August 2004

115 Accused of Gambling on Insect Fights

by Haitham Sabbah August 15, 2004

Hong Kong police arrested 115 men for illegally gambling on insect fights on Sunday in the same building that housed a cricket lovers’ association, a police spokesman said. Police seized about 300 crickets and $1,025 in cash during the bust, said police spokesman T.K. Ng. The alleged bug gamblers remained in custody Sunday, but weren’t [...]

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Dog(meat) Days… or Would You Prefer Chicken?

by Haitham Sabbah August 15, 2004

In South Korea’s capital, sweating through the highest temperatures of the year, the hottest topic is whether to eat dogmeat stew or ginseng chicken soup. With the mercury hitting 93 degrees in Seoul on Tuesday and set to rise, thousands are heading to restaurants for a traditional if possibly controversial meal to replenish nutrients lost [...]

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Powell, Black Cat to Cross Paths on Friday 13th

by Haitham Sabbah August 15, 2004

Secretary of State Colin Powell will cross paths with a black cat on Friday the 13th, posing for a picture with a copper-eyed Bombay male that bears his name. Colin Powell — the cat — will pay a courtesy call on the top U.S. diplomat on Friday Aug. 13 and the two will appear before [...]

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Perseid Meteor Shower

by Haitham Sabbah August 11, 2004

This week, the skies above the Northern Hemisphere will be peppered with little bits of space debris that create the annual Perseid meteor shower. It could be the best display in several years, peaking Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Here are 10 cool facts you can use to impress friends and family late at night [...]

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Interplanetary Laser Communication

by Haitham Sabbah August 10, 2004

MIT-NASA team to test first interplanetary laser communication link. A NASA?MIT Lincoln Laboratory team will forge the first laser communication link between Mars and Earth. This unique experiment, part of NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, will greatly benefit the transmission of data from robotic spacecraft. In 2010, the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration (MLCD) will test [...]

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Salmon Gives Birth to Trout

by Haitham Sabbah August 9, 2004

Salmon gives birth to trout in scientific leap that gives hope to endangered fish. Biology textbooks will never quite be the same again. Scientists have altered the reproductive organs of salmon so that they produce trout offspring. A “germ” tissue from young trout was put into young salmon so that when the salmon became sexually [...]

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Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons: The Remote Manipulation of the Human Brain

by Haitham Sabbah August 7, 2004

The Deadly Instruments of the New World Order by Mojmir Babacek In October 2000, Congressman Denis J. Kucinich introduced in the House of Representatives a bill, which would oblige the American president to engage in negotiations aimed at the ban of space based weapons. In this bill, the definition of a weapons system included: “any [...]

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The Church of Bush

by Haitham Sabbah August 7, 2004

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president. by Rick Perlstein Here are some things that Christopher Nunneley, a conservative activist in Birmingham, Alabama, believes. That some time in June, apparently unnoticed by the world media, George Bush negotiated an end to the civil war in Sudan. That Bill Clinton is “lazy” and Teresa [...]

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Terrorist Alerts

by Haitham Sabbah August 6, 2004

Most of the material regarding security systems and procedures at the five buildings was assembled prior to the 9/11/2001 attacks. Surely some security procedures have been changed since then. So government spokesmen were forced to respond to questions about the relevancy and immediacy of the material. “We know this is a terrorist organization that does its homework,” Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge said. “Al Qaeda often plans well, well in advance. We also know that they like to update their information before a potential attack.”

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How Long Will the Oil Last?

by Haitham Sabbah August 5, 2004

Geologists say the end is nigh. New recovery tech may tell a different story. Quick, how many years will it be before the world runs out of oil? Don’t know? Join the club. Actually, choose one of several clubs, each of which vehemently disagrees with the others on how much usable crude is left on [...]

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Weapons Freeze, Microwave Enemies

by Haitham Sabbah August 3, 2004

The military is investigating weapons that use directed-energy beams to paralyze attackers, shoot down missiles or repel adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin. But some experts are concerned about unknown side effects. A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or [...]

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Mission to Mercury Has Liftoff

by Haitham Sabbah August 3, 2004

We Have Liftoff! MESSENGER is away! The spacecraft was launched from Launch Pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a three-stage Boeing Delta II rocket. the first spacecraft in 30 years to head to the sun’s closest planet. The probe, named Messenger, rocketed away in the pre-dawn moonlight [...]

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New Deep-Sea Worms Munch Dead Whales

by Haitham Sabbah August 2, 2004

Weird bone-eating worms that feed off whale carcasses on the ocean floor are the latest new species to be dredged from the deep sea, according to an international team of scientists. But that’s not their only unusual habit. Dwarf males live inside the females. Greg Rouse from the University of Adelaide and the South Australian [...]

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Palestinians Starve Under Occupation

by Laila El-Haddad August 2, 2004

At the entrance to the Ard al-Insan clinic in Gaza, also known as the Palestinian Benevolent Association, Iman Jilawi was pleading with programme director Itimad Ghabil. By Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Her daughter had just been released from the hospital after intestinal surgery, she said, and she did not have the money to pay for [...]

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