Mohammed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus According to a recent two-part story in Salon magazine, circus owner Kenneth Feld hired former top CIA honcho Clair George to torment a hapless freelance writer for eight years because she wanted to write a book about his family.
The head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus farmed out a covert op which put top Agency operatives on the payroll, just to torment a writer.

water and glass heroes are made not born

Free Pint No.106 - Bar Browser, Personal News and Entrepreneurs The Prince's Trust was founded by
the Prince of Wales in 1976. One of its aims is to help young people
in the UK between the ages of 18-30, who want to start their own
business. The trust can help with loans, grants and arrange for young
entrepreneurs to receive advice from a Business Mentor during their
first three years of trading. So far, the trust has helped over
400,000 young people. To read about its achievements, check out the
web page called Difference to Me, which is under Exchange Ideas.
Although there's no specific information on how to start your own
business on the web site, it's a good organization to know about if
you are eligible for its support.

Animal Planet - Rhinoceros Revealed - Species Gallery In the 1970s, with a population of 15,000, they were the most numerous of all rhino species. Then they were periodically wiped out in most of central Africa, suffering an 85 percent decline. Today, their numbers have stabilized at 2,520.

smita paul-tigress She was napping in the brush when we came across her, deep in the Kahna National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India. As we approached on elephants, she took a few minutes to size us up and then left to hide herself in the foliage. But even seeing her for those few moments was a dream come true.

Animal Planet - Rhinoceros Revealed The Rhinoceros has survived on Earth for more than 50 million years, yet this ancient species has been almost wiped out entirely in the past 50. Once, an array of rhinos � including the largest land mammal that ever lived � roamed throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas. Now, only five species remain, and all are considered among the world's most vulnerable creatures

Online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot-coms As the digital revolution enters a new phase, one based on diminished expectations and dwindling corporate investment, grass-roots intermediaries may have a__- moment-__ to redefine the public perception of new media and to expand their influence

Animated Engines Two Stroke Cycle This, coupled with their lighter, simpler construction, makes two stroke engines popular in chainsaws, line trimmers, outboard motors, snowmobiles, jet-skis, light motorcycles, and model airplanes. Unfortunately most two stroke engines are inefficient and are terrible polluters due to the amount of unspent fuel that escapes through the exhaust port.
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The next shelf to the south, the Larsen C, is very near its stability limit, and may start to recede in coming decades if the warming trend continues," he said. "More importantly, regions of the giant "Ross Ice Shelf are just a few degrees Celsius away from being overtaken by the same processes that have destroyed the Larsen."

UNDERNEWS: The daily news service of the Progressive Review, Washington's most unofficial source Furthermore, an investigation by the BBC's Country File and the Independent has revealed research, to be published this month, that shows that artificial oestrogens, used in contraceptive pills and emitted through sewage works, appear to be changing the sex of half the fish in Britain's lowland rivers. Scientists and environmentalists fear that the powerful chemicals are getting into drinking water and affecting human fertility. One third of Britain's drinking water comes from rivers; most of it is taken from below sewage works

UNDERNEWS: The daily news service of the Progressive Review, Washington's most unofficial source Percent of Americans who approve of
Random mail searches 57%
Random car searches 62%
Telephone eavesdropping 24%
Video surveillance of public places 79%
Regular roadblocks for searches 52%
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'IMF Go To Hell' But there is reason to pay attention. The asambleas are also talking about how to kick-start local industries and renationalize assets. And they could go even further. Argentina, as the obedient pupil for decades, miserably failed by its IMF professors, shouldn't be begging for loans; it should be demanding reparations.
The IMF had its chance to run Argentina. Now, it's the people's turn.

CounterPunch-Fran Shor However, beyond whatever contributing factor her husband's neglect played, Andrea Yates was tormented and goaded by another man, a so-called religious adviser. Representing the worst side of punitive and patriarchal religion, this man condemned Yates's children to hell-fire and damnation. Reinforcing the paranoia and isolation Andrea Yates already felt in the madness of her nuclear family, this rabid preacher administered an even stronger drug than those Yates was taking for her diagnosed psychological condition.

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interesting, but misleading David continues: "Every year, the claims that are made by proponents shrink as our horizons of measurement advance. A field that once purported to find treasures, cure illnesses, convey infinite energy and speak with the dead ..."
Nonsense. This confuses scientific investigation with what Madame Zodiac does for a living. Scientists and scholars who study these perplexing human experiences do not make their living by claiming to find treasure, cure illness, or "convey infinite energy," whatever that means. This is like confusing ornithologists with birds.

changesurfer
XXXY" is a stirring portrait of two
intersex individuals born with
ambiguous genitalia and their
struggle against the medical
establishment and society's enforced
gender system.

Alice Dreger_People @ Lyman Briggs School My major work has been on intersexuality (hermaphroditism). Related projects include investigations into conjoined ("Siamese") twinning, cleft palates, genetic therapies, and the question of who "owns" unusual anatomies.

NoF 20010609 21stCentury.co.uk - a futurist website
http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/
View two important intersex films online at PlanetOut. Go to
http://www.planetout.com, click PopcornQ Movies, click PlanetOut Short Movie Awards.
Borderline is the trailer for a work in progress by Lisset Barcellos
and Rafael Dumett. Lisett is herself intersexed, and her affidavit
was an important element of ISNA's amicus brief to the Constitutional
Court of Colombia, resulting in historic human rights protections for
intersex children. See also "La Verdad por Favor"
http://www.isna.org/articles/barcellos-carta.html .

Genital Surgery On Intersexed Children Genital Surgery On Intersexed Children
This letter was sent from Cheryl Chase, Exec. Dir., Intersex Society of North America to a judge in Columbia, South America.

La verdad por faor Mi madre me ha dicho que cada vez que ella o usted intentaban hablar conmigo al respecto despu�s de la operaci�n, yo me negaba. Entiendo que �sta haya podido ser la reacci�n normal de una ni�a avergonzada que, en el caso de la clitorectom�a, antes de la operaci�n disfrutaba masturb�ndose (excitando su cl�toris) y que un d�a despert� sin �l, que se sinti� probablemente castigada en su cuerpo por haberse procurado placer de una manera que en su familia era considerada pecaminosa.