The Rooster
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
A Jewish settler girl reacts as she is taken away by policewomen in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gush Katif bloc of settlements, in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday Aug. 17, 2005. In Neve Dekalim, the largest settlement and a focus of resistance, the army began Wednesday the forcible removal of people who refused orders to leave the area. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A crying Israeli soldier is escorted by a border police officer in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip Wednesday Aug. 17, 2005. Thousands of Israeli security forces burst through makeshift blockades and poured into four Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, beginning the forcible removal of protesters who refused orders to leave the area ahead of a deadline. The military plans to evacuate at least seven of Gaza's 21 settlements on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli troops carry a Jewish settler out of the synagogue in the Gaza Strip settlement of Morag, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2005. Thousands of Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school Wednesday and hauled them onto buses in a massive evacuation, fulfilling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's promise to withdraw from the Gaza Strip after a 38-year occupation.(AP Photo/Shay Shmueli, Pool)
August 17, 1005. A Jewish settler carrying a prayer-shawl covered Torah scroll, walks by a garbage bin set ablaze by protesters, during scuffles in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2005. Hundreds of soldiers marched in formation through Neve Dekalim's gate, part of the operation into Gaza's 21 settlements to begin the forcible eviction of settlers. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Sitting between Vice Premier Shimon Peres, right, Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon, second right, Vice Premier Ehud Olmert, fifth right and Education Minister Limor Livnat, fourth right, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, third right, heads a Cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office Monday Aug. 15, 2005. Israel's Cabinet met Monday and gave final approval for the removal of additional Gaza settlements in what was seen as a formality. The plan was already approved by the government and parliament during a bruising yearlong political battle. With some 50,000 security forces involved, the pullout from Gaza is the nation's largest-ever noncombat operation.(AP Photo/Guy Assiag)
August 17, 2005. Caption :: Chinese plaintiffs, including families of the victims, and Japanese supporters arrive at the Tokyo High Court with the banner demanding apology and compensation for the victims of germ warfare conducted by the former Japanese imperial army during World War II in Tokyo Tuesday, April 19, 2005. [AP]
Morning Papers - It's Origins
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History
1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1844 Blacks protest Boston's Jim Crow schools at mass rallies. They began a series of meetings to fight the segregated school system in Boston.
1869 1st international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1887 Black Nationalist Marcus M. Garvey, who will inaugurate a "Back to Africa" Movement, is born in Jamaica
1896 Gold is discovered on Klondike River
1906 Members of the Niagra Movement conduct a historic "Barefoot March" down the hillside to the site of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry.
1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1933 Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1945 Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (National Day)
1950 Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands
1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1961 Building of the Berlin Wall begins
1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
1978 1st manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
1982 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
2002 Alfred Ligon, America's oldest continuously operated Black bookstore owner, dies at the age of 96. He founded the Los Angeles-based Aquarian Book Shop in 1941.He was awarded a Living Legend Award in 1993 by the Los Angeles Public Library.
Missing in Action
1966 BRAND JOSEPH WILLIAM CHICAGO IL 09/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1966 KEMP FREDDIE NEW YORK NY
1966 SINGER DONALD MAURICE PHILADELPHIA PA 09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1967 DION LAURENT N. PROVIDENCE RI
1967 HOM CHARLES DAVID HUNTINGTON PARK CA
1968 GARTLEY MARKHAM L. GREENVILLE ME 09/25/72 RELEASED HANOI
1968 HOFFSON ARTHUR T. CAMERON TX 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MAYHEW WILLIAM J. PUGHTOWN WV 07/72REMAINS RECOVERED- 3/14/73 RETURNEE HOMECOMING ALTHOUGH USG RECORDS SHOW REMAINS RETURNED
1968 POWELL WILLIAM E. GATESVILLE TX REMAINS RETURNED 12/04/85
1969 LOEPKE "MALCOLM ""BUCK""" CAPTURED WITH 3 OTHERS NORTH KOREA - HELD 180 DAYS NOT NOTED PMSEA /KOREA WAR/VIETNAM WAR VETERAN
1970 WELLONS PHILLIP ROGERSON RALEIGH NC
1972 PITZEN JOHN R. STACYVILLE IA REMAINS RECOVERED NOVEMBER 1994 ID MARCH 1996
1972 PENDER ORLAND J. WARWICK RI REMAINS RECOVERED NOVEMBER 1994 ID MARCH 1996
1972 RAEBEL DALE V. MILBANK SD 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
Michael Moore Today
Vigil for Cindy Sheehan
Tonight, August 17, 2005 7:30PM
Cindy Sheehan, mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq, continues her vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. She was recently joined by more moms who lost a child in Iraq and other military families. Meanwhile President Bush continues his five-week vacation and pledged Thursday to keep U.S. troops in Iraq—meaning more moms will lose a child.
Cindy has asked supporters to start candlelight vigils in their communities to support her and call for an end to the war. So, MoveOn is teaming up with True Majority and Democracy for America to host Vigils for Cindy Sheehan tonight, August 17th, to show our solidarity with Cindy.
http://www.moveonpac.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=24
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 11); Putting out fires
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
The right wingers are really having a field day with me. It hurts me really badly, but I am willing to put up with the crap, if it ends the war a minute sooner than it would have. I would like to address some specific concerns that have been raised against me.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch
Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators
Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch.
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3724
Bush invited to join Gold Star families at interfaith prayer service Friday outside his ranch
National Council of Churches
New York, August 16, 2005 – The General Secretary of the National Council of Churches is urging President Bush to join with Gold Star families and religious leaders in an interfaith prayer service outside the Bush ranch at noon (CDT) Friday.
The prayer service has been called by Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan “as an opportunity for Americans and others across the world to pray for our soldiers in Iraq, their families and in particular the mothers of our fallen.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3717
Parents of Fallen Marine Make Plea to Bush
By Joe Milicia / Associated Press
CLEVELAND - The day after burying their son, parents of a fallen Marine urged President Bush to either send more reinforcements to Iraq or withdraw U.S. troops altogether.
"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, said Tuesday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3723
Roberts scoffed at equal-pay theory
By Joan Biskupic and Toni Locy / USA Today
As an assistant White House counsel in 1984, John Roberts scoffed at the notion that men and women should earn equal pay in jobs of comparable importance, and he belittled three female Republican members of Congress who promoted that idea to the Reagan administration.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3722
Roberts Once Wrote of 'Abortion Tragedy'
By Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group's memorial service for aborted fetuses was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."
Roberts' wrote the advice in an October, 1985 memo after he was asked to review a proposed telegram from President Reagan to the memorial service promoted by the California Pro Life Medical Association.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3716
Roberts Backed Efforts for School Prayer
By Hope Yen / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - As a young government attorney, John Roberts advised the White House to support congressional efforts to allow school prayer, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling striking down the practice "seems indefensible."
In a Nov. 21, 1985 memo released Monday by the National Archives, Roberts was responding to a move by Congress to permit "group silent prayer or reflection in public schools." He said he would not object if Justice Department officials announced that President Reagan had no formal role in passing an amendment to that effect, but said he would support such a move.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3698
Washington Post Backs Out of 9/11 Event
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Washington Post is withdrawing its offer of free advertising for an organized event by the Defense Department to memorialize the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the newspaper announced.
The Post backed out of the agreement after critics said the event, scheduled to take place four years after the attacks that hit New York and Washington and resulted in the crash of a commercial airliner over western Pennsylvania, would have a pro-war slant and that support of the event by the newspaper would compromise the Post's journalistic integrity.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3721
The Washington Post
Abramoff May Meet With Investigators
By CURT ANDERSON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 16, 2005; 11:32 PM
MIAMI -- Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, accused of federal fraud charges in a casino deal, is willing to be interviewed by police trying to solve the gangland-style murder of the businessman who sold the floating casinos, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Abramoff, whose lobbying activities are under investigation in Washington, had expected to meet with Fort Lauderdale homicide detectives shortly after the February 2001 slaying of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, but the interview never took place, attorney Neal Sonnett said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081600639.html
Indonesia Cuts Sentences for Bali Bombers
By IRWAN FIRDAUS
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 8:58 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The Indonesian government Wednesday reduced prison sentences for 19 people, including the alleged spiritual head of an al-Qaida-linked group, convicted in the Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. One other person was freed.
The reductions were met with dismay in Australia, home to most of the victims of the 2002 attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700508.html
Over 100 Bombs Explode Simultaneously in Bangladesh
2 Killed, Over 70 Injured
By JULHAS ALAM
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 12:04 PM
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- More than 100 homemade bombs planted by suspected Islamic militants exploded nearly simultaneously across Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing two people, including a young boy, and wounding at least 125.
About 50 people were arrested, a state-run news agency reported. There was no claim of responsibility, but leaflets from a banned group seeking the imposition of Islamic law were found at many scenes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700231.html
9/11 Aftershocks Rupture Virginia Family
Money Meant to Help Those Who Lost Loved Ones Creates Rift
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A01
Almost four years ago, Craig Sincock watched from a parking lot as flames swept the west side of the Pentagon, where his wife, Cheryle, worked. A secretary, she was one of the scores of Defense Department workers to die on Sept. 11, 2001.
In the months after the attack, Craig served as an unofficial spokesman for the Sept. 11 Pentagon families and counseled many of them on avoiding the emotional pitfalls that can follow unfathomable tragedy. But now the ex-Army warrant officer has watched his own family collapse under the weight of the attack and its aftermath.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601920.html
Ohioans Urge U.S. Escalation Or Pullout
Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A02
CLEVELAND, Aug. 16 -- The day after burying their son, parents of a fallen Marine urged President Bush to either send more reinforcements to Iraq or withdraw U.S. troops altogether.
"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," said Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601282.html
U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Administration Is Shedding 'Unreality' That Dominated Invasion, Official Says
By Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 14, 2005; Page A01
The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.
The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300853.html?nav=most_emailed_emailafriend
At Least 43 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
Series of Back-to-Back Attacks Mark Bloodiest Day in Weeks
By Khalid Alsaffar and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 11:18 AM
BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 -- Three back-to-back bombings hit near a Baghdad bus station Wednesday and then at the hospital where rescuers rushed the victims, killing at least 43 people and wounding nearly 90, authorities said.
In addition, officials announced that six Iraqi security-force members and one U.S. soldier also died in other incidents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700224.html?nav=hcmodule
Judge Heard Terrorism Case As He Interviewed for Seat
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A04
Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was interviewing for a possible Supreme Court nomination with top Bush administration officials at the same time he was presiding over a terrorism case of significant importance to President Bush.
Roberts recently released details of the months-long interviewing process showing that he met with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other administration officials about the Supreme Court job while sitting on the three-judge panel that eventually allowed Bush to resume the use of military officers to conduct trials of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The "military commissions" are central to Bush's anti-terrorism strategy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601561.html
1 in 20
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A12
IN THE UNITED STATES, approximately three out of every 1,000 people are HIV-positive. In the nation's capital, it's closer to 50 out of 1,000. That's a whopping 5 percent of D.C. residents: 1 in 20. Based on CIA statistics, if the District were a country, it would rank 11th in the world in HIV prevalence, between Mozambique (1 in 14) and Tanzania (1 in 23).
How did this happen?
An exhaustive report released last week by the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice points to a failure of leadership, one key result of which is that there are no statistics available on the number of HIV cases in the District. That's right, the 1-in-20 figure is an estimate -- widely accepted as accurate -- calculated using a formula based on national trends. The city's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) does report AIDS cases, but it has not yet published information about HIV infections and how they were transmitted -- information that is vital for effective targeting of services for prevention, testing and treatment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601429.html
China Daily
Ambivalent Japanese split over war responsibility
By Kwan Weng Kin (The Straits Times)
Updated: 2005-08-17 13:23
Sixty years after the end of World War II, the Japanese still have not come to a general consensus as to who was responsible for that dark chapter in their nation's history.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469871.htm
Rundown of Japan's 14 Class-A war criminals
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-06-08 06:24
(1) Hideki Tojo (December 30, 1884 - December 23, 1948)
Tojo was a member of the military clique that pushed Japan into its all-out war against the Chinese in the 1930s.
He rose from chief of the Manchurian (Northeast China) secret police in 1935 to councillor of Manchurian Affairs Bureau in 1936 and Chief of Staff of the Kwangtung Army and Chief of the Kempeitai.
As War Minister in 1940, he was instrumental in leading Japan into the Axis Alliance with Germany and Italy.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/08/content_449596.htm
China struggling to meet fuel shortages
(AP/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-08-17 16:34
Officials scrambled Tuesday to resolve severe gasoline and diesel shortages in China's south and east amid complaints that government price controls are worsening supply problems, the Associated Press reported.
Drivers in the southern province of Guangdong were waiting for hours for gas in lines up to a half-mile long, sometimes leaving with empty tanks when supplies ran out.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469904.htm
Olympic flame could blaze through Taiwan
By Lei Lei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-17 05:50
The Olympic flame could blaze its trail across Taiwan as the island is considered for a leg of the 2008 Beijing Games' torch relay route, organizers said yesterday.
A Chinese girl picks flower in front of a Beijing Olympic Games poster at a park in Beijing August 8, 2005. [Reuters]
"Based on information we've got from Taiwan, most of the Taiwan people hope the Olympic torch can come to the island," said Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice-president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
"We will take their hopes into careful consideration while drafting the (torch relay) route."
It is not the first time BOCOG has expressed the
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469661.htm
Airbus to ramp up sourcing in China
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-08-17 15:36
Airbus says it wants to ramp up the construction of plane parts in China to help spur sales in the country it predicts will need 200 jumbo jets like the A380 over the next 20 years, AFP reported.
An Airbus 330-200 ordered by the China Southern Airline arrives at a Guangzhou airport in this photo taken on February 28, 2005. [newsphoto]
The European aerospace consortium also reiterated its projection that it will purchase 60 million dollars worth of components in China in 2007, rising to 120 million dollars three years later.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469891.htm
China, US start talks to end textile conflict
By Jiang Wei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-17 05:50
China and the United States started talks on a comprehensive textile trade agreement in San Francisco yesterday.
The two-day talks are expected to centre on the seven categories on which the US imposed quotas in late May this year, according to information published by the US Trade Representative Office.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469658.htm
Bush ranch neighbor lets 'Peace Mom' use land
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-16 09:17
One of President Bush's neighbors will allow use of his land by dozens of war protesters who have camped in roadside ditches the past 11 days, giving them more room and halving their distance from Bush's ranch.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content_469402.htm
Victoria Beckham admits that never read a book
By Sam Jones (The Guardian)
Updated: 2005-08-16 11:52
Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish probably wouldn't have had quite the same ring to it. Despite penning a 528-page autobiography charting her rise to the top, Victoria Beckham has admitted that she has never read a book in her life.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content_469487.htm
Deliveryman relives the fear of 81-hour elevator ordeal
By NINA BERNSTEIN (The New York Times)
Updated: 2005-08-17 14:41
In the first sit-down interview since he was belatedly rescued in April and then promptly dropped from sight, Mr. Chen spoke yesterday about the lasting results of his confinement: his crippling fear of the dark, his terror of immigration authorities, and the stomach pains that have plagued him since he was trapped in a brightly lighted 4-by-6?-foot box without food or water, thinking that he was going to die.
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469885.htm
Gay college course start of nation's lesson
China Daily Updated: 2005-08-17 05:54
The popularity of a course on homosexuality study at Shanghai-based Fudan University is a positive sign that Chinese society is becoming more tolerant.
The class, which started in 2003 as a graduate programme, will be offered to undergraduates for the first time next term. Curious students have already signed up to fill the 100 seats on the course, leaving many late comers disappointed.
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469742.htm
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Coretta Scott King in fair condition
By ERRIN HAINES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Coretta Scott King arrives at the Legends Ball, an award ceremony hosted by Oprah Winfrey honoring King and other women who paved the way in arts, entertainment and civil rights in this Saturday, May 14, 2005 file photo in Santa Barbara, Calif. King was admitted to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta for an unspecified condition Tuesday and was resting comfortably, a hospital official said. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)
ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King was hospitalized in fair condition Wednesday and a family friend said the 78-year-old widow of Martin Luther King Jr. had suffered a stroke.
King was admitted to Piedmont Hospital on Tuesday, and the family released a statement Wednesday saying she was resting comfortably. It expressed thanks for the "outpouring of care and support that's being sent from around the world."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Coretta%20Scott%20King
Torrential rainfall stops in Texas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STAMFORD, Texas -- Flooding forced about 150 people out of their homes along the shore of a West Texas lake that had risen about 9 1/2 feet above its normal level Wednesday following torrential rainfall.
Water was as much as 5 feet deep in some homes on Lake Stamford, about 230 miles west of Dallas, officials said.
Some evacuees asked if they could return home Wednesday because the rain had stopped and the weather was sunny, but police said it was still too risky.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Texas%20Flooding
Bush neighbor lets war protesters use land
By ANGELA K. BROWN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CRAWFORD, Texas -- War protesters camping in roadside ditches near President Bush's ranch have accepted a neighbor's offer to stay on his property, and their vigil will be joined this week by FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley and by another mother whose soldier-son died in Iraq.
The neighbor, Army veteran Fred Mattlage, said he sympathizes with participants in the vigil started Aug. 6 by Cindy Sheehan, who lost her 24-year-old son in Iraq last year. The makeshift camp off the winding, two-lane road to Bush's ranch has angered residents and snarled traffic.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Peace%20Mom
Official: Afghan copter crash was accident
By AMIR SHAH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A Spanish helicopter prepares to take off from Herat Airport to the site of a helicopter that crashed Aug 16, 2005 in the south of Herat, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005. The cause of the crash, that killed 17 Spanish peacekeepers soldiers under command of ISAF (International Security Assitstance Force), is not known yet. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita)
HERAT, Afghanistan -- Two NATO peacekeeping helicopters that went down in Afghanistan, killing 17 Spanish troops, did not come under hostile fire, a top Afghan defense ministry official said Wednesday after visiting the crash site with Spain's defense minister.
"What is clear for us is that there was definitely no attack by militants," Maj. Gen. Shar Mohammed Karimi told The Associated Press. "We suspect one of the helicopters may have accidentally hit the other while flying. The other possibility is that the choppers had technical problems."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20Helicopter%20Crash
Canadian man abducted and killed in Iraq
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OTTAWA -- A Canadian man pursuing a business venture in Iraq has been abducted and killed, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Monday.
He urged Canadians in Iraq to leave, saying "the situation remains volatile and the government of Canada cannot provide consular assistance to Canadian citizens in distress."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Iraq%20Canadian%20Killed
Sri Lankan leaders eye Tamil pressure
By SHIMALI SENANAYAKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan leaders are calling on separatist rebels to renounce violence as a way to revive the peace process following the foreign minister's assassination.
The weakness of a cease-fire between the two sides was highlighted Tuesday when a suspected rebel attack on army posts killed a soldier in Sri Lanka's volatile northeast, the police and military said Tuesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Sri%20Lanka%20Minister%20Killed
'Able Danger' stopped from informing FBI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- An Army intelligence officer said Wednesday he does not believe the 9/11 commission pressed hard enough for documentation of claims that military intelligence found a U.S.-based terrorist cell that included Mohamed Atta, who turned out to be the leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, prior to the terrorist strikes.
"I don't believe they ever got all the documents, but then again I don't think that they pressed properly to get all of the documents," Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said on CBS' "The Early Show."
He says he was associated with a small intelligence unit, called "Able Danger," that had identified Atta and three of the other future Sept. 11 hijackers as al-Qaida members by mid-2000.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Sept%2011%20Hijackers
Pediatrician suspended amid sex allegations
State accuses doctor of inappropriate behavior
By ANGELA GALLOWAY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
State officials suspended the license of a prominent local pediatrician and former Shoreline School Board president Tuesday, saying he engaged in improper and sexually explicit behavior with troubled adolescent patients.
The Department of Health on Tuesday also accused Dr. Bill S. Schnall of inappropriately prescribing an amphetamine and Viagra, interfering with the state's investigation and threatening a patient, according to state records.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/236835_schnall17.html
Workers get win in hazardous site case
Company knew of risk on Harbor Island, judges rule
By ROBERT McCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Whistle-blowers who reported unsafe work practices on a Harbor Island construction job, including exposure to hazardous wastes, have won a second round in court.
Morrison Knudsen Corp. knew that the work it took on at Harbor Island involved a Superfund site that needed special handling, the state Court of Appeals ruled.
The company, now a subsidiary of the mammoth Washington Group International, has steadfastly maintained that it was merely doing construction on a site that already had been cleaned up by the Port of Seattle.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/236877_harborisland17.html
Report: Fla. GOP courts Joe Scarborough
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two local businessmen active in Republican Party politics say the GOP is courting cable TV host Joe Scarborough to replace U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris in the 2006 Senate race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.
Scarborough, a former U.S. representative, has met with senior Republican officials, Collier Merrill, a Pensacola businessman told the Pensacola News Journal in a report for Wednesday's editions.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1132&slug=BRF%20Senate%20Harris
Chafee ready for tough Blue State campaign
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., drives away after a news conference in Warren, R.I., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. Chafee announced he has secured $11 million in federal funds to construct a new bridge on Route 114 over the Palmer River. In a state where barely 11 percent of the registered voters are Republican, and about half are not affiliated with any political party, Chafee must court Democrats to win. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
WARREN, R.I. -- It's a steamy day on the Rhode Island riverfront, so Sen. Lincoln Chafee leaves his jacket in his Prius hybrid and ambles toward the drawings of the new bridge he has managed to fund in the recently passed highway bill.
Back in the state for the August congressional recess, there's little time for sailing or trail rides on his thoroughbred, Trapper. Instead, he is motoring from one town to the next, doling out millions for a seemingly endless stream of public works projects.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1135&slug=Chafee%27s%20Blues
N.H. town faces changes if Romney runs
By BEVERLEY WANG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A marine patrol boat passes Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's summer house on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., Tuesday Aug. 2, 2005. Speculation of Romney's run for president, and winning, has residents of the small resort town wondering if Wolfeboro will turn like Kennebunkport, Maine, when George H.W. Bush became president. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- Like a lot of Massachusetts residents, Gov. Mitt Romney prefers New Hampshire in the summertime. He spends as many summer weekends as he can at his 11-acre Lake Winnipesaukee estate, which boasts more than 700 feet of waterfront, a six-bedroom mansion, stable, guest quarters and a boathouse, which at 2,700 square feet is bigger than most people's homes.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Romney%20Summer%20White%20House
Milosevic's son's acquittal angers Serbs
By JOVANA GEC
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
This is a July 23, 1997 file photo of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, his wife Mirjana, daughter Marija and son Marko. Government critics in Serbia cite worsening ties with neighbors and between ethnic groups within the country, as well as the rebirth of the nationalist rhetoric by politicians and in the media, as examples of Serbia's return to the past. They say that Milosevic-era judges, police officers and politicians are regaining influence, while the reformers, who removed him from power in 2000, have been sidelined. Independent and liberal media, minorities and human rights groups, all targeted under Milosevic, complain of renewed pressure from the extremists, similar to that during the former president's rule. (AP Photo / Mikica Petrovic)
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- It was just too much for Snezana Sinadinovic. The news that criminal charges against Slobodan Milosevic's son had been dropped left her speechless.
"All my hopes are gone now," the 30-year-old psychologist says. "I would not be surprised to see Milosevic back in power any day now."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Serbia%20Sliding%20Back
Study details bar at center of Milky Way
By RYAN J. FOLEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In this artists rendering released by the University of Wisconsin, the Milky Way has a definitive bar feature -- some 27,000 light years in length -- that distinguishes it from pedestrian spiral galaxies. (AP Photo/University of Wisconsin, HO)
MADISON, Wis. -- After creating the most detailed analysis yet of what the Milky Way looks like, astronomers say a long bar of stars cuts on an angle through the center of the galaxy that includes the sun and planet Earth.
Some scientists have suspected the presence of the stellar bar, but the survey led by two Wisconsin astronomers shows the bar is far longer than previously believed, and at a specific angle.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Milky%20Way%20Bar
Russia kills more fowl amid flu fears
By MARIA DANILOVA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MOSCOW -- Russian veterinary workers clad in long white robes and masks incinerated thousands of slaughtered fowl Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a bird flu epidemic blamed on wild ducks from spreading further west toward Europe.
But as officials said they were doing everything they could to control the disease and prevent it from spreading across the Ural Mountains, an expert blamed Russia's growing problem on a failure to keep domestic fowl isolated from wild birds.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Russia%20Bird%20Flu
Food crises unaddressed throughout Africa
By EDWARD HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Amisso Ado, aged 3, and weighing 5.8kg (12.8 lbs) suffering from malnutrition is treated in a make shift feed center in the town of Maradi, Niger in this Sunday, July 24, 2005, file photo. Worse than normal food crises raging all but unaddressed in parts of Mali and elsewhere in Africa this year have focused new attention on the politics and geography of hunger across the world's poorest continent, as well as on how rich nations respond.The U.N. says it needs US$2 billion to help feed more than 25 million Africans in 2005. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam,File)
GAO, Mali -- To get a sense of Africa's unrelenting hunger, look no further than the fever-bright eyes of 17 severely malnourished infants languishing in a west African hospital.
Worse-than-normal food crises raging all but unaddressed in parts of Mali and elsewhere in Africa this year have focused new attention on the politics and geography of hunger across the world's poorest continent, as well as on how rich nations respond.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Hunger%20Across%20Africa
Cuba to pay Neb. $17M for farm products
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAVANA -- Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman secured a deal Tuesday for his state to export $17 million in agricultural goods to communist Cuba, starting with the first U.S. shipment of great northern beans to the island since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.
Cuba said it will make the purchases, which also include corn, wheat, and soybeans, within the next 18 months.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Cuba%20US%20Trade
The New Zealand Herald
Obesity linked with higher prostate cancer risk
17.08.05 1.00pm
Men who are overweight are more likely than thinner men to be diagnosed with prostate cancers that are less likely to be detected on screening and more likely to be aggressive, according to a report in the medical journal Urology.
"Obesity may actually be associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer, but various features among obese men make it harder to detect the cancer," Dr Stephen J Freedland from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, explained to Reuters Health.
"If you do find them, it's probably the more aggressive cancers that you are finding."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10341190
Google and Yahoo! play 'mine is bigger than yours'
17.08.05 1.00pm
By Katherine Griffiths
A spat has developed in the highly competitive world of internet search after Google, the world's largest online search company, and Yahoo!, which holds the No 2 slot, disagreed about which company has the largest search facility.
Yahoo! published a statement on its website last week saying its technology could cover more than twice as many web pages as its arch-rival. Google responded with a statement which was sceptical about Yahoo!'s claim.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10341209
Tan addicts willing to risk skin cancer for a suntan
16.08.05 1.00pm
By Lyndsay Moss
People who cannot stop lounging in the sun or using sunbeds, even when they know the risks of skin cancer, may be suffering from tanning addiction.
Despite numerous campaigns to inform sunbathers of the dangers of skin cancer, the incidence of malignant melanoma, the most deadly type of skin cancer, is rising fast in Britain with 6,000 new cases diagnosed each year.
Rates of skin cancer are rising rapidly among teenagers and young adults, with cases doubling in the past 20 years.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10341059
Georgia to pardon executed black woman after 60 years
17.08.05 1.00pm
By Rupert Cornwell
WASHINGTON - It has taken more than 60 years, but finally the state of Georgia is to pardon Lena Baker for a murder that probably would never have been considered a murder anywhere but in the racist, segregated world of the old Deep South.
Ms Baker was a black maid, aged 44, who in March 1945 became the first (and only) woman to die in Georgia's electric chair. Her crime was to have killed her white master - a man, she claimed, who kept her as a sexual slave and whom she killed in self-defence when he was about to set about her with an iron crowbar.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10341218
NZ firm's scheme to wipe out rats on Scottish island derided
17.08.05
A New Zealand company's plans to wipe out thousands of rats ravaging wildlife on a Scottish island - while other experts rescue native woodmice - "sounds like Disney on acid", the Scotsman newspaper says.
But the 250,000 ($651,000) eradication planned by Wildlife Management International is deadly serious.
Next month, it will send abseilers to the tiny island of Canna to lay 3500 bait stations along the island's sheer cliffs.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10341077
Brazilian shot eight times by UK police, ITV report
17.08.05 1.00pm
LONDON - The fate of a Brazilian electrician shot dead by British police was sealed the moment he was wrongly identified in a bungled surveillance operation as a possible suicide bomber, British Television programme ITV News said.
ITV News obtained what it said were secret documents and photographs from the shooting on July 22 of Jean Charles de Menezes, killed the day after four would-be bombers failed in attacks on London's transport system.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10341221
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History
1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1844 Blacks protest Boston's Jim Crow schools at mass rallies. They began a series of meetings to fight the segregated school system in Boston.
1869 1st international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1887 Black Nationalist Marcus M. Garvey, who will inaugurate a "Back to Africa" Movement, is born in Jamaica
1896 Gold is discovered on Klondike River
1906 Members of the Niagra Movement conduct a historic "Barefoot March" down the hillside to the site of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry.
1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1933 Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1945 Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (National Day)
1950 Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands
1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1961 Building of the Berlin Wall begins
1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
1978 1st manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
1982 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
2002 Alfred Ligon, America's oldest continuously operated Black bookstore owner, dies at the age of 96. He founded the Los Angeles-based Aquarian Book Shop in 1941.He was awarded a Living Legend Award in 1993 by the Los Angeles Public Library.
Missing in Action
1966 BRAND JOSEPH WILLIAM CHICAGO IL 09/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1966 KEMP FREDDIE NEW YORK NY
1966 SINGER DONALD MAURICE PHILADELPHIA PA 09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1967 DION LAURENT N. PROVIDENCE RI
1967 HOM CHARLES DAVID HUNTINGTON PARK CA
1968 GARTLEY MARKHAM L. GREENVILLE ME 09/25/72 RELEASED HANOI
1968 HOFFSON ARTHUR T. CAMERON TX 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MAYHEW WILLIAM J. PUGHTOWN WV 07/72REMAINS RECOVERED- 3/14/73 RETURNEE HOMECOMING ALTHOUGH USG RECORDS SHOW REMAINS RETURNED
1968 POWELL WILLIAM E. GATESVILLE TX REMAINS RETURNED 12/04/85
1969 LOEPKE "MALCOLM ""BUCK""" CAPTURED WITH 3 OTHERS NORTH KOREA - HELD 180 DAYS NOT NOTED PMSEA /KOREA WAR/VIETNAM WAR VETERAN
1970 WELLONS PHILLIP ROGERSON RALEIGH NC
1972 PITZEN JOHN R. STACYVILLE IA REMAINS RECOVERED NOVEMBER 1994 ID MARCH 1996
1972 PENDER ORLAND J. WARWICK RI REMAINS RECOVERED NOVEMBER 1994 ID MARCH 1996
1972 RAEBEL DALE V. MILBANK SD 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
Michael Moore Today
Vigil for Cindy Sheehan
Tonight, August 17, 2005 7:30PM
Cindy Sheehan, mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq, continues her vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. She was recently joined by more moms who lost a child in Iraq and other military families. Meanwhile President Bush continues his five-week vacation and pledged Thursday to keep U.S. troops in Iraq—meaning more moms will lose a child.
Cindy has asked supporters to start candlelight vigils in their communities to support her and call for an end to the war. So, MoveOn is teaming up with True Majority and Democracy for America to host Vigils for Cindy Sheehan tonight, August 17th, to show our solidarity with Cindy.
http://www.moveonpac.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=24
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 11); Putting out fires
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
The right wingers are really having a field day with me. It hurts me really badly, but I am willing to put up with the crap, if it ends the war a minute sooner than it would have. I would like to address some specific concerns that have been raised against me.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch
Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators
Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch.
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3724
Bush invited to join Gold Star families at interfaith prayer service Friday outside his ranch
National Council of Churches
New York, August 16, 2005 – The General Secretary of the National Council of Churches is urging President Bush to join with Gold Star families and religious leaders in an interfaith prayer service outside the Bush ranch at noon (CDT) Friday.
The prayer service has been called by Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan “as an opportunity for Americans and others across the world to pray for our soldiers in Iraq, their families and in particular the mothers of our fallen.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3717
Parents of Fallen Marine Make Plea to Bush
By Joe Milicia / Associated Press
CLEVELAND - The day after burying their son, parents of a fallen Marine urged President Bush to either send more reinforcements to Iraq or withdraw U.S. troops altogether.
"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, said Tuesday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3723
Roberts scoffed at equal-pay theory
By Joan Biskupic and Toni Locy / USA Today
As an assistant White House counsel in 1984, John Roberts scoffed at the notion that men and women should earn equal pay in jobs of comparable importance, and he belittled three female Republican members of Congress who promoted that idea to the Reagan administration.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3722
Roberts Once Wrote of 'Abortion Tragedy'
By Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group's memorial service for aborted fetuses was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."
Roberts' wrote the advice in an October, 1985 memo after he was asked to review a proposed telegram from President Reagan to the memorial service promoted by the California Pro Life Medical Association.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3716
Roberts Backed Efforts for School Prayer
By Hope Yen / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - As a young government attorney, John Roberts advised the White House to support congressional efforts to allow school prayer, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling striking down the practice "seems indefensible."
In a Nov. 21, 1985 memo released Monday by the National Archives, Roberts was responding to a move by Congress to permit "group silent prayer or reflection in public schools." He said he would not object if Justice Department officials announced that President Reagan had no formal role in passing an amendment to that effect, but said he would support such a move.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3698
Washington Post Backs Out of 9/11 Event
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Washington Post is withdrawing its offer of free advertising for an organized event by the Defense Department to memorialize the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the newspaper announced.
The Post backed out of the agreement after critics said the event, scheduled to take place four years after the attacks that hit New York and Washington and resulted in the crash of a commercial airliner over western Pennsylvania, would have a pro-war slant and that support of the event by the newspaper would compromise the Post's journalistic integrity.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3721
The Washington Post
Abramoff May Meet With Investigators
By CURT ANDERSON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 16, 2005; 11:32 PM
MIAMI -- Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, accused of federal fraud charges in a casino deal, is willing to be interviewed by police trying to solve the gangland-style murder of the businessman who sold the floating casinos, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Abramoff, whose lobbying activities are under investigation in Washington, had expected to meet with Fort Lauderdale homicide detectives shortly after the February 2001 slaying of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, but the interview never took place, attorney Neal Sonnett said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081600639.html
Indonesia Cuts Sentences for Bali Bombers
By IRWAN FIRDAUS
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 8:58 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The Indonesian government Wednesday reduced prison sentences for 19 people, including the alleged spiritual head of an al-Qaida-linked group, convicted in the Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. One other person was freed.
The reductions were met with dismay in Australia, home to most of the victims of the 2002 attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700508.html
Over 100 Bombs Explode Simultaneously in Bangladesh
2 Killed, Over 70 Injured
By JULHAS ALAM
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 12:04 PM
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- More than 100 homemade bombs planted by suspected Islamic militants exploded nearly simultaneously across Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing two people, including a young boy, and wounding at least 125.
About 50 people were arrested, a state-run news agency reported. There was no claim of responsibility, but leaflets from a banned group seeking the imposition of Islamic law were found at many scenes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700231.html
9/11 Aftershocks Rupture Virginia Family
Money Meant to Help Those Who Lost Loved Ones Creates Rift
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A01
Almost four years ago, Craig Sincock watched from a parking lot as flames swept the west side of the Pentagon, where his wife, Cheryle, worked. A secretary, she was one of the scores of Defense Department workers to die on Sept. 11, 2001.
In the months after the attack, Craig served as an unofficial spokesman for the Sept. 11 Pentagon families and counseled many of them on avoiding the emotional pitfalls that can follow unfathomable tragedy. But now the ex-Army warrant officer has watched his own family collapse under the weight of the attack and its aftermath.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601920.html
Ohioans Urge U.S. Escalation Or Pullout
Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A02
CLEVELAND, Aug. 16 -- The day after burying their son, parents of a fallen Marine urged President Bush to either send more reinforcements to Iraq or withdraw U.S. troops altogether.
"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," said Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601282.html
U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Administration Is Shedding 'Unreality' That Dominated Invasion, Official Says
By Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 14, 2005; Page A01
The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.
The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300853.html?nav=most_emailed_emailafriend
At Least 43 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
Series of Back-to-Back Attacks Mark Bloodiest Day in Weeks
By Khalid Alsaffar and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 11:18 AM
BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 -- Three back-to-back bombings hit near a Baghdad bus station Wednesday and then at the hospital where rescuers rushed the victims, killing at least 43 people and wounding nearly 90, authorities said.
In addition, officials announced that six Iraqi security-force members and one U.S. soldier also died in other incidents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700224.html?nav=hcmodule
Judge Heard Terrorism Case As He Interviewed for Seat
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A04
Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was interviewing for a possible Supreme Court nomination with top Bush administration officials at the same time he was presiding over a terrorism case of significant importance to President Bush.
Roberts recently released details of the months-long interviewing process showing that he met with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other administration officials about the Supreme Court job while sitting on the three-judge panel that eventually allowed Bush to resume the use of military officers to conduct trials of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The "military commissions" are central to Bush's anti-terrorism strategy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601561.html
1 in 20
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A12
IN THE UNITED STATES, approximately three out of every 1,000 people are HIV-positive. In the nation's capital, it's closer to 50 out of 1,000. That's a whopping 5 percent of D.C. residents: 1 in 20. Based on CIA statistics, if the District were a country, it would rank 11th in the world in HIV prevalence, between Mozambique (1 in 14) and Tanzania (1 in 23).
How did this happen?
An exhaustive report released last week by the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice points to a failure of leadership, one key result of which is that there are no statistics available on the number of HIV cases in the District. That's right, the 1-in-20 figure is an estimate -- widely accepted as accurate -- calculated using a formula based on national trends. The city's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) does report AIDS cases, but it has not yet published information about HIV infections and how they were transmitted -- information that is vital for effective targeting of services for prevention, testing and treatment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601429.html
China Daily
Ambivalent Japanese split over war responsibility
By Kwan Weng Kin (The Straits Times)
Updated: 2005-08-17 13:23
Sixty years after the end of World War II, the Japanese still have not come to a general consensus as to who was responsible for that dark chapter in their nation's history.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469871.htm
Rundown of Japan's 14 Class-A war criminals
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-06-08 06:24
(1) Hideki Tojo (December 30, 1884 - December 23, 1948)
Tojo was a member of the military clique that pushed Japan into its all-out war against the Chinese in the 1930s.
He rose from chief of the Manchurian (Northeast China) secret police in 1935 to councillor of Manchurian Affairs Bureau in 1936 and Chief of Staff of the Kwangtung Army and Chief of the Kempeitai.
As War Minister in 1940, he was instrumental in leading Japan into the Axis Alliance with Germany and Italy.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/08/content_449596.htm
China struggling to meet fuel shortages
(AP/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-08-17 16:34
Officials scrambled Tuesday to resolve severe gasoline and diesel shortages in China's south and east amid complaints that government price controls are worsening supply problems, the Associated Press reported.
Drivers in the southern province of Guangdong were waiting for hours for gas in lines up to a half-mile long, sometimes leaving with empty tanks when supplies ran out.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469904.htm
Olympic flame could blaze through Taiwan
By Lei Lei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-17 05:50
The Olympic flame could blaze its trail across Taiwan as the island is considered for a leg of the 2008 Beijing Games' torch relay route, organizers said yesterday.
A Chinese girl picks flower in front of a Beijing Olympic Games poster at a park in Beijing August 8, 2005. [Reuters]
"Based on information we've got from Taiwan, most of the Taiwan people hope the Olympic torch can come to the island," said Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice-president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
"We will take their hopes into careful consideration while drafting the (torch relay) route."
It is not the first time BOCOG has expressed the
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469661.htm
Airbus to ramp up sourcing in China
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-08-17 15:36
Airbus says it wants to ramp up the construction of plane parts in China to help spur sales in the country it predicts will need 200 jumbo jets like the A380 over the next 20 years, AFP reported.
An Airbus 330-200 ordered by the China Southern Airline arrives at a Guangzhou airport in this photo taken on February 28, 2005. [newsphoto]
The European aerospace consortium also reiterated its projection that it will purchase 60 million dollars worth of components in China in 2007, rising to 120 million dollars three years later.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469891.htm
China, US start talks to end textile conflict
By Jiang Wei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-17 05:50
China and the United States started talks on a comprehensive textile trade agreement in San Francisco yesterday.
The two-day talks are expected to centre on the seven categories on which the US imposed quotas in late May this year, according to information published by the US Trade Representative Office.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469658.htm
Bush ranch neighbor lets 'Peace Mom' use land
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-16 09:17
One of President Bush's neighbors will allow use of his land by dozens of war protesters who have camped in roadside ditches the past 11 days, giving them more room and halving their distance from Bush's ranch.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content_469402.htm
Victoria Beckham admits that never read a book
By Sam Jones (The Guardian)
Updated: 2005-08-16 11:52
Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish probably wouldn't have had quite the same ring to it. Despite penning a 528-page autobiography charting her rise to the top, Victoria Beckham has admitted that she has never read a book in her life.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content_469487.htm
Deliveryman relives the fear of 81-hour elevator ordeal
By NINA BERNSTEIN (The New York Times)
Updated: 2005-08-17 14:41
In the first sit-down interview since he was belatedly rescued in April and then promptly dropped from sight, Mr. Chen spoke yesterday about the lasting results of his confinement: his crippling fear of the dark, his terror of immigration authorities, and the stomach pains that have plagued him since he was trapped in a brightly lighted 4-by-6?-foot box without food or water, thinking that he was going to die.
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469885.htm
Gay college course start of nation's lesson
China Daily Updated: 2005-08-17 05:54
The popularity of a course on homosexuality study at Shanghai-based Fudan University is a positive sign that Chinese society is becoming more tolerant.
The class, which started in 2003 as a graduate programme, will be offered to undergraduates for the first time next term. Curious students have already signed up to fill the 100 seats on the course, leaving many late comers disappointed.
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content_469742.htm
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Coretta Scott King in fair condition
By ERRIN HAINES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Coretta Scott King arrives at the Legends Ball, an award ceremony hosted by Oprah Winfrey honoring King and other women who paved the way in arts, entertainment and civil rights in this Saturday, May 14, 2005 file photo in Santa Barbara, Calif. King was admitted to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta for an unspecified condition Tuesday and was resting comfortably, a hospital official said. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)
ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King was hospitalized in fair condition Wednesday and a family friend said the 78-year-old widow of Martin Luther King Jr. had suffered a stroke.
King was admitted to Piedmont Hospital on Tuesday, and the family released a statement Wednesday saying she was resting comfortably. It expressed thanks for the "outpouring of care and support that's being sent from around the world."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Coretta%20Scott%20King
Torrential rainfall stops in Texas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STAMFORD, Texas -- Flooding forced about 150 people out of their homes along the shore of a West Texas lake that had risen about 9 1/2 feet above its normal level Wednesday following torrential rainfall.
Water was as much as 5 feet deep in some homes on Lake Stamford, about 230 miles west of Dallas, officials said.
Some evacuees asked if they could return home Wednesday because the rain had stopped and the weather was sunny, but police said it was still too risky.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Texas%20Flooding
Bush neighbor lets war protesters use land
By ANGELA K. BROWN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CRAWFORD, Texas -- War protesters camping in roadside ditches near President Bush's ranch have accepted a neighbor's offer to stay on his property, and their vigil will be joined this week by FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley and by another mother whose soldier-son died in Iraq.
The neighbor, Army veteran Fred Mattlage, said he sympathizes with participants in the vigil started Aug. 6 by Cindy Sheehan, who lost her 24-year-old son in Iraq last year. The makeshift camp off the winding, two-lane road to Bush's ranch has angered residents and snarled traffic.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Peace%20Mom
Official: Afghan copter crash was accident
By AMIR SHAH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A Spanish helicopter prepares to take off from Herat Airport to the site of a helicopter that crashed Aug 16, 2005 in the south of Herat, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005. The cause of the crash, that killed 17 Spanish peacekeepers soldiers under command of ISAF (International Security Assitstance Force), is not known yet. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita)
HERAT, Afghanistan -- Two NATO peacekeeping helicopters that went down in Afghanistan, killing 17 Spanish troops, did not come under hostile fire, a top Afghan defense ministry official said Wednesday after visiting the crash site with Spain's defense minister.
"What is clear for us is that there was definitely no attack by militants," Maj. Gen. Shar Mohammed Karimi told The Associated Press. "We suspect one of the helicopters may have accidentally hit the other while flying. The other possibility is that the choppers had technical problems."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20Helicopter%20Crash
Canadian man abducted and killed in Iraq
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OTTAWA -- A Canadian man pursuing a business venture in Iraq has been abducted and killed, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Monday.
He urged Canadians in Iraq to leave, saying "the situation remains volatile and the government of Canada cannot provide consular assistance to Canadian citizens in distress."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Iraq%20Canadian%20Killed
Sri Lankan leaders eye Tamil pressure
By SHIMALI SENANAYAKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan leaders are calling on separatist rebels to renounce violence as a way to revive the peace process following the foreign minister's assassination.
The weakness of a cease-fire between the two sides was highlighted Tuesday when a suspected rebel attack on army posts killed a soldier in Sri Lanka's volatile northeast, the police and military said Tuesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Sri%20Lanka%20Minister%20Killed
'Able Danger' stopped from informing FBI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- An Army intelligence officer said Wednesday he does not believe the 9/11 commission pressed hard enough for documentation of claims that military intelligence found a U.S.-based terrorist cell that included Mohamed Atta, who turned out to be the leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, prior to the terrorist strikes.
"I don't believe they ever got all the documents, but then again I don't think that they pressed properly to get all of the documents," Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said on CBS' "The Early Show."
He says he was associated with a small intelligence unit, called "Able Danger," that had identified Atta and three of the other future Sept. 11 hijackers as al-Qaida members by mid-2000.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Sept%2011%20Hijackers
Pediatrician suspended amid sex allegations
State accuses doctor of inappropriate behavior
By ANGELA GALLOWAY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
State officials suspended the license of a prominent local pediatrician and former Shoreline School Board president Tuesday, saying he engaged in improper and sexually explicit behavior with troubled adolescent patients.
The Department of Health on Tuesday also accused Dr. Bill S. Schnall of inappropriately prescribing an amphetamine and Viagra, interfering with the state's investigation and threatening a patient, according to state records.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/236835_schnall17.html
Workers get win in hazardous site case
Company knew of risk on Harbor Island, judges rule
By ROBERT McCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Whistle-blowers who reported unsafe work practices on a Harbor Island construction job, including exposure to hazardous wastes, have won a second round in court.
Morrison Knudsen Corp. knew that the work it took on at Harbor Island involved a Superfund site that needed special handling, the state Court of Appeals ruled.
The company, now a subsidiary of the mammoth Washington Group International, has steadfastly maintained that it was merely doing construction on a site that already had been cleaned up by the Port of Seattle.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/236877_harborisland17.html
Report: Fla. GOP courts Joe Scarborough
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two local businessmen active in Republican Party politics say the GOP is courting cable TV host Joe Scarborough to replace U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris in the 2006 Senate race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.
Scarborough, a former U.S. representative, has met with senior Republican officials, Collier Merrill, a Pensacola businessman told the Pensacola News Journal in a report for Wednesday's editions.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1132&slug=BRF%20Senate%20Harris
Chafee ready for tough Blue State campaign
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., drives away after a news conference in Warren, R.I., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. Chafee announced he has secured $11 million in federal funds to construct a new bridge on Route 114 over the Palmer River. In a state where barely 11 percent of the registered voters are Republican, and about half are not affiliated with any political party, Chafee must court Democrats to win. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
WARREN, R.I. -- It's a steamy day on the Rhode Island riverfront, so Sen. Lincoln Chafee leaves his jacket in his Prius hybrid and ambles toward the drawings of the new bridge he has managed to fund in the recently passed highway bill.
Back in the state for the August congressional recess, there's little time for sailing or trail rides on his thoroughbred, Trapper. Instead, he is motoring from one town to the next, doling out millions for a seemingly endless stream of public works projects.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1135&slug=Chafee%27s%20Blues
N.H. town faces changes if Romney runs
By BEVERLEY WANG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A marine patrol boat passes Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's summer house on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., Tuesday Aug. 2, 2005. Speculation of Romney's run for president, and winning, has residents of the small resort town wondering if Wolfeboro will turn like Kennebunkport, Maine, when George H.W. Bush became president. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- Like a lot of Massachusetts residents, Gov. Mitt Romney prefers New Hampshire in the summertime. He spends as many summer weekends as he can at his 11-acre Lake Winnipesaukee estate, which boasts more than 700 feet of waterfront, a six-bedroom mansion, stable, guest quarters and a boathouse, which at 2,700 square feet is bigger than most people's homes.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Romney%20Summer%20White%20House
Milosevic's son's acquittal angers Serbs
By JOVANA GEC
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
This is a July 23, 1997 file photo of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, his wife Mirjana, daughter Marija and son Marko. Government critics in Serbia cite worsening ties with neighbors and between ethnic groups within the country, as well as the rebirth of the nationalist rhetoric by politicians and in the media, as examples of Serbia's return to the past. They say that Milosevic-era judges, police officers and politicians are regaining influence, while the reformers, who removed him from power in 2000, have been sidelined. Independent and liberal media, minorities and human rights groups, all targeted under Milosevic, complain of renewed pressure from the extremists, similar to that during the former president's rule. (AP Photo / Mikica Petrovic)
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- It was just too much for Snezana Sinadinovic. The news that criminal charges against Slobodan Milosevic's son had been dropped left her speechless.
"All my hopes are gone now," the 30-year-old psychologist says. "I would not be surprised to see Milosevic back in power any day now."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Serbia%20Sliding%20Back
Study details bar at center of Milky Way
By RYAN J. FOLEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In this artists rendering released by the University of Wisconsin, the Milky Way has a definitive bar feature -- some 27,000 light years in length -- that distinguishes it from pedestrian spiral galaxies. (AP Photo/University of Wisconsin, HO)
MADISON, Wis. -- After creating the most detailed analysis yet of what the Milky Way looks like, astronomers say a long bar of stars cuts on an angle through the center of the galaxy that includes the sun and planet Earth.
Some scientists have suspected the presence of the stellar bar, but the survey led by two Wisconsin astronomers shows the bar is far longer than previously believed, and at a specific angle.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Milky%20Way%20Bar
Russia kills more fowl amid flu fears
By MARIA DANILOVA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MOSCOW -- Russian veterinary workers clad in long white robes and masks incinerated thousands of slaughtered fowl Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a bird flu epidemic blamed on wild ducks from spreading further west toward Europe.
But as officials said they were doing everything they could to control the disease and prevent it from spreading across the Ural Mountains, an expert blamed Russia's growing problem on a failure to keep domestic fowl isolated from wild birds.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Russia%20Bird%20Flu
Food crises unaddressed throughout Africa
By EDWARD HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Amisso Ado, aged 3, and weighing 5.8kg (12.8 lbs) suffering from malnutrition is treated in a make shift feed center in the town of Maradi, Niger in this Sunday, July 24, 2005, file photo. Worse than normal food crises raging all but unaddressed in parts of Mali and elsewhere in Africa this year have focused new attention on the politics and geography of hunger across the world's poorest continent, as well as on how rich nations respond.The U.N. says it needs US$2 billion to help feed more than 25 million Africans in 2005. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam,File)
GAO, Mali -- To get a sense of Africa's unrelenting hunger, look no further than the fever-bright eyes of 17 severely malnourished infants languishing in a west African hospital.
Worse-than-normal food crises raging all but unaddressed in parts of Mali and elsewhere in Africa this year have focused new attention on the politics and geography of hunger across the world's poorest continent, as well as on how rich nations respond.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Hunger%20Across%20Africa
Cuba to pay Neb. $17M for farm products
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAVANA -- Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman secured a deal Tuesday for his state to export $17 million in agricultural goods to communist Cuba, starting with the first U.S. shipment of great northern beans to the island since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.
Cuba said it will make the purchases, which also include corn, wheat, and soybeans, within the next 18 months.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Cuba%20US%20Trade
The New Zealand Herald
Obesity linked with higher prostate cancer risk
17.08.05 1.00pm
Men who are overweight are more likely than thinner men to be diagnosed with prostate cancers that are less likely to be detected on screening and more likely to be aggressive, according to a report in the medical journal Urology.
"Obesity may actually be associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer, but various features among obese men make it harder to detect the cancer," Dr Stephen J Freedland from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, explained to Reuters Health.
"If you do find them, it's probably the more aggressive cancers that you are finding."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10341190
Google and Yahoo! play 'mine is bigger than yours'
17.08.05 1.00pm
By Katherine Griffiths
A spat has developed in the highly competitive world of internet search after Google, the world's largest online search company, and Yahoo!, which holds the No 2 slot, disagreed about which company has the largest search facility.
Yahoo! published a statement on its website last week saying its technology could cover more than twice as many web pages as its arch-rival. Google responded with a statement which was sceptical about Yahoo!'s claim.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10341209
Tan addicts willing to risk skin cancer for a suntan
16.08.05 1.00pm
By Lyndsay Moss
People who cannot stop lounging in the sun or using sunbeds, even when they know the risks of skin cancer, may be suffering from tanning addiction.
Despite numerous campaigns to inform sunbathers of the dangers of skin cancer, the incidence of malignant melanoma, the most deadly type of skin cancer, is rising fast in Britain with 6,000 new cases diagnosed each year.
Rates of skin cancer are rising rapidly among teenagers and young adults, with cases doubling in the past 20 years.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10341059
Georgia to pardon executed black woman after 60 years
17.08.05 1.00pm
By Rupert Cornwell
WASHINGTON - It has taken more than 60 years, but finally the state of Georgia is to pardon Lena Baker for a murder that probably would never have been considered a murder anywhere but in the racist, segregated world of the old Deep South.
Ms Baker was a black maid, aged 44, who in March 1945 became the first (and only) woman to die in Georgia's electric chair. Her crime was to have killed her white master - a man, she claimed, who kept her as a sexual slave and whom she killed in self-defence when he was about to set about her with an iron crowbar.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10341218
NZ firm's scheme to wipe out rats on Scottish island derided
17.08.05
A New Zealand company's plans to wipe out thousands of rats ravaging wildlife on a Scottish island - while other experts rescue native woodmice - "sounds like Disney on acid", the Scotsman newspaper says.
But the 250,000 ($651,000) eradication planned by Wildlife Management International is deadly serious.
Next month, it will send abseilers to the tiny island of Canna to lay 3500 bait stations along the island's sheer cliffs.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10341077
Brazilian shot eight times by UK police, ITV report
17.08.05 1.00pm
LONDON - The fate of a Brazilian electrician shot dead by British police was sealed the moment he was wrongly identified in a bungled surveillance operation as a possible suicide bomber, British Television programme ITV News said.
ITV News obtained what it said were secret documents and photographs from the shooting on July 22 of Jean Charles de Menezes, killed the day after four would-be bombers failed in attacks on London's transport system.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10341221
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Morning Papers - concluding ...
Zoos
Zoo's panda cub vigorous, growing rapidly
SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES
4:44 p.m. August 15, 2005
SAN DIEGO – The giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo is growing rapidly and appears more vigorous than its mother's two previous cubs, a zoo official said Monday.
The cub, born two weeks ago, is getting its black and white markings and is beginning to resemble a miniature panda, said Don Lindburg, the leader of the zoo's panda team.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050815-1644-pandacub.html
Zoo Christens Miracle Baby Rhino
Thousands On Hand For Ceremony
POSTED: 12:25 pm PDT August 15, 2005
UPDATED: 12:37 pm PDT August 15, 2005
ERFURT, Germany -- A German zoo has christened its baby rhinoceros as part of its annual festival.
Baby rhino "Amari," an African name meaning "he who never gives up," was christened recently by zookeepers and local clergy. Thousands of onlookers were on hand as water was sprinkled on the animal. The rhino was named Amari because zookeepers had feared the baby would give up. Amari was born on June 11 and was immediately abandoned by his mother. As a result, he refused to eat or drink. Eventually Amari allowed caretakers at the zoo to nurture him and started eating a special milk drink. However, the rhinoceros didn't respond well to his new diet. A severe bout of diarrhea brought him within an inch of his life. Amari's caretakers wouldn't give up, and began feeding him through a tube. He eventually recovered.
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4854150/detail.html
Oregon Zoo Says "Bienvenidos" To Spanish Speaking Visitors By Offering Spanish Language Map
Portland, Oregon - In an effort to embrace Oregon's vibrant and expanding Hispanic communities, the Oregon Zoo has recently made Spanish-language zoo maps available with funding from sponsor KeyBank. Visitors are provided a map at time of admission ticket purchase and can find maps at the zoo's reception office.
http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=309032&cp=10996
Young nets title at 'Zoo
Final a worthy short subject
August 15, 2005
BY GEORGE SIPPLE
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
KALAMAZOO -- Game. Set. Match. Cut!
The 2005 version of "the Nats at the Zoo" concluded Sunday when left-hander Donald Young beat Sam Querrey, 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 6-2, to win the U.S. Tennis Association 18-and-under nationals at Kalamazoo College's Stowe Stadium. It also ended 10 days of filming for a documentary that was the brainchild of Hall of Fame tennis player Jim Courier.
The documentary, tentatively titled "The Zoo," has followed 10 junior players, including Young and Querrey, at various tournaments leading up to Kalamazoo. The movie is expected to be released next summer.
http://www.freep.com/sports/othersports/tennis15e_20050815.htm
Tulsa Zoo Gets Some Unexpected Guests
The Tulsa Zoo received some surprise guests this week. Two tiger cubs and two adult clouded leopards were rescued in a sting operation by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Tulsa Zoo agreed to hold these wild animals until a permanent home could be found for them. Zoo officials say the care and handling of wild and exotic cats should be left to trained professionals.
The Tulsa Zoo says they have no plans to put the animals on display.
They are working with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association to find them a good home.
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=88500
Is that lizard a basilisk? How Harry Potter sparks interest in the reptile house
Films such as 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' could help zoos educate visitors about the world of wild animals and spark interest in creatures which would otherwise not get a second glance, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC's Science in Society Programme.
Fictional portrayals of animals in, for example, 'Harry Potter' or 'Finding Nemo' offer zoos a golden opportunity to capture the attention of children, even if the films may initially cause some confusion when youngsters see the real thing.
The study, led by Dr. Nils Lindahl-Elliot of the University of the West of England, investigated displays and visitors' responses to them at Bristol Zoo Garden and Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, where 'naturalistic' ways of presenting the animals have been introduced in recent years.
It suggests that there are fundamental flaws in how zoos are judged to be successful or not in getting across scientific and environmental messages.
Zoos are not schools, argues the report, pointing instead to the extraordinary variety of non-traditional forms of education which go on in them.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/esr-itl081505.php
USDA investigates Kedar's death at zoo
Updated: 8/14/2005 8:23 PM
By: Kristin Smith, News 10 Now Web Staff
Just 10 days after her baby's death, zookeepers say Kedar's mother is doing much better, but for Targa it's been a slow process.
"Targa kind of looked around for Kedar, a little bit the following day, and then she's just really been seeking a little bit more attention from keepers a little bit more comfort, as far as we can tell," said Sarah Fedele a spokesperson for the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.
The death of her baby, Kedar, has had an even bigger impact on the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.
http://news10now.com/content/all_news/central_new_york/?ArID=47249&SecID=86
Two die in crash near zoo
By Rebecca Neal
Two people leaving a wedding party at the Indianapolis Zoo at 12:11 a.m. today were killed in front of the zoo when their vehicle was struck by another vehicle, police said.
Police said the driver of a Ford Bronco disregarded a traffic light in the 1200 block of West Washington Street and collided with a Mercedes Benz SUV leaving the zoo in which the two people died.
The driver, who police identified as Rosalio Pedraza, 31, was arrested and charged with 2 counts of reckless homicide and two counts of operating a motor vehicle under the influence. Police said Pedraza blew a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050814/NEWS01/50814003
Nandankanan Zoo loses one-yr-old Bengal tiger to infection
BHUBANESWAR: A one-year-old Royal Bengal tiger has died at the Nandankanan Zoo, due to an infection in its rectum. The death of the tiger comes three days after two rare four-horned antelopes were bitten to death by stray dogs that entered their enclosure at the zoo.
Sources at the zoo said the tiger had developed complications in its rectal sphincter due to an infection. Zoo officials reportedly attempted to treat the animal within its enclosure, but had failed in their attempts to do so.
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=76313
Americas News
Baby hippo confined, zoo critics say
Aug 14, 2005, 17:23 GMT
VANCOUVER, BC, Canada (UPI) -- The Vancouver (Canada) Zoo is being disparaged for a lack of adequate housing for Hazina, its 700-pound baby hippopotamus.
In the 10 months since Hazina (Swahili for "treasure") came to the zoo via Quebec, the city`s Humane Society says, she has been confined to 8-by-8-foot quarters -- unsuitable for an animal with the size and social tendencies of the hippo.
Zoo officials defended Hazina`s housing. "She has two large stalls. She has an indoor pond. She has access to the door to get sunlight," said Jamie Dixon, animal care manager for the zoo.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1041217.php/Baby_hippo_confined_zoo_critics_say
Baby hippo confined, zoo critics say
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Vancouver (Canada) Zoo is being disparaged for a lack of adequate housing for Hazina, its 700-pound baby hippopotamus.
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In the 10 months since Hazina (Swahili for "treasure") came to the zoo via Quebec, the city's Humane Society says, she has been confined to 8-by-8-foot quarters -- unsuitable for an animal with the size and social tendencies of the hippo.
Zoo officials defended Hazina's housing. "She has two large stalls. She has an indoor pond. She has access to the door to get sunlight," said Jamie Dixon, animal care manager for the zoo.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050814-13204300-bc-canada-hippo.xml
Protecting elephants from pain, illness
August 13, 2005
BY DEBBIE LEAHY
Regardless of how one feels about zoos and circuses, the proposed elephant protection ordinance makes good sense.
The ordinance sponsored by Ald. Mary Ann Smith (48th) would prohibit the chaining of elephants and the use of the bullhook; would require zoos to provide 10 acres of space per elephant and circuses to provide 3,600 square feet for a single elephant and an extra 1,800 square feet for each additional elephant.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/otherviews/cst-edt-ref13a.html
Bill Marvel:
Innkeeper at the Dallas Zoo's Bug U! buzzes about her charges
06:46 PM CDT on Monday, August 15, 2005
Lunchtime at the Dallas Zoo. A half-eaten cantaloupe, an apple and a dish of grapes wait on Samantha Snavely's desk. But they're not for her. They're for the beetles, crickets and other assorted insects that carry on their daily lives in dozens of nearby terrariums, jars and plastic boxes.
Samantha Snavely, assistant reptile and invertebrate keeper, gets touchy with a tarantula at the Dallas Zoo's Bug U! exhibit.
Think of Ms. Snavely as an insect concierge. An assistant keeper of reptiles and invertebrates at the zoo, she must make sure the thousands of tiny charges (some not so tiny) in the zoo's new Bug U! are comfortable, well-housed and well-fed.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/texasliving/columnists/all/stories/081405dnlivourtown.229886d7.html
It’s a first: Delhi Zoo breeds 2 pythons
Gopal Sathe
New Delhi, August 13: The Delhi Zoo has bred two pythons in captivity for the first time.
“With eggs hatched around four days back, the newborn pythons need proper care. It is too soon to put them on display,” said Zoo Director B.S. Bonal. The breeding showed that snakes were adapting well to their new enclosures, he said further.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=143857
Zoo criticized for baby hippo barn
Last Updated Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:51:39 EDT
CBC News
The Greater Vancouver Zoo is at odds with the city's humane society over the treatment of a baby hippopotamus that arrived from Quebec 10 months ago.
The Vancouver Humane Society, along with some zoo visitors, say the barn housing the 317-kilogram (700-pound) animal is far from ideal.
Hazina, swimming in her pool
Hazina, whose name means "treasure" in Swahili, spends most of her waking hours submerged in a 2.4-metre-by-2.4-metre (eight-by-eight-foot) indoor pool, off limits to the public.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/13/hippo-zoo050813.html
Zoo's Prized Elephant Dies
7-Year-Old Was On Loan In Columbus
POSTED: 6:42 pm EDT August 16, 2005
UPDATED: 6:58 pm EDT August 16, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The first elephant born in Ohio since the time of the woolly mammoth has died.
Ganesh was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in March 1998, and was on loan to the Columbus Zoo when keepers discovered him dead in his stall Tuesday morning, News 5 reported.
Zoo workers aren't sure how the 7-year-old elephant died.
http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4860043/detail.html
Chimp zoo house chopped
GARETH EDWARDS
AMBITIOUS plans for a new £4 million chimp enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo are to be put back after the attraction missed out on vital funding for the new arena.
Bosses at the zoo had hoped to create a modern enclosure which would help members of the public get closer to the animals than ever before. The design for the groundbreaking enclosure included video screens, interactive displays and a research centre for scientists.
But they have admitted they will have to go back to the drawing board after they were refused a vital grant for the Budongo exhibit, named after the rainforest which is home to many of the zoo's chimps.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1790592005
Pit bulls kill three animals at Saginaw children's zoo; nine others injured
August 16, 2005, 1:45 PM
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) -- Three children's zoo animals are dead and nine others injured after a pair of pit bulls burrowed under a fence and attacked goats, sheep, cattle and roosters.
Two goats and a rooster were killed in the petting area of the Children's Zoo at Celebration Square. The dogs sneaked into the zoo sometime before 6:30 a.m. Monday.
"It is a sad day at the zoo," Director Nancy J. Parker told The Saginaw News for a Tuesday story.
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw119908_20050816.htm
Karla Bonoff Performs August 24 At Oregon Zoo
By Joan Jones
Staff Writer / SouthernOregonNews.com
Portland, Oregon - Karla Bonoff got her start at the Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood. Now she'll be performing at the Oregon Zoo on Wednesday, August 24 at 7 p.m. as part of the Wells Fargo Summer Concert Series.
http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=309128&cp=10997
Casa de Fruta zoo worker injured after buffalo knocks him to ground
By Brandon Bailey
Mercury News
Rescue workers were called to a popular South County petting zoo on Monday after an agitated buffalo knocked down and trampled an employee at Casa de Fruta on Highway 152.
The 23-year-old man was airlifted to Valley Medical Center in San Jose. Officials say he suffered a bruise on his torso that did not appear life-threatening, but he needed to be checked in case of internal injuries.
The buffalo probably weighed about 1,000 pounds, said California Department of Forestry Capt. Dustin Hall, whose crew of firefighters and paramedics was called to the scene shortly after 3:30 p.m.
The employee apparently was feeding the buffalo when it lowered its head and butted him, knocked him down and then stepped on him, Hall said. The worker, whose name was withheld, was able to crawl out of the pen to safety, and Hall said it appeared the man was fortunate.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/the_valley/12394623.htm
Zoo enclosure is Out of Africa
GARETH EDWARDS
AN African enclosure offering visitors a safari-style experience at Edinburgh Zoo is to be unveiled tonight at a themed party.
The enclosure will allow visitors to gaze down on the zoo's African antelopes, monkeys, wild pigs, bush babies and owl-faced monkeys from an overhead walkway, while the animals below wander through a natural-looking environment.
African plants and a new layout have been used to create the illusion that all the animals are sharing the same African plain.
Their separate enclosures will be divided by natural wooden fencing, and around the monkey enclosure the trees have been trimmed so the monkeys can't escape, in a bid to make it appear that all the animals are in one open area. The development cost just over £100,000.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1770362005
Rare Baby Colubus Monkey Debuts At Oregon Zoo
Portland, Oregon - Another baby colobus monkey makes its Oregon Zoo debut in the Africa Rainforest exhibit on Tuesday, August 9, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. The new male, which was born on July 27, has yet to be officially named. Born just a little over a year after his brother, Oscar, the baby colobus weighed 1.48 pounds at birth, a little above average for the species.
http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=308836&cp=10996
Four Cheetah Cubs Born At the Zoo
SAN DIEGO — Four 4-day-old cheetah cubs were on display and being hand-fed in the nursery in the Children's Zoo section of the San Diego Zoo today, a park official said.
The cubs, born Tuesday, were neglected by their mother, according to senior nursery keeper Janet Hawes.
"The cubs will need 24-hour-a-day attention for the first two to three weeks of their lives, with nursery keepers giving them feedings every two hours," Hawes said. "As they grow, the feedings, and the need for non-stop attention, will diminish."
The cubs consume 22 percent of their body weight at each feeding, Hawes said.
Their eyes are expected to open in about a week, which is when they should be removed from their incubator, she said.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/081205_nw_cheetah_cubs.html
Zoo Welcomes Newborn Cheetah Cubs
Newborns Eat Very Little
POSTED: 11:40 am EDT August 12, 2005
UPDATED: 11:48 am EDT August 12, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Zoo has welcomed four newborn female cheetahs. The zoo provided video of the cubs, which are being kept in the Children's Zoo. Each weighs no more than 500 grams and eats very little. Zookeepers are keeping an around-the-clock watch on the newborns for two or three weeks. The cubs' mother stopped caring for them after birth.
http://www.nbc17.com/news/4843288/detail.html
http://nbc17.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=414131
Zoo offers discounts in hot weather
04:52 PM EDT on Friday, August 12, 2005
When the mercury rises, you can actually save money if you want to head out to the Louisville Zoo!
At 90 degrees or above, admission is only $5 a person.
Even though it's hot outside, the zoo has plenty of spray stations to keep you cool, not to mention the air-conditioned exhibit areas like Gorilla Forest.
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/WHAS11_LOCAL_Zoo.68cfe578.html
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Zoo's panda cub vigorous, growing rapidly
SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES
4:44 p.m. August 15, 2005
SAN DIEGO – The giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo is growing rapidly and appears more vigorous than its mother's two previous cubs, a zoo official said Monday.
The cub, born two weeks ago, is getting its black and white markings and is beginning to resemble a miniature panda, said Don Lindburg, the leader of the zoo's panda team.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050815-1644-pandacub.html
Zoo Christens Miracle Baby Rhino
Thousands On Hand For Ceremony
POSTED: 12:25 pm PDT August 15, 2005
UPDATED: 12:37 pm PDT August 15, 2005
ERFURT, Germany -- A German zoo has christened its baby rhinoceros as part of its annual festival.
Baby rhino "Amari," an African name meaning "he who never gives up," was christened recently by zookeepers and local clergy. Thousands of onlookers were on hand as water was sprinkled on the animal. The rhino was named Amari because zookeepers had feared the baby would give up. Amari was born on June 11 and was immediately abandoned by his mother. As a result, he refused to eat or drink. Eventually Amari allowed caretakers at the zoo to nurture him and started eating a special milk drink. However, the rhinoceros didn't respond well to his new diet. A severe bout of diarrhea brought him within an inch of his life. Amari's caretakers wouldn't give up, and began feeding him through a tube. He eventually recovered.
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4854150/detail.html
Oregon Zoo Says "Bienvenidos" To Spanish Speaking Visitors By Offering Spanish Language Map
Portland, Oregon - In an effort to embrace Oregon's vibrant and expanding Hispanic communities, the Oregon Zoo has recently made Spanish-language zoo maps available with funding from sponsor KeyBank. Visitors are provided a map at time of admission ticket purchase and can find maps at the zoo's reception office.
http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=309032&cp=10996
Young nets title at 'Zoo
Final a worthy short subject
August 15, 2005
BY GEORGE SIPPLE
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
KALAMAZOO -- Game. Set. Match. Cut!
The 2005 version of "the Nats at the Zoo" concluded Sunday when left-hander Donald Young beat Sam Querrey, 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 6-2, to win the U.S. Tennis Association 18-and-under nationals at Kalamazoo College's Stowe Stadium. It also ended 10 days of filming for a documentary that was the brainchild of Hall of Fame tennis player Jim Courier.
The documentary, tentatively titled "The Zoo," has followed 10 junior players, including Young and Querrey, at various tournaments leading up to Kalamazoo. The movie is expected to be released next summer.
http://www.freep.com/sports/othersports/tennis15e_20050815.htm
Tulsa Zoo Gets Some Unexpected Guests
The Tulsa Zoo received some surprise guests this week. Two tiger cubs and two adult clouded leopards were rescued in a sting operation by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Tulsa Zoo agreed to hold these wild animals until a permanent home could be found for them. Zoo officials say the care and handling of wild and exotic cats should be left to trained professionals.
The Tulsa Zoo says they have no plans to put the animals on display.
They are working with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association to find them a good home.
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=88500
Is that lizard a basilisk? How Harry Potter sparks interest in the reptile house
Films such as 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' could help zoos educate visitors about the world of wild animals and spark interest in creatures which would otherwise not get a second glance, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC's Science in Society Programme.
Fictional portrayals of animals in, for example, 'Harry Potter' or 'Finding Nemo' offer zoos a golden opportunity to capture the attention of children, even if the films may initially cause some confusion when youngsters see the real thing.
The study, led by Dr. Nils Lindahl-Elliot of the University of the West of England, investigated displays and visitors' responses to them at Bristol Zoo Garden and Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, where 'naturalistic' ways of presenting the animals have been introduced in recent years.
It suggests that there are fundamental flaws in how zoos are judged to be successful or not in getting across scientific and environmental messages.
Zoos are not schools, argues the report, pointing instead to the extraordinary variety of non-traditional forms of education which go on in them.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/esr-itl081505.php
USDA investigates Kedar's death at zoo
Updated: 8/14/2005 8:23 PM
By: Kristin Smith, News 10 Now Web Staff
Just 10 days after her baby's death, zookeepers say Kedar's mother is doing much better, but for Targa it's been a slow process.
"Targa kind of looked around for Kedar, a little bit the following day, and then she's just really been seeking a little bit more attention from keepers a little bit more comfort, as far as we can tell," said Sarah Fedele a spokesperson for the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.
The death of her baby, Kedar, has had an even bigger impact on the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.
http://news10now.com/content/all_news/central_new_york/?ArID=47249&SecID=86
Two die in crash near zoo
By Rebecca Neal
Two people leaving a wedding party at the Indianapolis Zoo at 12:11 a.m. today were killed in front of the zoo when their vehicle was struck by another vehicle, police said.
Police said the driver of a Ford Bronco disregarded a traffic light in the 1200 block of West Washington Street and collided with a Mercedes Benz SUV leaving the zoo in which the two people died.
The driver, who police identified as Rosalio Pedraza, 31, was arrested and charged with 2 counts of reckless homicide and two counts of operating a motor vehicle under the influence. Police said Pedraza blew a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050814/NEWS01/50814003
Nandankanan Zoo loses one-yr-old Bengal tiger to infection
BHUBANESWAR: A one-year-old Royal Bengal tiger has died at the Nandankanan Zoo, due to an infection in its rectum. The death of the tiger comes three days after two rare four-horned antelopes were bitten to death by stray dogs that entered their enclosure at the zoo.
Sources at the zoo said the tiger had developed complications in its rectal sphincter due to an infection. Zoo officials reportedly attempted to treat the animal within its enclosure, but had failed in their attempts to do so.
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=76313
Americas News
Baby hippo confined, zoo critics say
Aug 14, 2005, 17:23 GMT
VANCOUVER, BC, Canada (UPI) -- The Vancouver (Canada) Zoo is being disparaged for a lack of adequate housing for Hazina, its 700-pound baby hippopotamus.
In the 10 months since Hazina (Swahili for "treasure") came to the zoo via Quebec, the city`s Humane Society says, she has been confined to 8-by-8-foot quarters -- unsuitable for an animal with the size and social tendencies of the hippo.
Zoo officials defended Hazina`s housing. "She has two large stalls. She has an indoor pond. She has access to the door to get sunlight," said Jamie Dixon, animal care manager for the zoo.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1041217.php/Baby_hippo_confined_zoo_critics_say
Baby hippo confined, zoo critics say
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Vancouver (Canada) Zoo is being disparaged for a lack of adequate housing for Hazina, its 700-pound baby hippopotamus.
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In the 10 months since Hazina (Swahili for "treasure") came to the zoo via Quebec, the city's Humane Society says, she has been confined to 8-by-8-foot quarters -- unsuitable for an animal with the size and social tendencies of the hippo.
Zoo officials defended Hazina's housing. "She has two large stalls. She has an indoor pond. She has access to the door to get sunlight," said Jamie Dixon, animal care manager for the zoo.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050814-13204300-bc-canada-hippo.xml
Protecting elephants from pain, illness
August 13, 2005
BY DEBBIE LEAHY
Regardless of how one feels about zoos and circuses, the proposed elephant protection ordinance makes good sense.
The ordinance sponsored by Ald. Mary Ann Smith (48th) would prohibit the chaining of elephants and the use of the bullhook; would require zoos to provide 10 acres of space per elephant and circuses to provide 3,600 square feet for a single elephant and an extra 1,800 square feet for each additional elephant.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/otherviews/cst-edt-ref13a.html
Bill Marvel:
Innkeeper at the Dallas Zoo's Bug U! buzzes about her charges
06:46 PM CDT on Monday, August 15, 2005
Lunchtime at the Dallas Zoo. A half-eaten cantaloupe, an apple and a dish of grapes wait on Samantha Snavely's desk. But they're not for her. They're for the beetles, crickets and other assorted insects that carry on their daily lives in dozens of nearby terrariums, jars and plastic boxes.
Samantha Snavely, assistant reptile and invertebrate keeper, gets touchy with a tarantula at the Dallas Zoo's Bug U! exhibit.
Think of Ms. Snavely as an insect concierge. An assistant keeper of reptiles and invertebrates at the zoo, she must make sure the thousands of tiny charges (some not so tiny) in the zoo's new Bug U! are comfortable, well-housed and well-fed.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/texasliving/columnists/all/stories/081405dnlivourtown.229886d7.html
It’s a first: Delhi Zoo breeds 2 pythons
Gopal Sathe
New Delhi, August 13: The Delhi Zoo has bred two pythons in captivity for the first time.
“With eggs hatched around four days back, the newborn pythons need proper care. It is too soon to put them on display,” said Zoo Director B.S. Bonal. The breeding showed that snakes were adapting well to their new enclosures, he said further.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=143857
Zoo criticized for baby hippo barn
Last Updated Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:51:39 EDT
CBC News
The Greater Vancouver Zoo is at odds with the city's humane society over the treatment of a baby hippopotamus that arrived from Quebec 10 months ago.
The Vancouver Humane Society, along with some zoo visitors, say the barn housing the 317-kilogram (700-pound) animal is far from ideal.
Hazina, swimming in her pool
Hazina, whose name means "treasure" in Swahili, spends most of her waking hours submerged in a 2.4-metre-by-2.4-metre (eight-by-eight-foot) indoor pool, off limits to the public.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/13/hippo-zoo050813.html
Zoo's Prized Elephant Dies
7-Year-Old Was On Loan In Columbus
POSTED: 6:42 pm EDT August 16, 2005
UPDATED: 6:58 pm EDT August 16, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The first elephant born in Ohio since the time of the woolly mammoth has died.
Ganesh was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in March 1998, and was on loan to the Columbus Zoo when keepers discovered him dead in his stall Tuesday morning, News 5 reported.
Zoo workers aren't sure how the 7-year-old elephant died.
http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4860043/detail.html
Chimp zoo house chopped
GARETH EDWARDS
AMBITIOUS plans for a new £4 million chimp enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo are to be put back after the attraction missed out on vital funding for the new arena.
Bosses at the zoo had hoped to create a modern enclosure which would help members of the public get closer to the animals than ever before. The design for the groundbreaking enclosure included video screens, interactive displays and a research centre for scientists.
But they have admitted they will have to go back to the drawing board after they were refused a vital grant for the Budongo exhibit, named after the rainforest which is home to many of the zoo's chimps.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1790592005
Pit bulls kill three animals at Saginaw children's zoo; nine others injured
August 16, 2005, 1:45 PM
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) -- Three children's zoo animals are dead and nine others injured after a pair of pit bulls burrowed under a fence and attacked goats, sheep, cattle and roosters.
Two goats and a rooster were killed in the petting area of the Children's Zoo at Celebration Square. The dogs sneaked into the zoo sometime before 6:30 a.m. Monday.
"It is a sad day at the zoo," Director Nancy J. Parker told The Saginaw News for a Tuesday story.
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw119908_20050816.htm
Karla Bonoff Performs August 24 At Oregon Zoo
By Joan Jones
Staff Writer / SouthernOregonNews.com
Portland, Oregon - Karla Bonoff got her start at the Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood. Now she'll be performing at the Oregon Zoo on Wednesday, August 24 at 7 p.m. as part of the Wells Fargo Summer Concert Series.
http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=309128&cp=10997
Casa de Fruta zoo worker injured after buffalo knocks him to ground
By Brandon Bailey
Mercury News
Rescue workers were called to a popular South County petting zoo on Monday after an agitated buffalo knocked down and trampled an employee at Casa de Fruta on Highway 152.
The 23-year-old man was airlifted to Valley Medical Center in San Jose. Officials say he suffered a bruise on his torso that did not appear life-threatening, but he needed to be checked in case of internal injuries.
The buffalo probably weighed about 1,000 pounds, said California Department of Forestry Capt. Dustin Hall, whose crew of firefighters and paramedics was called to the scene shortly after 3:30 p.m.
The employee apparently was feeding the buffalo when it lowered its head and butted him, knocked him down and then stepped on him, Hall said. The worker, whose name was withheld, was able to crawl out of the pen to safety, and Hall said it appeared the man was fortunate.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/the_valley/12394623.htm
Zoo enclosure is Out of Africa
GARETH EDWARDS
AN African enclosure offering visitors a safari-style experience at Edinburgh Zoo is to be unveiled tonight at a themed party.
The enclosure will allow visitors to gaze down on the zoo's African antelopes, monkeys, wild pigs, bush babies and owl-faced monkeys from an overhead walkway, while the animals below wander through a natural-looking environment.
African plants and a new layout have been used to create the illusion that all the animals are sharing the same African plain.
Their separate enclosures will be divided by natural wooden fencing, and around the monkey enclosure the trees have been trimmed so the monkeys can't escape, in a bid to make it appear that all the animals are in one open area. The development cost just over £100,000.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1770362005
Rare Baby Colubus Monkey Debuts At Oregon Zoo
Portland, Oregon - Another baby colobus monkey makes its Oregon Zoo debut in the Africa Rainforest exhibit on Tuesday, August 9, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. The new male, which was born on July 27, has yet to be officially named. Born just a little over a year after his brother, Oscar, the baby colobus weighed 1.48 pounds at birth, a little above average for the species.
http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=308836&cp=10996
Four Cheetah Cubs Born At the Zoo
SAN DIEGO — Four 4-day-old cheetah cubs were on display and being hand-fed in the nursery in the Children's Zoo section of the San Diego Zoo today, a park official said.
The cubs, born Tuesday, were neglected by their mother, according to senior nursery keeper Janet Hawes.
"The cubs will need 24-hour-a-day attention for the first two to three weeks of their lives, with nursery keepers giving them feedings every two hours," Hawes said. "As they grow, the feedings, and the need for non-stop attention, will diminish."
The cubs consume 22 percent of their body weight at each feeding, Hawes said.
Their eyes are expected to open in about a week, which is when they should be removed from their incubator, she said.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/081205_nw_cheetah_cubs.html
Zoo Welcomes Newborn Cheetah Cubs
Newborns Eat Very Little
POSTED: 11:40 am EDT August 12, 2005
UPDATED: 11:48 am EDT August 12, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Zoo has welcomed four newborn female cheetahs. The zoo provided video of the cubs, which are being kept in the Children's Zoo. Each weighs no more than 500 grams and eats very little. Zookeepers are keeping an around-the-clock watch on the newborns for two or three weeks. The cubs' mother stopped caring for them after birth.
http://www.nbc17.com/news/4843288/detail.html
http://nbc17.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=414131
Zoo offers discounts in hot weather
04:52 PM EDT on Friday, August 12, 2005
When the mercury rises, you can actually save money if you want to head out to the Louisville Zoo!
At 90 degrees or above, admission is only $5 a person.
Even though it's hot outside, the zoo has plenty of spray stations to keep you cool, not to mention the air-conditioned exhibit areas like Gorilla Forest.
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/WHAS11_LOCAL_Zoo.68cfe578.html
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