Thialand. A search for the missing turns into mediation at their loss.
Sydney Morning Herald
Search became a meditation in letting go
Joe Berman came to the devastation of Phi Phi island in search of solace, and to find something more than his son's body to take home. The visit gave expression to a father's goodbye, and a father's hope that seeing where his child died would provide some kind of peace.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/01/07/1104832309243.html?oneclick=true
Rising tension over aid bottleneck
By Matthew Moore in Banda Aceh and Tom Allard in Jakarta
January 8, 2005
Flight delays at Banda Aceh airport, the main distribution point for aid in Indonesia, are hampering the huge relief effort 11 days after the tsunami struck.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Rising-tension-over-aid-bottleneck/2005/01/07/1104832311045.html
Head-on train crash kills 14 in Italy
January 8, 2005 - 6:14AM
A passenger train collided with a freight train in northern Italy on Friday in heavy fog, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens, rescue officials said. The head-on crash turned several cars into a wreck of buckled metal.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Headon-train-crash-kills-14-in-Italys/2005/01/08/1104832329681.html
Scandal-hit oil exec gets severance pay
January 8, 2005 - 6:54AM
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group says it gave a STG520,000 ($A1.3 million) severance package to its former finance chief, who quit with two other senior executives last year in the wake of the company's oil reserves scandal.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Scandalhit-oil-exec-gets-severance-pays/2005/01/08/1104832331872.html
Three-bus collision kills 25 in Bolivia
January 8, 2005 - 7:44AM
Three buses have crashed on a highway in Bolivia, killing 25 people and injuring at least 50.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Threebus-collision-kills-25-in-Bolivias/2005/01/08/1104832333300.html
Head-on train crash kills 14 in Italy
January 8, 2005 - 6:14AM
A passenger train collided with a freight train in northern Italy on Friday in heavy fog, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens, rescue officials said. The head-on crash turned several cars into a wreck of buckled metal.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Headon-train-crash-kills-14-in-Italys/2005/01/08/1104832329681.html
Israelis bring skills at identifying bodies
January 8, 2005
They are "the team that sleeps with the dead" - Orthodox Jewish forensic workers who have matched body parts to identities after countless suicide bombings and scenes of carnage in Israel.
Now in Thailand, they have only one way to describe the aftermath of the tsunami: a disaster of biblical proportions.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Israelis-bring-skills-at-identifying-bodies/2005/01/07/1104832310176.html
The Jerusalem Post
Jewish group builds a 'Noah's Ark' for Thai fishermen
By THE ASSOCIATED PREss
MINNEAPOLIS
Perry Witkin was intrigued.
The small business owner and president of Minneapolis-based Nechama: Jewish Response to Disaster, a volunteer group that helps people in Minnesota and western Wisconsin recover from floods and tornadoes, heard about a project to replace fishermen's boats lost or damaged in the tsunamis in Thailand.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1104895134810
The Coke Report Guatemala:
Thursday, 6 January 2005, 11:58 am
Column: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Coke Report Guatemala: The Crown Prince of Central America’s Drug Trafficking
• By land, sea and air, Guatemala funnels drugs into the U.S.
• Today, Central America is the key link to the Colombian drug nexus.
• The region’s economy would dry up if the drug trafficking ban were upheld.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0501/S00043.htm
People Choice Awards, January 9, 2005 - Be there or Be Square !!
The Jakarta Post
Indonesian police find cache of 60 bombs in sectarian violence-hit town
JAKARTA (AFP): Police in a sectarian violence-hit town on Indonesia's Sulawesi island say they have found a cache of 60 home-made bombs and two home-made firearms.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050107103126&irec=10
Indonesian government revises down death toll to 101,318
JAKARTA (AFP): The Indonesian government revised down the death toll from last month's earthquake and tsunami disaster to 101,318 on Friday after a counting error was discovered, the social affairs ministry said.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050107184230&irec=0
Birth Control and Abortion
You had to know at some point this administration was going to classify abortion with the death penalty. WELL. Here it is !!!
Death penalty bills bring abortion into spotlight
01/07/2005
By NIKI SULLIVAN / Associated Press
Sponsors of competing bills that would make people who kill pregnant women subject to the death penalty are clashing over how to classify an unborn child.
And those who favor abortion rights say one of the bills is actually aimed at chipping away at those rights.
A bill sponsored by Democrats, many of whom have opposed capital punishment in the past, would toughen penalties for violent crime against a pregnant woman, and could result in the death penalty for murder. Currently only aggravated murder cases can result in the death penalty.
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D87EUSI00.html
Top KCPE Pupil Dies After Abortion
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
January 7, 2005
Posted to the web January 6, 2005
Nairobi
The tragedy of backstreet abortions returned to haunt Kenyans when a top KCPE girl died in the hands of a quack on Monday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501060686.html
Democrats No Closer to Choosing Chairman, Abortion Still Contentious
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 7, 2005
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Leading Democrats are still no closer to choosing a new chairman and abortion continues to be a controversial issue in the race to become the next head of the DNC.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat1091.html
Fewer Women Using Birth Control
1/7/05- Women may have more contraceptive choices than ever, but at the same time, fewer women are using them. One member of Planned Parenthood says the cost of birth control may be to blame.
A study by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed that more women are avoiding birth control pills over the last 7 years. The report did not say whether the drop in contraceptive use is leading to more unwanted pregnancies.
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2778616&nav=0RbQUwAy
Consumer Reports Rates Condoms
United Press International
Consumer Reports magazine says in its February issue some of Planned Parenthood's condoms don't rise to the level of other condoms. The publication's Guide to Contraception, which evaluates 23 kinds of latex condoms, pans Planned Parenthood's Assorted Colors and Honeydew models as weak and prone to failing.
CR's highest-rated models are the Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex, the Durex Performax Lubricated, Lifestyles Classic Collection Ultra Sensitive Lubricated, TheyFit Lubricated, Trojan Extended Pleasure Climax Control Lubricant, Trojan Non-Lubricated and Trojan Ultra Pleasure Spermicidal Lubricant.
http://www.wokr13.tv/business/story.aspx?content_id=18EAA6C0-6C2F-4CCB-884D-4D7E381D1A4F
Planned Parenthood tests its condoms after low quality score
Jesse Westbrook
Bloomberg News
Jan. 7, 2005 11:05 AM
Planned Parenthood is testing two styles of condoms distributed at its clinics after Consumer Reports rated the prophylactics the worst of 23 brands evaluated.
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0107condoms07-ON.html
China to outlaw selective abortion
From correspondents in Beijing
07jan05
CHINA is to outlaw the selective abortion of female foetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls that has grown since a one-child policy was introduced more than 20 years ago.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11878139%5E1702,00.html
Parents Defend Michigan Teen Accused of "Baseball Bat" Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 7, 2005
Mount Clemens, MI (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of a teenager who allowed her boyfriend to beat her with a miniature baseball bat to cause an abortion are defending the teenager who is responsible. Meanwhile, the charges against him are in dispute and his attorney is using the case to call for no more laws limiting abortion.
http://www.lifenews.com/state828.html
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