A day of worldwide protests against a looming US-led war on Iraq culminates in giant peace rallies in Washington and other US cities. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]
Against Iraq War. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Protesters rallied by the thousands in the bitter cold of Washington on Saturday and in capitals worldwide in a passionate show of dissent against war with Iraq. The cry ``No blood for oil'' echoed from the streets of Pakistan to America's National Mall. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." [Quotes of the Day]