This just in (CNN.com – Judge: Scientists can study Kennewick Man – August 30, 2002)
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A federal judge Friday ordered the U.S. government to let scientists study the bones of Kennewick Man, an ancient skeleton that could offer rare clues to how the first people arrived in America.
The 9,300-year-old bones have [...]
The Courier Mail: ADD is not a real condition: report [ 31aug02 ]
THE legitimacy of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder as a medical condition is questioned in a new report.
The report, commissioned by the Youth Affairs Network of Queensland, has called for a moratorium on and inquiry into the use of the amphetamine-based drugs Ritalin [...]
ESPN.com: MLB – No strike: Players, MLB agree on deal
NEW YORK — With little time to spare, baseball negotiators who talked through the night reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract that averted a strike threatened for Friday.
World Series saved, now on to Iraq.
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Get your red-hot World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002 materials from the US State Department web site:
Secretary Powell leads a high-level, inter-agency, U.S. delegation to the summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit is being held August 26-September 4, 2002. The following provides reference information on U.S. initiatives, programs, and policies relevant to the [...]
The discussion on the Berman/Coble P2P Hacking Bill and how to stop it is heating up, with posts from Doc Searls, Winer, Ed Cone, and John Adams.
Winer claims he’s not actually endorsed Grubb, but is interested in her campaign only to the extent that it might illustrate something about weblogs and politics:
I have [...]
The worst legislative acts generally come from an infrequently-formed coalition of religious conservatives and ultra-liberals. Since the only thing these groups have in common is a desire to get re-elected, the bills produced by their coalition can generally be counted on to protect the incumbency, to demagogue an issue pertaining to women and children, or [...]
Via Rough&Tumble, a new PPIC poll shows Davis widening his lead:
When Davis outpolls Simon on ethics, you know GOP is in a jam — Score the summer round for Gov. Gray Davis. A new poll shows just how one-sided this contest has been. It’s not merely that Davis leads Bill Simon by 11 percentage points [...]
As soon as we get Hollywood under control, we have to go after the SUVs. This article (More tots being run over, killed / Most such deaths involve big vehicles) explains why:
At least 47 children nationwide have died this year being run over by vehicles, compared with about 41 for all of 2001, said Janette [...]
Internet provider and mega-telecom company Verizon goes toe-to-toe with Hollywood. Read an interview with chief counsel Sarah Deutsch in Tech News – CNET.com
Now consumers have a powerful new ally. Verizon and other telecommunications giants have ordered their phalanx of lobbyists to oppose the entertainment industry’s demands for new copyright laws. The company is also fighting [...]
Greg Knauss isn’t impressed with Dave Winer’s blog campaign to elect Libertarian Party candidate Tara Sue Grubb to Congress:
All this means that Tara Sue Grubb really is the “weblog candidate.” She’s an empty page, capable of being filled in with whatever people like Dave Winer and his philosophical bedmates want to see. He can [...]
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