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JERUSALEM, Jul 02, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Palestinian frustration at nearly two years of poverty during an uprising against Israel boiled over in Gaza, where protesters broke into Yasser Arafat's compound. Despite the growing frustration of Arafat's people, a Palestinian Cabinet minister warned that a new U.S. policy of bypassing Arafat in negotiations poses dangerous complications. About 4,000 demonstrators crashed through iron gates into Arafat's seaside Gaza City compound Monday, carrying banners and signs, some with pita bread attached as a symbol of hardships in earning enough to buy their daily bread. The demonstrators chanted, "We want...

OKAYAMA, Japan, July 1 (UPI) -- Genetic anomalies tied with marijuana-activated brain chemicals appear linked to schizophrenia, Japanese researchers report. "This result provides genetic evidence that marijuana use can result in schizophrenia or a significantly increased risk of schizophrenia," lead researcher Hiroshi Ujike, a clinical psychiatrist at Okayama University, told United Press International. Schizophrenia is one of the greatest mental health challenges in the world, affecting roughly one of every 100 people and filling about a quarter of all hospital beds in the United States. For years, clinical scientists have known that abusing marijuana, also known as cannabis, can trigger...

<p>July 2, 2002 -- ALBANY - State Democrats announced a radio advertising blitz yesterday, blaming Gov. Pataki for the lagging upstate economy in a spot that uses a paid actress masquerading as a New York "grandmother."</p> <p>The 60-second commercial, which Democrats said would run starting today in every media market north of The Bronx, features an elderly-sounding woman blaming Pataki for upstate's woes.</p>

Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - HMOs will log a third year of double-digit price increases in 2003, and the bill will go to employees. "You personally will be paying more," said Steve Cigich, who is surveying health maintenance organizations for Seattle-based employee benefits consultant Milliman USA.Employers will pass these price increases to their workers in the form of higher monthly premiums and bigger out-of-pocket co-payments for pharmaceutical drugs, hospital stays and visits to doctors' offices, Cigich predicted.Premiums will rise an average of 19 percent in several regions of the country, including the Mountain states, according to preliminary results of the...

<p>COLONIE, N.Y. - A Muslim cleric with supposed ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Hamas terror group has been serving as the leader of a large mosque upstate, it was revealed yesterday.</p> <p>Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hanooti, the imam of the Islamic Center of the Capital District near Albany, denied any links to terrorism during a brief phone interview with The Post yesterday.</p>

A report by Arab intellectuals commissioned by the United Nations warns that Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, the repression of women and an isolation from the world of ideas that stifles creativity. The survey, the Arab Human Development Report 2002, is to be released today in Cairo, Egypt. The report notes that although oil income has transformed the landscapes of some Arab countries, the region remains "richer than it is developed." Per capita income growth has shrunk in the last 20 years to a level just above that of sub-Saharan Africa. Productivity is declining....

The Latest in Liberal McCarthyism By George Neumayr Bill Simon's low-key gubernatorial campaign is unnerving some California journalists. What are biased liberal journalists supposed to do when the Republican candidate is temperate and uncontroversial? This is a real drag for reporters whose raison d'être is nailing Republicans. But liberals at the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News remain undaunted. Experts at shoehorning smears into their stories and calling them "news," they rolled out two guilt-by-association pieces about Simon this last weekend. Laura Kurtzman of the Mercury News discovered through intense investigative work that Bill Simon is "anti-abortion" and...

<p>July 2, 2002 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui expressed kinship with Osama bin Laden in court filings unsealed yesterday - and said the government's case against him is based on unproven speculation that bin Laden was the mastermind of the attacks.</p>

<p>July 2, 2002 -- Here's more proof that elections have gone to the dogs: A pooch is running for Congress in Florida against Secretary of State Katherine Harris.</p> <p>Percy the border-collie mix is a write-in candidate in the Republican primary, has his own Web site and has been taken out to meet voters. One of his slogans is: "Never made a mess in the House! Never will!"</p>

<p>July 2, 2002 -- SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - A mother accused of leaving her kids to die inside her sweltering car while she went to have her hair done has been charged with first-degree murder.</p> <p>Tarajee Maynor, 25, of Detroit, remained jailed without bond early yesterday. She faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.</p>

Regulators probing alleged accounting fraud at WorldCom Inc. (NasdaqNM: WCOM - News) (WCOM, WCOME) are increasingly concerned that company officials haven't fully disclosed many details of the widening scandal, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt lambasted WorldCom after the company said it could have committed additional accounting errors. WorldCom previously had said it plans to restate by $3.8 billion its financial results for 2001 and part of 2002. Monday, the company said in a statement that it had uncovered what could be additional accounting problems. These could add at least another $1 billion to...

<p>July 2, 2002 -- AS George W. Bush became president, I turned to America's best Republican political consultant, Charlie Black, for a line on our new leader. "Always remember," Black told me, "that he's his mother's son."</p> <p>Mother's son or father's boy? The conflict between Bush's maternal and paternal DNA seems almost to define the zigs and zags of his presidency - and the political ups and downs which they trigger.</p>

<p>July 2, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda operatives may be keeping Osama bin Laden out of the limelight, fearing his frail condition could harm morale among his followers, according to new intelligence reports.</p> <p>U.S. officials told The Post last night that the CIA and NSA intercepted communications among al Qaeda supporters following bin Laden's last public appearance on videotape in December in which there were urgent pleas to keep the elusive terror master out of the public eye.</p>

<p>July 2, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, defending Israel's killing of a top Hamas bomb-maker, said yesterday that "there is no compromise with terror."</p> <p>Sharon called the killing of Muhaned Taher on Sunday "a very important operation" to eliminate "a murderer who committed the most horrific crimes."</p>

You are here:  >>enron.com  >>Press Room  >>Press Releases  >>2000  >>Enron Corp. Press Release ENRON WINS THREE-YEAR CONTRACT TO STREAM BROADBAND CONTENT FOR DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 10, 2000HOUSTON - Enron Broadband Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. and a leader in the delivery of high-bandwidth application services, announced today a three-year contract with Digital Entertainment Network (DEN.net), one of the premier online entertainment networks, to deliver DEN.net’s streamed broadband content to desktop viewers. DEN.net will use Enron’s ePowered™ Media Cast product to deliver its youth-oriented, high bit rate streamed content over the Enron Intelligent Network™, a broadband...

WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- "There is nothing new in the world," President Harry S. Truman liked to say, "Except the history you don't already know." He must have been reading United Press International analysis on "The decline and fall of the American economy." Ten months ago, on Aug. 30, 2001 -- less than two weeks before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and mangled the Pentagon -- this column said, "The continued slide of the U.S. economy into serious recession and the failure of the Bush administration to either recognize the fact or...

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<p>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision striking down the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional because it contains the phrase "under God," is an outrageous example of judicial activism and overreaching. It also underscores the importance of our third branch of government — the courts — to our personal rights and freedoms.</p>

One week ago, I posited the theory that the excesses, felonies and lack of respect for the law and get-it-while-you-can mentality of the Clinton administration provided the example for corporations like WorldCom, Tyco and Enron. If the guy at the top can get away with all this and still end up with a $200 library slush fund, $15 million a year in speaking fees and a $12 million advance for an book (not one word of which has been written), what's the message? Well, lo and behold, WorldCom told the government that it is reviewing financial records for 1999 through...

"I did not choose to be homosexual. I would change my sexual orientation if that were within my power." So wrote Robert Bauman, the powerful, ultraconservative congressman from Maryland. Americans were stunned in 1980 when headlines revealed Bauman had been caught having a sexual rendezvous with a young male prostitute. In his book, "The Gentleman From Maryland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative," Bauman revealed the conditions that shaped his own tortured double life as a congressman and closet homosexual. At the tender age of 5, Bauman had been sexually seduced by a neighbor boy about 12. Reflecting on that...