Monday, 21 April 2003
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" 89 cities have passed resolutions condemning... " 89 cities have passed resolutions condemning the Patriot Act" [Daypop Top 40] Bravo
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Other News: Apple Music Distribution Debut Look for the debut of Apple's unannounced music distribution service, along with new iPods, on Monday, April 28. [MacInTouch]
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Iraqi clerics challenge US rule Thousands of Shia Muslims stage an anti-US protest as the new US administrator considers how to rebuild Baghdad. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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Nina Simone, Jazz Singer, Dies Nina Simone's raspy, forceful voice helped define the civil rights movement. She was 70. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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CBC News - Reality Check: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? 'Why is it taking so long to find them? Some suggest it's because so many weapons were destroyed before the war.
Ron Cleminson, a Canadian member of the UN weapons inspection commission, says, "We knew we had 817 of 819 scuds; we had destroyed 40,000 chemical weapons."
In other words, the inspections were working, something the UN inspectors were insisting just two weeks before the war started.'
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CBC News:Winnipeg resident to lead WSO '"We at the WSO are very pleased to find not only a promising young conductor, but a promising, young, female conductor who is from Winnipeg," said WSO Music Director, Andrey Boreyko.'
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CBC News: Man dies after SARS delays surgery 'The SARS outbreak has put a strain on Ontario's health-care system, forcing staff to delay or cancel a number of services. The provincial government has said resumption of cancer treatment is a priority.'
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CBC News: 'Belligerent' SARS worker puts public at risk 'The health-care professional who has endangered others isn't being co-operative, according to Kassam, and has become "obnoxious," "threatening" and "belligerent" when confronted by public health staff.
"This person was a health-care official. I'm not sure why this individual did what he did. My staff is still following up."'
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CBC News: U.S. to help Canada in SARS fight 'A senior epidemiologist and two environmental experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are expected to arrive in Toronto Tuesday to help figure out why hospital workers are getting sick despite their precautions against SARS.'
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ProSoundNews Online Daily - Acura Concept TL Debuts at Auto Show with DVD-A System 'Inside, the Concept TL features the world's first (according to Acura) automotive application of multichannel DVD-Audio. Other interior innovations include Bluetooth wireless telephone conductivity and XM satellite radio.'
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NeXT still stands out in its Mac incarnation Dan Gillmor: “Software developers loved what they could create with the NeXT platform. And for many, OS X has meant a phoenix-like rebirth.” [Ranchero.com]
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Breastfeeding Now Considered Pornographic America - land of the free. And to guarantee that freedom, everyone has to be constantly watchful. Like the photo store clerk from Eckerd who dutifully reported a Peruvian-born couple's lewd shots of their infants to the Richardson (Dallas/Texas suburbs) police. The photos showed the parents' two infants bathing naked, lying together in bed with their mother (again naked) and the 1-year-old Rodrigo suckling his mother's (naked) breast. So the couple was arrested -- the maximum prison sentence for the crime in question being 20 years -- and the children taken away. Thomas Korosec has the details in his Dallas Observer article. [Kuro5hin.org] God help us
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Times Online 'THE rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, which inspired America during one of the most difficult periods of the war, was not the heroic Hollywood story told by the US military, but a staged operation that terrified patients and victimised the doctors who had struggled to save her life, according to Iraqi witnesses.'
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US 'to keep bases in Iraq' The US is planning a long-term military presence in Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO World: The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating. [Guardian Unlimited]
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