h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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maybe whoever wrote that could rephrase it within the house rules?



err

Is it not wonderfull living in a free
society where we can say what ever we
like (as long as they agree)

yeah

Scientists investigating the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam have found that people living in a so-called 'hotspot' have the highest blood levels of the poisonous chemical dioxin ever recorded in the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1734000/1734289.stm


Ornithologists in Pakistan fear that populations of birds whose migration route takes them over Afghanistan may have been devastated by the weeks of bombing there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1719000/1719867.stm


Scientists think there is just a one in 20 chance that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) will collapse in the next 200 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1731000/1731163.stm & http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1728000/1728745.stm


In 1874 the science fiction writer Jules Verne envisaged a world in which water would replace coal as the fuel of the future. Now the Icelanders believe they can turn that dream into reality within a generation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1727000/1727312.stm


One of the UK's most appealing mammals, the dormouse, is at risk because it dislikes getting wet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1716000/1716020.stm


Japan says the moratorium on commercial whaling should be lifted - in order to protect whales.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1424000/1424363.stm


Iceland says it will resume commercial whaling, perhaps as soon as next year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1421000/1421987.stm


A European Union delegation has failed to persuade the Australian Government to pledge its future support for the Kyoto international treaty on climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1425000/1425679.stm


Loss-making lab firm Huntingdon Life Sciences has received a financial lifeline from the UK Government after being abandoned by City firms in the face of animals rights protests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1417000/1417755.stm


The Nigerian Government is about to enter the space age.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1426000/1426573.stm


Happy Reading

A biopharmaceutical company that helped clone Dolly the Sheep has produced new cloned pigs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1738000/1738730.stm

A second team of scientists has produced a litter of cloned pigs with organs designed for human transplants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1740000/1740879.stm

Animal transplants: a step closer?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1740000/1740316.stm

More than one third of red kites reintroduced to Scotland have been illegally poisoned, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1739000/1739549.stm

Japan is reported to be planning to relax its commitment to tackling climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1740000/1740677.stm

Ten years after world leaders gathered to tackle environmental problems at the Earth Summit in Rio, nothing has really changed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1741000/1741164.stm

Israel has intercepted a boat in the Red Sea which it says was carrying 50 tonnes of weapons destined for the Palestinian Authority.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1741000/1741862.stm

A 27-year-old man has been hanged for murder in Nigeria in the first execution since Islamic law - or Sharia - was introduced in much of the north of the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1741000/1741789.stm

Several officials of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party have been named as beneficiaries of his programme to redistribute land from white farmers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1742000/1742727.stm

The animosity between India and Pakistan - which dates back to before they gained their independence - could threaten a major conflagration.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/south_asia/2002/kashmir_flashpoint/

Up to 30% of Colombia's most powerful guerrilla army is female. Women fight alongside the men and endure the same hardships as them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1742000/1742217.stm

Israel and the Palestinians
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/

The €uro
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/business/2001/euro/default.stm

The right to peaceful protest ..?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/americas/newsid_1748000/1748260.stm

A Free Net/ Free Speech at what price ..?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/europe/newsid_1748000/1748398.stm

Zimbabwe debates 'draconian' laws
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/africa/newsid_1748000/1748246.stm

That all seems quite depressing
any news about the fight back?

I don't know about fightback but you might like
"Scholars believe they have solved a 2,000- year-old mystery of how King Herod died"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1782000/1782739.stm

Israeli censors have been criticised by both Palestinians and Israelis yesterday for banning a documentary about the battle in Jenin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,858424,00.html

Security Council debates measures to protect civilians in armed conflict
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=5603&Cr=civilians&Cr1=conflict

North Korea has said it will immediately reactivate a mothballed nuclear power plant, frozen under a 1994 agreement with the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/2568543.stm

Meeting on European Union enlargement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/2567897.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2565277.stm

Australia's High Court has rejected an appeal by an indigenous group for possession of a vast swathe of land, ending the country's longest-running aboriginal land dispute.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2568521.stm

America's forced to release shipment of North Korean missiles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,858434,00.html

The Belgian parliament voted in favour of phasing out all seven of its nuclear power reactors
http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?news%5fid=83689


Cliamate Change:
Arctic sea ice shrinking.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/2002120710965.html

Sea ice could be gone by end of the century.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/2002112710960.html

Bolivian glaciers shrinking fast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2559633.stm

The Canadian House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly in support of the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2564723.stm
http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?news%5fid=87768

Study reveals climate change in Canada's highest mountain.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2002/2002112710958.html


Sorry it's been so long since I made one of these posts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,863159,00.html