Science Journal of the AAAS - Vol. 304 No 5679, 25 June 2004:
1. Neuroscience - The Mice That Don't Miss Mom: Love and the µ-opioid Receptor p. 1888- Blind, deaf, and hungry, a newborn mouse can't take care of itself. Take away its mother, and a pup will scream bloody murder for someone to come help it. But take away, along with mom, the neuronal receptors that respond to morphine, and the pup just doesn't seem to care. [Brief: 5-col.illus. Seems opiate helps find mom.]
2. Archaeology - Putting the Stone in Stonehenge - p. 1889 by Richard Stone
[Brief: Archaeologists have unearthed a grave of three men who appear to have grown up in Wales, 4,300 years ago. Beaker pots suggest the date. The find compliments discovery in 2002 of the Amesbury Archer, whose grave near Stonehenge is the richest found in Britain from the Early Bronze Age. Analysis of the archer's tooth enamel showed that he grew up in the Alps before emigrating to Britain - also around 4300 years ago. The monument's outer ring is made of huge sandstones believed to have been quarried from the Marlborough Downs, 30 kilometers to the north. The smaller bluestones in the inner ring are thought to have been hauled from the Preseli Hills, 250 kilometers away in southwest Wales, and arranged at Stonehenge between 4000 and 4400 years ago.] Also see: The Weekly Telegraph No 674 June 23-29 2004.

Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 94 No 2, June 2004:
Race, Nation and Nature: The Cultural Politics of "Celtic" Identification in the American West
by James McCarthy (Dept. of Geog., Penn State U.) and Euan Hague (Geog. Dept. DePaul U.)
Précis: Claims regarding a unitary, coherent "Celtic" culture and its westward spread over centuries have proliferated rapidly over the past 10 to 15 years. We examine both this general phenomenon and one specific instance of it in detail: the claims of Celtic identity by Wise Use activists in New Mexico in the 1990s. Our primary concern is to examine their significance and utility in contemporary cultural politics. We argue that they have provided a powerful way for many white people in Western Europe and the United States to claim for themselves an ethnic identity strongly associated with oppression and resistance to the state, a position that affords them symbolic resources in negotiating the challenges of both multiculturalism and neoliberalism. Key words: environmental politics, race, Celtic, United States, Wise Use. - (pp. 388-408)
COMMENT: Key words could also have included "white privilege", "identity", "redneck", "immigration", "right-wing hate groups", "Christian Identity", "militias", "The New World Order", "Gun Control", "National forest lands", "ATF", "Confederate States", "petroglyphs", "Gaelic language", "multinational corporations" among others.

Jane's Intelligence Digest 4 June 2004: Nuclear security: too little, too late?
[Brief: Mounting concern is that both nuclear and radiological materials remain accessible to would be terrorists.]

Jane's Intelligence Digest 11 June 2004: Israel's nukes: time to come clean?
1st sentence: The release in April of the nuclear 'whistleblower', Mordechai Vanunu after serving an 18-year sentence in an Israeli jail has again focused the world's attention on Israel's controversial nuclear weapons status. [Brief: Vanunu, a convert to Christianity, can yet be an embarrassment. Attention is not welcomed by Israeli government to its sizeable and ongoing nuclear weapons programme. Has the time come for the Middle East's only nuclear-capable state to sign the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty?] Related: Weekly Telegraph No 671 June 2-8, 2004: "How Vanunu fell into a trap."

Jane's Intelligence Digest 18 June 2004: Ukraine's missing missiles -
[Brief: It seems that vast amounts of inefficiently stored munitions have disappeared.]

National Post June 28, 2004:
1. O Canada born at Quebec party - by Peter Kuitenbrouwer
[Brief: In a 3-column article, the author reviews the history of the song from a French version sung by 500 guests and celebrities including the Hon. Wilfrid Laurier in Quebec City on St.-Jean-Baptiste Day, June 24, 1880, with music by Calixa Lavallée, a 19th-century composer from St.-Hyacinthe, Que. English attempts to match the French proliferated. At one time 200 versions existed. Finally, one, by Judge Robert Stanley Weir, of Quebec: "O Canada! Our home and native land", since slightly modified, was chosen in 1927.]

2. Canterbury's feckless funny man -
[Brief: Ian Hunter discusses the initiatives of The Archbishop of Canterbury which bury scripture to please the high-pitched voices of indulgence, - at cost of respect from traditional churches of Asia and Africa.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 671 June 2-8, 2004:
1. Chalabi 'duped us' on Saddam's WMD - THE New York Times, one of the most influential US newspapers, had published a sweeping apology for being too credulous in its coverage of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, writes Alex Russell. It blamed its reliance on leading exiles including Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's former favourite to lead Iraq. The apology came as Washington seethed with a bitter row over the role of Mr. Chalabi, whose supporters provided faulty intelligence that primed the case for the war. ... In its apology the newspaper said a common feature of the "problematic articles" was their dependence at least in part on Iraqi exiles and defectors bent on "regime change"... .
[Brief: 2 columns.] COMMENT: These folk are the assortment who "promoted" the present "Iraqi" regime to sit in judgment on Saddam Hussein"?

2. Eurocrats told to keep it brief -
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered its bureaucrats to keep their documents "shorter and to the point". The order came as translators suffocate under a mountain of paperwork after the arrival of 10 new states. EU business is already coming to a halt for lack of translators.

3. EU aid spent on film festivals -
THE EUROPEAN Union is spending millions of pounds of British aid intended to alleviate Third World poverty on arts festivals and films.

4. How Vanunu fell into a trap by Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem -
MORDECHAI VANUNU, Israel's nuclear weapons whistle-blower, has revealed that he challenged a Mossad agent over her true identity before accompanying her to Rome, where he was abducted in 1986. [Brief: 4 columns, illus.]

5. War that claimed two million lives ends after 50 years - (Sudan)
[Brief: map, 3 columns amplify.]

6. Oklahoma execution ruling (Terry Nichols)
[Brief: If guilty he can be executed.]

7. Killer toads march on city -
CANE toads, imported to Queensland in the 1930s in a failed attempt to control sugar-cane beetles, are now advancing on Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia). The toads' skin is so toxic that it can kill cats, dogs and toddlers.

8. Kissinger tapes show how Nixon lied and was 'loaded'
[Brief: The heading tells the story. One item: Kissinger and Nixon celebrating overthrow of Chilean Salvador Allende in a coup "helped" by the US.]

Globe & Mail 1 June, 2004:
1. Anglicans pick trailblazer to lead flock - Hutchison among group of senior clerics who supported same-sex blessings - by Michael Valpy -
The Anglican Church of Canada yesterday elected as its national leader Montreal Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, one of the church's most liberal and politically polished leaders who also is firmly in the camp that supports the blessing of same-sex unions.
[Brief: of interest, might be the note that "The fluently bilingual Archbishop Hutchison has been honoured in the past by Canadian Jews for ridding Anglican liturgy of wording they found offensive - a Good Friday reference to Jews as "lost sheep."]

2. Allah and al-Sadr inspire a cult of insurgents - Support for al-Sadr increasing among ordinary Iraqis, poll shows.
[Brief: Influence is building a "Mahdi Army.]

Globe & Mail 2 June, 2004: U.S. federal judge blocks late-term abortion law -
A federal judge in San Francisco has struck down a U.S. law that banned a form of abortion, saying it created a risk of criminal liability of virtually all abortions performed after the first trimester. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was enacted in November and makes it a crime for doctors to perform any "overt act" to "kill the partially delivered living fetus." But Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled yesterday that it placed an undue burden on women seeking abortions, that its language was dangerously vague and that it lacked a required exception for medical actions needed to preserve a woman's health. NYT

Globe & Mail 3 June 2004:
1. Archbishop gives Charles, Camilla OK to wed in church -
[Brief: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans dropped his objections to the two divorcees remarrying in church after meeting the heir to the throne in private, The Times newspaper reported.]

2. Retail - Wal-Mart tests alternative to bar code by Jerry Langton -
The days of dominance of that most universal of identifiers - the bar code - may be coming to an end. And, like the dinosaurs before it, the ubiquitous code may be replaced by something smaller, more efficient and altogether more cunning. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer is testing Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFIDs). ... RFID tags are tiny chips that, when hit with a specific radio signal, can broadcast information stored on them. That information can be anything from a basic product number, to reams of detail about the product itself, where it is, what it contains and how it was made. "There's a little antenna in each case (of products), and a reader - it looks like a big metal detector - at the door of every warehouse and retail loading dock," said Kevin Groh, spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada. "It can tell us exactly where any case of merchandise is at any time." ... Special to The Globe and Mail.

Globe & Mail 4 June 2004:
1. CIA chief quits as 9/11 furor looms - by Paul Koring,
WASHINGTON, George tenet, America's Spy Chief resigned yesterday. ... Mr. Tenet, the Central Intelligence Agency director who presided over two monumental intelligence disasters - the failure to detect the Sept. 11 plot, and the assessment of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction - said he was quitting for personal reasons. ...
Also "The 'Great Survivor' falls on his sword", also Weekly Telegraph June 9-16 2004 "Weapons fiasco forces CIA chief to quit." [Brief: 5-col. illus.]

2. Anglican Church approves same-sex affirmation -
St. Catharines, Ont. The Anglican Church of Canada approved a measure yesterday to "affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same-sex relationships." The move stops short of authorizing dioceses to hold same-sex blessing ceremonies, but is still likely to complicate efforts aimed at unifying the 77 million-member Anglican Communion, which is deeply divided over homosexuality. CP-AP
For reaction, see below: The Weekly Telegraph No 672 June 9-15 2004

3. The shot seen around the world -
[Brief: filming D-Day landings in black and white was done without soundtracks. When shown to the public, sound had to be artificially dubbed in.]
Also Social Studies: Declassified maps - The British Hydrographic Office has released the once top-secret D-Day maps - of Juno, Gold, Sword, Utah and Omaha.

4. Obituary: Frances Shand Kydd 1936-2004 Diana's mother was a 'deeply spiritual woman'
[Brief: "She died at her home near Oban," said Canon Donald MacKay, a Roman Catholic priest who said he was with her when she died. A split occurred in the family. Her marriage foundered in 1967, when she fell in love with Peter Shand Kydd, a married wallpaper heir. The young Diana stayed with her father... 5 col. illus.]
Also: The Weekly Telegraph No 672 June 9-15 2004: Obituary Diana's mother dies at 68 (Frances Shand Kydd) (Full page, also separate 5-col. illus.) Also Weekly Telegraph No 673 June 16-22 - Spencers bid farewell to 'sporty, sparkling mother' - Prince in tribute to his godson; Charles is absent on request.

Globe & Mail 5 June 2004: Twin pulsars could illuminate Einstein's theory by Tu Thanh ha,
Montreal Orbiting 10 million billion miles from Earth are two extraordinary celestial bodies. If dropped on this world, they could both fit easily inside the width of the island of Montreal. Yet, they are so amazingly heavy and dense that each of them weighs more than our entire solar system. Since their discovery last year, the two bodies, a pair of radio-emitting stars known as the double-pulsar system PSR J0737-3039, have electrified the world of physics and space science. Astronomers hope that the twin pulsars will help them verify key parts of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. [Brief: the pulsars were born in a cataclysmic blast tens of millions of years ago, and orbit about 2,000 light-years away. Thus what we observe today actually occurred about the time of the Roman Empire, and the Han dynasty in China. 5 col.]

Globe & Mail 7 June 2004:
1. Sweet, purplish saskatoons found too new for British tastes -
fruit that has been eaten by natives for centuries may be banned as 'novel' food.

2. Ronald Reagan: 1911-2004 - Reagan's best role was U.S. president (2 full pages of obituary )
Also: Weekly Telegraph No 672 June 9-15 2004: Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 - Thatcher tapes eulogy for funeral; Bush leads mourning for a man whose touch he needs - Tributes - What he said. Also in Weekly Telegraph No 673 June 16-22 2004: (2-page, colour) Reagan Funeral, also full-page Obituary.

Globe & Mail 8 June 2004:
1. Clarkson will attend Reagan state funeral in place of PM (heading.)

2. Social Studies by Michael Kesterton:
(a) Tiny critters - Some rabbis now say that New York City tap water - for a century, a gold standard for cleanliness - is not kosher," reports The New York Times (It contains copepods - harmless millimetre-long zooplankton crustaceans, hence unclean food.)
(b) Who plays lotteries - Who is most likely to buy lottery tickets - Christians or non-Christians? Correct answer: "Christians."

The Weekly Telegraph No 672 June 9-15 2004:
1. Call to expel church in gays row by Jonathan Petre Religion Correspondent and Jonathan Wynne-Jones -
CONSERVATIVE Archbishops representing more than half of worldwide Anglicanism have demanded the expulsion of the Canadian Church for describing gay relationships as holy. In a significant blow to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, traditionalist leaders lambasted the Canadian General Synod for affirming that same sex unions had "integrity and sanctity." They said the Canadians should be ejected alongside the liberal American Episcopal Church which backed the consecration of Anglicanism's first openly gay bishop last year. Their intervention has seriously damaged efforts by Dr Williams and other Anglican leaders to broker a peace deal between the warring factions over homosexuality. Last week it appeared that the Canadian General Synod had avoided a clash with the conservatives when it decided to delay a controversial vote on gay blessings. The postponement was even praised by Dr Williams, who said it would help the work of the Lambeth Commission, the body he set up to try to maintain unity.
But a late amendment introduced by liberals on the Canadian Synod infuriated the Global South group of conservative primates, who represent more than 50 million Anglicans in the 70 million-strong worldwide Church. Liberals argued that the amendment, designed to placate homosexuals angry with the delay over gay blessings, was not intended to have any theological significance. But the conservative primates, including a member of Dr Williams's Lambeth Commission, said the use of the term, "sanctity" put same sex unions on a par with marriage. In a statement on behalf of 22 Global South primates Archbishop Gregory Venables, Primate of the Southern Cone (South America), said: "The use of the word sanctify means the whole issue has already been decided and that is devastating. "It is saying that God has agreed to bless same sex unions as the word carries the implication that this is not just right but that this is God's will and he has set it apart for the human race. It is rewriting the Christian faith." Archbishop Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies and a member of the commission, added: "It is completely unacceptable to "Bible-believing orthodox Christians that same sex unions are described as 'holy'. Such language is reserved for marriage alone."

2. Europe - Dutch warning over EU's power by Ambrose Evans Prichard in Brussels and Toby Helm Political Correspondent -
THE DUTCH government has called for a return of powers from Brussels to the member states, saying that integration had gone too far and lacked popular consent. It said it was time to consider taking back control of health, culture, social policy, aid to poor regions and the subsidy regime of the Common Agricultural Policy. ...
[Brief: A "Margaret Thatcher" type speech which marks a dramatic departure for a founding member of the EU that could once be counted on to back every push for closer union. ... A warning to a high-handed elite in Brussels that appeared to have lost touch with reality. - 5 columns.]

3. Zimbabwe faces record food shortages by Peta Thornycroft in Harare
DESPITE official claims that Zimbabwe can feed itself, the country grew less food this season than in any in modern times and needs more than a million tonnes of grain to keep the population alive... Zimbabwe needs 2.1 million tonnes of maize every year.
[Brief: Mugabe's pronouncements and claims to self sufficiency are self-serving and wildly extravagant.]

4. Deal puts Moore film in US cinemas
(Fahrenheit 9/11 will be distributed by Bob and Harvey Weinstein who bought distribution rights from Disney.

5. Obituary: Col Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, KT. Aged 93.
The 26th Chief of Clan Cameron and heir to one of the proudest lineages in all Scotland.

Globe & Mail 11 June 2004:
1. Dog impresses scientists with 200-word vocbulary - scientist noticed dog on popular game show by Anne McIlroy -
[Brief: A border collie named Rico understands a vocabulary of 200 words. He quickly learns words the same way toddlers do, and he can do it after hearing the names only once in a process called "fast mapping", a process researchers had thought unique to humans. He can understand that an unfamiliar item among others which are known to him relates to a new name because he already knows the names of other items in a box and reasons that the new name thus relates to the remaining item.]
Also in The Weekly Telegraph No 673 June 16-22 2004.

2. Obituary: Anna Lee 1913-2004 - an English rose in Hollywood

3. Obituary: Iona Brown, 63 - British violinist became distinguished conductor,
Also The Weekly Telegraph No 674 June 23-29 2004: Iona Brown, Aged 63. One of the most prominent female violinists and conductors of her generation, and was most closely associated with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the chamber orchestra founded by Sir Neville Mariner in 1959

Globe & Mail 12 June 2004: After 80 years, nation asks, 'what's in a surname?'
for the people of Mongolia, choosing a last name is as much about personality as ancestry, Geoffrey York writes.
[Brief: With expanding population, confusion reigns if thousands have only the same single name.]

Globe & Mail 14 June 2004: Obituary: Earl of Romney, 93 -
Silent Lord was speechless in the House of Lords (although he attended for 25 years).

Globe & Mail 15 July 2004:
1. Obituary: Jack McClelland dead at 81 -
Influential publisher presided over Canadian literature's coming of age - 36 years at McClelland & Stewart

2. U.S. Supreme Court lets Pledge of Allegiance stand -
Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed millions of school-children to keep affirming loyalty to one nation "under God" yesterday, but dodged the underlying question of whether the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional blending of church and state. The ruling overturned a lower court's decision that the religious reference made the pledge unconstitutional in public schools. But the decision did so on technical grounds, ruling that the man who brought the case on behalf of his 10-year-old daughter could not legally represent her. The outcome does not prevent a future court challenge over the same issue. AP

3. [Editorial]: Europe's protest votes
[Brief: Ruling parties in Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal took a pummeling over their support of the Iraq war. But voters also penalized their leaders in France and Germany which staunchly opposed the war. And everywhere, the voters turned increasingly to candidates either skeptical about the European Union or downright hostile to its growing power... .]
Also see: The Weekly Telegraph No 674 June 23-29 2004.

4. Letter to Editor: "King Canute: a bad press for more than 1000 years."
Ron Haggart, Toronto, wrote to correct a mistaken view that an arrogant King Canute tried to hold back the tides. He explains: "In fact, he did exactly the opposite. King Canute took his attending lords to the seashore to demonstrate that even a monarch as powerful as he could not hold back the relentless forces of nature. ..."

5. Technology - Idea finally spins gold for Web's inventor -
Tim Berners-Lee will receive $1.7-million for concept that changed the world
[Brief: The Internet concept.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 673 June 16-22 2004:
1. UKIP surge rattles big parties in Euro poll -
Also: European Elections - Headlines:
Night of disaster and humiliation for Blair; Time has come to renegotiate with Brussels, Howard told; Party leaders start to flex their new-found muscles; Old order shaken as the 'misfits' gain ground; Shock as Dutch whistleblower wins a seat in Brussels; UKIP winners toast success with English sparkling wine; Low poll 'could undermine assembly's legitimacy'; Blair faces crisis after poll slump for Labour; Tories share election glory with Liberal Democrats; BNP fails to make any headway in key target area.

2. Immigration (to Britain) 'six times' more than official figure by Richard Savill -
IMMIGRATION could be running at six times higher than official figures, a Home Office civil servant has told a court. Robert Owen said he could not even offer a "guesstimate" of the true number of foreign nationals in Britain. He was giving evidence in the trial at Swansea Crown Court of three Chinese accused of people-trafficking for "snake-head" gangs. Mr. Owen, seconded to the National Criminal Intelligence Service to advise on snake-heads, said no "serious arrangements" existed to return asylum seekers to China. Most of those who were rejected stayed on, he said. "Accepted figures for people coming in are significantly higher than official figures." Mr. Owen said the number of routes into Britain were "unbelievable". Lorry drivers were being paid up to £3,000 to bring groups in. The trafficking was "very structured and sophisticated". The trial continues.

3. Ayad Allawi accused over bombings
(IRAQ'S prime minister designate sent agents to attack Saddam Hussein's regime under CIA direction, it was claimed last week)

4. Atlantis 'found in Spain' -
ANCIENT ruins that appear to match Plato's description of the fabled lost city of Atlantis have been found in southern Spain. The structures, resembling two rectangular buildings at the centre of concentric circles, appear in satellite images of salt marshes near Cadiz. Rainer Kuchne, a German scientist who studied the images, says the "island" of Atlantis was a region of Spanish coast flooded between 800 and 500 BC

5. Shanghai hands back cathedral -
SHANGHAI'S former Anglican cathedral, spiritual home of Britain's colonial classes in the Far East for almost a century, has been handed back to the Church after years of communist neglect in response to a surge in support for Christianity.

6. Headings which tell their own story:
Mugabe seizes all land in attempt to rescue farming (in Zimbabwe).
International: Abuse 'approved at highest levels' (of U.S. Government).
US admits terror total was too low (as reported for last year).
Also G&M 22 June, 2004: State Department corrects erroneous terrorism report (rate increased, not decreased as report had it.)
Dossier on WMD was "a mistake' (Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5).

Globe & Mail 16 June 2004:
1. Just 1% of Canadians say they're homosexual -survey revives controversy
[Editorial]: Gays, lesbians and the numbers game - Kinsey's 10% figure was badly skewed half a century ago.

2. Abu Ghraib scandal convulses U.S. military - ex-commander of notorious Iraqi prison complains of being turned into scapegoat.

3. U.S. Baptists break ties with group over gay rights -
Indianapolis, Ind. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, voted to cut its links with the Baptist World Alliance yesterday, saying the global group is too liberal on gay rights and other issues. Leaders of the 16-million-member Southern Baptist Convention votes by a two-thirds majority at the group's annual meeting to split from the world body, capping a decade of growing theological differences and nearly a century of affiliation. Paige Patterson, a member of the groups executive committee, cited "a continual leftward drift" in the World Alliance. Reuters

4. Obituary: Kevin James Lawlor 1921-2004 - Newfoundland's first Mountie

5. Obituary: Richard Switlik 1919-2004 Amelia Earhart tested his family-made parachutes - the Switlik parachute was adopted by famed barnstormers and later saved the lives of thousands of wartime air crews

Globe & Mail 18 June 2004:
1. Israeli court sinks its teeth into pork issues by Matthew Kalman,
Jerusalem: How can Israel be both a democratic and a Jewish state? That was the question facing the country's high court this week when an extended panel of nine justices delivered a Solomonic ruling on the vexed matter of the sale of pork. Laws governing retail activity in Israel are under the jurisdiction of local town councils, and three mid-sized Israeli towns, Bet Shemesh, Tiberias and Karmiel, have bylaws restricting the sale of pork. [Brief: The ruling permits sales where local populations warrant. The secular Left wants the right to process and eat pork. Ultra-Orthodox are infuriated. Stay tuned!]

2. Social Studies: item by Michael Kesterton -
"Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die" -
Alfred Tennyson, The charge of the Light Brigade, a symbol of British bungling, was in fact a military triumph with surprisingly light casualties, a forthcoming book will claim. Hell Riders by Terry Brighton, official archivist of the Queens Royal Lancers - successor regiment to the one that took part in the charge - will blame Tennyson and a pioneering war correspondent for feeding the public a false tale of disaster. This story, he says, 'originated because at the first roll call immediately after the charge, only 195 men answered their names. But this was a roll of mounted men only." In fact, Mr. Brighton told The Sunday Times of London, only 110 out of the 666 men who took part in the charge were killed. Others had their horses shot from under them, but arrived back on foot much later.

3. Canadian Internet drugs safer than from abroad, U.S. says - Finding expected to fuel support for exports to U.S.

Globe & Mail 19 June 2004: Arts Notebook - Gibson most powerful man in show biz (photo caption: With the buzz from The Passion, Mel Gibson has topped the Forbes list of influential celebrities)

Globe & Mail 21 June 2004: Social Studies by Michael Kesterton - Items:
(a) Spring was feverish - March, April, May were 4th warmest on record
(b) Our musical universe - sound waves from Big Bang converted to audible.
(c) Stun guns for crowds - small explosive charge squirts a stream of tiny conductive fibres through the air at the victim, or other ionized gas or plasma to conduct electricity.

Globe & Mail 22 June 2004:
1 Obituary: Anglican Archbishop Scott killed in car accident (& Also G&M 26 June 2004 - a full-page obituary)

2 Lenin likely suffered from syphillis, Israelis say.

3 Hollinger, Barclays reach deal on Telegraph.

The Weekly Telegraph No 674 June 23-29 2004:
1. The Welsh built Stonehenge:
ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they have finally discovered the elusive Britons Who dragged Stonehenge's bluestones more than 100 miles to Salisbury Plain. Tests on the tooth enamel from Bronze Age skeletons in a mass grave near the site have revealed that they were almost certainly born in West Wales close to the mountains where the stones originated.
(Also in Science Vol 304 No 5679, pp 1889, 1891)

2. The Euro Elections; Political village is shaken to its foundations by Anthony King (Analysis -
2-page spread, maps, large pie graph semicircle, notes on France, Poland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Scotland)

3. EU has no real mandate for extraordinary leap forward - Commentary by Ambrose Evans-Prichard:
[COMMENT: Power hungry EU dreamers may find referendums a jolt of reality which resists their plans for a One-Europe "nation."]

4. Sept 11 crash victims saved Washington by David Rennie -
PASSENGERS on Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked in the September 11 terrorist attacks, saved Washington by crashing it into a Pennsylvania field because fighter pilots circling the American capital had no idea that they were looking for a hijacked aircraft, federal investigators revealed last week. They also said the fighter pilots had no orders to shoot the aircraft down... .

5. Sharon bribe inquiry could be reassessed by Inigo Gilmore:
THE bribery scandal surrounding Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, was reignited on Sunday, days after an investigation of his financial dealings was closed by the attorney general. Legal experts expect the High Court will order the case reopened.

6. Israelis to build border moat - [
Brief: The salt-water moat along the Egypt-Gaza border will discourage tunnels. The Israelis plan to sell the removed sand to pay for it.]

Globe & Mail 24 June 2004:
1. Top court rejects secrecy in anti-terrorism hearings- Level of secrecy to depend on gravity of case

2. Bid to renew war-crimes immunity for U.S. troops abandoned

3. U.S. scrambles to douse fire over treatment of prisoners

4. [Editorials]: (a) Here's to an open court (b) How they treat prisoners

Globe & Mail 25 June 2004:
1. Social Studies by Michael Kesterton - Item: Top 10 foods? (listed)

2. Historic Alberta Church returns to its roots -
all Saints Anglican church in Cochrane, Alta., was moved yesterday to a new site. The church was pulled by a team of horses to Cochrane in 1899, from the nearby town of Mitford (6 col. illus.)

3. Madonna to study Kabbalah in Israel.

Globe & Mail 26 June 2004:
1. Zundel trial won't hear from judge - Subpoenas for journalist, Jewish leaders also quashed at deportation hearing.

2. Opium production increasing, UN says -
Moscow - Worldwide opium production is increasing, driven by a sharp rise in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said yesterday in a report released in Russia, one of the prime routes for Afghan opium and heroin reaching the West. Opium-poppy cultivation declined in two major producing countries, Myanmar and Laos, the 2004 World Drug Report said. But Afghanistan has more than made up for the shortfall. Afghanistan was responsible for three-quarters of the world's illegal opium supply, the report said AP

3. Obituary: Bob Bemer, 84 -
Computer pioneer helped to invent ASCII system.

4. Devil's advocate -
Jacques Berges had built a reputation on defending people the rest of the world reviles. Now, in the twilight of his career, the controversial Paris lawyer not only snags the baddest guy of the bunch but, he confides to Sarah Elton, he has a golden opportunity to put U.S. foreign Policy on trial (part of defence for Saddam Hussein)

Globe & Mail 28 June 2004:
1. CIA suspends harsh methods of questioning reports say

2. Afghan reconstruction effort builds roads, wells and political support

3. Reformer Tadic victorious in Serbian election

4. Iran to resume building for nuclear program

5. Social Studies by Michael Kesterton - Words - Item: Gosts - old English spelling, but Dutch typesetters of Tyndale's Bible used Dutch 'Ghost'

Globe & Mail 29 June 2004:
1. Top U.S. court undercuts Bush - Guantanamo detainees have right to question status before neutral court

2. NATO to end mission in Bosnia

3. Washington restores ties with Libya

4. U.S. would support martial law decree in Iraq, Bush says - New Iraqi leaders seeking to stop violence

The Weekly Telegraph No 675 June 30-July 6 2004:
1. Barclays buy the Telegraph in £665m deal

2. Eye colour traced by DNA:
SCIENTISTS say they have found a way to tell the eye and skin colour of a suspect from the DNA left at the scene of a crime. They will soon be able to help police even further by using the same technology to predict hair colour. The colour of eyes is influenced by the interaction of several genes, according to the study published in the journal Trends in Genetics by Dr Richard Sturm of Queensland University and Dr Tony Frudakis of Dnaprint Genomics.

3. Valkyries ride in to conquer Glastonbury -
Pop festival audience wakes up to Wagner's opera after a muddy night of Beatles nostalgia with Sir Paul McCartney

4. Saltire still a potent symbol by Tom Peterkin -
A £300,000 Scottish Executive study looking at promoting Scotland abroad has concluded that the Saltire is the most potent symbol of the nation

5. Tolkien's hobbit hill goes up for sale at £500,000

6. Houseman's bells set to ring again (church bells that inspired the poet A. E. Houseman to write Bredon Hill, part of his collection from A Shropshire Lad...)

7. Guantanamo Bay trials 'are unfair'

8. Cross built by RAF pilot's son crowns Dresden church
[Brief: The son of an RAF pilot who took part in the raid has built a cross and orb for the restoration of The Church of Our Lady in Dresden. Beautiful baroque structure has been totally rebuilt.]

9. Found: gun that shook the world 90 years ago:
THE PISTOL that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sparked the crisis leading to the First World War has been discovered gathering dust in a Jesuit community house in Austria, writes Kate Connolly. [Brief: To go on show in Vienna Museum for the 90th anniversary display.]

10. War on Terrorism: 'No top terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay'; Pentagon sanctioned harsh interrogation of suspects

11. Anti-Bush film sets record -
A CINEMATIC tirade against President George W. Bush was well on target to become the biggest-grossing documentary ever - on only the first weekend after its release Fahrenheit 9/11...

12. 3 related headings on Zimbabwe: Mugabe slaps ban on poll observers; Money for arms, not orphans; Bumper harvest boast exposed.

13. Patience pays off for Barclay brothers in battle for ownership of Telegraph; Lawyers fear Lord Black will not go quietly

14. Obituary: Eva Lancaster - Red cross nurse whose career took her from wartime hospital ships to strife-torn Kenya, Cyprus, and Vietnam.
[Brief: She treated impoverished multitudes in distant lands. Winner of the Florence Nightingale Award. Her heroic story deserves far more space than we have available to tell it.]

Globe & Mail 30 June 2004:
1. Nutrition by Leslie Beck - Get your antioxidants from food, not vitamins, for best results -
[Brief: "Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a list of the best food sources of antioxidants. It came from the largest and most comprehensive study to date evaluating the antioxidant capacity of more than 100 commonly consumed foods. While many fruits and vegetables held top spots on the list, certain beans, nuts and spices also scored high. . . . Antioxidants act as scavengers, neutralizing freed radicals before they do harm. . . .
Antioxidents are highest in the most deeply or brightly coloured fruits and vegetables. 6-columns; names the desirable source foods in the following order: Fruits: Blueberries, cranberries, plums, dried prunes, blackberries, apples and cherries; Vegetables: artichokes and russet potatoes, (also red beans - small and kidney). Honourable mention: apricots, red grapes, navel oranges, asparagus, red cabbage, rapini and sweet potatoes. Nuts: Pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts and pistachios were tops. Spices: ground cloves, ground cinnamon and oregano.]