Looking at The Media continues
Fossil May Show Ape-Man Ancestor
Bones Found in Spain Are Called Landmark in Evolution
Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbling creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans, according to a report published today. - The Washington Post - 19 November 2004
Pentagon to warn bases on Scouts
ACLU lawsuit trigger action
The Pentagon has agreed to warn military bases worldwide that they should not directly sponsor Boy Scout troops, partially resolving accusations that the government has improperly supported a group that requires members to believe in God... - The Washington Times - 16 November 2004
Montgomery Expands Sex-Ed
- 10th-Graders to See Video on Condoms
Sex education in Montgomery County public schools will be broadened to include a pilot program that discusses homosexuality and the use of a video that shows 10th-graders how to put on a condom... - The Washington Post - 10 November 2004
Maker Removes Generic AIDS Drugs From Approved List
A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its anti-retroviral medications from the World Health Organization's list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment...tests used to show that its generic AIDS drugs were as effective as the brand-name versions were unreliable or poorly documented...
This action, however, is another obstacle in the difficult effort to put 3 million people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in poor countries on anti-retroviral therapy by the end of 2005... - The Washington Post - 10 November 2004
Students simulate driving while drunk
- Cops give teens sobering lesson
A few Montgomery County high school students yesterday had a lesson on drinking and driving - only without the hangover or the risks... A couple of students drove the course... wearing special goggles that simulate the vision and balance distortion of someone who is legally drunk...program in response to the high number of traffic deaths among... high school students this year... - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
Parents take evolution warning to trial
- Sticker on Atlanta biology textbooks seen as church-state violation
A trial opened yesterday over whether a warning sticker in Atlanta biology textbooks that says evolution is "a theory, not a fact" violates the separation of church and state by promoting religion... - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
Bombs, vandals damage Muslim buildings
- Van Gogh's slaying may be cause
A bomb damaged an Islamic primary school in the southern Dutch town of Eindhoven yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim buildings since last week's slaying of a filmmaker critical of Islam. - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
Twit for tat
It's been exactly one week since Election Day, and Americans who can't stomach for more years of President Bush are drawing blueprints for Canada - or perhaps Ireland. "the electorate that decided to give the stupid, little twit four more years will get what it deserves..."Tom Madigan, coordinator of media and press relations for the Irish American Unity Conference (IAUC)...
Mr. Madigan clarified that his remarks "were my own private thoughts and are categorically not any official statement by the IAUC." - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
Woman accused of sex with boy, 8
A woman faces charges of having sex with an 8-year old boy whom investigators said she considered her boyfriend... was arrested and charged with sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor... - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
Democratic Party must be 'born again,' Carville says
Democratic strategist James Carville said yesterday that the Democratic Party's losses last Tuesday were no fluke, and that they need to rethink exactly who they are and provide something more than a litany of policy proposals...He said Mr. Bush and Republicans presented ...a narrative-"we're going to protect you from the terrorists in Tikrit and from the homos in Hollywood, That's it, he said"... - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
McGreevey bids farewell
- Governor 'sorry' for disappointing N.J. residents
... yesterday delivered a farewell address in which he said he does not apologize "for being a gay American, but rather for having let personal feelings impact my decision-making."...It was reported that he had a homosexual affair with a man he hired to head New Jersey's Homeland Security department... - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
States lining up to outlaw same-sex 'marriage'
- Nine proposing constitutional amendments to go before voters
The next round of proposals to amend state constitutions to define marriage will begin in a few weeks as lawmakers in as many as nine states promise to get such measures before voters. - The Washington Post - 9 November 2004
Man Arrested in Protest At Church to Be Closed
A parishioner was arrested for refusing to leave a church targeted for closure by the Boston Archdiocese as part of a restructuring... was charged with trespassing after he was removed Saturday night from Immaculate Conception Church...The restructuring was prompted in part by economic trouble caused by the clergy sex abuse scandal. - The Washington Post - 8 November 2004
Georgia Man Commits Suicide at Ground Zero
The Georgia man who killed himself at Ground Zero was upset about President Bush's reelection-but his biggest problem may have been his double life,...engaged to be married to an Iowa college student...But also had a girlfriend in Athens, where he lived, sources said...He was found...lying inside the gated and guarded perimeter of Ground Zero. - The Washington Post - 8 November 2004
Sudanese Rape Victims Find Justice Blind to Plight
The breeze ruffled Katuma Abdullah Adam's green scarf as the sheik and his helpers slowly poured water over her head. Once, twice, three times they repeated the ritual as the pregnant 15-year old wept in shame. "You can now enter paradise'" the sheik said, ushering Katuma inside a dark hut so her swollen body could also be washed, along with her nose and mouth, as a symbolic cleansing of the sin she had suffered...
raped and impregnated by an Arab militia fighter...in the war-torn region of Darfur, this shamanistic cure was the only form of redemption available in a situation where legal justice is elusive,... - The Washington Post - 8 November 2004
Gay Blacks Feeling Strained Church Ties
- Same-sex Marriage Debate Has Put 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Relationship Under Scrutiny
On the Sunday that a minister preached that God did not love people like her, Jacquelyn Holland wanted to storm out of the church. But she sat and listened to the sermon, even as her homosexual orientation was called "an abomination" and equated with "murder, a heinous crime," Holland said.
This person just eliminated me, "Holland, 46, said of the preacher she heard two years ago. Holland is now a minister in Unity Fellowship Church of Christ in Newark, which accepts people of all sexual orientations. She was one of many people a Unity-sponsored conference of black gay, lesbian and transgender Christians here who said such sermons are common in mainstream black places of worship... - The Washington Post - 2 November 2004
French Push Limits in Flght On Terrorism
- Wide Prosecutorial Powers Draw Scant Public Dissent
In many countries of Europe, former inmates of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been relishing their freedom. In Spain, Demark and Britian, recently released detainees have railed in public about their treatment in Guantanamo, winning sympathy for local politicians and newspapers. The Sweden, the government has agreed to help one Guantanamo verteran sue his American captors for damages.
Not so in France, where four prisoners from the U.S. naval base were arrested as soon as they arrived home in July, and haven't been heard from since. Under French law, they could remain locked up for as long as three years while authorities decide whether to put them on trial-... - The Washington Post - 2 November 2004
List names 2,600 priests accused of child abuse
A lawyer has compiled a list of 2,600 Roman Catholic priests nationwide who have been accused of sexual misconduct against children and plans to post it online by early next year... - The Anne Arundel Sun - 1 November 2004
Captors urge foreign troops to leave Afghanistan
Militants released a video yesterday showing three frightened foreign U.N. hostages and threatened to kill them unless United Nations and British troops leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are freed from U.S. jails... - The Anne Arundel Sun - 1 November 2004
Obama may become first black senator with clout
Barack Obama - who, just a year ago, was a little-known state senator from the South Side of Chicago - is gaining the rock star status that envelops politicians who exude a certain charm and charisma. Like Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, he draws cheering, clapping throngs who want to share a photo, get an autograph, touch the hem of his garment... - The Anne Arundel Sun - 1 November 2004
Strip club exploring building's historical status
The owners of a downtown strip club where Babe Ruth's father once tended bar have hired a Frederick preservation firm to investigate the building's historical significance...attempt to hold onto the building... - The Anne Arundel Sun - 1 November 2004