Writers attack new Italian 'race laws'

Italy's parliament yesterday gave final approval to a controversial law which criminalises illegal immigration and legalises unarmed vigilante patrols by citizens. The law was assured an easy final passage by being tied to a confidence vote, so that MPs in the ruling coalition were virtually obliged to vote for it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/writers-attack-new-italian-race-laws-1729637.html

"Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_ot/us_us_guantanamo_documents

"A U.S.-led team of physicists says it has created the first rudimentary, solid-state quantum processor, moving science closer to building a quantum computer.

Yale University scientists said they also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary algorithms, such as a simple search, demonstrating quantum information processing with a solid-state device for the first time."

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/07/02/First-solid-state-quantum-chip-is-created/UPI-79161246568756/

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/07/03(Fri)10:40 No.1430   File: 1246642844236.jpg -(190689 B, 980x417) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>1428 >quantum processor EDI: 'There is nothing left to say.'

"The world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite has been put into orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket.

The TerreStar-1 platform weighed just shy of seven tonnes at launch.

Built for TerreStar Networks, the spacecraft will provide voice, messaging and data connections to the North American market.

The satellite was so big it was the only passenger on Ariane which routinely carries double payloads from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8129546.stm

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Junior Field Reporter 09/07/03(Fri)06:28 No.1429   File: 1246627739132.jpg -(24957 B, 283x300) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>1420 >telecommunications satellite Having more TV channels, phoning people in other parts of the world, and using what you're looking at right now? You have this man to thank: Arthur C. Clarke. He came up with the concept of the telecommunications satellite. Sci-Fi authors. Filling gaps before they even exist.

"At least 10 militants have died after missiles were fired by a suspected US drone aircraft at a Taliban target in Pakistan, intelligence officials say.

Unnamed officials said it was an attack on a militant training facility in the South Waziristan area.

It took place in an area on the Afghan border controlled by Pakistan's top Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

There have been more than 35 US strikes since last August, killing over 340 people, it is estimated."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8131938.stm

"People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.

A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen.

The issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, Nguyen said.

There was "practically no difference" between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam

"Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch.

One of the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank.

One of the bank's controllers stole about 200bn kredits and swapped them for real world cash of £3,115.

As news of the theft spread, many of the bank's customers rushed to remove their virtual cash."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8132547.stm

"A disease that makes people allergic to gluten in the diet is four times more common today than it was in the 1950s, and researchers at the Mayo Clinic don't know why.

In people with celiac disease, the protein found in gluten in wheat, barley and rye triggers an immune system attack that damages the villi in the small intestines. Symptoms of the disease include diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, weight loss, anemia, unexplained infertility, tooth loss and sometimes premature and severe osteoporosis, according to the Mayo Clinic researchers.

The study also found that participants that did not know they had celiac disease were almost four times more likely than those without the disease to have died over the past 45 years."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015659423

LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's death dominated news bulletins, radio airwaves and social networking sites the world over on Friday as tributes poured in for a man called the "King of Pop" and "natural heir to Elvis."

The 50-year-old, whose towering musical legacy was tarnished by often bizarre behaviour and sex scandals, was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. PDT (2126 GMT) on Thursday after arriving at a Los Angeles hospital in full cardiac arrest.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE55P1YL20090626

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Junior Field Reporter 09/06/29(Mon)08:26 No.1395   File: 1246289185655.jpg -(20912 B, 200x294) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. What is the difference between Michael Jackson and a Tesco's carrier bag? One's made of plastic and harmful to children, the other is used to take your groceries home.

>>	moetaka 09/06/30(Tue)02:00 No.1402   File: 1246352445803.jpg -(15850 B, 360x232) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. kaerugao.

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/07/01(Wed)06:28 No.1415   File: 1246454918809.jpg -(26236 B, 300x400) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>1375 Michael Jackson as seen on June 24th 2009. <- MJ as he'll be seen on June 24th 2010.

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/07/02(Thu)10:29 No.1421   File: 1246555761645.gif -(108646 B, 345x502) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>1415 Oh shi-

"The US army says it has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in south Afghanistan's Helmand province.

The US military says about 4,000 marines as well as 650 Afghan troops are involved, supported by Nato planes.

Brig Gen Larry Nicholson said the operation was different from previous ones because of the "massive size of the force" and its speed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8129789.stm