All Africa
Genocide Has Been Occurring in Darfur, U.S. Government Reaffirms
United States Department of State (Washington, DC)
February 1, 2005
Posted to the web February 2, 2005
Charles W. Corey
Washington, DC
United States welcomes U.N. commission on Darfur but differs on conclusion
Even though the U.S. government welcomes the work that has been completed by a United Nations commission of inquiry on Darfur, the United States still stands by its own conclusion reached September 2004 that genocide has been occurring in Darfur, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said February 1.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502020016.html
Lake Nakuru Under Threat of Drying Up
The Nation (Nairobi)
February 7, 2005
Posted to the web February 7, 2005
Simon Siele
Nairobi
Lake Nakuru could dry up owing to destruction of the environment around it.
Environmentalists say the water levels are declining rapidly, blaming the situation on the destruction of the Mau Forest complex, Dundori and Eburu hills.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502070143.html
Central Africa: Leaders Sign New Treaty to Protect Rainforest
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
February 7, 2005
Posted to the web February 7, 2005
Brazzaville
Leaders of the 10 countries that make up the Congo Basin on Saturday concluded a treaty aimed at protecting the world's second largest rainforest.
The treaty, signed at the end of a two-day summit in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo (ROC), provides for the creation of a new forestry commission and a subregional fund to finance the protection of the rainforest, as well as the harmonisation of national laws on logging.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502070243.html
Congo: Ex-Rebel Leader Launches Arms Recovery Drive
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
February 2, 2005
Posted to the web February 2, 2005
Brazzaville
In an effort to reign in his militia and improve national security, former rebel leader Frédéric Bitsangou launched a drive on Monday to recover all guns in his fiefdom: the Pool Department of the Republic of Congo.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502020422.html
Oil Ministry Regulates Procedures for Waste Management
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
February 5, 2005
Posted to the web February 7, 2005
Luanda
A decree signed by the Minister of Petroleum, Desiderio Costa and promulgated in the state gazette this year approves the regulation of the procedures for the management, removal and storage of wastes.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502070189.html
Angola: Facing a Season of Preventable Malaria Deaths
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Luanda
Although Angola applied for funding to fight malaria, the money will arrive too late to switch to more effective combination drugs and avoid another grim season of preventable deaths.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040300.html
Food Shortages Reach Critical Levels
Zimbabwe Independent (Harare)
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Gift Phiri
FOOD shortages are approaching critical levels in parts of Zimbabwe, raising the spectre of some voters starving to death before the parliamentary poll in March, although authorities are still locked in denial.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040021.html
Cholera Hits Congolese in Hoima
New Vision (Kampala)
February 5, 2005
Posted to the web February 7, 2005
Anne Mugisa
Kampala
Over 5,000 Congolese refugees who illegally camped at Lake Albert's Nkondo landing site in Hoima recently, have been hit by cholera.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502070178.html
Zambezi Continues to Fall
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
February 7, 2005
Posted to the web February 7, 2005
Maputo
The level of the Zambezi river in central Mozambique continued to fall over the weekend, but the National Water Board (DNA) has warned that people living in the lower Zambezi valley should remain on the alert, and stay away from flood-prone areas.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502070129.html
Level of Zambezi Now Falling
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Maputo
Flooding on the lower Zambezi in central Mozambique has begun to subside over the last 24 hours, thanks to a lessening of rainfall in the Zambezi basin, reports the National Water Board (DNA).
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040367.html
Batswana Should Embrace Water Conservation
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
EDITORIAL
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Botswana is a semi-arid country but none of its people have applied their minds to come up with the best practices to save and conserve water. It seems that the responsibility to conserve the scarce product has either been conveniently forgotten by Batswana or left to government and institutions such as the Water Utilities Corporation.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040562.html
Mixed Feelings Over Lagos Rain
This Day (Lagos)
February 7, 2005
Posted to the web February 7, 2005
Theophilus Oyekanmi
Lagos
Lagosians yesterday witnessed a heavy downpour with mixed feelings. THISDAY revealed that the populace was saddened that most roads remain impassable while many were rendered homeless.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502070122.html
Batswana Should Embrace Water Conservation
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
EDITORIAL
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Botswana is a semi-arid country but none of its people have applied their minds to come up with the best practices to save and conserve water. It seems that the responsibility to conserve the scarce product has either been conveniently forgotten by Batswana or left to government and institutions such as the Water Utilities Corporation.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040562.html
Museveni Declares New Kony Ceasefire
The Monitor (Kampala)
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Frank Nyakairu & Hudson Apunyo
Kampala
President Yoweri Museveni has declared another 18-day ceasefire for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels to facilitate peace talks to end the northern rebellion.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040001.html
Implement Our Election Promises, Guebuza Demands
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
February 4, 2005
Posted to the web February 4, 2005
Maputo
Members of the new Mozambican government must show in their activities that they believe the promises made by the ruling Frelimo party to the electorate last year "can be carried out", President Armando Guebuza demanded on Friday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502040366.html
Burundi: Rebel Group Says Yes to Negotiations But Rejects Zuma As Mediator
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
February 3, 2005
Posted to the web February 3, 2005
Bujumbura
Burundi's remaining active rebel group, the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), said on Thursday it was ready for talks with the transitional government, on condition that South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma does not act as mediator.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502030155.html>
Strong Rand Knocks Production And It May Get Worse Still
Business Day (Johannesburg)
February 2, 2005
Posted to the web February 2, 2005
Nasreen Seria
Johannesburg
Domestic demand too small to take up slack
MANUFACTURING production shrunk last month for the first time in 15 months, says the latest Investec purchasing managers index, with the strong rand and weak global demand pulling the plug on the sector's recovery.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502020118.html
Rand Puts DRDGOLD's SA Mines At Risk'
Business Day (Johannesburg)
February 2, 2005
Posted to the web February 2, 2005
John Fraser
Johannesburg
DRDGOLD may have to close its South African operations unless it can cut costs, Merrill Lynch warned yesterday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502020096.html
AS LONG AS there is no corruption, who is the USA to define efficiency !! This is just Bush back peddling.
Kenya Could Lose Billions for Aids War
The Nation (Nairobi)
February 2, 2005
Posted to the web February 1, 2005
Mugo Njeru And Mugumo Munene
Nairobi
The US yesterday warned that Kenya could lose billions of shillings for the fight against Aids.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502010938.html
UN Seat: AU Sets Up Committee On African Position
This Day (Lagos)
February 1, 2005
Posted to the web February 1, 2005
Iyefu Adoba And Kingsley Nwezeh
Abuja
African Union Chairman, President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday in Abuja announced at the end of the two-day 4th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union that a 15-man committee has been set up to fashion out a common stand for Africa on reforms in the United Nations.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502010006.html
The Chicago Tribune
Swiss Can't Find Assailants in Consulate
By ONNA CORAY
Associated Press Writer
Published February 7, 2005, 9:15 AM CST
BERN, Switzerland -- Swiss special forces stormed the Spanish consulate Monday to end a hostage standoff nearly seven hours after three masked assailants broke into the building, but the suspected robbers managed to elude police, authorities said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-switzerland-spain-consulate-seized,1,5605505.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Police lineups' flaws spur new approach
Standing suspects in a row has come under fire; Illinois is testing an identification method that may help avoid falsely imprisoning people
By Gina Kim Tribune staff reporter
Published February 7, 2005
TWO RIVERS, Wis. -- For 18 years, the photographs that lined Steve Avery's prison cells linked him to the outside world. They helped him see his children grow up. They made him feel as if he hadn't completely missed those birthdays and Thanksgivings.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0502070235feb07,1,6250917.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Backlog in DNA testing reduced
`Dramatic' drop omits some rapes
By Carlos Sadovi
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 7, 2005
A backlog of nearly 1,000 old criminal cases has undergone DNA testing by the Illinois State Police, bringing the number of untested cases to 158--the lowest in five years, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Sunday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0502070152feb07,1,3184726.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The final frontier: Cancellation
Published February 7, 2005
Like a blast from a phaser set on stun, fans of the "Star Trek: Enterprise" series absorbed the news last week that the series had been canceled.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0502070193feb07,1,593069.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed
The Japan Times
Bet on the sustainable option
By TAKAMITSU SAWA
In the 20th century, science and technology was aimed at contributing to economic development and growth. In the 21st century, though, it must seek to promote sustainable development.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20050207ts.htm
Government may change Futenma move
The government is considering looking for a new site to relocate Okinawa Prefecture's U.S. Futenma Air Station in hopes of breaking the logjam over the current plan to place it in the Nago area, government and ruling coalition sources said Sunday.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050207a1.htm
Fukui governor gives approval to retool controversial Monju
FUKUI (Kyodo) Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa said Sunday he has approved a plan to retool the troubled Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor -- a necessary step if operations are to be resumed following a 1995 sodium leak accident.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050207a2.htm
GEE, she doesn't look Japanese.
National Children's Centers cater to body, spirit
By ANGELA JEFFS
In July 2000, after 15 years heading the International Section of the Children's Castle, Teri Suzanne left the play and educational center in Aoyama, Tokyo, and became a freelance bilingual specialist. Two years later she was employed as program adviser to the 14 National Children's Centers of Japan's Independent Administrative Institution.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20050205a1.htm
Forging an alternative to U.S. hegemony
By GLYN FORD
Special to The Japan Times
BRUSSELS -- At a series of meetings around the left-leaning World Parliamentary Forum (WPF) held late last month in Porto Alegre, Brazil, there was a strong case made for the necessity of building a new economic and political partnership between the European Union and South America.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20050207a1.htm
THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Sanctions against Cuba only assist Castro
By CONSTANTINE PLESHAKOV
MOSCOW -- To go or not to go? To trade or not to trade? To invest or not to invest? These are the questions asked nowadays by many Western governments following a recent EU decision to lift sanctions against Havana.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20050207cp.htm
Taiwan Strait suddenly looks narrower
By FRANK CHING
HONG KONG -- The political atmosphere in the Taiwan Strait has improved considerably in recent days following the inauguration of nonstop charter flights between the two sides during the Chinese New Year holidays.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20050206fc.htm
A new world in post-feudal times
… Isao Yukisada's "Kita no Zero-nen (Year One in the North)" is such an epic, intended first and last for a domestic audience. It's not that its story of settlers in early Meiji Era Hokkaido is too culture-specific; in some ways, the film is a Japanese counterpart to all those Hollywood westerns about pioneers heading west.
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ff20050202a2.htm
The Miami Herald
Testimony ends in case of bogus Christmas pageant
BY LUISA YANEZ
lyanez@herald.com
Testimony ended Monday morning in the Miami federal trial of a show producer accused of selling tickets to students to attend a bogus Christmas pageant at the Coconut Grove Expo Center last year.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10839163.htm
Radiator causes house fire
BY LISETT FERNANDEZ
lfernandez@herald.com
An early morning house fire in North Miami caused by a faulty radiator hospitalized two people, one with severe injuries.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10839005.htm
Dead soldiers get citizenship
The immigration service conferred posthumous U.S. citizenship on 56 green-card soldiers, including two from South Florida.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
achardy@herald.com
Nicaraguan-born Terry Holmes Ordóñez tried to become a U.S. citizen as soon as he was eligible -- but fate delayed his wish.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10834695.htm
Field of nine candidates to be pared down
Dania Beach voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to narrow the list of City Commission candidates.
BY DARRAN SIMON
dsimon@herald.com
Slot machines at Dania Jai-Alai, the expansion of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and redeveloping downtown are the main issues of concern to Dania Beach's City Commission candidates.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10834694.htm
PBS commemorates historic presidential bid
BY JANICE RHOSHALLE LITTLEJOHN
Associated Press
• Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed. 11 tonight, WPBT-PBS 2
After months of boisterous campaigning, Shirley Chisholm sits quietly in a Miami hotel room watching Walter Cronkite report from the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10830789.htm
Hurricane leftovers turned fanciful art
BY PATTI ROTH
roth94@aol.com
Debra Cortese had survived her first hurricane season in South Florida.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10830792.htm
Genocide anywhere is heinous, inexcusable
OUR OPINION: TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MASS MURDER IN DARFUR, SUDAN
Whatever one calls the systematic extermination of people in the Darfur region of Sudan, it is mass murder and must be stopped. The United Nations has already wasted too much time in the two years that Sudan's government and militias have killed more than 70,000 Darfurians and driven two million others from their villages. The U.N. Security Council needs to stop dithering and take decisive action immediately to stop the ethnic cleansing.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10835361.htm
All it takes is one mistake to wind up kidnapped or beheaded
BY JORGE E. LINARES
jelinares@bellsouth.net
When a British company hired me to go to Iraq to work in the reconstruction of high-voltage transmission lines and substations, the job appealed to me. It was a technical challenge and an opportunity to contribute to building a better world. I hoped that interaction with the Iraqi people would be a rewarding and enriching experience. And I bet that, in terms of security, the situation would be better than what the media portrayed.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10835370.htm
Time to lift Cuba embargo
In the Feb. 2 Other Views column, New moves could end investment slump, Phil Peters writes about China's investment in the nickel and oil sectors in Cuba. Despite our current trade deficit, we are allowing the Chinese to dominate the market as we continue to implement a failed policy toward Cuba. Free trade with Cuba could generate $50 billion and 900,000 jobs for the United States, according to an economic study by Tim Lynch, director of Florida State University's Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10835365.htm
The Moscow Times
Ukraine Goes After Missile Dealers
By Aleksandar Vasovic
The Associated Press
KIEV -- A Ukrainian government probe into lucrative illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former President Leonid Kuchma has led to secret indictments or arrests of at least six arms dealers accused of selling nuclear-capable missiles destined for Russia to Iran and China, a high-ranking intelligence official said Friday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/07/002.html
Tymoshenko Appointed, Names Reformist Cabinet
KIEV -- Parliament confirmed Yulia Tymoshenko as Ukraine's new prime minister Friday and gave the firebrand of the Orange Revolution the go-ahead to set the country on a new, westward course.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/07/012.html
European human rights commissioner coming to Russia Monday
Interfax. Monday, Feb. 7, 2005, 8:08 PM Moscow Time
MOSCOW. Feb 7 (Interfax) - The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles will arrive in Russia on Monday, the Council of Europe's press service said in a release circulated on Monday.
Gil-Robles will first travel to Bryansk to attend a two-day seminar on the development of regional institutions of human rights commissioners in Russia's central regions, the press release said.
On February 9, Gil-Robles will return to Moscow for talks with Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/HotNews.html
Free Speech Does Not Fit the Script
It was a rather unexpected phone call for these days. The producer of a talk show at one of the major television channels called to invite me as an expert on an upcoming program. "Are you sure? Did you run my name by your boss?" I asked. I know where I live, and I'm aware that there are lists of those who are allowed on national television and those who are not.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/07/007.html
Movers and Shakers
An adaptation of Andrei Platonov's "Dzhan" uses dance to convey the writer's subtle prose, while a new version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" goes for physical comedy.
Two new shows at the Pushkin Theater couldn't possibly be more different. A mainstage production of "A Madsummer Night's Dream" -- a one-act version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" -- is a mix of spectacle and kitsch from director Nina Chusova. Meanwhile, over on the small stage of the theater's affiliate, Roman Kozak has mounted a dramatization of Andrei Platonov's novella "Dzhan," one of this exquisite writer's starkest and most powerful works.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/04/106.html
Global Eye
Criminal World
By Chris Floyd
Published: February 4, 2005
Another day, another accomplice in the construction of the Bush Regime's torture chambers revealed. Nothing new there; the perp walk of top Bushists colluding in torture could stretch a mile. But the remarkable thing about the latest case is that it exposes an even greater depth of official criminality than hitherto suspected -- no mean feat, given the rap sheet of this crew.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/04/120.html
The Detroit Free Press
YOU WON'T think this would be an issue in Bush's Crony Economy.
DaimlerChrysler to postpone U.S. launch of Mercedes-Benz sport wagon, citing weak dollar
Monday, February 7, 2005
BY MELISSA EDDY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFURT, Germany - DaimlerChrysler AG is delaying the U.S. launch of its Mercedes-Benz B-Class sport wagon over concerns that the weak dollar would eat too deeply into profits, the automaker said Monday.
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm2708_20050207.htm
Ford, Dodge recalling thousands of vehicles, government says
Monday, February 7, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ford Motor Co. is recalling 358,857 Focus cars because their rear passenger doors may not latch properly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a Ford spokeswoman said Monday.
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm2704_20050207.htm
Boy, 4, drives mom's car to video store and back
Monday, February 7, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAND LAKE -- At least he wasn't speeding.
A 4-year-old boy drove his mother's car to a video store a quarter-mile from their apartment in this town about 15 miles north of Grand Rapids.
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm2706_20050207.htm
Changes sought for Merit Awards
2 years of college needed for grant
February 7, 2005
BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF and ZLATI MEYER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
Gov. Jennifer Granholm will propose Tuesday that Michigan students who finish two years of college would receive up to $4,000 from the state to help them complete a bachelor's degree or pay off community college costs.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/granholm7e_20050207.htm
ENERGY POLICY: Important sticking points remain in Bush priorities
February 7, 2005
President George W. Bush made it clear last week that he expects action on his energy plan, which he failed to get through Congress in his first term.
But there were good reasons behind that failure, and they haven't changed. The plan is skewed in the wrong direction, with too much emphasis on oil and not enough on alternatives to it.
http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/eenergy7e_20050207.htm
Homicide in Detroit: Echoes of violence
http://www.freep.com/news/metro/homicide2004.htm
The Guardian
Clarke loses bail breach case
Staff and agencies
Monday February 7, 2005
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, today lost his bid to have an Algerian terror suspect returned to prison for allegedly breaching the conditions of his house arrest.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1407735,00.html
Bush budget seeks social spending cuts
The US president, George Bush, sent a $2,500bn (£1,346bn) budget to Congress today that seeks cuts in social spending while boosting funding for the military and homeland security.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1407798,00.html
Animal testing laws 'not enforced'
Secret documents reveal that laws intended to protect laboratory animals are not being properly enforced, anti-vivisection lawyers told the high court today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1407808,00.html
On thin ice
Canada's efforts to honour the Kyoto accord on global warming are looking increasingly inadequate, writes Anne McIlroy
Anne McIlroy in Ottawa
Monday February 7, 2005
The Kyoto accord on global warming takes effect next week, and the heat is on Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Liberal government to produce a plan for meeting Canada's international obligations.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1407773,00.html
Exodus: British Rastas flock to land of messiah
Ethiopia, whose Emperor Haile Selassie gave new focus to a black Christian movement, plays host to the annual Bob Marley anniversary
Andrew Heavens in Addis Ababa and Sandra Laville
Monday February 7, 2005
Jules Benji, a massed choir singing No Woman No Cry over his shoulder from a huge stage in Meskel Square, Addis Ababa, declared: "We're doing His Majesty's work here. This is a historic day for Ethiopia."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1407285,00.html
The Jerusalem Post
Gen. William Ward to be new US 'security coordinator'
The United States pledges to give the Palestinian Authority $40 million over the coming 90 days as part of a quick-action program to aid and ease the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced at a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah Monday afternoon.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1107575181612
Gov't moves to find Holocaust-era heirs
The government has submitted legislation that would establish a holding corporation to seek out heirs for unclaimed Holocaust-era assets, but not guarantee the 4-percent rate of interest that was recommended by the Knesset commission of inquiry into the property.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1107659937502
US pays lip service only, for now, to democracy in Iran
US President George W. Bush and senior American officials have once again turned up their rhetorical support for Iranians seeking freedom from the clerics who rule their country. But it remains unclear whether the US plans to commit material assistance to democracy-seekers in Teheran, and the State Department is making plain that regime change is not on the agenda.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1107575181600
The New York Times
I LOVE THE 'EXCUSE' - "Worried that the nation's aging arsenal…" Worried. Worried? We don't know? I doubt sincerely there is a darn thing wrong with any of those weapons and if there is then it is high time we dismantle them !! WORRIED. What next?
U.S. Redesigning Atomic Weapons
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: February 7, 2005
Worried that the nation's aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be sturdier and more reliable and to have longer lives, federal officials and private experts say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/science/07bomb.html?hp&ex=1107838800&en=99ccd003d8dd07db&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Wolf's Future in Wyoming, as Predator or Fragile Species, Is in Court's Hands
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 4 - Gray wolves have thrived in the West since their reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park 10 years ago last month. No one disputes that. There is also broad agreement among federal wildlife officials, ranchers and conservationists that the time is ripe to remove the protections of the Endangered Species Act under which the wolves made their comeback.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/national/05wolves.html?oref=login>
Ernst Mayr, Pioneer in Tracing Geography's Role in the Origin of Species, Dies at 100
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
Published: February 5, 2005
Dr. Ernst Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Bedford, Mass. He was 100.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/science/05mayr.html
Design for Living
By MICHAEL J. BEHE
Published: February 7, 2005
Bethlehem, Pa. — IN the wake of the recent lawsuits over the teaching of Darwinian evolution, there has been a rush to debate the merits of the rival theory of intelligent design. As one of the scientists who have proposed design as an explanation for biological systems, I have found widespread confusion about what intelligent design is and what it is not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/opinion/07behe.html
Gay Marriage Ruling a Test of the Mayor's Political Mettle
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: February 7, 2005
With rising poll numbers, positive economic data and a preliminary election-year budget that avoided major cuts or tax hikes, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's opponents seemed to have a limited arsenal of weapons to use against him - until late last week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/nyregion/07marriage.html
Pakistanis Go Fly a Kite as a Boisterous Rite of Spring
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/international/asia/07lahore.html?hp
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