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: Independent (UK)
October 2, 2006
New Zealand police are to "re-examine" the Rainbow Warrior affair after an allegation that the bomb which destroyed the Greenpeace ship in 1985 was planted by the brother of the French presidential front-runner, Ségolène Royal.
The New Zealand government said, however, that it was "unlikely" that the investigation of the attack on the ship by French government agents would be formally reopened.
The fact that Lieutenant Gérard Royal, of the French in
Source: Independent (UK)
October 2, 2006
First the music was rehabilitated, then the fashions and recently even the food.
Now 1970s perfumes and aftershaves are making a comeback, as a new generation discovers the somewhat questionable joys of Charlie, Brut and Old Spice.
Sales of so-called "heritage scents" are increasing, particularly among younger customers, according to market research by the high-street chain Superdrug.
Source: Independent (UK)
October 2, 2006
They were the iPods, ornaments and Ikea sofas of their day: the everyday gadgets and household items that lived alongside - and in some cases inspired - Renaissance Italy's finest artists.
This week, the Victoria and Albert Museum unveils an exhibition dedicated to the little-known domestic world in which Donatello, Carpaccio, Botticelli and Titian first picked up their paintbrushes. Some of their most important paintings will be displayed in a gallery adapted to recreate the afflu
Source: AP
December 31, 2069
Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire — the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.
The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage.
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Source: Chicago Tribune
September 30, 2006
There is nothing like a little glamor to draw a crowd.
In fact, the newly remodeled Chicago History Museum is banking on it.
The Chicago Historical Society reopens Saturday after a 10-month renovation with a new name and, for the first time in a long time, a permanent venue to show off one of the largest costume collections in the nation.
Costume exhibits are popular attractions and almost always spark an increase in attendance, a fact that isn't lost on th
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 2, 2006
Hundreds of Victorian school buildings are at risk under a Government policy that favours demolition over refurbishment, heritage campaigners say.
The buildings, many constructed in the early days of free education, are often structurally sound but need some work to fit them for modern needs.
Campaigners say they were built to higher standards than post-war schools but fear that they will be lost under the Building Schools for the Future programme, which aims to rebuild or r
Source: National Security Archive
October 1, 2006
The National Security Archive at George Washington University, in collaboration with Proceso magazine, publishes today a list of names of the men and women killed in the October 2, 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico, based exclusively on declassified Mexican intelligence files. In order to continue gathering evidence about the victims of Tlatelolco, the Archive also launches today a new Web link, where families, friends and colleagues of those who died during the massacre can register additional
Source: PhysOrg.com
September 27, 2006
A team of researchers that includes scholars from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is using computerized analysis of the writing of William Shakespeare to dispel lingering doubts about his authorship of many works and to trace the outlines of his total body of compositions.
Using a method called computational stylistics, the researchers count the frequency of common words, and rare words, to detect Shakespeare’s writing style, producing his distinct and unmistakable “literar
Source: Deutsche Welle
September 29, 2006
The skeletons of 20 children and five adults believed to be victims of the Nazi euthanasia program have been found in a mass grave in western Germany, officials said Thursday.
The bones of 20 children were discovered this week during excavation work at a cemetery in the German town of Menden, close to where a World War II hospital run by Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt was located.
Source: Weston Mercury
September 28, 2006
ARCHAEOLOGISTS will soon be uncovering a rare Iron Age settlement in a North Somerset village.
The ancient site at Goblin Combe Environmental Centre in Cleeve is the only known Iron Age settlement in Britain not to have been dug up.
The trees and plants currently covering the site will be cleared this winter in preparation for a team of archaeologists to study the site in detail.
Source: Reuters
September 24, 2006
NAZCA, Peru — High priests at an ancient religious compound in southern Peru may have designed the mysterious Nazca lines, a set of huge geometric patterns, animal figures and long lines etched in the desert, the area's top archaeologist said.
Researchers say the Cahua-chi compound, built in 400 B.C., is just across the Nazca Valley from the lines, one of Peru's most popular tourist attractions and a U.N. World Heritage site.
"It is logical to think that the Nazca people's rel
Source: icwales.icnetwork.co.uk
September 24, 2006
YOU think your man is a neanderthal, research by a leading DNA expert may mean you're closer to the truth than you ever realised.
Prehistoric man died out in the UK 30,000 years ago.
But Bryan Sykes, a professor of human genetics at Oxford University, says the last of the real neanderthal bloodline could have been carried by a pair of Mid Wales twins who died in the 1980s.
It could make the brothers the missing link between ancient and modern man.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
September 30, 2006
It was a brisk day on Alcatraz a few years ago when William Isaac Radkay began warming up the crowd the old-fashioned way during a reunion of former guards and prisoners -- by spinning yarns.
The rakish former pal of George "Machine Gun" Kelly told how he once took six slugs in his backside for not stopping when police yelled "Halt." He decided to keep them, he quipped, "for posterity."
"I was on the top 10 list and didn't even know
Source: BBC
October 1, 2006
Scientists are to begin work on the second phase of a project aimed at piecing together the history of human colonisation in Britain.
Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Phase two has now secured funds to the tune of £1m and will run until 2010.
Team members hope to find out more about Britain's earliest settlers and perhaps unearth their fossil rem
Source: Guardian
September 29, 2006
In September 1909, two women seen honing their skills at a shooting range caused panic in the British government and fears of a plot to assassinate the prime minister, according to documents released today.
The government and police records, released by the National Archives in Kew, reveal that an informant had warned that the women were members of the suffragette movement - the "half-insane women" then picketing the House of Commons to demand votes for women - and that o
Source: NYT
October 1, 2006
The past caught up with Sandor Kepiro, 92, on Thursday, when the Simon Wiesenthal Center identified him as a junior police officer who was twice found guilty of participating in one of the worst atrocities committed by Hungarian forces during World War II.
At a news conference at a synagogue opposite Mr. Kepiro’s apartment here, members of the Wiesenthal Center ended what for him had been 60 years of relative anonymity as they issued copies of a recently rediscovered wartime court v
Source: NYT
October 1, 2006
Colin L. Powell, in his last face-to-face meeting with President Bush before stepping down as secretary of state in January 2005, tried to impress upon him one last time the dangers he saw the United States facing in Iraq, according to a new Powell biography.
The insurgency was growing and the country was spiraling into sectarian bloodshed, Mr. Powell warned. Elections in Iraq would not solve the problems, and the president’s ability to act decisively was being crippled by divisions
Source: NYT
October 1, 2006
It has been a quarter-century since a group of self-styled freedom fighters, including Judith A. Clark, carried out an armored-car robbery in Rockland County, N.Y.
The holdup was a final eruption of Vietnam-era extremism and a shattering event for Rockland County, which lost two local police officers and a Brink’s guard.
The deep wounds left by that crime were reopened three years ago when Kathy Boudin, who served as a decoy in a getaway car, won parole.
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Source: Email to HNN from Meredith Woods
September 29, 2006
Due to copyright issues, the series has not been seen on public television
since the mid-1990s or available for video distribution, but finally through
renewed funding from the Ford Foundation and the Gilder Foundation, EYES will be
re-broadcast this October on three successive Monday nights on public television
as part of the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on OCTOBER 2, 9, 16 at 9 pm.
CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS. Programs 1 and 2 will air as a two-hour block
and the same is true for the rest
Source: Houston Chronicle
September 29, 2006
High-tech detective work apparently has found the missing "a" in one of the most famous phrases ever spoken.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong's first words from the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, now can be confidently recast, according to the research, as, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
It is the more dramatic and grammatically correct phrasing that Armstrong, now 76, has often said was the version he transmitted to NA
