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Why can't you buy heroin at Boots?	Picture this: beside the electric toothbrushes at your local chemist, you can pick up complete kits of syringes, needles, cotton balls, lighters, rubber tying-off cords and cute stainless-steel spoons - all vacuum-sealed in plastic. Just as you can request some high-strength cortisone cream to treat that pesky eczema o...	[ 14 ]
Panelist Who Dissents On Climate Change Quits	Correction Appended A scientist who has long disagreed with the dominant view that global warming stems mainly from human activity has resigned from a panel that is completing a report for the Bush administration on temperature trends in the atmosphere. The scientist, Roger A. Pielke Sr., a climatologist at Colorado ...	[ 3 ]
Victory for Japan's war critics	By Chris Hogg BBC News, Tokyo Many in Japan dispute the scale of killing in Nanjing in 1937 It is a rare legal victory for the critics of Japan's wartime past. The relatives of two officers, accused of taking part in a race to decapitate Chinese soldiers, had sued for damages, claiming the report was fabricated. ...	[ 5 ]
Hacker Hits Air Force Officer Database	An online intruder has disappeared into the wild blue yonder with personal data on approximately half of the U.S. Air Force's 70,000 officers. The information stolen includes birth dates and Social Security numbers on about 33,000 officers, military officials confirmed Friday. The hacker apparently used a legitimate u...	[ 9 ]
Microwave Grape Plasma	Microwave Grape Plasma Find your microwave hotspots Take a damp paper towel and place it on top of 5-10 other paper towels in the bottom of your microwave. On top of it, place a sheet of themally sensitive fax paper, the kind that old crappy fax machines use. Credit card recipts also work, but they'd be harder to tile...	[ 6, 316 ]
Arctic Ocean Could Be Ice-Free in Summer Within 100 Years	Newswise — The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years, according to a new report. The melting is accelerating, and a team of researchers were unable to identify any natural processes that might slow the de-icing of the A...	[ 6 ]
Tim Berners-Lee Sends a Letter to the US Copyright Office	Today, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the W3C and inventor of the Web, has responded to a call for comments from the US Copyright Office, regarding a proposal to restrict users to only one vendor browser in order to submit forms to that office. He raises a number of practical issues, suggesting that use of standards is...	[ 17 ]
GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?	Before we get going, here are some alternate titles for this post, just to give you an idea of what I’m trying to get at before I actually, you know, get at it: You’re probably wondering why Yahoo bought Konfabulator An update on Google Browser, GooOS and Google Desktop A platform that everyone can stand on and why ...	[ 3 ]
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain	Google's success has already spurred Microsoft to develop its own Internet search engine (a project code-named Underdog), but Google has legions of engineers banging away on a range of projects of its own that, if successful, could dislodge Microsoft from the pre-eminent spot it has enjoyed since the early 1980's. Of ...	[ 18 ]
US dismisses Iran nuclear report	Iranians have responded angrily to US pressure The report said traces of bomb-grade uranium in Iran's nuclear facilities came from contaminated Pakistani equipment, not Iranian activities. But the US said there were other ways Iran could be building nuclear weapons. Iran has always maintained the traces of enriched ...	[ 8 ]
Why Medical Studies Are Often Wrong	Aug. 7, 2005 -- How many times have you heard people exclaim something like, "First they tell us this is good or bad for us, and then they tell us just the opposite"? In case you need more confirmation for the "iffy-ness" of many health studies, Dr. John Ioannidis, a researcher at the University of Ioannina in Greec...	[ 3 ]
Sex Tips For Geeks: The Art of the Pickup	Sex Tips For Geeks: The Art of the Pickup The first, most important thing for you to know is this; women can smell fear -- and they run away from it. When you're trying to pick up a girl, whether it's for a one-night stand or because you think she might be the love of your life, the most powerful thing you can do is t...	[ 6 ]
Jonathan Freedland: Blair's Jack Bauer syndrome	Think of it as the dilemma of 24. In the TV thriller, hero Jack Bauer has 24 hours to avert a catastrophe - say, to prevent terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb over Los Angeles. Over the course of 24 hour-long episodes we urge Bauer, from the edge of our seats, to do whatever it takes to stop the killers. As we watch,...	[ 7 ]
Reuters calls for US to release Iraqi cameraman	News agency Reuters has called for the release of an Iraqi cameraman who has been held by the US military for two weeks. Reuters said it was "concerned and dismayed" by the detention of 36-year-old freelance Omar Abrahem al-Mashhadani and asked for an explanation for his treatment. The group's global managing editor,...	[ 11 ]
Court releases new Saddam photos	New photos of Saddam Hussein have been released Enlarge Image The three photos show him being questioned by Chief Investigative Judge Raid Juhi at an unknown location. They are the first pictures of him to appear since May, when the Sun newspaper published leaked photos showing him doing his laundry in jail. The ...	[ 3 ]
NY announces subway security plan	Security has already been stepped up on the New York subway The city has awarded a $212m (£118m) contract to defence firm Lockheed to run the security programme for the bus and the underground train network. The upgrade will also include enabling mobile phone signals on the subway. The authorities said concerns that...	[ 4 ]
Why we can miss 'obvious' sights	Spotting obvious visual changes can sometimes be difficult Most of us know what it is like to look at something but fail to see the obvious, such as a traffic light turning green. UK researchers at University College London, along with US colleagues from Princeton University, have located the brain's parietal cortex ...	[ 3 ]
The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy"	It's not news that the main reason the movie and television industries are wary of BitTorrent is that they're freaked out by the music industry's experience with piracy. Although they see the economic advantages of P2P distribution, they're concerned that once they put their stuff out there, even wrapped in triple laye...	[ 18 ]
Bill Totten's Weblog: The End of Suburbia	The Electric Wallpaper Company, c/o VisionTV, 80 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1X2, 87 minute DVD, web site: www.endofsuburbia.com, US$27.75 / C$34.50A simple fact of life is that any system based on the use of nonrenewable resources is unsustainable. Despite all the warnings that we are headed for an ecol...	[ 12 ]
Pixar tells story behind 'Toy Story'	Pixar tells story behind 'Toy Story' When Hollywood was churning out movies full of explosions and mindless violence a few years ago, Pixar Animation Studios swam against the stream with "Finding Nemo," a G-rated feature that received four Academy Award nominations and grossed more than $355 million. Today, of course...	[ 19 ]
New Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain	Research in monkeys suggests that a new drug can temporarily improve performance and reverse the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain, which would be a breakthrough in helping shift workers, health professionals, military personnel and others who must function at top performance in spite of sleep deficits. “In ad...	[ 11 ]
Chávez taunts US with oil offer	In a typically robust response to remarks by the US televangelist Pat Robertson, Mr Chávez compared his detractors to the "rather mad dogs with rabies" from Cervantes' Don Quixote, and unveiled his plans to use Venezuela's energy reserves as a political tool. "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor...	[ 9 ]
Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer’s pathology	Researchers who used five different medical imaging techniques to study the brain activity of 764 people, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, those on the brink of dementia, and healthy individuals, have found that the areas of the brain that young, healthy people use when daydreaming are the same areas that fail...	[ 7 ]
Stagger on, weary Titan	The United States is now that weary Titan. In the British case, the angst was a result of the unexpectedly protracted, bloody and costly Boer war, in which a small group of foreign insurgents defied the mightiest military the world had seen; concern about the rising economic power of Germany and the United States; and ...	[ 52 ]
Europe aims lone rover for Mars	By Paul Rincon BBC News science reporter The ability to drill under the surface is a "must have" It aims to send a single robot rover to the Martian surface along with another, stationary, science package. The European Space Agency (Esa) had also been considering a mission concept from the British team behind Bea...	[ 7 ]
Public unaware of RSS	The majority of regular blog readers are completely unaware of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and the amount of passion the technology excites, it seems. A Nielsen/Netratings' survey of 1,000 regular blog readers found 66 per cent do not understand RSS and have never even heard of the technology. Twenty three per cen...	[ 10 ]
Summer Fading, Hollywood Sees Fizzle	The box office numbers have led to intense, broad-ranging conversations across Hollywood about the implications. Many studios have commissioned market research to investigate the causes of moviegoing behavior -- or the lack thereof. At New Line, executives have been talking about the "sameness of everything" on movie s...	[ 16 ]
Report: India's could lose 40% BPO market share by 2007	Report: Labor shortage and wage inflation in outsourcing market has other countries in hot pursuit. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Surprise! India's reign as the world's "Outsourcing King" may be slipping, even with its rock-bottom call center costs. A new report from market research firm Gartner, Inc. warns that a labor crun...	[ 10 ]
Whales show an ability to learn and teach	Canadian scientists have observed a case of learning and culture in a killer whale. A four-year-old orca in a marine park in Ontario has found a way not just to provide fresh fowl for supper, he has shown other young whales how to do the same thing. The precocious predator made a practice of regurgitating his fish sup...	[ 4 ]
Is urban cycling bad for your heart?	Shedloads of lycra-clad peddlers nearly careered off the road this week after being told their daily exertion on two wheels could be doing more harm than good. Tiny specks of air pollution belched from diesel-fuelled taxis and buses can damage blood vessels, and, according to the Sunday Times, could outweigh the obviou...	[ 10 ]
Maturing net growing more slowly	The internet is a becoming a mature technology During 2004 the amount of net traffic travelling on backbone cables between nations grew by 104%, reported the consultancy Telegeography. By contrast in 2005 the growth slumped to a less stellar 49%. Telegeography said the change could be the result of a global slowdown...	[ 4 ]
Clinical Effects of Homoeopathy Are Placebo Effects	Newswise — The evidence for a specific effect of homoeopathic remedies is weak, according to an article in this week's issue of The Lancet. The authors conclude that the clinical effects of homoeopathy are compatible with placebo effects. Matthias Egger (University of Berne, Switzerland) and colleagues compared 110 pl...	[ 23 ]
Scientists probe anti-ageing gene	By Roland Pease BBC Science Correspondent Klotho seems to delay the effects of old age in mice They say the gene has a key role to play in many of the processes related to ageing. Because humans have a very similar version of the gene, the hope is that it will show a way to improve our declining years. The gene ...	[ 3 ]
BBC TV channels to be put on net	New Doctor Who episodes may be available for mobile phones He announced plans for the MyBBCPlayer - which will allow viewers to legally download seven days of programmes - at the Edinburgh Television Festival. He said he hoped the service would launch next year. Mr Thompson said that unless the BBC adapted "we won't...	[ 3 ]
Gas prices too high? Try Europe.	When Guy Colombier pulls his economy car up to a Paris pump, he allows himself just 15 Euros ($18) worth of gas - barely enough for three gallons. Since prices started rising rapidly earlier this year, says Mr. Colombier, a printing press worker, "I drive a lot more slowly ... and I'm looking for a place to live closer...	[ 16 ]
MPAA sifts through tracker logs for lawsuit ammo	When popular BitTorrent tracker sites were targeted last December, some wondered if the tracker logs and other data would fall into the hands of the Motion Picture Association of America. The answer was revealed yesterday when the MPAA filed 286 lawsuits against US residents, and the information that led to the defenda...	[ 7 ]
Truly, It Was a Whopper, but Are There Bigger Fish?	HAT KHRAI, Thailand - The monster fish announced itself with four huge whacks of its tail, thrashing against the net that had trapped it in the pale brown water of the Mekong River. It was a rare giant catfish the size of a grizzly bear, and it took five boatmen an hour to pull it in and 10 men to lift it when they re...	[ 5 ]
Iraq, still divided after three deadlines	AFP Demonstrating against the constitution AFTER three deadlines and painful negotiations, Iraq finally has a draft constitution, endorsed by leaders of Iraq's Kurds and Shias. Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani (a Kurd), said in a ceremony on Sunday August 28th that only the Koran is perfect, but the constitution was ...	[ 4 ]
Squirrel helps with mobile calls	By Luke Alexander BBC News The squirrel uses body language and movement to communicate There are few things more intrusive than a mobile phone ringtone. Yet, despite the existence of answer phones and voice mail, a ringing phone remains impossible to ignore. Whether we are having a private conversation, snowed under ...	[ 6 ]
Latest News And Web Hosting Review Dotblock	Dotblock offers various hosting services such as Cloud SSD Hosting, Managed VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Servers hosting. Hosting services involve SSD RAID storage, bandwidth, RAM, Cores, 1 block package and disk space. Most important features such as Geographic Server location choice, unmetered 100MB tier-1 bandwidth, R...	[ 6 ]
Birt attacks 'easy cruelty' of tabloid Britain	Lord Birt, the prime minister's "blue skies thinker" and former BBC director general, last night challenged the "tabloidisation" of British intellectual life and said the media had become too reliant on "easy cruelty" and "the desire to humiliate". Delivering the keynote MacTaggart lecture at the Media Guardian Edinbu...	[ 4 ]
Divine and rule	I ask Alastair what was the best thing about being educated in this way. "I could study the word of God every day rather than defending it every day," he states. What did he feel he missed by not being in school? "Temptation," he says, and stops. Alastair is now a tall, formally dressed young man with a direct gaze and...	[ 5 ]
Deforestation of Amazon 'halved'	By Tom Gibb BBC News, Sao Paulo Brazil is thought to have the greatest biodiversity on Earth The government says it believes this is the result of new protection policies. But environmental groups warn it is too soon to be sure there has been a long-term reversal in the destruction of the world's largest rainfore...	[ 9 ]
Trees don't suck up carbon dioxide as hoped : Nature News	Published online 25 August 2005 \| Nature \| doi:10.1038/news050822-7 News Forests do not get a growth spurt from greenhouse gas. Trees in Switzerland didn't grow more when doused with carbon dioxide - but no one knows if the same would hold true elsewhere. © Punchstock Trees don't seem to grow any faster when given ...	[ 20 ]
After the Ladder	August 2005 Thirty years ago, one was supposed to work one's way up the corporate ladder. That's less the rule now. Our generation wants to get paid up front. Instead of developing a product for some big company in the expectation of getting job security in return, we develop the product ourselves, in a star...	[ 34 ]
Le site informatique spécialiste map et localisation	Google Maps est une application de cartographie. Il est devenu impossible de se perdre. Google Maps donne à tous les PC, tablettes et smartphones un plan détaillé des rues avoisinantes, et conseille des itinéraires. Sur les pages d’accueil des sites de commerce ou de services, Google Maps peut guider les clients. Goog...	[ 12 ]
Government 'wastes' African aid	Malawi is one of the world's poorest countries BBC Radio Five Live found £712,000 was spent in four years on hotels and meals for a project run by a US consultancy. The National Audit Office said it may mount an investigation into the use of consultants by the Department for International Development (DFID). DFID sa...	[ 10 ]
Do You MySpace?	Seabron Ward, 19, a student at the University of Colorado at Denver, said that many students consider it a status symbol to build a big friend list. "This one guy on my list has a thousand," she said, a bit enviously. "I only have 79." The time-sucking potential of MySpace became an issue at the small record label whe...	[ 5 ]
Breakthrough Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Digital Data Storage Disks	Have you ever dream of 100 terabyte of data per 3.5-inch disk? New patented innovation nanotechnology from Michael E. Thomas, president of Colossal Storage Corporation, makes it real. Michael invented and patented the world's first and only concept for non-contact UV photon induced electric field poling of ferroelectr...	[ 3, 9 ]
Bomb hits Israeli bus station	Israeli officials say vigilance prevented a higher casualty toll Two guards were seriously injured in the morning rush hour blast. It was the first such attack since Israel pulled its settlers out of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, condemning the attack, described it as a "terrorist operation". But...	[ 4 ]
Leak shows Blair told of Iraq war terror link	Despite repeated denials by Number 10 that the war made Britain a target for terrorists, a letter from Michael Jay, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary, to the cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull - obtained by this newspaper - makes the connection clear. The letter, dated 18 May 2004, says British foreign ...	[ 13 ]
What Boneheaded Design Guides Dubya's Moves?	How does one explain all the misguided, unwise, sometimes outright boneheaded things the Bush administration has done since taking over nearly five years ago, and continues to do on a pretty much daily basis? How is it possible for a group of supposedly intelligent, experienced individuals to take this many wrong turns...	[ 5 ]
Creating Passionate Users: You ARE a marketer. Deal with it.	« Build something cool in 24 hours \| Main \| Sample Java Exam Questions » You ARE a marketer. Deal with it. It's so trendy to diss marketing. Especially if you're in engineering, product design, or virtually anything but marketing. A comment for me by pinhut on my "You're emotional..." blog entry reads: "this started...	[ 6 ]
Infinite Ink: The Continuum Hypothesis by Nancy McGough	1. Overview People have tried to understand space, time, motion, and the notion of "continuum" for thousands of years. This pursuit lead to the Pythagoreans discovery of irrational numbers, Zeno's paradoxes, infinitesimal calculus, transfinite set theory, relativity theory, quantum physics, and many more int...	[ 0, 27 ]
Vatican plan to block gay priests	The controversial document, produced by the Congregation for Catholic Education and Seminaries, the body overseeing the church's training of the priesthood, is being scrutinised by Benedict XVI. It been suggested Rome would publish the instruction earlier this month, but it dropped the plan out of concern that such a ...	[ 6 ]
With technology, it's easy to break the law	With technology, it's easy to break the law Legally, it's been a gray week for me. I took apart and repaired a 15-year-old, Freon-filled air conditioner without an EPA permit. I destroyed a wasp's nest with a makeshift flamethrower, using an aerosol can of cleaner "in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." And the...	[ 14 ]
Banned airlines lists published	The lists tell passengers which airlines are banned in France and Belgium The lists were posted on the websites of the French civil aviation authority (DGAC) and Belgium's Transport Ministry on Monday. Switzerland has also promised to provide its own list on Thursday. The moves follow a plane crash in Venezuela on 1...	[ 6 ]
American Chemical Society: Why Redheads Have Propensity for Skin Cancer	WASHINGTON, Aug. 29-The reason people with red hair have higher rates of skin cancer than people with black hair likely lies in the different photochemical properties of their melanin pigments, researchers reported here. Because of slight variations in its chemical structure, red pigment loses electrons relatively e...	[ 4 ]
Petite green cars tempt tourists	By Clark Boyd Technology correspondent The narrow, cobbled streets of Cordoba in southern Spain are no place for a car, but a Spanish entrepreneur wants to change that. The cars have a top speed of about 20mph He points to a sleek, curvy little number. "It's a wonderful car, a marvellous car," says Mr Romeo with ...	[ 4 ]
Oxford to turn away child prodigies	Yinan Wang, the 14-year-old Chinese boy who clinched a place at Oxford University last week, will be the last child prodigy to study there under reforms being considered by admissions tutors. Despite an almost perennial flurry of headlines on children barely in their teens being offered places, the university is consi...	[ 20 ]
You can use the f-word in class (but only five times)	Last updated at 10:03 29 August 2005 A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers - as long as they don't do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used will be kept on the board. If a class goes over the limit, they will be 'spoken' to at the end of th...	[ 4 ]
Domestic robot to debut in Japan	The robot will go on sale in mid-September The one-metre tall humanoid Wakamaru robot is being marketed as a mechanical house-sitter and secretary. Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries expects the first robots to go on sale in September. "This is the opening of an era in which human beings and robots ca...	[ 12 ]
Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!	A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic "mass suicide" to protest closer integration with the website's new owner, Yahoo. The portal giant bought Flickr's developer, Ludicorp, for an undisclosed sum in March and took ownership of the site when it moved from Vancouver, Can...	[ 5 ]
Radium Water Baths	Radium Water Baths August 2000 Nowata Oklahoma is a little town about an hour North of Tulsa. There are various legends and strange stories about the town's past, but one of the oddest things is this sign on the side of one of the buildings downtown. It seems that at some point (before the effects of radio activity ...	[ 3 ]
Ban on violent net porn planned	Murder victim Jane Longhurst's family has campaigned for new laws Distribution of extreme pornography is illegal in the UK but this does not affect foreign websites, so new laws could ban possession of it in Britain. The Home Office and Scottish Executive are consulting on whether new laws are needed and what should ...	[ 6 ]
Zaiba Malik: I'm a believer	Growing up in the 1970s in Bradford, Zaiba Malik's life was dominated by Islam and the lessons of the Qur'an. But leaving home to go to university exposed her to a secular world and she abandoned the teachings of her father. Then the London bombings happened ... It's been more than 20 years since I prayed in a mosque....	[ 10 ]
Lionel Shriver: Why the loaded go to Vegas to lose	I have a peculiar relationship to money. I expect to have to earn it, and I try to keep hold of it when I do. The sum of which makes me a perfect pill in Las Vegas. Attention all Brits, who now constitute the largest group of foreign tourists in this baking town of gaudy casinos and strip-malls: Don't take me with you....	[ 7 ]
Diamonds lose 'world's hardest' title	Diamonds have been usurped as the world's hardest material, thanks to researchers in Germany, who have made a new material by compressing carbon-60 molecules. They have dubbed their new form of carbon "aggregated diamond nanorods". The University of Bayreuth team, led by Natalia Dubrovinskaia, have patented their brea...	[ 6 ]
File-sharers move from BitTorrent	Peer-to-peer accounts for a large chunk of internet usage Instead they have moved to another network called eDonkey, showed a study by internet analysis firm CacheLogic. It found that eDonkey has become the dominant peer-to-peer file-sharing network in countries such as South Korea, Italy, Germany and Spain. The stu...	[ 13 ]
Publishers make last stand against open access	Publishers and learned societies are fighting a last ditch action to stop the research findings of thousands of British academics being made freely available online. The UK research councils, which control billions of pounds worth of funding, have announced their intention to make free access on the internet a conditi...	[ 15 ]
Where a Cuddle With Your Baby Requires a Bribe	Here in Bangalore, a city of 6.5 million known for its booming high-technology industry, pleasant climate and good private schools, local health managers commonly pay bribes to senior bureaucrats or elected officials to get good jobs, say investigators, civic leaders and senior civil servants. The health professionals ...	[ 17 ]
Neglected Poor in Africa Make Their Own Safety Nets	And those African workers lucky enough to be part of a social security plan are not guaranteed comfort. The AIDS epidemic has left many national plans on shaky financial footing because there are more payouts for medical care and death benefits but not as many contributions. Simply prying the benefits from bureaucrats...	[ 11 ]
Palestinian Authority's US assets are frozen	Home > News > World > Middle East Palestinian Authority's US assets are frozen WASHINGTON -- A Rhode Island lawyer trying to collect a $116 million terrorism judgment against the Palestinian Authority has obtained a court-ordered freeze on all its US-based assets, severely limiting most Palestinian economic and dipl...	[ 9 ]
South Polar ozone hole makes big comeback	Agency South Polar ozone hole makes big comeback 30/08/2005 1373 views 2 likes This season's Antarctic ozone hole has swollen to an area of ten million square kilometres from mid-August - approximately the same size as Europe and still expanding. It is expected to reach maximum extent during September, and ESA satelli...	[ 4 ]
kiko -Internet Homepage	Your personal homepage is automatically saved in your browser.You can also set your home page to the the following URL so your settings will be saved regardless of whether you clear the cache.	[ 28 ]
Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey	President Bush joined the debate on Aug. 2, telling reporters that both evolution and the theory of intelligent design should be taught in schools "so people can understand what the debate is about." Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican leader, took the same position a few weeks later. Intelligent design, ...	[ 3, 7 ]
Misery of India's child sari weavers	By Sunil Raman BBC News, Tamil Nadu Divya has been a weaver for three years now A small, grilled window is the only source of fresh air. A fluorescent tube above lights what is otherwise a dark and dingy hut. It is midday but Divya has no time to rest. She has to ensure that the threads are ready for the weave...	[ 4 ]
Tony Benn: Bush is the real threat	Now that the US president has announced that he has not ruled out an attack on Iran, if it does not abandon its nuclear programme, the Middle East faces a crisis that could dwarf even the dangers arising from the war in Iraq. Even a conventional weapon fired at a nuclear research centre - whether or not a bomb was bei...	[ 20 ]
Britain uses hate law to ban animal rights campaigner	Charles Clarke, the home secretary, has used the government's crackdown on preachers of hate to ban an American professor who speaks for the Animal Liberation Front. Steven Best, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso, had intended to travel to the UK to take part in an event to celebrate the cl...	[ 4 ]
Netanyahu makes bid for power	Binyamin Netanyahu launched a bid to unseat the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, yesterday in a challenge that threatens to split the ruling party and cause a radical realignment of Israeli politics. Mr Netanyahu said he will seek the leadership of the ruling Likud party ahead of a general election next year, a c...	[ 6 ]
Analysis: Solidarity's legacy	By Jan Repa BBC Europe analyst Solidarity brought books and libraries to the Polish shipyards It was the first independent mass political movement to emerge in the Soviet bloc. But the debate continues over Solidarity's significance for the ultimate collapse of East European communism. On 31 August 1980, Polish ...	[ 5 ]
Iraq stampede deaths near 1,000	So far, there have been at least 965 confirmed deaths, making the incident the single biggest loss of Iraqi life since the US-led invasion in 2003. The incident happened on a river bridge as about a million Shias marched to a shrine for a religious festival. Witnesses said panic spread over rumours of suicide bombers...	[ 7 ]
Asiatic cheetahs caught on camera	The Asiatic cheetah lives on the edge (Image: I.R.Iran DOE/CACP/WCS/UNDP-GEF) Enlarge Image This remarkable image of Asiatic cheetahs was captured by automatic equipment in an isolated region of Iran's Dar-e Anjir Wildlife Refuge. The picture shows mum and her four youngsters resting in the shade of a tree. It is...	[ 9 ]
Peru's glaciers in retreat	By Hannah Hennessy BBC News, Huaraz The glacial retreat at Pastoruri shows no sign of stopping Mounds of dark rock rise up between the snow and ice, discoloured after years of being covered by the glacier. This is Pastoruri. In the past 10 years, its ice caps have retreated by about 200m. Soon it, like many othe...	[ 7 ]
Katrina Aftermath	These 2 people have no internet access to send these accounts and asked to do it for them-but these are their words with nothing omitted or added-and i am just replaying their accounts- please do not brush this off and let it be forgotten by the happy fluffy stories. Local police corruption and calusness should be know...	[ 3 ]
Iraq war 'costlier than Vietnam'	The US has fewer troops in Iraq than Vietnam, but pays them more The report put costs in Iraq at $500m (£278m) a month more than in Vietnam, adjusted for inflation. This makes Iraq the most expensive US war in the past 60 years, they say. But an analyst from the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) said ...	[ 9 ]
Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists	Some of America's leading scientists have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing them under unprecedented scrutiny. A far-reaching inquiry into the careers of three of the US's most senior climate specialists has been launched by Joe Barton, the chairman of the House of Repres...	[ 11 ]
'Life code' of chimps laid bare	The DNA came from a chimp called Clint (Image: Yerkes National Primate Research Center) The scientists say the information is a milestone in the quest to discover what sets us apart from other animals. A comparison shows chimps and humans to be almost 99% identical in the most important areas of their "life codes". ...	[ 3 ]
The fallout from Katrina	As New Orleans slips into lawlessness after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf of Mexico coast, officials say they can still only guess at the death toll of the disaster—though it is likely to be in the thousands. Many survivors are still waiting for help THE natural catastrophe is past, but the human catastrophe in th...	[ 15 ]
Michael Yon : Online Magazine	Mikulski Urges Sec. Rice to Honor Slain Maryland Serviceman, Extradite Convicted Killer “We must make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murderer.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-S...	[ 17 ]
Open Forum: Michael Yon in Iraq	Getting these dispatches right is challenging. Iraq multiplies the challenge. The chaos of combat has already claimed two pairs of eye-glasses, a video camera, and two digital still cameras; the environment is merciless, with 117 degree days beating down over land and people. I was in the Army some years ago and m...	[ 5 ]
Conversations with History	Conversations with History host Harry Kreisler welcomes Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad for a discussion of the interplay between theory and practice in shaping national security policy. Ambassador Khalilzad reflects on the strategic challenges confronting U.S. policymakers after the end of the Cold War; he describes the d...	[ 2, 1 ]
Interdictor	79-page report, entitled "Warlord Inc," faults the US military for making trucking companies who deliver goods to US military bases in Afghanistan responsible for their own security. It details how eight trucking companies that share a $2.1 billion contract are forced to pay warlords and Afghan officials to pass unhind...	[ 19 ]
Wind, Water and Oil	Posted by Big Gav The Baltimore Sun has a good op-ed piece on the effects of Hurricane Katrina, an oil supply chain that is "stretched to capacity" and the link between global warming and increased hurricane strength. AS LOUISIANA, Mississippi and Alabama today cope with the terrible material and human devastation ...	[ 3 ]
Pricing experts says $4 a gallon gas on the horizon	NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Consumers can expect retail gas prices to rise to $4 a gallon soon, but whether they stay there depends on the long-term damage to oil facilities from Hurricane Katrina, oil and gas analysts said Wednesday. "There's no question gas will hit $4 a gallon," Ben Brockwell, director of pricing at the...	[ 14 ]
Sony wants an 'iTunes for movies'	The movie industry is keen to take control from technology firms Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, said at a US Digital Hollywood conference that it wanted to create an "iTunes" for films. Films will be put onto flash memory for mobiles over the next year, said Mr Arrieta, and it will develop i...	[ 3 ]
Price Gouging Saves Lives in a Hurricane	Tags [On October 27, as East Coast residents prepared for Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie threatened "price gougers" with stiff penalties. As David Brown pointed out in Mises Daily on August 17, 2004, shortly after Hurricane Charley hit Florida, foul weather is when we need market prices the most. ...	[ 16 ]
Paying attention - Cor blimey	IT'S true. Pornography can make you blind. Look at a smutty picture and, according to research by Steven Most, of Yale University, and his colleagues, you will suffer from a temporary condition known as emotion-induced blindness. Dr Most made this discovery while studying the rubbernecking effect (when people slow dow...	[ 13 ]
Christians draw swords on climate	By Richard Black BBC News website environment correspondent The traditional face of protest: Activists on John Prescott's roof Stop Climate Chaos brings traditional environmental groups such as Greenpeace together with Christian development agencies like Christian Aid. It is asking the government to cut Britain's...	[ 4 ]
Private spaceflight - Sinatra, eat your heart out	SIGHS of relief all round greeted the touchdown of STS 114, as the latest space-shuttle flight is known to the cognoscenti. In truth, this was the most mollycoddled mission in NASA's history, so if anything serious had gone wrong with it the agency would probably not have emerged intact from the wreckage. Now, although...	[ 5 ]