Month December 2004

Reports of non-existent training before been shipped to Iraq continue to circulate, this time from Ft. Bliss, which sonds like it is anything but that. The soldiers said in interviews, e-mails and official documents that they were sent to war…

Nepal rebels block main roads. The Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, has been virtually cut off from the rest of the country after Maoists warned drivers to stay off the roads.

Tough, raw style led ’70s blues revival A musical icon and international symbol of the new generation of Chicago blues, Seals, 62, died of complications from diabetes Monday in a Richton Park nursing home. Had there not been Chicago Blues,…

A controversial portrait of President George W Bush, formed using monkey heads, has been projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan. Chris Savido’s acrylic painting, Bush Monkeys, prompted gallery managers to close down a 60-piece show at New York’s Chelsea…

The radio radiation like the kind emitted by cellular phones can damage DNA, at least under laboratory conditions, a group of European researchers announced Monday. Over a 24 hour period, cells exposed to such radiation in patterns of five minutes…