This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: NYT
January 6, 2008
Although members of the original movement serve as mentors, the young S.D.S. is eager to prove that its interest in social change extends beyond nostalgia.
“One of our strengths is having a clear understanding of what went wrong in the ’60s,” says Pat Korte, a 19-year-old sophomore at the New School, in Greenwich Village. Mr. Korte was a co-founder of the born-again organization in 2006, as a senior at Stonington High School, in Connecticut. S.D.S. now has around 120 active chapters
Source: NYT
January 5, 2008
DRESDEN, Germany — The battle to prevent construction of a proposed bridge in this historic city has embroiled everything from a tiny endangered bat, to the country’s reigning literary lion, Günter Grass, to activists who are staging a round-the-clock occupation of a centuries-old beech tree.
Opponents of the project say that the four-lane, 2,100-foot-long span, called the Waldschlösschen Bridge, will mar the famous vistas of Dresden and the picturesque river that divides it, the El
Source: AP
January 4, 2008
Hooded men with machine guns burst into a Lima tenement and killed 15 people at a barbecue, including an 8-year-old boy, two survivors of the 1991 attack testified Friday at the murder trial of former President Alberto Fujimori.
Fujimori, 69, is facing up to 30 years in prison for allegedly ordering the massacre and the 1992 killings of nine university students and a professor. He is also charged with ordering the kidnappings of a prominent journalist and a businessman.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 7, 2008
An amateur British military historian has unearthed a vast underground Nazi gun battery complex thought to have caused carnage during the D-Day landings.
Gary Sterne, 43, discovered the huge "Maisy Battery" after he found a crinkled map which fell out of an old pair of US serviceman's trousers at a military memorabilia fair in Stockport.
It turned out to be an invasion map for Omaha Beach, which included an area marked "area of high resistance". Mr S
Source: George McGovern in an op ed in the WaPo
January 6, 2008
As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.
After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeate
Source: Yorkshire Post
December 31, 2007
ONCE they were spectacular resting places to honour the dead.
But with pagan Britain's conversion to Christianity, the Bronze Age burial mounds came to be regarded with suspicion as places where devils and dragons lurked.
It was at one such site in East Yorkshire that the Anglo-Saxons chose to bury the worst kind of criminals, away from hallowed ground, leaving their heads to rot on stakes.
The latest archaeological techniques have now thrown a new light on an ee
Source: Midlothian Advertiser
January 3, 2008
AN unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water's site at Glencorse, near Penicuik — a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old.
The revelation has provided another clue as to how the Romans organised their occupation of the Lothians.
It had not been confirmed whether the site was, in fact, a Roman marching camp, which had previously only been suggested by aerial photographs.
Scottish Water's stakeholder manager for the Glencorse Water Treatme
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 2, 2008
Even the great fictional traveller Phileas Fogg would have baulked at such a wager: walk around the world while pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, and pick up a wife along the way without ever letting her see your face or know your name.
Just to make it a little more interesting, you can set off with only one change of underwear and £1 in your pocket and your sole source of income must be the sale of postcards.
Harry Bensley accepted the wager with John Pierrepoin
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 3, 2008
Essays by a Victorian doctor, who was struck off for claiming that smoking was bad for the health, are to be published again.
Dr Thomas Allinson's letters, first published in 1893, were so controversial that the General Medical Council struck him off a year later.
Dr Allinson grew up in Manchester and qualified as a doctor from Edinburgh University in 1881. When he opened a GP's surgery in south London he noticed the poor quality of life for many people.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 3, 2008
Essays by a Victorian doctor, who was struck off for claiming that smoking was bad for the health, are to be published again.
Dr Thomas Allinson's letters, first published in 1893, were so controversial that the General Medical Council struck him off a year later.
Dr Allinson grew up in Manchester and qualified as a doctor from Edinburgh University in 1881. When he opened a GP's surgery in south London he noticed the poor quality of life for many people.
Source: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk
January 2, 2008
THE twisted and melted remains of a road sign from the Japanese city of Hiroshima, picked up by a sailor in the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb, has been uncovered at an auctioneers' day.
The road sign was seen during a valuation tour in Fairford by antiques experts Moore Allen & Innocent.
The event, which ran for an hour longer than scheduled, raised £380 for Fairford and Lechlade Carers Support Group.
Source: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk
January 2, 2008
THE twisted and melted remains of a road sign from the Japanese city of Hiroshima, picked up by a sailor in the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb, has been uncovered at an auctioneers' day.
The road sign was seen during a valuation tour in Fairford by antiques experts Moore Allen & Innocent.
The event, which ran for an hour longer than scheduled, raised £380 for Fairford and Lechlade Carers Support Group.
Source: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk
January 2, 2008
THE twisted and melted remains of a road sign from the Japanese city of Hiroshima, picked up by a sailor in the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb, has been uncovered at an auctioneers' day.
The road sign was seen during a valuation tour in Fairford by antiques experts Moore Allen & Innocent.
The event, which ran for an hour longer than scheduled, raised £380 for Fairford and Lechlade Carers Support Group.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 3, 2008
As an arch propagandist, Adolf Hitler was happy to see his life recorded in dark shades of grey.
The Nazi leader believed that traditional black and white photographs best highlighted the sinister nature of his regime, presenting dramatic images which were both powerful and menacing.
Now, however, an altogether more colourful view of the Fuhrer has emerged.
More than 62 years after his death in a Berlin bunker, images from a newly opened Paris archive show
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 2, 2008
A businessman has spent almost seven years restoring a Spitfire from thousands of parts.
But Martin Phillips, 47, admits that he is still a long way from realising his dream of seeing the aircraft from the Second World War take to the skies again.
"I had a five-year plan, but that is shot - we are looking at another one or two years before it is finished," he said.
Source: Deutsche Welle
December 22, 2007
Munich is seeking to critically confront its past as the so-called capital of the Nazi movement with a new documentation center. Located in the former Nazi headquarters, the center is intended to be a place of learning.
It was in Munich that the National Socialist movement gained ground following the trauma of World War I. A young Adolf Hitler staged a failed coup in the conservative Bavarian capital in 1923 and after coming to power in 1933, the Nazi leader chose Munich as the head
Source: Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists
January 2, 2008
On December 31 President Bush signed into law the "Openness Promotes
Effectiveness in our National (OPEN) Government Act of 2007," which
amends the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).http://www.fas.orgThe new law makes several constructive procedural changes in the FOIA
to encourage faster agency response times, to enable requesters to
track the status of their requests, to expand the basis for
Source: NYT
December 31, 2007
It was a year of trauma for the nation, and of foreboding for New York City. In 1963, the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, New Yorkers were feeling strains in the urban fabric: Affluent families fled to the suburbs, job losses mounted among old-line manufacturers, and 548 people were killed.
As 2007 draws to a close, it seems very likely that there will be fewer than 500 killings in the city (as of Sunday evening, there had been 492) for the first time since rel
Source: http://www.wnbc.com
January 1, 2008
New Jersey would become the first northern state and the fifth state overall to apologize for slavery under a measure to be considered this week by state lawmakers.
"This is not too much to ask of the state of New Jersey," said Assemblyman William Payne, who sponsors the bill. "All that is being requested of New Jersey is to say three simple words: We are sorry."
Legislators in Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia have issued formal slavery apolo
Source: AP
December 31, 2007
Hampton Mansion has plenty of historical and architectural significance. All it needs is a higher profile.
The mansion, maintained by the National Park Service, is considered one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in the country. It's one of just a handful of plantation homes with extant slave quarters. With 25,000 square feet of living space, it was the largest private home in the U.S. when it was completed in 1790.
Hampton sits on 63 acres just outside th
