-seeking-transgender ads in the Village Voice, New York's alternative weekly newspaper. Out of the 88 women-seeking-men personals in this week's edition of the paper, 16 of them are purportedly from Palestinian babes seeking Jewish Israeli men. Moreover, a number of these women say they're looking to settle down--in Israel. One personal writer says she'd love to "return to ancestral home for Palestinian-Jewish Valentine's Day in the Galilee"; another says, "YOU claimed our FALAFEL, olives, oranges, music, houses as yours; I need you to get me home." The ads have alarmed some in the Jewish community, who wonder whether it's part of a conspiracy by Palestinians to acquire citizenship by marrying--and then dumping--unsuspecting Israeli singles. The Village Voice's ad department is currently investigating the identities of the Palestinian ad holders, according to the New York Post, which reported the wave of strange personals yesterday. There were similar ads posted in the Village Voice in July of last year, according to the Post.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 10:45 AM

Posted by at February 13, 2002 10:13 AM

Judge Kollar-Kotelly heard that total donations to political donations from Microsoft and its employees to political parties, candidates and PACs in the 2000 election cycle amounted to more than $6.1 million. During this period, Microsoft and its executives accounted for $2.3 million in soft money contributions, compared to $1.55 million by Enron and its executives for the same period.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 10:04 AM

The Throne Speech contained deeper cuts than both Ontario and Alberta made in recent years, Evert Lindquist, director of the University of Victoria's School of Public Administration, said in an interview. The B.C. government is also pushing ahead with change at a faster pace than Ontario and Alberta did and with less effort to consult the public, he said.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 09:58 AM

°ƒWhat we have is a stalemate and a caricature of government,°± opposition FDD (Forum for Democracy and Development) party official Sketchley Sacika was quoted as saying by The Post on Jan. 18. Mwanawasa isn°Øt even sure of firm support within his own party, The Post commented on Jan. 21. °ƒMwanawasa allowed himself to be imposed on the MMD by Chiluba who hand-picked him for a specific mission, that of protecting him and his henchmen,°± the newspaper said. °ƒNow that Mwanawasa has named a cabinet that is relatively light on Chiluba loyalists,°± The Post went on, °ƒChiluba°Øs camp is now [going] all out to undermine Mwanawasa.°±

Posted by at February 13, 2002 09:53 AM

Senior defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was heavy fighting in the region between the towns of Voinjama and Kolahun, near Liberia's northern border with Guinea. Clashes also continued in Gbarma town, farther west, they said.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 09:51 AM

"Relative to the U.S., the world's benchmark economy, real incomes per capita in Canada have been steadily falling over much of the last two decades."

And they wonder why Canada's young people are uninterested in politics.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 09:42 AM

Marci, a talented university student interested in making a fast buck, "buys" Juli, a 12-year-old Sinti - or gypsy - girl, from her parents for three crates of onions. He is enchanted by her other-worldliness, but even more so by her telekinetic skills, which he exploits to enable him to break bank codes and consequently to build up a small fortune for him.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 07:50 AM

The ministry said it did not want to clamp down on trade, but merely to ensure that the tuk-tuk name is used only on the authentic Thai product.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 07:49 AM

I PRAY thee leaue, loue me no more,
      Call home the Heart you gaue me,
I but in vaine that Saint adore,
      That can, but will not saue me:
These poore halfe Kisses kill me quite;
Was euer man thus serued?
Amidst an Ocean of Delight,
      For Pleasure to be sterued?

Shew me no more those Snowie Brests,
      With Azure Riuerets branched,
Where, whilst mine Eye with Plentie feasts,
      Yet is my Thirst not stanched.
O TANTALUS, thy Paines n'er tell,
      By me thou art preuented;
'Tis nothing to be plagu'd in Hell,
      But thus in Heauen tormented.

Clip me no more in those deare Armes,
      Nor thy Life's Comfort call me;
O, these are but too pow'rfull Charmes,
      And doe but more inthrall me.
But see, how patient I am growne,
      In all this coyle about thee;
Come nice thing, let my Heart alone,
      I cannot liue without thee.

Posted by at February 13, 2002 07:43 AM

"A physical barrier between Israel and the West Bank is more critical than ever to block suicide bombers and other attackers from entering Israel," Mr Dichter said.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:48 PM

Mr. Hussein, a Somali Canadian, is accused of running a money transfer business in Dorchester, Mass., without a state licence, and he was indicted for this in early November, 2001. Conducting such a business in Canada is not a crime and does not require a licence.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 07:11 PM

"It's clear that the court ruled on the fact that using a [dildo] of that size during a sexual assault represents sexual assault with a weapon."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 07:10 PM

But he lingered on the subject long enough to make it clear that his battle with Martin, the finance minister and front-runner to succeed Prime Minister Jean Chretien, is far from over.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 07:08 PM

They attempted to revive the York University exchange student and she was rushed to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, but she died there early yesterday morning.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 07:03 PM

"Valentine's Day is a cultural corruption imported from Western countries. Today we are very firm as far as Valentine's Day is concerned."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:58 PM

Rear Adm. Craig Quigley said the soldier's words to Struck were: "For your own safety, we cannot let you go forward. You could be shot in a firefight."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:54 PM

In retrospect, it's unclear whether the Bush dynasty built Enron or vice versa. In 1985, when Enron was formed, the Bushes were an important political family. George Bush, as vice president, headed the Reagan administration's task force on energy policy. But in terms of Texas oil money and stature, the Bushes were third echelon. When George W. ran for governor of Texas in 1994, Ann Richards, the Democratic incumbent, joked that of the oil companies he had started or been involved with, none had made a profit. Enron's rise, with the Bush family's help, in the 1990s rearranged the energy power structure in Texas and the nation, and put the Bush entourage in clover. The question now is whether what went up together will come down together.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:16 PM

As you can see the sensor's ability to capture detailed resolution, both in the grayscale and colour resolution goes way beyond what we could expect from even the best Bayer pattern sensors. Images from the new Foveon X3 sensor are more reminicent of super high quality slide scans, but go even beyond that with no trace of grain. Very impressive. This could be the first sensor to truly surpass film.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 05:52 PM

The more important lesson is that the West failed to act early and strongly enough against al-Qaeda and the regime that harboured it. And because there is always a choice in where you concentrate international efforts, it is best that the United States, as the only global military superpower, deploy its energies militarily rather than on social work.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 05:07 PM

Experts say that today's trial underscores a significant broadening of international criminal justice: that even heads of state can be tried for war crimes, including those that took place inside their own borders. This trend has not pleased everyone: the United States has balked at supporting a permanent international criminal court, for fear its own officials may someday be tried there.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 04:59 PM

The revised act, which has the backing of the environmental groups, has improved habitat protection within federal jurisdictions, including improved protection of aquatic species and migrating birds, Ms. Smallwood said.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 04:51 PM

"We're not even looking at any suspects [yet]," Detective Scott Driemel, spokesman for the joint task force of the Vancouver Police and the RCMP, told globeandmail.com on Monday. Det. Driemel said the case is still a "forensic issue."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 04:49 PM

Never mind that she might hate her boss, or loathe the smarmy colleague sitting next to her, who might misconstrue a present from her as actually having an amorous meaning, in spite of the emphasis on the obligation part of the gift. All of her male co-workers will receive a little chocolate gift from her on the day, and a woman in a large-sized office could give up to 30 presents.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 04:30 PM

When BytesCanada director Rebecca Warren offered to send him links to online kiddie porn, he threatened to arrest her. Questioned about the conversation, Matthews was adamant: "If you have child porn images and we find them on your computer, I don't care who you are, we are going to arrest you."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 04:12 PM

The judging was roundly criticized after a 5-4 split gave Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze the gold medal and placed Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier behind.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 02:11 PM

The Xinhua News Agency reports that most objects are blue glazed porcelain and blue and white pottery such as bowls, pots and vases.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 02:08 PM

Posted by at February 12, 2002 02:05 PM

The ownership changes in Boston and Florida left the Expos with no owner, leading the commissioner's office to take the unprecedented step of operating a major league team for an entire season.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 01:56 PM

Since Mr. Martin intervened at the last session of the weekly Prime Ministers Questions, known as PMQs in the clubby world of Westminster, a bitter row has erupted that goes to the heart of Britain's age-old class system.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 01:53 PM

...today we°Øll be showing you the Intel that doesn°Øt care about anything outside of making fast, reliable and powerful circuits.

POWERFUL... zoom zoom

Posted by at February 12, 2002 01:53 PM

3. My trickiest interview was when I went through an entire interview and thought it went very well. At the end the woman said, "you don't recognise me, do you?". I had to confess that I didn't, at which point she proceeded to explain that she was the one who was sleeping with my boyfriend when I came home unexpectedly and found them together in OUR bed. I couldn't really see her through my tears, but had taken her bag and clothes from the sitting room and ran outside with them, scattering all her bits and pieces down the street...

Posted by at February 12, 2002 01:41 PM

The ACEEE has been rating "green" vehicles for five years. This is the first year that conventional vehicles have dominated the top 10. In the past, the list favoured gasoline-electric hybrids, electric vehicles and ones using alternative fuels.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 01:39 PM

"Robbed!" bellowed the front page headlines of the Ottawa Sun and Winnipeg Free Press newspapers, with the latter complaining that "the decision was not only unpopular -- it was downright nefarious."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 12:50 PM

By midday Tuesday there had been 31,641 responses, with 94 per cent saying the Canadians should have won the gold medal and six per cent supporting the Russians.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 11:44 AM

Members of the Red Cross visit the camp daily, escorted by military police, who do not interact directly with the detainees. An inspector general working for the military police meets with the Red Cross twice daily to determine and address detainee needs.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 10:26 AM

We were just finishing a lunch hosted by a U.S. diplomat for Arab editors in London when one of the editors turned to me and said: "I hope you will not be insulted, but I have to ask you this question because it's around: Are Jews in the media behind the campaign to smear Saudi Arabia and Islam?"

Posted by at February 12, 2002 10:23 AM

Many BuzzFlash readers were surprised that we didn't list MORE of the actions taken by the White House on behalf of Enron once the Bush administration was placed into office by the Supreme Court. Why didn't we note that the Bush administration was trying to force the Taliban to give the U.S. oil pipeline rights through Afghanistan prior to September 11th (with Enron a likely beneficiary)? Why didn't we list the 17 ways the Cheney Energy report was similar to Enron's wish list? Why didn't we take note of the huge tax break and rebate earmarked for Enron in Bush's "stimulus" bill? Why didn't we didn't we list all the Bush appointees from Enron? And so forth.
The answer to these questions is simple: BuzzFlash didn't have enough space to list all the high and low profile efforts the Bush/Cheney team took to try and save Enron from collapsing.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 10:21 AM

°ƒI thought so too, but I was trying to think of somebody with a title,°± Nixon replied. At the time of the call, April 27, 1971, Bush was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 09:12 AM

"Where do terrorists get their money?" asked one ad. "If you buy drugs, some of it might come from you."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 09:06 AM

This zero tolerance has influenced human rights organisations in Egypt, which defend the rights of women, minority Coptic Christians and prisoners, but say Egyptians will not stand for gay rights.
"What could we do? Nothing. If we were to uphold this issue, this would be the end of what remains of the concept of human rights in Egypt," said Hisham Kassem, director of the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:59 AM

Nortel, Canada's largest technology company, announced late yesterday that its chief financial officer, Terry Hungle, stepped down after the company discovered that he had traded Nortel shares just ahead of corporate announcements that caused large swings in the company's stock price.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:56 AM

"In Southeast Asia, the rich speak English and the poor speak French. It's really that simple."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:54 AM

High-level Ukrainian officials, if not directly dealing arms, are reportedly either smoothing the path for sales or at least looking the other way.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:53 AM

Prosecutors expect the trial in the tribunal's anonymous grey courthouse to last at least two years. Many observers expect Milosevic, who refuses to even recognise the court's right to judge him, to try to make it last for ever.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:52 AM

Call it Jean Chretien's worst case scenario: open warfare among those who would succeed him.
Bourque has learned that this weekend's skirmishes between forces loyal to Liberal leadership frontrunners Paul Martin and Allan Rock signal nothing less than the overt manifestation of a deep imminent desire among liberal loyalists for change at the top that guarantees massive blood-letting within party ranks as ordinary Liberals scramble to take sides.
Yes, it can be argued, the incumbent Prime Minister presides over his party in a Milosevician fashion, thanks to a series of majority successes at the polls and the unquestionable backing of devious backroom lapdogs such as ghoulish henchman Eddie Goldenberg, one of the most unloved persons in the party.
But times they are a changing thanks to an overt power lust among ambitious type "A" Liberals anxious to gain control over the levers of power.
While it is noted that an angry Finance Minister Paul Martin said today in Quebec City that his skirmish with Industry Minister Allan Rock "is the very worst kind of politics", the truth is that the worst is yet to come. And when it does, many of today's top political names will be swept away by the tide of change.
Through the course of a tumultuous day, Bourque spoke with a number of key Liberal operatives, including key supporters aligned with Rock, Martin, and the status quo (Chretien). All agreed that the immediate future presents a nightmare scenario for all Liberals because a massive shift in political loyalties has been unleashed.
"There is no going back", as one top Martin aide put it.
Several top Liberals concluded that Chretien's position at the head of the party is at risk. Indeed, one top Chretien lieutenant who earned his stripes with a critical role in the coup d'etat against John Turner admitted that his pony may well suffer the same fate. This is a previously incomprehensible position for Canada's top political leader.
A key Allan Rock booster remained unequivocal. "Pierre, a whole new generation of Canadians want a leader who is of our era. The '60's are over and Chretien needs to follow Herb Gray out the door."
Worse were the comments offered up by a top Ottawa lobbyist known by many to be a Paul Martin stalwart. Under promise of anomymity, this great bear of a man insisted that his team "is at the end of our rope. All systems are "go". Come hell or high water, the leadership race is now underway, and to the victor goes the spoils."
Ominously, he added that "as a Liberal, you are either with us or against us".
Developing.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:51 AM

"It's destructive and it's personal. For my part, I am fed up with it. I am deeply troubled when the good faith of caucus and party officials is called into question."

Posted by at February 12, 2002 08:49 AM

"They haven't been mating, so we are hoping we can encourage them with a bit of romantic music as it's coming up to Valentine's Day," marine biologist Karen Hewlett told Reuters.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 07:30 AM

Posted by at February 12, 2002 07:28 AM

Foveon's sensor, rather than break images into separate colors and distribute them among separate pixels, captures color by measuring how deeply photons of light penetrate the surface of the imaging material. Not only is there higher resolution from a given number of pixels, but there is less loss of light and less need for the correcting calculations that can distort the image.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:31 AM

This country operates on influence, connections and hidden hands

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:15 AM

Thousands in red and blue silk jackets crowded temples at dawn to grab an incense stick from the first batch lit in the new year. Folk beliefs say planting these sticks in the large bronze incense burners in Buddhist temples will bring good luck the whole year.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:13 AM

All the depressed participants reported clinically relevant depressive symptoms at the beginning of the study and 18 months later, said McGuire, but fewer than half of these participants met formal diagnostic criteria for depression.
"In this study, it seems that it is the length of time of the depression, not the severity, that is affecting a person's immunity," McGuire declared.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:07 AM

Kinsley said in the memo that his decision was "not directly" related to the fact that he has Parkinson's disease, but he did say his new role would allow him to take more time to travel in case that becomes difficult later.

Posted by at February 12, 2002 06:01 AM

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:56 PM

"These are my people," says Bush, who is seen wading into the boozy throng's cocktail hour as the press corps whips up margaritas in the back rows of the 757. "It takes an animal to know an animal," Bush proclaims, to the whir of a blender. "And I'm not admitting I'm an animal, with 60 days to go in the campaign."

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:43 PM

"There is no invitation to the EU as an organisation. I have written to them that Zimbabwe has formally invited nine members of the EU in their individual national capacities, and we have asked that they join the ACP-led delegation," Mr Mudenge said.
"Anybody else who comes... he or she comes as a tourist, and we have not yet banned tourists from Zimbabwe," he added.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:30 PM

More than 15 journalists have been detained during the latest conflict in Chechnya. The most famous case was Andrei Babitsky, a Russian journalist working for U.S.-funded Radio Liberty, who was detained at a checkpoint near Grozny in January of last year. He criticized Moscow's Chechen campaign and also was investigating the situation in refugees' camps.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:29 PM

Of Russia's 180,000 officially registered infections, 100,000 occurred just last year. Experts guess the actual number of Russian cases is as high as one million, more than one percent of adults.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:26 PM

The Milosevic case has demonstrated the extent to which international justice is mixed up with politics. In December 1995, Milosevic rubbed shoulders with President Bill Clinton and President Jacques Chirac as he signed the Dayton peace accord that ended the war in Bosnia.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:25 PM

The F-16s returned to Gaza by daylight after night bombing raids that hit, among other buildings, the United Nations headquarters.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:20 PM

Mdududzi Mathuthu, The Daily News' chief reporter in Bulawayo, said the bombs smashed a plate glass window at the entrance to the paper's offices, burning a carpet in the lobby. No one was inside and there was no damage to the upstairs offices.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:17 PM

A gold coin was offered as the prize for the best of the effigies that were paraded and then burnt at the rally, and there were some innovative slogans in English such as "Bush is Dracula".

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:07 PM

Three other charges against Cowpland himself were either withdrawn by the Ontario Securities Commission or previously quashed by Justice J.P. Wright of the Ontario Court of Justice in pre-trial proceedings.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 05:04 PM

In Gelertner's "documentary" approach to organizing information, electronic documents are generally taken from the company's network drives. But Scopeware can also be tuned to automatically store on the network a copy of any e-mail or Word document created on an employee's local hard drive.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 04:35 PM

As a member of the CCC put it, "you don't have to be bright to see that the cops are trying to save their bacon, because very soon the human rights people are going to breathe down their necks."

Posted by at February 11, 2002 04:31 PM

The act of: death-defying affection
insures the constancy of the stars
and their place at the beginning of
   everything.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 03:26 PM

It is a growing tradition that public libraries also set aside some shelves for the books written by the neighbors. In the same way, we here at AHA! POETRY have a place for that book you've written but never got published.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 03:09 PM

Within a few months, artists, writers and others will soon be able to go online, select the options that suit them best and receive a custom-made license they can append to their works without having to pay a dime to a lawyer, let alone the thousands of dollars it typically costs to purchase similar legal services.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 02:34 PM

The German Web site of U.S.-based 24-hour news network CNN was taken offline for two days because its operator failed to pay a 58 euro ($51.06) fee, the German Web site registration office Denic said Monday. 'We treat all our customers the same. We make no distinction between CNN and Joe Blow,' Denic spokesman Klaus Herzig said.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 02:16 PM

"We asked the kids what would make them want to eat more french fries," he said.

For the kid that isn't fat enough already.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 02:12 PM

"Apparently the desert in Spain that they were filming on was also where NATO does bomb runs, and even though the military were meant to give warning when they were about to blow the DNA out of the landscape, it didn't quite work out that way. So on the first day they had to contend with explosions and swooping aircraft, and this on a set with horses on it. On Day 2 they went back to the same set in the desert, only this time a huge, and I mean HUGE tempest blew in from nowhere, and the heavens opened. The whole set was washed away in a flash flood. Day 3 was the clear up and salvage day, just cleaning the cameras and trying to sort the costumes out after the apocalypse. Meanwhile, all this time Jean Rochefort had been suffering not from a hernia or back problems, but a prostate infection which left him virtually unable to move. Apparently it took two helpers to get him off his horse all the time, because he was in such agony. Day 4, they shot in the desert again, but because of the storm the ground was a completely different colour. Day 5, and Jean Rochefort was flown to a Paris hospital, and that was as far as they ever got with filming. The insurance company gave them a month to recast the pic, but it wasn't going to happen so the plug was pulled and the equipment sold off.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 02:01 PM

The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $762 a month, according to the city. A single parent with one child is entitled to a maximum of $511 for shelter each month.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 01:52 PM

"Police officers are in some pretty difficult situations, (and) to have their professional business spill over into their personal lives, it's terrible," said state Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland, the primary sponsor. "You don't have a First Amendment right to harass and intimidate."
Finkbeiner said the legislation was prompted by a Web site created last year by Bill Sheehan and Aaron Rosenstein, two local network engineers. The site posted rosters of 16 local law-enforcement agencies, along with salaries, addresses, phone numbers and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.

Kirkland is also suing Politech.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 12:59 PM

Thousands lined the streets as the 400 year-old tabot - a representation of the Ark of the Covenant - was taken to Addis Ababa's Trinity Church where the relic will be stored. It is one of the few items returned by the British after the Battle of Maqdala in 1868 - treasure which is now said to be worth US $4.2 billion. In 1868 British troops stormed and pillaged the-then capital of Abyssinia during a mission to secure the release of two British envoys being held captive by Emperor Tewodros. The emperor shot himself rather than face defeat.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 11:04 AM

The Darwin Day Program encourages interested outlets and individuals throughout the world to participate in the annual celebration of Darwin Day by coordinating events and activities in their area on or around February 12.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:58 AM

The rhetorical response to the °ƒaxis of evil°± speech was predictable enough: a mix of righteousness, dismay and reflexive abuse. One observation, however, stood out. A spokesman for the government, which under the president, Muhammad Khatami, wants reform, presented Mr Bush°Øs remarks as evidence that, despite the government°Øs clear stance, an °ƒinterfering minority is taking foreign-policy decisions°±. Rather than repudiate Mr Bush°Øs allegations that Iran is engaged in pursuing weapons of mass destruction, exporting terror, and repressing its citizens, the spokesman simply demanded proof for all this.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:43 AM

Sulaymaniyah-based satellite TV KurdSat reported that initial evidence indicate that the six young men, who were wearing traditional Kurdish costume, were executed by firing squads in 1983.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:41 AM

Muttawakil, the highest Taliban official known to be in custody, surrendered Friday to Afghan authorities in Kandahar and is being questioned at the southern city's U.S.-commandeered airfield, U.S. military officials said.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:32 AM

"There's lots of serial killers out there. We don't necessarily have just one in Green River."

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:22 AM

Despite that threat, efforts to reduce warlords' influence in Afghanistan received a boost when local militias agreed to create a "security belt" to keep unauthorized weapons out of a key northern city. Travellers to Mazar-e Sharif will have to check their weapons upon entering the city limits and only will get them back upon leaving.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:19 AM

...the 29-year-old San Francisco resident got laid off from a dot-com in December 2000 and spent a fruitless year prowling for a similar job. Katz, who has a bachelor's degree in business administration from San Diego State University, gave up in October and landed a job shelving moisturizer and shower gels for Bath & Body Works in San Francisco.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:18 AM

As Canadian soldiers begin to take on observational tasks within the base's perimeter, the flag will be raised in a ceremony at first light officially noting Canada's involvement in the U.S.-led coalition to fight terrorism in Afghanistan.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:07 AM

But it is friendship on U.S. terms, as the snafu over the treatment of prisoners taken by Canadian forces in Afghanistan has illustrated. Most of the politicians the Kenny group met did not understand why the prisoners and their relationship to the Geneva accord was a political problem in Canada.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:07 AM

The first female monk - a divorced mother of two now known as Dhammarakhita - said she was prepared for resistance, but she knew she was doing the right thing.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:04 AM

"If a ReplayTV customer can simply type 'The X-Files' or 'James Bond' and have every episode of 'The X-Files' and every James Bond film recorded in perfect digital form and organized, compiled and stored on the hard drive of his or her ReplayTV 4000 device, it will cause substantial harm to the market for prerecorded DVD, videocassette and other copies of those episodes and films," the lawsuit states.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 10:04 AM

The police officers were riding in two vehicles through Grozny when rebels set off an explosion that stopped the convoy and then opened fire.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:50 AM

Pasko's lawyers submitted a request for their client to be let out of jail, but the Supreme Court ruled that it could not allow him to be at liberty while his appeal is being heard, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:44 AM

Up to 2,000 American transatlantic flyers who travel frequently with Virgin and British Airways will be invited to use the system at Heathrow. These travellers must have their irises scanned and their identity verified by the UK immigration service before they can use the service. The iris data will be stored in a central database, but separate from all other passenger information held by immigration and the airlines, the companies said.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:42 AM

Its environment services group saw sales rise 11 percent to 29.09 billion euros last year, while its media and communications unit posted sales of 28.12 billion euros, up 9 percent from 2000.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:40 AM

"They were beating us on the head and back and ribs," said Allah Noor, 40, a farmer and policeman for the new government who said he suffered two fractured ribs at the military base where the men were imprisoned. "They were punching us with fists, kicking me with their feet. They said, 'You are terrorist! You are al Qaeda! You are Taliban!' "

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:38 AM

"These guys (Martin backers) deserve two gold medals: one for stupidity and one for dishonesty," said Warren Kinsella, a Chrtien loyalist who would be aligned with the Rock camp when the leadership race officially begins.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:37 AM

Or as Reel.com's Hollywood Confidential columnist Jeffrey Wells puts it: "Meg Ryan looks a little bit too old for Hugh Jackman. Your average 32-year-old guy, particularly one that looks like Jackman, is going to think twice about hooking up with a 40-year-old woman. He's going to want some young hottie."
Sexist? You bet. But sexism when it comes to age has forever been the reality for women in Hollywood, an industry that thinks nothing of pairing Clint Eastwood or Jack Nicholson with the female flavor of the day but bristles at the idea of an older woman being anything other than a wife, mother or nun.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 09:33 AM

St Valentine's Feast Day falls on 14 February, on which day lovers have customarily exchanged cards and other tokens of affection. It is not clear why Valentine should have been chosen as the patron saint of lovers, but it has been suggested that there may be a connection with the pagan Roman Festival of Lupercalia. During this Festival, which took place in the middle of February, young men and girls chose one another as partners.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 08:04 AM

Bruni writes that Bush often lifted his pinkie to the corner of his mouth to mimic the Dr. Evil character in the Powers flicks.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 07:54 AM

"The public deserves exactly what it gets," Ponzi replied. "No more, no less."

Posted by at February 11, 2002 07:38 AM

...the non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function all have real part equal to H.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 07:36 AM

"It's almost like a magic bullet because the body would build new insulin-producing cells"

Posted by at February 11, 2002 07:31 AM

By the time the petition was stopped on the evening of Feb. 8, 375,280 people had responded to the question: Do you support the creation of a new public holiday to honour dead Canadian prime ministers?
A sound majority ? 317,551 or 85 per cent ? said yes.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 07:24 AM

Tuesday, February 12, 2002 begins the year of the Black Horse -- Moon Farmer Shad Muegge is a Fire Horse.

If you are born in the Year of the Horse [like Moon Farmer Shad Muegge] then you are amazingly hard working and very independent. Although you are intelligent and friendly, you can sometimes be a bit selfish. Careerwise you would make a good scientist or poet.

Conversely, I am a Wood Tiger:

Tigers are said to be bold and adventurous, and are bestowed with initiative and charm. However, they have a tendency to be risk takers, making them act before they think about the consequences. They tend to make good bosses, explorers or racing drivers.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 07:14 AM

"A direct lift leaves a partial vacuum under the pancake which tends to keep it in the pan. The movement in the arc supplies the torque to flip the pancake."

Posted by at February 11, 2002 06:49 AM

Posted by at February 11, 2002 06:46 AM

NGC 4622 puzzles astronomers because the inner part of the galaxy suggests a clockwise rotation. But according to the directions of the galaxy's outer spiral arms the rotation should be counter-clockwise.

Posted by at February 11, 2002 06:43 AM

"We've got about 300 incidents in our database, and I'd say about a third involve some civilian casualties that would be worth taking a second look at," said Mr. Arkin, the Human Rights Watch adviser, who is also an adjunct professor at the U.S. Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

Posted by at February 10, 2002 01:00 PM

"Hard data point to these conclusions: terminally ill patients are trustworthy," said Barbara Coombs Lee, the president of Compassion in Dying Federation, a Portland-based group that sponsored the ballot measure establishing the law. "With legal means for humane hastened death, they do not act prematurely or irrationally."

Posted by at February 10, 2002 12:04 PM

"We will continue to command our own troops; we'll continue to do what is best for Canada," Eggleton said. "But co-operating with the United States on defence of our continent is something that is in our best interests."
Critics worry that Canada is rapidly spiraling into the U.S. orbit on military policy.

Posted by at February 10, 2002 11:53 AM

"Our rape crisis centre has spoken to people who have identified the farm and identified to farm to police," said Suzanne Jay, who works with the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. "The suspicion that there was some connection between the missing women and the farm and the men who ran the farm."
Jay says police ignored the complaints.

Posted by at February 10, 2002 11:52 AM

The pace of progress in the field has startled experts. Artificial wombs could end many women's childbirth problems - but they also raise major ethical headaches which will be debated at a major international conference titled 'The End of Natural Motherhood?' in Oklahoma next week.

Posted by at February 10, 2002 10:11 AM

This is a story about a company. A company that was profitable from Day 1. A company that built products that were useful to many other companies. A company that had ethics, that treated the breadwinners (programmers) with respect, a company that could afford to help people and give away software and training, while still having enough left over to grow and save a few $million in the bank.
That is, until the venture capitalists arrived on the scene. Lying to customers and employees became commonplace. Greed replaced philanthropy as each of the company's unique programs was dropped. But, this is a company, and the goal is to make money -- any positive impact on the world is secondary, right? The real question is: how much money did they make?

Posted by at February 10, 2002 10:02 AM

"They're trying to say that you can just call up this doctor in Molalla and get your medical card so that you can smoke pot and get stoned and watch `Sesame Street' all day," he said. "That's just not true."

Posted by at February 10, 2002 09:06 AM

"The most serious long-term threat to stability and freedom in Uzbekistan comes from Mr. Karimov himself. In a country where more than 80 percent of the populace is of Islamic heritage, his government is pursuing the most aggressively anti-Islamic policies anywhere in the former Soviet Union." They add that a wave of religious fanaticism could topple President Karimov, which would then "surge right through the artificial state boundaries inherited from the Soviet era."

Posted by at February 09, 2002 09:31 PM

Posted by at February 09, 2002 09:31 PM

The man, who was not identified, was still being questioned, said an aide to Interior Minister Younous Qanooni. The aide, Faraidoon, who uses only one name, had no detail on the man's precise role in the killings.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 09:26 PM

He does that and tells us that someone in the house didn't notice the Palm VII in the oven and cooked a Pizza WITH THE PALM STILL IN THERE!

Posted by at February 09, 2002 06:39 PM

Entitled "Offspring of the Tiger," the exhibition also includes 100 pieces of bronze cooking vessels, wine containers and other forms of bronze ware and funeral objects excavated from a Shang Dynasty tomb in today's Xin'gan County in East China's Jiangxi Province.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 06:29 PM

Renter Paul saw plenty of deals when he was apartment hunting in January. Out of curiosity, he called about one pricey Belltown penthouse.

Paul is on the brink of being famous. He's a friend of mine. I just wanted everyone to know I knew him way back when.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 01:39 PM

Philips has taken a courageous stand against dysfunctional CDs and will likely face strong opposition from the powerful companies who are marketing these disks. The entertainment industry has already shown its strong support of similar proposals, such as the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) and the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA), which would make it "unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies...."

Posted by at February 09, 2002 11:44 AM

``It is very important that the leadership of the Taliban is in safe hands and is not allowed to undermine the stability of the interim government of Afghanistan,'' Abdullah, who uses one name, told The Associated Press in Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 11:42 AM

"We're glad to see that people are able to have a lawful protest, make their point and show their support to a cause they believe in, and then everybody goes home and nobody gets hurt."

That's a lot more likely when the damn thing isn't held downtown, as was the Ottawa G20 meeting.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 10:41 AM

The number of suicides related to gambling has skyrocketed in Hull because of the casino, he said.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 10:40 AM

According to court records and interviews first published in a Sun-Times expose in December 2000, Kelly has repeatedly used his fame, wealth and influence as a pop superstar to meet teenage girls and have sex with them.

Inconceivable.

Posted by at February 09, 2002 07:42 AM

``Until it surfaced in the press, Lucasfilm was unaware of any possible use of our protected trademarks by Enron, and any actual use by Enron of such trademarks was without our permission,'' Lucasfilm spokeswoman Jeanne Cole said.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 10:37 PM

THE PURPOSE of this site is to be an information forum and valuable networking resource for ex-Enron employees, as well as ex-employees of companies impacted by the Enron's domino effect . Whether you are in need of a new job position, legal counsel, health insurance, or simply want to voice your thoughts with other fellow former co-workers in your same situation, please use this site as a resource to recover.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 08:38 PM

From what I've seen of the carving it appears that the image was carved this way deliberately. It's pretty hard to deny that the large vagina immediately grabs your attention.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 07:18 PM

NAQOYQATSI takes us on an epical journey into a land that is nowhere, yet everywhere; the land where the image itself is our location, where the real gives way to the virtual. As the gods of old become dethroned, a new pantheon of light appears in the integrated circuit of the computer. Its truth, becomes the truth.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 06:16 PM

"Stem cells from which no complete organism can develop enjoy no legal protection. But the freedom to conduct science and research does."

Posted by at February 08, 2002 05:30 PM

Journalists have been barred from parts of the country where there is fighting, and Goodridge's claims could not immediately be verified. Humanitarian organizations have said that at least some of the recent clashes may have been government forces fighting among themselves.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 03:39 PM

In his political testament, penned shortly before his murder, Lumumba wrote:
"One day, history will have its say, but it will not be the history they teach at the UN, in Washington, Paris or Brussels but the history they teach in countries freed from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history and it will be one of glory and dignity."

Posted by at February 08, 2002 03:37 PM

Just as people were hurt in 1919 when police were ordered to clear the streets of protesters, people are being physically assaulted in this day and age, with tear gas, pepper-spray, rubber bullets, etc. [. . . ].

Why does the Canadian left insist on treating the APEC pepper spray as if it involved serious police brutality? I lived in Eugene, Oregon and Santa Barbara, California, for a few years during the 90s, and in Eugene, the police would occasionally tear gas what they deemed overly energetic fraternity parties. Tear gas is a hell of a lot more humane than the Chinese tanks or the Taliban braided metal whips -- it's even more humane than the LAPD. By insisting that tear gas, pepper spray or rubber bullets are severe modes of repression, the Canadian left undermines its own credibility, which ensures it will not be perceived as a coherent alternative to the mushy Liberal centre -- which means our next government will be right wing thugs who are just as naive, but who happen to know something about marketing.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 03:31 PM

Tursunbek Akunov, chairman of the Public Committee to Protect Beknazarov, told RFE/RL that about 30 people are on a hunger strike in Bishkek and another 270 people are striking elsewhere in the country. Some 50 protesters ended their protest on 5 February.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 03:18 PM

Namibia, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in sub-Saharan Africa with 355 prisoners to 1000 civilians, is to start a pilot community service programme later this year in a move to reduce the country's prison population.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 03:16 PM

Britain's biggest telephone company begins its bid on Monday to charge royalties for one of main building blocks of the Internet, arguing that it invented the hyperlink technology at the heart of the World Wide Web.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 03:13 PM

The games rely on a cell phone technology that allows mobile operators to pinpoint users' positions within "cells" formed by their phones' locations relative to nearby transmitters. In the United States, that capability is now required for all mobile operators to ensure that rescue workers can locate mobile users who are in trouble.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 01:53 PM

Police in Vancouver say they've found missing identification and personal items of two women at a farm in Port Coquitlam. The farm is the focus of an investigation into the disappearance of dozens of women from the city's downtown east side.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 01:26 PM

One option is for EarthLink to restore her DSL service and provide it at no cost for two years. In addition, the company proposed to review e-mail sent to the address dnsadmin@earthlink.net and forward "all mail not identified as being destined for EarthLink employees" to an address of Dykhno's choice.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 01:00 PM

"An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool."

Posted by at February 08, 2002 12:53 PM

The counterfeiters°Ø section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) demonstrated its skills by producing a German passport bearing the name of Adolf Hitler, it was disclosed yesterday. The document describes the bearer as having °ƒa small moustache°± and identifies him as Jewish.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 12:05 PM

Tacoma police say someone keeps pouring the syrup into book drops where readers put their books when the library is closed.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 12:02 PM

"Perhaps of even more importance is the possibility that bioactive stimuli can be used to activate genes in a preventative treatment to maintain the health of tissues as they age," he said.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 12:00 PM

The researchers reviewed 15 trials done previously by other scientists, involving a total of 2,166 patients and using a variety of over-the-counter cough preparations, including antihistamines, cough suppressants and decongestants.

Posted by at February 08, 2002 10:32 AM

Comments: Filming is announced for april 2002

Posted by at February 08, 2002 10:19 AM

Broadcast media will not carry news bulletins today and there will be no newspapers tomorrow because journalists are holding a 24-hour strike today. The national federation of journalists°Ø unions (POESY) and the Athens union (ESIEA) called the strike demanding pay increases and a number of institutional changes. They also want owners to sign a collective wage agreement and to apply rules of ethics. ESIEA President Aristides Manolakos yesterday called for a five-day week for journalists and °ƒwork conditions that do not exhaust journalists, allow them to work with dignity and do not make them the pawns of expediency.°±

Posted by at February 07, 2002 09:57 PM

This particular toaster, toasty, will give each user a weather forecast for that day. Every slice of toast will have a symbol burnt into it depicting the weather conditions locally to the toaster. The quality of toast will remain the same. The toaster will look and operate as simply as every other. But each and every slice of toast will give to the user a piece of information that they would otherwise have to go and secure consciously through an extra exertion of effort.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 06:10 PM

Near the end of their conversation, Mr Clinton, who was on board Air Force One, told Milosevic: "I think I can count on you." After this polite chat, Milosevic called the then Serbian president, Milan Milutinovic - now, like Milosevic, an indicted war criminal - to boast of his friendly talk.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 04:01 PM

[The lawsuits] allege that young girls were given as brides to older men who donated to the religious community. Children also allegedly were deprived of medical care, scrubbed with steel wool until their skin bled, and prevented from leaving the schools.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 03:31 PM

When asked what he would do if the pay package was rejected, Mr Blunkett said: °ÆI am not going to issue threats which would be deeply inappropriate. I have confidence that those who vote will understand that . . . the package is a substantial investment in them. It is a quid pro quo for reform.'

Posted by at February 07, 2002 03:14 PM

Microsoft, its political action committee, founder Bill Gates and other top corporate officers donated $22,750 to Ashcroft's political committees from 1997-2000. Lobbying firms that represented Microsoft gave another $33,000. In addition, Microsoft donated more than $700,000 to a Republican committee that helped bankroll a $1 million advertising blitz on Ashcroft's behalf.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 03:07 PM

"If you wish to gain British nationality, and literally hundreds of thousands of people are applying ... then we have got to make something of it, and therefore it has got to hold some meaning," Mr. Blunkett told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday. "Having the language will therefore be mandatory."

How is that unreasonable? Quebec certainly discriminates against would-be immigrants that don't know French, for example.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 02:44 PM

"Al-Qaida is an international terrorist group and cannot be considered a state party to the Geneva Convention," said presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 02:23 PM

The culture of corruption is seductive -- especially in Washington, where journalists in recent years have only gotten cozier and cozier with public officials. Remember when NPR's legal correspondent Nina Totenberg had Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg officiate at her wedding? Talk about a conflict of interest.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 02:18 PM

Abdurrashid Dostum, who rules the strategic northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, has been provided cars, trucks, firearms, ammunition and cash for his soldiers, two senior intelligence officials in Afghanistan's interim central government said in separate interviews this week.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 02:06 PM

[. . .] first, you can be sued where your site is hosted or you maintain a mailing address; second, journalists accused of defamation in the United States should be able to rely upon first amendment protections in print, broadcast or Internet media; and, third, to deflate claims of malice, a journalist is advised to conduct thorough fact investigation.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 01:44 PM

It works by going through these programs frame-by-frame, and when two identical frames appear side-by-side, one is removed. Usually, this can be done enough in a 22-minute program (the actual length of most sitcoms without commercials), to add 30 seconds of time.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 01:44 PM

RCMP Const. Cate Galliford told reporters Thursday that a team of 30 investigators is scouring the 28-acre pig farm searching for evidence.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 01:41 PM

More than a thousand messages were completely off topic. Some of those were advertisements known as "spam," and at least one e-mail contained pornography.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 01:37 PM

Father Georges Cottier, the Pope°Øs chief theologian, immediately stepped in to reassure those who were ill that they were not in fact °ƒpaying for their sins°±.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 01:23 PM

Late last month a customer-service worker at Twin Cities Public Television was charged with making terroristic threats in a series of e-mails to a viewer. The arrest occasioned brief stories in both Twin Cities dailies, stories that outlined the facts as stated in the criminal complaint filed by St. Paul police: The accused, Laura Moerke, a 23-year-old resident of Hudson, Wisconsin, allegedly signed her e-mails with the pseudonym Marge Hanson. The victim, Bob Held, had penned some terse messages that apparently set Moerke off. Both papers quoted portions of the e-mails Moerke sent from the return address killbobheld@hotmail.com, including the lines "It would be joyful to read your obituary!!!" and "If I had my way I would have you killed."

Posted by at February 07, 2002 12:59 PM

Posted by at February 07, 2002 12:38 PM

The leader of the Nazis' atomic bomb program, Werner Heisenberg, portrayed himself after World War II as a kind of scientific resistance hero who sabotaged Hitler's efforts to build a nuclear weapon. But in a series of letters and other documents made public Wednesday, Mr. Heisenberg's friend and onetime mentor, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, says the portrayal is not so.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 12:35 PM

Computor developments are being followed with interest and with some understandable apprehension by the companies that now supply the bulk of the business machines in use. If Lyons°Ø example were to be followed widely, a big section of their market would be cut from beneath them. Their answer has been to produce a poor man's computor, a machine that calculates electronically, but has neither the ability to store data nor the power to plan its own operations that are peculiar to a full-sized electronic brain. These less ambitious machines have their place in office routine, especially when the calculations involve sterling. The idiosyncrasies of British currency make calculations, carried out mechanically, slow and difficult, and they hold up the other high-speed machines in a modern office. Electronics eliminate the bottleneck. Both International Business Machines and Powers-Samas have had some success in selling these calculators. Lloyd's underwriters and Coventry City Council will both use the IBM machine; Sainsbury, and several motor manufacturers are using Powers-Samas. In the IBM machine each new set of instructions is fed into the machine on punch cards before the work starts; in the Powers' machine, the instructions are provided in the form of pre-set circuits and the operator switches from one to another. Their cost works out at between °Ã100-°Ã200 a month for rental or °Ã6,000 for outright purchase.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 12:24 PM

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that small, low-quality thumbnail images were covered by the "fair use" provision of the Copyright Act, but reversed a lower court opinion that found the display of larger high-quality images also was protected.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 11:33 AM

After spending a few years studying instant messaging, Dr. Nardi said she became aware of the subtle impact of presence technology on people's lives. It is time, she said, to think about "what we want people to know about what we are doing at a given moment."

Posted by at February 07, 2002 11:14 AM

The Diary of Nancy Crick -- I quote the entire 'about' page as her site is highly overloaded and you may not be able to reach it.

I am dying slowly of bowel cancer.
There is no escaping it.
I want to die at the time and place of my choosing, with my loved ones around me. But the law of Australia does not allow me to do this. The law of this land condemns me to end my life alone, so that my friends and family are not incriminated by my choice to die by my own hand when I choose to do so. This law is wrong, and I am not afraid to say so.
As my time approaches I envy those who had the opportunity, and fortitude, to travel to the Northern Territory, to avail themselves of the only humane and rational law relevant to my circumstances, permitting the terminally ill to seek and obtain assistance from a medical practioner to end their life at the time of their choosing.
Until our government decided to put an end to it.
That leaves me with very little choice.
So, with help from my friends, I have set up this site to record my diary entries, my thoughts and musings, including photos of the things that are important to me, as long as I am able to do so.
This said, welcome to my diary!

Posted by at February 07, 2002 10:52 AM

"I'll pose nude at the age of 60 when I'm no longer a politician and don't have to worry about what my constituents will think," Yu Yueh-hsia, a straight-talking divorcee loved by constituents for her earthy language, told Reuters by telephone.

Posted by at February 07, 2002 08:59 AM

"That the Excise Tax Act be amended is one thing. But that this amendment be made retroactive to some 11 years before the judgment, this is considered by our clients as an abuse of law and power and a flagrant discrimination against the school authorities whose cases are pending."

Posted by at February 06, 2002 09:47 PM

''Burying the victims of the disaster on the banks is part of the sacrifices that must be offered, because in Yoruba culture those who die by water must be buried near water."

Posted by at February 06, 2002 09:44 PM

Mr Binladin had planned to put the family name on casual clothes in the Middle East and Europe and was looking at the possibility of selling the range in the US.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 07:11 PM

The Women's Mirror, which aims to give a female perspective on news and social affairs, has launched from Kabul this week, according to the BBC.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 07:10 PM

1-Wire Weather Instument Kit V3.0, contains all needed elements to convert your PC computer in to a profesional Weather Station.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 06:53 PM

The hospital's Professor George Patton says addiction was also identified as a genuine problem among heavy smokers.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 06:40 PM

There is no evidence that the sales were directly related to knowledge of the problems facing the Raptors. But any stock sales by executives based on information not available to the public could be construed as trading on inside information, a federal crime, according to a Washington securities lawyer who declined to speak for attribution.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 05:18 PM

"We will have the ability to adjust to any situation, but our presence will be nowhere near what it was for the G20," RCMP Cpl. Louise Lafrance said yesterday.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 04:45 PM

The man attacked the border policeman who was questioning him, Zariyahu said, but was overpowered by others who discovered he was wearing a explosives belt. He was then arrested, and witnesses said the detainee was beaten by policemen.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 02:23 PM

The scientists -- Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti and Vittorio Loreto of Rome's La Sapienza University -- used this technique to discern the language of mystery texts as small as 20 characters. Furthermore, using a database of 90 texts from 11 different authors, they found their method could even pick out individual authors with a success rate of 93 percent.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 01:44 PM

Almost all foreign exchange trading at Allfirst has been halted and five executives, including the unit's treasurer, suspended.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 01:31 PM

"Two years after JTF-2 left Haiti, its proteges in the Haitian SWAT unit were being used not for the police work the unit originally trained them for, but to intimidate and threaten the government's political opponents and their families," Mr. Pugliese writes.

Posted by at February 06, 2002 01:07 PM

Now is the time to show a little Geek Love and let everyone else in on your obsession. Take a picture of yourself expressing your amorous intents to your favorite geek possession and you could win one of the fabulous prizes:

Posted by at February 06, 2002 12:17 PM

Posted by at February 06, 2002 12:09 PM

We changed the site name from BRICKBAY.COM to BRICKLINK.COM after receiving an e-mail from the eBay legal department stating that "the coined term "eBay" is one of the most famous names on the Internet" and the suffix Bay in BrickBay "dilutes the famous eBay trademark" and requesting that we stop using the name "BrickBay".

Posted by at February 06, 2002 12:06 PM

"Osama's favourite meal is fowl - anything with wings," said Mr Akram, a waif of a man suffering from what he claimed were regular torture sessions from his Hazara tribesman captors.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 09:51 PM

American soldiers believed they were attacking an al Qaeda hideout in a remote village last month, but residents claim the American soldiers killed at least 18 people who were loyal to the new government. Pentagon officials say they are still investigating the incident, but senior Afghan officials say the American military has already expressed regret. Inskeep investigated the deadly raid at the village of Oruzgan, and discovered that the families of the dead have received compensation from the United States -- paid in American $100 bills.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 07:41 PM

Boilard said it is unreasonable to expect jurors to be paid the standard $200 weekly fee given the length of the trial.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 07:17 PM

The Americans say they do have a process; the allies have asked them to outline it, Manley said. The issue came up at interior ministers' meetings in New York last weekend, he added.
"At the moment, we accept the U.S. statements at their word that they are respecting the Geneva Conventions. If there are other prisoners taken by Canadian troops . . . they'd be turned over to the United States."

What exactly does "respect" mean?

Posted by at February 05, 2002 07:16 PM

°ƒ °ÆI am afraid of you and of your imposing majesty. The passion, the delirium that you kindle in me, I feel almost as a cruelty. But what exquisite pleasure in the violence you do me! Joy turns into torment, torment into joy. From you, I would suffer in silence the very worst ill-treatment. Death itself would be ecstasy from you.°Ø °± His submission only drives Narda to disdain: °ƒ °ÆSuppose I wanted to test how far your love goes? Suppose I had you scourged like a slave, tortured you, killed you? Would you acclaim me in dying, like a martyr his god?°Ø °±

Posted by at February 05, 2002 06:59 PM

Quite why processed cheese manufacturers choose to use such industrial strength, heat proof plastic to encase their products is something of a mystery - as is why NASA don't use this material instead of those expensive heat proof tiles on the space shuttle? Such important questions no doubt occurred to the first observers of this phenomenon on that night in Osmington, but that didn't stop them from coming up with a brilliantly simple sport based on it.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 04:56 PM

"The fact is,'' Emler says, ''we've put antisocial men through every self-esteem test we have, and there's no evidence for the old psychodynamic concept that they secretly feel bad about themselves. These men are racist or violent because they don't feel bad enough about themselves.'' Baumeister and his colleagues write: ''People who believe themselves to be among the top 10 percent on any dimension may be insulted and threatened whenever anyone asserts that they are in the 80th or 50th or 25th percentile. In contrast, someone with lower self-esteem who regards himself or herself as being merely in the top 60 percent would only be threatened by the feedback that puts him or her at the 25th percentile. . . . In short, the more favorable one's view of oneself, the greater the range of external feedback that will be perceived as unacceptably low."

Posted by at February 05, 2002 04:24 PM

The defendants, on trial for a vigilante killing, were slain in the bathroom of the court, where police had hidden them after an angry crowd of about 500 people charged into the building, said a security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 04:02 PM

"We wanted to show the public and policy-makers that in addition to fairness and justice, there are good economic reasons why we need to make better investments to reduce poverty now," said council chair John Murphy.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 03:59 PM

"We carried my grandmother from my house while they were shooting at us," said Mohammed Gorlunu, a 30-year-old Hausa resident who fled. "My neighbour's house was burning when we left, and maybe mine is burning now too."

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:57 PM

...for one month so that the company's programmers can focus instead on fixing existing bugs...

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:47 PM

The controversy centers on a still- secret mission staged on Jan. 21 in Afghanistan by a Canadian special forces reconnaissance unit in which prisoners were taken. The prisoners were handed over to the Americans because the Canadians do not have installations to hold them.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:45 PM

We asked a soldier from Canada's incoming forces to empty his pockets -- and his rucksack, personal kit, ammo belt, weaponry and whatever else he might be packing -- and lay the whole lot out for the world to see.
Our premise: we might get a better idea of what the Canadians are going to do here if we know what they brought with them in their kit bags.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:43 PM

"I think [the poll] reflects the fact that Canadians have democratic instincts and they see that particular institution has a lot of power. They would like that power to be democratized in some way or another. I don't think the election of judges is the way to do it," said Bill Blaikie, justice critic for the federal NDP.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:42 PM

57 seriously injured
Over 200 houses burnt
Lagos shuts public schools
150 receive machete cuts, gunshot wounds

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:40 PM

Mr Peta, who is also the secretary general of the Zimbabwean Union of Journalists, is the first journalist for the international media to be detained under the Public Order and Security Act, just days after it came into effect.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:35 PM

The soldiers, who had taken their Kalashnikov assault rifles and 135 cartridges, had commandeered a succession of vehicles opening fire on policemen who tried to stop them.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:29 PM

U.S. aircraft regularly patrol Iraq's northern no-fly zone and have been shot at by Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery and missiles. Often the precise source of such fire is not known. This time, however, pilots were able to pinpoint the location of the Iraqi launch site and responded by dropping precision munitions, European Command officials said.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:13 PM

The proposed Youth Criminal Justice Act will let provinces reduce the age from 16 to 14 in which youths can receive adult sentences for serious crimes, such as murder. Provinces will also be able to permit the publication of names of young offenders given adult sentences.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 02:11 PM

The scientists discovered that those who lived longer appeared to have inherited a single gene that protected them against old age, rather than being born into families which did not inherit genes that made them vulnerable to illnesses.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 01:00 PM

"The move would get MPs back into their ridings and not sitting around [Ottawa], moaning that they didn't get into the federal cabinet or talking about leadership or any of the other things that are preoccupying members of the causus in the last little while," Duffy says.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 12:58 PM

"If you see kids in an impoverished native village, with three generations of welfare behind them and no hope for the future, and they're even moved to perhaps that most horrible statistic of despair, which is youth suicide, they are very vulnerable to someone coming in with a gun and a warrior ethic and saying, 'Why waste your life? Be a martyr,' " said Mr. Owen, who was an advisor two years ago to the Israel-Palestine Centre for Research and Information on Final Status Peace Negotiations.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 12:57 PM

The familiar sense of victimhood that permeates the book seems a much more telling sign of the times than Paul's argument itself. The idea is that the culture has tricked her, not that she has made a mistake. This way of thinking does seem characteristic of our generation: the desire to lose one's private sorrows in a sociological trend, to surrender all responsibility for your actions to the "culture" that shapes you like Silly Putty. I have no doubt that writing the book made the author feel better and, as she suggests, helped her to explain what happened to her divorced parents, but Paul doesn't in the end seem to come to any conclusions.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 11:52 AM

He recently wrote an article saying conceptual art by the likes of Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst is "pretentious, self-indulgent and craftless tat".

Posted by at February 05, 2002 11:36 AM

Posted by at February 05, 2002 11:27 AM

But NASA official Michael Hawes said that just because the agency has released the rules on who can visit the station, it doesn't mean the door is open for tourists, journalists, actors or other amateur astronauts.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 11:15 AM

Under the new scheme, "bandwidth hogs" who download a lot of digital music, video clips and software from the Net will see a price hike, while occasional users may see their fees drop to the level of dial-up Internet customers.

Posted by at February 05, 2002 11:14 AM

Why Moon Farmer took the day off

I figure it's still the 4th where you are so I hope you've had a good birthday. Happy 27th. Yes, I know you hate me.

Posted by at February 04, 2002 07:35 PM

After a night of hard partying in Mexico in 1968, Cassady wandered onto a deserted railroad, intending to walk fifteen miles to the next town. He fell asleep on the way, wearing only a t-shirt and jeans. It was a cold rainy night, and Cassady was found beside the tracks the next morning. He arrived at a hospital in a coma and died a few hours later. It was February 4, 1968. Kerouac would die a year later.

Posted by at February 04, 2002 12:53 AM

The Mounties are trying to determine whether the blank IMM1000 forms -- which authorize a person's admission to Canada -- in addition to sensitive information stolen from police computers, were sold to al-Qaida terrorists or other criminals.

Posted by at February 03, 2002 03:01 PM

The law's supporters justified it as a way to eliminate abusive and frivolous lawsuits, although consumer and investor advocates warned Congress that the measure went too far in insulating companies and their advisers and accountants. The law toughened the procedural rules for investors and gave executives legal immunity for making questionable financial projections. It generally eliminated the "joint and several" liability of accountants, which would make their deeper pockets available to compensate investors, particularly when companies have little or no money to satisfy damage claims.

Posted by at February 03, 2002 03:00 PM

"The border stays," the deputy prime minister told reporters after meeting Washington's director of homeland security, Tom Ridge, at the World Economic Forum in Manhattan.

Posted by at February 03, 2002 02:42 PM

"People say, 'What are the consequences?' They will find out in due course if they can't get their house in order. The mighty United States will do whatever it takes to defend our security," Bush said.

Posted by at February 02, 2002 03:04 PM

The Justice Department's letter to Gonzales says all documents that "relate in any way to Enron's financial condition and/or business interests" should be preserved, even if there are questions about whether destruction might otherwise be permitted.

Posted by at February 02, 2002 02:53 PM

In what White House officials are attributing to technical error, some of the tables inadvertently omitted minus signs. As a result, the administration's projected deficits of $106 billion this year and $80 billion next year appear as surpluses.

Posted by at February 02, 2002 02:50 PM

Police have captured both suspected gunmen but have not said why they gunned down the 42-year-old divorced father of one daughter, shooting him twice in the head and once in the abdomen.

Posted by at February 02, 2002 02:47 PM

Posted by at February 02, 2002 10:21 AM

The scientists found that water lilies, an angiosperm, have two copies of their genetic material in the angiosperm. This may represent an intermediary between non-flowering and flowering plants.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 09:06 AM

The researchers followed children who played active sports such as soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis and swimming, for at least five years, starting at age 9. They found that 265 of the children were diagnosed with asthma during the study, and that those most likely to develop the disease were exercising in the most polluted cities.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:59 AM

Ikhlef was arrested last month after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service accused him of being close to Ressam, who was convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles airport.

Why would we deport a suspected Al Qaida member? Why wouldn't we turn him over to the international tribunal that's handling the US-Afghan war POWs? By the way, where is that tribunal?

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:54 AM

The order to remove the flag "has nothing to do with [the Web site's] content, and it would be the same for any other similar instance," Mr. Dearn said.
Forces Canada, which has chapters around the world, has declared 2002 "the year of the smoker" and posts anti-smoking slogans from Nazi propagandists.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:51 AM

In terms of raw manpower, too, they were indistinguishable. Both, overwhelmingly, were composed of men and boys as young as 14 so poor they had no shoelaces, no socks, no gloves for the bitter winter cold, and, on the besieging side, no food of any kind, and nothing to drink but water running from the winter snows.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:47 AM

"This statement of President Bush is stupid and a statement that does not befit the leader of the biggest state in the world," Ramadan told reporters after speaking to a legal conference.

Careful, Dubya might hang you out a window upside down.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:43 AM

He also detailed the various stories he has told since that day -- that King killed his wife on his own; that Larson killed her on his own; that King held a gun to his head to force him to kill her -- all of which, Larson now says, were lies.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:39 AM

As you know, I have always aspired to the example of 14th century Vatican censors in all that I do. Whether it's registering patriots or losing elections to a dead man, I bring with me an almost feverish aversion to even the very thought of genitals - whether they be those of others or my own. It is for this reason that I have found myself increasingly distressed by the rampant proliferation of so-called public "art" with no shame - "art" which aggressively thrusts its impossibly large genitals directly into the eyes of our children, penetrating their little eye sockets deeper and deeper with every shameful glance! And so I say to you today, with God as both my witness and co-pilot, America must cease to be a lurid statuary of deviant sex!

Posted by at February 01, 2002 06:50 AM

A jury awarded $290,000 to two women who said they were deceived by a fundamentalist church whose leaders promised to produce Jesus Christ in the flesh.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 05:57 AM

Jonah Goldberg writes that he'll take money from just about anyone who offers it to him. In fact, he'd be happier to make a paid speech before his political opponents than before his ideological allies, because "taking free cash from your enemies is an even bigger no-brainer than taking it from your friends. It makes your enemies poorer and you richer, win-win." [. . .] Well, it's actually the radical anarchists of Chumbawumba who've been using this strategy before Goldberg thought it up.

I gather Mother Teresa did this too, but continue.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 12:14 AM

Left in the race are former leader Stockwell Day, a born again Christian who opposes gay rights; MP Grant Hill a doctor who says "homosexuality poses as great a health risk as smoking"; and MPs Diane Ablonczy and Stephen Harper.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 12:08 AM