] Chilean scientists said on Friday their study of a huge
] blob of flesh found on a Pacific beach about three weeks
] ago concluded it was the carcass of a sperm whale, ending
] speculation of a giant octopus.

CNN.com - Giant Chilean beach 'blob' identified - Jul. 11, 2003

] 5 July 2003 | GENEVA -- Today, the World Health
] Organization is removing Taiwan, China, from the list of
] areas with recent local transmission of severe acute
] respiratory syndrome (SARS). Taiwan is the last area to
] be removed from the list. It has been 20 days, or two
] consecutive 10-day incubation periods, since the last
] case on June 15. Based on country surveillance reports,
] the human chains of SARS virus transmission appear to
] have been broken everywhere in the world.

SARS outbreak contained worldwide

] SHKP is spending close to HK$20 million in its shopping
] centres to fight SARS, on mall promotions and the
] recruitment of anti-SARS Ambassadors.

wow....you have to go check out the pictures of the anti-sars ambassadors on this website. They even have a torch with a big S on it.....S is for SARS! I so want to go to Lennox mall and walk around as an anti-sars ambassador!

SHKP News

] "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.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

more comentary on the Jose Padilla saga, this one is a puletser (yeah yeah i dont spell) prize winning jurnalist chastising the media for not giving any coverage to the Padilla case...

when exactly did the we all deside the government didnt need checks and balances any more...

[Hrm....Why is it that civil liberties seem to be a joke these days? Is this the downward spiral into 1984? - Nano]

no-one cares about civil liberties or reason 1502-B why i hate people

Finally....some SARS infoz for the US. Nobody has died in the US from SARS, but it is good to keep an eye on where it is happening.

CDC Media Relations - SARS US Case Report

The statement put up by blackboard about Interz0ne

BlackBoard Inc.

] Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey
] guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light
] Texas crude each year
]
] Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage,
] Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons
] of turkey offal will be carted to the first
] industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently
] completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into
] various useful products, including 600 barrels of light
] oil.
]
] In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine
] that can change almost anything into oil.
]
] Really.
]
] "This is a solution to three of the biggest problems
] facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of
] Changing World Technologies, the company that built this
] pilot plant and has just completed its first
] industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process
] can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our
] dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global
] warming."

Anything into Oil

] Two DNA techniques could be used to identify the former
] Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, says experts. One offers
] relative ease, in that the DNA samples required should be
] available, but the other offers far more certainty.
]
] The US-led invasion of Iraq is now almost complete, and
] military forces are now searching for the leaders of the
] deposed regime. Identifying Saddam - dead or alive - will
] not be easy, as he is believed to have used many doubles.

New Scientist - Double DNA chance of identifying Saddam

Everything you ever wanted to know about SARS, brought to you by Emory's neighbor, the CDC. I thought this was pretty relevant, given the fact that SARS genome sequence was published today.

CDC | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)