Popular Science

To become a scientist is hard enough. But to become one while running a gauntlet of lies, insults, mockeries, and disapproval--this was what my mother had to do. If such treatment is unthinkable (or, at least, unusual) today, it is largely because my mother and other female scientists of her generation proved equal to every obstacle thrown in their way.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 06:39 PM

politechbot.com

Despite a ruling in a different federal circuit, U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh last week said video games are not free speech and ruled that the county has a compelling interest to protect the physical and emotional health of children. He rejected the video game industry's attempt to throw out the ordinance, and the case is heading to trial.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 02:00 PM

CBC News

During a rare, personal speech to both Houses of Parliament she said, "I would like, above all, to declare my resolve to continue, with the support of my family, to serve the people of this great nation of ours to the best of my ability through the changing times ahead."

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 11:14 AM

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medialifemagazine.com

Rather than being cheapskates, it turns out that regular readers of online newspapers are big spenders of sorts, spending more money and time online than people who don't read internet newspapers.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 08:13 AM

Tech News - CNET.com

Prosecutors in the case have painted ElcomSoft as a shadowy enterprise, a characterization that Katalov wants to dismiss almost as much as the criminal charges.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:45 AM

Check the Grid - Movie Reviews via American Cynic

We've actually read 9,087 of the latest movie reviews from across the country and converted all the stars and thumbs to a simple rating system.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:41 AM

marsdenarchive.com

Over the last seven years The Marsden Archive has become widely recognised as a unique picture library specialising in the fantastic and the supernatural.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:36 AM

Tech News - CNET.com

"Ira Magaziner was an idealist," commented Dyson, referring to the Clinton administration's Internet policy czar who advocated ICANN as an agency without direct government control. "He said that the domain-name system would operate worldwide and he wanted the Internet community to take care of it...But there really is no Internet community like that. We had engineers who thought ICANN was a plot to (give) certain companies control of the Internet, U.S. congressmen figuring it was a plot to (give) foreigners control, public interest people saying it should be run by a group of wise men, and people from Latin America and Africa who just assumed they would be left out again."

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:23 AM

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Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 05:02 AM

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Defence lawyer Michael Neville argued that the charges against Father MacDonald should be stayed because the charges were filed in 1996 and the case took 73 months to come to trial.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 04:58 AM

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Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:53 AM

CNN.com - Cardinals still working on priest abuse policy - April 29, 2002

"'Zero tolerance' is not our term; it's a term that's been given us, and, therefore, if you don't meet it, somehow you've failed," Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago, told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. "Zero tolerance in the sense that ... any possible kind of offense of this nature means ... you're ejected from the priesthood? There has to be some discussion."

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:44 AM

Washtech.com

There doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of this transcendence of human nature occurring in your lifetime -- 20 to 50 years from now. That's the one thing on which everyone who looks at this compounding curve of change agrees. "The remaining human future is 25 years or 50 years," says Max More, president of the Extropy Institute, a pioneering explorer of the acceleration of technology and trans-humanism.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:38 AM

Nua Internet Surveys

Yet, while 59 percent of Americans believe that online publications provide more timely content than their offline counterparts, only 22 percent believe they offer higher quality content than print magazines.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:29 AM

OrlandoSentinel.com: Central Florida News

With the power of the presidency behind it -- and the GOP intent on securing Florida for President Bush's brother in 2002 and for the president in 2004 -- half of the $10 million raised by the state party has coursed from out of state.

Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:25 AM