Friday, March 15, 2002

BBC News - AFRICA Zimbabwe enacts media curbs Journalists will need government accreditation A new law curbing the activities of independent and foreign news media in Zimbabwe has been enacted by the government. Local journalists will have to be accredited by a government-appointed panel, and foreign correspondents will be officially barred from working full-time inside Zimbabwe. 9:49:12 AM    comment FOXNews.com Much of U.S. in Grip of Dangerous Drought NEW YORK — Gripped by drought, states from the Atlantic Ocean nearly to the Pacific have become a veritable tinderbox ready for the spark and there's no relief in sight, weather forecasters said Thursday. The nationwide drought is more than a simple dry spell. The entire state of Wyoming has been declared a drought disaster area, and vast stretches of the Southeast and the West are ripe for wildfires. Further Information CNN.Com — Drought 'sleeping giant' in U.S. U.S. Drought monitor maps, updated each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. 8:48:50 AM    comment

Thursday, March 14, 2002

BBC News ENGLAND Dolphins face extinction, MPs told Hundreds of dolphins have been washed ashore The common dolphin could vanish from waters between England and France, MPs have been warned. Torbay MP Adrian Sanders said during a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday, record numbers of dolphins and porpoises had been found washed up on beaches in England and France since January. 7:16:46 PM    comment The American Experience Race for the Superbomb Nuclear Blast Mapper Map a Blast Would you survive a nuclear blast? Nuclear Blast Mapper will show you how terribly destructive thermonuclear weapons are. Step 1: Choose a Weapon... 1 Megaton Surface Blast: Pressure Damage Map The fission bomb detonated over Hiroshima had the explosive blast equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT. Blast Mapper's hydrogen bomb, hypothetically detonated on the earth's surface at any location you choose, has about 80 times the blast power of that 1945 explosion. Further Information DOE Nevada Photo Library - Atmospheric Nuclear testing images 1:06:14 PM    comment

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

BBC News SCI/TECH Locking out the hackers Broadband users worried that their PC is vulnerable will soon be able to buy a "black box" that watches over their net link to stop viruses and hack attacks. At the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover, anti-virus firm Trend Micro has unveiled its Gatelock device, which it hopes will prove popular with worried surfers. 2:40:12 PM    comment Yahoo! News Thriving Peru Coca Hampers Drug War By MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer TINGO MARIA, Peru (AP) - The jungle-draped mountains that loom over this town in the Huallaga valley conceal a truth that anti-narcotics officials have been loath to admit. After years of declining prices and production, coca crops are on the rise again in Peru. Even more worrisome to U.S. counternarcotics officials, Colombian drug traffickers are promoting poppy plants, the raw material of heroin. 2:13:48 PM    comment

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

FOXNews.com Ridge Announces Color-Coded Terror Alerts Tuesday: Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge unveils a color-coded terrorism warning system.Tuesday, March 12, 2002 WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge differentiated between degrees of terror warnings Tuesday by unveiling a five-level system that resembles a box of crayons. 2:14:28 PM    comment ABCNEWS.com Second Girl Disappears in Oregon Town Oregon Girl Goes Missing Two Months After Friend Vanishes March 12 — The town of Oregon City, Ore., is shocked and authorities are baffled after the disappearance of a second girl from an apartment complex there, two months after the child's friend and classmate went missing. 9:00:51 AM    comment

Monday, March 11, 2002

MSNBC Chocolate's dark secret By Dennis Murphy NBC NEWS The rich taste of chocolate has long inspired intense devotion. But the chocolate industry is now facing charges that may sour consumers[base '] taste buds. Two documentary filmmakers say that at least some of the workers who harvest the cocoa bean from which chocolate is made are kept as slaves, locked up at night and beaten if they try to flee. Dennis Murphy reports. 10:37:31 PM    comment

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