] CLINICAL trials will start next week on a novel
] technology which, if successful, could produce an
] alternative HIV/AIDS treatment and could bring
] researchers closer to finding a cure for the disease.
]
] ...
] The technology is based on radiation and is not invasive
] as is the case with treatments such as drugs or vaccines.
] It is claimed to induce breaks in the genome of the HI
] virus.

Clinical Trials to Start On Novel Technology to Treat HIV/Aids

] Japanese video game giant Nintendo announced Friday that
] it has sold more than 800,000 units of its new version of
] the Game Boy since the portable game player went on sale
] in North America two weeks ago. The Game Boy Advance SP
] improves on the original Game Boy Advance by adding an
] illuminated screen, a built-in rechargeable battery and a
] folding clamshell design that protects the screen when
] not in use.

I still need to buy mine, but my cell phone keeps me entertained with its BREW-based Java engine.

Sales brisk for new Game Boy

] Microsoft is the latest victim of leaked software being
] circulated on the Web.
]
] A preview version of it Microsoft MSN 8.5 is now
] available on the Internet, but its content is not being
] sanctioned by the company. Microsoft is engaged in a
] pitch battle with AOL Time Warner in the market for the
] most improved broadband software, and both companies are
] trying to innovate their software to gain a competitive
] advantage over the other.

MSN 8.5 Beta Software Leaked

] Michael Kelly, 46, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large
] and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of
] editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been
] killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the
] Army's 3rd Infantry Division.
]
] Kelly, the first American journalist killed in the war,
] had also served as editor of the New Republic and
] National Journal. But his decision to join up with U.S.
] forces marked a return to his reporting roots, since he
] covered the first Persian Gulf War as a magazine
] freelancer and turned his observations into a book,
] "Martyrs' Day."

One of our own.

Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq

] A nine-meter-tall carnivorous dinosaur probably wouldn't
] need much help establishing a ferocious reputation. But
] researchers writing in the journal Nature have discovered
] another trait of the species Majungatholus atopus that is
] sure to do just that. It seems that this dinosaur, which
] roamed Madagascar between 65 and 70 million years ago,
] was a cannibal.

It's a Dinosaur-eat-dinosaur world out there

] Three tour buses taking Maryland high school students to
] Walt Disney World crashed in a chain reaction collision
] northeast of Orlando Friday morning -- injuring 59 of the
] students, nine of them seriously, Florida state police
] said.

My prayers go out for the family and friends of all of the students.

Collision injures 59 students on way to Disney World

] Where is BountyQuest when you need it? The company,
] founded in 2000 and backed by Amazon CEO
] Jeff Bezos, offered cash rewards to individuals who could
] prove or disprove a company's claim to a patent. Amazon
] itself found its patent on one-click ordering called into
] question on the site. But BountyQuest is apparently no
] more, its Web site shut down, its phones disconnected.
]
] Meanwhile, Amazon.com has filed for a patent involving
] online advertising, stoking the ire of many industry
] watchers. The company wants to stake its claim to a
] method of allocating online ad space via real-time
] auctions. But many are questioning whether this concept
] originated with Amazon, noting that the idea was
] discussed frequently during the dot-com boom.
]
] Is there anything to Amazon's claim, or is this another
] instance of the company patenting the obvious, as it did
] with affiliate programs and one-click ordering?

The Case of Amazon's Newest Patent Battle

] It provoked protests from privacy advocates and
] high-flying executives. People boycotted and bad-mouthed
] it.
]
] People from all corners hate the idea of the
] passenger-profiling system called Computer Assisted
] Passenger Pre-Screening II program, better known as CAPPS
] II.
]
] But CAPPS II is not travelers' biggest privacy threat,
] according to Edward Hasbrouck, a travel agent and author.
] CAPPS II is only one possible use -- and perhaps not the
] most invasive -- of the Transportation Security
] Administration's proposed Aviation Security Screening
] Records database.

Double plus ungood.

Traveling? Take Big Brother Along

] Later, Abu Dhabi television broadcast videotape showing a
] man who appeared to be Saddam walking through excited
] crowds. The Jordanian Embassy told CNN's Nic Robertson
] that the scenes appeared to have been shot on the western
] outskirts of Baghdad. Another man seen on the tape
] appeared to be Abid Hamoud, Saddam's press secretary.

Perhaps next we will see Elvis walking beside him.;)

CNN.com - Saddam: 'Hit them hard' - Apr. 4, 2003

] The Web portal Lycos reported that "Al-Jazeera" and
] variant spellings became its top search term last week,
] with three times more searches than "sex."

'Al-Jazeera' more popular than 'sex'