Assaults on evolution have evolved as well
By Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/7959864.htm
"Charles Darwin once wrote, only partly in jest, that ``it is like confessing a murder'' to admit to accepting evolution. So he would probably not have been surprised that even as we celebrated the 195th anniversary of his birth Thursday, his theory of evolution remains a matter of public -- though not scientific -- controversy."
Bill proposes teaching of 'intelligent design' alongside evolution
By Joe Hadsall
Nixa News-Enterprise
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1815&dept_id=59849&newsid=10981386&PAG=461&rfi=9
"Scientists picked Darwin's birthday to announce their opposition to a bill in the Missouri House."
Intelligent design isn’t real science
Columbia Daily Tribune
http://www.showmenews.com/2004/Feb/20040217Comm010.asp
"The following statement was released Thursday with the endorsement of more than 250 Missouri scientists and science educators, including 96 from the University of Missouri-Columbia."
Attempted 'evolution' ban entirely misguided
Oregon Daily Emerald
http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/02/18/403394013a306
"Here we go again."
Proposal protects teaching creation
By Regan Loyola Connolly
Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamaevolution18w.htm
"An area lawmaker introduced a bill in the state legislature Tuesday that calls for legal protection for any student or teacher who wants to discuss creationism in a public classroom."
Slipknot stretches for third album
By Bram Teitelman
Billboard
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=459594§ion=news
""People are either going to love this or hate it," Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor says of the band's as-yet-untitled third Roadrunner album, due in May."
Feeling Good About Placebos
Press Release
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040216083959.htm
"A Michigan State University medical ethicist believes giving a patient a placebo the old-fashioned way _ using some kind of "dummy" medication _ is deceptive and in most cases should not be done."
Power of the placebo
Associated Press
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/19/brain.power.ap/
"Just thinking a medicine will make you feel better actually may -- even if it's fake, according to new research examining the placebo effect."
Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42930-2002May6
"After thousands of studies, hundreds of millions of prescriptions and tens of billions of dollars in sales, two things are certain about pills that treat depression: Antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft work. And so do sugar pills."
Van Nuys Faith Healer Is Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
By Richard Fausset
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-healer10feb10,1,172773.story
"A Van Nuys faith healer was sentenced to nine years in state prison Monday for operating an illegal medical practice and injecting drugs into a man who later died, prosecutors said."
Teen Who Took Herbal Stimulant Describes Nightmare
KMGH
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2852635/detail.htm
"A teen who overdosed on an herbal drink described his harrowing battle with hallucinations and the fight to keep a friend from swallowing his tongue while in convulsions from his own overdose."
Bizarre Therapy Leads To $7.35M Malpractice Settlement
WMAQ
http://www.nbc5.com/health/2841956/
"A woman who alleged she was put under drug-induced hypnosis and then convinced she was part of a satanic cult has settled her medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorney said."
Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction
KRON
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1652207&nav=5D7iKvRG
"Drug addiction has been the plague of modern America. But that could now change forever. What started as a rumor may now actually be an incredible breakthrough in the battle against addictions of all kinds."
Iowa legislators consider alternative health care bill
By Erik Gable
Fairfield Ledger
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1139&dept_id=142642&newsid=10980744&PAG=461&rfi=9
"A bill being considered in the Iowa Legislature could have far-reaching implications for homeopaths, ayurvedic practitioners and other alternative health care providers in Fairfield and across the state."
Alternative medicine in the mainstream
by ANDY DWORKIN
The Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1077109385127790.xml
"For 25 years, Maria Fotis has faced down breast cancer as a nurse and, starting two years ago, as a patient herself."
Naturopathic medicine gets a boost from Senate
By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1970213,00.html
"Health insurance plans would cover some services provided by naturopathic physicians under a bill passed by the state Senate this week."
Families defend anti-MMR doctor against 'witch-hunt'
by Michael Day
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/22/ixnewstop.html
"Families of children suffering from autism last night accused the medical establishment of conducting "a witch-hunt" against the doctor who first raised fears of a link between the condition and the MMR vaccine."
MMR doctor: I stand by my research on autism link
by Michael Day
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/22/ixnewstop.html
"The British doctor who claimed to have identified a link between the MMR vaccine and autism last night angrily rejected claims that the research was "flawed" as parents of children involved in the original study accused his critics of a "witch-hunt.""
Ghost tours mix history, lore
By LAURA RUANE
Fort Myers News-Press
http://www.news-press.com/news/business/040220ghost.html
"Pirates, a headless princess, spectral sailing ships."
Travel Channel Show A Boon To Atchison's Economy
KMBC
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/2863832/detail.html
"It's been called the most haunted town in Kansas. Now, ghost hunters are traveling to Atchison to find out if the rumors are true."
No cancer hero, no jet-ski champ - just life of lies to cover sex secret
by SUSAN BELL
The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=188952004
"SHE claimed to be a sporting champion whose brave and public battle against cancer turned her into a national hero across France."
EBay briefly lists 'Sun Tunnels'
By Christy Karras
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02122004/utah/138126.asp
"For millions of buyers and sellers, the online eBay trading community is a paradise. To the artist whose work was listed by a stranger who claimed to own it, the site is a nightmare."
Kerry 'dirty tricks' claim over doctored photo
by Ciar Byrne
The Guardian
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1150031,00.html
"Fresh allegations have arisen of a dirty tricks campaign against John Kerry after it appeared that a photograph of the US presidential hopeful sitting next to anti-Vietnam war activist Jane Fonda was doctored."
Lies, damned lies and photography: how the camera can distort the truth
By Paul Vallely
The Telegraph [UK]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=492418
"Everyone knows the saying that the camera never lies. What is less well-known is that the man who coined the phrase, almost a century ago, added a rider. "While photographs may not lie," the great American documentary photographer Lewis Hine said, "liars may photograph"."
Not-so-candid camera
by RICHARD MORRISON
The Statesman [India]
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=36240
"ISN’T it time we nailed that old lie, “the camera cannot lie”? The annals of photography are littered with lies! This week’s fake “scandal”, the snap purporting to show the US presidential hopeful, John Kerry, sharing an anti-Vietnam War podium with “Hanoi Jane” Fonda, is only the latest in a long, dishonourable line."
Less Than Picture-Perfect
By Michael Rothfeld
New York Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspix153671416feb15,0,3419479.story
"As a 20-year-old photographer documenting the country's struggle over the Vietnam War, Ken Light snapped the picture of John Kerry at a peace rally in Mineola. It captured the future senator alone at a podium, squinting into the sun."
Lottery loser tries again: Elecia Battle wants a trial
by Jesse Tinsley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1076765432298900.xml
"Elecia Battle, who gained international attention last month by claiming she had bought and lost a lottery ticket worth $162 million, has changed her story. Again."
As it turns out, lottery winners have a lot to lose
by Fran Henry
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1077273314228300.xml
"If you never see your rude, crass ex- sister-in-law again, it will be too soon. But, dollars to doughnuts, if you win tonight's $222 million Mega Millions jackpot, she'll be knocking on your front door real soon."
The Ticket
BY JIMI IZRAEL
Cleveland Scene
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2004-02-18/news.html/1/index.html
"As a TV cameraman sets up his shot, Sheldon Starke makes his case. Yesterday, his client, Elecia Battle, offered a reward for the return of an errant lottery ticket. Today, someone else has turned in said ticket. Starke is arguing that it was lost and is still the property of Mrs. Battle."
'I blagged my way through, reading a torn-up textbook and ad libbing'
By Stewart Payne and Becky Barrow
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...19.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/19/ixnewstop.html
"An Oxford engineering student was surprised but undaunted when he was approached to deliver a series of lectures in Beijing on global economics."
No joke as Harrods loses libel case
Reuters
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=460057§ion=news
"Luxury store Harrods has been left with legal bills estimated at 500,000 pounds after losing a libel battle with the Wall Street Journal over a story triggered by an April Fool's hoax."
Beloved Carillon May Ring True, but Its History Doesn't
By MICHELLE YORK
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/n...00&en=71d85c4364bc9adc&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
"For decades, bells have resounded over the countryside, an audible postcard of this bucolic college town in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains."
Husband remains jailed in death hoax involving wife in Iraq
WTNH
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647198&nav=3YeXKqxL
"A Waterbury man is behind bars after admitting he made up a story about his wife who was serving in Iraq. Eddie Valentin told police he got a call saying she had died. They investigated, and found out his story didn't hold up."
Man Arrested For Hoax On Wife's Death
Associated Press
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1650098&nav=5D7lKtdZ
"A man believed to have been the victim of a cruel prankster who told him his wife had been killed in Iraq has admitted concocting the story and was arrested Sunday, authorities said."
Wife returns from Iraq to face husband who lied about her death
Associated Press
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...9.apds.m0656.bc-ct--deatfeb20,0,2539718.story
"An Army Reserve sergeant whose husband is charged with concocting a story about her death returned home to Waterbury from Iraq Thursday night, intent on seeing her children and assuring her family she was OK."
Wife in alleged death hoax says she's "dead forever" to husband
Associated Press
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...9.apds.m0761.bc-ct--deatfeb20,0,1294532.story
"An Army Reserve sergeant whose husband is charged with concocting a story about her death said Friday she "is dead forever" to her husband."
$40 million Raphael 'a fake'
Reuters
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/19/britain.raphael.reut/index.html
"A Raphael painting bought by Britain's National Gallery this month for 22 million pounds ($41.7 million) is a fake, a U.S. art professor says."
Barbecue Nations
BY SUSY BUCHANAN AND DAVID HOLTHOUSE
Phoenix New Times
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2004-02-19/feature.html/1/index.html
"Have you heard the one about the brown-skinned kid who showed up at the Nazi rally wearing a "WHITE POWER" tee shirt?"
A Cup at the End of the Rainbow
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/books/20BOOK.html
"The Holy Grail has become a popular metaphor for elusive perfection, for the most exalted or unattainable object of one's desire."
The Da Vinci Con
By LAURA MILLER
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/b...00&en=64a9c604bdd6d7a6&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
"The ever-rising tide of sales of ''The Da Vinci Code'' has lifted some pretty odd boats, and none odder than the dodgy yet magisterial ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail,'' by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. A best seller in the 1980's, ''Grail'' is climbing the paperback charts again on the strength of its relationship to Dan Brown's thriller (which has, in turn, inspired a crop of new nonfiction books coming out this spring, from ''Breaking the Da Vinci Code'' to ''Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code'')."
Mel Gibson's father describes the Holocaust as 'fiction'
BY TRACY CONNOR
New York Daily News
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansa...pecial_packages/passion_of_christ/7989985.htm
"A week before Mel Gibson's movie about Jesus Christ hits theaters, his father has gone on an explosive rant against Jews - claiming they fabricated the Holocaust and are conspiring to take over the world."
Gibson Father: Holocaust Mostly 'Fiction'
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040219/ap_on_en_mo/passion_gibson_s_father_1
"Days before the release of Mel Gibson's film about the death of Jesus, which some critics say could fuel anti-Semitism, his father has told an interviewer that the Holocaust was mostly "fiction.""
An Underground Railroad theory being questioned
By ANASTASIA USTINOVA
Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8001794.htm
"A popular book that asserts that escaped and freed slaves used quilts as message pads to guide themselves north on the Underground Railroad is under attack by scholars, who say its basic thesis is unproven."
Hit and myth: Was Scotland's last duel a joke?
by YAKUB QURESHI
Scotland on Sunday
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=209292004
""LIKE an arrow from the bow, the president’s blade flashed through the air" and gouged his opponent’s cheek, causing the crowd to gasp as fresh blood flowed onto the wood-panelled floor."
Brain fingerprints under scrutiny
By Becky McCall
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3495433.stm
"A controversial technique for identifying a criminal mind using involuntary brainwaves that could reveal guilt or innocence is about to take centre stage in a last-chance court appeal against a death-row conviction in the US."
Bush 'bending science to his political needs'
by Alok Jha
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1151187,00.html
"The Bush administration is guilty of misrepresenting scientific knowledge and misleading the public, a group of America's most senior scientists claimed yesterday."
Scientists Say Administration Distorts Facts
By JAMES GLANZ
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/politics/19RESE.html
"More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad."
Government bends, hides facts, say scientists
By David Kohn
Baltimore Sun Staff
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.science19feb19,0,6233882.story
"Alarmed by what they call the "suppression and distortion of science" by the Bush administration, more than 60 top scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a scathing report yesterday detailing instances in which government agencies allegedly stifled legitimate research."
In the Palm of Your Mind
By Jay Ingram and David Newland
Jay's Journal
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2004/02/17/51.asp
"You're sometimes happy, but at other times you're sad. You like friends, but need solitude as well. You sometimes hesitate before making decisions, but at other times you act without even thinking..."
Bay area man wages war against occult, spiritualism
By LEONORA LaPETER
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/20/Southpinellas/Bay_area_man_wages_wa.shtml
"For more than 30 years, Ben Alexander has been traveling the world, criticizing Ouija boards and psychics, battling witchcraft and Wicca, finding fault with the likes of Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons."
Wash. Twp. panel turns back book ban call
By Shawn Menzies
Gloucester County Times
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-1/107708850990420.xml
"An internal review into two books deemed by protesting parents as "satanic-related" have been found to be appropriate for educational purposes and will not be banned or removed from the shelf of a middle school library here."
District refuses group's demand to remove books
By TIM ZATZARINY JR.
Camden Courier-Post
http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m021804d.htm
"Two occult-related books that a group wanted pulled from the shelves of a middle-school library here will stay put, the school district said Tuesday."
Occult-related books stay
By Terry Bitman
Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/7987211.htm
"Wanda Mella says she and her husband are not zealots, just concerned parents who want to know what their children have access to read in their school library and download from school computers."
Jack Temple
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...1.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/20/ixportal.html
"Jack Temple, who has died aged 86, was a self-styled "homeopathic dowser healer" at West Byfleet, Surrey, whose clients included Diana, Princess of Wales, the Duchess of York, the model Jerry Hall, and the Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Booth."
TV psychic faces probe
By Kelvin Healey
Sunday Victoria Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8757497%5E10431,00.html
"CONSUMER Affairs Victoria is examining a complaint alleging celebrity self-proclaimed psychic John Edward cannot talk to the dead."
Mirror to the soul
By Lisa Marshall
Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/religion/article/0,1713,BDC_2477_2670723,00.html
"Gazing out the second floor window of a creaky, century-old Victorian in downtown Boulder, Ashleigh Armitage can see a half-dozen crosses. There's a Catholic school across the street, an Episcopal church next door, and a Catholic house of worship on the corner."
Harnessing her heavenly contacts
by KEN BANKS
The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/aberdeen.cfm?id=201302004
"LUCINDA Shon’s husband is not convinced of his wife’s celestial powers, but plenty of other people are. And the only business of its kind in Scotland which uses the power of the angels to offer health and happiness to those who seek their help has taken off - heavenward - for the mother of three from Banchory, Aberdeenshire."
Is Courtney Love turning to Scientology?
By Jeannette Walls with Ashley Pearson
MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4264375/
"Has Courtney Love been turning to the Church of Scientology for help?"
The end of the world
By Jane Lampman
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0218/p11s01-lire.html
"When David got home from school, the third grader looked everywhere for his mom and sisters. They couldn't be found in the house or the yard. Suddenly the youngster panicked. What he'd been taught in church must have happened - they'd disappeared in the "rapture," and he'd been "left behind.""
Tanzania gets 'voodoo newspaper'
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3499861.stm
"A newspaper about witchcraft, superstition and life after death has been launched in Tanzania."
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Guardian Angel Credited With Saving Woman's Life
WCVB
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2852559/detail.html
"A Glenwood Springs, Colo., woman says she's alive today because someone is watching over her."
'We fear another Waco'
by Andrew Gumbel
The Independent [UK]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=492734
"Opinions differ about the precise moment when Warren Jeffs, self-appointed prophet of the last sizeable community of polygamous Mormons in the United States, started to go a little nuts. Some say it stems back to his adolescence when, as a gawky social misfit teased by his schoolmates, he was briefly thrown out of his father's house in Salt Lake City for an offence against his younger brothers alleged to be so grave it is mentioned by the faithful only in a low whisper."
Hildale seat stays vacant
Associated Press
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02192004/utah/140301.asp
"No one wants a City Council seat that became vacant when a town leader was excommunicated and ordered out of the church-controlled town."
FLDS girls flee Arizona safe house
By JANE ZHANG
St. George Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20040219/localnews/440872.html
"Two Colorado City girls who fled to Phoenix amid turmoil inside the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ran away from their safe house last weekend, prompting a police investigation and a hunt by Arizona Child Protective Services."
Two men charged in series of car burglaries
Fairfield Ledger
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11002210&BRD=1139&PAG=461&dept_id=142642&rfi=6
"The Fairfield Police Department arrested two Fairfield men today in connection with a series of car burglaries."
A profitable 'Prophecy': Novel adapted for big screen
BY IAN MOHR
Hollywood Reporter
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-celes21.html
"Author James Redfield's best-selling New Age novel The Celestine Prophecy is set to hit the big screen, with Sarah Wayne Callies and Matthew Settle to star."
"Unlucky" souvenirs returned to Uluru
By Michelle Nichols
Reuters
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...u=/nm/20040219/od_uk_nm/oukoe_australia_uluru
"To the unwary Englishman it was just a harmless little red pebble, picked up as a souvenir at the base of Uluru, the immense monolith in the central Australian desert once known as Ayers Rock."
Ike and the Alien Ambassadors
By Peter Carlson
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53203-2004Feb18.html
"Fifty years ago tomorrow -- on Feb. 20, 1954 -- President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Palm Springs, Calif., to make a secret nocturnal trip to a nearby Air Force base to meet two extraterrestrial aliens."
Astronaut: We've had visitors
By WAVENEY ANN MOORE
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/18/Neighborhoodtimes/Astronaut__We_ve_had_.shtml
"The aliens have landed."
UFO SIGHTED OVER CITY
Plymouth Evening Herald
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/dis...layContent&sourceNode=98877&contentPK=8904264
"This amazing photograph snapped over Plymouth is being called one of the best pictures of a UFO ever taken."
Valley has keyless encounters of the weird kind
By JULIET V. CASEY, J.M. KALIL and KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Feb-21-Sat-2004/news/23271330.html
"Was it the storm clouds, sun spots or Area 51?"
ID theft bill is based on a threat that doesn't exist - yet
By Marjie Lundstrom
Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/8291693p-9222100c.html
"When state Sen. Debra Bowen recently introduced her new identity theft bill, the proposal included a stunner: forbidding hotels and other businesses from encoding guests' personal or financial information onto key cards."
Arnold wants his stogies at work
By Delphine Soulas
WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040218-121433-4556r.htm
"California law strictly bans smoking in offices, bars and restaurants, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a longtime cigar smoker has proposed converting the state Capitol's interior courtyard into a "smoking plaza.""
Arnold's staff hits the roof at rumors he'll open up dome
By Harrison Sheppard
Los Angeles Daily News
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1967207,00.html
"Where there's smoke, there's steam."
Hazy tale refuted
By Dion Nissenbaum
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7998021.htm
"A cloud of scandal has wafted over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger."
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By Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/7959864.htm
"Charles Darwin once wrote, only partly in jest, that ``it is like confessing a murder'' to admit to accepting evolution. So he would probably not have been surprised that even as we celebrated the 195th anniversary of his birth Thursday, his theory of evolution remains a matter of public -- though not scientific -- controversy."
Bill proposes teaching of 'intelligent design' alongside evolution
By Joe Hadsall
Nixa News-Enterprise
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1815&dept_id=59849&newsid=10981386&PAG=461&rfi=9
"Scientists picked Darwin's birthday to announce their opposition to a bill in the Missouri House."
Intelligent design isn’t real science
Columbia Daily Tribune
http://www.showmenews.com/2004/Feb/20040217Comm010.asp
"The following statement was released Thursday with the endorsement of more than 250 Missouri scientists and science educators, including 96 from the University of Missouri-Columbia."
Attempted 'evolution' ban entirely misguided
Oregon Daily Emerald
http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/02/18/403394013a306
"Here we go again."
Proposal protects teaching creation
By Regan Loyola Connolly
Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamaevolution18w.htm
"An area lawmaker introduced a bill in the state legislature Tuesday that calls for legal protection for any student or teacher who wants to discuss creationism in a public classroom."
Slipknot stretches for third album
By Bram Teitelman
Billboard
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=459594§ion=news
""People are either going to love this or hate it," Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor says of the band's as-yet-untitled third Roadrunner album, due in May."
Feeling Good About Placebos
Press Release
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040216083959.htm
"A Michigan State University medical ethicist believes giving a patient a placebo the old-fashioned way _ using some kind of "dummy" medication _ is deceptive and in most cases should not be done."
Power of the placebo
Associated Press
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/19/brain.power.ap/
"Just thinking a medicine will make you feel better actually may -- even if it's fake, according to new research examining the placebo effect."
Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42930-2002May6
"After thousands of studies, hundreds of millions of prescriptions and tens of billions of dollars in sales, two things are certain about pills that treat depression: Antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft work. And so do sugar pills."
Van Nuys Faith Healer Is Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
By Richard Fausset
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-healer10feb10,1,172773.story
"A Van Nuys faith healer was sentenced to nine years in state prison Monday for operating an illegal medical practice and injecting drugs into a man who later died, prosecutors said."
Teen Who Took Herbal Stimulant Describes Nightmare
KMGH
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2852635/detail.htm
"A teen who overdosed on an herbal drink described his harrowing battle with hallucinations and the fight to keep a friend from swallowing his tongue while in convulsions from his own overdose."
Bizarre Therapy Leads To $7.35M Malpractice Settlement
WMAQ
http://www.nbc5.com/health/2841956/
"A woman who alleged she was put under drug-induced hypnosis and then convinced she was part of a satanic cult has settled her medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorney said."
Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction
KRON
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1652207&nav=5D7iKvRG
"Drug addiction has been the plague of modern America. But that could now change forever. What started as a rumor may now actually be an incredible breakthrough in the battle against addictions of all kinds."
Iowa legislators consider alternative health care bill
By Erik Gable
Fairfield Ledger
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1139&dept_id=142642&newsid=10980744&PAG=461&rfi=9
"A bill being considered in the Iowa Legislature could have far-reaching implications for homeopaths, ayurvedic practitioners and other alternative health care providers in Fairfield and across the state."
Alternative medicine in the mainstream
by ANDY DWORKIN
The Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1077109385127790.xml
"For 25 years, Maria Fotis has faced down breast cancer as a nurse and, starting two years ago, as a patient herself."
Naturopathic medicine gets a boost from Senate
By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1970213,00.html
"Health insurance plans would cover some services provided by naturopathic physicians under a bill passed by the state Senate this week."
Families defend anti-MMR doctor against 'witch-hunt'
by Michael Day
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/22/ixnewstop.html
"Families of children suffering from autism last night accused the medical establishment of conducting "a witch-hunt" against the doctor who first raised fears of a link between the condition and the MMR vaccine."
MMR doctor: I stand by my research on autism link
by Michael Day
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/22/ixnewstop.html
"The British doctor who claimed to have identified a link between the MMR vaccine and autism last night angrily rejected claims that the research was "flawed" as parents of children involved in the original study accused his critics of a "witch-hunt.""
Ghost tours mix history, lore
By LAURA RUANE
Fort Myers News-Press
http://www.news-press.com/news/business/040220ghost.html
"Pirates, a headless princess, spectral sailing ships."
Travel Channel Show A Boon To Atchison's Economy
KMBC
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/2863832/detail.html
"It's been called the most haunted town in Kansas. Now, ghost hunters are traveling to Atchison to find out if the rumors are true."
No cancer hero, no jet-ski champ - just life of lies to cover sex secret
by SUSAN BELL
The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=188952004
"SHE claimed to be a sporting champion whose brave and public battle against cancer turned her into a national hero across France."
EBay briefly lists 'Sun Tunnels'
By Christy Karras
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02122004/utah/138126.asp
"For millions of buyers and sellers, the online eBay trading community is a paradise. To the artist whose work was listed by a stranger who claimed to own it, the site is a nightmare."
Kerry 'dirty tricks' claim over doctored photo
by Ciar Byrne
The Guardian
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1150031,00.html
"Fresh allegations have arisen of a dirty tricks campaign against John Kerry after it appeared that a photograph of the US presidential hopeful sitting next to anti-Vietnam war activist Jane Fonda was doctored."
Lies, damned lies and photography: how the camera can distort the truth
By Paul Vallely
The Telegraph [UK]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=492418
"Everyone knows the saying that the camera never lies. What is less well-known is that the man who coined the phrase, almost a century ago, added a rider. "While photographs may not lie," the great American documentary photographer Lewis Hine said, "liars may photograph"."
Not-so-candid camera
by RICHARD MORRISON
The Statesman [India]
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=36240
"ISN’T it time we nailed that old lie, “the camera cannot lie”? The annals of photography are littered with lies! This week’s fake “scandal”, the snap purporting to show the US presidential hopeful, John Kerry, sharing an anti-Vietnam War podium with “Hanoi Jane” Fonda, is only the latest in a long, dishonourable line."
Less Than Picture-Perfect
By Michael Rothfeld
New York Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspix153671416feb15,0,3419479.story
"As a 20-year-old photographer documenting the country's struggle over the Vietnam War, Ken Light snapped the picture of John Kerry at a peace rally in Mineola. It captured the future senator alone at a podium, squinting into the sun."
Lottery loser tries again: Elecia Battle wants a trial
by Jesse Tinsley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1076765432298900.xml
"Elecia Battle, who gained international attention last month by claiming she had bought and lost a lottery ticket worth $162 million, has changed her story. Again."
As it turns out, lottery winners have a lot to lose
by Fran Henry
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1077273314228300.xml
"If you never see your rude, crass ex- sister-in-law again, it will be too soon. But, dollars to doughnuts, if you win tonight's $222 million Mega Millions jackpot, she'll be knocking on your front door real soon."
The Ticket
BY JIMI IZRAEL
Cleveland Scene
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2004-02-18/news.html/1/index.html
"As a TV cameraman sets up his shot, Sheldon Starke makes his case. Yesterday, his client, Elecia Battle, offered a reward for the return of an errant lottery ticket. Today, someone else has turned in said ticket. Starke is arguing that it was lost and is still the property of Mrs. Battle."
'I blagged my way through, reading a torn-up textbook and ad libbing'
By Stewart Payne and Becky Barrow
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...19.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/19/ixnewstop.html
"An Oxford engineering student was surprised but undaunted when he was approached to deliver a series of lectures in Beijing on global economics."
No joke as Harrods loses libel case
Reuters
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=460057§ion=news
"Luxury store Harrods has been left with legal bills estimated at 500,000 pounds after losing a libel battle with the Wall Street Journal over a story triggered by an April Fool's hoax."
Beloved Carillon May Ring True, but Its History Doesn't
By MICHELLE YORK
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/n...00&en=71d85c4364bc9adc&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
"For decades, bells have resounded over the countryside, an audible postcard of this bucolic college town in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains."
Husband remains jailed in death hoax involving wife in Iraq
WTNH
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647198&nav=3YeXKqxL
"A Waterbury man is behind bars after admitting he made up a story about his wife who was serving in Iraq. Eddie Valentin told police he got a call saying she had died. They investigated, and found out his story didn't hold up."
Man Arrested For Hoax On Wife's Death
Associated Press
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1650098&nav=5D7lKtdZ
"A man believed to have been the victim of a cruel prankster who told him his wife had been killed in Iraq has admitted concocting the story and was arrested Sunday, authorities said."
Wife returns from Iraq to face husband who lied about her death
Associated Press
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...9.apds.m0656.bc-ct--deatfeb20,0,2539718.story
"An Army Reserve sergeant whose husband is charged with concocting a story about her death returned home to Waterbury from Iraq Thursday night, intent on seeing her children and assuring her family she was OK."
Wife in alleged death hoax says she's "dead forever" to husband
Associated Press
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...9.apds.m0761.bc-ct--deatfeb20,0,1294532.story
"An Army Reserve sergeant whose husband is charged with concocting a story about her death said Friday she "is dead forever" to her husband."
$40 million Raphael 'a fake'
Reuters
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/19/britain.raphael.reut/index.html
"A Raphael painting bought by Britain's National Gallery this month for 22 million pounds ($41.7 million) is a fake, a U.S. art professor says."
Barbecue Nations
BY SUSY BUCHANAN AND DAVID HOLTHOUSE
Phoenix New Times
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2004-02-19/feature.html/1/index.html
"Have you heard the one about the brown-skinned kid who showed up at the Nazi rally wearing a "WHITE POWER" tee shirt?"
A Cup at the End of the Rainbow
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/books/20BOOK.html
"The Holy Grail has become a popular metaphor for elusive perfection, for the most exalted or unattainable object of one's desire."
The Da Vinci Con
By LAURA MILLER
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/b...00&en=64a9c604bdd6d7a6&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
"The ever-rising tide of sales of ''The Da Vinci Code'' has lifted some pretty odd boats, and none odder than the dodgy yet magisterial ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail,'' by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. A best seller in the 1980's, ''Grail'' is climbing the paperback charts again on the strength of its relationship to Dan Brown's thriller (which has, in turn, inspired a crop of new nonfiction books coming out this spring, from ''Breaking the Da Vinci Code'' to ''Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code'')."
Mel Gibson's father describes the Holocaust as 'fiction'
BY TRACY CONNOR
New York Daily News
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansa...pecial_packages/passion_of_christ/7989985.htm
"A week before Mel Gibson's movie about Jesus Christ hits theaters, his father has gone on an explosive rant against Jews - claiming they fabricated the Holocaust and are conspiring to take over the world."
Gibson Father: Holocaust Mostly 'Fiction'
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040219/ap_on_en_mo/passion_gibson_s_father_1
"Days before the release of Mel Gibson's film about the death of Jesus, which some critics say could fuel anti-Semitism, his father has told an interviewer that the Holocaust was mostly "fiction.""
An Underground Railroad theory being questioned
By ANASTASIA USTINOVA
Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8001794.htm
"A popular book that asserts that escaped and freed slaves used quilts as message pads to guide themselves north on the Underground Railroad is under attack by scholars, who say its basic thesis is unproven."
Hit and myth: Was Scotland's last duel a joke?
by YAKUB QURESHI
Scotland on Sunday
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=209292004
""LIKE an arrow from the bow, the president’s blade flashed through the air" and gouged his opponent’s cheek, causing the crowd to gasp as fresh blood flowed onto the wood-panelled floor."
Brain fingerprints under scrutiny
By Becky McCall
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3495433.stm
"A controversial technique for identifying a criminal mind using involuntary brainwaves that could reveal guilt or innocence is about to take centre stage in a last-chance court appeal against a death-row conviction in the US."
Bush 'bending science to his political needs'
by Alok Jha
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1151187,00.html
"The Bush administration is guilty of misrepresenting scientific knowledge and misleading the public, a group of America's most senior scientists claimed yesterday."
Scientists Say Administration Distorts Facts
By JAMES GLANZ
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/politics/19RESE.html
"More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad."
Government bends, hides facts, say scientists
By David Kohn
Baltimore Sun Staff
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.science19feb19,0,6233882.story
"Alarmed by what they call the "suppression and distortion of science" by the Bush administration, more than 60 top scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a scathing report yesterday detailing instances in which government agencies allegedly stifled legitimate research."
In the Palm of Your Mind
By Jay Ingram and David Newland
Jay's Journal
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2004/02/17/51.asp
"You're sometimes happy, but at other times you're sad. You like friends, but need solitude as well. You sometimes hesitate before making decisions, but at other times you act without even thinking..."
Bay area man wages war against occult, spiritualism
By LEONORA LaPETER
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/20/Southpinellas/Bay_area_man_wages_wa.shtml
"For more than 30 years, Ben Alexander has been traveling the world, criticizing Ouija boards and psychics, battling witchcraft and Wicca, finding fault with the likes of Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons."
Wash. Twp. panel turns back book ban call
By Shawn Menzies
Gloucester County Times
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-1/107708850990420.xml
"An internal review into two books deemed by protesting parents as "satanic-related" have been found to be appropriate for educational purposes and will not be banned or removed from the shelf of a middle school library here."
District refuses group's demand to remove books
By TIM ZATZARINY JR.
Camden Courier-Post
http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m021804d.htm
"Two occult-related books that a group wanted pulled from the shelves of a middle-school library here will stay put, the school district said Tuesday."
Occult-related books stay
By Terry Bitman
Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/7987211.htm
"Wanda Mella says she and her husband are not zealots, just concerned parents who want to know what their children have access to read in their school library and download from school computers."
Jack Temple
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...1.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/20/ixportal.html
"Jack Temple, who has died aged 86, was a self-styled "homeopathic dowser healer" at West Byfleet, Surrey, whose clients included Diana, Princess of Wales, the Duchess of York, the model Jerry Hall, and the Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Booth."
TV psychic faces probe
By Kelvin Healey
Sunday Victoria Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8757497%5E10431,00.html
"CONSUMER Affairs Victoria is examining a complaint alleging celebrity self-proclaimed psychic John Edward cannot talk to the dead."
Mirror to the soul
By Lisa Marshall
Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/religion/article/0,1713,BDC_2477_2670723,00.html
"Gazing out the second floor window of a creaky, century-old Victorian in downtown Boulder, Ashleigh Armitage can see a half-dozen crosses. There's a Catholic school across the street, an Episcopal church next door, and a Catholic house of worship on the corner."
Harnessing her heavenly contacts
by KEN BANKS
The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/aberdeen.cfm?id=201302004
"LUCINDA Shon’s husband is not convinced of his wife’s celestial powers, but plenty of other people are. And the only business of its kind in Scotland which uses the power of the angels to offer health and happiness to those who seek their help has taken off - heavenward - for the mother of three from Banchory, Aberdeenshire."
Is Courtney Love turning to Scientology?
By Jeannette Walls with Ashley Pearson
MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4264375/
"Has Courtney Love been turning to the Church of Scientology for help?"
The end of the world
By Jane Lampman
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0218/p11s01-lire.html
"When David got home from school, the third grader looked everywhere for his mom and sisters. They couldn't be found in the house or the yard. Suddenly the youngster panicked. What he'd been taught in church must have happened - they'd disappeared in the "rapture," and he'd been "left behind.""
Tanzania gets 'voodoo newspaper'
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3499861.stm
"A newspaper about witchcraft, superstition and life after death has been launched in Tanzania."
http://seapagan.org/pagan-hierarchy/pagan-hierarchy.gif
Guardian Angel Credited With Saving Woman's Life
WCVB
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2852559/detail.html
"A Glenwood Springs, Colo., woman says she's alive today because someone is watching over her."
'We fear another Waco'
by Andrew Gumbel
The Independent [UK]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=492734
"Opinions differ about the precise moment when Warren Jeffs, self-appointed prophet of the last sizeable community of polygamous Mormons in the United States, started to go a little nuts. Some say it stems back to his adolescence when, as a gawky social misfit teased by his schoolmates, he was briefly thrown out of his father's house in Salt Lake City for an offence against his younger brothers alleged to be so grave it is mentioned by the faithful only in a low whisper."
Hildale seat stays vacant
Associated Press
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02192004/utah/140301.asp
"No one wants a City Council seat that became vacant when a town leader was excommunicated and ordered out of the church-controlled town."
FLDS girls flee Arizona safe house
By JANE ZHANG
St. George Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20040219/localnews/440872.html
"Two Colorado City girls who fled to Phoenix amid turmoil inside the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ran away from their safe house last weekend, prompting a police investigation and a hunt by Arizona Child Protective Services."
Two men charged in series of car burglaries
Fairfield Ledger
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11002210&BRD=1139&PAG=461&dept_id=142642&rfi=6
"The Fairfield Police Department arrested two Fairfield men today in connection with a series of car burglaries."
A profitable 'Prophecy': Novel adapted for big screen
BY IAN MOHR
Hollywood Reporter
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-celes21.html
"Author James Redfield's best-selling New Age novel The Celestine Prophecy is set to hit the big screen, with Sarah Wayne Callies and Matthew Settle to star."
"Unlucky" souvenirs returned to Uluru
By Michelle Nichols
Reuters
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...u=/nm/20040219/od_uk_nm/oukoe_australia_uluru
"To the unwary Englishman it was just a harmless little red pebble, picked up as a souvenir at the base of Uluru, the immense monolith in the central Australian desert once known as Ayers Rock."
Ike and the Alien Ambassadors
By Peter Carlson
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53203-2004Feb18.html
"Fifty years ago tomorrow -- on Feb. 20, 1954 -- President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Palm Springs, Calif., to make a secret nocturnal trip to a nearby Air Force base to meet two extraterrestrial aliens."
Astronaut: We've had visitors
By WAVENEY ANN MOORE
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/18/Neighborhoodtimes/Astronaut__We_ve_had_.shtml
"The aliens have landed."
UFO SIGHTED OVER CITY
Plymouth Evening Herald
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/dis...layContent&sourceNode=98877&contentPK=8904264
"This amazing photograph snapped over Plymouth is being called one of the best pictures of a UFO ever taken."
Valley has keyless encounters of the weird kind
By JULIET V. CASEY, J.M. KALIL and KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Feb-21-Sat-2004/news/23271330.html
"Was it the storm clouds, sun spots or Area 51?"
ID theft bill is based on a threat that doesn't exist - yet
By Marjie Lundstrom
Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/8291693p-9222100c.html
"When state Sen. Debra Bowen recently introduced her new identity theft bill, the proposal included a stunner: forbidding hotels and other businesses from encoding guests' personal or financial information onto key cards."
Arnold wants his stogies at work
By Delphine Soulas
WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040218-121433-4556r.htm
"California law strictly bans smoking in offices, bars and restaurants, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a longtime cigar smoker has proposed converting the state Capitol's interior courtyard into a "smoking plaza.""
Arnold's staff hits the roof at rumors he'll open up dome
By Harrison Sheppard
Los Angeles Daily News
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1967207,00.html
"Where there's smoke, there's steam."
Hazy tale refuted
By Dion Nissenbaum
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7998021.htm
"A cloud of scandal has wafted over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger."
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