It's the last paragraph of the Journal-Constitution story that states the significance of the story -- the current Palestinian uprising was initiated by Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount. However, some news outlets, such as Fox and MSNBC seem to have scrubbed the name Sharon.

The failure to recover most of the uranium "shows a complete loss of perspective," said Steven Aftergood, a security expert at the Federation of American Scientists, an arms control group in Washington. "The failure to vigorously pursue it is a scandal. Few things are more important than this. It's a serious matter that has not been taken seriously."


Arlington, Virginia; The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest organization of anthropologists, the people who study culture, releases the following statement in response to President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as a threat to civilization.

"The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.
The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association strongly opposes a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples."

A former Leicester player, Stan Collymore, with a history of violence against women, had just been sacked as a part-time BBC radio soccer commentator after being caught "dogging". This practice - going to remote outdoor locations and having sex with a stranger or just watching the action
One study of the media's handling of AFL footballer Wayne Carey's affair with his vice-captain's wife, for example, found that a Melbourne newspaper published more stories in the aftermath of the 2002 Carey imbroglio than about the September 11 terrorist atrocity the previous year.
Newspapers, radio and television are unquestionably in the business of promoting sport, because it attracts sports fans in enormous, profitable numbers. In some cases, the media may even be sports owners and sponsors. At the same time, though, stories showing sport in an unfavourable light offer all the newsworthy advantages of celebrity scandal, where fame, image, sex and money meet with spectacular effect.

To the detriment of all, and particularly poor women, hard-line abortion opponents in the White House, Congress, and state legislatures view not only abortion but even contraception as an evil.
American women spend most of their child-bearing years trying to avoid becoming pregnant - without contraception, a woman would have between 12 and 15 pregnancies in her lifetime.
The obvious result for all women is unintended pregnancy - 48 percent of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and half of those are terminated by abortion.