Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

Don't let those nuns convince you that it's a sin!

Masturbation Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

] A new handheld scanner may mean patients being screened
] for cancer will no longer have to cram into the narrow
] tunnel of an MRI or CT scanner for a grueling 40-minute
] exam -- the patient won't even need to undress.

Wired News: Taking a Quick Swipe at Cancer

] During 50 years of communist rule in former Yugoslavia,
] the Croatian island of Vis remained an inaccessible naval
] base lost in the middle of the Adriatic.
]
] The islanders eked a living from fishing and services for
] the Yugoslav military. Tourism, which in today's Croatia
] generates some $4.0 billion in revenues a year, came much
] later to the island than it did elsewhere on the Adriatic
] coast.
]
] There are no big socialist-style hotels here, some 12
] years after Croatia left Socialist Yugoslavia and fought
] an independence war with its ethnic Serb minority and the
] Yugoslav army.
]
] The place looks more like an early 20th century
] fishermen's settlement and, with some luck, it may stay
] that way.
]
] The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has designated Vis as one
] of the 10 last paradises on the Mediterranean and is
] taking steps to preserve its pristine beauty and
] wildlife, while giving locals a chance to make some money
] in the process.

Lost Mediterranean island deemed wild paradise

] Say you're a cook, or a nurse or the assistant manager of
] a store. You've worked more than 40 hours this week, so
] you're entitled to overtime pay, right?
]
] It's hardly that simple, and the Bush administration's
] proposed new rules on overtime pay raise all kinds of
] uncertainties about just who should be entitled to extra
] wages for extra work.
]
] The administration says its rules could cost 644,000
] workers the right to extra wages. Labor unions and
] Democrats say the real number is at least 8 million and
] maybe even higher.
]
] The truth is, nobody's sure precisely how many workers
] will be affected, largely because it's unclear what
] employers would do with the increased flexibility
] provided by rules that are arcane and broadly worded.

This adminstration really is all about screwing the working class, isn't it?

Overtime proposal creates confusion - Sunday, 07/13/03

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] We the undersigned, urge you to consider Ghyslain A.K.A.
] "Star Wars Kid" for a cameo in the upcoming Star Wars
] Episode III movie

Put The Star Wars Kid in Episode III Petition

] South Korea's largest mobile phone operator said Thursday
] that it will offer cell phone users a new noise service
] that it says will repel mosquitoes.
]
] SK Telecom said subscribers can pay 3,000 won (US$2.50)
] to download a sound wave that is inaudible to human ears
] but annoys mosquitoes within a range of three feet.
] Customers can then play the sound by hitting a few
] buttons on their mobile phones.
]
] The company claimed that the service worked during tests.
]
] The service, which begins Monday, has one drawback: it
] consumes as much battery power as normal cell phone
] rings.
]
] SK Telecom has 17 million subscribers and controls a
] little over 50% of the domestic market.

Sweet. Now if only they could come up with a repellant that worked on those OTHER pests, namely telemarketers.

Noise from phone can chase mosquitoes

If it didn't already exist, someone would have to create it.

Pink Steel

] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief.

And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

] The attempted robbery suspect was already subdued when
] Metro police arrived on the scene; he also was naked and
] bound with duct tape.

] The suspect, Gregory Leon Bell, 38, of Ward Street was
] arrested and charged with five counts of attempted
] aggravated robbery. He was being held in Metro Jail last
] night in lieu of $250,000 bail.

How much did he expect to get from the dollar store? But the bigger question here is why did they strip him?

Police find robbery suspect naked and bound with duct tape - Thursday, 07/10/03