The New World Order
- SPECIAL REPORT - George
Bush proclaimed the emergence of a "New World Order" with the defeat of
communism and the advent of globalization. What kind of order is it and who does it
benefit? MIT professor and dissident Noam Chomsky explains it all... (also
in Real Audio/Video)
Officials Want New Forfeiture Bill
- A House bill that would restrict the government's power to confiscate private property
would undermine law enforcement's ability to fight crime, top law enforcement officials
say...
Mexican Star's Sidekick Investigated
- Mexican prosecutors are investigating whether a television host's sidekick was involved
in his gangland-style slaying last month. Mario Rodriguez Bezares was placed under
house arrest Thursday amid concerns he was planning to leave the country...
The Age Factor - "Are some IT professionals
discriminated against because of their age? Despite the serious shortage of qualified IT
staffers, many candidates--particularly engineers and computer programmers--insist they
can't get jobs in the field because of bias against older workers..."
Extent of Inmate Sex Abuse Unknown
- The extent and frequency of federal and state prison guards' sexual abuse of female
prisoners cannot be determined because prisons fail to keep good records of such assaults,
a federal audit found...
Doctors: House Bill Bad for Privacy
- Doctors' groups warned Wednesday that the privacy of a consumer's medical records could
be invaded under a House-passed bill that would allow banks, insurance companies and
brokerages to combine and share information...
Crusades Apology 900 Years Later -
"To most, the Crusades are ancient history. Not to Prince Albrecht zu
Castell-Castell, a descendant of one of the Christian knights who nearly a millennium ago
conquered Jerusalem and massacred Muslims and Jews in the name of God..."
Family Bids Farewell to JFK Jr. -
Family members watched mournfully from the deck of a Navy destroyer Thursday as a brass
quintet played a hymn and the ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister were
cast into the sea, consigned to the depths where they died...
House Passes $792 Billion Tax Cut -
Sounding themes of smaller government and lower taxes, Republicans won narrow House
passage Thursday of a $792 billion, 10-year tax cut that would be the largest since
President Reagan's in 1981...
Kennedy, Airplane Wreckage Located
- The wreckage of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane was located off the coast of Martha's
Vineyard with Kennedy's body still aboard, and the Navy readied a recovery mission,
government officials said today...
U.S. Crime Numbers on Decline -
"Americans were victims of about 8.1 million violent crimes last year, a 7 percent
drop from 1997 and the lowest number reported since the Justice Department began tracking
the figure in 1973..."
WorldNet Warns Users of Scam - Credit
card scammers target the big ISP, which strikes back with a mass e-mail of its own.
AT&T WorldNet has warned its users of an e-mail credit card scam that aims to glean
credit card information...
Analyst: $996B Surpluses by 2010 -
Congress' top fiscal analyst estimated today that excluding Social Security, there will be
$996 billion in budget surpluses over the next decade, close to the round $1 trillion by
which many Republicans want to cut taxes...
Congress e-mails bill to Clinton
- After 30 minutes of congratulating and thanking each other, a dozen Democratic and
Republican lawmakers of both houses crowded around House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate
President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond as they took an electronic pen and ``signed'' the
document on plastic computer screens...
Search for John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane
Suspended - "Hope dimmed late Saturday for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife
and sister-in-law, as darkness descended on the waters off Martha's Vineyard where their
plane went down. Debris washed ashore, but there was no sign of life..."
Kennedys Marked by Success, Tragedy
- They are the country's most enduring celebrities, the closest thing, it's often said, to
American royalty. But if the Kennedys of Massachusetts have helped define modern ambition
and 20th-century success, they've also withstood two generations of televised tears and
premature goodbyes...
JFK Jr.'s Wife Made Her Own Mark -
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was born to privilege and glamour, the beautiful daughter of a
Greenwich, Conn., doctor. That was nothing compared to life in the Kennedy clan...
(Real
Audio Enabled)
JFK Jr.'s Plane Known As Safe - The
Piper Saratoga II HP that disappeared with John F. Kennedy Jr. and two others aboard is
known in the aviation industry as a high-performance airplane with a good safety
record. Nonetheless, flying it at night, in a hazy sky and under visual flight
rules, the reported conditions Friday night, is challenging...
Killer Suspected in 200 Unsolved Cases
- More than 200 murders cases are being reviewed for possible ties to the Mexican drifter
already charged in four slayings and linked with five others, the FBI said Thursday...
Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex - A
clip on last September's conference in Berkeley that drew over 4000 people to discuss and
confront the vast expansion of America's prisons. America has more people in prison than
any country in the world. There are now close to 2 million people behind bars, nearly 75%
of them African American and Latino... (In Real Audio/Video)
Online Racial Divide Grows - "The
disparity between whites and black and Hispanic Americans who own computers and use the
Internet is growing significantly toward a ``racial ravine,'' in many cases even after
accounting for differences in income, the government reported today..."
Why is the Web like an iceberg?
- According to a study conducted by Dr. Steve Lawrence and Dr. C. Lee Giles for the
NEC Research Institute, the Web contains about 800 million pages encompassing about 15
terabytes of data and about 180 million images. Contrary to popular opinion that the Web's
a haven for porn, though, the study found that only 1.5 percent of Web sites contain
pornographic content...
Internet romance ends with suicide
- A Missouri man who came to Maine to pursue a relationship with a woman he had met over
the Internet died after cutting his neck with a chain saw on her front lawn to prove his
love...
McCain makes
pitch for permanent ban on Internet commerce taxation - U.S.
Sen. John McCain on Wednesday brought his call for campaign finance reform to Stanford
University's Hoover Institution, declaring that the current system is ``an elaborate
influence peddling scheme'' that is ``selling the country to the highest bidder.''
Suspect In Shooting Spree Kills
Self - A white supremacist shot and killed himself while being
chased by police for allegedly slaying two men and wounding several others in a string of
drive-by shootings that targeted blacks, Asians and Orthodox Jews...
Living in a Class Apart - I
grew up thinking that there were only two types of black people: those who passed the
"brown paper bag and ruler test"–skin no darker than a paper bag, hair as
straight as a ruler–and those who didn't. In other words, those who were members of
the black elite, and those who weren't...
Cost of Kosovo Conflict Said $4 Billion
- "Waging war with $2 million missiles can run up a quite a tab. So can preserving
peace. NATO's 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia cost the United States as much
as $4 billion, according to private and congressional estimates..."
Bad news delivered more accurately by
e-mail - A new study suggests that the unenviable task of bearing bad news is
easier - and the information gets delivered more accurately - when done by e-mail rather
than face-to-face or on the telephone...
Web companies hellbent on getting
rich quick - Many Internet companies sermonize that, because they are in
their formative evolutionary stages, making money is secondary--if not further down the
priority list. Profits would be the wrong emphasis, they contend...
House Votes on Property Seizures
- "Police would have a tougher time seizing private property with suspected links to
crime under a bill the House passed Thursday..."
Broker Vanishes With Clients' $3B
- A money manager has vanished with as much as $3 billion in clients' money,
leaving behind a things-to-do list (item No. 1: ``Launder money'') and astrological charts
designed to answer such pressing questions as ``Will I go to prison?''
The Famous "It's not about Sex"
letter to the President - It's not about sex. If it were
about sex, you would be long gone. Just like a doctor, attorney or teacher who had
sex with a patient, client or student half his age, you would have violated the ethics of
your office and would be long gone...
