Thursday, May 26, 2005
Women. Bush's Soft Target. The Frequent Focus of His Terror Media.
Bush and Baby Politics. His Sexist Agenda was never so evident. Sexism is real. It's a from of discrimination. He portrayed women and babies belong together exclusively. The ONLY man in the picture besides Bush is taking paternal pictures. How sexist is that? 
Why is it both of these issues deeply involves Paul Wolfowitz?
Why?
Because.
Because there are ...
No Purists in D.C.
The Wolfowitz Agenda follows the strategy of McNamara. This is interesting.
First you make war and force impoverishment to develop.
Then add agenda of privatization to '? Stimulate ?' movement out of war.
Then with increased impoverishment comes disease which kills them in a way a war has no legitimacy.
DOES ANYONE see the PROFITS for pharmaceuticals in this strategy while lending foreign countries into insoluble debt?
Yeah, you betcha.
American profits at the expense of global wars and global lives.
Countries around the world need to build their own pharmaceutical plants while supplying jobs to their people. The countries that can should start their own research and development projects to address local needs that American Pharaceutical Companies have no interest in because there is no profit in it for them.
The world needs to realize they are not in good hands if they are depending on the USA to be their savior.
True Believers at the World Bank
Rigid ideology is a threat, not an asset.
By Barbara Garson, Barbara Garson is the author of "Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy" (Penguin, 2002).
A few decades after the end of the war that he managed, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told us that the Vietnam War had been a mistake and he apologized.
Great. But when, I'd like to know, is he going to apologize for the World Bank?
...Before the McNamara years, the poorest people didn't get much richer. But during the Washington Consensus years, they got poorer and poorer.
I saw how that could be possible when I became a shareholder in the French water company Suez, which took over the water system of Johannesburg, South Africa.
To get ready for privatization, South African communities followed the World Bank/IMF suggestion that water rates be raised so consumers would get used to paying the full cost. The water of many people was cut off when they couldn't pay their bills. In some places they started taking water from rivers. The result was a cholera epidemic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-garson30may30,0,1654882.story
Why?
Because.
Because there are ...
No Purists in D.C.
The Wolfowitz Agenda follows the strategy of McNamara. This is interesting.
First you make war and force impoverishment to develop.
Then add agenda of privatization to '? Stimulate ?' movement out of war.
Then with increased impoverishment comes disease which kills them in a way a war has no legitimacy.
DOES ANYONE see the PROFITS for pharmaceuticals in this strategy while lending foreign countries into insoluble debt?
Yeah, you betcha.
American profits at the expense of global wars and global lives.
Countries around the world need to build their own pharmaceutical plants while supplying jobs to their people. The countries that can should start their own research and development projects to address local needs that American Pharaceutical Companies have no interest in because there is no profit in it for them.
The world needs to realize they are not in good hands if they are depending on the USA to be their savior.
True Believers at the World Bank
Rigid ideology is a threat, not an asset.
By Barbara Garson, Barbara Garson is the author of "Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy" (Penguin, 2002).
A few decades after the end of the war that he managed, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told us that the Vietnam War had been a mistake and he apologized.
Great. But when, I'd like to know, is he going to apologize for the World Bank?
...Before the McNamara years, the poorest people didn't get much richer. But during the Washington Consensus years, they got poorer and poorer.
I saw how that could be possible when I became a shareholder in the French water company Suez, which took over the water system of Johannesburg, South Africa.
To get ready for privatization, South African communities followed the World Bank/IMF suggestion that water rates be raised so consumers would get used to paying the full cost. The water of many people was cut off when they couldn't pay their bills. In some places they started taking water from rivers. The result was a cholera epidemic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-garson30may30,0,1654882.story
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1886, Al Jolson, American stage and film performer, most noted for his role in the motion picture The Jazz Singer. He was born Asa Yoelson in Seredzius, Russia (now in Lithuania). As a child he sang in the synagogue where his father was a cantor. At the age of 13 he made his first stage appearance in Children of the Ghetto in New York City. He became a circus performer and café entertainer. Then he toured in vaudeville and with a company known as Dockstader's Minstrels; minstrel-style singing in blackface makeup became Jolson's trademark. In 1911 he made his musical comedy debut in La Belle Paree. Jolson achieved wide popularity starring on Broadway in many musicals tailored to his talents; these included Robinson Crusoe, Jr. (1916), Sinbad (1918), Big Boy (1925), and Wonder Bar (1931). In 1927 he starred in The Jazz Singer, the first important motion picture with synchronized sound and the first of many successful films for the star. He was also a popular radio and recording artist.
1895, Dorothea Lange, photographer
1907, John Wayne, actor
1908, Robert Morley, actor and dramatist
1951, Sally Ride, astronaut
1521 The Edict of Worms outlaws the German church reformer Martin Luther and his followers, called Lutherans, by imposing on them the Ban of the Holy Roman Empire.
1865, arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.
1868 The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends; the Senate falls one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
1896 The Wall Street Journal begins publishing the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1913, Actors' Equity Association was organized.
1948 The all-white National Party, under Daniel Malan, wins South Africa's general elections; the party immediately begins instituting its policy of apartheid, or racial segregation.
1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
Missing in Action
1966 GLANDON GARY A. POWELL TN
1966 GRIFFEY TERRANCE H. FORT DODGE IA
1967 MECLEARY READ BLAINE OLD GREENWICH CT 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
May 25. . .
1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet
1878, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer and entertainer
The Bojangles Museum
One of the greatest tap dancers of all time, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, was born on this day in 1878. The Bojangles Museum presents a biography of Robinson and an oral history of tap dance.
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Bojangles/bojangles.htm
1897 Gene Tunney, American boxer, champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight categories. He was born James Joseph Tunney in New York City. A member of the United States Marine Corps during World War I (1914-18), Tunney won the light heavyweight championship of the American Expeditionary Force in Paris in 1919. In 1922 he briefly held the American light heavyweight title; he regained the title in 1923 but abandoned it when he turned heavyweight. In 1926 Tunney won the world heavyweight title by defeating the American boxer Jack Dempsey. Tunney again defeated Dempsey in a controversial fight in 1927, during which Dempsey's delay in moving to a neutral corner after knocking down Tunney resulted in the famous “long count” that allowed Tunney time to recover. In 1928 Tunney retired, having gone undefeated in his heavyweight career. During World War II (1939-45), Tunney headed the U.S. Navy physical fitness program. He later served as a director of several corporations.
1926, Miles Davis, jazz trumpet player and bandleader
1929, Beverly Sills, opera singer
1939, Ian McKellan, actor
1241, 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding, after enough delegates showed up for a quorum.
1787, The Constitutional Convention, presided over by George Washington, opens in Philadelphia to establish a new U.S. Constitution.
1793, In Baltimore, Maryland Father Stephen Theodore Badin is the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in the United States.
1844, the first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
1935 American track-and-field athlete Jesse Owens breaks or ties six world records in less than an hour at the Big Ten Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
1948 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis
1948 San Fransisco receives its 1st telecast
1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963, The Organization of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the goal of promoting continental peace and cooperation.
1969 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1970 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat Los Angeles Stars, 4 games to 2
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
1973 US launches 1st Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
1977: The science fiction film Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, is released.
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 "Star Wars" released
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1979 Raul Gonzáles of México completes 50,000 meter walk in record 3:41:38.4
1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1983 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 France performs nuclear test
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1997 David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Fort Worth TX
1997 Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform #
1997 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic
1997 Todd & Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father & son to win 100 games
Missing in Action
1965 HARNAWEE "THA CHAN ""CHIP"""THAILAND RELEASED 09/01/74 THAI SPECIAL FORCES 03 ALIVE AND WELL 98 SP NAME???
1967 GRAVES RICHARD C. SUNDERLAND MA
1969 WEITZ MONEK ROXBURY MA
1969 WILLIAMS LEROY C. JACKSONVILLE FL
1970 SPRINGMAN RICHARD HAROLD LONG BEACH CA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1972 STRONG HENRY H. NORTH WALES PA
Vietnam War Casualties
Estimating the number killed in the conflict is extremely difficult. Official records are hard to find or nonexistent and many of those killed were literally blasted to pieces by bombing. For many years the North Vietnamese suppressed the true number of their casualties for propaganda purposes. It is also difficult to say exactly what counts as a "Vietnam war casualty"; people are still being killed today by unexploded ordinance, particularly cluster bomblets. Environmental effects from chemical agents and the colossal social problems caused by a devastated country with so many dead surely caused many more lives to be shortened. In addition, the Khmer Rouge would probably not have come into power and committed their slaughters without the destabilization of the war, particularly of the American bombing campaigns to 'clear out the sanctuaries' in Cambodia.
The lowest casualty estimates, based on the now-renounced North Vietnamese statements, are around 1.5 million Vietnamese killed. Vietnam released figures on April 3, 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war. The accuracy of these figures has generally not been challenged. 58,226 American soldiers also died in the war or are missing in action. Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Vietnam and New Zealand lost 38 soldiers.
http://www.vietnam-war.info/casualties/
Japan Today
Season's first catch of Baird's beaked whale landed in Hokkaido
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 07:20 JST
HAKODATE — Japan's coastal whale hunting season in the Sea of Japan began Wednesday as the first catch of Baird's beaked whale was landed in Hakodate port, Hokkaido.
Fishermen from the Taiji fisheries association in Wakayama Prefecture said they caught the Baird's beaked whale — a male 9 meters long and weighing 10 tons — off the town of Matsumae in Hokkaido. Japan hunts the whale under a quota system. This year, it is allowing whalers to catch up to 10 beaked whales in the Sea of Japan, in addition to an annual quota of 52 in the Pacific Ocean before the hunting season ends on June 30. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338348
Whale of a problem
Adrienne McPhail
On May 30, the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, IWC, will take place in Ulsan, South Korea. It is expected that Japan will request to double the number of minke whales it currently is capturing and will also ask to begin hunting and studying endangered fin and humpback whales.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=comment&id=780
Rape trauma continues after 10 years
By Takashi Iketani
TOKYO — Nearly 10 years ago, Miho, then a second-year student at a senior high school in the Tohoku district in northern Japan, was invited by a 45-year-old teacher to go to a karaoke parlor together on a Sunday.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=feature&id=925
Amnesty head to push Japan to do more for rights
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 07:24 JST
LONDON — Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said Wednesday she plans to push Japan during her visit next week to play a "much more active" international role to promote human rights.
"I hope to push Japan to take a much more active role internationally on promoting human rights given its ambitions in the U.N. Security Council," Khan told a press conference on the day Amnesty published its annual report. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338380
N Korean ship warned not to play music too loud or it won't be let in
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 08:01 JST
NIIGATA — The Niigata prefectural government has issued a warning to the North Korean ferry Mangyongbong-92, saying it played music too loudly when the ship made its latest port call on Monday and it could be denied access to the port if no appropriate response is received, prefectural government officials said Wednesday.
The local government issued the ferry a permit to dock at the port from last December onward on condition that "the volume of sound emitted from loudspeakers, etc., at Niigata Port be kept within the socially acceptable range," in line with its port management regulations, according to the officials. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338318
Hiroshima midfielder Ri gets call-up to N Korean squad
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 07:13 JST
HIROSHIMA — Sanfrecce Hiroshima midfielder Ri Han Jae has been called up to North Korea's national squad for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Iran and Japan, officials of the J-League first-division club said Wednesday.
The North Koreans play Iran in Tehran on June 3 before moving to Bangkok for their clash with Japan five days later after soccer's world governing body FIFA robbed them of home advantage following crowd trouble in Pyongyang in March. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=6&id=338378
China media quiet on flare-up with Japan
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 08:01 JST
BEIJING — Chinese media coverage on the latest flare-up between Japan and China was limited Wednesday, a sign some interpreted as the government's wish not to stir up the public's ill feelings and spark a fresh round of anti-Japan demonstrations.
While the Beijing Youth Daily and the English-language China Daily gave front-page treatment to Vice Premier Wu Yi's cancellation of talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, many other dailies did not mention it at all. Papers that did not print the news included the People's Daily, an organ of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the Global Times, a popular tabloid-sized paper that normally devotes extensive coverage to Japan-China relations, often with a critical view of Japan. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338317
Koizumi rejects China's criticism of Yasukuni visits
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 06:57 JST
TOKYO — Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday brushed aside China's claim that the Japanese government's stance over war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo led to the sudden cancellation of a meeting between the premier and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi.
"Both sides should have their say on this, not just China," Koizumi told reporters at his office, referring to remarks by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing that the Yasukuni issue prompted Wu to cancel the Monday meeting.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=338226
Japanese ministers fume after Wu cancels meeting with Koizumi
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 07:07 JST
TOKYO — Statements made by Japanese leaders and commentary in Japanese media about Yasukuni Shrine over the past week prompted Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi to cancel her Monday visit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Beijing on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura pressed for an apology from China for the last-minute cancellation of the talks, while a number of other cabinet members expressed displeasure over the Chinese action.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=338180
USTR asks Japan to promptly resume beef imports
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 14:57 JST
TOKYO — U.S. Trade Representative Robert Portman in phone talks with Japanese agriculture minister Yoshinobu Shimamura on Wednesday called for Japan to promptly resume U.S. beef imports, ministry officials said.
While refraining from specifying the timing for resumption, Shimamura told Portman the government took the last step Tuesday toward resuming beef imports from the United States, they said. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=338307
The People's Daily
Are words of Japanese leader credible?
Chinese cultural sage Confucius had this famous remark: "Promise must be kept and action must be resolute." Japanese leader's recent words and deeds turn out to be the opposite: he fails to live up to his promise and acts in an irresolute way.
During the meeting of the leaders of China and Japan in Jakarta last month, President Hu Jintao put forward a five-point proposal in regard to the development of Sino-Japan relations, in which he said, "A correct understanding of and attitude toward history means turning reflection on the aggressive war into action and absolutely not doing anything again that hurts the feelings of the people of China and other related Asian countries."
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated that in the spirit of the five-point proposal set forth by President Hu, the Japanese side would actively promote Japan-China friendly and cooperative relations.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186718.html
Koizumi should honour his words
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has confirmed our doubts about his apology over his country's previous colonial rule and aggression.
On May 16, he told a Japanese Diet session that he would decide when to visit Yasukuni Shrine "in an appropriate manner." He also urged other parts of Asia "not to interfere" with Japan's internal affairs by denouncing his Yasukuni visits.
Koizumi announced his resolve over the upcoming visit to Yasukuni one day before Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi began her tour to his country for opportunities to amend bilateral relations.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186693.html
Ah, so the Chinese observe the America Media. Interesting.
US media prefer males to females in their news reporting
The United States always considers itself to be a country of "democracy" and "equality", however, there exists the phenomenon of putting males above females in its news reports. A latest research shows that although females account for the majority of the US population, and for nearly half of the labor population. In choosing the source of their news reports, US media show greater favor for males, females are cold-shouldered by journalists.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186742.html
For what does US over-estimate China's military power?
On May 20, the US Department of Defence referred to the US Congress an annual report on "Chinese military power", playing the hackneyed theme of "China threat theory" again.
However in order to strengthen its persuasion, a large amount of fabricated contents, which are more seditious, were filled to the report such as the "huge Chinese military expenditure" in recent years, modernized progress of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that will threaten the security of US army and the aggravated imbalance between the military powers across the Taiwan Straits.
Due to the over exaggeration the "report" suffered the queries and criticism from numerous professional research personages in the US immediately. The US former Ambassador to China James Lilley analyzed that "China threat" has been exaggerated by some Pentagon people maliciously.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186532.html
New vaccines developed to ward off bird flu outbreak
Chinese scientists announced Wednesday two newly developed vaccines are fully capable of stopping the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus to fowl, water birds, mammals or humans.
They also said they are willing to provide technical support inepidemic prevention to other countries and regions and contribute to the breeding industry and public health security worldwide.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186780.html
Japanese PM can't have it both ways
What a relief. Now we know Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has been visiting the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in a private capacity all along.
He wasn't making his annual visits as Japan's elected political leader. Now I feel so much better, don't you?
"I pay a visit as a person and not as the duty of the prime minister," Koizumi was quoted as saying at a Japanese House of Councillors' Budget Committee session.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186503.html
China expresses strong displeasure with Japanese leaders' remarks on Shrine visit
China is "extremely unsatisfied" with the remarks Japanese leaders repeatedly made on visiting the Yasukuni Shrine recently, which go against improving bilateral relations, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan Monday night.
Kong said the Chinese government attaches great importance to Sino-Japanese relations and has made unremitting efforts to improve and develop bilateral relations. "Vice Premier Wu Yi's visit to Japan is a best demonstration of it."
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186436.html
Protect biodiversity, benefit mankind
May 22nd marks the 11th World Biodiversity Day, and this year's theme is "Biodiversity -- guarantee life in a changing world." The State Council recently ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. This is an important progress in the field of biosafety after China signed the Protocol on August 8, 2000, and is an indication that China recognizes its responsibility to fulfill international conventions in an earnest way.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186504.html
China, Uzbekistan agree further cooperation in regional security
China and Uzbekistan signed a treaty on friendly and cooperative partnership Wednesday at the start of Uzbek President Islam Karimov's three-day state visit to China.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) holds a welcome ceremony for Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, in Beijing on May 25, 2005. Islam Karimov arrived here Wednesday, starting a three-day state visit to China aimed at boosting bilateral ties.
"The signing of the treaty demonstrates the two people's common will and determination to keep traditional friendship. It also lays down a sound political and legal foundation for the long-term development of China-Uzbekistan ties," Chinese President Hu Jintao told his Uzbek counterpart during their official meeting.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/26/eng20050526_186796.html
Timed and space outlook on Sino-Australian cooperation
NPC (National People's Congress) Standing Committee Chairman Wu Bangguo delivered a speech at the Sino-Australian Economic-Trade Cooperation Forum on May 23 and summed up Sino-Australian relations by using the words "never before" three times: "There have never before been so close exchanges between leaders of the two countries as the case of today", "there have never before been so frequent contacts between the two peoples as the case of today", and "there have never before been so rapid development of economic-trade cooperation between the two countries as the case of today".
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/26/eng20050526_186934.html
No human infection of avian flu in NW China province, official
No human infection of avian flu or unexplained pneumonia case has been detected in northwest China's Qinghai Province and health departments are going all out to prevent a possible outbreak of bird flu, according to a local health official.
Emergency measures have been taken by the provincial health authorities after Ministry of Agriculture investigators confirmed on Saturday that migratory birds found dead in Quanji Township of Gangca County had been killed by the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, said Ai Keyuan, an official with the provincial health bureau.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/26/eng20050526_186936.html
The Boston Globe
Station shut down after bank's gas giveaway disupts traffic
May 26, 2005
BOSTON -- A bank's free gas promotion on Thursday triggered a traffic jam outside one filling station, leading police to temporarily shut it down.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/05/26/station_shut_down_after_banks_gas_giveaway_disupts_traffic/
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CAFTA will hurt people with HIV
By Rahul Rajkumar May 26, 2005
IF CONGRESS wants to get serious about promoting a culture of life, its members might start by saving 275,000 lives in Central America.
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That's the number of people infected with HIV in the countries party to the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. The agreement, which may be ratified by the end of the month, will force its signatories to strengthen protections on patents owned by multinational pharmaceutical companies, thus preventing the manufacture and importation of many cheap generic drugs.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/26/cafta_will_hurt_people_with_hiv/
Snelgrove panel rips police
Faulty planning, lack of judgment in effort to control crowd found
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
Victoria Snelgrove died because of a series of failures by the Boston Police Department, including poor planning at headquarters, a breakdown of command outside Fenway Park, and ''serious errors in judgment" by individual officers at the scene of her shooting, an independent panel has concluded.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/05/26/snelgrove_panel_rips_police/
National standards urged for weapons
By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
The independent panel that investigated the death of Victoria Snelgrove called yesterday for national testing and policies for crowd-control weapons such as the one that killed the Emerson College student.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/26/national_standards_urged_for_weapons/
Mass. group set to push for universal healthcare
By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
A coalition of religious and community groups will launch a drive today to put universal healthcare on the 2006 state ballot, in a proposal that would raise the cigarette tax to buy coverage for more people and would require all but the smallest Massachusetts businesses to cover their workers.
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2005/05/26/mass_group_set_to_push_for_universal_healthcare/
Mass. group set to push for universal healthcare
By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
A coalition of religious and community groups will launch a drive today to put universal healthcare on the 2006 state ballot, in a proposal that would raise the cigarette tax to buy coverage for more people and would require all but the smallest Massachusetts businesses to cover their workers.
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2005/05/26/mass_group_set_to_push_for_universal_healthcare/
China yuan move won't eliminate US trade gap -Snow
May 26, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will still have a trade deficit with China if that country revalues its currency, but the overall U.S. trade gap should be smaller than it is now, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Thursday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/26/china_yuan_move_wont_eliminate_us_trade_gap__snow/
Easter Rebellion surrender note auctioned
By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
DUBLIN, Ireland -- A handwritten surrender note from the commander of Ireland's Easter 1916 rebellion against British rule sold for $875,000 at auction, shattering forecasts and disappointing local heritage activists.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/easter_rebellion_surrender_note_auctioned/
Disabled children appeal to Putin
By Maria Danilova, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
MOSCOW -- A group of disabled children and their mothers emerged from a crammed train into a Moscow station Thursday after traveling almost 2,000 miles in a bid to dramatize their appeal to President Vladimir Putin to improve their living conditions.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/disabled_children_appeal_to_putin/
China says it will hold new Japan talks
By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
BEIJING -- China said Thursday that it will hold talks with Japan to resolve territorial disputes in the East China Sea despite shaky relations between them after anti-Japanese riots and an apparent diplomatic snub by Beijing this week.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/26/china_says_it_will_hold_new_japan_talks/
Spanish authorities jail Basque politician
By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
MADRID, Spain -- The head of an outlawed pro-independence Basque party has been jailed by a judge who accused him of leading the armed separatist group ETA, but the man's associates said Thursday the action undermined efforts for peace.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/spanish_authorities_jail_basque_politician/
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"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1886, Al Jolson, American stage and film performer, most noted for his role in the motion picture The Jazz Singer. He was born Asa Yoelson in Seredzius, Russia (now in Lithuania). As a child he sang in the synagogue where his father was a cantor. At the age of 13 he made his first stage appearance in Children of the Ghetto in New York City. He became a circus performer and café entertainer. Then he toured in vaudeville and with a company known as Dockstader's Minstrels; minstrel-style singing in blackface makeup became Jolson's trademark. In 1911 he made his musical comedy debut in La Belle Paree. Jolson achieved wide popularity starring on Broadway in many musicals tailored to his talents; these included Robinson Crusoe, Jr. (1916), Sinbad (1918), Big Boy (1925), and Wonder Bar (1931). In 1927 he starred in The Jazz Singer, the first important motion picture with synchronized sound and the first of many successful films for the star. He was also a popular radio and recording artist.
1895, Dorothea Lange, photographer
1907, John Wayne, actor
1908, Robert Morley, actor and dramatist
1951, Sally Ride, astronaut
1521 The Edict of Worms outlaws the German church reformer Martin Luther and his followers, called Lutherans, by imposing on them the Ban of the Holy Roman Empire.
1865, arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.
1868 The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends; the Senate falls one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
1896 The Wall Street Journal begins publishing the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1913, Actors' Equity Association was organized.
1948 The all-white National Party, under Daniel Malan, wins South Africa's general elections; the party immediately begins instituting its policy of apartheid, or racial segregation.
1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
Missing in Action
1966 GLANDON GARY A. POWELL TN
1966 GRIFFEY TERRANCE H. FORT DODGE IA
1967 MECLEARY READ BLAINE OLD GREENWICH CT 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
May 25. . .
1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet
1878, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer and entertainer
The Bojangles Museum
One of the greatest tap dancers of all time, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, was born on this day in 1878. The Bojangles Museum presents a biography of Robinson and an oral history of tap dance.
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Bojangles/bojangles.htm
1897 Gene Tunney, American boxer, champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight categories. He was born James Joseph Tunney in New York City. A member of the United States Marine Corps during World War I (1914-18), Tunney won the light heavyweight championship of the American Expeditionary Force in Paris in 1919. In 1922 he briefly held the American light heavyweight title; he regained the title in 1923 but abandoned it when he turned heavyweight. In 1926 Tunney won the world heavyweight title by defeating the American boxer Jack Dempsey. Tunney again defeated Dempsey in a controversial fight in 1927, during which Dempsey's delay in moving to a neutral corner after knocking down Tunney resulted in the famous “long count” that allowed Tunney time to recover. In 1928 Tunney retired, having gone undefeated in his heavyweight career. During World War II (1939-45), Tunney headed the U.S. Navy physical fitness program. He later served as a director of several corporations.
1926, Miles Davis, jazz trumpet player and bandleader
1929, Beverly Sills, opera singer
1939, Ian McKellan, actor
1241, 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding, after enough delegates showed up for a quorum.
1787, The Constitutional Convention, presided over by George Washington, opens in Philadelphia to establish a new U.S. Constitution.
1793, In Baltimore, Maryland Father Stephen Theodore Badin is the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in the United States.
1844, the first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
1935 American track-and-field athlete Jesse Owens breaks or ties six world records in less than an hour at the Big Ten Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
1948 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis
1948 San Fransisco receives its 1st telecast
1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963, The Organization of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the goal of promoting continental peace and cooperation.
1969 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1970 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat Los Angeles Stars, 4 games to 2
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
1973 US launches 1st Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
1977: The science fiction film Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, is released.
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 "Star Wars" released
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1979 Raul Gonzáles of México completes 50,000 meter walk in record 3:41:38.4
1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1983 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 France performs nuclear test
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1997 David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Fort Worth TX
1997 Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform #
1997 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic
1997 Todd & Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father & son to win 100 games
Missing in Action
1965 HARNAWEE "THA CHAN ""CHIP"""THAILAND RELEASED 09/01/74 THAI SPECIAL FORCES 03 ALIVE AND WELL 98 SP NAME???
1967 GRAVES RICHARD C. SUNDERLAND MA
1969 WEITZ MONEK ROXBURY MA
1969 WILLIAMS LEROY C. JACKSONVILLE FL
1970 SPRINGMAN RICHARD HAROLD LONG BEACH CA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1972 STRONG HENRY H. NORTH WALES PA
Vietnam War Casualties
Estimating the number killed in the conflict is extremely difficult. Official records are hard to find or nonexistent and many of those killed were literally blasted to pieces by bombing. For many years the North Vietnamese suppressed the true number of their casualties for propaganda purposes. It is also difficult to say exactly what counts as a "Vietnam war casualty"; people are still being killed today by unexploded ordinance, particularly cluster bomblets. Environmental effects from chemical agents and the colossal social problems caused by a devastated country with so many dead surely caused many more lives to be shortened. In addition, the Khmer Rouge would probably not have come into power and committed their slaughters without the destabilization of the war, particularly of the American bombing campaigns to 'clear out the sanctuaries' in Cambodia.
The lowest casualty estimates, based on the now-renounced North Vietnamese statements, are around 1.5 million Vietnamese killed. Vietnam released figures on April 3, 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war. The accuracy of these figures has generally not been challenged. 58,226 American soldiers also died in the war or are missing in action. Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Vietnam and New Zealand lost 38 soldiers.
http://www.vietnam-war.info/casualties/
Japan Today
Season's first catch of Baird's beaked whale landed in Hokkaido
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 07:20 JST
HAKODATE — Japan's coastal whale hunting season in the Sea of Japan began Wednesday as the first catch of Baird's beaked whale was landed in Hakodate port, Hokkaido.
Fishermen from the Taiji fisheries association in Wakayama Prefecture said they caught the Baird's beaked whale — a male 9 meters long and weighing 10 tons — off the town of Matsumae in Hokkaido. Japan hunts the whale under a quota system. This year, it is allowing whalers to catch up to 10 beaked whales in the Sea of Japan, in addition to an annual quota of 52 in the Pacific Ocean before the hunting season ends on June 30. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338348
Whale of a problem
Adrienne McPhail
On May 30, the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, IWC, will take place in Ulsan, South Korea. It is expected that Japan will request to double the number of minke whales it currently is capturing and will also ask to begin hunting and studying endangered fin and humpback whales.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=comment&id=780
Rape trauma continues after 10 years
By Takashi Iketani
TOKYO — Nearly 10 years ago, Miho, then a second-year student at a senior high school in the Tohoku district in northern Japan, was invited by a 45-year-old teacher to go to a karaoke parlor together on a Sunday.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=feature&id=925
Amnesty head to push Japan to do more for rights
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 07:24 JST
LONDON — Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said Wednesday she plans to push Japan during her visit next week to play a "much more active" international role to promote human rights.
"I hope to push Japan to take a much more active role internationally on promoting human rights given its ambitions in the U.N. Security Council," Khan told a press conference on the day Amnesty published its annual report. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338380
N Korean ship warned not to play music too loud or it won't be let in
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 08:01 JST
NIIGATA — The Niigata prefectural government has issued a warning to the North Korean ferry Mangyongbong-92, saying it played music too loudly when the ship made its latest port call on Monday and it could be denied access to the port if no appropriate response is received, prefectural government officials said Wednesday.
The local government issued the ferry a permit to dock at the port from last December onward on condition that "the volume of sound emitted from loudspeakers, etc., at Niigata Port be kept within the socially acceptable range," in line with its port management regulations, according to the officials. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338318
Hiroshima midfielder Ri gets call-up to N Korean squad
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 07:13 JST
HIROSHIMA — Sanfrecce Hiroshima midfielder Ri Han Jae has been called up to North Korea's national squad for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Iran and Japan, officials of the J-League first-division club said Wednesday.
The North Koreans play Iran in Tehran on June 3 before moving to Bangkok for their clash with Japan five days later after soccer's world governing body FIFA robbed them of home advantage following crowd trouble in Pyongyang in March. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=6&id=338378
China media quiet on flare-up with Japan
Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 08:01 JST
BEIJING — Chinese media coverage on the latest flare-up between Japan and China was limited Wednesday, a sign some interpreted as the government's wish not to stir up the public's ill feelings and spark a fresh round of anti-Japan demonstrations.
While the Beijing Youth Daily and the English-language China Daily gave front-page treatment to Vice Premier Wu Yi's cancellation of talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, many other dailies did not mention it at all. Papers that did not print the news included the People's Daily, an organ of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the Global Times, a popular tabloid-sized paper that normally devotes extensive coverage to Japan-China relations, often with a critical view of Japan. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338317
Koizumi rejects China's criticism of Yasukuni visits
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 06:57 JST
TOKYO — Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday brushed aside China's claim that the Japanese government's stance over war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo led to the sudden cancellation of a meeting between the premier and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi.
"Both sides should have their say on this, not just China," Koizumi told reporters at his office, referring to remarks by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing that the Yasukuni issue prompted Wu to cancel the Monday meeting.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=338226
Japanese ministers fume after Wu cancels meeting with Koizumi
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 07:07 JST
TOKYO — Statements made by Japanese leaders and commentary in Japanese media about Yasukuni Shrine over the past week prompted Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi to cancel her Monday visit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Beijing on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura pressed for an apology from China for the last-minute cancellation of the talks, while a number of other cabinet members expressed displeasure over the Chinese action.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=338180
USTR asks Japan to promptly resume beef imports
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 14:57 JST
TOKYO — U.S. Trade Representative Robert Portman in phone talks with Japanese agriculture minister Yoshinobu Shimamura on Wednesday called for Japan to promptly resume U.S. beef imports, ministry officials said.
While refraining from specifying the timing for resumption, Shimamura told Portman the government took the last step Tuesday toward resuming beef imports from the United States, they said. (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=338307
The People's Daily
Are words of Japanese leader credible?
Chinese cultural sage Confucius had this famous remark: "Promise must be kept and action must be resolute." Japanese leader's recent words and deeds turn out to be the opposite: he fails to live up to his promise and acts in an irresolute way.
During the meeting of the leaders of China and Japan in Jakarta last month, President Hu Jintao put forward a five-point proposal in regard to the development of Sino-Japan relations, in which he said, "A correct understanding of and attitude toward history means turning reflection on the aggressive war into action and absolutely not doing anything again that hurts the feelings of the people of China and other related Asian countries."
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated that in the spirit of the five-point proposal set forth by President Hu, the Japanese side would actively promote Japan-China friendly and cooperative relations.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186718.html
Koizumi should honour his words
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has confirmed our doubts about his apology over his country's previous colonial rule and aggression.
On May 16, he told a Japanese Diet session that he would decide when to visit Yasukuni Shrine "in an appropriate manner." He also urged other parts of Asia "not to interfere" with Japan's internal affairs by denouncing his Yasukuni visits.
Koizumi announced his resolve over the upcoming visit to Yasukuni one day before Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi began her tour to his country for opportunities to amend bilateral relations.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186693.html
Ah, so the Chinese observe the America Media. Interesting.
US media prefer males to females in their news reporting
The United States always considers itself to be a country of "democracy" and "equality", however, there exists the phenomenon of putting males above females in its news reports. A latest research shows that although females account for the majority of the US population, and for nearly half of the labor population. In choosing the source of their news reports, US media show greater favor for males, females are cold-shouldered by journalists.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186742.html
For what does US over-estimate China's military power?
On May 20, the US Department of Defence referred to the US Congress an annual report on "Chinese military power", playing the hackneyed theme of "China threat theory" again.
However in order to strengthen its persuasion, a large amount of fabricated contents, which are more seditious, were filled to the report such as the "huge Chinese military expenditure" in recent years, modernized progress of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that will threaten the security of US army and the aggravated imbalance between the military powers across the Taiwan Straits.
Due to the over exaggeration the "report" suffered the queries and criticism from numerous professional research personages in the US immediately. The US former Ambassador to China James Lilley analyzed that "China threat" has been exaggerated by some Pentagon people maliciously.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186532.html
New vaccines developed to ward off bird flu outbreak
Chinese scientists announced Wednesday two newly developed vaccines are fully capable of stopping the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus to fowl, water birds, mammals or humans.
They also said they are willing to provide technical support inepidemic prevention to other countries and regions and contribute to the breeding industry and public health security worldwide.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/25/eng20050525_186780.html
Japanese PM can't have it both ways
What a relief. Now we know Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has been visiting the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in a private capacity all along.
He wasn't making his annual visits as Japan's elected political leader. Now I feel so much better, don't you?
"I pay a visit as a person and not as the duty of the prime minister," Koizumi was quoted as saying at a Japanese House of Councillors' Budget Committee session.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186503.html
China expresses strong displeasure with Japanese leaders' remarks on Shrine visit
China is "extremely unsatisfied" with the remarks Japanese leaders repeatedly made on visiting the Yasukuni Shrine recently, which go against improving bilateral relations, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan Monday night.
Kong said the Chinese government attaches great importance to Sino-Japanese relations and has made unremitting efforts to improve and develop bilateral relations. "Vice Premier Wu Yi's visit to Japan is a best demonstration of it."
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186436.html
Protect biodiversity, benefit mankind
May 22nd marks the 11th World Biodiversity Day, and this year's theme is "Biodiversity -- guarantee life in a changing world." The State Council recently ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. This is an important progress in the field of biosafety after China signed the Protocol on August 8, 2000, and is an indication that China recognizes its responsibility to fulfill international conventions in an earnest way.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/24/eng20050524_186504.html
China, Uzbekistan agree further cooperation in regional security
China and Uzbekistan signed a treaty on friendly and cooperative partnership Wednesday at the start of Uzbek President Islam Karimov's three-day state visit to China.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) holds a welcome ceremony for Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, in Beijing on May 25, 2005. Islam Karimov arrived here Wednesday, starting a three-day state visit to China aimed at boosting bilateral ties.
"The signing of the treaty demonstrates the two people's common will and determination to keep traditional friendship. It also lays down a sound political and legal foundation for the long-term development of China-Uzbekistan ties," Chinese President Hu Jintao told his Uzbek counterpart during their official meeting.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/26/eng20050526_186796.html
Timed and space outlook on Sino-Australian cooperation
NPC (National People's Congress) Standing Committee Chairman Wu Bangguo delivered a speech at the Sino-Australian Economic-Trade Cooperation Forum on May 23 and summed up Sino-Australian relations by using the words "never before" three times: "There have never before been so close exchanges between leaders of the two countries as the case of today", "there have never before been so frequent contacts between the two peoples as the case of today", and "there have never before been so rapid development of economic-trade cooperation between the two countries as the case of today".
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/26/eng20050526_186934.html
No human infection of avian flu in NW China province, official
No human infection of avian flu or unexplained pneumonia case has been detected in northwest China's Qinghai Province and health departments are going all out to prevent a possible outbreak of bird flu, according to a local health official.
Emergency measures have been taken by the provincial health authorities after Ministry of Agriculture investigators confirmed on Saturday that migratory birds found dead in Quanji Township of Gangca County had been killed by the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, said Ai Keyuan, an official with the provincial health bureau.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/26/eng20050526_186936.html
The Boston Globe
Station shut down after bank's gas giveaway disupts traffic
May 26, 2005
BOSTON -- A bank's free gas promotion on Thursday triggered a traffic jam outside one filling station, leading police to temporarily shut it down.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/05/26/station_shut_down_after_banks_gas_giveaway_disupts_traffic/
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CAFTA will hurt people with HIV
By Rahul Rajkumar May 26, 2005
IF CONGRESS wants to get serious about promoting a culture of life, its members might start by saving 275,000 lives in Central America.
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That's the number of people infected with HIV in the countries party to the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. The agreement, which may be ratified by the end of the month, will force its signatories to strengthen protections on patents owned by multinational pharmaceutical companies, thus preventing the manufacture and importation of many cheap generic drugs.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/26/cafta_will_hurt_people_with_hiv/
Snelgrove panel rips police
Faulty planning, lack of judgment in effort to control crowd found
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
Victoria Snelgrove died because of a series of failures by the Boston Police Department, including poor planning at headquarters, a breakdown of command outside Fenway Park, and ''serious errors in judgment" by individual officers at the scene of her shooting, an independent panel has concluded.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/05/26/snelgrove_panel_rips_police/
National standards urged for weapons
By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
The independent panel that investigated the death of Victoria Snelgrove called yesterday for national testing and policies for crowd-control weapons such as the one that killed the Emerson College student.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/26/national_standards_urged_for_weapons/
Mass. group set to push for universal healthcare
By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
A coalition of religious and community groups will launch a drive today to put universal healthcare on the 2006 state ballot, in a proposal that would raise the cigarette tax to buy coverage for more people and would require all but the smallest Massachusetts businesses to cover their workers.
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2005/05/26/mass_group_set_to_push_for_universal_healthcare/
Mass. group set to push for universal healthcare
By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff May 26, 2005
A coalition of religious and community groups will launch a drive today to put universal healthcare on the 2006 state ballot, in a proposal that would raise the cigarette tax to buy coverage for more people and would require all but the smallest Massachusetts businesses to cover their workers.
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2005/05/26/mass_group_set_to_push_for_universal_healthcare/
China yuan move won't eliminate US trade gap -Snow
May 26, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will still have a trade deficit with China if that country revalues its currency, but the overall U.S. trade gap should be smaller than it is now, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Thursday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/26/china_yuan_move_wont_eliminate_us_trade_gap__snow/
Easter Rebellion surrender note auctioned
By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
DUBLIN, Ireland -- A handwritten surrender note from the commander of Ireland's Easter 1916 rebellion against British rule sold for $875,000 at auction, shattering forecasts and disappointing local heritage activists.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/easter_rebellion_surrender_note_auctioned/
Disabled children appeal to Putin
By Maria Danilova, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
MOSCOW -- A group of disabled children and their mothers emerged from a crammed train into a Moscow station Thursday after traveling almost 2,000 miles in a bid to dramatize their appeal to President Vladimir Putin to improve their living conditions.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/disabled_children_appeal_to_putin/
China says it will hold new Japan talks
By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
BEIJING -- China said Thursday that it will hold talks with Japan to resolve territorial disputes in the East China Sea despite shaky relations between them after anti-Japanese riots and an apparent diplomatic snub by Beijing this week.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/26/china_says_it_will_hold_new_japan_talks/
Spanish authorities jail Basque politician
By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press Writer May 26, 2005
MADRID, Spain -- The head of an outlawed pro-independence Basque party has been jailed by a judge who accused him of leading the armed separatist group ETA, but the man's associates said Thursday the action undermined efforts for peace.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/spanish_authorities_jail_basque_politician/
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FBI Memo Flushes White House Assertion Down the Toilet
FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
The release of the declassified document came the week after the Bush administration denounced as wrong a May 9 Newsweek article that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down a toilet to try to make detainees talk.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2776
THE RADION PROPAGANDA IS WORTH HEARING.
Protesters of overhaul dog Bush
By Richard Benedetto / USA Today
GREECE, N.Y. — Gone are the days when a president could travel to a community to make a pitch for a favorite program and bask in mostly favorable local media coverage.
Armed with a variety of publicity techniques honed in recent election campaigns, opponents are vying effectively with the president for local media attention before, during and after presidential visits.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2781
Reverend apologizes for sign
From Staff and Wire Reports
FOREST CITY -- The pastor of a Rutherford County Baptist church apologized Wednesday for posting a sign in front of his church that read: "The Koran needs to be flushed."
The sign was posted last weekend in front of Danieltown Baptist Church, located on U.S. 221 in Forest City, an immediately sparked intense debate about religious tolerance.
http://www.thedigitalcourier.com/articles/2005/05/26/news/news01.txt
The Indy Star
State executes killer who wanted to donate liver
Gregory Scott Johnson is 3rd inmate Indiana has put to death this year.
Denied: Gov. Mitch Daniels rejected a request Tuesday afternoon by Gregory Scott Johnson (above) to delay his execution. -- Charlie Nye / The Star
Next execution
Michael A. Lambert could be the next inmate on Indiana's Death Row to face execution.
Lambert, 34, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 22 for the December 1990 killing of Muncie police officer Gregg Winters.
Lambert was being taken to the Delaware County Jail in Winters' police car when the officer was shot five times.
By Vic Ryckaert and Kevin Corcoran
vic.ryckaert@indystar.com
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -- Gregory Scott Johnson was executed by lethal injection at 12:28 a.m. today at the Indiana State Prison for stomping 82-year-old Ruby Hutslar to death in 1985.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250505
Snags add millions to cost of library
Work set to resume, but $30 million loan may be needed to pay the bills, officials say.
Future look: This digital depiction shows a renovated Central Library with a six-story addition; the buildings are to be connected by an atrium. The grand opening has been pushed back to 2007. -- Photo provided by Woollen Molzan and Partners
Putting the project in perspective
Central Library is easily among the city's most ambitious construction projects.
Though not in a league with the $183 million Conseco Fieldhouse or planned $500 million Colts stadium, its $103 million cost dwarfs the $18 million spent for Victory Field. The cost also tops that of two other current projects: the 15-story Simon Headquarters on West Washington Street, at $55 million; and the new Conrad Hotel at Illinois and Washington Streets, at $100 million.
-- John Strauss
By John Strauss
john.strauss@indystar.com
Work on the Central Library expansion and renovation should resume within two weeks, but library officials said Tuesday that they may have to borrow up to $30 million to cover costs associated with a 16-month delay.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250506
Delays ahead for roadwork
With half the money it needs for 254 projects, the state plans to rewrite its 10-year wish list.
What's next
• Survey forms are being mailed to Indiana legislators so they can rank all state road projects in their districts based on safety concerns, congestion and economic impact.
• In July and August, the Indiana Department of Transportation will have six public hearings around the state to gauge residents' interests and concerns.
• Using the legislative rankings, public comments and other criteria, INDOT hopes to forge a new 10-year road building plan by Sept. 1.
• The list of projects at stake is online at www.in.gov/dot.
By Theodore Kim
theodore.kim@indystar.com
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS03/505250504
Tax to fund stadium moving along
In a 7-1 vote, council panel OKs measure to replace dome, expand Convention Center.
Related articles
• Dining tax gets initial go-ahead in Martinsville
What's next
The City-County Council is expected to take a final vote on the stadium and convention center funding proposal at its June 13 meeting. That session will be at 7 p.m. in the Public Assembly Room of the City-County Building, 200 E. Washington St.
Details of proposal
What's in?
• The food and beverage tax, which affects restaurant tabs, would double to 2 percent, raising about $18 million a year.
• The innkeepers tax, charged on hotel and motel rooms, would increase to 9 percent from 6 percent, raising $10 million annually.
• A local tax on car rentals would double to 4 percent, raising $2 million annually.
• Marion County's admission tax, charged on Colts, Pacers and Indians tickets, would jump to 6 percent from 5 percent. That would bring in $1 million a year.
By John Fritze
john.fritze@indystar.com
A proposal to raise taxes on car rentals, hotel rooms and restaurant bills to build a new football stadium for the Indianapolis Colts leapt forward Tuesday with bipartisan support in the City-County Council.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS02/505250403
Zoo visitors will experience dolphin adventure
New perspective: A walk-through dome beneath the dolphins' tank will give the mammals and their visitors a close-up view of one another when the Indianapolis Zoo's renovated dolphin pavilion opens. -- Frank Espich / The Star
By Diana Penner
diana.penner@indystar.com
Indianapolis Zoo officials hope the reopening of the dolphin pavilion this week after a $10 million renovation will not only add some luster to the exhibit but also a little sparkle to the zoo's regional and national reputation
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050522/NEWS01/505220415/1006
PREVENT "The Military Class Blues"
Sparks fly at dropout forum
Audience rails at education system they say penalizes minorities
A show of concern: Parent Brenda Stewart expresses her views and frustrations to area residents who gathered at Ben Davis High School for a town hall meeting about the state's dropout rate. Tuesday night's meeting was organized by The Indianapolis Star. -- Adriane Jaeckle / The Star
By Staci Hupp
staci.hupp@indystar.com
The Indianapolis Star put the state's high school dropout problem into words and pictures last week. On Tuesday, the faces of Indiana's dropout reality turned up at an emotional town hall meeting that drew about 200 people to Ben Davis High School
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250473/0/SPECIAL02
School officials paring $90 million proposal
Opponents had questioned scale of Washington Township project
By Andy Gammill
andy.gammill@indystar.com
A $90 million building proposal that included new athletic facilities at North Central High School is being scaled back, district officials said.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250439/0/SPECIAL02
Cord-blood banks hold parents' hopes
City company keeps cells in storage as researchers seek cures for diseases, defects.
A deposit: Processing freshly collected umbilical cord blood (above) at Genesis Bank takes about four hours. Gravity and centrifugal force isolate the stem cells from the rest of the blood. -- Matt Detrich / Indianapolis Star
Cord-blood banking
Advantages/ disadvantages of storing and transplanting cord blood.
Pros:
• Banked umbilical cord blood is a form of long-term "medical insurance" that could be used to cure future diseases.
• Cord blood can be stored in cryogenic freezers.
• Stem cells in cord blood are highly adaptable and less likely to be rejected by a recipient's immune system.
• The future of stem cell research is promising; new medical discoveries may use stem cells.
Cons:
• Diseases that require transplanted blood stem cells are rare, although the list is growing.
• Currently, typical cord-blood harvest contains only enough cells to help a child or young adult.
• Collecting and storing cord blood can be expensive. Most private banks charge $500 to $1,500, and a storage fee of about $100 a year.
• The American Academy of Pediatrics doesn't recommend cord-blood banking for families that don't have a history of disease.
Sources: Kidshealth.org; ParentsGuideCordBlood.org
Questions to ask
If you are considering a private cord-blood bank, here are some questions to consider:
• How financially stable is the cord-blood bank? What happens to your sample if the facility goes out of business?
• Can you switch to another facility if you choose?
• Does it operate its own storage facility or lease space in one?
• Are the yearly fees and maintenance costs fixed, or could they change without notice?
• Is the cord blood collected before or after delivery of the placenta? What collection methods are used?
• What storage container is used? Bags or vials? Is shipping included in the contract?
For more information:
• www.parentsguidecordblood.org -- Web site created for parents to educate them on cord blood.
• www.celltherapy.org -- International Society for Cellular Therapy.
• www.fda.gov/cber/ gene.htm -- Food and Drug Administration's Web site on cellular and gene therapy.
• www.aap.org -- American Academy of Pediatrics.
• www.marrow.org -- National Marrow Donor Program.
Sources: Kidshealth.org; ParentsGuideCordBlood.org
By Norm Heikens
norm.heikens@indystar.com
Ultrasound images showed Eli Welch would be born with spina bifida, a birth defect characterized by an improperly formed spine and symptoms including paralysis and learning disabilities.
The report so upset his parents, Dawn Applegate-Welch and Shawn Welch, that they told no one for two weeks.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/BUSINESS/505260385
Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs
Father appeals order in divorce decree that prevents couple from exposing son to Wicca.
Challenging the court: Thomas E. Jones Jr. says a judge's order tramples on his and his ex-wife's constitutional right to share their religious beliefs with their son. -- Frank Espich / The Star
What is Wicca?
Wicca is not a centralized religion but a belief system observed by 50,000 Americans that is recognized by reference texts such as the U.S. Army Chaplain's Handbook.
Wicca is related to European tribal nature worship. Wiccans regard living things as sacred and often show a concern for the environment.
They do not worship Satan, but some cast "spells." Some worship in the nude as a sign of attunement with nature.
The core value of Wicca states, "As it harm none, do what you will."
-- Star report
By Kevin Corcoran
kevin.corcoran@indystar.com
An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."
The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481
Syria arrests 1,200 headed for Iraq
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Syria has arrested more than 1,200 people trying to cross the border into Iraq in recent weeks and sent many back to their home countries because of suspicions they were trying to join the insurgency, Syria's U.N. ambassador said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_SYRIA?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME
The New Zealand Herald
THEY HAVE TO BE GROWN BEFORE THEY ARE HARVESTED.
Scientists oppose Japanese plans to kill more whales
Professor Scott Baker, seen with a catalogue of humpback whale flukes, opposes Japanese plans to kill more whales. File picture / Amos Chapple
26.05.05 4.00pm
New Zealand scientists are joining an international clamour of condemnation against Japanese plans to kill more whales in the name of science.
Japan has asked the International Whaling Commission to approve plans to extend its Antarctic whaling programme in the Ross Sea to kill 80 each of humpback and fin whales and increase the number of minke whales killed from 440 to 850.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127620
Corby could do time in Australia
Schapelle Corby (C) talks to her case coordinator Vasu Rasiah (L) and her mother Ros Leigh Corby. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05
DENPASAR - Australia wants to negotiate a one-off prisoner transfer so Schapelle Corby can serve her sentence in an Australian jail if she is found guilty of drug smuggling.
Justice Minister Chris Ellison says Australian officials are ready to negotiate a transfer to an Australian jail for Corby, who will learn her fate around 5pm tomorrow.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127554
Oil pipe to loosen Opec grip turned on
26.05.05
By Daniel Howden and Philip Thornton
The first drops of crude will snake their way along a pipeline that traverses some of the most unstable and war-ravaged countries on Earth. This is the oil flow that was meant to save the West, and last night the taps were to be turned on.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127544
UK government re-introduces ID cards bill
26.05.05 1.00pm
LONDON - Britain's government has re-introduced a controversial bill to bring in identity cards, legislation that had to be put aside earlier this year when Prime Minister Tony Blair called the May 5 election.
The government says the cards, which would contain biometric data, would help stop identity theft, which costs about 1.3 billion pounds a year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127605
African Union to seek US$460 million for Darfur force
26.05.05 1.10pm
ADDIS ABABA - The African Union (AU) is seeking US$460 million ($651.83 million) to more than triple its peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region, a senior AU official said on Wednesday.
The 53-member pan-African body plans to make the request at a donor pledging conference on Sudan on Thursday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127644
FBI agent told of Koran flushing allegation in 2002
A Pakistani Islamic religious student holds Koran during a rally in Karachi. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05 1.00pm
WASHINGTON - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public today that a detainee held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127636
Muslim leader offers to swap places with hostage
The Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, in Baghdad earlier this month. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05 3.45pm
CANBERRA - Australian Muslim leader Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali has offered himself to Iraqi militants in exchange for the freedom of hostage Douglas Wood.
A video tape of al-Hilali's offer to swap himself for Wood -- a 63-year-old Australian engineer held hostage for more than three weeks -- has been given to television stations Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, al-Hilali's spokesman Kayser Trad said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127657
Native American Nuuchahnulth language gets first dictionary
The Native American language has been in steady decline ever since English speakers colonised North Western America in the 19th Century. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05 4.00pm
by Ian Herbert
The language known to the dwindling band of Native Americans who speak it as 'Nuuchahnulth' (pronounced Noo-cha-noolth) is like few others in its spectacular range of dialects and its capacity to convey complex ideas through simple words.
'Nuuchahnulth' itself means 'along the mountains', a reference to the inaccessible Vancouver Island mountain range on Canada's Western coast where it is spoken.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127646
concluding. . .
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
FBI Memo Flushes White House Assertion Down the Toilet
FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
The release of the declassified document came the week after the Bush administration denounced as wrong a May 9 Newsweek article that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down a toilet to try to make detainees talk.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2776
THE RADION PROPAGANDA IS WORTH HEARING.
Protesters of overhaul dog Bush
By Richard Benedetto / USA Today
GREECE, N.Y. — Gone are the days when a president could travel to a community to make a pitch for a favorite program and bask in mostly favorable local media coverage.
Armed with a variety of publicity techniques honed in recent election campaigns, opponents are vying effectively with the president for local media attention before, during and after presidential visits.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2781
Reverend apologizes for sign
From Staff and Wire Reports
FOREST CITY -- The pastor of a Rutherford County Baptist church apologized Wednesday for posting a sign in front of his church that read: "The Koran needs to be flushed."
The sign was posted last weekend in front of Danieltown Baptist Church, located on U.S. 221 in Forest City, an immediately sparked intense debate about religious tolerance.
http://www.thedigitalcourier.com/articles/2005/05/26/news/news01.txt
The Indy Star
State executes killer who wanted to donate liver
Gregory Scott Johnson is 3rd inmate Indiana has put to death this year.
Denied: Gov. Mitch Daniels rejected a request Tuesday afternoon by Gregory Scott Johnson (above) to delay his execution. -- Charlie Nye / The Star
Next execution
Michael A. Lambert could be the next inmate on Indiana's Death Row to face execution.
Lambert, 34, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 22 for the December 1990 killing of Muncie police officer Gregg Winters.
Lambert was being taken to the Delaware County Jail in Winters' police car when the officer was shot five times.
By Vic Ryckaert and Kevin Corcoran
vic.ryckaert@indystar.com
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -- Gregory Scott Johnson was executed by lethal injection at 12:28 a.m. today at the Indiana State Prison for stomping 82-year-old Ruby Hutslar to death in 1985.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250505
Snags add millions to cost of library
Work set to resume, but $30 million loan may be needed to pay the bills, officials say.
Future look: This digital depiction shows a renovated Central Library with a six-story addition; the buildings are to be connected by an atrium. The grand opening has been pushed back to 2007. -- Photo provided by Woollen Molzan and Partners
Putting the project in perspective
Central Library is easily among the city's most ambitious construction projects.
Though not in a league with the $183 million Conseco Fieldhouse or planned $500 million Colts stadium, its $103 million cost dwarfs the $18 million spent for Victory Field. The cost also tops that of two other current projects: the 15-story Simon Headquarters on West Washington Street, at $55 million; and the new Conrad Hotel at Illinois and Washington Streets, at $100 million.
-- John Strauss
By John Strauss
john.strauss@indystar.com
Work on the Central Library expansion and renovation should resume within two weeks, but library officials said Tuesday that they may have to borrow up to $30 million to cover costs associated with a 16-month delay.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250506
Delays ahead for roadwork
With half the money it needs for 254 projects, the state plans to rewrite its 10-year wish list.
What's next
• Survey forms are being mailed to Indiana legislators so they can rank all state road projects in their districts based on safety concerns, congestion and economic impact.
• In July and August, the Indiana Department of Transportation will have six public hearings around the state to gauge residents' interests and concerns.
• Using the legislative rankings, public comments and other criteria, INDOT hopes to forge a new 10-year road building plan by Sept. 1.
• The list of projects at stake is online at www.in.gov/dot.
By Theodore Kim
theodore.kim@indystar.com
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS03/505250504
Tax to fund stadium moving along
In a 7-1 vote, council panel OKs measure to replace dome, expand Convention Center.
Related articles
• Dining tax gets initial go-ahead in Martinsville
What's next
The City-County Council is expected to take a final vote on the stadium and convention center funding proposal at its June 13 meeting. That session will be at 7 p.m. in the Public Assembly Room of the City-County Building, 200 E. Washington St.
Details of proposal
What's in?
• The food and beverage tax, which affects restaurant tabs, would double to 2 percent, raising about $18 million a year.
• The innkeepers tax, charged on hotel and motel rooms, would increase to 9 percent from 6 percent, raising $10 million annually.
• A local tax on car rentals would double to 4 percent, raising $2 million annually.
• Marion County's admission tax, charged on Colts, Pacers and Indians tickets, would jump to 6 percent from 5 percent. That would bring in $1 million a year.
By John Fritze
john.fritze@indystar.com
A proposal to raise taxes on car rentals, hotel rooms and restaurant bills to build a new football stadium for the Indianapolis Colts leapt forward Tuesday with bipartisan support in the City-County Council.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS02/505250403
Zoo visitors will experience dolphin adventure
New perspective: A walk-through dome beneath the dolphins' tank will give the mammals and their visitors a close-up view of one another when the Indianapolis Zoo's renovated dolphin pavilion opens. -- Frank Espich / The Star
By Diana Penner
diana.penner@indystar.com
Indianapolis Zoo officials hope the reopening of the dolphin pavilion this week after a $10 million renovation will not only add some luster to the exhibit but also a little sparkle to the zoo's regional and national reputation
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050522/NEWS01/505220415/1006
PREVENT "The Military Class Blues"
Sparks fly at dropout forum
Audience rails at education system they say penalizes minorities
A show of concern: Parent Brenda Stewart expresses her views and frustrations to area residents who gathered at Ben Davis High School for a town hall meeting about the state's dropout rate. Tuesday night's meeting was organized by The Indianapolis Star. -- Adriane Jaeckle / The Star
By Staci Hupp
staci.hupp@indystar.com
The Indianapolis Star put the state's high school dropout problem into words and pictures last week. On Tuesday, the faces of Indiana's dropout reality turned up at an emotional town hall meeting that drew about 200 people to Ben Davis High School
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250473/0/SPECIAL02
School officials paring $90 million proposal
Opponents had questioned scale of Washington Township project
By Andy Gammill
andy.gammill@indystar.com
A $90 million building proposal that included new athletic facilities at North Central High School is being scaled back, district officials said.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250439/0/SPECIAL02
Cord-blood banks hold parents' hopes
City company keeps cells in storage as researchers seek cures for diseases, defects.
A deposit: Processing freshly collected umbilical cord blood (above) at Genesis Bank takes about four hours. Gravity and centrifugal force isolate the stem cells from the rest of the blood. -- Matt Detrich / Indianapolis Star
Cord-blood banking
Advantages/ disadvantages of storing and transplanting cord blood.
Pros:
• Banked umbilical cord blood is a form of long-term "medical insurance" that could be used to cure future diseases.
• Cord blood can be stored in cryogenic freezers.
• Stem cells in cord blood are highly adaptable and less likely to be rejected by a recipient's immune system.
• The future of stem cell research is promising; new medical discoveries may use stem cells.
Cons:
• Diseases that require transplanted blood stem cells are rare, although the list is growing.
• Currently, typical cord-blood harvest contains only enough cells to help a child or young adult.
• Collecting and storing cord blood can be expensive. Most private banks charge $500 to $1,500, and a storage fee of about $100 a year.
• The American Academy of Pediatrics doesn't recommend cord-blood banking for families that don't have a history of disease.
Sources: Kidshealth.org; ParentsGuideCordBlood.org
Questions to ask
If you are considering a private cord-blood bank, here are some questions to consider:
• How financially stable is the cord-blood bank? What happens to your sample if the facility goes out of business?
• Can you switch to another facility if you choose?
• Does it operate its own storage facility or lease space in one?
• Are the yearly fees and maintenance costs fixed, or could they change without notice?
• Is the cord blood collected before or after delivery of the placenta? What collection methods are used?
• What storage container is used? Bags or vials? Is shipping included in the contract?
For more information:
• www.parentsguidecordblood.org -- Web site created for parents to educate them on cord blood.
• www.celltherapy.org -- International Society for Cellular Therapy.
• www.fda.gov/cber/ gene.htm -- Food and Drug Administration's Web site on cellular and gene therapy.
• www.aap.org -- American Academy of Pediatrics.
• www.marrow.org -- National Marrow Donor Program.
Sources: Kidshealth.org; ParentsGuideCordBlood.org
By Norm Heikens
norm.heikens@indystar.com
Ultrasound images showed Eli Welch would be born with spina bifida, a birth defect characterized by an improperly formed spine and symptoms including paralysis and learning disabilities.
The report so upset his parents, Dawn Applegate-Welch and Shawn Welch, that they told no one for two weeks.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/BUSINESS/505260385
Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs
Father appeals order in divorce decree that prevents couple from exposing son to Wicca.
Challenging the court: Thomas E. Jones Jr. says a judge's order tramples on his and his ex-wife's constitutional right to share their religious beliefs with their son. -- Frank Espich / The Star
What is Wicca?
Wicca is not a centralized religion but a belief system observed by 50,000 Americans that is recognized by reference texts such as the U.S. Army Chaplain's Handbook.
Wicca is related to European tribal nature worship. Wiccans regard living things as sacred and often show a concern for the environment.
They do not worship Satan, but some cast "spells." Some worship in the nude as a sign of attunement with nature.
The core value of Wicca states, "As it harm none, do what you will."
-- Star report
By Kevin Corcoran
kevin.corcoran@indystar.com
An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."
The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481
Syria arrests 1,200 headed for Iraq
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Syria has arrested more than 1,200 people trying to cross the border into Iraq in recent weeks and sent many back to their home countries because of suspicions they were trying to join the insurgency, Syria's U.N. ambassador said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_SYRIA?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME
The New Zealand Herald
THEY HAVE TO BE GROWN BEFORE THEY ARE HARVESTED.
Scientists oppose Japanese plans to kill more whales
Professor Scott Baker, seen with a catalogue of humpback whale flukes, opposes Japanese plans to kill more whales. File picture / Amos Chapple
26.05.05 4.00pm
New Zealand scientists are joining an international clamour of condemnation against Japanese plans to kill more whales in the name of science.
Japan has asked the International Whaling Commission to approve plans to extend its Antarctic whaling programme in the Ross Sea to kill 80 each of humpback and fin whales and increase the number of minke whales killed from 440 to 850.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127620
Corby could do time in Australia
Schapelle Corby (C) talks to her case coordinator Vasu Rasiah (L) and her mother Ros Leigh Corby. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05
DENPASAR - Australia wants to negotiate a one-off prisoner transfer so Schapelle Corby can serve her sentence in an Australian jail if she is found guilty of drug smuggling.
Justice Minister Chris Ellison says Australian officials are ready to negotiate a transfer to an Australian jail for Corby, who will learn her fate around 5pm tomorrow.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127554
Oil pipe to loosen Opec grip turned on
26.05.05
By Daniel Howden and Philip Thornton
The first drops of crude will snake their way along a pipeline that traverses some of the most unstable and war-ravaged countries on Earth. This is the oil flow that was meant to save the West, and last night the taps were to be turned on.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127544
UK government re-introduces ID cards bill
26.05.05 1.00pm
LONDON - Britain's government has re-introduced a controversial bill to bring in identity cards, legislation that had to be put aside earlier this year when Prime Minister Tony Blair called the May 5 election.
The government says the cards, which would contain biometric data, would help stop identity theft, which costs about 1.3 billion pounds a year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127605
African Union to seek US$460 million for Darfur force
26.05.05 1.10pm
ADDIS ABABA - The African Union (AU) is seeking US$460 million ($651.83 million) to more than triple its peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region, a senior AU official said on Wednesday.
The 53-member pan-African body plans to make the request at a donor pledging conference on Sudan on Thursday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127644
FBI agent told of Koran flushing allegation in 2002
A Pakistani Islamic religious student holds Koran during a rally in Karachi. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05 1.00pm
WASHINGTON - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public today that a detainee held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127636
Muslim leader offers to swap places with hostage
The Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, in Baghdad earlier this month. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05 3.45pm
CANBERRA - Australian Muslim leader Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali has offered himself to Iraqi militants in exchange for the freedom of hostage Douglas Wood.
A video tape of al-Hilali's offer to swap himself for Wood -- a 63-year-old Australian engineer held hostage for more than three weeks -- has been given to television stations Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, al-Hilali's spokesman Kayser Trad said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127657
Native American Nuuchahnulth language gets first dictionary
The Native American language has been in steady decline ever since English speakers colonised North Western America in the 19th Century. Picture / Reuters
26.05.05 4.00pm
by Ian Herbert
The language known to the dwindling band of Native Americans who speak it as 'Nuuchahnulth' (pronounced Noo-cha-noolth) is like few others in its spectacular range of dialects and its capacity to convey complex ideas through simple words.
'Nuuchahnulth' itself means 'along the mountains', a reference to the inaccessible Vancouver Island mountain range on Canada's Western coast where it is spoken.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10127646
concluding. . .
Morning Paper - concluding
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Some cloud
-23.0°
Updated Friday 27 May 1:59AM
Scott Base
Some cloud
-23.0°
Updated Friday 27 May 1:59AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
44 °F / 6 °C
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C
Wind:
10 mph / 17 km/h from the NNW
Pressure:
30.31 in / 1026 hPa
Visibility:
8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Few 100 ft / 30 m
Overcast 5000 ft / 1524
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