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Demonstrators burst through security lines and got within feet of Tony Blair as he visited Brazilian city Sao Paolo. The protesters, from Greenpeace, were pulled away from the Prime Minister by security guards as they unfurled a banner calling on him to end British importation of wood from the Amazon rainforest. Greenpeace had earlier handed Mr Blair a letter calling on him to keep a promise made at the G8 summit last year to import wood only from sustainable sources. David Logie, a Scottish Greenpeace activist working for the group in the Amazon, told PA News: "We handed the letter ...

McALLEN, Texas, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Mexico has missed a deadline for the payment of water to the United States under an international treaty governing the Rio Grande, a critical source of water for farmers along the river's valley in South Texas, officials said Wednesday. Mexico has owed the United States about 1.3 million acre-feet of water since 1992 and under an agreement reached by President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox in March, Mexico City was supposed to pay about 600,000 acre-feet of that debt by July 31. Under terms of the agreement, the water was supposed to be ...

Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com August 1, 2001 THE BALKANS: WHAT IS BUSH UP TO? Kosovo and the Israeli-Turkish connection A recent New York Post editorial deplored the deepening US commitment in the Balkans and wondered why the Bush administration wasn't following through on Dubya's campaign promise to get us out of that particular quagmire. Noting the President's pronouncement that the "American contribution is essential, both militarily and politically," because "ethnic extremists are still stoking the flames of intolerance and inciting violence," the Post went on to ask: "Well, name a spot in the world where that's not ...

Eye on the Empire by Alan Bock Antiwar.com August 1, 2001 Defining Terms Unilaterally Our political culture – insofar as it is intelligible to speak of such a concept – seems to have a gift for asking the wrong, mostly irrelevant, questions and then obsessing about them at great and usually unhelpful length. Thus in recent weeks we have heard a great deal about "unilateralism" and various talking and writing heads have gone on and on about whether the Bush administration is guilty of it. Some critics even go so far as to describe the unilateralism they claim to see ...

Well now we have the shame mongers coming out in Klamath Falls. The politically correct can now point a finger at Lt. Jack Redfield and say shame on you for telling the truth and saying it like it is. Just because he told the people what is in the back of everyone's mind, he is some terrible person. He got up and was wearing his uniform so he took off his hat put on a different hat and told everyone he was speaking as a rancher and citizen of Klamath County. Well I guess telling the truth now just don't ...

The debate over distributed computing - Tech News - CNET.com CNET Tech Sites: Price Comparisons | Product Reviews | Business Solutions | Downloads   The debate over distributed computing By Lisa M. BowmanSpecial to CNET News.com August 1, 2001, 10:20 a.m. PT David McOwen is losing a lot of sleep these days over his decision to participate in a distributed computing project two years ago. The former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia found out recently that he could face up to 30 years in jail and fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars because he installed ...

Davis generates fund-raising power He has accepted $5.8 million already this year -- $30.5 million total -- for his re-election. August 1, 2001 By JOHN HOWARDand HANH KIM QUACHThe Orange County Register SACRAMENTO Gov. Gray Davis, already breaking fund-raising rec ords, has taken in $5.8 million more since January by tapping every major special interest in the state, according to his campaign-finance report filed Tuesday. His fierce fund-raising pace, nearly $1 million a month, left him with $30.5 million in cash, dwarfing that gathered by Republican gubernatorial rivals Bill Jones and William E. Simon Jr. Davis even collected $83,000 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up on Wednesday to get their picture on a postage stamp. Vanity stamps that feature personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer's photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp features a different scene from a traditional ukiyo-e Japanese ...

Constitution is drug war's casualty Paul Craig Roberts Conservatives should rethink their support for John P. Walters, who has been nominated by President Bush to head the Drug Enforcement Administration. While they are at it, they should reconsider their commitment to the war on drugs, which is destroying our freedom. Walters is a good man, and he would pursue drugs energetically. The problem with Walters is that he would pursue drugs at too high a cost to our civil liberties and privacy, and at the expense of the sovereignty of Latin American countries. The conservatives' war on drugs is an ...

The Scripps Research Institute - News and Publications   Poking Holes in Pathogens: Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Build a New Class of Nanotube "Smart Drugs" La Jolla, CA, July 25, 2001 -- Scientists at The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, a part of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have published a paper in the current issue of Nature that describes a broad nanochemical approach for designing drugs to combat such problems as infections with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Principal Investigator M. Reza Ghadiri, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry at TSRI, and his coworkers have created a class of biological ...

Things move really fast nowadays. Just yesterday we hardly dared to call the Israeli policy of official discrimination against Palestinians by the harsh word ‘apartheid’. Today, as Sharon’s tanks and missiles pound defenseless cities and villages, the word barely suffices. It has become an unjustified insult to the white supremacists of South Africa. They, after all, did not use gun-ships and tanks against the natives, they did not lay siege to Soweto. They did not deny the humanity of their kaffirs. The Jewish supremacists made it one better. They have returned us, as if by magic wand, to the world ...

Poll: O.C. says energy crisis mishandled Electricity: Residents are down on public officials but give themselves high marks. August 1, 2001 By JAN NORMANThe Orange County Register Just about everyone involved in the state's electricity problems gets low marks from Orange County residents. Everyone, that is, except individual consumers. In a random telephone survey in June of 532 households, 63 percent said out-of-state energy providers have done a poor or very poor job of improving the state's electrical situation. Close behind are the state's private utilities and Public Utilities Commission at 59 percent. President George W. Bush, Vice President ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A bar owner in Brazil trying to discover who was stealing liquor from his bar killed two customers after putting rat poison in a popular liquor. Bar owner Manoel da Paixao Goncalves told police he doctored three bottles of cachaca liquor to discover who was stealing the fiery drink from his bar. "Just a little bit," Goncalves was cited by the Estado agency as telling police when they asked him how much rat poison he had put in the cachaca. Goncalves said he had wanted the rat poison to give the cachaca thieves stomach aches to ...

  German Gays Flock to Divorce Court     Abutt Focker (R) and Dick Schlupper (L) in happier times. "It's like I don't even know who he is anymore," complained Focker. The two were married yesterday in Germany, where same-sex unions became legally recognized. BERLIN — Abutt Focker was beaming as he took the vow of marriage with his same-sex partner. "I love Dick, and we wanted to marry as soon as the new law was passed," he said shortly after he and his longtime lover, Dick Schlupper, became husband and husband.  Since August 1st Germany has legally recognized ...

[Below is the transcription of an ACTUAL in-class worksheet brought home from high school - probably in reckless violation of "hush" rules. Kids were asked to respond on the given scale of 1-5 before reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and then "explain" their responses in writing for a grade!!!!!!]. Opinionnaire: Exploring Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird: Strongly Agree 5 4 3 2 1 Strongly Disagree 1) All men are created equal. 2) Girls should act like girls. 3) It's okay to be different. 4) Nobody is all bad or all good. 5) Some words are so offensive that they ...

Jerusalem Gardeners "Fix" Pipe (Bomb) Two Jerusalem Municipality gardeners working in the park adjacent to the King David Hotel found a pipe bomb that measured 8 X 20 centimeters. They were unaware that the pipe was a bomb, deciding to open it with a wrench. After they opened it, white gunpowder poured out which they thought was salt. After a smoking break, the gardeners tossed their cigarette butts into the "salt" which then exploded. There were no injuries to the two Arab gardeners.

POLL ANALYSES August 1, 2001 Public Supports Concept of Missile Defense But public opinion on issue is not settled by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- President Bush continues to advocate the immediate deployment of a missile defense system, even though most countries in the world, including America's closest allies, oppose the effort, and the technological merits of the proposed system have yet to be proved. Bush's position on this matter seems consistent with the top-of-mind reaction of the American public to such a proposal. Still, few Americans have followed the issue closely, and most are ...

I have a final exam today in my Business Law class and I am stumpted on this question Is there any other defenses to Fraud (contracts) besides Innocent Misrepresentation??? a million thanks

They hate people like me: Gao Sonya Hepinstall, Reuters McLEAN, Virginia: More than five months in detention on the mainland has changed the way academic Gao Zhan feels about her native land. ``This incident has changed my life and changed my way [of thinking about how to] bring change to China,'' Dr Gao said. ``I always wanted to be back in China to have a teaching position there to help ... democratising China. I wanted to teach my students about Western thought.'' Those dreams were sent crashing to Earth last week when she was convicted of spying for Taiwan and ...

From the Chicago Tribune By Geoff Dougherty Tribune staff reporter August 1, 2001 Five months ago elections officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., turned their attention from last year's controversial presidential balloting to the spring election for dozens of municipal offices. As they prepared for the new election, they wiped out computer files showing how each ballot was punched in the presidential election, removing that information from the public domain even as scholars and journalists continue to analyze the results of Florida's presidential voting. The data is especially important because Palm Beach was one of the key counties in the ...