Peruvian livestock became ill after drinking runoff water from a U.S. gold digging operation recently, according to
this multimedia story

Locals resisted mining efforts of the Denver-based company that was digging there, but in the end capitalism was the victor. The company has since moved to exploit African land.

Make sure to listen closely to the mining manager’s comments about their purpose and goal.

There’s an interesting article on the main site about the neccessity of child translators…now here’s a fairly gut-wrenching account that balances out the issue.

Child Medical Translators — At Grandpa’s Bedside, Trying to Find Words for ‘Defeat’

Can an arsenal of non-nuclear weapons match the force of Googlebombing?

We’re running out of ad space. Bus stops, billboards, internet pop-ups, and radio and TV commercials ain’t enough. You want to put your business on the map? Why not pay a small town to rename itself after your business and literally put your business on the map?

Clark, Texas renames the town to Dish, Texas after the Dish Network offered a decade of free satelite TV to the tiny town and its 55 homes. In 2000 Halfway, Oregon changed its name temporarily to Half.com, Oregon in exchange for $100,000 to the town and a computer lab for a school. Click here for full article.

From the Washington Post:

“House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative agreement yesterday on revisions to the USA Patriot Act that would limit some of the government’s powers while requiring the Justice Department to provide a better accounting of its secret requests for information on ordinary citizens.

But the agreement would leave intact some of the most controversial provisions of the anti-terrorism law, such as government access to library and bookstore records in terrorism probes, and would extend only limited new rights to the targets of such searches.”

Click here for the full article

- Jean Chen