Cloning, Revisited
By Amanda Onion
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/Living/humancloningrevisited031105.html
"Remember human cloning?"
UN derails ban on human cloning
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3247969.stm
"The United Nations has blocked moves to impose a global ban on research into all forms of human cloning."
'My healer helped me beat cancer'
by Jane Elliott
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3177752.stm
"When Irene Dingwall started to suffer from a persistent cough, one of the first symptoms of lung cancer, she did not think of the dreaded disease."
Riot at 'woman-tigress hanging'
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3255205.stm
"A riot broke out after police tried to disperse a crowd gathered to watch the rumoured hanging of a "woman-tigress", Iran's Jomhuri-Eslami paper reports."
'Half-woman half-tiger' rumour sparks riot
Agence France Press
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7821658%5E29677,00.html
"Some 50 people have been arrested in Iran's clerical capital of Qom after police broke up a crowd that had assembled to watch the rumoured execution of a half-woman half-tigress, the Jomhuri-Eslami newspaper reported Sunday."
Cult told my son he was a werewolf
By Paul Weston
Sunday Mail [Queensland]
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7810558^26462,00.html
"A QUASI-religious cult is using the Internet to recruit teenagers who are encouraged to act as werewolves, howl at the moon and eat raw meat."
Scandal in an education ‘miracle’
By Michael Dobbs
WASHINGTON POST
http://www.msnbc.com/news/990904.asp?0cv=CB10
"When the state of Texas bestowed “exemplary” status on Austin High School in August 2002, ecstatic administrators compared the honor to winning the Super Bowl. There was more cheering and pompom-waving a few weeks later when a private foundation honored Houston for having the nation’s best urban school district."
HELP — Jacko Really Needs Somebody
By Roger Friedman
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102210,00.html
"HELP — the Scientology-based literacy program — is back on the Web site Michael Jackson is using to raise money for charity. "
Crowd will gather to ride Harmonic Concordance's energy wave
BY KATE SANTICH
Orlando Sentinel
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7210697.htm
"To most people, the teeny Lake County burg of Yalaha, Fla., is little more than a wide spot in the road boasting a fine Bavarian bakery."
Tracking the legendary Ghost Deer of Northern California
by Tom Stienstra
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/09/SPG542TASU1.DTL
"The Ghost Deer of Northern California has befuddled hunters, confounded game wardens and mystified anyone who has heard of it, tracked it - - or been lucky enough to see it."
Identifying stolen cows is one trick of his trade
San Mateo County Times
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~1757035,00.html
"With more than 300 square miles of rural unincorporated land to cover, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Coastside Patrol has its hands full. Sgt. John Aquila, a 30-year law enforcement veteran, is now part of the Sheriff's Office's Rural Crime unit. Aquila took time to talk with staff writer Amelia Hansen about horse rustlers, meth labs -- and a runaway emu."
Beast or bunk: researchers chase mysterious creature
KFOR
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1518622
"There have been numerous sightings of a mysterious beast in the mountains of southeast Oklahoma. Now, a scientific team claims they have proof of the ape-like primate."
Factories Seek To Fix Kokomo Hum
Associated Press
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2623656/detail.html
"The discovery of the likely source of a mysterious hum irritating some Kokomo residents has prompted two local factories to try to fix industrial fans identified as the problem."
Nobel Prize-winning scientist wows some, worries others
By JoANNE VIVIANO
YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR
http://www.vindy.com/local_news/279051929445300.php
"Hundreds of Youngstown State University students crammed into a lecture hall Wednesday to hear the thoughts of a man considered a legend in the field of biology."
Board vote could affect teaching of evolution
By R.A. Dyer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7196556.htm
"The teaching of evolution in Texas high schools could change as a result of a vote this week by the State Board of Education."
National Science Teachers Association Reaffirms Position on Teaching of Evolution
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031106/dcth026_1.html
"The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest science teacher organization in the world, has published an updated position paper to reaffirm its standpoint on the teaching of evolution. The statement upholds and reinforces the position of the Association that NSTA "strongly supports the position that evolution is a major unifying concept in science and should be included in the K-12 science education frameworks and curricula.""
Battle over biology textbook abates
By JANET ELLIOTT
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2206895
"The State Board of Education gave final approval today to 11 biology books, among others, despite a major campaign to poke holes in Darwin's theory of evolution as presented in the textbooks."
Board gives final approval to biology books
by APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7208838.htm
"Biology books in Texas will continue to present the origin of life according to the theories of Charles Darwin."
Intelligent design doesn't belong in science class
by Jamie Crannell
Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4199942.html
"The science we teach in Minnesota ought to be limited to science. Theology and religious views should not be confused with science."
Creationist speaker to give talks next week
By TOBY HENRY
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1750636,00.html
"While many scientists maintain that the Earth is hundreds of millions of years old, noted "creationist" speaker Steve Grohman plans to tell a Windham County audience next week that a critical look at geological evidence might lead one to the conclusion that it's a young Earth after all."
Subterranean madness
by GILLIAN GLOVER
The Scotsman
http://www.news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1238562003
"After eight years and 258 court hearings the word still sounds as deadly. That word is sarin. Pronounced in Japanese, it hisses like the deadly curse it is. But on 20 March, 1995, a nerve gas developed by the Nazis in 1938 - though never used - was not uppermost in any commuter’s mind. On that morning, millions in Tokyo had travelled to work as usual on the subway. The day before had been a public holiday - for the Vernal Equinox - and television weather forecasts included a blossom symbol tracing the first flowerings of countless cherry trees considered to proclaim the nations’s symbolic renewal. But blossom and renewal was not the focus of a bewildered populace a few hours later. Sarin nerve gas, and terrorism were."
The Big Chill at the Lab
By BOB HERBERT
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/opinion/03HERB.html?ex=1068613200&en=150371975ae987c1&ei=5070
"A list of nearly 200 scientific researchers has been compiled and given to federal officials by the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative group that goes wild over gay issues and federal funding of research related to human sexuality."
Rousing Science Out of the Lab and Into the Limelight
By CORNELIA DEAN
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/s...00&en=cc8b40565af99f34&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
"Last summer, the pollster Daniel Yankelovich reported what might seem a strange finding: scientists are distressed by the media's insistence on presenting "both sides.""
Does Science Matter?
By WILLIAM J. BROADand JAMES GLANZ
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/s...c12adf4ed92d26a8&ex=1069131600&partner=GOOGLE>
"Through its rituals of discovery, science has extended life, conquered disease and offered new sexual and commercial freedoms. It has pushed aside demigods and demons and revealed a cosmos more intricate and awesome than anything produced by pure imagination."
Polystyrene and calm kids
by Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1078148,00.html
Labeling on Herbal Products Differs Widely: Study
By Amy Norton
Reuters
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...1&e=3&u=/nm/20031106/hl_nm/herbal_labeling_dc
"Different brands of the same herbal supplement can vary widely in the label's recommended dose and listed ingredients, according to a new study."
World's greatest hoaxer, CHS grad, coming to town
By KATHIE DICKERSON
Coshocton Tribune
"Coshocton native Alan Abel is returning Tuesday, Nov. 11."
FRONTLINE: The Alternative Fix
Q&A with Raney Aronson, Producer
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27745-2003Oct1.html
"Under pressure from everyone from consumers to Congress -- and tempted by huge grants -- major hospitals and medical schools have embraced therapies that they once dismissed as quackery. So accepted, in fact, have alternative medical treatments become that an entire center of the National Institutes of Health is now devoted to it. But the question remains: Do these treatments actually work? In "The Alternative Fix" FRONTLINE examines the controversy over complementary and alternative medical treatments."
Cryonics company handed setback as Boca board rejects plan
By Kathy Bushouse
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pcryonics07xnov07,0,1951523.story
"A company with designs on doing research, and eventually bringing clinically dead people back to life, was dealt its first setback Thursday when the Planning & Zoning Board recommended rejection of its plans."
TIME FOR THE BIG MUDDY MONSTER TO COME HOME
by Jeff Smyth
Southern Illinoisan
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2003/11/06/build/opinions/OPI002.html
"Mongo phone home. Better yet, come home. Southern Illinois needs you."
The soul hypothesis: Scientist wonders if there is proof for existence of consciousness
By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,525036215,00.html
"With science, it has always been a question of matter over mind. The actual brain, gray and wrinkly and full of electrical activity, can be measured and mapped, so that's fine. But the mind — the part of you that thinks it thinks, the feeling you have that you willed your arm to move or decided to order the salad instead of the burger — that's just an illusion, just the by-product of nerve activity, neuroscientists say. Consciousness, they argue, is really just one big neuronal machine."
Key pyramid scheme figure is sentenced
By Edgar Sanchez
Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/7741699p-8681036c.html
"The parties are over for Cheryl Bean, a top leader of the Women Helping Women pyramid scheme."
'Women Helping Women' 'Ringleader' Sentenced
KCRA
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/2618562/detail.html
"The "ringleader" of the "Women Helping Women" pyramid scheme faced a judge and learned her punishment Thursday."
Organizer of Pyramid Scheme Avoids Jail Sentence
KXTV
http://www.kxtv10.com/storyfull.asp?id=5705
"Cheryl Bean, one of the organizers of the Women Helping Women pyramid scheme, has been sentenced to perform 546 hours of community service."
Pyramid Scheme Leader Pleads No Contest
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-pyramid-investigation,0,1418124.story
"One of the leaders of a $12 million pyramid scheme that targeted women was ordered to pay $25,000 and perform more than 500 hours of community service after pleading no contest to organizing the scheme."
Will We Ever Find Atlantis?
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11ATLA.html
"Somewhere in the imagination, at an intersection of the idealized Golden Age and mankind's descent into manifest imperfection, existed the island civilization of Atlantis. This realm of divine origin was ruled from a splendid metropolis in the distant ocean. Its empire, described by a philosopher as "larger than Libya and Asia combined," enjoyed prosperity and great power."
Although Uri could bend it, he wanted his wife to spend it
by Mark Anstead
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,1079988,00.html
"In the early 70s Uri Geller made a decision not to directly handle money for spiritual reasons. The Jewish psychic, famous for his spoon-bending routine, felt that using a wallet and a credit card was damaging to his spiritual energy and so he delegated the management of his finances to his wife, Hannah."
Lunch with "Left Behind" author
by Debra Pickett
Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/pickett/cst-nws-lunch09.html
"Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the wildly popular "Left Behind" series of religiously themed adventure novels, wants me to know that he's not an anti-Semite."
She talks with the dead . . . any questions?
By KRISTIN DIZON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/147213_medium07.html
"Medium Suzane Northrop says she has been surrounded by what she calls "the DPs," the "dead people society," since she was a young child. And she is beseeched by people to contact their deceased loved ones."
'Da Vinci Code' generates discussion
by Leo Sandon
Tallahassee Democrat
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/7209398.htm
"Commenting on "The Da Vinci Code," Dan Brown's best-selling novel, has become virtually unavoidable. I'm not inclined to read popular thrillers, even those that purport to provide serious discussion of religious history and culture. Though friends and acquaintances sprinkled my e-mail with questions about its credibility, I resisted taking the book seriously enough to buy and read it. Then my daughter-in-law asked that I read it and sit in on her book group's discussion of it."
World Renowned Psychic Sylvia Browne Explores the Spirit World in Indianapolis
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031110/nym051_1.html
"This Friday November 14th New York Times Best Selling author Sylvia Browne lectures at the Indiana Convention Center! This incredible new seminar is drawn from Sylvia's current book "Visits from the Afterlife" (Dutton) where she reveals for the first time the absolute truth about hauntings, spirits, and reunions with departed loved ones."
Doomsday cult members detained
Associated Press
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7832350%5E1702,00.html
"INDONESIA police detained more than 200 members of a Christian doomsday cult today because of fears they might commit mass suicide after their end-of-the-world prophecy failed to come true, police said."
Sect members held after 'doomsday'
Jakarta Post
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20031111.D06&irec=14
"Bandung police detained on Monday 13 members of a Christian sect calling themselves "Prophet Hut" for believing that doomsday would occur at 12 p.m on Monday."
Indonesia police end day of reckoning for cult members
Reuters
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters11-10-042954.asp?reg=PACRIM
"Indonesian police on Monday evacuated 300 people crammed inside a house in West Java who said they were waiting for the end of the world, police and local media reports said."
Fire-walkers trample fears
By Linda Shen
Daily Tar Heel
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/10/3fb00bbc7108c
"The scene looked like a throwback to an ancient pagan ritual."
SE woman charged with kidnap hoax
By Arlo Wagner
WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20031106-115232-3712r.htm
"A Southeast woman was arrested yesterday and charged with telling police a bogus story about somebody stealing her car with her infant inside."
Here comes the science bit
By Jane Feinmann
The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=462348
"Janice Acquah was struck down with rheumatoid arthritis four years ago, when she was pregnant with her daughter Savannah. The pregnancy meant that she was reluctant to take anything stronger than paracetamol for the pain in her joints. "I'd be crying at night because I was in such agony - and if I hadn't been in such a bad way, I would never have visited a homeopath," says the 36-year-old actor and presenter."
Hikers: China's 'Long March' Was Shorter
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-china-shorter-long-march,0,1741138.story
"They slogged across rugged terrain for a year, fleeing Nationalist forces and forming the cornerstone of Chinese communist legend -- the "Long March" that turned Mao Zedong's guerrillas into folk heroes of the masses they would soon command."
There are a lot of myths surrounding the Washington-Lafayette Ball.
By SUSAN SCOTT NEAL
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/112003/11072003/1159553
"TO SET THE RECORD straight: George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette never attended a ball together in Fredericksburg to celebrate the end of the American Revolution."
TV show fails to unearth answer to age-old Hoffa question
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--herelieshoffa1108nov08,0,5390279.story
"A long-standing urban myth that the body of James R. Hoffa is entombed somewhere in Giants Stadium will live on, at least a little longer."
Does a Burger Slay Hunger or Reflect a Violent Past?
By ALAN FEUER
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/nyregion/11JOUR.html
"The Murder Burger — half a pound of ground beef mixed with bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, adobo spice mix, milk, eggs and a dash of Accent seasoning cooked to succulence atop the skillet and served on a kaiser roll with onions, relish and secret sauce — has not changed much since the First-Way Deli in the Bronx first put it on the menu nearly 20 years ago."
The Black Tax
Letter to the Editor
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14405-2003Nov7.html
"Last month a federal court in Richmond finally took action against one of the country's most virulent tax scams: the "black tax credits." Crystal Foster, 25, and her father and tax preparer, Robert Lee Foster, 51, were sentenced for claiming -- and receiving -- tax refunds as reparations for slavery. Crystal Foster claimed a taxable income of only $3,429 but demanded $500,000 from the government in reparations -- and got it. The IRS actually paid her $507,490.91 to cover the interest due to the delay in sending her a check."
Colby Students take heat for seance story
Associated Press
http://www.winfieldcourier.com/w031115/Mon3.html
"Religious leaders and educators are expressing concern over articles about seances and Ouija boards written by Colby High School journalism students in the latest school publication."
Why I love...... Most Haunted on LivingTV
by Pete May
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1081415,00.html
"There's something paranormal happening on LivingTV. Most Haunted is where Ghostbusters meets Time Team and Scooby Doo. Yikes! Any programme with a Scouse medium called Derek and perpetually jumpy presenter in Yvette Fielding can't fail to become a cult, and Most Haunted's live Halloween show attracted hundreds of ghost hunters to sit in a draughty old abbey and received 24,000 messages and 13,500 emails."
Mother's little helper
BY JAE-HA KIM Staff Reporter
Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/lifestyles/cst-ftr-avlimil11.html
"You got reamed at the office. The baby spit up on you. And you just spent the last two hours doing the kids' chores. All you want to do is go to bed, but your husband wants to do more than sleep."
Shooting rumor closes Lowell High School
BY MELANIE CSEPIGA
Munster Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/artic...e_county/da2ee18e0a8990cb86256dd8000ff1d1.txt
"Rumors of a planned shooting during Lowell High School's scheduled pep rally Friday forced a lockdown at the school, but officials said they have yet to find anything to substantiate the rumors."
N. Adams merchant no longer in fear
By Susan Bush
Berkshire Eagle
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~7514~1753173,00.html
"Four American flags hanging from a 101 Main St. window proclaimed the news for jewelry store owner Atef Bolos yesterday: Bolos is now a United States citizen."
Lunar lunacy in Union City?
By Robert Airoldi
Fremont Argus
http://www.theargusonline.com/Stories/0,1413,83~1971~1758815,00.html
"It's talked about in police stations and hospitals around the world and has been studied at length. Legend has it that the full moon brings out the worst in people."
Psychic unable to help police find missing backpacker
Australian Broadcasting Network
http://www.abc.net.au/southeastnsw/news/200310/s978739.htm
"Tumut police, with the aid of a psychic, have resumed the search for 18-year-old backpacker Niamh Maye, but to no avail."
Psychic aims to reveal pets' thoughts
By LISA CHINN
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/112003/11112003/1162978
"SONYA FITZPATRICK makes her living reading minds. But it isn't people she talks to telepathically. It's pets."
Sicklerville man sentenced in 9-11 scheme
By Jim Six
Gloucester County Times
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1068282930305450.xml
"A Sicklerville man who pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining more than $140,000 in Sept. 11 survivor benefits was sentenced Friday to 10 years in a state prison."
"Wash-wash" scheme emerging in North Fulton
by JENNIFER J. HOWARD
Appen News
http://www.northfulton.com/DisplayArticle.asp?ID={E9D597BA-42DF-4367-BE0A-C50DA180836F}
"A scheme to swindle thousands of dollars from people using a phony method to "wash" currency is surfacing in Alpharetta, and sadly, people are falling for it."
Do Paranormal Phenomena Exist?
By KENNETH CHANG
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11PARA.html
"Mention mind reading, ghosts, premonitions, the bending of spoons through thought or other supposed mysteries of the paranormal, and most scientists will say there are no such things."
'Peace on Earth is my priority'
by Marcus Warren
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai...ynch11.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/11/11/ixtop.html
"Of all the unlikely candidates for the job of bringing peace and goodwill to mankind, one of the most improbable must be David Lynch. But the master of disturbing cinema is determined to put an end to war and suffering - and he claims to know just how to do it."
Ghost Hunters
BY CHRIS MAAG
Cleveland Scene
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2003-11-05/news.html/1/index.html
"The train station at Indigo Lake is a fake. It has a gabled roof and an old-timey, black-lettered sign, true. But it has only two walls and was actually built in 1999 as a rest stop for the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad."
Eck-posé
by Morris Bracy IV
Philadelphia City Paper
http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-11-06/cb.shtml
"Becoming a member of Eckankar, the religion of Light and Sound of God, does not guarantee someone will become an Eck Master. No, to reach such lofty heights, they'd have to travel through all the spiritual planes, past the five levels of the Negative Realm and into the highest level of the Positive Realm to encounter Sugmad in the Ocean of Love and Mercy. From there, it's onto the dream world, to obtain the Rod of Power from another Eck Master."
Larry King and the Paranormal
by Leon Jaroff
TIME
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,538305,00.html
"Cable News Network calls itself “The Most Trusted Name In News.” One of CNN’s best rated shows, the award-winning “Larry King Live,” has contributed to that trust with candid interviews of such prominent guests as Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher, as well as by hosting the memorable 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot."
Up on the Woof
BY ALEXANDER NETH
Denver Westword
http://www.westword.com/issues/2003-11-06/news3.html/1/index.html
"Colonel Steve is one of those guys. You know, always moping around, hair hanging in his face, unsure of what he wants from life and, in any case, entirely unwilling to work to find out. He is obnoxious, loud, generally filthy, self-centered and prone to bouts of violent petulance."
Our Town: Fluoride fighters ...
by Bill D'Agostino
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2003/2003_11_05.town05billd3.html
"My ego is still recovering from the e-mail thrashing I received from fluoride foes last week."
Measure B goes down the drain
By Grace Rauh
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2003/2003_11_07.measureb07.html
"After a one-and-a-half year effort to remove the cavity-fighting compound from local drinking water, fluoride foes saw their efforts go down the drain Tuesday night as Measure B fell to a convincing defeat."
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/Living/humancloningrevisited031105.html
"Remember human cloning?"
UN derails ban on human cloning
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3247969.stm
"The United Nations has blocked moves to impose a global ban on research into all forms of human cloning."
'My healer helped me beat cancer'
by Jane Elliott
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3177752.stm
"When Irene Dingwall started to suffer from a persistent cough, one of the first symptoms of lung cancer, she did not think of the dreaded disease."
Riot at 'woman-tigress hanging'
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3255205.stm
"A riot broke out after police tried to disperse a crowd gathered to watch the rumoured hanging of a "woman-tigress", Iran's Jomhuri-Eslami paper reports."
'Half-woman half-tiger' rumour sparks riot
Agence France Press
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7821658%5E29677,00.html
"Some 50 people have been arrested in Iran's clerical capital of Qom after police broke up a crowd that had assembled to watch the rumoured execution of a half-woman half-tigress, the Jomhuri-Eslami newspaper reported Sunday."
Cult told my son he was a werewolf
By Paul Weston
Sunday Mail [Queensland]
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7810558^26462,00.html
"A QUASI-religious cult is using the Internet to recruit teenagers who are encouraged to act as werewolves, howl at the moon and eat raw meat."
Scandal in an education ‘miracle’
By Michael Dobbs
WASHINGTON POST
http://www.msnbc.com/news/990904.asp?0cv=CB10
"When the state of Texas bestowed “exemplary” status on Austin High School in August 2002, ecstatic administrators compared the honor to winning the Super Bowl. There was more cheering and pompom-waving a few weeks later when a private foundation honored Houston for having the nation’s best urban school district."
HELP — Jacko Really Needs Somebody
By Roger Friedman
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102210,00.html
"HELP — the Scientology-based literacy program — is back on the Web site Michael Jackson is using to raise money for charity. "
Crowd will gather to ride Harmonic Concordance's energy wave
BY KATE SANTICH
Orlando Sentinel
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7210697.htm
"To most people, the teeny Lake County burg of Yalaha, Fla., is little more than a wide spot in the road boasting a fine Bavarian bakery."
Tracking the legendary Ghost Deer of Northern California
by Tom Stienstra
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/09/SPG542TASU1.DTL
"The Ghost Deer of Northern California has befuddled hunters, confounded game wardens and mystified anyone who has heard of it, tracked it - - or been lucky enough to see it."
Identifying stolen cows is one trick of his trade
San Mateo County Times
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~1757035,00.html
"With more than 300 square miles of rural unincorporated land to cover, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Coastside Patrol has its hands full. Sgt. John Aquila, a 30-year law enforcement veteran, is now part of the Sheriff's Office's Rural Crime unit. Aquila took time to talk with staff writer Amelia Hansen about horse rustlers, meth labs -- and a runaway emu."
Beast or bunk: researchers chase mysterious creature
KFOR
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1518622
"There have been numerous sightings of a mysterious beast in the mountains of southeast Oklahoma. Now, a scientific team claims they have proof of the ape-like primate."
Factories Seek To Fix Kokomo Hum
Associated Press
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2623656/detail.html
"The discovery of the likely source of a mysterious hum irritating some Kokomo residents has prompted two local factories to try to fix industrial fans identified as the problem."
Nobel Prize-winning scientist wows some, worries others
By JoANNE VIVIANO
YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR
http://www.vindy.com/local_news/279051929445300.php
"Hundreds of Youngstown State University students crammed into a lecture hall Wednesday to hear the thoughts of a man considered a legend in the field of biology."
Board vote could affect teaching of evolution
By R.A. Dyer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7196556.htm
"The teaching of evolution in Texas high schools could change as a result of a vote this week by the State Board of Education."
National Science Teachers Association Reaffirms Position on Teaching of Evolution
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031106/dcth026_1.html
"The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest science teacher organization in the world, has published an updated position paper to reaffirm its standpoint on the teaching of evolution. The statement upholds and reinforces the position of the Association that NSTA "strongly supports the position that evolution is a major unifying concept in science and should be included in the K-12 science education frameworks and curricula.""
Battle over biology textbook abates
By JANET ELLIOTT
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2206895
"The State Board of Education gave final approval today to 11 biology books, among others, despite a major campaign to poke holes in Darwin's theory of evolution as presented in the textbooks."
Board gives final approval to biology books
by APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7208838.htm
"Biology books in Texas will continue to present the origin of life according to the theories of Charles Darwin."
Intelligent design doesn't belong in science class
by Jamie Crannell
Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4199942.html
"The science we teach in Minnesota ought to be limited to science. Theology and religious views should not be confused with science."
Creationist speaker to give talks next week
By TOBY HENRY
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1750636,00.html
"While many scientists maintain that the Earth is hundreds of millions of years old, noted "creationist" speaker Steve Grohman plans to tell a Windham County audience next week that a critical look at geological evidence might lead one to the conclusion that it's a young Earth after all."
Subterranean madness
by GILLIAN GLOVER
The Scotsman
http://www.news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1238562003
"After eight years and 258 court hearings the word still sounds as deadly. That word is sarin. Pronounced in Japanese, it hisses like the deadly curse it is. But on 20 March, 1995, a nerve gas developed by the Nazis in 1938 - though never used - was not uppermost in any commuter’s mind. On that morning, millions in Tokyo had travelled to work as usual on the subway. The day before had been a public holiday - for the Vernal Equinox - and television weather forecasts included a blossom symbol tracing the first flowerings of countless cherry trees considered to proclaim the nations’s symbolic renewal. But blossom and renewal was not the focus of a bewildered populace a few hours later. Sarin nerve gas, and terrorism were."
The Big Chill at the Lab
By BOB HERBERT
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/opinion/03HERB.html?ex=1068613200&en=150371975ae987c1&ei=5070
"A list of nearly 200 scientific researchers has been compiled and given to federal officials by the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative group that goes wild over gay issues and federal funding of research related to human sexuality."
Rousing Science Out of the Lab and Into the Limelight
By CORNELIA DEAN
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/s...00&en=cc8b40565af99f34&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
"Last summer, the pollster Daniel Yankelovich reported what might seem a strange finding: scientists are distressed by the media's insistence on presenting "both sides.""
Does Science Matter?
By WILLIAM J. BROADand JAMES GLANZ
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/s...c12adf4ed92d26a8&ex=1069131600&partner=GOOGLE>
"Through its rituals of discovery, science has extended life, conquered disease and offered new sexual and commercial freedoms. It has pushed aside demigods and demons and revealed a cosmos more intricate and awesome than anything produced by pure imagination."
Polystyrene and calm kids
by Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1078148,00.html
Labeling on Herbal Products Differs Widely: Study
By Amy Norton
Reuters
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...1&e=3&u=/nm/20031106/hl_nm/herbal_labeling_dc
"Different brands of the same herbal supplement can vary widely in the label's recommended dose and listed ingredients, according to a new study."
World's greatest hoaxer, CHS grad, coming to town
By KATHIE DICKERSON
Coshocton Tribune
"Coshocton native Alan Abel is returning Tuesday, Nov. 11."
FRONTLINE: The Alternative Fix
Q&A with Raney Aronson, Producer
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27745-2003Oct1.html
"Under pressure from everyone from consumers to Congress -- and tempted by huge grants -- major hospitals and medical schools have embraced therapies that they once dismissed as quackery. So accepted, in fact, have alternative medical treatments become that an entire center of the National Institutes of Health is now devoted to it. But the question remains: Do these treatments actually work? In "The Alternative Fix" FRONTLINE examines the controversy over complementary and alternative medical treatments."
Cryonics company handed setback as Boca board rejects plan
By Kathy Bushouse
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pcryonics07xnov07,0,1951523.story
"A company with designs on doing research, and eventually bringing clinically dead people back to life, was dealt its first setback Thursday when the Planning & Zoning Board recommended rejection of its plans."
TIME FOR THE BIG MUDDY MONSTER TO COME HOME
by Jeff Smyth
Southern Illinoisan
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2003/11/06/build/opinions/OPI002.html
"Mongo phone home. Better yet, come home. Southern Illinois needs you."
The soul hypothesis: Scientist wonders if there is proof for existence of consciousness
By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,525036215,00.html
"With science, it has always been a question of matter over mind. The actual brain, gray and wrinkly and full of electrical activity, can be measured and mapped, so that's fine. But the mind — the part of you that thinks it thinks, the feeling you have that you willed your arm to move or decided to order the salad instead of the burger — that's just an illusion, just the by-product of nerve activity, neuroscientists say. Consciousness, they argue, is really just one big neuronal machine."
Key pyramid scheme figure is sentenced
By Edgar Sanchez
Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/7741699p-8681036c.html
"The parties are over for Cheryl Bean, a top leader of the Women Helping Women pyramid scheme."
'Women Helping Women' 'Ringleader' Sentenced
KCRA
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/2618562/detail.html
"The "ringleader" of the "Women Helping Women" pyramid scheme faced a judge and learned her punishment Thursday."
Organizer of Pyramid Scheme Avoids Jail Sentence
KXTV
http://www.kxtv10.com/storyfull.asp?id=5705
"Cheryl Bean, one of the organizers of the Women Helping Women pyramid scheme, has been sentenced to perform 546 hours of community service."
Pyramid Scheme Leader Pleads No Contest
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-pyramid-investigation,0,1418124.story
"One of the leaders of a $12 million pyramid scheme that targeted women was ordered to pay $25,000 and perform more than 500 hours of community service after pleading no contest to organizing the scheme."
Will We Ever Find Atlantis?
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11ATLA.html
"Somewhere in the imagination, at an intersection of the idealized Golden Age and mankind's descent into manifest imperfection, existed the island civilization of Atlantis. This realm of divine origin was ruled from a splendid metropolis in the distant ocean. Its empire, described by a philosopher as "larger than Libya and Asia combined," enjoyed prosperity and great power."
Although Uri could bend it, he wanted his wife to spend it
by Mark Anstead
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,1079988,00.html
"In the early 70s Uri Geller made a decision not to directly handle money for spiritual reasons. The Jewish psychic, famous for his spoon-bending routine, felt that using a wallet and a credit card was damaging to his spiritual energy and so he delegated the management of his finances to his wife, Hannah."
Lunch with "Left Behind" author
by Debra Pickett
Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/pickett/cst-nws-lunch09.html
"Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the wildly popular "Left Behind" series of religiously themed adventure novels, wants me to know that he's not an anti-Semite."
She talks with the dead . . . any questions?
By KRISTIN DIZON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/147213_medium07.html
"Medium Suzane Northrop says she has been surrounded by what she calls "the DPs," the "dead people society," since she was a young child. And she is beseeched by people to contact their deceased loved ones."
'Da Vinci Code' generates discussion
by Leo Sandon
Tallahassee Democrat
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/7209398.htm
"Commenting on "The Da Vinci Code," Dan Brown's best-selling novel, has become virtually unavoidable. I'm not inclined to read popular thrillers, even those that purport to provide serious discussion of religious history and culture. Though friends and acquaintances sprinkled my e-mail with questions about its credibility, I resisted taking the book seriously enough to buy and read it. Then my daughter-in-law asked that I read it and sit in on her book group's discussion of it."
World Renowned Psychic Sylvia Browne Explores the Spirit World in Indianapolis
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031110/nym051_1.html
"This Friday November 14th New York Times Best Selling author Sylvia Browne lectures at the Indiana Convention Center! This incredible new seminar is drawn from Sylvia's current book "Visits from the Afterlife" (Dutton) where she reveals for the first time the absolute truth about hauntings, spirits, and reunions with departed loved ones."
Doomsday cult members detained
Associated Press
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7832350%5E1702,00.html
"INDONESIA police detained more than 200 members of a Christian doomsday cult today because of fears they might commit mass suicide after their end-of-the-world prophecy failed to come true, police said."
Sect members held after 'doomsday'
Jakarta Post
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20031111.D06&irec=14
"Bandung police detained on Monday 13 members of a Christian sect calling themselves "Prophet Hut" for believing that doomsday would occur at 12 p.m on Monday."
Indonesia police end day of reckoning for cult members
Reuters
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters11-10-042954.asp?reg=PACRIM
"Indonesian police on Monday evacuated 300 people crammed inside a house in West Java who said they were waiting for the end of the world, police and local media reports said."
Fire-walkers trample fears
By Linda Shen
Daily Tar Heel
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/10/3fb00bbc7108c
"The scene looked like a throwback to an ancient pagan ritual."
SE woman charged with kidnap hoax
By Arlo Wagner
WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20031106-115232-3712r.htm
"A Southeast woman was arrested yesterday and charged with telling police a bogus story about somebody stealing her car with her infant inside."
Here comes the science bit
By Jane Feinmann
The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=462348
"Janice Acquah was struck down with rheumatoid arthritis four years ago, when she was pregnant with her daughter Savannah. The pregnancy meant that she was reluctant to take anything stronger than paracetamol for the pain in her joints. "I'd be crying at night because I was in such agony - and if I hadn't been in such a bad way, I would never have visited a homeopath," says the 36-year-old actor and presenter."
Hikers: China's 'Long March' Was Shorter
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-china-shorter-long-march,0,1741138.story
"They slogged across rugged terrain for a year, fleeing Nationalist forces and forming the cornerstone of Chinese communist legend -- the "Long March" that turned Mao Zedong's guerrillas into folk heroes of the masses they would soon command."
There are a lot of myths surrounding the Washington-Lafayette Ball.
By SUSAN SCOTT NEAL
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/112003/11072003/1159553
"TO SET THE RECORD straight: George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette never attended a ball together in Fredericksburg to celebrate the end of the American Revolution."
TV show fails to unearth answer to age-old Hoffa question
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--herelieshoffa1108nov08,0,5390279.story
"A long-standing urban myth that the body of James R. Hoffa is entombed somewhere in Giants Stadium will live on, at least a little longer."
Does a Burger Slay Hunger or Reflect a Violent Past?
By ALAN FEUER
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/nyregion/11JOUR.html
"The Murder Burger — half a pound of ground beef mixed with bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, adobo spice mix, milk, eggs and a dash of Accent seasoning cooked to succulence atop the skillet and served on a kaiser roll with onions, relish and secret sauce — has not changed much since the First-Way Deli in the Bronx first put it on the menu nearly 20 years ago."
The Black Tax
Letter to the Editor
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14405-2003Nov7.html
"Last month a federal court in Richmond finally took action against one of the country's most virulent tax scams: the "black tax credits." Crystal Foster, 25, and her father and tax preparer, Robert Lee Foster, 51, were sentenced for claiming -- and receiving -- tax refunds as reparations for slavery. Crystal Foster claimed a taxable income of only $3,429 but demanded $500,000 from the government in reparations -- and got it. The IRS actually paid her $507,490.91 to cover the interest due to the delay in sending her a check."
Colby Students take heat for seance story
Associated Press
http://www.winfieldcourier.com/w031115/Mon3.html
"Religious leaders and educators are expressing concern over articles about seances and Ouija boards written by Colby High School journalism students in the latest school publication."
Why I love...... Most Haunted on LivingTV
by Pete May
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1081415,00.html
"There's something paranormal happening on LivingTV. Most Haunted is where Ghostbusters meets Time Team and Scooby Doo. Yikes! Any programme with a Scouse medium called Derek and perpetually jumpy presenter in Yvette Fielding can't fail to become a cult, and Most Haunted's live Halloween show attracted hundreds of ghost hunters to sit in a draughty old abbey and received 24,000 messages and 13,500 emails."
Mother's little helper
BY JAE-HA KIM Staff Reporter
Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/lifestyles/cst-ftr-avlimil11.html
"You got reamed at the office. The baby spit up on you. And you just spent the last two hours doing the kids' chores. All you want to do is go to bed, but your husband wants to do more than sleep."
Shooting rumor closes Lowell High School
BY MELANIE CSEPIGA
Munster Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/artic...e_county/da2ee18e0a8990cb86256dd8000ff1d1.txt
"Rumors of a planned shooting during Lowell High School's scheduled pep rally Friday forced a lockdown at the school, but officials said they have yet to find anything to substantiate the rumors."
N. Adams merchant no longer in fear
By Susan Bush
Berkshire Eagle
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~7514~1753173,00.html
"Four American flags hanging from a 101 Main St. window proclaimed the news for jewelry store owner Atef Bolos yesterday: Bolos is now a United States citizen."
Lunar lunacy in Union City?
By Robert Airoldi
Fremont Argus
http://www.theargusonline.com/Stories/0,1413,83~1971~1758815,00.html
"It's talked about in police stations and hospitals around the world and has been studied at length. Legend has it that the full moon brings out the worst in people."
Psychic unable to help police find missing backpacker
Australian Broadcasting Network
http://www.abc.net.au/southeastnsw/news/200310/s978739.htm
"Tumut police, with the aid of a psychic, have resumed the search for 18-year-old backpacker Niamh Maye, but to no avail."
Psychic aims to reveal pets' thoughts
By LISA CHINN
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/112003/11112003/1162978
"SONYA FITZPATRICK makes her living reading minds. But it isn't people she talks to telepathically. It's pets."
Sicklerville man sentenced in 9-11 scheme
By Jim Six
Gloucester County Times
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1068282930305450.xml
"A Sicklerville man who pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining more than $140,000 in Sept. 11 survivor benefits was sentenced Friday to 10 years in a state prison."
"Wash-wash" scheme emerging in North Fulton
by JENNIFER J. HOWARD
Appen News
http://www.northfulton.com/DisplayArticle.asp?ID={E9D597BA-42DF-4367-BE0A-C50DA180836F}
"A scheme to swindle thousands of dollars from people using a phony method to "wash" currency is surfacing in Alpharetta, and sadly, people are falling for it."
Do Paranormal Phenomena Exist?
By KENNETH CHANG
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11PARA.html
"Mention mind reading, ghosts, premonitions, the bending of spoons through thought or other supposed mysteries of the paranormal, and most scientists will say there are no such things."
'Peace on Earth is my priority'
by Marcus Warren
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai...ynch11.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/11/11/ixtop.html
"Of all the unlikely candidates for the job of bringing peace and goodwill to mankind, one of the most improbable must be David Lynch. But the master of disturbing cinema is determined to put an end to war and suffering - and he claims to know just how to do it."
Ghost Hunters
BY CHRIS MAAG
Cleveland Scene
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2003-11-05/news.html/1/index.html
"The train station at Indigo Lake is a fake. It has a gabled roof and an old-timey, black-lettered sign, true. But it has only two walls and was actually built in 1999 as a rest stop for the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad."
Eck-posé
by Morris Bracy IV
Philadelphia City Paper
http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-11-06/cb.shtml
"Becoming a member of Eckankar, the religion of Light and Sound of God, does not guarantee someone will become an Eck Master. No, to reach such lofty heights, they'd have to travel through all the spiritual planes, past the five levels of the Negative Realm and into the highest level of the Positive Realm to encounter Sugmad in the Ocean of Love and Mercy. From there, it's onto the dream world, to obtain the Rod of Power from another Eck Master."
Larry King and the Paranormal
by Leon Jaroff
TIME
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,538305,00.html
"Cable News Network calls itself “The Most Trusted Name In News.” One of CNN’s best rated shows, the award-winning “Larry King Live,” has contributed to that trust with candid interviews of such prominent guests as Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher, as well as by hosting the memorable 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot."
Up on the Woof
BY ALEXANDER NETH
Denver Westword
http://www.westword.com/issues/2003-11-06/news3.html/1/index.html
"Colonel Steve is one of those guys. You know, always moping around, hair hanging in his face, unsure of what he wants from life and, in any case, entirely unwilling to work to find out. He is obnoxious, loud, generally filthy, self-centered and prone to bouts of violent petulance."
Our Town: Fluoride fighters ...
by Bill D'Agostino
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2003/2003_11_05.town05billd3.html
"My ego is still recovering from the e-mail thrashing I received from fluoride foes last week."
Measure B goes down the drain
By Grace Rauh
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2003/2003_11_07.measureb07.html
"After a one-and-a-half year effort to remove the cavity-fighting compound from local drinking water, fluoride foes saw their efforts go down the drain Tuesday night as Measure B fell to a convincing defeat."
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