This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: NYT
June 5, 2006
FOR war photography, Vietnam remains the bloody yardstick. During the Tet offensive, on Feb. 9, 1968, Time magazine ran a story that was accompanied by photos showing dozens of dead American soldiers stacked like cordwood. The images remind that the dead are both the most patient and affecting of all subjects. The Iraq war is a very different war, especially as rendered at home. While pictures of Iraqi dead are ubiquitous on television and in print, there are ver
Source: NYT
June 3, 2006
Mary Todd Lincoln seems an unlikely muse for a writer whose first book, "Dancer From the Dance," published in 1978, remains one of the most famous novels in modern gay literature. But the widowed Mrs. Lincoln is the presiding spirit in Andrew Holleran's novel "Grief."
Mrs. Lincoln's husband, of course, is a perennial subject for historians, novelists and biographers. "We are so drawn to Lincoln, justifiably so," Mr. Holleran said, "but Mary Todd L
Source: NYT
June 5, 2006
In the ballroom foyer of the Embassy Suites Hotel, the two-day International Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth was off to a rollicking start.
In Salon Four, there was a presentation under way on the attack in Oklahoma City, while in the room next door, the splintered factions of the movement were asked — for sake of unity — to seek a common goal.Such was the coming-out for the movement known as "9/11 Truth," a society of ske
Source: BBC
June 4, 2006
The latest work on the recovery of a medieval ship uncovered in Newport is going on public display for the first time since last summer.
The ship was found buried in the banks of the River Usk as workers dug the foundations of the city's new arts centre in August 2002.
It has since been removed timber by timber, and experts are examining and recording the pieces.
Earlier this year a French silver coin was found inside one of the timbers.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
June 5, 2006
An independent panel has confirmed four instances of plagiarism in documents attributed to Scott D. Miller, the president of Wesley College, in Delaware. But the three-member panel, which was hired by the college's governing board, stopped short of blaming Mr. Miller for the plagiarism. "We are not comfortable reaching strong conclusions," the panel wrote in a 35-page report, released on Friday. "Indeed, the services of a skilled forensic scientist
Source: Broadcasting & Cable
June 5, 2006
As American television crews struggle to stay safe while reporting the news from Iraq, veterans of other war zones say this conflict is the most dangerous ever for journalists. Few know the perils of war reporting better than CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer. A 42-year CBS veteran, Safer spent several years covering the Vietnam War and established the network’s Saigon bureau. After two of his colleagues were killed in a May 30 attack in Iraq and a third critically injur
Source: AP
June 5, 2006
SACRAMENTO - Frustrated that presidential candidates have spent so little time in California, lawmakers approved legislation yesterday to change how the state awards its electoral votes for president.
The bill, approved 49-31 mostly along party lines in the Assembly, would pledge California's 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote, a system critics charged was an attempt to circumvent the U.S. Constitution.If the bill b
Source: New Yorker (click on the NEXT link at the bottom of each page)
June 1, 2006
The New Yorker has published various writers' memories of wartime including: Neil Sheehan, Roger Angell, Tony D'Souza.
Source: cronaca.com
June 4, 2006
Israeli scientists have discovered an ancient ecosystem containing eight previously unknown species in a lake inside a cave, where the creatures were completely sheltered from the outside world for millions of years. The newly discovered— all invertebrates— were found last month in a cave near the city of Ramle in central Israel . . .
The cave, located 328 feet below ground in a limestone quarry, includes tunnels that extend about a mile and a half. Inside lies the large underground
Source: Discovery News
June 2, 2006
Archaeologists have discovered an enormous prehistoric calendar, formed by sculptures arranged in a circle, at the Temple of the Fox in Buena Vista, Peru.
The calendar, which dates to 2200 B.C., is the oldest known structure of its kind found in the Americas.
Similar monuments erected by the Mayans of Mexico have also been found, but those have dated to approximately 2,000 years ago.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 3, 2006
Gerry Adams has been a guest at No 10 and the White House but the Sinn Fein president is definitely not welcome at the V&A museum, it seems.
Staff have removed his name from the guest list for the opening of its "Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon" exhibition next week.
Mr Adams's name was deleted for being neither -"relevant or appropriate", said the exhibition's curator, Trisha Ziff, who had invited him as a personal friend.
She w
Source: Yahoo
June 5, 2006
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's mystery pyramid will now be probed and inspected by a team of experts from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. "We shall send a UNESCO expert team to Visoko to determine exactly what it is all about," UNESCO Secretary General Koichiro Matsuura said in an interview published on Monday in Dnevni Avaz newspaper.
Amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic has caused a stir with his find, alth
Source: ABC
June 1, 2006
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - An underwater explorer who found the Titanic and a team of international scientists will soon survey waters off the Greek island of Crete for clues to a once-powerful Bronze Age-era civilization.
The expedition about 75 miles northwest of Crete aims to learn more about the Minoans, who flourished during the Bronze Age, and seeks to better understand seafaring four millennia ago, the scientists said.
U.S. researchers say the Minoans
Source: Hamilton Spectator
June 3, 2006
A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art and a crude representation of a face are among the rare finds in a cave in western France, officials said yesterday.
The state took over ownership of the cave in the Vilhonneur forest on May 12, the French Culture Ministry said in a statement.
It was only the second time that a human body is known to have been placed in a decorated cave from the Upper Paleolithic Period,
Source: BBC
June 5, 2006
As part of a series marking 25 years since Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, BBC News speaks to four of the F-16 pilots involved.Had mission commander Col Zeev Raz's risk assessment been proven right, one pilot would have ejected over Baghdad and another would have been waiting out in the desert for helicopters to rescue him in the night.
Yet the loss of two planes would have been a price worth paying in the eyes of the pilots of the eigh
Source: LAT
June 5, 2006
ROME: The Colosseum and other treasures of the archeologically rich city need more funding and less abuse, or they may soon be history.The landmarks that define this legendary city are in serious disrepair, the victims of monumental neglect, shrinking budgets and the wear and tear of Mother Nature and heavy-heeled visitors.
Rome's troubles exceed those found in many other archeologically rich locations because its historic center is not a roped-off museum
Source: CBS2 (Chicago)
June 4, 2006
A historian has discovered letters written by Abraham Lincoln's wife during her stay at a sanitarium years after her husband's assassination.It was believed Mary Todd Lincoln's son had burned the letters to hide details of mother's mental health.
But historian Jason Emerson came across photographed and handwritten copies of the letters in an attic last summer in Maryland. Eleven letters were from what have been called Mary Todd Lincoln's "insanity years.&qu
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 5, 2006
Historians could soon begin imagining a different man when they think of Abraham Lincoln as a young adult.
New artifacts and documents discovered this month at New Salem, a state historic site northeast of Springfield where Lincoln lived in his 20s, show that he may have owned property and one or more buildings, which indicates he was much more invested in the community than historians previously believed. Tom Schwartz, Illinois' state historian and interim dire
Source: BBC
April 3, 2006
A garter worn by King Charles I on the day of his execution has been bought by a private collector for £4,400.
The blue ribbon belonging to the son of James VI of Scotland was sold at Shapes Auctioneers in Edinburgh on Saturday.
After the English Civil War, Charles was found guilty of treason by one vote and was beheaded at Whitehall in 1649.
During his reign as King of England, the Fife-born monarch caused unrest north of the border by trying to force a new p
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 6, 2006
The last time they flew across the Channel, they were 32 feet long, with Rolls-Royce engines and wings bristling with 20mm cannons.
Now they measure all of 18 inches, have no engine and not so much as a peashooter - but their "pilots" still risk being thrown into German captivity.The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that a "big wing" of more than 10,000 inflatable Spitfires will this week cross into Germany and, when the World Cup star
