Stranahan House plans to mix spirits, history in October tours for tourists’ joy
By Brittany Wallman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-901cghosts,0,6712523.story
"Visitors are flocking to the Stranahan House, but not to research the county's oldest existing structure, the one-time town hall, and home of the town's founder and its first school teacher. They're looking for ghosts."
Cryonics facility clears inspection
by Peter Corbett
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0903nealcor03.html
"A Scottsdale cryonics facility where baseball great Ted Williams' body is stored has passed recent inspections stemming from allegations by a former executive."
Psychic Edward: I 'talked' to Aaliyah
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/114254p-103091c.html
"The mother of the late R&B star Aaliyah has reached out to celebrity psychic John Edward in an effort to contact her daughter."
‘Desecrated and Destroyed’
By Bill Redeker
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Sports/GMA030903Ted_Williams_body.html
"The frozen corpse of baseball legend Ted Williams is being stored at an Arizona cryonics facility, with his severed head kept in something like a lobster pot, a former executive at the cryonics company said."
The Great Bead Mania
by Konstantin Parshin
Transistions Online
<http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/artic...ion=4&NrIssue=49&NrSection=17&NrArticle=10558>
"Dushanbe has seen nothing like this for a decade. For the first time since the early 1990s, before the civil war broke out, hundreds of people have, since late August, been holding unsanctioned demonstrations. First, hundreds gathered spontaneously outside the office of the General Prosecutor. Then, on 20 August, thousands marched on the president’s palace, where they were stopped by the police. Similar scenes were repeated in other parts of the capital."
THEY SAID I'D GO TO HELL IF I LEFT. I WAS SUICIDAL AND DEPRESSED
by GAYLE RITCHIE
Abderdeen Evening Express
<http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.u...layContent&sourceNode=83936&contentPK=6904307>
"A former member of a controversial religious sect claims she suffered years of mental torture at the hands of the group."
Sage herb 'can boost memory'
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3189635.stm
"Centuries-old theories that the herb sage can improve memory appear to be borne out by modern research."
Psychics fail to find Falconio
By Andrew Baldwin
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....Psychics-fail-to-find-Falconio-name_page.html>
"Melbourne-based crime author Robin Bowles launched the search, armed with the advice of the psychics, near Barrow Creek in central Australia, where Mr Falconio went missing two years ago."
Bulb art is devilish, not satanic
by Chip Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/01/BA217393.DTL
"They are four guys who like to spend their Saturday mornings milling about on a funky spit of East Bay shoreline, where they salvage pieces of wood, metal, Styrofoam and other junk from the remains of a former landfill."
BUSY IN THE SPIRIT WORLD...
Gloucestershire Citizen
<http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co...layContent&sourceNode=73927&contentPK=6765085>
"There is life after death, says spiritual medium Mike D, and he can communicate with our loved ones, he claims. The former painter and decorator is in no doubt that the messages and visions he receives are from loved ones who have "passed over.""
Anger at plan to add fluoride to water supplies for 13m
by Mark Townsend
The Observer [UK]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1032730,00.html
"Fluoride could be added to the drinking water of another 13 million people by next summer under plans by Ministers to supply major cities with the chemical."
Travelling in all the right circles
by Victoria Stevens
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...626&call_pageid=968867506610&col=969048867196>
""Crop circles?" said the pleasant young English woman enjoying a cup of tea after visiting the ancient stone circle here with her husband and child. "Well, they're all hoaxes, aren't they?""
A brief history of crop circles and the hoax theory
by Victoria Stevens
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...631&call_pageid=968867506610&col=969048867196>
"There is some evidence to suggest that crop circles have been appearing in England for centuries, while simple circles have been documented in modern times since the 1970s. In those days, theories put forward to explain them included freak whirlwinds, plasma vortexes and UFO landing sites."
UFO street
Preston Today
http://www.prestontoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=73&ArticleID=650791
"When Mary Carter saw lights flashing outside her home she did not think twice about going to investigate."
From outer space to inner Earth
by David Perlman
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/01/MN84192.DTL
"Brine shrimp dart in the shallows along this weirdly tower-studded lakeshore, and clouds of alkali flies darken patches of the lake's salty surface. But Richard Hoover, a onetime solar physicist, collects only a few of those mundane creatures."
Lake Area Residents Spot UFO
KPLC
http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1426203&nav=0nqxHmI6
"You've been hearing a lot about it.. The planet mars is the closest it's been to earth in nearly 60,000 years."
Will Scientology Celebs Sign 'Spiritual' Contract?
By Roger Friedman
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96299,00.html
"Tom Cruise claims to have been dyslexic before he was saved by Scientology."
Come away! O human child! To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand...
By Lois Shea
Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/travel/neweng...aters_and_the_wild_with_a_faery_hand_in_hand/>
"It may have started with "The Tomten,'' and the inscription inside the book jacket: "Because we believe in the little people.""
http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb191.html
Holistic heart healing
By Gigi Wood
Iowa City Press-Citizen
http://www.press-citizen.com/news/090103fairfield.htm
"Two medical centers, one known for excelling in traditional Western medicine and another known for alternative medical therapy research, have joined together to study heart attack patients."
Racing gets dose of alternative medicine
By JANNY HU
Albany Times Union
<http://www.timesunion.com/AspStorie...664&category=SPORTS&BCCode=&newsdate=9/1/2003>
"When Funny Cide came out of the Aug. 3 Haskell Invitational feeling a bit peaky, trainer Barclay Tagg put him on antibiotics to reduce his fever. When the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner showed stiffness in his back during morning jogs a few weeks later, Tagg went beyond traditional equine therapies."
Zealous pickers may threaten plants
By Dale Rodebaugh
Durango Herald
<http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news030902_1.htm>
"The harvest of wildflowers with medicinal properties is becoming so widespread that forester Gretchen Fitzgerald is starting to worry about overzealous pickers."
BlueCross plan offers alternative-care discounts
Associated Press
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_2228686,00.html
"About 1 million BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee customers are eligible for new discounts on alternative care such as fitness training and acupuncture."
'I'LL SEE THEM IN COURT'
Exeter Express & Echo
<http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/displ...layContent&sourceNode=99903&contentPK=6841490>
"Celebrity supporter Uri Geller today promised to flush out the Exeter City players who claimed he handed out illegal 'bungs' in the dressing room - before suing them for slander."
Watching auras, helping artists
By KELLI B. GRANT
Ithaca Journal
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20030902/localnews/173323.html
"When Elaine Surowick attends a live music performance, she not only hears the music, but sees the energy flow from the music and musicians alike."
Bullitt residents wary of proposed retreat
By MISSY BAXTER
Louisville Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/09/03ky/met-2-nuns09030-6214.html
"A plan by a group of nuns to start a spiritual retreat in southern Bullitt County has sparked concern among some residents."
Beauty queen facing charges
by LOUIE ROSELLA
Mississauga News
http://www.mississauganews.com/mi/peelpolice/story/1302756p-1549384c.html
"A Mississauga beauty queen was arrested yesterday after Peel Regional Police discounted a woman's claims she was beaten and confined at gunpoint."
Mystery of fake speed camera
By Neil Atkinson
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....=-Mystery-of-fake-speed-camera-name_page.html>
"THEY are the bane of many people's lives but a boon for others."
Village joker's back on the road again!
By Neil Atkinson
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....oker-s-back-on-the-road-again--name_page.html>
"THE Lepton prankster has struck again!"
Teens caught on camera
By Neil Atkinson
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....adline=-Teens-caught-on-camera-name_page.html>
"THE brains behind Lepton's famous hoax speed camera have been unnmasked."
Sheriff says Pitt bull attack a hoax
Associated Press
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/6678682.htm
"Authorities say a Person County Animal Control officer falsely claimed she was ambushed in a pit bull attack."
Sheriff: No dog attack
BY HUNTER LEWIS
Durham Herald-Sun
http://www.herald-sun.com/person/12-387584.html
"A Person County Animal Control officer, who recently reported that she was ambushed in a pit bull attack, resigned after authorities began investigating whether the incident was a hoax."
Is Blaine magic just an illusion?
By Chris Heard
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/3200559.stm
"Is performance artist David Blaine for real - or is his act all smoke and mirrors?"
Feds Have Bone to Pick With Her
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdog033439243sep03,0,6702000.story
"After two frustrating decades, police thought they were about to crack the case of a missing black woman believed to have been murdered in a racially motivated attack."
Police call in ghostbusters to check out headquarters
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1428015&nav=7CPEHniy
"In the still of night, doors rattle and stairwells creak in the Shelbyville police department. In the light of day, a secretary's desk drawer opens on its own. A city worker who toured the building even reported feeling something grab her leg."
Date-rape druggings rare, scientists find
New Zealand Press Association
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3521153
"Cases of women's drinks being spiked with drugs by men intent on "date rape" are not as common as is widely believed, scientists say."
FIT TO PRINT?
by Ben McGrath
The New Yorker
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?030908ta_talk_mcgrath
"Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, “U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.” The apparent scoop—of stop-the-presses significance—was unsigned, and billed as a “special to World Tribune.com.” The Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?"
She sees
by RYAN BAKKEN
Grand Forks Herald
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/6670652.htm
"Maria Adams agrees with the Federal Trade Commission. Miss Cleo is a fraud."
A witch's guide to safe computing
by David Coursey
ZDNet.com
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/davidcoursey/0,39020667,39116048,00.htm
"Over the past couple of weeks, I've written twice (first here, then here) about my ongoing frustrations with Microsoft Windows."
Despite Shattered Illusions, Mars Still Captures the Imagination
By DENNIS OVERBYE
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/s...00&en=55ee509a4b2aaefb&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
"It's amazing what you can see when you don't look."
Lawyer sues white advocacy group
by Tony Lofaro
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=096DFDA7-D6D4-4E01-B7A3-F06B24B5CE2B
"An Ottawa lawyer is taking a London, Ont., white supremacist group to court for libel over comments on its Web site."
Infant dies after parents reject aid
By MICHELE HOLTKAMP
Johnson County Daily Journal
<http://www.thejournalnet.com/main.a...&ArticleID=38049&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=113>
"A Johnson County infant less than 2 days old died Tuesday at her parents’ home of a treatable infection, after her parents failed to seek medical treatment during or following her birth."
Chateau Ringo? No ex-Beatle, just us, insist couple constructing Germantown palace
By Clay Bailey
Memphis Commercial Appeal
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_2228798,00.html
"Connect a world-famous name with a huge new house in an exclusive suburb and you end up with one big rumor causing headaches for a Germantown couple."
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By Brittany Wallman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-901cghosts,0,6712523.story
"Visitors are flocking to the Stranahan House, but not to research the county's oldest existing structure, the one-time town hall, and home of the town's founder and its first school teacher. They're looking for ghosts."
Cryonics facility clears inspection
by Peter Corbett
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0903nealcor03.html
"A Scottsdale cryonics facility where baseball great Ted Williams' body is stored has passed recent inspections stemming from allegations by a former executive."
Psychic Edward: I 'talked' to Aaliyah
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/114254p-103091c.html
"The mother of the late R&B star Aaliyah has reached out to celebrity psychic John Edward in an effort to contact her daughter."
‘Desecrated and Destroyed’
By Bill Redeker
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Sports/GMA030903Ted_Williams_body.html
"The frozen corpse of baseball legend Ted Williams is being stored at an Arizona cryonics facility, with his severed head kept in something like a lobster pot, a former executive at the cryonics company said."
The Great Bead Mania
by Konstantin Parshin
Transistions Online
<http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/artic...ion=4&NrIssue=49&NrSection=17&NrArticle=10558>
"Dushanbe has seen nothing like this for a decade. For the first time since the early 1990s, before the civil war broke out, hundreds of people have, since late August, been holding unsanctioned demonstrations. First, hundreds gathered spontaneously outside the office of the General Prosecutor. Then, on 20 August, thousands marched on the president’s palace, where they were stopped by the police. Similar scenes were repeated in other parts of the capital."
THEY SAID I'D GO TO HELL IF I LEFT. I WAS SUICIDAL AND DEPRESSED
by GAYLE RITCHIE
Abderdeen Evening Express
<http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.u...layContent&sourceNode=83936&contentPK=6904307>
"A former member of a controversial religious sect claims she suffered years of mental torture at the hands of the group."
Sage herb 'can boost memory'
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3189635.stm
"Centuries-old theories that the herb sage can improve memory appear to be borne out by modern research."
Psychics fail to find Falconio
By Andrew Baldwin
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....Psychics-fail-to-find-Falconio-name_page.html>
"Melbourne-based crime author Robin Bowles launched the search, armed with the advice of the psychics, near Barrow Creek in central Australia, where Mr Falconio went missing two years ago."
Bulb art is devilish, not satanic
by Chip Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/01/BA217393.DTL
"They are four guys who like to spend their Saturday mornings milling about on a funky spit of East Bay shoreline, where they salvage pieces of wood, metal, Styrofoam and other junk from the remains of a former landfill."
BUSY IN THE SPIRIT WORLD...
Gloucestershire Citizen
<http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co...layContent&sourceNode=73927&contentPK=6765085>
"There is life after death, says spiritual medium Mike D, and he can communicate with our loved ones, he claims. The former painter and decorator is in no doubt that the messages and visions he receives are from loved ones who have "passed over.""
Anger at plan to add fluoride to water supplies for 13m
by Mark Townsend
The Observer [UK]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1032730,00.html
"Fluoride could be added to the drinking water of another 13 million people by next summer under plans by Ministers to supply major cities with the chemical."
Travelling in all the right circles
by Victoria Stevens
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...626&call_pageid=968867506610&col=969048867196>
""Crop circles?" said the pleasant young English woman enjoying a cup of tea after visiting the ancient stone circle here with her husband and child. "Well, they're all hoaxes, aren't they?""
A brief history of crop circles and the hoax theory
by Victoria Stevens
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...631&call_pageid=968867506610&col=969048867196>
"There is some evidence to suggest that crop circles have been appearing in England for centuries, while simple circles have been documented in modern times since the 1970s. In those days, theories put forward to explain them included freak whirlwinds, plasma vortexes and UFO landing sites."
UFO street
Preston Today
http://www.prestontoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=73&ArticleID=650791
"When Mary Carter saw lights flashing outside her home she did not think twice about going to investigate."
From outer space to inner Earth
by David Perlman
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/01/MN84192.DTL
"Brine shrimp dart in the shallows along this weirdly tower-studded lakeshore, and clouds of alkali flies darken patches of the lake's salty surface. But Richard Hoover, a onetime solar physicist, collects only a few of those mundane creatures."
Lake Area Residents Spot UFO
KPLC
http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1426203&nav=0nqxHmI6
"You've been hearing a lot about it.. The planet mars is the closest it's been to earth in nearly 60,000 years."
Will Scientology Celebs Sign 'Spiritual' Contract?
By Roger Friedman
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96299,00.html
"Tom Cruise claims to have been dyslexic before he was saved by Scientology."
Come away! O human child! To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand...
By Lois Shea
Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/travel/neweng...aters_and_the_wild_with_a_faery_hand_in_hand/>
"It may have started with "The Tomten,'' and the inscription inside the book jacket: "Because we believe in the little people.""
http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb191.html
Holistic heart healing
By Gigi Wood
Iowa City Press-Citizen
http://www.press-citizen.com/news/090103fairfield.htm
"Two medical centers, one known for excelling in traditional Western medicine and another known for alternative medical therapy research, have joined together to study heart attack patients."
Racing gets dose of alternative medicine
By JANNY HU
Albany Times Union
<http://www.timesunion.com/AspStorie...664&category=SPORTS&BCCode=&newsdate=9/1/2003>
"When Funny Cide came out of the Aug. 3 Haskell Invitational feeling a bit peaky, trainer Barclay Tagg put him on antibiotics to reduce his fever. When the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner showed stiffness in his back during morning jogs a few weeks later, Tagg went beyond traditional equine therapies."
Zealous pickers may threaten plants
By Dale Rodebaugh
Durango Herald
<http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news030902_1.htm>
"The harvest of wildflowers with medicinal properties is becoming so widespread that forester Gretchen Fitzgerald is starting to worry about overzealous pickers."
BlueCross plan offers alternative-care discounts
Associated Press
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_2228686,00.html
"About 1 million BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee customers are eligible for new discounts on alternative care such as fitness training and acupuncture."
'I'LL SEE THEM IN COURT'
Exeter Express & Echo
<http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/displ...layContent&sourceNode=99903&contentPK=6841490>
"Celebrity supporter Uri Geller today promised to flush out the Exeter City players who claimed he handed out illegal 'bungs' in the dressing room - before suing them for slander."
Watching auras, helping artists
By KELLI B. GRANT
Ithaca Journal
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20030902/localnews/173323.html
"When Elaine Surowick attends a live music performance, she not only hears the music, but sees the energy flow from the music and musicians alike."
Bullitt residents wary of proposed retreat
By MISSY BAXTER
Louisville Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/09/03ky/met-2-nuns09030-6214.html
"A plan by a group of nuns to start a spiritual retreat in southern Bullitt County has sparked concern among some residents."
Beauty queen facing charges
by LOUIE ROSELLA
Mississauga News
http://www.mississauganews.com/mi/peelpolice/story/1302756p-1549384c.html
"A Mississauga beauty queen was arrested yesterday after Peel Regional Police discounted a woman's claims she was beaten and confined at gunpoint."
Mystery of fake speed camera
By Neil Atkinson
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....=-Mystery-of-fake-speed-camera-name_page.html>
"THEY are the bane of many people's lives but a boon for others."
Village joker's back on the road again!
By Neil Atkinson
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....oker-s-back-on-the-road-again--name_page.html>
"THE Lepton prankster has struck again!"
Teens caught on camera
By Neil Atkinson
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
<http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....adline=-Teens-caught-on-camera-name_page.html>
"THE brains behind Lepton's famous hoax speed camera have been unnmasked."
Sheriff says Pitt bull attack a hoax
Associated Press
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/6678682.htm
"Authorities say a Person County Animal Control officer falsely claimed she was ambushed in a pit bull attack."
Sheriff: No dog attack
BY HUNTER LEWIS
Durham Herald-Sun
http://www.herald-sun.com/person/12-387584.html
"A Person County Animal Control officer, who recently reported that she was ambushed in a pit bull attack, resigned after authorities began investigating whether the incident was a hoax."
Is Blaine magic just an illusion?
By Chris Heard
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/3200559.stm
"Is performance artist David Blaine for real - or is his act all smoke and mirrors?"
Feds Have Bone to Pick With Her
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdog033439243sep03,0,6702000.story
"After two frustrating decades, police thought they were about to crack the case of a missing black woman believed to have been murdered in a racially motivated attack."
Police call in ghostbusters to check out headquarters
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1428015&nav=7CPEHniy
"In the still of night, doors rattle and stairwells creak in the Shelbyville police department. In the light of day, a secretary's desk drawer opens on its own. A city worker who toured the building even reported feeling something grab her leg."
Date-rape druggings rare, scientists find
New Zealand Press Association
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3521153
"Cases of women's drinks being spiked with drugs by men intent on "date rape" are not as common as is widely believed, scientists say."
FIT TO PRINT?
by Ben McGrath
The New Yorker
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?030908ta_talk_mcgrath
"Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, “U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.” The apparent scoop—of stop-the-presses significance—was unsigned, and billed as a “special to World Tribune.com.” The Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?"
She sees
by RYAN BAKKEN
Grand Forks Herald
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/6670652.htm
"Maria Adams agrees with the Federal Trade Commission. Miss Cleo is a fraud."
A witch's guide to safe computing
by David Coursey
ZDNet.com
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/davidcoursey/0,39020667,39116048,00.htm
"Over the past couple of weeks, I've written twice (first here, then here) about my ongoing frustrations with Microsoft Windows."
Despite Shattered Illusions, Mars Still Captures the Imagination
By DENNIS OVERBYE
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/s...00&en=55ee509a4b2aaefb&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
"It's amazing what you can see when you don't look."
Lawyer sues white advocacy group
by Tony Lofaro
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=096DFDA7-D6D4-4E01-B7A3-F06B24B5CE2B
"An Ottawa lawyer is taking a London, Ont., white supremacist group to court for libel over comments on its Web site."
Infant dies after parents reject aid
By MICHELE HOLTKAMP
Johnson County Daily Journal
<http://www.thejournalnet.com/main.a...&ArticleID=38049&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=113>
"A Johnson County infant less than 2 days old died Tuesday at her parents’ home of a treatable infection, after her parents failed to seek medical treatment during or following her birth."
Chateau Ringo? No ex-Beatle, just us, insist couple constructing Germantown palace
By Clay Bailey
Memphis Commercial Appeal
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_2228798,00.html
"Connect a world-famous name with a huge new house in an exclusive suburb and you end up with one big rumor causing headaches for a Germantown couple."
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