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Canadian Association of Geographers - CAG Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 4, July/Aug. 2004
- News From Statistics Canada: Pilot Survey of Hate Crime -
The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, in collaboration with 12 major police forces across the country, conducted a pilot survey on hate crime in Canada through funding from the government's Policy Research Initiative. The goal of this survey was to assess the feasibility of collecting national police-reported hate crime statistics. The participating police services were Calgary, Edmonton, Halton Regional, Montreal, Ottawa, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Regina, Sudbury, Toronto, Waterloo, Windsor and Winnipeg. The 12 police forces reported a total of 928 hate crime incidents during 2001 and 2002. Overall, over one-half of these hate crimes were motivated by race or ethnicity (57%). The second most common hate crime was motivated by religion (43%). Sexual orientation was the motivation in about 10% of incidents. [Brief: Chiefly Blacks and South Asians (ethnic), Anti-Semitism, Muslims (religion). One quarter of all hate crime was anti-Semitic. Further info.: Statistics Canada 1-800-263-1136.]

Science Vol. 305 No. 5687, 20 Aug., 2004
- Cognition - Life Without Numbers in the Amazon - To what extent can concepts exist without the words to express them?
Among members of a tiny tribe in the Amazon jungle (the Pirahà) that has no words for numbers beyond two the ability to conceptualize numbers is no better than it is among pigeons, chimps, or human infants. (p. 1093) [Brief: 2-col. colour illus.]

Science Vol. 305 No. 5688, 27 Aug., 2004, p. 1219 - NetWatch, ed. By Mitch Leslie
1. The First Eureka Moment - Archimedes
[Brief: A column on the man and his historic accomplishments draws attention to a web site at www. math.nyu.edu/-corres/Archimedes/contents. html .
2. The wasp and the fig tree
- a story of inter-kingdom partnership, notes a web site: www.figweb.org . - Both interesting. Also, p. 1225,
Chemistry: Fuel Cell Draws Power From Poison
carries two columns, illustrated, explaining a problem, (extracting hydrogen gas from fossil fuels creates carbon monoxide that contaminates the fuel) and solution: A membrane coated with normally unreactive gold; - but gold, as extremely tiny (nanotube scale) particles, becomes a swift catalyst to unite carbon monoxide and water, forming carbon dioxide and energy at convenient temperatures.]

Science Vol. 305 No. 5689, 3 Sept., 2004, -
1. p. 1406 - History of Science (Book Review): Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy, by David Lindley, Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2004, 374 pp. $27.95, C$37,95, ISBN 0-309-09073-3
2. Random Samples Ed. By Constance Holden p. 1398: Tibet's Ancient Flood -
Geologists say they've found evidence for one of the most powerful "megafloods" ever, in Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge. The Tsangpo River flows along the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau before slicing through the mountains toward India, dropping a dizzying 500 meters through a 200-kilometer-long gorge. Few explorers have visited the forbidding terrain-and paddlers have died trying to run the river. Intrigued by reports of ancient lakeshore sediments perched high on local mountains, a team led by geomorphologist David Montgomery of the University of Washington, Seattle, this year went to look. It found evidence that glaciers had repeatedly formed rock-and-ice dams along the river over the last 10,000 years, creating enormous lakes and leaving terraced "bathtub rings" on valley walls. One dam appears to have failed catastrophically, suddenly releasing more than 800 cubic kilometers of water, Montgomery's team reports in the September issue of Quaternary Research. Although scientists have documented bigger ancient megafloods, this one was "one of the most erosive events in recent Earth history," believes Montgtomery, because the waters were forced through an extremely steep, narrow valley. The findings confirm that megafloods, although rare, "are an important process in geological evolution," says geomorphologist Vic Baker of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and may help explain how the Tsangpo cut through the region's resistant rock.

Science Vol. 305 No. 5690, 10 Sept., 2004, - Mummy Revealed
-[Brief: The mummy of Harwa, an Egyptian artisan who died 3000 years ago at about 45 is in the Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy, where a team of anthropologists and forensic scientists have used the latest in computer tomography to virtually unwrap his dehydrated visage and reconstruct his appearance, pictured in American Journal of Roentgenology.]

Science Vol. 305 No. 5691, 17 Sept., 2004, p. 1709:
1. Random Samples Ed. By Constance Holden: - (a) Viking Burial Site -
Archaeologists are thrilled by the discovery of the first Viking graveyard uncovered in England, which they hope will shed light on a period with a notoriously scant record. The famously fierce Vikings of Scandinavia surged up English shores in the 8th century and dominated until the Norman conquest in 1066, leaving a lasting legacy in terms of genes, language, and culture. But unlike their predecessors, the Romans, the Vikings rarely built permanent remains such as stone roads or buildings. The find was made in March by an amateur, Peter Adams, wielding a metal detector on farmland in Cumbria northwestern England. Archaeologists uncovered six graves with Viking objects including weapons, spurs, and jewelry that seem to date to the early 10th century. Little of the skeletons remain due to the acidic soil but the objects suggest that the graves contained four men and two women. "To find just one grave is great," says excavation director Alan Lupton of the firm Oxford Archaeology North, who directed the 8-week excavation. "To find six is mind-blowing." University of Oxford archaeologist David Griffiths says there are Viking grave sites in Scotland and Ireland, but they were excavated in the 19th century under less than scientific conditions. The graves show features of both pagan and Christian burial practices that could yield information about how Vikings made the transition from Paganism to Christianity, says Lupton. [Colour-photo of a brooch accompanies the description.] [Also in Weekly Telegraph No 686 of Sept. 15-21, 2004: an account which adds the location as "discovered near Cumwhitton in Cumbria." and that "Peter Adams, an amateur archaeologist, discovered two copper brooches and then, as he dug, the Viking grave."]
(b) Defying Darwin [Brief: An account of a recent editorial dispute over publication of an article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington containing a critique of Darwinian evolution.]

2. Perspectives - Neuroscience "Signposts to the Essence of Language" by Michael Siegal - [Brief: 2-p. colour illus. An article reviewing development of sign language used by the deaf in various languages across the world.

Science Vol. 305 No. 5692, 24 Sept., 2004 - NetWatch - Exhibits - New light on Newton. [Brief: Newton wrote more pages on the Bible than on light and gravity.]

Science Vol. 306 No. 5693, 1 Oct., 2004 - Epidemiology - VA Advisers Link Gulf War Illnesses to Neurotoxins [Brief: 3-col., illus. -Nerve gas in Iraq's Khamisiyah weapons depot, shown here (air view) after it was demolished, likely contributed to Gulf war illness.]

Science Vol. 306 No. 5694, 8 Oct., 2004 -
1. ScienceScope p 211- Senator Moves on Kennewick -
American Indians aren't giving up on the battle to keep Kennewick man, the 9,400-year-old bones found in Washington state in 1996, out of scientist's hands. [Brief: a Senator has moved to change the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act definition of "Native American" ("relating to a tribe people, or culture that is indigenous to the United States") to read "is or was" indigenous... "Stay tuned!"]
2. India gets EDUSAT -
[Brief: Satellite education is to flood educational material to the entire country, providing interactive education and audio-visual material using English, Hindi, and India's 16 official regional languages via 96 channels. It will open connections between universities and isolated rural schools and support formal education ranging from grade school through graduate education. Health information to patients and professionals, teacher training in use of educational technology, and science will be available.]

Scientific American Vol. 291, No. 5, Nov. 2004:
1. Case for Ancient Upright-Walking Ancestors Gets Legs (p. 10) -
Researchers say that a new fossil analysis bolsters the theory that a chimp-size primate that lived in Kenya's Tugen Hills some six million years ago walked on two legs. As such, the creature may be one of the earliest human forebears on record.
2. Researchers Unveil Smallest Atomic Clock Yet (p. 10) -
Scientists have manufactured the world's tiniest atomic clock, with inner machinery about the size of a grain of rice. Requiring very little power to run, the device loses only one second every 300 years and could one day provide precise timekeeping for portable applications such as wireless communications devices and Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers.
3. Volcanic Sniffing - Quantum-Cascade laser may detect impending eruptions - by Charles Choi. (p. 22)
In A.D. 79 Mount Vesuvius erupted, annihilating the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands who did not evacuate in time. To avert a similar fate for present-day Naples, which lies six miles west of the still active Vesuvius, as well as for the cities near volatile Mount Etna in Sicily, a novel laser system could soon forecast volcanic eruptions up to months in advance. [Brief: 2-col. colour illus.]
4. Health Beating a Deadly Gas (p. 29)
Carbon monoxide kills or injures more people than any other poison. Half of those who survive serious encounters suffer brain damage, but mysteriously, the damage happens days to weeks after the gas clears a victim's blood. Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center deduced that the reason for the delay lies with a by-product of a chain reaction triggered by carbon monoxide. This by-product changes the shape and ionic charge of myelin basic protein (MBP), a major ingredient in the protective sheath around nerves. White blood cells attack this altered protein, but they also go after normal MBP molecules, too. Feeding rats MBP before carbon monoxide poisoning averted brain injury by rendering their immune systems tolerant to the protein. The findings could open up novel therapies for carbon monoxide poisoning, as stated in the September 1 online report from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA - Charles Choi
5. Music and the Brain - What is the secret of music's strange power?
Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in the brains of listeners and musicians. (pp 88-95)

The Canadian Geographer Vol. 48 No. 3. Fall 2004 - pp. 385-6:
Book Review: The Heavens Are Changing. Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity, by Susan Neylan, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2002, XVII + 406 pp. Cloth $75.00 ISBN 0-7735-2327-8 - A critical study of the encounter between nineteenth century evangelical Protestantism and the Tsimshian-speaking peoples of British Columbia. [Brief: How Christianity translates to another culture.]

American Geographical Society's Focus On Geography, Vol. 48, No. 1, Summer, 2004 pp. 12-19 -
Geoarchaeology of the Qumran Archaeological Site, Israel - Philip Reeder, Harry Jol, Richard Freund, Carl Savage - [Brief: This article carries clear, detailed coloured maps and accompanying text with coloured photographs presenting archaeological discoveries using a multi-disciplinary approach.]

Majesty Vol. 25 No. 9, Sept. 2004: Dizzy And The Faery Queen:
"In the 1870s Queen Victoria formed a remarkable and intriguing relationship with her Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli. Ian St. John describes how a man reviled for his ambition and his Jewish origins won the trust and devotion of a lonely Queen - drawing her from her seclusion and transforming the character of the British Monarchy in the process." - pp. 26-29.

The Scots Magazine - New Series Vol. 161 No. 3, Sept. 2004 -
1. From Bengal to Ballater by Nelson Fraser - pp. 242-246, (150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Patrick Geddes, town planner, who influenced the India of his time.)
2. John Brown's Bibles - Helen Cook considers the legacy of this influential minister and looks at her family's Self-Interpreting Browns Bible.

From "British Church Newspaper" - [This is a relatively new publication with a strong Protestant leaning] circa May, 2004:]
'My Farewell to Europe' - Dr. Ian R.K. Paisley MP MEP MLA:
"For the past twenty-five years I have been a Member of this Parliament of Europe" said Dr Ian Paisley in his retiring speech from the European Parliament on 5 May. "Its rapid growth of jurisdiction is the political mystery of the age, but I do not believe it is to the best advantage of the European peoples. "Enlargement has triggered off the destruction of the cooperation of the sovereign states of Europe, and brought about the construction of the sovereign super-state of Europe, the new tower of Babel. "The effects of the full battle between the voluntary cooperation of the European sovereign states and the dictatorial incorporation of those states into the European super-state have yet to be witnessed. "In our history super powers have always been detrimental to peace. The wars in the Balkans in recent years have been conveniently forgotten, when fiery advocates of the all-mighty Europe tell us the new Europe has prevented war and stopped war. Some prevention! Some stopping! The present enlargement is bringing with it loads of difficulties, generally in the economic field and particularly in the agricultural field. Just how serious the reaping in Europe is going to be, remains to be seen. The day has yet to declare it. "I especially welcome the fact that the United Kingdom will have its referendum, and that the ordinary European citizens in the United Kingdom will not be robbed of the right to pass their judgment on this momentous decision. "The continent of Europe is not our Fatherland, and never can be. Our nationalities cannot be changed, for they are the creation of God. No matter what sinful man may do, God has enthroned His Son King of kings and Lord of lords. He is the king of the whole earth, and He shall reign and rule for evermore."

Saudi Aramco World Vol. 55 No. 4, July/Aug. 2004 -
The Diness Discovery Written by Piney Kesting, Photographs courtesy of the Archives for Historical Documentation and the Mari-Cha Diness/Barnier Collection: A Minnesota garage sale yielded up a trove of glass-plate negatives that solved the mystery of Jerusalem's first resident photographer, Mendel John Diness. Born in Odessa in 1827, he later emigrated to the United States, where he left photography behind - along with a dozen-odd boxes in an attic where they lay forgotten for more than a century. [Brief: pp. 20-29 display some beautifully sharp black & white photos of the Jerusalem of an era now faded into history.]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 206 No 4, Oct. 2004, pp. 26-49 carried an extremely well illustrated article with its customary museum quality treatment,
"Who Were The Phoenicians - New Clues From Ancient Bones And Modern Blood." Well worth the purchasing.
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 206 No 5, Nov. 2004, pp 2-35 "Was Darwin Wrong" - [Brief: A museum class article on the question, with some history and the expected Darwinian answers.]

Jane's Intelligence Digest 10 Sept. 2004: US 'spy scandal' and Israel -
"An ongoing investigation into the exposure of an alleged Israeli Intelligence asset within the US Department of Defense has provoked furious denials from Israel, but serious damage has been done. JID reports on allegations that cut to the heart of the US's 'special relationship' with Israel... ." www.jid.janes.com
Jane's Intelligence Digest 24 September, 2004: Rogue scientists and WMD -
A disturbing element in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is the covert activities of so-called 'rogue scientists' and the trading by rogue companies in WMD-related equipment and technologies, particularly those with dual-use applications. JID's weapons analyst reports.

Time (Canadian Edn.) Vol. 164 No 15, October 11, 2004, p. 5:
"The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it." - Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, in a speech to members of his Labour Party in Brighton.

Time (Canadian Edn.) Vol. 164 No. 16, October 18, 2004: pp. 26-28
What Saddam Was Really Thinking - New disclosures paint a surprising portrait of the Iraqi dictator and his fateful strategies - by Johanna McGeary "He was overconfident. He was clever. But his calculations were poor." - Tariq Aziz

Time (Canadian Edn.) Vol. 164 No. 17, October 25, 2004: -
1. Mutiny on the Convoy? 19 reservists refuse to take part in a supply convoy. (p. 10)
2. Is God in Our Genes? - A provocative study asks whether religion is a product of evolution. Inside a quest for the roots of faith, by Jeffrey Kluger (pp. 44-53)
3. Dinosaur Tales - Did today's birds really evolve from dinosaurs? Two spectacular discoveries make the case even stronger. (pp. 54-55)
4. Is That a Verichip Under Your Skin? (p. 67) - "It was long foreseen, but when it finally happened, it still seemed spooky. The U.S. Government last week approved an implantable microchip for medical uses. When activated by a handheld scanner, the tiny VeriChip emits, via radio signal, an ID number that can be linked to a patient's medical records. Critics see Big brother. Enthusiasts say ambulance crews and emergency-room doctors will be able to access such critical data as medications and drug allergies, even if a patient is unconscious. Future versions may have sensors to read vital signs like pulse, temperature and blood sugar.

Details - Vol. XIII No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2004 (National Philatelic Centre, Canada), pp. 18-19
carried a beautiful colour-layout of the Victoria Cross (stamp) - issue date October 21, 2004, including a complete photograph of the unique pane of 16 stamps surrounding the names of Canadian winners of the medal.

The Weekly Telegraph No 684 Sept 1-7, 2004:
1. Blueberries 'reduce cholesterol' -
A SUBSTANCE found in blueberries can cut harmful cholesterol as effectively as a commercial drug, and has the potential for fewer side effects. The chemical, pterostilbene, could offer an alternative for people who do not respond well to conventional drugs, according to the American team that made the discovery.
2. Early photographs saved -
A COLLECTION of 47 photographs of the crystal palace, dating from the late 1850's or early 1860's, have been saved for the nation by English Heritage, which paid £11,500 at auction.
3. Immigration reaches record high as asylum level falls - by John Steele Home Affairs Correspondent
4. Abortions reach record 37,000 for teenage girls - by Sarah Womack Social Affairs Correspondent
5. Wave machine starts work -
BRITISH engineers have succeeded in supplying electricity generated from wave power to the national grid for the first time, writes Charles Clover. A machine has been generating electricity for a week. Its performance is being monitored by scientists of the European Marine Energy Centre. The Pelamis machine or red snake", operating a mile off Orkney, is producing enough to power 500 households and is the first of a number of proto-types built by Ocean Power Delivery of Edinburgh. Wave machines use the sea's vertical rise and fall to create changes in pressure, like pistons in a car engine, to drive a turbine.
6. Worthless euro coins may face meltdown -
LIFE has been short for the one- and two-cent euro coins launched with such fanfare less than three years ago, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard... (2-col.)
7. Locusts hit home of Gibson's Christ -
THE TOWN of Matera in southern Italy had been hoping for a tourist boom after Mel Gibson made The Passion of the Christ there. Instead it has been hit by a biblical plague of locusts which have driven the tourists away and are devastating crops.
8. FBI uncovers Israeli 'mole' in the Pentagon - by Julian Coman... (Brief: 4-col. illus.)
9. Banker to lead Pakistan -
A FORMER New York banking executive has been named as prime minister of Pakistan. Shaukat Aziz is widely acknowledged as the placeman of President Pervaiz Musharraf. He entered politics only at Gen Musharraf's behest.
10. Obituary: Captain Bill Jewell - Submariner whose dumping of a body with plans to mislead the Germans was celebrated in The Man Who Never Was.

Globe & Mail, Sept. 1, 2004:
1. Milosevic begins raucous defence - by Doug Saunders, London
2. Who owns icebergs? - Danish Greenland produces fresh water as icebergs. Who owns them? - Social Studies by Michael Kesterton
Globe & Mail, Sept. 2, 2004:
1. Another case of mass deception? [Brief: Former examples reviewed - a column by Lawrence Martin.]
2.Ask a journalist - Do my sheep miss me when I'm away? - Sheep are excellent at recognizing faces - Social Studies by Michael Kesterton
Globe & Mail, Sept. 3, 2004:
Deceased journalist loses free-speech legal battle [Brief: Doug Collins' wife had continued his legal challenge of B.C. hate legislation.]
Globe & Mail Sept. 4, 2004:
Blaze destroys priceless books in historic library [Brief: 17th-century Anna Amalia Library gutted.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 685 September 8-14 2004:
1. Bellringing discord -
A TEAM of bellringers has been sacked in a row between traditionalists and modernisers at an 11th century church at Leeds, Kent. Chris Cooper, 25, and his five colleagues were given their marching orders after refusing to ring for modern family services featuring "silly worship songs".
2. Bishops in gay row face ban -
LIBERAL American bishops face having their invitations to Anglican summits withdrawn by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, if they continued to defy the worldwide Church over homosexuality. Under tough proposals likely to be recommended by the Lambeth Commission, the liberal leadership of the American Episcopal Church could be excluded from policy-making and shunned by the vast majority of Anglicans
3. Black judge for High Court -
THE FIRST black person to be appointed a High Court judge is due to take up the post next month. Linda Dobbs, QC, 53, is the first lawyer from an ethnic minority to be promoted beyond circuit judge. Dr. Dobbs, who gained a PhD at the London school of Economics in 1980, is a specialist in criminal law and former chairman of the Criminal Bar Association. In due course, the new Mrs. Justice Dobbs is expected to preside over high-profile trials.
4. British legal defence team is imposed on Milosevic - by Joshua Rozenberg Legal Editor (3-col., illus)
5. Chinese must choose their words carefully - by Richard Spencer in Beijing - [Brief: Officially banned: human rights, democracy, Tiananmen Square massacre, liberty, Christian, truth, sex, brassiere.]
6. Obituary: Fred Whipple. Aged 97, American astronomer who revolutionised the study of comets in 1950, proposing that they were small bodies of rock, dust and ice, and not "sandbanks" held together by gravity, as had been believed. Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955-73, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. [Also: Time, (Can. Edn.) Sept. 13, 2004, Vol 164 No 11, p. 15.]
7. Obituary: Private Arthur Barraclough - Aged 106. Lively Yorkshireman interviewed at length about his experiences on the Western Front for the recent BBC television series The Trench.
8. Searching for the smart alternative - Sick of the stock market? Rare and beautiful objects can be sound investments, says Melanie Wright [Brief: Full page, colour illus.]

Globe & Mail, Sept. 9, 2004: -
B'nai Brith recommends sharia-based tribunals.
Globe & Mail Sept. 14, 2004:
Obituary: Shepherd, Reverend Jonas E.C., MM [Brief: Charter Member, and former President of the Canadian Protestant League.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 686 September 15-21 2004:
1. Churches condemn euthanasia -
PROPOSALS to relax the law on euthanasia and allow assisted suicide have been condemned as deeply misguided and unnecessary by Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, warned of serious consequences. It was part of a submission by Anglican and Catholic bishops to the House of Lords select committee scrutinising the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, introduced by Lord Joffe.
2. Curry 'may help fight off cancer' - by Sally Pook -
SPICY food may be able to protect the body against damage that leads to cancers, scientists said last week. Tumeric, which gives Indian dishes their yellow colour, is an anti-oxidant that can protect against environmental chemicals that damage DNA, a childhood leukaemia conference in London was told. More and more scientists believe that lower rates of leukaemia in Asia may be caused by diet. Tumeric is also said to slow the rate of diseases such as Alzheimer'' and to possess anti-inflammatory properties that could help with Crohn's disease. Prof Moolky Nagabhushan, of Loyola University, Chicago, said that turmeric blocked some of the harmful effects of cigarette smoke, protected against chromosome damage and prevented dangerous chemicals forming after eating processed food.
3. Swans fighting it out in Lincoln Cathedral battle [Brief: smaller feisty black swans, though outnumbered, battle larger whites.]
4. A tumble-dried tabby - [Brief: Cat asleep in washer survived a wash cycle.]
5. £1.6 m appeal to save psalter - [Brief: One of Britain's medieval treasures, 14th century Macclesfield Psalter, a small, much decorated 252-leaf volume of psalms and prayers, may be sold abroad.]
6. Getty's Victorian treasures to go under hammer - by Will Bennett -
A COLLECTION of art and antiques that belonged to Sir Paul Getty, the American-born billionaire who became Britain's greatest philanthropist, is expected to fetch £4 million at auction in London in November. Eighteen Victorian paintings and drawings, many of them by leading Pre-Raphaelite artists, along with furniture and other works of art, are to be sold at two auctions at Christie's. [Brief: Col. Illus. 8 paintings are named, valued.]
7. Rastafarians seek reparations -
A COALITION of Rastafarian groups in Jamaica wants to go to the United Nations to pressure European countries to pay billions of pounds in slavery reparations. The Rastafarian Nation said European countries formerly involved in the slave trade should pay £72.5 billion to resettle 500,000 Jamaican Rastafarians in Africa. - AP

Globe & Mail Sept. 15, 2004:
1. Social Studies: 40,000 - "The average American child is exposed to 40,000 advertising messages each year...
2. In Brief: Obituary: Leonard Birchall, 89 -
Canadian pilot hailed as 'Saviour of Ceylon' - [Also G&M Sept. 18, 2004 full page obituary, illus.]
3. Jurassic Parks - Hiking through the earth's bones in the Badlands
Globe & Mail Sept. 16, 2004:
1. Terror suspect attempts novel legal tactic - Harkat requests 'friend of court' to dispute secret evidence against him
2. Iraq invasion illegal, Annan says
3. Cheques from Copying Collective are in the mail (royalty tax on tapes, CDs).
4. Social Studies: (a) Pressing leaves; (b) faking better wood; (c) hummingbirds.
Globe & Mail Sept. 17, 2004:
CSIS intercepted Zundel's mail, ex-agent says.
Globe & Mail Sept. 18, 2004:
1. CSIS notes stolen, ex-spy says at Zundel deportation hearing.
2. CanWest editing questioned - Reuters wants reporters' names removed when the word 'terrorist' added to stories [Also G&M Sept. 21, 2004 CanWest, Reuters at odds over use of 'terrorist']
3. Bush unfazed as absence of WMDs confirmed.
Globe & Mail Sept. 20, 2004:
1. Obituary: Eddie Adams, 1933-2004 [Most Famous Photo: execution by pistol.]
2. Obituary Beyers Naudé 1915-2004 Anti-Apartheid cleric turned his back on fellow Afrikaners to support the ANC
Globe & Mail Sept. 21, 2004:
Mystical girl raises Jewish ire - Orthodox call Madonna's visit to Wailing Wall 'entertainment, not Judaism.'

The Weekly Telegraph No 687 September 22-28 2004:
1. 'Failure is not an option, but it doesn't mean they will avoid it' -
The memo from Tony Blair's foreign policy adviser on US plans to invade Iraq was to the point and did nothing to dispel the Prime Minister's mounting concern. President Bush has yet to find the answers to the big questions, Sir David Manning told the Prime Minister in a note marked Secret and Strictly Personal. As the memo put it: What happens on the morning after? - Michael Smith reports [Brief: 3 sub-titles: Jack Straw had grave reservations about the idea of toppling Saddam. 'It sounds like a grudge match between Bush and Saddam.' There was no credible evidence to link Iraq to Osama bin Laden. 2 full pages, illus.]
2. Salvation Army in financial crisis -
THE Salvation Army is facing a serious financial crisis after discovering a £9.6 million hole in its annual budget. The disclosure will come as a huge embarrassment to the 126-year-old Christian organisation, renowned for its brass bands and soup kitchens. It has shocked senior officers, who have received confidential letters ordering them to make swingeing cuts which could result in job losses.
3. New drug found in island fungus -
A DRUG isolated from a fungus found on Easter Island is offering a new hope to thousands of people who suffer from a genetic disease that makes tumours grow throughout the body, a conference was told. Rapamycin (sirolimus), isolated from a fungus in an Easter Island soil sample in the 1970s and used to stop organ rejection, could fix damage caused by tuberous sclerosis.
4. Africa headlines: British war veterans in Zimbabwe face malnutrition - by David Harrison [3-col. illlus.]; Squatters'turn to be evicted by riot police; Blair's words 'played into Mugabe's hands'; Tribesmen invade land of last white farmers in Kenya; Sudanese army 'abducted Darfur women as sex slaves'
5. CIA 'lacks moral courage' -
AMERICA'S CIA unit dedicated to tracking al-Qa'eda is badly understaffed and made up of inexperienced operatives, according to a senior officer at the agency, writes Julian Coman. The criticisms were made by Michael Scheuer in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee. He also says the CIA missed opportunities to prevent the September 11 attacks. He accuses CIA managers of "a want of moral courage, an overwhelming concern for career advancement, or an abject inability to distinguish right from wrong".
6. Obituary: RICHARD BUTLER,
who has died aged 86, founded the American white supremacist group Aryan Nations, with the aim of creating a racially-pure white republic independent of federal government. Aryan Nations subscribed to the doctrines of "Christian Identity", a pseudo-religious movement which maintains that Anglo-Saxons, not Jews, are the biblical "chosen people"; that non-whites are "mud people" on a par with animals; that Jews are the children of Satan (Jesus was an Aryan), and above all that "It's okay to hate". In the early 1970s, Butler, a self-styled "Reverend", built a 20-acre barbed wire-encircled compound at Hayden Lake in remote northern Idaho, to serve as the focus of a new homeland for the white race. According to a later FBI report, Butler's goal was to seize control of five states - Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington and Montana, take them out of the American federal system and form an Aryan homeland. Over the next 30 years, the Aryan Nations compound became the centre of an inter-national racist network with cells in more than a dozen states and links with neo-Nazi groups around the world. [Also illus. column in Time, Can. Edn., Sept. 20, 2004, Vol. 164, No. 12, p. 16.]
[COMMENT: Some doctrines appear remarkably similar to our own, while others would seem to be far astray from our teachings. Write for details or consult our web-page for our own theses in these areas.]

Globe & Mail, Sept. 22, 2004
1. U.S. selling smart bombs to Israel in huge arms deal.
2. Defying UN watchdog, Iran admits enriching uranium.
3. Toll rises on destruction from German library fire.
Globe & Mail, Sept. 23, 2004:
Outspoken critic of Mugabe, archbishop [Pius Ncube] won't give in to fear.
Globe & Mail, Sept. 24, 2004:
1. U.S. bill would keep God in pledge - House aims to stop Supreme Court from striking out religious phrase - by Jim Abrams, Washington -
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance. [Brief: The legislation is needed to protect an affirmation of religion that is part of the national heritage... . "Under God" has been part of the pledge since 1954 when Congress passed and president Dwight Eisenhower signed a law amending the pledge to include the phrase.] AP
2. Africans get tools to cross the digital divide. [Brief: Millions don't know English.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 688, September 29-October 5, 2004
1. 'Dogs can sniff out cancer in humans'.
2. Children honour fallen of the Somme - by Colin Randall in Thiepval; Fateful gunshot took nine months to bring down the Red Baron - by Roger Highfield Science Editor [Brief: full-page, coloured illustrations.] [Also see Weekly Telegraph No. 689.]
3. New Zealand to protect its symbol -
NEW ZEALAND is creating kiwi havens to prevent its national bird from becoming extinct. The population of flightless birds has plummeted to an estimated 60,000 from five million in 1920, as settlers cleared its forest habitat and introduced predators that ate the young.
4. Mugabe in denial as the people go starving - Zimbabwe leader's harvest claims wear thin, write Peta Thornycroft in Harare and David Blair
5. Colonialism 'was better for Africa' -
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbveki's denunciations of western imperialism have been contradicted by his brother, who said Africans had been better off under colonial rule. ... [Brief: 1 column, illus.]

Globe & Mail Oct. 2, 2004 -
[Editorial]: The untranslated tapes [Brief: U.S. don't have translators sufficient to handle all the tapes they have recorded.]
Globe & Mail Oct. 4, 2004:
Crusader racks up legal victories for the cause: Toronto veteran of key gay-equality cases set to make her big pitch to Supreme Court; Cauchon presses Liberals on same-sex unions, pot; Christianity hangs in balance, leading theologian warns.
Globe & Mail Oct. 5, 2004:
A historic day on the bench: with four women, Supreme Court is the most balanced it's ever been

The Weekly Telegraph No 689, October 6-12, 2004
1. Our Common Ancestor -
EVERYONE in the world is descended from a single person who lived around 3,500 years ago, according to a new study. Scientists have worked out the most recent common ancestor of all six billion people alive today probably dwelt in eastern Asia around 1,415 BC. Using a computer model, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used estimated patterns of migration throughout history.
2. Unforgotten horror of the Somme - A visitors' centre has opened at the memorial to one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War. Ben Fenton reports [Brief: 6-columns, illustrated.]
3. England expects ... Nelson in a lifejacket? [a page, colourful pictures]; £47,000 scraps of Victory flag -
TWO fragments of the flag that flew on Lord Nelson's Victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 fetched £47,800 at an auction at Bonhams in London last week. The flag, which was supposed to have been placed on Nelson's coffin during the funeral procession, was torn up by the grief-stricken sailors so that each could have a memento of their commander. The fragments were in a collection formed by the Enys family from Falmouth, Cornwall, in the 19th century.
4. 'Crime book' finished after 500 years [Brief: 2-col. colour illus.]
5. Wall rebuilt for museum -
FIFTEEN years after the fall of the Berlin Wall a museum plans to rebuild a 656ft stretch on either side of the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing. The project, granted permission by city authorities because it is being presented as an art installation, is meant to remind Berliners of the existence of the wall which cut the city in two for 28 years.
6. Africa Headlines: Harare threatened by outbreak of cholera; Opposition MP faces prospect of prison; Mercenary to launch appeal
7. Prisoner's letter tells of 'torture and deaths' in Guantanamo
8. Intercepts lost in FBI file backlog
9. Clergy rivals fight the good fight -
GREEK ORTHODOX and Franciscan priests were nursing their bruises after a fight at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, purportedly built on the site where Jesus was crucified. The fight began over whether a door in the basilica should be closed during a special commemorative procession. According to witnesses at one point, the procession passed a Roman Catholic chapel, and priests from both sides started arguing about opening the door. A brawl ensued and riot police had to break it up.
10. Sex at 12 is normal, say Pitcairn women; Mayor of colony 'laughed at girl after raping her'; Men had 'free rein to abuse girls.

Globe & Mail Oct. 6, 2004:
1. Americans win Nobel for subatomic theory - Physicists share prize for discovering what keeps atoms from flying apart [Brief: David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek were winners.]
2. Mount St. Helens keeps letting off steam - Scientists watch closely as grit lands on small town 40 kilometres away - by Stephen Strauss -
As Mount St. Helens in Washington state continues to rumble and let loose clouds of steam and ash, scientists are eager to use the event to refine their understanding of volcanoes and how to predict them. [Brief: 6 col. illus. with photo and scientific diagram of volcano profile inset.]
3. Cost overruns, technical woes have plagued used subs.
4. [Two Editorials]: The Rumsfeld versions (WMD??); Concordia's muzzle (University student body resisting certain invited speakers.)
6. Vin Diesel for the Dark Ages [Brief: making a film on the saga of Beowulf in Iceland.]
Globe & Mail Oct. 7, 2004:
1. Ottawa lambasted over same-sex case - Supreme Court judges, gay-rights lawyers question government motives for reference; Support for same-sex marriage still split.
2. Court rules against Globe in copyright case - Denies right to republish articles bought from freelancers in searchable databases - by John Saunders - The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that The Globe and Mail does not have the right to republish articles bought from freelance writers in searchable electronic news data-bases because the articles then are no longer part of the newspaper. In a 2-1 split decision yesterday, an appeal panel upheld a 2001 Ontario Superior court decision that may handicap publishers whose electronic archives have become substantial profit sources. In the lower court decision, Mr. Justice Peter Cumming wrote that virtually all of the arrangement and selection that goes into a newspaper "is lost in the reproduction of an isolated, stand-alone article downloaded onto a computer, and shown on its monitor, from an electronic database as the result of a keyword search." [Brief: A database is not a newspaper. The copyright is owned and retained by the author, not the paper.]
4. Social Studies - New Religions [Brief: More than 800 in the U.S.]
5. Death on the Chicoutimi - [Brief: Canadian submarine burning.]
6. Cyberspace confidential: protecting your words.
7. Network security - A day in the life of superhighway cops
8. Lives lived: Betty Annan Grant [Brief: Column which mentions that she was the model for the Macdonald tobacco company advert. of a Scottish Girl illus. in 1934.]
Globe & Mail Oct. 11, 2004 -
Obituary: Edward McAteer, 78, Leader of religious right inspired Jerry Falwell.
Globe & Mail Oct. 12, 2004 -
1. Obituary: Christopher Reeve 1952-2004 - Film "Superman" crippled by neck injury.
2. Target bars Salvation Army bell-ringers from its stores - Saginaw, Mich. Salvation Army chapters were scrambling yesterday to decide how to replace donations to Christmas bell-ringers outside Target stores after the U.S. retailer banned the holiday fixture. Volunteers collected nearly $9-million (U.S.) outside Target stores last year, but the firm said it will no longer make an exception to its no-solicitation" policy, as it is faced with more and more requests from other charities. AP

The Weekly Telegraph No 690, October 13-19, 2004:
1. There was no stockpile of WMD, says report... . [Brief: 6-col., illus.]
2. Minister says sorry for Iraq... Patricia Hewitt speaks on Question Time after being heckled by audience members... .
3. Royal Scots axed in Army shake-up - by Tom Peterkin -
THE Royal Scots, Britain's oldest infantry regiment, is to disappear in sweeping defence cuts that will see Scotland's historic regiments amalgamated into a single force. The Army says a super-regiment made up of five battalions is to be created from Scotland's six infantry regiments. The Royal Scots and King's Own Scottish Borderers are to be squeezed into a single battalion, with two of the Army's most distinguished regiments losing their separate identities. The remaining four battalions will be made up of the Black Watch, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Royal Highland Fusiliers and the Highlanders, who will retain their names and cap badges. Soldiers in the super-regiment, likely to be called the Royal Scottish Regiment, will wear a common uniform with discerning features that recognise their regimental origins.
4. Giant smelly flower draws crowds -
A GIANT tropical flower that smells like "over-ripe Camembert on a bed of roadkill" is attracting thousands of visitors at Australia's foremost botanical gardens. The Amorphophallus titanum, which grows wild in the jungles of Sumatra and means "huge deformed penis", has burst into bloom in a greenhouse in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
5. Woods lines up a 'simple' £million bash in Barbados (Tiger woods married to blond Elin Nordegren, now his wife)
6. Obituary: Janet Leigh - Actress whose grisly end in Psycho became one of Hollywood's most famous scenes. [Also in Globe & Mail Oct. 5, 2004: Janet Leigh 1927-2004 (full page)]
7. Obituary: Maurice Wilkins - Third and least well-known member of the team that won the 1962 Nobel Prize for cracking the code of DNA. [Also in Globe & Mail, Oct. 7, 2004, & in Oct. 13, 2004. Maurice Wilkins 1916-2004 - (full page)]
Globe & Mail Oct. 13, 2004:
1. Ten Commandments issue back to top court in U.S.
2. Ottawa reverses sign-off procedure for deportation of immigrants - Two ministers' approval required to label detainees threats to security.
Globe & Mail Oct. 14, 2004:
1. This pen is too mighty - (Opinion column on above.)
2. U.S. Patriot act's reach is a concern for Canadians.
Globe & Mail Oct. 15, 2004:
Navy confirms events on sub; Chicoutimi assembled in a hurry, man recalls.
Globe & Mail Oct. 16, 2004:
Tsvangirai acquitted of treason in Zimbabwe; The globetrotter, the vidotape and the opposition leader - Israeli-Canadian consultant Ari Ben Menashe was being paid by the government of Zimbabwe (had testified against him)
Globe & Mail Oct. 18, 2004:
1. Invaders now the invaded in Zimbabwe [Brief: They turfed out the whites, took their farms, now they in turn are being pushed out by police.]
2. Obituary: Sylvia Daoust 1902-2004 - One of the first women to earn a living as a sculptor in Quebec won acclaim for her religious and secular works
Globe & Mail Oct. 19, 2004:
1. Anglican prelates unrepentant - Bishops express regret that many oppose blessing of same-sex unions in the church
2. Rare recording captures conversation with Hitler [Brief: Talking to the Commander of the Finnish forces in the War against the Soviets.]
3. To some it's the Infamous Five - Not all the women who triumphed in the Persons case deserve a place of honour on our new $50 bill, says Calgary-based business columnist Deborah Yedlin. [Brief: Five women who demanded equality with men, but were not "politically correct" as today's populace view them.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 691, October 20-26, 2004
1. Related headings: One in 10 clergy back gay marriages; 'Pick your own archbishop' ad [Brief: For the first time, the Church of England has advertised the £52,950pa post of Archbishop of York in church newspapers, following the announcement of the retirement of Dr. David Hope.]; Anglicans plan to curb mavericks. [Brief: to curb liberal provinces and avert schism.]
2. Gold rush in Celtic Klondike [Brief: Irish gold mines draw renewed interest.]
3. Serbs at last admit massacre.
4. EC sacks £130m case whistleblower.
5. More than one way to spell euro. [Brief: New countries don't all have words which easily equate to 'euro'. They differ in spelling it.]
6. German Rightist parties to merge.
7. Bamboo threatens a famine in India. [Brief: Species which flowers every 48 years draws a plague of rats.]
8. 'Shouting' gun for riot control. [Brief: Israel to introduce an acoustic weapon.]
9. Danes claim North Pole -
DENMARK has launched an extraordinary bid for ownership of the North Pole, one of the world's last untapped sources of oil and natural gas. At present the Pole is considered international territory. The Danish bid is based on new geological data claiming to show that the Pole and Greenland, which has been owned by Denmark since 1814, are linked by a 1,240 km underwater mountain range.
10. Troops shun 'suicide mission' [Brief: A U.S. platoon under arrest in Iraq.]
11. Ghost jail 'holds al-Qa'eda men' [Brief: ultra-secret CIA prison in Jordan.]
12. Jewish state fears world isolation.
13. [Related headings]: Opposition head cleared of treason; Defence costs MDC dear; Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader, is embraced by a supporter after his acquittal.
14. Obituary: Christopher Reeve - Actor who was plucked from obscurity to star in Superman and later faced paralysis with notable courage.

Globe & Mail Oct. 20, 2004:
1. Zundel's defence based on age draws scorn - Prosecution launches closing arguments in Holocaust denier's deportation hearing.
2. Diary provides new glimpse into horrors of Holocaust (another "diary")
3. Non-student is a suspect in hate crimes at Ryerson U.
[COMMENT: It turns out this time that the 20-year-old is son of Jewish parents!]
4. Bush did not anticipate casualties, Robertson says. [Brief: Pat Robertson... .]
Globe & Mail, Oct. 21, 2004:
1. Flipping on the light switch of a million suns - Scientists are lining up to use Canada's intense-ray-emitting research instrument - Swedish researchers hope Canada's synchrotron will help them analyze why the Vasa, a 17th-century warship, is decaying.
2. Is Canada preparing to shift line in the sand? [Brief: Article by John Ibbitson, refers to leaning to Israeli rather than neutrality concerning the Palestinian question.]
3. Is this Emily Carr, by Emily Carr? [Brief: Famous woman artist may have painted herself on the back of another of her paintings - Page 1, colour pic.]
4. Judge accused of 'misguided approach' in Zundel case - Blais guilty of dispensing 'secret justice' lawyers for Holocaust denier assert.
Globe & Mail Oct. 22, 2004:
1. British forces given control of operations in new region [Brief: Thus releasing U.S. troops for Fallujah assault.]
2. U.S. Soldier gets eight years for prisoner abuse [Brief: Abu Ghraib prison].
3. Globe & Mail Oct. 23, 2004:
[Editorial]: The Zundel Case "It is unlikely that many Canadians spend their time thinking about Ernst Zundel. Given the Holocaust denier's abhorrent views, they might not be overly concerned to hear he has been sitting in jail for 18 months, fighting deportation to Germany on claims that he poses a danger to Canadian citizens. But in a country that believes in civil liberties, the use of a national security certificate to keep Mr. Zundel in solitary confinement in a Toronto detention centre should raise serious concerns. He's a weak reed to defend, but it is the treatment of the weakest reeds that tests our true commitment to constitutional rights. This is an extraordinary use - more to the point, abuse - of the secret-trial legislation that emerged after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to increase national security against terrorist acts. Most of the evidence against Mr. Zundel has been heard in private, compromising his right to a defence; his lawyers attack it as a mass of hearsay. The government need show only that it acted "reasonably" in stripping him of his rights, a preposterously low legal hurdle. What little has emerged suggests the crown is arguing not that he has incited violence, but that his material might be read by people who might incite violence - guilt by association. Mr. Zundel was quick to challenge the constitutionality of the security certificate, but the Ontario courts ruled that he should argue his case in Federal Court, where his deportation challenge is being heard. The Supreme Court of Canada this week declined to hear his appeal. On procedural grounds, the decision may have been appropriate. But the willingness of Canadian authorities to twist the narrow purpose of the secret-trial legislation to go after Ernst Zundel is a blot on Canadian justice. Yes, even if it helps the country get rid of a nasty character."
Globe & Mail Oct. 27, 2004:
mini-fluorescent bulbs from China pose risk
Globe & Mail Oct 28, 2004:
Discovery of miniature humans stuns scientists.
Globe & Mail Oct. 29, 2004
Civilian toll tops 100,000 study says. [Brief: Britain based Human Rights group Body Count says as many as 26,000 have died in Iraq.]
Globe & Mail Oct. 30, 2004
1. A scholar-sleuth pokes into Henry VIII's library [Brief: Richly illustrated new book by James Carley, noted Canadian scholar The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives reveals history in new light through study of his library, hence his thinking.]
2. Book Review: The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada's Secret War, by Carol Off, Random House Canada 310 pages, $34.95 Brief: Canadian Peace-Keepers intervening between Croats, and Serbs.]