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History…
753 BC, According to legend, twin brothers Romulus and Remus, sons of the god Mars, found the ancient city of Rome.
1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
1836, Shouting, "Remember the Alamo," General Sam Houston and his army of Texans defeat Mexican forces in the Battle of San Jacinto, winning independence for Texas.
1838, John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer
1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action during World War I.
1940, the quiz show that asked the "$64 question," "Take It or Leave It," premiered on CBS Radio.
1955, 50 years ago, the Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play "Inherit the Wind," loosely based on the Scopes trial of 1925, opened at the National Theatre in New York.
1960, Three years after construction of Brasília began, the city replaces the crowded Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil.
1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.
1975, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years in office.
1980, at the Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line; however, she was later exposed as a fraud.
Missing in Action
1966 AUSTIN ELLIS E. VERMONTVILLE MI POSS DEAD
1966 KELLER JACK E. CHICAGO IL
1967 HAMILTON ROGER DALE BALTIMORE MD
1967 HASENBACH PAUL A. FREEBURG MO DISAPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN
1967 MANGINO THOMAS A. ALLIANCE OH DISAPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN
1967 NIDDS DANIEL R. WEST ISLIP NY DISAPPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN
1967 WINTERS DAVID M. DELPHIA CA DISAPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN
1968 CREAMER JAMES E. NORTH BRANFORD CT
1968 JOHNSON FRANKIE B. JR. FOUNTAIN INN SC
1968 JAMERSON LARRY C. ROSMAN NC
1968 LINK ROBERT C. WASHINGTON DC
1968 MAC KEDANZ LYLE E. HUTCHINSON MN
1968 OLSEN FLOYD W. WHEATON IL
1968 SPINDLER JOHN GATES ST LOUIS MO
1970 WHEELER EUGENE L. ASHVILLE OH "VOICE CONTACT, IN SHOOTOUT"
1978 MAC NAMARA LEN PHNOM PHENH JAIL TIL 11/78
1978 CLARK JAMES W. PHNOM PHENH JAIL TIL 11/78
Nobel Prize winner launches DNA company of the future
NOBEL Prize winner Dr Sydney Brenner has started a firm which will take DNA analysis into a new era.
Population Genetics Technologies, which will be based in Cambridge, will allow mass analysis of whole populations, simultaneously.
One example of how this will benefit mankind is in eliminating side-effects from powerful drugs.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/news/2005/04/20/f41e4dce-dd9e-4e5c-a3cb-7ac1ff27cbf7.lpf
The Australian
Asteroid will get two shots at Earth
Nigel Hawkes, London
April 19, 2005
A GIGANTIC asteroid that is on a course to miss the Earth by a whisker in 2029 could go around its orbit again and score a direct hit a few years later.
Astronomers have calculated that the 350m-wide asteroid called 2004 MN4 will pass by Earth at a distance of between 24,140km and 40,235km - about one-tenth of the distance between the Earth and the moon and close enough to be seen with the naked eye.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15014308%255E29098,00.html
Shuttle might go without some upgrades: NASA chief
Reuters
April 19, 2005
NEW NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said today he might consider letting the space shuttle return to flight even if an independent panel has not finally approved some safety improvements.
Griffin, a rocket scientist who was confirmed by Congress last week to head the US space agency, said NASA's managers will have the final say on whether the shuttle Discovery lifts off during its scheduled launch window from May 15 to June 3.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15018093%255E29098,00.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
Detainees' last option: don't dob
By Neil McMahon, with Matthew Moore and Phil Cornford in Denpasar
April 21, 2005
The words are chilling, the meaning obvious.
Within minutes of being arrested at Denpasar airport, Renae Lawrence had taken stock of the horrifying situation unfolding around her: she and three other young Australians in detention with packets of heroin strapped to their bodies.
They were busted. And dramatic footage shot by Indonesian police last Sunday suggests Lawrence made a swift judgement on their smartest strategy: don't dob.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Detainees-last-option-dont-dob/2005/04/20/1113854264360.html
Hooded spectre of Abu Ghraib has his revenge
A photograph can sometimes crystallise a tragic moment in human history, writes Rachel Roberts.
In Abu Ghraib prison, things happened. Some of these things were recorded in photographs. More disturbingly, many others were not. Acts of torture, humiliation and abuse that inspired shock and awe around the world. By now the world is familiar with the images that came out of Abu Ghraib.
They included pictures of Iraqi detainees being forced to pile one upon another, amassed in a grotesque pyramid of naked bodies.
There were shots of US soldiers grinning and giving the camera the "thumbs up" sign over the bodies of wounded detainees and corpses lying open-mouthed as if aghast at the final acts of cruelty committed against them. There were images of men cowering in front of snarling dogs, as well as a photo of one naked Iraqi detainee who, with a leash around his neck, was paraded in front of the camera like a dog.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Hooded-spectre-of-Abu-Ghraib-has-his-revenge/2005/04/20/1113854259656.html
Tornado in eastern China kills seven
April 21, 2005 - 12:44PM
A tornado tore apart houses in two towns in eastern China, killing seven people and injuring more than 80 others, a news report said.
The tornadoes hit two counties on the outskirts of Yancheng, a city in Jiangsu province north west of Shanghai, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The report said Xinhua reporters who visited the village of Dazhi, one of the hardest-hit areas, found "half of the houses at the village collapsed and the only township hospital crowded with some 60 villagers waiting for treatment".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Tornado-in-eastern-China-kills-seven/2005/04/21/1114028464306.html
Bodies found as Iraq bomb targets Allawi
April 21, 2005 - 8:59AM
Iraq's interim president has announced the recovery of more than 50 bodies from the Tigris River, saying the grisly discovery was proof of claims that dozens were abducted from an area south of the capital despite a fruitless search by Iraqi forces.
Northwest of Baghdad, witnesses said 19 bullet-riddled bodies were found slumped against a bloodstained wall in a soccer stadium in Haditha.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bodies-found-as-Iraq-bomb-targets-Allawi/2005/04/21/1114028455731.html
BBC
Adult stem cells 'cancer threat'
Adult stem cells can pose a cancer risk, warn scientists.
Stem cells are immature "master" cells that can be programmed to become many kinds of tissue and have been heralded as future cures for numerous disease.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4465717.stm
Inhaled insulin 'within a year'
A device which allows people with diabetes to inhale, rather than inject, insulin could be licensed for use within a year, scientists claim.
Tests carried out around the UK and in the US have shown that the device is as effective as conventional injections.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4464571.stm
Shift work linked to health risks
Employees working split shifts could be harming their health, Health and Safety Executive research has suggested.
A study found offshore oil rig workers who worked seven nights then seven days had a higher risk of heart disease than those who stayed on days or nights.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4466555.stm
Child diabetes time-bomb warning
The form of diabetes more associated with adults is much higher among children than thought, figures suggest.
Research in east London has revealed 22 children under 16 have type 2 diabetes, which is largely caused by obesity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4462111.stm
Great Wall visible in space photo
A photograph taken from space appears to confirm that China's Great Wall can be seen with the naked eye after all.
China's schoolchildren have long been taught that the ancient fortification is one of the few man-made structures that can be picked out from orbit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4459311.stm
Arrest order for Ecuador leader
Ecuador's new President Alfredo Palacio has ordered the arrest of the former leader, Lucio Gutierrez, who was sacked by Congress on Wednesday.
After the vote, the army withdrew support for Mr Gutierrez, who left the presidential palace by helicopter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4467389.stm
Ancient necropolis found in Egypt
Archaeologists say they have found the largest funerary complex yet dating from the earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years ago.
The necropolis was discovered by a joint US and Egyptian team in the Kom al-Ahmar region, around 600 km (370 miles) south of the capital, Cairo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4467253.stm
Berlusconi resigns as Italian PM
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has resigned, but says he will soon put together a new coalition.
He told the upper house of parliament that his party had a mandate to lead until 2006 and it would do so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4464865.stm
Ford sees profits fall to $1.2bn
US car giant Ford Motor saw its profits fall almost 40% in the first quarter, as falling US sales and rising prices for raw materials ate into margins.
The company said its net profit was $1.21bn (£630m), on sales of $45.1bn.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4464743.stm
Iraq 'hostages dumped in river'
The bodies of more than 50 men, women and children have been recovered from the River Tigris in the town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad.
Many had been badly mutilated, Iraqi authorities said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4465769.stm
Dusty debris may be asteroid belt
The Spitzer telescope has detected what looks to be an asteroid belt around a star some 41 light-years from Earth.
US astronomers say that if confirmed it would be the first such band of rocky material found around a star of similar age and size to our own Sun.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4465329.stm
Dozens killed in Zambia explosion
At least 46 workers have been killed and several others injured in a blast at an explosives factory in Zambia.
The explosion occurred at about 1100 (0900GMT) in a workshop at the Chinese-owned plant which supplies explosives to local copper mines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4466321.stm
Rwanda's anger at Hutu 'refugees'
Rwanda has condemned Burundi for moving a group of Rwandan Hutus who had crossed their common border, further from the frontier.
Rwanda says the Hutus are fugitives from justice, and says the Burundian action amounts to giving them the status of asylum-seekers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4460741.stm
Rwanda genocide 'failure' berated
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused the international community of deliberately failing to prevent the genocide in the country 10 years ago.
Speaking at the conference on the killings in the Rwandan capital Kigali, Mr Kagame condemned the worldwide inaction at the time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3599493.stm
UN chief's Rwanda genocide regret
The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has said he could and should have done more to stop the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago.
At a memorial conference at the UN, Mr Annan said he realised he personally could have done more to rally support for international efforts to stop it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3573229.stm
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Welcome to the Internet Site of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
http://www.ictr.org/
HIV note panics Kenyan students
Kenyan police are investigating a claim that a female student has slept with more than 100 fellow students to try to infect them with HIV, the Aids virus.
Officials at Moi University in western Kenya say they believe a two-page letter posted on a notice board from a law student signed NP could be a hoax.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4464897.stm
Bigotry
You can't legislate on nappy changing
April 20, 2005
NO social engineer from central casting will ever design a happiness model for any one of us better than we design for ourselves. And it's oppressive to try. Yet, for those unhappy with the pace of social change, there is a tendency to hit the legislative button to engineer centrally imposed solutions. The Left, whose constant refrain is that change is too slow, has long been eager to press the accelerator with allegedly progressive laws pushing us towards a happier future. Now it seems that those on the Right are also succumbing to social engineering.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15022177%5E32522,00.html
Wristband plan to tackle bigotry
The craze for wristbands is the latest weapon being used in the battle to beat bigotry in the west of Scotland.
Celtic and Rangers football stars are joining forces with police to launch the bands, which carry the message "Say No To Sectarianism".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4465669.stm
Religious bigotry in the Military
Vice Commandant says "There were people
walking up to someone and basically they would get
in a conversation where it would end with, `If you don't
believe what I believe you are going to hell,'"
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) -- There have been 55 complaints of religious discrimination at the academy in the past four years, including cases in which a Jewish cadet was told the Holocaust was revenge for the death of Jesus and another was called a Christ killer by a fellow cadet.
http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=20417
Europe blinded by anti-Semitic bigotry
The Association of University Teachers in the United Kingdom is set today to begin blacklisting Israeli professors who refuse to condemn their country's policies toward Arabs.
The academics will debate today whether to boycott three of Israel's eight universities – Haifa, Bar Ilan and Hebrew – over their alleged complicity with the government's policies toward the so-called "Palestinians."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43891
Tories rap McConnell in racism row
14:14, Apr 20 2005
First Minister Jack McConnell has been fiercely criticised by a top Tory after he appeared to accuse Conservatives of waging a racist General Election campaign.
Shadow foreign secretary Michael Ancram accused Mr McConnell of stoking up ill-feeling.
"I have noticed right through this campaign that when the Government is feeling vulnerable on any particular argument, it either says we are playing politics with it or it begins to abuse us," Mr Ancram said in Edinburgh.
http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/news/scotland/headlines/tm_objectid=15423945&method=full&siteid=50144&headline=tories-rap-mcconnell-in-racism-row-name_page.html
How is that racism?
There is a lot of talk on sports talk radio right now over the issue of whether or not the NBA needs an age minimum.
Obviously not everybody is going to like such an idea and Indiana Pacers forward Jermaine O’Neal who is so animatedly against it he called it racist.
“You don’t hear about it in baseball or hockey. To say you have to be 20, 21 to get in the league, it’s unconstitutional. If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can’t you play basketball for 48 minutes?” O’Neal said.
If you ask me that’s a bunch of hog wash.
http://www.forestlaketimes.com/2005/April/20onemineute.html
Transit agency sued for racism
Daily Journal wire report
Civil rights organizations and AC Transit bus riders sued the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in federal court yesterday, alleging discrimination against poor transit riders of color who depend on AC Transit bus service.
Bill Lann Lee, former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the U.S. Justice Department, said “The Bay Area has two separate and unequal transit systems: an expanding state of the art rail system, Caltrain and BART, for predominantly white, relatively affluent communities and a shrinking bus system, AC Transit, for low-income people of color.”
http://www.smdailyjournal.org/article.cfm?issue=04-20-05&storyID=42076
Are you a racist? The test that claims to know
Can a five-minute online test tell whether you are racist or not? In the US, two million people have taken one and now a UK version is available.
Racism is a reality encountered every day in Britain, but how many people actually consider themselves racist?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4447471.stm
'Fair' housing no reality on LI
Area is nation’s 3rd most segregated
April 20, 2005
The maddening part about ERASE Racism's new report on racial discrimination in Long Island's housing market is that it's nothing new - and nothing that savvy Long Islanders, white, black, yellow or brown, didn't know.
Racial steering is so virulent a piece of the local culture that even victims - who tend to worry more about getting a roof over their heads than entering some legal or regulatory maze - rarely bother to complain about it.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/opinion/ny-vprac204225268apr20,0,2607777.story?coll=ny-opinion-print
Calls for Congressional Solution to End Wage Discrimination
WASHINGTON -- April 19 -- "The fact is simple and unacceptable - forty-two years after the Equal Pay Act was passed women working full-time, year round, are only making 76 cents to every dollar a man earns," said NOW President Kim Gandy. "This kind of discrimination has an economically devastating impact on women and their families."
The wage gap between men and women stubbornly remains despite passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963. Why do more women than men live in poverty? Because many of them are working minimum or sub-minimum wage jobs and because they still are not receiving equal pay for equal work
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0419-11.htm
Professor Takes UC to Court, Citing Discrimination
Chapela Says His Origin, Criticism of UC Sparked Retaliation
By PREETI PIPLANI
Contributing Writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
UC Berkeley associate professor Ignacio Chapela took his ongoing battle for tenure to court yesterday, claiming his national origin and criticism of a UC research contract drove UC to deny him tenure.
http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=18390
TOM DELAY gets to stay but a Florida mayor is harassed by Jeb Bush over baseless charges.
Orlando Mayor
4/20/2005
Governor reinstates Buddy Dyer as mayor of Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said today hours after charges against him and three others were dropped that his government will be operated transparently.
The four were indicted on charges of violating a state law that prohibits payments for collection of absentee ballots.
He was reinstated as mayor today. Governor Jeb Bush had suspended him last month when the charges were announced.
Dyer said the decision by special prosecutor Brad King showed that he never did anything wrong.
Dyer entered a pretrial diversion agreement that said he agrees that he and any of his future election campaigns will abide by the state's interpretation of the law.
The mayor said that his administration would from now on be conducted "absolutely in the sunshine."
Charges were also dropped against Circuit Judge Alan Apte, Dyer's campaign manager, Patty Sharp, and campaign consultant Ezzie Thomas.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
http://www.wcjb.com/news.asp?id=12354
Virus proves Sober more socially adept
by David Quainton
Anti-virus experts are raising threat alerts over the latest variant of an aging virus. Sober.N is spreading in German and English speaking countries.
The new variant has been widely seeded in the early hours of this morning, and though relatively simple, its sophisticated social engineering is expected to fool many.
"It only uses two different messages, in English and German, but what makes it worse than other variants is the social engineering is really good," said Patrik Runald, senior technology consultant at Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure. "Most people will be interested in what the message has to say."
http://www.scmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID=527540e2-6f3b-4b45-b5ce-65571dd1ce9d&newsType=Latest%20News
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