Archived Nov 6, 2003
Get
set for biggest sports dope scandal ever
Age,
exercise may boost memory
Bruckheimer
Tops Hollywood Power List
Microsoft
Fixes Five 'Critical' Security Holes
New
arms for orphan Ali
German
Teaches Dog Adolf to Give Hitler Salute
has been charged with violating Germany's anti-Nazi laws for a
series of incidents in recent years, a Berlin court said on
Wednesday.
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- FDA
Panel Backs End of Ban of Silicone Breast Implants
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- Chinese
'space hero' lands safely
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- Monkeys
Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants
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- Twins
joined at head are separated
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- Prince
gives up throne for love
- A
91-year-old Texan bank robber admits to his third heist
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Nasa
tests laser-powered plane
Antibiotics
may delay Alzheimer's
- Vatican
misleads third world countries: condoms don't stop Aids
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- The
rich world's disappearing jobs
Instantaneous communications are making it possible for almost
anybody's job to be done anywhere, which the United States in
particular is beginning to learn to its sorrow.
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- Dalai
Lama Asks West Not to Turn Buddhism Into a "Fashion"
For individual practitioners, having one truth, one religion,
is very important. Several truths, several religions, is
contradictory,"
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- Naval
Sonar 'Linked to Whale Deaths'
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- Chinese
First Manned space mission to orbit earth 14 times
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- Teenage
generation is biggest ever
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- Japanese
Hold 900 Person Orgy In China
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- Arnold's
Seven Year Affair
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- Brazil
Hunts Down Slave Masters in Lawless Interior
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- Two
Developers of MRI Awarded Nobel Prize
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- "Bright"
Rights, for Non-religious, non-denominational
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- "Shrek"
author dead at 95
William Steig won awards for best-selling children's books
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- First
Black Pope?
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- Magnolias
Revisited? Frog Eggs Fall From Sky
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- Ball
Busting Woman Charged With Murder; Man Dies After Wife Crushes
Testicles (sorry,
this title was irresistable RK editor)
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- Dark
Parable of Violence Avenged Clint Eastwood’s mighty
new film is the rare American movie that aspires to — and
achieves — the full weight and darkness of tragedy.
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- Tiger
Attacks Magician Roy of Siegfried & Roy
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- Vibrating
shoes could keep you on your feet, say doctors
- European
Cardinal Describes Pope as 'Dying'
Goodbye
cruel world Lion numbers have dropped by 90% in 20 years.
The other big cats are going fast.
- Coetzee
wins Nobel prize
Books: South African JM Coetzee has won the 2003 Nobel Prize
for literature.
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- White
House: Clinton's Penis Leaked CIA Operative's Identity
Dairy
or Not, Here I Come by Shalin G. Gala OpEdNews.Com
Breast
Implants Linked to Suicide
Joke:
George Goes to Hell
Insurer
Seeks Return of Fees for Therapy
Reliance
on Microsoft called risk to U.S. security
Stress
may double risk of breast cancer, study shows
Phone
that says 'I can't talk, I'm not in the mood'
Kazaa
Suit Turns Tables on Industry
72
Year Old Canadian Runner Sets New World Record
NASA
Accepts Resignations of Safety Advisers
Study:
Cloned Cells Cure Brain Disease in Mice
Not
Science Fiction: An Elevator to Space
Arthur
Kinoy, 82, Lawyer for Chicago Seven, Dies
Golf
Brain Abbie Thomas goes inside the golf brain to discover
why golfers 'choke' under pressure. (see
opednews.com editor's other websites www.brainmeeting.com
and www.futurehealth.org
on brain training)
Abominable
Snowman 'a bear'
Revealing
Letters From Reagan
China's
Hippies Find Their Berkeley; Tibet
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May
Your Days Be Long and Stressful New scientific research
offers evidence that the stress-free life might be the worst way
to live.
500
UK pedophiles to be tracked by satellite tags
for the first time in a move that could prompt a revolution in the
treatment and monitoring of sex offenders.
Virus
Posing As Microsoft E - Mail Spreads Fast
Marathon
monk completes 24,800-mile enlightenment run
Smoking
Ban in All Public Places Urged In Europe Urged
Distinctly
Big, if Extinct: The 1,500-Pound Rat No, its not a Republican.
They're not yet extinct
A
Light Show Beyond Lasers
Think laser shows are old hat? A planetarium is creating a new
kind of visual fantasy-- Moby creates music
Art
Bell Returns to Radio; Weekend Host of Coast to Coast AM
Oversize
portions linked to cancer Obesity and cancer experts call
for a consumer revolt against supersize food portions and
packaging.
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Alone
with the Man in Black Louisa Young: I went to do an
interview with Johnny Cash - he so moved me that I gave up my job
and became a novelist.
Sleep
position 'tells personality'
Focusing
the mind alternative
approaches to ADD/ ADHD
Reward
for Afghan Who Helped U.S. Root Out the Taliban
Interesting Word Brain
Finding ....Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny
iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit
pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and
you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Exercise
Is a Habit; Here's Why to Pick It Up New
York Times - A strikingly large number of
Americans have failed to catch the exercise bug, and the effects
are showing up not only in their expanding girth but also in their
health and death statistics.
Brain
beats all computers
Sinatra,
Streisand named best singers of the century
Ozone
hole 'bigger than it has ever been'
Scans
Show Babies Smile and Cry In The Womb
Is
Buddhism Good For Your Health?
A
cheap way to the stars
Space elevator idea described by Arthur C Clarke in a 1979 novel
is no longer pure science fiction.
Obesity
catching up with tobacco in number of deaths annually
Johnny
Cash, American icon, dies
Man
in Black Johnny Cash:
A
"mind-numbingly boring" propaganda film
A 9/11 widow reviews last
night's Showtime film about President Bush's actions on and after
that fateful morning. The film "DC 9/11: Time of
Crisis," which premiered Sunday night on Showtime, is a
mind-numbingly boring, revisionist, two-hour-long wish list of how
9/11 might have gone if we had real leaders in the current
administration.
Emmy-winning
actor John Ritter dead at 54
Computer
with 3-D Display Planned by Japan's Sharp
U.S.
House votes to allow Cuban tourism
New
Peach-Colored $20 Bills to Make Debut Oct. 9
Arnold's
Other Questionable
Magazine Interview
Bill Maher on HBO is a
Brilliantly Funny, Must Watch. Last show featured Wesley
Scott, William Crystal, Wolf Blitzer, D. H. Hughley and Al Franken
It was great watching Bill and Wesley laugh at the Bush Faux GI
Doll.
Pancho
Villa TV Special Shows Brillant Use of Film as Spin, By Villa
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FDA
Approves New Birth-Control Pill
A new birth-control pill named Seasonale promises to reduce the
frequency of women's periods, from every month to four times a
year.
One
Dead in Disneyland Coaster Crash
Colleges
Cut Students Off Net
George Mason is one of many trying to keep viruses off internal
networks.
Power
of Positive Thinking May Have a Health Benefit, Study Says
Researchers are reporting that the activation of brain regions
associated with negative emotions appears to weaken people's
immune response to a flu vaccine.
Lost
In Translation; hot Fall Movie, by Sophia Copola, With Bill Murray
Actor
Bronson dies at 81
Robert
J. Sawyer's Hominids
Wins 50th Hugo Awards for Best Science Fiction
'Human
Stain' will kick off 39th Chicago International Film Festival
Explosion
kills pizza delivery man ERIE, Pennsylvania -- A pizza
delivery man told police he had been forced to rob a bank and
asked authorities to help him minutes before a bomb strapped to
his chest exploded and killed him.
'Punk'
fish among 10 newfound species
The
spoiling of Shangri-la
China: Tibet is modernising rapidly, thanks to booming
China's billions, but at what cost to its unique culture?
A
lesson from the blind man who is learning to see
Could we measure the impact of what living for 30 years
under a tyranny does to one's perceptual habits?
Girls
get extra school help while boys get Ritalin
Iraqi
girlfriends capture GI hearts
Suburban
Sprawl is cited as strong factor in obesity rate nowhere to
walk, so they drive
$50m
Da Vinci masterpiece stolen in an audacious raid on
a Scottish castle.
Smiles
Banned on Canadian Passports
10,000
mink released from farm cages Animal
Liberation Front claims responsibility. Local Paper calls it
EcoTerrorism
Pictures
of Saddam in Hiding; A humorous Photoshop Contest
The
Power of Story
Hendrix,
Allman, King Ranked as Top Guitarists
For
Sale: How King Shaped the Dream
Life-Extending
Chemical Is Found in Certain Red Wines
Scientists
Find Way to Stimulate Anti-Aging Enzyme Washington
Post ...could speed the development of drugs to
extend human life span and prevent a wide range of geriatric
diseases.
Kobe
Lawyer Slam Dunks Plea Talk Lawyer Says NBA Star Won't Plea
Bargain, Hasn't Offered To Settle
Jefferson
Home Reflects His Ideals
Scientists
start work on thinking robot
Scientists have been given the biggest ever grant to build a
'conscious robot'.
Why
Mars Will be So Close to Earth in August
Fun
Animation by Mark Fiore; Bush Action Figures
Obituary
backs 'removal of Bush'
Review: 'A
raging, hormone-crazed rollercoaster' Films about teens are
nothing new. But Thirteen has a twist. It's written by one.
David
Byrne's Alternate PowerPoint Universe David Byrne uses
PowerPoint in the least likely of all applications: a medium for
creative expression.
Why
Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways
Walking
After Spinal Injury
Alzheimer's
surge predicted
An "epidemic of Alzheimer's" over the next few decades
could be far worse than previously thought.
archived 9/19/03
First
Icelandic Whale Ship Resumes Hunting
Coral
Reefs Doomed, Study Says; Centuries of Overfishing Killing
Ecosystems
Asthma
drugs 'make condition worse'
Idi
Amin cheats justice for the last time Guardian
Swami
Keeps His Turban on in California Gubernatorial Race
satire
Funny
Editorial Cartoon on Bush Doll
Dubai
plans 220 suites under the sea
Chinese
Clone Rabbit-Human Embryo; Bugs Bunny, Look Out!
A
Memorium for a Lady Jean Ann Lower July
30, 1953 to July 30, 2003
Denver
to Vote on Stress Reduction
Human
embryonic stem cell first
Tolkien
trilogy director gets $20m to remake King Kong Peter
Jackson will be paid $20m (£12.4m) - the biggest director's fee
in cinematic history - to remake King Kong, it was reported
yesterday.
Creatine
'boosts brain power'
When
the Brain Grabs a Tune and Won't Let Go
Fast
Spreading Worm Attacks Microsoft Windows
An Internet worm aimed at the Microsoft Windows operating
system was rapidly spreading around the world today, infecting
home users and company networks alike.
Degrees
of Separation Are Likely More Than 6, Especially in E-Mail Age
Researchers at Columbia University report the first
large-scale experiment that supports the notion of "six
degrees of separation."
Music
Lessons Boost Verbal Memory Kids
With Music Training Have Better Verbal Memory Skills
A
Laboratory of Taste Barcelona, not Paris, is now the
vanguard capital of Europe — not least because of its wildly
experimental cooking. And no one there is cooking more daringly
and ingeniously than Ferran Adrià.
Believers
in the lost Ark
Karen Armstrong: Treating myth as fact misunderstands the
meaning of religion.
Formula
One Car Racing drops Canada over tobacco ban
What's
the next Thing after Community Theater? Community
theater -- volunteer actors, directors and stagehands mounting a
small-scale play for fun instead of profit -- is a long-standing
tradition of the stage. Now, Richard Michaels Stefanik of Fairfax
and Gloria Barltrop of Oakton are hoping to introduce a similar
art form: community filmmaking.
NASA
Watchdog Calls Columbia Decisions 'Shocking'
HRT
doubles risk of breast cancer Doctors
and women on hormone replacement therapies are being advised to
review the use of treatments following powerful new evidence that
they increase the risk of breast cancer.
The
whispering windows Britain's high
street has taken a step closer to the dystopian future of science
fiction movies, with shop window advertisements that talk to
passing shoppers.
Pointless
but fun? Flashmob phenomenon reaches UK
At precisely 6.31 yesterday evening, Sofas UK in central London
found itself at the cutting edge of internet culture.
The
High Risks of Finding Sex on-Line
Swollen
Orders Show Spam's Allure
A New Hampshire company appears to be grossing close to half a
million dollars each month by spamming people with sales pitches
for an herbal "male enhancement" product. The discovery
may explain the intractability of junk e-mailers on the Internet
30-Year
Mortgage Rates Up to 6.37% and refinancing down almost 60% since
May peak. 50% of
economic growth came from the housing market. If rates continue to
climb, the bloom will be off the last of the economic roses.
Scientists
Achieve Unexpected Success With Ebola Vaccine
First
Horse Cloned
Father
of tennis stars 'poisoned son's rival'
Who's
so vain? SO, WHO'S SO VAIN? Betcha thought Carly Simon would
never reveal who's the vain guy she was singing about in her 1972
hit "You're So Vain." Finally, for a price and a vow not
to tell, she'll share her little secret with one person
Cause
and Effect: Acne: A Visible Outbreak of Stress NY Times
Why
downloading is music's saviour
Over
the past 20 years, business has replaced government in the public
mind as the chief perpetrator of doublespeak
Unmasking
the Writers of the W.P.A. Created in 1935, the Federal
Writers' Project gave rise to a generation of novelists, including
John Cheever, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston.
- An
alternative treatment for ADD, ADHD
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- Movie
Notes; Flicks to see and avoid
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- Forget
the guru, now do riyaz with machines
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- Is
Infidelity 'Natural' for Men? Study ignites fierce
debate on origins of jealousy, lust, sexual attraction
Microsoft's
Web Site Brought Down By Attack
- DNA
extractable from fingerprints
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- The
Ad Subtractors, Making a Difference mission: To stop
advertisers from commandeering every last nook and cranny of
American culture.
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- US
school for gay teens opens
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- Entertainer
Bob Hope dead at 100
- Communicating
by Brain Waves Teaching the
gravely disabled to 'talk' by thought alone (research
originally presented at Opednews.com editor Rob Kall's Winter
Brain Meeting )
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- Sea Bisquit is A Winner; See it!!
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- Advice
to avoid Music Download copyright litigation; Experts sharing
tips to help defend against file-sharing lawsuits
- Diverging
Estimates of the Costs of Spam Up to $20 Billion Worldwide
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- Researchers
Report Psychology of Conservatives;
- -Fear and aggression
-Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
-Uncertainty avoidance
-Need for cognitive closure
-Terror management
Malaysia
approves divorce by text message
Vending
Machines Grow Up
Is
she real? Virtual humans start to look and act as if they are
alive
Mick
at 60: A new age of aging?
Don't set your watch by Mick Jagger's
biological clock. The senior statesman of sin turns 60 today, and
where once he defied the establishment, he now defies our popular
image of aging.
'The
Devil's Dictionary' Revisited
Time Mag:
50
Best Websites -- The Essentials
Tapping
the Mood Gene Depression doesn't get the attention it
deserves. But a study concerning the "Woody Allen gene"
shows that the illness should be held in higher regard than what
we give it.
Anger
and the almighty Is
it all right to get angry with God?
Sex.com
Prevails in Domain Suit
Whales
May Have Been More Plentifu
Researchers
find way to improve musical performance
Summer
Camp Counselors Charged with Promoting Fist Fights
Identity/Password
Thief Convicted of Putting Keystroke tracking Software on Kinkos
Computers
Woman
Killed by Antarctic Seal
'The
Real World, Yellowstone': Wolves on View All the Time
By Jim Robbins Wolf biologists can
now watch packs of wolves go about the full range of their lives,
from hunting to raising pups to courtship rituals and sex.
Why
Hospitals Overcharge the Uninsured
Synthetic
sex cells Some pioneering biologists are trying to grow
eggs and sperm in the lab. In doing so, they're entering a
technical and ethical minefield.
The
Gorge-Yourself Environment
From giant sodas to supersize burgers to
all-you-can-eat buffets, America's approach to food can be summed
up by one word: Big.
`Romance
Novels,' She Said Adoringly Fans, writers and industry
professionals were at the Hilton New York last week for Romance
Writers of America's 23rd annual national conference.
'Brain
atlas' maps out how the human mind works
On
patrol: 30,000 cybercops
The
Pentagons best kept open secret Privately held, 40k employee
firm heads Gov's science efforts.
Stand-off
over 'inhumane' capture of 200 dolphins
First
human tongue transplant a success
Schools
of the future To
meet a young person’s dream to contribute to the world, students
have to learn skills that enable them to fulfil their ideals. ODE
Adult
ADD: Common disorder or marketing ploy?
Critics say ad campaign on condition raises ethical questions
Five
women confront a new Iraq Caught between
the forces of renewal and revolt, these women seize the moment.
Idi
Amin in 'coma'
U.S.
Approves Test to Help Predict Heart Risk
Psychic
link to Lockerbie bomb probe; Freedom of Information docs
reveal CIA used Stargate Remote Viewing Program
Another
WMD Page Joke.
Yes,
we'll have no bananas – The
banana is about to disappear from store shelves around the globe.
Experts say the world's favourite fruit will pass into oblivion
within a decade. No more fresh bananas. No more banana bread...
Kobe
Bryant Sex Yes, but Denies Sexual Assault Charge
Pill
to treat compulsive shoppers?
French
Gov Bans Word 'Email"
Humor: The
Do Not Spam Registry LOL!
You
can't see it on the net, but there's an interview with
opednews.com editor Rob Kall in the July 22 issue of Women's
World. Article is Titled: Program yourself for Happiness! on page
26
Brain
Size Linked to Autism The brains of many autistic children are
smaller than normal at birth and then grow at an abnormally fast
rate during the first year - finding could lead to clues to
the cause of disorder.
'Wave
UFO', offers
an immersive experience that brings together architecture,
real-time computer graphics, brainwave technology, sound, and
state-of-the-art engineering to create a profound interactive
experience.
Murdoch's
Extended Reach By Jeffrey Chester
Training
the Brain to Improve Attention and Memory
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