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A whopper of a coho run, 8/02/01, BILL MONROE ASTORIA -- With state biologists predicting that 2001 will go down in the books as a banner year for Columbia River coho salmon, nearly 500 boats turned out at the mouth of the river Wednesday to find out whether opening day would live up to that promise. "I don't think we've ever seen a bite like this so early," Steve King, salmon harvest manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said of the day's fishing. The bumper crop of salmon expected to cross the Columbia River bar in the ...

If you are a mother with a cause celebre or axe to grind, you will garner much attention in the post-feminist age. From Jane Swift’s multiple pregnancy to the adoption craze among Hollywood’s single moms to the drowning of five little children by the post-partum depressed Andrea Yates, motherhood seems to have become one long sideshow of misfits and curiosities. Normal mamas need not apply. As commentator Wendy McElroy notes, “Today, politically correct feminism creates a stereotype that denigrates a housewife or, more accurately, portrays her as a paradigm of how men politically oppress women.” Confound the stereotypes and ...

Why Thirty Mile Fire raged without water By Chris Solomon Before the Thirty Mile Fire turned deadly July 10, dispatchers delayed sending a helicopter to drop water on the flames because they were unsure whether they needed permission to draw water from a river containing threatened fish, the U.S. Forest Service said yesterday. Fourteen firefighters and two hikers were trapped late that afternoon by the fire along the Chewuch River in Okanogan County. Four of the firefighters died. One critically burned firefighter remains in the hospital. Yesterday, Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., chairman of the House Resources' forest subcommittee, suggested that ...

Aug. 2, 2001, 11:13AM Navy resumes bombing exercises at Vieques APHouston Chronicle VIEQUES, Puerto Rico -- Plumes of smoke rose from warships as a fresh round of U.S. Navy exercises involving some 23,000 personnel began today despite pleas from politicians and residents to stop using the outlying island of Vieques as a target. Even before the bombing started, seven protesters broke into Navy grounds and headed for the bombing range in an attempt to interrupt the exercises, according to the Socialist Workers' Movement. Vieques Commissioner Juan Fernandez said the exercises "will be an all-out war scenario" involving the "most complete ...

Pollution concerns may delay opening of Chino power plantENERGY: The builders are asking to go on-line for 30 days without the required pollution controls in place.BY MICHAEL CORONADOTHE PRESS-ENTERPRISECHINO The opening of a new power plant capable of providing emergency electricity to as many as 180,000 homes might be delayed because of concerns over pollutants. Builders of the plant are asking local air-quality officials to let them operate the emergency facility without the required pollution controls for 30 days to avoid months of delays caused by a missed deadline. Delta Power representatives said they need the extra time to ...

An interactive TV channel is advertising a position for a real-life Homer Simpson to help its product testing. They want a full-time couch potato to give viewer feedback on PlayJam programmes, an interactive entertainment channel on cable TV. The chief qualification is square eyes. The lucky winner must love TV and spend a 38-hour working week sat in front of the 'box'. The successful candidate will then advise PlayJam's technical experts on what programmes are fun to play and how they can be improved. The job, the salary for which the company refuses to divulge, is being advertised in national ...

Senator's Net-legislation would jail school-kids By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 02/08/2001 at 06:47 GMT A low-brow publicity stunt masquerading as a legislative measure called the School Website Protection Act of 2001 by US Senator Robert Torricelli (Democrat, New Jersey) would define criminal hacking as any action, even a harmless action, which "affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education." Torricelli is tough on juvenile crime, and he adores schools. Get it, voters? The broadness here created by the word 'affects' is pure Kafka. This might criminalize ...

Lockhart started on a humble note. Indeed, he has plenty to be humble about. Inspired by polls showing that gun control would be a key issue for two thirds of U.S. voters in the 2000 election, Democrats trumpeted their hostility to firearms. “I think they should be banned, yes,” said Al Gore to Larry King on September 16, 2000. “These semiautomatic handguns… they really have no place in our society.” Americans responded by joining the National Rifle Association in record numbers, swelling its ranks to 4.3 million by year-end. More than half of U.S. voters stayed home on Election Day, ...

I see by the papers in the Yankee Capital that Johnny Cochran, and of course Jesse and Al, are wheezing and blowing like a county-fair calliope with a leaky boiler. They always are. This time it was about the need to pay reparations for the ravages trala of slavery. It got me to thinking. I hate it when that happens. Now, I know I’m hard-hearted, and mean-spirited, and no damn good. It’s probably my only virtue. But on consideration, I realized that they might be right. The ravages of slavery do run deep, and cause motingator trouble, with no end ...

Lockhart started on a humble note. Indeed, he has plenty to be humble about. Inspired by polls showing that gun control would be a key issue for two thirds of U.S. voters in the 2000 election, Democrats trumpeted their hostility to

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WASHINGTON — Civil conflict in Macedonia has prompted the Pentagon to move all nonessential military and civilian personnel from Camp Able Sentry in Macedonia to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. Craig R. Quigley said Tuesday. So far, 109 uniformed and civilian personnel have been transferred from Able Sentry to Bondsteel, with another 100 individuals scheduled to move by the end of the week, Quigley said. “It’s being done for force-protection reasons,” Quigley said. “The commanders on the ground felt that they could reduce their posture by removing to Kosovo all nonessential, nonemergency personnel.” The soldiers, contractors and ...

neoliberalism neoliberalism defined. Often the word is used for global market- liberalism ("capitalism") and free-trade policies. That is the way it was used by activists, at the 1999 wto seattle summit. Post-seattle activists - for instance against the genoa g8 summit - use the word almost interchangeably with 'globalisation'. But free trade is not new, and this use of the word ignores developments in the advanced economies. The definition here compares neoliberalism with its historical predecessors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other people's analysis of neoliberalism an example of activist 'definitions' of neoliberalism is this american version, what is "neo-liberalism"? It is quoted ...

Power-line foes want utility to pay their billsLEGAL FEES: Three groups would receive more than $600,000 if the state PUC rules in their favor.BY SANDY STOKESTHE PRESS-ENTERPRISE Foes of a plan to run high-voltage power lines through Temecula's wine country want their legal bills to be paid by the project's backers. Once the fate of San Diego Gas Electric's proposed Valley Rainbow Interconnect is determined by state regulators, the utility could be ordered to pay more than $600,000 in compensation to three groups fighting the project. If the groups are paid, the money would ultimately come from SDGE's customers, ...

FALLON, Nev. (AP) -- A battle over cattle grazing in Nevada's high desert is pitting lawman against lawman. When federal officers seized the herds of two local ranchers from government land last week, only a stern warning from the U.S. attorney stopped a pair of county sheriffs from blocking the roundup. Now, dozens of ranchers and states-rights activists are holding protests at the livestock yard where the captured cattle are being kept, a sheriff is pressing a legal offensive against future seizures and local authorities are complaining that heavy-handed federal rules are threatening a traditional way of life in ...

(CNSNews.com) - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer issued the following statement Thursday after the Senate Commerce Committee rejected the nomination of Mary Sheila Gall to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission. "Mary Gall did not lose today, bipartisanship lost today. Mary Gall has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate twice, once when nominated by former President Bush and again in 1999, when she was nominated by President Clinton. Many of the same senators who voted for Mary Gall when she was nominated by President Clinton just two years ago voted against her today, demonstrating the purely partisan nature of this ...

Thursday, August 2, 2001 Power corrupts It looks like the out-of-state energy producers Gov. Gray Davis denounces as criminals weren't the only ones to make a bundle off the California power crisis. While Davis was publicly declaring "war" on the power companies and privately squandering some $50 billion in taxpayer and ratepayer money on short-term and long-term electricity, members of his high-paid inner circle were busily cashing in on other people's troubles. They were buying and selling shares in the very same companies. Davis has already had to fire five consultants because their overdue disclosure statements showed potential conflicts ...

Pi shared fairly updated at midnight GMT search nature science update advanced search Pi shared fairly Mathematicians edge closer to proving that all numbers get an equal slice of pi. 1 August 2001 ERICA KLARREICH Pi has been causing chaos in mathematical circles for years.Carl Sagan's science fiction classic Contact ends with its heroine searching for a cosmic message hidden in the digits of the number pi. Two mathematicians have now taken the first step towards proving that pi contains not a single message but every conceivable message, meaningful or not1.David Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California ...

STRONG>16:57 2001-08-02 AN ATTEMPT ON KIM JONG-IL’S LIFE COMMITTED IN RUSSIA. THERE ARE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCES Nothing has been reported officially about this incident, probably to avoid a big international scandal. Though in the light of new facts the North Korean leader’s odd behaviour becomes clear, who practically does not get out from the train, but if he does, nobody is permitted to come up to him. The strange incident with Kim Jong-il’s travel warrant train while its moving along Trans-Siberian railway has become known by chance. During its stop in the city of Omsk the journalists from local agency “KP-Master” ...