Agent13
1st October 2003, 10:33 PM
Hypnotism assaults at library raise safety questions, need for vigilance
By Kristin Barrett
Daily Northwestern
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/30/3f7917d076246
"Police continue to investigate incidents involving several Northwestern students who allege they were hypnotized and, in at least one case, sexually assaulted in the University Library."
Hugging Indian Guru Has Legions of Backers
By S. SRINIVASAN
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=731&e=1&u=/ap/20030924/ap_on_re_as/india_hugging_guru
"California businessman Stephen Parr has traveled a long way for a hug."
Embraced by India's hugging saint
by Charles Haviland
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3143414.stm
"The first thing that strikes you is the warm, sparkling grin
India's most famous woman guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whose name means "mother of absolute bliss", is renowned for many things."
End-of-time US book series strikes a nerve in uncertain times
Agence France-Presse
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=2&u=/afp/20030926/od_afp/lifestyle_us_religion_030926072028>
"Unmanned cars careen out of control and planes plunge to Earth as millions around the world suddenly disappear. They've been "raptured" to heaven -- and those left behind face seven years of war, famine and natural disasters before the return of Jesus Christ."
Yeti's 'non-existence' hard to bear
by Daniel Lak
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3143020.stm
"A row has erupted in Nepal after a Japanese expert on Himalayan languages insisted the yeti was nothing more than a case of linguistic mistaken identity."
Man spots 'Bigfoot'
By NOAH HOFFENBERG
Bennington Banner
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8678~1657744,00.html
"A Winooski man believes he saw a bigfoot-type creature at dusk while driving north on Route 7 Wednesday."
For Atlantis, turn right at Cyprus
by Helena Smith
The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1051220,00.html
"Since time immemorial Cyprus has thrived by association with Aphrodite - the love goddess who emerged from its silky waves. The Mediterranean island may well benefit from its strategic locale again; although this time through the undoing of a myth that thanks to the playful mind of Plato is also one of the world's greatest mysteries: Atlantis."
The search for Atlantis 'ends at Ayia Napa'
By Fiona Govan
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/28/wnapa28.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/28/ixworld.html
"It may be the answer generations of experts on the ancient world have been looking for. New research claims that the fabled ancient civilisation of Atlantis is located close to Cyprus."
Monster underwater marathon bid
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3145584.stm
"A former leukaemia sufferer has started a world record attempt to complete an underwater marathon along Loch Ness."
Toddler's Killing Exposes Ghoulish South Africa Practice
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/international/africa/28AFRI.html
"Neighbors here say they have never seen anyone emerge from the healer's shack, a tin-walled affair crowned with a cross atop a metal rod, proclaiming to have been cured. Still, the word in this treeless squatters' camp of trash-strewn yards and chicken-wire fences south of Johannesburg was that his medicine was good."
Faith healer stirs up a storm in Fiji with miracle show
Agence France-Presse
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/09/28/2003069569
"A religious storm has hit Fiji after a faith healer attracted thousands, including the president and the prime minister, to his travelling miracle show."
Costly lesson learned by seeing psychic
by Molly Davis
The Trentonian
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10226241&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
"I am trying to talk a friend out of going to a psychic."
Carl Malburg wanders the world with a statue in tow
by Stephanie Salter
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/27/DD131469.DTL
"After all the years and all the parishes, all the grateful hugs, the tearful confidences, the fervent pleas for special prayers -- all the miracles -- Carl Malburg still believes that he's not the best man for the job."
The Truth Is Out There, but It's Classified
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/27/opinion/27SAT4.html
"The corners of the Internet frequented by fans of "X-Files" and alien-creature sightings were abuzz last week when President Bush extended for another year the total secrecy of Area 51, a large Air Force base in the Nevada desert."
Haunted holes
By Roger Peterson
Vail Daily
http://www.vaildaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030927/NEWS/309270103&rs=2
"Wanna see something really scary?"
The face in the window
by Matheus Sanchez
Teesside Evening Gazette
http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0001head/eveninggazette/page.cfm?objectid=13455070&method=full&siteid=50080
"This spooky decade-old picture has left little choice for a sceptical family living in Teesside's 'haunted hotspot'."
Rep crew stays overnight at Fulton 'haunted' house
By JENNIFER MASTROIANNI
Canton Repository
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=123113&originalStoryID=123112&r=
"The ghost with snow white hair appeared in the dark doorway, her expression blank, her arms outstretched. I screamed, shaking Hillibish as he slept on the floor next to me in the tiny upstairs bedroom. He wouldn’t wake up, none of them would. The candle blew out. The window and doors slammed shut, the locks simultaneously clicking. The old woman moved closer, her long bony fingers reaching for me ..."
Lights in Strand sky spur UFO theories
By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/6880906.htm
"When Pam Wingfield told her friends she had just spotted a UFO over the Atlantic Ocean, they did what most good friends would do - they laughed at her."
You are now entering ‘The Twilight Zone’
By Will Jordan
Nashville City Paper
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=12&screen=news&news_id=26952
"What would you think if someone told you he could read your mind? Or astral project? Or mentally travel in time?"
S.A. science giants at loggerheads
By Cindy Tumiel
San Antonio Express-News
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1062361
"Shortly before the United States entered World War II, oilman, inventor, author and adventurer Tom Slick founded what is known today as the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research — dedicated to basic biological research, but known to most San Antonians for its vast colony of research baboons."
Ghostbusting clergy on the case
By RENEE KIRIONA
New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3526192&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
"A packaging firm has called in spiritual help to bless its premises because of staff fears that the factory might be haunted."
Malaysia: Graveyard ghosts and vampire sightings
By SEAN YOONG
Associated Press
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Lifestyle/Travel/03AccentTRAV01093003.htm
"In one of Malaysia's oldest cemeteries, tour guide Francis Nantha gazes at hundreds of headstones blanketing a hillside, made visible tonight with the help of a van's headlights."
Professor Mark Croatti Tries to Raise the Dead in Old Ellicott City
by Malcolm Furgol
University of Maryland Retriever
http://trw.umbc.edu/articles/4428?Newspaper_Session=18bc5613f114813e1c0445073dd 59a4e
"Boo and beware, UMBC has now added the study of the supernatural to its long list of distinguished academic departments. In the nearby idyllic setting of Ellicott City Political Science Professor Mark Croatti has authored an all-new ghost tour for the Howard County Tourism Council entitled "Ye Haunted History of Old Ellicott City.""
Dead -- or just chillin'?
By Douglas Kajajian
Palm Beach Post
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/auto/epaper/editions/tuesday/accent_f387b9c1a5af00a61031.html;COXnetJSessionID= 15BOO0pineCEe5C7haSG9Ho1vbDR8OAVP2LW0UaPcyBJ2U1J8F lO!195894163?urac=n&urvf=10649111824680.9298847880244824>
"It's been 30 years since Austin Tupler first considered donating his body to science fiction."
Officials: UFO a Research Balloon
By STACI MATLOCK
Santa Fe New Mexican
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=12&ArticleID=33415
"It's a UFO. It's a flying cow. It's a weather balloon."
Mysterious Circles Appear In Ohio Soybean Field
WEWS
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2524748/detail.html
"Farmer Dale Mark doesn't buy theories that aliens from outer space left the geometric designs etched into his Ross County soybean field."
Author uses science, Bible to support creationism
By Naomi Dunavan
Grand Forks Herald
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/6873341.htm
"For more than five years, there's been a standing offer of a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who can provide one piece of scientific evidence supporting macroevolution - the idea that man evolved from another animal."
Halloween Ban Casts Spell On Campus
By Aaron Sadler
Fort Smith Times Record
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2003/September/30/news/Halloween.html
"The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is casting out devils and witches from its Halloween festivities this year."
Fiorini quits plea deal
By James McNair
Cincinnati Enquirer
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/09/30/biz_wwwbiz1a.html
"George Fiorini snookered investors, dodged Ohio securities regulators and, Monday, reneged on a plea deal with federal authorities that would have put him in prison for up to eight years."
Official advises jurors on God's law
By Ann Schrader
Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1667716,00.html
"From his county offices, Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Paschall has been handing out citizens' jury-rights guides that rely on biblical phrases and conservative thought."
Polygamist sect target of Arizona-Utah inquiry
by Joseph A. Reaves and Mark Shaffer
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0928polyg-enforcement-28.html
"For most of the past seven decades, authorities refused to listen to the cries of women who claimed their children were being raped in this remote religious community astride the Arizona-Utah line."
The homeopaths strike back
by Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1053441,00.html
Baghdad Urban Legends
By Lori Robertson
American Journalism Review
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3408
"Armed with at least the opportunity to have learned much about the war in Iraq--what with the months-long build-up, the up-close-and-embedded coverage, the pages upon pages of newsprint and hours upon hours of airtime--and prodded with multiple-choice and yes-or-no answers, the American public still fared poorly on current events polls."
Who wants a perfect guy, anyway?
by Rebecca Eckler
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.ca/commentary/story.html?id=9ef46b8b-1d24-4b25-a1a9-d1eaf344a407
"There's a new 28-year-old available on the single market named Stuart Neihardt."
New `men's mag' has limited readership
by ANTONIA ZERBISIAS
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1064527811950&call_pageid=970599119419>
"Boys will be boys."
Dog meat rumours frighten off diners
by ANGIE BROWN
Edinburgh Evening News
http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=1064252003
"DINERS are deserting two of the city’s most popular restaurants in the wake of malicious rumours they were serving cat and dog meat instead of chicken."
Tabs really do put people on wheels
by Joanne Hatherly
Victoria Times Colonist
http://www.canada.com/victoria/timescolonist/story.asp?id=10ABA8CC-5E53-4A55-8F15-98E6460ACEEC
"I return from my cottage every summer with chipped fingernails and scratched hands, and it's not from picking blackberries."
Bodysnatcher myth gets boost
by Don Campbell
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/news/story.asp?id=FE30B41D-720E-496F-AB5D-722BFFA4FB96
"An Internet hoax artist had his wildest dreams come true when an Ottawa-based RCMP officer accidentally helped authenticate a fear-mongering concoction about body-part snatchers."
Meatless diet myth about lions persists
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0927petdoc27.html
"DEAR PET DOCTOR: Someone told me that during the meat shortage of 1942 zoo lions were fed straw and hay instead of meat, and that it caused their personalities to change. They were not so mean because they did not eat meat. Am I totally gullible to believe this?"
George Clinton Alive And Well
By Nolan Strong
AllHipHop.com
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=2392
"The death of author George Plimpton set off rumors in the hip-hop community that funk legend George Clinton had passed, due to the similarities in their names."
E-mail about needles a hoax: Police
Canadian Press
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030930.gtb1sep30/BNStory/Technology/
"The Ontario Provincial Police say someone is sending a bogus e-mail warning about infected hypodermic needles attached to gas pump handles."
Don't believe the homework hype, studies say
Associated Press
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/01homework.html
"The image of students lugging home heavy packs of books may be familiar in many homes, but two new studies offer a different picture: The nation's homework load is light."
Romeos bark up wrong tree
By CLINT WILLIAMS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0903/26hoax.html
"Some call looking for Daisy. Some call looking for a story. Everyone hangs up disappointed."
Lawyer in Ernst Zundel detention review links him with some Holocaust-deniers
by MARLENE HABIB
Canadian Press
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=A88A9748-0E5C-414B-AF36-2CBC3F73866C
"The detention review of Ernst Zundel continued Tuesday with the Holocaust-denier saying he put $10,000 towards the court costs of a fellow German who believed "Europe should cleanse itself racially.""
How safe is the Indian River Inlet bridge?
By Jim Cresson
Cape Gazette
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/inletbridgesafety092603.html
"Hurricane Isabel was not strong enough to scour Indian River Inlet or undermine the inlet bridge."
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By Kristin Barrett
Daily Northwestern
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/30/3f7917d076246
"Police continue to investigate incidents involving several Northwestern students who allege they were hypnotized and, in at least one case, sexually assaulted in the University Library."
Hugging Indian Guru Has Legions of Backers
By S. SRINIVASAN
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=731&e=1&u=/ap/20030924/ap_on_re_as/india_hugging_guru
"California businessman Stephen Parr has traveled a long way for a hug."
Embraced by India's hugging saint
by Charles Haviland
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3143414.stm
"The first thing that strikes you is the warm, sparkling grin
India's most famous woman guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whose name means "mother of absolute bliss", is renowned for many things."
End-of-time US book series strikes a nerve in uncertain times
Agence France-Presse
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=2&u=/afp/20030926/od_afp/lifestyle_us_religion_030926072028>
"Unmanned cars careen out of control and planes plunge to Earth as millions around the world suddenly disappear. They've been "raptured" to heaven -- and those left behind face seven years of war, famine and natural disasters before the return of Jesus Christ."
Yeti's 'non-existence' hard to bear
by Daniel Lak
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3143020.stm
"A row has erupted in Nepal after a Japanese expert on Himalayan languages insisted the yeti was nothing more than a case of linguistic mistaken identity."
Man spots 'Bigfoot'
By NOAH HOFFENBERG
Bennington Banner
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8678~1657744,00.html
"A Winooski man believes he saw a bigfoot-type creature at dusk while driving north on Route 7 Wednesday."
For Atlantis, turn right at Cyprus
by Helena Smith
The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1051220,00.html
"Since time immemorial Cyprus has thrived by association with Aphrodite - the love goddess who emerged from its silky waves. The Mediterranean island may well benefit from its strategic locale again; although this time through the undoing of a myth that thanks to the playful mind of Plato is also one of the world's greatest mysteries: Atlantis."
The search for Atlantis 'ends at Ayia Napa'
By Fiona Govan
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/28/wnapa28.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/28/ixworld.html
"It may be the answer generations of experts on the ancient world have been looking for. New research claims that the fabled ancient civilisation of Atlantis is located close to Cyprus."
Monster underwater marathon bid
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3145584.stm
"A former leukaemia sufferer has started a world record attempt to complete an underwater marathon along Loch Ness."
Toddler's Killing Exposes Ghoulish South Africa Practice
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/international/africa/28AFRI.html
"Neighbors here say they have never seen anyone emerge from the healer's shack, a tin-walled affair crowned with a cross atop a metal rod, proclaiming to have been cured. Still, the word in this treeless squatters' camp of trash-strewn yards and chicken-wire fences south of Johannesburg was that his medicine was good."
Faith healer stirs up a storm in Fiji with miracle show
Agence France-Presse
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/09/28/2003069569
"A religious storm has hit Fiji after a faith healer attracted thousands, including the president and the prime minister, to his travelling miracle show."
Costly lesson learned by seeing psychic
by Molly Davis
The Trentonian
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10226241&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
"I am trying to talk a friend out of going to a psychic."
Carl Malburg wanders the world with a statue in tow
by Stephanie Salter
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/27/DD131469.DTL
"After all the years and all the parishes, all the grateful hugs, the tearful confidences, the fervent pleas for special prayers -- all the miracles -- Carl Malburg still believes that he's not the best man for the job."
The Truth Is Out There, but It's Classified
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/27/opinion/27SAT4.html
"The corners of the Internet frequented by fans of "X-Files" and alien-creature sightings were abuzz last week when President Bush extended for another year the total secrecy of Area 51, a large Air Force base in the Nevada desert."
Haunted holes
By Roger Peterson
Vail Daily
http://www.vaildaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030927/NEWS/309270103&rs=2
"Wanna see something really scary?"
The face in the window
by Matheus Sanchez
Teesside Evening Gazette
http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0001head/eveninggazette/page.cfm?objectid=13455070&method=full&siteid=50080
"This spooky decade-old picture has left little choice for a sceptical family living in Teesside's 'haunted hotspot'."
Rep crew stays overnight at Fulton 'haunted' house
By JENNIFER MASTROIANNI
Canton Repository
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=123113&originalStoryID=123112&r=
"The ghost with snow white hair appeared in the dark doorway, her expression blank, her arms outstretched. I screamed, shaking Hillibish as he slept on the floor next to me in the tiny upstairs bedroom. He wouldn’t wake up, none of them would. The candle blew out. The window and doors slammed shut, the locks simultaneously clicking. The old woman moved closer, her long bony fingers reaching for me ..."
Lights in Strand sky spur UFO theories
By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/6880906.htm
"When Pam Wingfield told her friends she had just spotted a UFO over the Atlantic Ocean, they did what most good friends would do - they laughed at her."
You are now entering ‘The Twilight Zone’
By Will Jordan
Nashville City Paper
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=12&screen=news&news_id=26952
"What would you think if someone told you he could read your mind? Or astral project? Or mentally travel in time?"
S.A. science giants at loggerheads
By Cindy Tumiel
San Antonio Express-News
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1062361
"Shortly before the United States entered World War II, oilman, inventor, author and adventurer Tom Slick founded what is known today as the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research — dedicated to basic biological research, but known to most San Antonians for its vast colony of research baboons."
Ghostbusting clergy on the case
By RENEE KIRIONA
New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3526192&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
"A packaging firm has called in spiritual help to bless its premises because of staff fears that the factory might be haunted."
Malaysia: Graveyard ghosts and vampire sightings
By SEAN YOONG
Associated Press
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Lifestyle/Travel/03AccentTRAV01093003.htm
"In one of Malaysia's oldest cemeteries, tour guide Francis Nantha gazes at hundreds of headstones blanketing a hillside, made visible tonight with the help of a van's headlights."
Professor Mark Croatti Tries to Raise the Dead in Old Ellicott City
by Malcolm Furgol
University of Maryland Retriever
http://trw.umbc.edu/articles/4428?Newspaper_Session=18bc5613f114813e1c0445073dd 59a4e
"Boo and beware, UMBC has now added the study of the supernatural to its long list of distinguished academic departments. In the nearby idyllic setting of Ellicott City Political Science Professor Mark Croatti has authored an all-new ghost tour for the Howard County Tourism Council entitled "Ye Haunted History of Old Ellicott City.""
Dead -- or just chillin'?
By Douglas Kajajian
Palm Beach Post
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/auto/epaper/editions/tuesday/accent_f387b9c1a5af00a61031.html;COXnetJSessionID= 15BOO0pineCEe5C7haSG9Ho1vbDR8OAVP2LW0UaPcyBJ2U1J8F lO!195894163?urac=n&urvf=10649111824680.9298847880244824>
"It's been 30 years since Austin Tupler first considered donating his body to science fiction."
Officials: UFO a Research Balloon
By STACI MATLOCK
Santa Fe New Mexican
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=12&ArticleID=33415
"It's a UFO. It's a flying cow. It's a weather balloon."
Mysterious Circles Appear In Ohio Soybean Field
WEWS
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2524748/detail.html
"Farmer Dale Mark doesn't buy theories that aliens from outer space left the geometric designs etched into his Ross County soybean field."
Author uses science, Bible to support creationism
By Naomi Dunavan
Grand Forks Herald
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/6873341.htm
"For more than five years, there's been a standing offer of a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who can provide one piece of scientific evidence supporting macroevolution - the idea that man evolved from another animal."
Halloween Ban Casts Spell On Campus
By Aaron Sadler
Fort Smith Times Record
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2003/September/30/news/Halloween.html
"The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is casting out devils and witches from its Halloween festivities this year."
Fiorini quits plea deal
By James McNair
Cincinnati Enquirer
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/09/30/biz_wwwbiz1a.html
"George Fiorini snookered investors, dodged Ohio securities regulators and, Monday, reneged on a plea deal with federal authorities that would have put him in prison for up to eight years."
Official advises jurors on God's law
By Ann Schrader
Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1667716,00.html
"From his county offices, Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Paschall has been handing out citizens' jury-rights guides that rely on biblical phrases and conservative thought."
Polygamist sect target of Arizona-Utah inquiry
by Joseph A. Reaves and Mark Shaffer
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0928polyg-enforcement-28.html
"For most of the past seven decades, authorities refused to listen to the cries of women who claimed their children were being raped in this remote religious community astride the Arizona-Utah line."
The homeopaths strike back
by Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1053441,00.html
Baghdad Urban Legends
By Lori Robertson
American Journalism Review
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3408
"Armed with at least the opportunity to have learned much about the war in Iraq--what with the months-long build-up, the up-close-and-embedded coverage, the pages upon pages of newsprint and hours upon hours of airtime--and prodded with multiple-choice and yes-or-no answers, the American public still fared poorly on current events polls."
Who wants a perfect guy, anyway?
by Rebecca Eckler
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.ca/commentary/story.html?id=9ef46b8b-1d24-4b25-a1a9-d1eaf344a407
"There's a new 28-year-old available on the single market named Stuart Neihardt."
New `men's mag' has limited readership
by ANTONIA ZERBISIAS
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1064527811950&call_pageid=970599119419>
"Boys will be boys."
Dog meat rumours frighten off diners
by ANGIE BROWN
Edinburgh Evening News
http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=1064252003
"DINERS are deserting two of the city’s most popular restaurants in the wake of malicious rumours they were serving cat and dog meat instead of chicken."
Tabs really do put people on wheels
by Joanne Hatherly
Victoria Times Colonist
http://www.canada.com/victoria/timescolonist/story.asp?id=10ABA8CC-5E53-4A55-8F15-98E6460ACEEC
"I return from my cottage every summer with chipped fingernails and scratched hands, and it's not from picking blackberries."
Bodysnatcher myth gets boost
by Don Campbell
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/news/story.asp?id=FE30B41D-720E-496F-AB5D-722BFFA4FB96
"An Internet hoax artist had his wildest dreams come true when an Ottawa-based RCMP officer accidentally helped authenticate a fear-mongering concoction about body-part snatchers."
Meatless diet myth about lions persists
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0927petdoc27.html
"DEAR PET DOCTOR: Someone told me that during the meat shortage of 1942 zoo lions were fed straw and hay instead of meat, and that it caused their personalities to change. They were not so mean because they did not eat meat. Am I totally gullible to believe this?"
George Clinton Alive And Well
By Nolan Strong
AllHipHop.com
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=2392
"The death of author George Plimpton set off rumors in the hip-hop community that funk legend George Clinton had passed, due to the similarities in their names."
E-mail about needles a hoax: Police
Canadian Press
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030930.gtb1sep30/BNStory/Technology/
"The Ontario Provincial Police say someone is sending a bogus e-mail warning about infected hypodermic needles attached to gas pump handles."
Don't believe the homework hype, studies say
Associated Press
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/01homework.html
"The image of students lugging home heavy packs of books may be familiar in many homes, but two new studies offer a different picture: The nation's homework load is light."
Romeos bark up wrong tree
By CLINT WILLIAMS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0903/26hoax.html
"Some call looking for Daisy. Some call looking for a story. Everyone hangs up disappointed."
Lawyer in Ernst Zundel detention review links him with some Holocaust-deniers
by MARLENE HABIB
Canadian Press
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=A88A9748-0E5C-414B-AF36-2CBC3F73866C
"The detention review of Ernst Zundel continued Tuesday with the Holocaust-denier saying he put $10,000 towards the court costs of a fellow German who believed "Europe should cleanse itself racially.""
How safe is the Indian River Inlet bridge?
By Jim Cresson
Cape Gazette
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/inletbridgesafety092603.html
"Hurricane Isabel was not strong enough to scour Indian River Inlet or undermine the inlet bridge."
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