Month April 2003

Stop Sars, or else, warns flu expert “SARS could become as widespread as flu viruses unless action is taken to destroy it now, a leading Welsh disease expert warned last night. Professor Ron Eccles of Cardiff University’s Common Cold Centre…

Waiter, more perchlorate salad dressing, please!  “A laboratory test of 22 types of lettuce purchased at Northern California supermarkets found that four were contaminated with perchlorate, a toxic rocket-fuel ingredient that has polluted the Colorado River, the source of the…

Hey! Wasn’t Iraq supposed to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? Wasn’t that why we invaded?? So, why haven’t we found any? Rather than answers, there is only chaos: “Sources inside the Bush administration described the hunt for weapons as…

Argentina’s occupied factories Brukman is a factory in Argentina that has been occupied and successfully run by workers after owners abandoned it. The government is forcibly trying to take it back for the owners. There has been major violence, and…

Stupid cat tricks Miss Monica reports on a Sunset magazine letters to editor: “I saw your tip about using a pan of beer to kill slugs (“Let Snails Die Happy,” January, page 12).  This has worked great for us over…