The following items were printed in the June, 2003 issue of The Prophetic Expositor:

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The Weekly Telegraph, No. 614, April 30-May 6, 2003:
1. Iraqi boy has skin graft: ALI ISMAEEL ABBAS, the 12-year-old Iraqi boy who lost his arms and suffered severe burns in a missile attack, has undergone a successful skin graft, doctors treating him in Kuwait said. Skin was taken from his thighs to cover 75 per cent of the wounds on his front torso. "The operation went even better than expected" said Dr Ahmed al-Shatti, of Kuwait's health ministry.

2. " 'Perfect storm' of gases rages in deep space" heads a short article by Roger Highfield, Science Editor, accompanied by a beautiful coloured photograph, captioned "Gases rage within the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light-years away." The article mentions that the Swan Nebula is also called the Omega Nebula, which brought to mind Christ's name "Alpha and Omega."

3. An impressively accoutered St. George on horseback is photographed leading a protest march through Telford last week after their local council insisted on flying only the European flag from its buildings on Saint George's Day.

4. Spain seeks sainthood for Isabella of Castile by Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid - SPAIN'S Roman Catholic bishops are to petition the Pope to canonise Queen Isabella of Castile, one of history's most vilified monarchs. Senior churchmen led by Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco, the Archbishop of Madrid, last week revived a campaign asking that Queen Isabella be beatified, the first step towards being made a saint. They hope for her to be beatified next year, the 500th anniversary of her death. During her tempestuous 15th century reign, Isabella conquered much of Latin America for the Vatican, ended the 700-year presence of Moors and Jews on the Iberian Peninsula and assured the hegemony of Castile and the Catholic Church in Spain. "We have investigated every aspect of this controversial woman and it appears to be the time to abandon intransigence and see her in the context of her time and environment," said José Delicado, Archbishop of Vallodolid. Earlier attempts to canonise Isabella ended when her detractors accusing her of exiling Jews and Muslims from Spain, instigating genocide in Latin America and setting up the Inquisition.

5. Experts recreate wine of Pompeii praised by Pliny - by Bruce Johnston in Pompeii -
THE ancient wine of Pompeii, once praised by Pliny, has been recreated for the first time since the town was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The wine, a rich but rather tannin-imbued red named Villa dei Misteri after one of Pompeii's major sites, is the fruit of a 25-year project. Experts said types of grapes grown in Roman times had been carefully selected to best suit Pompeii's soil and climate conditions. The result is a wine made from two ancient strains, Piedirosso and Olivella, grown at four sites where vines were being cultivated when Vesuvius erupted. Archaeological finds, plant breeding, frescos depicting vine cultivation and seeds and wine residues preserved on the site were all used to arrive at the final product. In an effort to ensure a drink as similar as possible to that of 2,000 years ago the vines were planted in the same way as in Roman times, 3 ft. 11 ins apart. "What we have achieved is the closest possible result to the wine once drunk by the ancients," said Prof Piero Mastroberardino, the wine expert in charge of the project. Pier Giovanni Guzzo, Pompeii's archaeological superintendent, said: "Of course, it is impossible to know what the original wine tasted like. One thing is the description, and the other is the experience. Here we have the first but not the second." Pliny, an accurate chronicler of events, said Pompeii's wines only fully matured after ageing for 10 years. The oenologists admitted that Villa dei Misteri's first proper harvest had been in 2001. And at a tasting last week the first sips were met with an embarrassing silence. "Perhaps it is still a bit young," said one drinker.

6. Woman may have founded ancient Rome - by Bruce Johnston in Rome - ROME celebrated its 2,756th birthday last week, amid claims that the city may have been founded by a Trojan woman called Roma and not, as legend has it, by Romulus. According to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could easily be Rome. The scene was described as one of enchanting beauty, where before the setting sun the visitor was "enticed to dream while being caressed by the offshore breeze."

Globe & Mail, May 1, 2003 -
1. Women could lose freedoms in the new Iraq - As Muslim clerics seek Islamic rule, the country's liberal social standards hang in the balance by Alan Freeman, Baghdad [Brief: Examining the potential problems through an interview with a specific family, the 6-column, illustrated article presents an aspect of the post U.S. and British intervention which appears to have received less than adequate advanced thought prior to the invasion.]
2. "Both Sharon, Abbas under keen pressure to find peace" by Timothy Appleby. [Brief: This illustrated 5-column article is accompanied by a useful outline of the "Road to Peace" broken into Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3, and illustrated by a map of Palestine showing the totally-fragmented "Palestinian self-rule area" in the West Bank.]

Globe & Mail, May 2, 2003 - U.S. day of prayer observed across the nation by Kelly Patrick, WASHINGTON [Brief: An illustrated 4-column article carries the theme of the Christian leadership provided by U.S. Presidents past and present.]

Globe & Mail, May 3, 2003 -
1. Travel Section had a panoramic picture of Pompeii.
2. Will a tree grow in Iceland? - "The Vikings wiped out the woods a thousand years ago. Now, the country is hoping to reforest the land with such species as chestnuts and Douglas firs from Canada." Headed a 5-column illustrated article by Martin Mittelstaedt, on this attempt to recover (1.4 per cent so far) the natural vegetation of this northern land, which has the advantage of the northern edge of the Gulf Stream.
3. Israel vows to deport peace activists, by Doug Saunders, HOUNSLOW, ENGLAND - [Brief: 4 short columns flesh out the theme.]
4. The Just War? - Hawks in doves clothing - The idea that human rights trumps sovereign rights has given rise to an ugly new kind of 'liberal,' says John MacArthur in an illustrated 5-column 'Comment' opinion piece.
5. Anger erupts after Turkish quake - Police fire on crowd protesting against lack of relief, shoddy construction, by Stuart Millar, Bingol, Turkey [Brief: 5-column illustrated article gives details. "I am angry at the dishonest builders who built this trap for our children and their political allies who let them get away with it."]
6. Bremer set to take reigns from Garner in new Iraq - Diplomat's appointment seen as attempt to mend State Department-Pentagon rift by Timothy Appleby [Brief: Paul Bremer III a career diplomat with no military background, has close ties to U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Illustrated 2-column article joins a 4-column illustrated article "Muslim leaders ease tension" on same page.]
7. "Bush vision for new world carries huge risks -Scope of his crusade to liberate the globe from terror, tyranny fraught with peril" heads an Analysis piece by Paul Koring, WASHINGTON - [Brief: 6-column, illustrated article notes "Our commitment to liberty is America's tradition declared at out founding, affirmed in Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, asserted in the Truman Doctrine and in Ronald Reagan's challenge to an evil." Mentioning that "Mr. Blair is the only other long-time U.S. ally to buy into Mr. Bush's global-liberation crusade", it continues: "What began as a tough response to terrorism, born amidst the dust of the twin towers of New York's World Trade center on Sept 11, 2001, has grown into a hugely ambitious, ill-defined effort under the battle cry of liberty... .]

Globe & Mail, May 5, 2003 -
1. Liberated Iraq begins to slip into fundamentalist hands by Alan freeman, NAJAF, IRAQ [Brief: This front page article (Extremist Shiites aim for theocracy...) is joined by a linked one "Israeli dove resigns" (Mitzna's decision to quit Labour Party over 'backstabbbing' another major blow to peace movement by Paul Adams, Tel Aviv.) Both articles carry over to pages 8 and 9, where they join other articles: "Mass graves uncovered in south Iraq farmlands", and "With the fall of Hussein, alcohol merchants' hopes begin to rise" - both 5 columns, illustrated]
2. Higher Iraq oil output seen as threat - would hurt OPEC, oil sands: analyst - by Patrick Brethour, Calgary [Brief: the continuation inside the paper, headed "Three scenarios outlined for Iraq's oil industry" might be summed up in the thought that Iraq's oil was actually a very major consideration as the U.S. moved to war.

- Scenario 1: Iraq under successful liberation and politically stable democracy which transforms the region sells cheap oil, undercuts investments in more costly Canadian oil sands;
- Scenario 2: Iraq falls into chaotic clashes, and its oil industry suffers without investment cash so OPEC thrives with higher prices;
- Scenario 3: The "Déjà Vu" wherein Iraq is democratic but with heavy-handed government which means no democratic wave sweeps the Middle East, leaving the U.S. with its concerns over-dependence on Middle East oil.]

3. U.S. picks Iraq oil chief - Long serving technocrat to head team by Chip Cummins,
BAGHDAD - U.S. officials named Thamir Ghadhban, a long-serving oil-industry technocrat with experience working with foreign companies, to head Iraq's Oil Ministry during American occupation. Mr. Ghadhban will serve as chief executive officer of an interim management team made up of current Iraqi oil officials. The team will oversee day-to-day management responsibilities for the country's massive but dilapidated oil industry, as well as its oil sales and marketing operations. [Brief: 3-columns. COMMENT: The Oil Ministry was instantly guarded on entering Baghdad, while the Museum, the Library, and, as reported later, the U.N.-sealed radioactive materials storage areas, were all open to looting.]

Globe & Mail, May 6, 2003 -
1. B.C. group files data patent application by Jane Armstrong,
VANCOUVER Within days of decoding the genetic makeup of the SARS virus, B.C. researchers were grappling with intense pressure to get sole rights to their own data so they could share it with the world. Aware that researchers across the globe were working on the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, the British Columbia Cancer Agency filed a patent application in the United States seeking legal rights to all the virus's genes. "This is very much a preventative manoeuvre," Susan O'Reilly, the agency's director of medical oncology, told a news conference in Vancouver yesterday. The agency's Genome Sciences Centre was the first to determine the genetic makeup of the virus. It has filed a provisional patent application in the United States, claiming commercial rights to the genetic sequence of the coronavirus. The British Columbia agency says its goal in seeking the patent is to stamp out the disease - not get rich. "I think it's important to understand that we're dealing with how to best protect this information so that scientists across the world can have access." Dr. O'Reilly said. "We don't want to find our selves in the position where patents have been filed by other individuals or companies that would prevent ... [scientists] from having access to information." Scientists in Hong Kong are also seeking a patent on the virus itself.

2. Obituary: Mandela colleague, Sisulu dies at 90 - Johannesburg. Walter Sisulu a charismatic, quiet leader who brought Nelson Mandela into the African National Congress and helped lead the fight against apartheid for five decades, died yesterday at 90. Throughout the fight against the racist white regime, Mr. Sisulu and Mr. Mandela went on trial together, went to jail together and worked together to transform the ANC from a banned liberation movement into the nation's governing party. AP [A 5-column illustrated obituary was printed in the G&M on May 8th and a 4-column illustrated in The Weekly Telegraph No. 616 of May 14-20, 2003.]

3.African powers push Mugabe to ease crisis - Presidents met with Zimbabwean leader, opposition rival, urging resumed talks - by Karen MacGregor DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: Three African presidents met with long-time Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and his opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, in Harare yesterday for a make-or-break effort to drag the bitter adversaries to the table and end a crisis that is destroying Zimbabwe's political, economic and social fabric. There was no confirmation last night of reports that the mission - Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Bakili Muluzi of Malawi - had tried to persuade Mr. Mugabe, 79, to step down from the position he has held since leading Zimbabwe to independence in 1980. South African officials have indicated that Mr. Mbeki feels Mr. Mugabe's departure would be an essential part of a solution that would lead to a transitional government involving Mr. Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition, then fresh elections. The high-powered nature of the visiting delegation and the fact that they also met with Mr. Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, was significant. The MDC has been shunned in the past year by most visiting African leaders, who have shielded Mr. Mugabe from global censure despite allegations of state-sponsored political violence, widespread election irregularities and human-rights abuses... . [Brief: the 5-column, illustrated article continues, examining amplifying details, and potential for Washington's pressure for change.]

4. Tehran is our next target - it's time for Washington to start planning its next regime change, says foreign policy analyst Michael Ledeen [Brief: a 5-column, illustrated article forms this 'Comment' opinion piece which looks at the potential for a continuation of the Washington policies in the Middle East.]

5. Scientists to announce biotechnology advance - A controversial issue in agricultural biotechnology, the spread of genes from genetically modified crops to their wild cousins or other fields, may have been resolved by Canadian research. Scientists from agriculture and Agrifood Canada will announce today that they have made genetically modified tobacco plants that freely breed with one another. However, if their pollen is blown into unmodified plants, their progeny's seeds become sterile. Stephen Strauss

6. Obituary: Princess Haya, 90 - Saudi princess was wife of state founder. - Riyadh. Princess Haya bint Saad al-Sudairi, one of the wives of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, died April 18. She was 90. Princess Haya was one of numerous wives of king Abdul Aziz, who founded modern Saudi Arabia in 1932, following the defeat and merger of rival regional forces. He died in 1953. She was the mother of Prince Badr bin Abdul Aziz, the deputy head of the national guard; Prince Abdul Majid bin Abdul Aziz, governor of Mecca; and Prince Abdul Illah bin Abdul Aziz, former prince of Jawf province. Princess Haya was from the powerful Al-Sudairi clan, as was Princess Hassa, the king's most famous wife as mother of the reigning king. AP

Globe & Mail, May 7, 2003 - Obituary: Suzy Parker 1933-2003 "Godmother of supermodels" - Postwar American glamour-girl who later found acting roles in Hollywood was first to earn $100,000 a year. [Brief: 5-columns, illustrated. Also in Weekly Telegraph, No. 616 of May 14-20. 2003]
Globe & Mail, May 8, 2003 -
1. U.S. agents recover some looted antiquities by Jonathan Salant,
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities have recovered nearly 40,000 manuscripts and 700 artifacts that were missing from the National Museum in Baghdad, officials said yesterday. The recoveries include a clay pot dating from 5000 B.C. and an inscribed cornerstone from King Nebuchadnezzar's seventh-century B.C. Babylonian palace. One person returned a box of manuscripts and parchments. Another Iraqi returned 46 antiquities, including a vase he said was 7,000 years old. U.S. customs agents tracked down another 10 pieces, including a broken statue of an Assyrian king dating back to the 9th century B.C. As Baghdad fell to U.S. forces looters pillaged the Iraqi National Museum, which had housed one of the Middle East's leading archeological collections. U.S. officials said many items originally thought looted had actually been placed in hidden vaults for protection before the Iraq war began, and other items were returned once officials offered amnesty and potential rewards. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, now part of the new Homeland Security Department, and U.S. military forces have been working with museum curators and employees to develop a list of missing items, and to prevent more looting. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has said immigration and customs agents in Iraq are helping to investigate money laundering and smuggling in addition to trying to track down the looted artifacts. At least 38 major, high-value artifacts are missing from the main gallery, officials have said. But some experts say thousands of artifacts, including priceless antiquities, may be missing and could have been taken out of the country. Last month, museum curators urged the United States to secure Iraq's borders to prevent the looted items from being taken out of the country. U.S. Attorney-General John Ashcroft suggested this week at a conference of Interpol, the international police organization, that the looters included criminals who knew what they were looking for. Associated Press

2. Suspected Iraqi germ-warfare lab analyzed. Trailer scrubbed clean with caustic solution matches the units described by Hussein defector by Paul Koring,
WASHINGTON - A suspected Iraqi mobile germ-warfare laboratory, concealed in a truck trailer, is being examined by U.S. and British experts after it was seized at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, senior officials confirmed yesterday. The trailer was freshly painted military green and carefully scrubbed clean with a caustic solution, perhaps ammonia. It closely matches labs mentioned by U.S. secretary of State Colin Powell before the United Nations Security Council in February, as well as those reportedly described by intelligence sources, including at least one Iraqi defector. "Experts have concluded that the unit does not appear to perform any function beyond what the defector said it was for, which was the production of biological agents," intelligence undersecretary Stephen Cambone said in a Pentagon briefing concerning the hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But he stopped short of asserting that thee trailer is a "smoking gun" proving that Baghdad had an active germ-warfare program. "It was pretty thoroughly washed down", he said, indicating that there has been a deliberate effort to eradicate whatever was being cultivated in the trailer, which contained fermenters and a highly unusual system for collecting, scrubbing and compressing all inside air, apparently to prevent accidental dispersal. If testing proves that the trailer was a mobile manufacturing lab for breeding anthrax, botulism or other virulent and fatal agents, it will represent the first proof to underpin U.S. claims that the regime of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein posed a grave threat and was actively developing outlawed weapons of mass destruction. So far, U.S. forces have failed to unearth any evidence that Baghdad was lying when it asserted that it had scrapped its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs years ago and destroyed all arsenals of the outlawed weapons. U.N weapons inspectors, who pulled out of Iraq just before U.S. President George W. Bush decided to wage war to topple the Iraqi leader, also failed to find any evidence of banned weapons. U.S. troops have raised several false alarms after discovering suspicious barrels of chemicals, but subsequent testing has found nothing but agricultural or industrial compounds. ...
[A column describes the informant's information and subsequently speculates on potential use. It ends with this paragraph:] Mr. Cambone noted that more than 600 Iraqi sites suspected to have been linked with the production or storage of weapons of mass destruction have been identified, but only about 70 have been checked.

3. Dead Sea scroll show coming to Montreal by Ray Conlogue:
Three ancient Dead sea scrolls from Israel will visit Canada for the first time in a show opening next month at Montreal's Pointe-à-Callière museum. The show will move to the Canadian Museum of Civilization outside Ottawa in December. Archeology and the Bible: from King David to the Dead Sea Scrolls was organized by the Pointe-à-Callière and the Montreal Museum of Archaeology in collaboration with the Israel museum, where many of the 100 rare objects in the show are held. The Dead Sea Scrolls, first located in 1947, were written during the lifetime of Christ or shortly after his death. Two of the three scrolls coming to Canada have never left Israel before, while the third, the Community Rule scroll, has not left Israel since 1954. All three scrolls are among the "most symbolic" of the large quantity of scrolls found hidden in jars deep in a cave. The others are the war scroll (War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness) and the Isaiah B scroll. Stephen Inglis of the Canadian Museum of Civilization says that single Dead sea scrolls have visited Canada on earlier occasions, "but this will be the first time that major fragments are coming, and the first time they'll be juxtaposed with this quality and number of artifacts from the same period." Among other rare objects which the government of Israel has permitted to leave the country for this show are a carved ivory pomegranate from the eighth century BC, alleged to be the only object known to have been in the First Temple of Jerusalem (destroyed in 70 AD). There is also a stone block from Tel Dan (circa 900 BC) which has the earliest known inscriptions referring to King David. Accompanying these are a quantity of lamps and other every-day objects of the period which, Inglis says, "will let people get a sense of what life was like when the scrolls were written."
COMMENT: The reference to the First Temple should be to the Second Temple or Herod's Temple if the 70 AD destruction applies. Otherwise, 586 BC might be suggested for destruction if the reference is actually to the First Temple.

Globe & Mail, May 10, 2003 -
1. Australia put troops into Iraq before war -
CANBERRA - Elite Australian special forces charged with knocking out Scud missile batteries entered deep into Iraq two days before the opening salvo of the war. [Brief: general description of their assignments and mode of operations is given.]
2.The making of a people, and an endless crisis heads a book review [4-columns, illustrated] by James Ron of The Palestinian People: A History, by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, Harvard University Press, 568 pages, $28.50

Globe & Mail, May 13, 2003 - "U.S. adds colour to help buck up greenback security" heads a 2-column illustrated article by John Saunders which explains a shift to colour tinting of the U.S. bills, starting with the $20 bill.

Globe & Mail, May 14, 2003 - The Canadian Census reveals some religious shifts. Muslims now outnumber Jews, and Protestants' numbers have declined by 773,000 over the last ten years since 1991.

Globe & Mail, May 15, 2003 - Mummy case auctioned for $1.89-million - LONDON A rare Egyptian sarcophagus complete with mummy has been auctioned for a record price equivalent to $1.89-million, auction house Christie's said on yesterday. The 3,000-year-old mummy in its highly decorated case dates from the 21st dynasty. Reuters

The Weekly Review No. 615, May 7-13, 2003 -
1. Diet halves cancer risk A STUDY into the eating habits of 500,000 people may have settled the controversy over whether fibre prevents bowel cancer. It found that doubling a persons consumption of cereals, fruit and vegetables can halve the risk, says the project, funded by the Cancer research Campaign, European Commission and Medical Research Council.

2. Obituary: David Williamson - Genealogist at both Burke's and Debrett's who was an expert on the world's royal families.
[Brief: A delightful 4-column, illustrated obituary account of this unusual and talented man which might well have been squeezed in, in its entirety if space permitted.]

Time Magazine, (Canadian Edn.) May 19, 2003, Vol. 161, No. 20, pp. 31-36, carries 2 well presented illustrated articles on Iraqi Oil.

The Weekly Review No. 616, May 14-20, 2003 -
1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - out now on CD - Early recordings of some of the giants of English literature reading their work have just been released by the British Museum, Sam Leith reports. ... "Tennyson's voice is among 46 writers born in the 19th century, which feature on a pair of spoken word compilations released last week by the British Library. The two discs - one of poetry, one prose - include a number of rare and previously unheard recordings of the first literary generation to be so captured. A scratchy recording of Robert Browning's voice, made in 1889, is part of one of the first sound recordings in existence. A lot of the public don't realise the voices of these writers survive," said Richard Fairman, who is in charge of "scholarship and collections" at the sound archive. ... The process of producing the discs took more than a year. Each recording had to be transferred from wax cylinder, acetate, 78 disc or early magnetic tape, before being "cleaned up" using digital sound engineering technology. "With only four of the writers out of copyright, tracking down and obtaining permissions to use the material was a nightmare", Mr. Fairman added. The long list includes Rudyard Kipling reading from his own work, and J. R. R. Tolkien speaking the "elvish" language he devised for Lord of the Rings.

2. "St. Alban slays St. George to be our favourite saint" introduces a three column illustrated item which is based on a BBC Radio 4's Today programme. The survey had St. Alban ranked first, by a wide margin, with St. Cuthbert, who spread Christianity in the North, ranked third. St. Alban, a Romano-Briton who lived in the Roman city of Verulamium, near what is now St. Albans in Hertfordshire, is known as Britain's first Christian martyr. The account does mention a "modest revival" in the fortunes of St. George.

Globe & Mail May 17, 2003 -
1. Zimbabwe deports reporter - Journalist working for U.K.'s Guardian thrown out despite high court order to prevent the move by Cris Chinaka,
HARARE - A U.S. journalist working in Zimabwe for Britain's guardian newspaper was deported yesterday despite a high-court order preventing immigration officials from carrying out the expulsion. Immigration officials escorted Andrew Meldrum onto an Air Zimbabwe plane bound for London as his lawyer battled to serve a court order on immigration officials to stop his deportation... . [Brief: 4-columns, illustrated. The lead-up to the expulsion is detailed in the account.
Also in Weekly Telegraph No. 617, Editorial, May 21-27, 2003]

2. Arts Notebook - Bardot book stirs controversy in France -
Paris. French movie legend Brigitte Bardot is being threatened with a lawsuit by two rights groups who accuse her of inciting racism in her new book. Cry in the silence, (Cri dans le silence) takes on issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam. "We're going to go to the corrections court against Brigitte Bardot," said Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. Bardot, 68, and her publisher, Editions du Rocher, denied the allegations. In the new book, "everyone is targeted: teachers, the unemployed, illegal immigrants, homosexuals, the Paris mayor," Tubiana said. Passages of the book were published last weekend in France-Soir newspaper. "I'm against the Islamization of France ... our grandfathers (and) our fathers gave their lives for centuries to chase all successive invaders out of France," one excerpt said.

3. United Church keeps the (slightly revised) faith - For only the second time in its history, reports Paul Waldie, Canada's largest, most diverse Protestant sect is redefining its beliefs. [Brief: The six-column, illustrated article explains the process, and the underlying reasons for the redefinition of its beliefs. A committee is sending out workbooks and questionnaires to facilitate discussion.]

Globe & Mail May 19, 2003 -
1. Obituary: Wendy Hiller 1912-2003. British actress stole hearts - Whether playing plain or pretty, her earthy voice and ability to express transparent honesty brought sweet success - by Eric Shorter [Brief: A 5-column, illustrated account from her early life with a Lancashire accent which she would lose, converting to the needs of various stage and screen parts. A talented and successful run of films through many years from the 30's to the 70's. Most notable successes were Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Shaw's Major Barbara (1941), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), Separate Tables (1958, for which she won an Oscar as the manager), Sons and Lovers (1960), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Wendy Hillier was appointed OBE in 1971 and created dame in 1975.] The Guardian News Service

2. Obituary: Arnold Gangnes, 84 - Architect focused on designs for disabled Seattle. Arnold Gangnes, a Canadian-born architect who specialized in designs for the handicapped, has died at his home in Seattle. He was 84. Then-president Gerald Ford appointed Mr. Gangnes to the U.S. President's committee on Mental Retardation in the 1970's. The architect had dedicated his career to the disabled after his first child, a daughter named Judy, was born mentally handicapped in 1944. Mr. Gangnes was born to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1918 in Port Alice, B.C., a village on Vancouver Island founded that year with the opening of a pulp mill. Mr. Gangnes earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Washington and a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology both in Architecture. ... Tom Hawthorn

3. G&M Social Studies (Miscellany) contains nine curious items all relating to Queen Victoria.
Scientific American Vol. 288 No. 5 pp. 70-79 contains an excellent, informative, and beautifully colour-illustrated article on that Alpine ice man titled "The Iceman Reconsidered" by James H. Dickson, Klaus Oeggel and Linda L. Handley. "Painstaking research contradicts many of the early speculations about the 5,300-year-old Alpine wanderer."

The Weekly Review No. 617, May 21-27, 2003 -
1. Archaeologists stroll down Roman high street -
The site at Higham Ferrers offers a glimpse of a typical Roman village in 3rd-century Britain in the well-populated Nene Valley - a colour-illustrated instructive and informative article by David Derbyshire

2. by David Orb in Delhi: JOB CHARNOCK has been stripped of his status as the founder of Calcutta after an Indian court ruled that the city most redolent of the Raj was not, after all, established by the Englishman. The High Court in Calcutta ruled last week that Charnock - widely held to have founded Calcutta as a young man with the British East India Company in 1690 - should be struck from school textbooks, official documents and websites. The judges decreed that no one person could be credited with founding the city, which for nearly 250 years was the chief city in Britain's overseas empire. Calcutta had grown up from rural settlements, a process that began before Charnock set up camp on the swampy banks of the Hooghly river at a village known as Kalikata on August 24, 1690. "Calcutta does not have a 'birthday'," the court said. The ruling is a victory for those committed to eradicating the last vestiges of British imperial rule in India... .

3. Queen unveils Abbey memorial to salute the bravest of the brave by Jonathan Petre -
THEIR medals glinting, a tiny but resolute band of recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross watched the Queen unveil the first national memorial in their honour in Westminster Abbey last week. [Brief: 2-columns illustrated gives details.]

Globe & Mail, May 23, 2003 - Treasure sites looted across Iraq -
Isan Bakhriat, Iraq - Mobs of treasure hunters are tearing into Iraqi archeological sites, archeologists say, stealing urns, statues, vases and cuneiform tablets that often date back 3,000 years to the ancient civilization of Babylon and Sumer. At the site of what was once Isin, an Aramean city that first arose around 1,900 BC, about 150 young men armed with shovels, knives and sometimes semi-automatic weapons have been digging from dawn to dusk and extracting relics almost hourly. "In two weeks, they have ruined all the work that was done over 15 years," said Susanne Osthoff, and archeologist who worked with a German team that excavated at Isin from the mid-1970s until 1989. The one-column article, from New York Times Service, illustrates another aspect of the loss of civilized control when the U.S. moved to destroy the previous authority.

Globe & Mail, May 26, 2003 - U.S. senators questioning war rationale -
Unconventional weapons elude searchers by Timothy Appleby - [Brief: 5-columns, illustrated, show that six weeks after the fall of Baghdad, there are plenty of weapons about in a relatively lawless Iraq, but none fitting the description which Washington had so assured the world were present.
Globe & Mail, May 27, 2003 -
1. Obituary: Millicent Loder 1915-2003 - A daughter of Labrador - Raised in the bush, the pioneer nurse worked for the famed Grenfell Mission where she started out as a serving girl by J. M. Sullivan [Brief: 5-columns, illustrated, tell of a girl from the bush who grew up to make a difference, and has died at 88.]

2. Shrinking kilogram sows mass confusion in labs by Otto Pohl
BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY The kilogram is getting lighter, scientists say, sowing potential confusion over a range of scientific endeavours. The kilogram is defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, cast in England in 1889. No one knows why it is shedding weight, at least in comparison with other reference weights, but the change has spurred an international search for a more stable definition. [Brief: Front page 5-columns shifts to 2-column inside account which amplifies the problem and the attempted solutions.]

Globe & Mail, May 28, 2003 - Royal hats on display in London -
The birthplace and childhood home of Queen Victoria and the favourite residence of successive sovereigns until 1760, Kensington Palace in London is hosting Hats and Handbags - Accessories from the Royal Wardrobe until April 14, 2004. The exhibition, a celebration of royal accessories, includes more than 70 hats belonging to Queen Elizabeth II, ranging from head-dresses worn by the young princess to items associated with significant moments in her life. Billing itself as "London's most fashionable attraction," Kensington palace is also home to the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, which includes items from the 18th century to the present day.

Globe & Mail, May 29, 2003 - No germ agents in Iraqi mobile labs - Experts stumped on possible uses for mysterious truck-trailer units by Paul Koring,
WASHINGTON - Painstaking analysis has failed to find any trace of outlawed germ warfare agents in two truck-mounted biological processing plants that U.S. forces discovered in Iraq, but an unclassified report released by American intelligence agencies yesterday still calls the mobile facilities the "the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological-warfare program." U.S. President George W. Bush's primary rationale for waging war against Iraq was to pre-empt the risk of Saddam Hussein using outlawed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, or passing them on the terrorist groups. But an intense search effort has failed to uncover any evidence the Baghdad regime was developing and concealing weapons of mass destruction. [G&M May 31, 2003, carried a related article: "Hunt for weapons intensifies", which tells of expansion of the U.S. search using more than 1,300 U.S., British and Australian forces.]

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Errata: In the May issue, several "typos":
(Part 21) of Adam to Adam Two, verse 16 lost its period after "taste", p.8, line 21, "an" should be "and" and p. 11, 6 lines up from bottom, "Their" at start of sentence should be "There."