] cientists who study AIDS and other sexually transmitted
] diseases say they have been warned by federal health
] officials that their research may come under unusual
] scrutiny by the Department of Health and Human Services
] or by members of Congress, because the topics are
] politically controversial.

Yuck!

Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say

] bill that Congress recently passed setting up a national
] alert system for child abductions includes provisions
] that have created an uproar among federal judges and
] legal scholars because they limit judicial discretion in
] sentencing criminals.

This is seriously bad news!

Crime Bill Would Curb Judges' Powers

I really don't know how to describe this. It's just really strange. Strange flash entertainment.

Warning: very psychedelic!

flashback

] NEW YORK, April 15 (UPI) -- Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet
] guru of low-carb, high-protein fame, died Thursday at
] Cornell University Medical Center from injuries received
] earlier this month when he fell.
]
] Atkins, 72, was on his daily walk to work when he fell on
] an icy sidewalk outside his New York City office and
] suffered injuries to his head. A spring snowstorm coupled
] with icy temperatures had left city streets and sidewalks
] slippery.

RIP Dr. Atkins.

United Press International: Diet Dr. Robert Atkins dies from injuries

Linked from Penny Arcade. Not sure if this is real or not...
I could almost imagine it is...

Spiele: Steelhead Battalion

] A caffeine and alcohol cocktail similar to an Irish coffee could
] prevent severe brain damage in stroke victims, new research has
] revealed.

] The experimental drug, called caffeinol, has the potency of two
] cups of strong coffee and a small shot of alcohol. When injected
] into rats within three hours of an artificially stimulated stroke,
] brain damage was cut by up to 80 per cent.

Here's for DeStimulation!

'Irish coffee' injection prevents stroke damage

] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. is in ongoing
] talks with Vivendi Universal to buy the Universal Music
] Group from the French media and entertainment company, a
] source close to the situation said on Friday.
]
] The source did not say what such a deal could be worth,
] but some analysts have said that Universal, which ranks
] as the world's largest music company, could fetch as much
] as $6 billion.

This smells like a hoax but would be incredible if it wasn't...

Apple in Talks to Buy Universal Music

] JK Rowling has won her court case to stop a Harry
] Potter-like book from being published.
]
] She's managed to stop the Russian book about a girl
] wizard called Tanya Grotter because she says it copies
] her best-selling novels.

CBBC Newsround | UK | JK wins 'Tanya Grotter' court case

flynn23 wrote:
] ] The low-fat, high-bandwidth solution to your networked
] ] cooking needs is finally here. The George Foreman USB
] ] iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC
] ] using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated
] ] web-based cooking interface.
]
] sweet.

Make sure you click "add to cart" to try to order one...

In other 4/1 news, I logged in today and noticed my "Wanda the Gnome fish" was swimming upside down in its panel... Clicking
on it indicated that its water needed changing :P

RE: ThinkGeek :: George Foreman USB iGrill

] Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its
] private-label version of Linux for servers, but the
] company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop
] system that should hit the market this summer, the
] company said.
]
] Sun showed off prototypes of the desktop machines,
] code-named "Mad Hatter", to customers at the CeBIT trade
] fair last month, according to the head of Sun Germany,
] Helmut Wilke. The desktop will bundle several
] off-the-shelf hardware and software components, including
] StarOffice, Sun's productivity suite; Evolution, an
] Outlook clone; and the Gnome desktop environment. It is
] aimed at businesses such as call centres, where users
] only need access to a limited set of functions, and will
] be closely integrated with Sun servers to give IT
] managers maximum flexibility.

Why does Sun think they can possibly compete with Dell here??
For awhile, now, I've felt that Sun has to live between IBM's
low-end and Dell's high end and there seems to be increasingly little room there...

ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Sun 'on track' for Linux desktop push