October 28, 2004

Teen pregnancy rates down from decades ago CBC News - One-third fewer teenagers were pregnant in 2001 than three decades earlier, according to Statistics Canada.   Pregnancies among women under the age of 20 fell from 45.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 women in 1974, to 30.6 in 2001.  3:34:25 PM

Fewer Surfers Perusing For Porn CBS - Internet users are doing far fewer searches for sex and pornography and more for e-commerce and business than they were seven years ago, University of Pittsburgh and Penn State researchers say in a new book. "Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997, now it's about 5 percent," said Amanda Spink, the University of Pittsburgh professor who co-authored "Web Search: Public Searching of the Web" with Penn State professor Bernard J. Jansen.   12:54:42 PM

Ailing Arafat 'Being Taken To Paris' As he was leaving, he was heard to say: " Someone save my seat.  No really I mean it, I will be back.  Save my seat." 11:35:42 AM

Experts warn of Internet flu vaccine scam. Although the United States is experiencing a shortage of flu vaccines this fall, don't be so eager for one that you're duped into purchasing it online. [InfoWorld: Top News] I told you the Flu Shot spam was coming! 9:45:20 AM

India uses Canada as back-door to U.S. software industry MetroNews - The United States could soon have another reason to blame Canada. As U.S. lawmakers look for ways to discourage the outsourcing of high-paying software jobs to low-cost markets such as India, more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada. 9:13:58 AM

Michael Totten, part of the guest team of bloggers at Instapundit this week says: BAD PUPPETS: ABC news reports that Iraqi officials may have overstated (if you’ll allow me to understate it) the amount of explosives that went missing from al Qa Qaa. 377 tons of RDX? Try 3. [T]he confidential IAEA documents obtained by ABC News show that on Jan. 14, 2003, the agency's inspectors recorded that just over 3 tons of RDX was stored at the facility — a considerable discrepancy from what the Iraqis reported. Why would Iraqi officials overstate it by more 10,000 percent? Some puppets they’ve turned out to be. 9:07:10 AM

The Washington Times is reporting that Russian Special Forces  removed Saddam's missing explosives in the weeks before the war. Idiot Saddam should have hitched a ride. I remember the caravan to Syria, with the Russian ambassador. I thought for sure they were sneaking Saddam. "Save the weapons of medium destruction, don't worry about me."  9:04:16 AM