The Guardian
Rebuilding Aceh
Rebuilding Nusa
Hundreds of small communities were devastated by the tsunami in south Asia. Over the next year the Guardian will focus on the village of Nusa in Aceh, Indonesia, to report on how people are rebuilding their lives and homes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/nusa/0,15713,1394011,00.html
UK to buy anti-flu drugs for 14 million
James Meikle, health correspondent
Wednesday March 2, 2005
The Guardian
A stockpile of anti-flu drugs to treat 14.6 million people - about a quarter of the UK population - will be bought by the government over the next two years as part of long-awaited plans to fight a pandemic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1428292,00.html
Happy birthday to Yahoo!
A California billboard for internet company Yahoo! Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Reading that internet company Yahoo! is celebrating its 10th birthday today seems to reach back into the dark ages of life before ubiquitous email and worldwide access to Paris Hilton's phone book. Certainly a look back at the original Yahoo! front page - which now looks far worse than something an inept, novice blogger could come up with in 10 minutes - reminds us how far the interweb has come.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/internet/2005/03/02/happy_birthday_to_yahoo.html
Men save '50% more' than women
Sandra Haurant
Wednesday March 2, 2005
More people are saving regularly, but women are managing to save less than men, according to a report published today.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,1428585,00.html
German discovers longest prime number
Luke Harding in Berlin
Wednesday March 2, 2005
The Guardian
A German eye specialist with a keen amateur interest in mathematics has discovered the world's largest prime number after a 50-day search using his personal computer.
Pasted from <http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1428429,00.html
Chicago Tribune
IF THIS CRIME goes unpunished every Judge ever preciding over such a case will require body guards and sending their family into hiding. In a populated area like this there has to be witnesses and a witness protection program besides. Obviously they mean business. Somewhere there are murderers. What is the reward ?
Execution-style' hits
Officers find broken window, bloody shoe print
Judge, family placed under tight security
April 27, 2004
By Jeff Coen and David Heinzmann
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 2, 2005
Chicago police and federal agents joined forces Tuesday to investigate the slayings of a federal judge's husband and mother, killings that law-enforcement sources were calling "execution-style" hits.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/na/chi-0503020263mar02,1,3454791.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Assassins and other killers
Published March 2, 2005
For judges, prosecutors and witnesses, bringing criminals to justice can provoke reasonable fears and carry terrible costs. The people they help convict or sentence often are society's most ruthless. That's especially true in federal courts, where crimes of passion rarely surface. Federal cases tend to involve suspects whose alleged crimes are meticulously premeditated. These defendants often have two useful assets: smarts and treacherous allies.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0503020051mar02,1,7020201.story?coll=chi-news-hed
4 critically hurt as car crashes onto Red Line
Published March 2, 2005
DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY -- Four people were critically injured late Tuesday after a sports car they were traveling in hurdled a median on the Dan Ryan Expressway, landing on CTA tracks, officials said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503020306mar02,1,7365038.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Senate panel blocks Daley gun package
By Christi Parsons and Erika Slife
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 2, 2005
SPRINGFIELD -- Key portions of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's gun-control package failed Tuesday in an Illinois Senate committee, with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration formally registering opposition to one measure.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503020298mar02,1,3755967.story?coll=chi-news-hed
7.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Indonesia
By Associated Press
Published March 2, 2005, 8:29 AM CST
TOKYO -- A powerful earthquake struck eastern Indonesia late Wednesday, meteorological agencies said, and was felt as far off as Australia. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-indonesia-earthquake,1,154599.story?coll=chi-news-hed
OVER THE YEARS there have been rail accidents. They have been practice runs by very contemplative terrorists. First there was the runaway train without a conductor. Then there was the train that nearly crashed in a urban center but was side tracked into a suburban neighborhood scattering lumber everywhere. There is something to this.
Report: Bomb Suspect Had N.Y. Rail Sketch
By DANIEL WOOLLS
Associated Press Writer
Published March 2, 2005, 6:48 AM CST
MADRID, Spain -- A suspect in the Madrid train bombings was found to possess a sketch and technical details about Grand Central Terminal in New York, a report said Wednesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-spain-bombing,1,2064267.story?coll=chi-news-hed
A site with train crash references:
http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/
Daley holds back on Field's issue
By Gary Washburn
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 2, 2005
When the then-owners of Marshall Field's planned to move the chain's Frango mint candy-making operation out of Chicago six years ago, Mayor Richard Daley erupted.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0503020304mar02,1,4987310.story?coll=chi-business-hed
The Daily Mail and Guardian
We die like flies, say striking truckers
Moffet Mofokeng Johannesburg, South Africa
02 March 2005 03:05
About 3 000 truck drivers gathered at the Johannesburg offices of the trucking industry's bargaining council on Wednesday in a protest for better pay.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198721&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
Mbeki: No one will hamper fair Zim vote
Parliament
02 March 2005 05:01
Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198731&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
Los Angeles Times
Warning Didn't Slow Approval of MS Drug
A specialist in the disease repeatedly questioned Tysabri's safety before a patient's death.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Denise Gellene, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — A multiple sclerosis drug pulled off the market after a patient died was approved by the Food and Drug Administration even though a prominent neurobiologist and a top medical journal had questioned the drug's safety.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-biogen2mar02,0,5738399.story?coll=la-home-headlines
ChoicePoint Had Earlier Data Leak
Scammers accessed personal financial information five years ago in a scheme similar to a recent case.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-choicepoint2mar02,0,4949824.story?coll=la-home-business
A Monument to Denial
By Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost" (Mariner Books, 1999) and "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
No country likes to come to terms with embarrassing parts of its past. Japanese schoolbooks still whitewash the atrocities of World War II, and the Turkish government continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Until about 1970, the millions of visitors to Colonial Williamsburg saw no indication that roughly half the inhabitants of the original town were slaves.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hochschild2mar02,0,2938007.story
Miami Herald
Tiger Woods returns to Doral
Neither predawn hours nor morning chill could prevent Tiger Woods aficionados from watching his return to the Blue Monster course at Doral.
BY JEFF SHAIN
jshain@herald.com
When golf's No. 1 attraction hits town, savvy fans know the early bird gets the Tiger.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11026570.htm
Debt swap is called a victory
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner declared victory in his debt-restructuring effort and said a full report would be available Thursday. A success could mean a reopening of international credit lines.
BY BILL CORMIER
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES - President Néstor Kirchner on Tuesday declared a gigantic global debt swap a success, telling Congress that Argentina's record $103 billion default has been surmounted.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11025122.htm
DHS dodges its obligation
OUR OPINION: AGENCY SHOULD FUND TRANSITION COSTS FOR FREED CUBAN MARIEL DETAINEES
A Cuban detainee recently was released by the Department of Homeland Security in Colorado, given a bus ticket to Miami, some sweets -- and no money. Arriving three days later, he was weak and famished from the cross-country, 1,700-mile ordeal. Camillus Health Concern has treated at least five recently released Cuban detainees found homeless on the streets of Miami; three men arrived via Greyhound Bus with nothing more than their corrections ID and in need of social services. How shameful and wrong of DHS to shirk its responsibilities.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11026578.htm
New Zealand Herald
Judge says police culture is 'sick'
03.03.05
By DAVID EAMES
A District Court judge has criticised the heavy-handed techniques of a senior South Auckland police officer and condemned a wider police culture as "sick".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10113386
UN moves quickly on sexual abuse scandals
03.03.05
By DAVID USBORNE
The United Nations is poised to crack down on sexual abuse committed by its peacekeepers after conceding that the problem may not be isolated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a rash of cases involving blue-helmeted soldiers has been reported.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113358
Saddam lawyer says US worries he could win support
03.03.05
TOKYO - The United States may be restricting access to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for fear his comments could bolster support for him in the Arab world, a lawyer for the deposed leader said on Wednesday.
Ziad Khasawneh, a Jordanian lawyer who is the spokesman for Saddam's defence team, said in an interview he was unfazed by criticism and risks of defending Saddam, who is being held in a US military facility near Baghdad airport.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113380
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-15.0°
Updated Thursday 03 Mar 3:59AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind - A little on the warm side, isn't it? - Chime) is:
45 °F / 7 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
40 °F / 4 °C
Humidity:
76%
Dew Point:
37 °F / 3 °C
Wind:
8 mph / 13 km/h from the SSE
Pressure:
29.50 in / 999 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 3400 ft / 1036 m
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