One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 19 May 2004

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Ananova : "A German couple who went...

Ananova: "A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless -- they weren't having sex." [Scripting News]

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Elvin Jones's explosive drumming powered the John Coltrane Quartet, the most influential and controversial jazz ensemble of the 1960's. [New York Times: Arts]

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Education and health upgrades in exchange for tax and deficits [GAM-National]

Lots of new taxes for Ontario residents.

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops pushed further into the besieged Rafah refugee camp on Thursday despite international outrage at its killing of 33 Palestinians, many of them peaceful protestors, in the bloodiest Gaza raid in years. [Reuters: World]

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World: A US helicopter fired on a wedding party in western Iraq today, killing more than 40 people according to Iraqi officials. [Guardian Unlimited]

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At least 10 Palestinians die and 35 others are injured when Israeli forces fire on a crowd protesting the invasion of a Gaza refugee camp. [Guardian Unlimited]

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' special human rights envoy for the occupied territories said on Wednesday that Israeli military strikes against a Gaza refugee camp were war crimes and a violation of humanitarian law. [Reuters: World]

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Controversy aside, the new Michael Moore film is a fine documentary [TIME's Top Stories] 'Politicians reward their biggest contributors, and the Bushes are no exceptions. Fifteen of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudis; but when Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador who is close to the First Family, dined with the President in the White House two days after the attacks, the mood was collegial, not angry. In the Iraqi ramp-up and occupation, the Administration has rewarded its Saudi and Texas supporters with billions in rebuilding contracts. As Blaine Ober, president of an armored vehicle company, tells Moore: the Iraqi adventure is “good for business, bad for the people.”'

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DVCreators.net has released a DVD-based course on how to light your scenes: DV Enlightenment.... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide]

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Computerworld online news editor Ken Mingis spends some time with the top-end iBook and the entry-level PowerBook and comes away with some surprising conclusions on which is the better buy. [Computerworld Macintosh News]

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Arts: A Stradivarius cello said to be worth $2m narrowly escapes conversion into a CD rack after being stolen three weeks ago. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The cello is one of only 60 by the 17th century luthier Antonio Stradivari still in existence. The LA Times says it was found by a nurse, Melanie Stevens, three days after a musician from the Philarmonic left it on his front step after coming home tired one Saturday night. She gave it to her boyfriend, a carpenter, who offered to turn it into a CD rack.'

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Randy Johnson, at 40, the oldest pitcher to pitch a perfect game, faced 27 batters at Atlanta's Turner Field and retired all 27. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Wow!

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Edging closer to a direct clash with Microsoft, Google is preparing to introduce powerful search software directly on PC's. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

It's about time. Hope there'll be a Mac client.

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Col. Thomas M. Pappas has reportedly acknowledged that his subordinates directed military policemen to strip Iraqi prisoners naked and to shackle them. [New York Times: International]

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Military lawyers, who had an active role in supervising interrogations in the first Gulf War, have been excluded from them in the current war in Iraq, a human rights lawyer says. [New York Times: International]