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Manitoba is suing over North Dakota's plan to drain Devils Lake into the Sheyenne River, introducing new chemicals and new life forms into Canada's Lake Winnipeg.
Cooperation between North and South Korea: A rice loan, reduced propaganda, and their first cross-border road and rail links.
France's first gay marriage (probably illegal).
Rumsfeld in Asia:
Readers respond to last week's Public Editor column about the paper's Iraq reportage:
Ansar Mahmood took a photograph; was arrested on suspicion of terrorism; had his apartment searched; was cleared of any suspicion; and faces deportation for the felony of "harboring illegal aliens," because the search turned up evidence that he cosigned a lease and registered a car for a friend.
This is fascinating: Food stores that only sell to welfare recipients. They accept only W.I.C. vouchers, not cash; they only sell food that is eligible for the program; they are conveniently located near offices that issue vouchers; and they charge the state 10-20% more than a regular grocery store.
Among the eleven places on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2004 Most Endangered List: The entire state of Vermont.
Kerry is looking for a running mate. The Democrats are looking for a stance on Iraq that won't split the party. The bishops are looking for a stance on communion that won't split the church. Also in the newspaper of record: Laura Bush and Teresa Heinz Kerry's cookie recipes.
Good news from the American Society of Clinical Oncology: New drugs may make cancer manageable (but not cure it). And chemotherapy after surgery may help lung cancer patients.
How to remember war.
Manitoba is suing over North Dakota's plan to drain Devils Lake into the Sheyenne River, introducing new chemicals and new life forms into Canada's Lake Winnipeg.
Cooperation between North and South Korea: A rice loan, reduced propaganda, and their first cross-border road and rail links.
France's first gay marriage (probably illegal).
Rumsfeld in Asia:
"If the schools that are teaching young folks are teaching them terror" instead of mathematics, Mr. Rumsfeld said, the supply of militants will never end. "We do not have a coherent approach to this," he said.Meanwhile, the Bush administration is planning a G8 declaration "favoring democratic changes in the Middle East," and the Middle East, unsurprisingly, feels a little patronized.
Readers respond to last week's Public Editor column about the paper's Iraq reportage:
Seeking out and presenting the opposing position may be good journalism in peacetime, but in wartime it is beyond inappropriate.There are complaints from the other side, too.
Ansar Mahmood took a photograph; was arrested on suspicion of terrorism; had his apartment searched; was cleared of any suspicion; and faces deportation for the felony of "harboring illegal aliens," because the search turned up evidence that he cosigned a lease and registered a car for a friend.
This is fascinating: Food stores that only sell to welfare recipients. They accept only W.I.C. vouchers, not cash; they only sell food that is eligible for the program; they are conveniently located near offices that issue vouchers; and they charge the state 10-20% more than a regular grocery store.
Among the eleven places on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2004 Most Endangered List: The entire state of Vermont.
Kerry is looking for a running mate. The Democrats are looking for a stance on Iraq that won't split the party. The bishops are looking for a stance on communion that won't split the church. Also in the newspaper of record: Laura Bush and Teresa Heinz Kerry's cookie recipes.
Good news from the American Society of Clinical Oncology: New drugs may make cancer manageable (but not cure it). And chemotherapy after surgery may help lung cancer patients.
How to remember war.
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Date: 2004-06-07 01:18 pm (UTC)Well, that just sorta sums it up, doesn't it?