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April 25 to May 1, 2005
An "alarming number" of young American girls are taking steroids to emulate the look of "models and movie stars": http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/25/
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April 18 to 24, 2005
Another case of copyright law going too far - in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/21/ghana_
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April 11 to 17, 2005
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Scientists are figuring out ways to stimulate neurons remotely with laser beams and are already controlling fruit flies...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Los Alamos
national
Lab scientists find a way to detect fingerprints via their chemical residue...
March 14 to 20, 2005
How fast can mistakes travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test blast called "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an inter
national
inciden...
And here's photos of all those wildflowers that have been blooming in Death Valley lately: http://news.bostonherald.com/
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March 7 to 13, 2005
Is Hawaii turning into a consumption-addicted haven for the wealthy at the expense of long-time residents and native familes? The state's only inter
national
cargo shipping terminal is near capacity...
The blogosphere's raving about 27 year-old Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with pop art and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Boston resident Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His site got 4 million hits, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in inter
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newspaper...
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite inter
national
attention, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the
national
poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
The mating scent of the German cockroach has been found - here's the clever methods scientists used: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/02/17/
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It's true, the Inter
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Monetary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as noted by a former banker in this article mentioned last year...
The grisly story of Manadel al-Jamadi, which just became fully known - he died in Abu Ghraib while hung from his wrists: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/02/17/
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Intricate snow sculptures from the Inter
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Snow Championships 2005...
February 7 to 13, 2005
This may help explain why the Economist has more frontal nudity than all other inter
national
news magazines combined...
GPS technology is killing lighthouses. What will happen if GPS fails? http://service.spiegel.de/cache/inter
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/0,1518,340729,00.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Introducing the spray-on plastic solar cell: http://news.
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geographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.htm...
This was understandably popular - people are worrying about hybrid human/animal experiments, including human/rabbit egg combinations and mice with human brain cells...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The dollar is so weak inter
national
ly that drug dealers are now doing business in Euros...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Professor Francis Boyle, an expert on inter
national
law from the U. of Illinois, recently gave an informative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under inter
national
law...
Interactive charts of the Inter
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Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to every sound that humans use to communicate...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Beautiful photos of all the
national
parks in the U.S....
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
U.S. pressure to try to ban inter
national
work in stem-cell research may mean its end...
The GOP seeks a ban on RU-486, the "abortion pill": http://washingtontimes.com/
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November 8 to 14, 2004
Ever need to do a little research yourself on the latest trends? Just go to Google News and search for a few key phrases, sorted by date. Here are four: "inter
national
survey", "scientifi...
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - a former respected inter
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banker admits to helping the U.S. cheat poor countries out of trillions, allowing for economic takeover...
November 1 to 7, 2004
The above inter
national
news item was originally discovered by blogger Jonas Luster...
This was all over the news - Americans are getting heavier, leading to tons of extra weight and fuel for airlines. And 3.8 million more tons of carbon dioxide in the air...
Because of a clash with federal law, legislation protecting whales from high-speed boats in the Hawaiian Islands
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Marine Sanctuary has been overturned. This may lead to the end of offshor...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"Administration's own actions fuel rumors of draft": http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/
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October 18 to 24, 2004
Nat'l Geographic survey - less than 15% of U.S. 18-to-24 year olds can locate Iraq on a map: http://news.
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geographic.com/news/2002/11/1120_021120_GeoRoperSurvey.htm...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Does anyone know of space for a gymnastics program that "put 11 kids on the
national
team last year"...
About the horrible pollution and cancer-causing rivers in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/inter
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/asia/12china.html?ex=1252641600&en=195e0c8a98b98708&ei=5090&partner=rssuserlan...
September 5 to 12, 2004
It's good to know that some people keep things secret (and sacred). Here's the popular article and its followup: http://www.guardian.co.uk/inter
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/story/0,,1299444,00.htm...
Pictures and personal accounts of arrests and the detention area at the Republican
national
Convention...
"Bush: 'Our Long
national
Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Jewish groups are up in arms about the Christian cross-like podium at the Republican
national
Convention...
Outsourcing Greed http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/01/inter
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August 2 to 8, 2004
The Terror Advisory Map: http://www.
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lampoon.com/terrormap/terrormap.as...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
About the first truly effective shark repellent, A-2: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/30/inter
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A pilot creates a folding electric guitar: http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/
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/2004/07/23/Arts/foldingguitar040723.htm...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Canada's music industry is trying to bill dentists who play music in waiting rooms: http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/
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/2004/07/23/dentist_music040723.htm...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Of all people, William F. Buckley writes about the need for marijuana law reform: http://www.
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review.com/buckley/buckley200406291207.as...
June 21 to 27, 2004
"California sues food companies over mercury levels in canned tuna": http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/21/
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June 7 to 13, 2004
A
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interactive map of power plant pollution impacts. Hey, where's Hawaii...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out" A nice summary of the Society for Information Display's internationa...
May 10 to 16, 2004
A woman lives for almost four months without half her skull due to a "delay" in medical insurance processing: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/05/13/
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May 3 to 9, 2004
* Taiwan's
national
postal service (forcing 1/3 of branches to paper...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The first criminal charges under the nation's "can-spam" laws have been filed: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/04/28/
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April 12 to 18, 2004
Noisy cell phones are becoming a problem in
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parks...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical records and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
February 23 to 29, 2004
A surreal report of Arayanfest 2004, the latest "inter
national
" gathering of white supremacists...
February 9 to 15, 2004
20% of this beer's profits go to the non-profit World Turtle Trust, which is currently financing four inter
national
projects. I tried it recently and it's very good (and I am a beer snob)...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"There has been a dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for internet-related offences in China, according to the London-based rights group Amnesty Inter
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"...
The real story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (inter
national
) conference on next-generation Internet technology - it's the fact that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
"Stress Epidemic Strikes American Forces In Iraq": http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter
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/story/0,6903,1130771,00.htm...
You may have read the articles I mentioned about the rise of "cyberbullies" in school - well, it's gone inter
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January 5 to 11, 2004
Yet another inter
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study on global warming was released - 1/4 of all species could be extinct by 2050? "Global Warming Imperils Species...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
"The fish that threatened
national
security"...
December 22 to 28, 2003
The
national
Park Service is altering footage of demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial, removing anti-war protests and replacing them with pro-war and religious rallies that didn't even occur there...
December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with inter
national
collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
* August 12: First reported at an inter
national
symposium at Fermilab...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson popular) and frequent
national
touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on
national
TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
Details behind the first
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Geographic cover story ever to be completely shot digitally...
November 24 to 30, 2003
"FBI Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies" http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/
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/23FBI.html?ex=1070427600&en=29ec279a46883de9&ei=507...
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
In Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy wrote a nice article on Bush and his attack on the environment: http://rollingstone.com/features/
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affairs/featuregen.asp?pid=215...
November 10 to 16, 2003
"Terror Is A Triple Meat Pizza: Who needs war and evildoers and a big nuclear holocaust? We've got a
national
obesity epidemic...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to
national
security...
September 2, 2003
The incredible story of an Estonian man who lived in the forest for eight years evading the Soviets: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/inter
national
/europe/23FPRO.html?8bl=&pagewanted=all&position...
August 25, 2003
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Public Radi...
August 4, 2003
It is official U.S. policy to encourage people to buy larger, less efficient cars: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after concerns wer...
July 10, 2003
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and Inter
national
Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we manage it." Also, if yo...