July 2, 2004

IQ Test Discrimination Calif. law prevents black students from taking intelligence exam. The United States may have come a long way in the fight against institutionalized racism but in California, black children are still being denied access to an important educational tool. Pamela Lewis wanted to have her 6-year-old son Nicholas take a standardized IQ test to determine if he qualifies for special education speech therapy. Officials at his school routinely provide the test to kids but as Lewis soon found out, not to children who are black, due to a statewide policy that goes back to 1979.  [ FOX News ] 2:22:02 PM

BBC News Cyclosarin is said to be five times deadlier than sarin Polish Troops Find Sarin Warheads FOX News - Terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq, the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday. Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw. 1:35:45 PM

Microsoft putting final touches on Windows update. TechEd attendees have mixed feelings on XP SP2. One compliments its "pop-up killer." Another calls integration a "major pain." [CNET News.com] 11:15:37 AM

Saddam guilty as hell: Iraqis news.com.au - The court proceedings against deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may be only just beginning, but already the people's verdict - clear-eyed, cool, unrelenting - is in. At an easygoing teahouse on Abdul Jafar Street in south Baghdad, proprietor Hashem, gap-toothed and determined, weighs his words with care: "We want to see justice. We want the law to be applied to Saddam. Of course many Iraqis think he should be killed - we lived through 35 years of his dreadful regime.  10:31:10 AM

CJ at Up For Anything has posted the details of the charges against Saddam. 9:09:26 AM

When the head of the U.N.'s Oil-for- Food program got a copy of a letter in October 2002 suggesting that a bribe had been paid to Saddam Hussein's cronies as part of the (oil for food) program, what do you think was the first thing he did? If you guessed "informed the authorities, particularly his employers at the Security Council" — guess again. According to a report Monday on Fox News Channel (a Post sister company), the program's director, Benon Sevan, took the letter and went directly to . . . Saddam.  [ NY Post ] 8:38:34 AM