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Study claims to show difference between male and female brains

February 16, 2005

Michael Gurian, psychologist and author of "What Could He Be Thinking?", has claimed to identify approximately one hundred structural differences between male and female brains in a recent study. Gurian comments:
 * "Men, because we tend to compartmentalize our communication into a smaller part of the brain, we tend to be better at getting right to the issue, the more female brain (will) gather a lot of material, gather a lot of information, feel a lot, hear a lot, sense a lot."

One major structural difference that Gurian has made clear is that males generally have more activity in the mechanical centers of the brain, while women have more activity in centers of the brain dedicated to verbal communication and emotion. A clear example of this is the hypothetical situation of giving a child a toy. He explains it as such:
 * "That doll becomes life-like to that girl, but you give it to a two-year-old boy and you are more likely, not all the time, but you are more likely than not to see that boy try to take the head off the doll. He thinks spatial-mechanical. He's using the doll as an object."

Another expert, Dr. Marianne Legato, says it all boils down to genetics, noting that the Y chromosome (which only males carry) has "at least 21 unique genes unique to males which control many of the body's operations down to the level of the cells."

Gurian agrees that culture is significant in brain development, but argues that biology plays an equally important role. He makes a point of how the MRI scans show that the female corpus callosum, the center of the brain which regulates communication between the brain's hemispheres, is larger than the male's. On the other hand, the scans also show that information flows more freely between the hemispheres of the male brain.

The exact role that brain structure plays in behavior, however, has been an area of considerable contention in science for literally hundreds of years. Early studies in craniometry conducted by Paul Pierre Broca were used to attempt to distinguish differences between human races, though have now been dismissed as scientific racism. The nature-nurture debate has raged for centuries in a variety of forms, without yet any clear resolution as to the role in which innate biological tendencies interact with environmental conditions or willed behavior. As such, studies relating to brain structure and claims to innate behavior often generate substantial controversy.

MIT anthropologist of science Joseph Dumit's study of brain imaging in his book Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity, noted that the apparent "transparency" of such pictures (the appearance that they can be easily interpreted by laymen, when they are often the source of ambiguity and dispute by even highly-trained neurosurgeons) has led to their proliferation as indicators of objective truth in media and in courts of law, and that such conclusions are often knowingly exaggerated by the specialists creating the images for better visual effect.

The timing of Gurian's book comes on the heels of another controversy over gender differences sparked by comments made by Harvard president Lawrence Summers, who blamed low numbers of women in the sciences on genetic differences. Summers has been criticized by a large number of academics and scientists, as well as by many news publications, in the wake of what he was reported as saying during a conference on January 14.


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Hi, good article. Thanks for the input! Dan100 (Talk) 22:16, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Kyoto Protocol comes into effect

This article is subtly anti USA. The statement that brings this up is "The United States is the largest polluter and contributer to global warming in the world." The US does produce the most CO2 but this does not mean its the largest contributer to global warming (which may not even be real). The second largest producer of CO2 is the People's Republic of China. This is a major reason some countries are not signing. The article currently touches this but is beating around it and making it sound very anti America and Australia. The article is about the protocol coming into effect not how the US is a polluter. One of two ways to fix this are to take out the statement quoted above or add that China is a major polluter. --Tardigrade 17:51, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Made the article a bit better.
I changed :
 * The United States is the largest polluter and contributer to global warming in the world.

To:
 * The United States produces more $$CO^2$$ emissions than any other single country in the world.

This way, whoever wrote this gets his or her point across about the USA. I personally beleive this information is appropriate for the article, considering what it's about.

Macai 20:42, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reporting dead link www.whitehouse.gov
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Brazilian President Lula met Chavez, military and economic cooperation

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on February 14, 2005 in Caracas, Venezuela. Brazil and Venezuela signed agreements of cooperation on many areas. According to the Brazilian government this was a strategical encounteur. This meeting is the first of three meetings that President Lula will have with South American Presidents in three days. The scheduled meetings are with the presidents of: Venezuela (February, 14), Guiana (February, 15) and Suriname (February, 16).

President Lula was accompanied by the following comitiva: the Minister of Development, Industry, and External Trade Luiz Fernando Furlan, the Minister of Finance Antônio Palocci, the Minister of Foreign Relations Celso Amorim, the Minister of Health Humberto Costa, the Minister of Mines and Energy Dilma Roussef, the Minister of Tourism Walfrido Mares Guia, the President of Petrobras  José Eduardo Dutra, the President of National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES)  Guido Mantega, the President of  Eletrobrás Silas Rondeau Cavalcante Silva and the Special Secretary for Aquaculture and Fisheries José Fritsch. In addition a delegation of executives representing enterprises from Brazil accompanied the President.

The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations told the trip aims the construction of a strategical alliance and commercial integration between both countries. The Brazilian Presidential Advisor Marco Aurélio Garcia said:"With this gesture, Brazil will consolidate one of its major political goals, which is the constitution of a South American community of nations". He added: "These agreements with Venezuela are strategical. We want this agreement as a model for other agreements in the region."

According to President Lula the integration of the Latin America is the priority number one of his government. Days before the arrival in Venezuela and commenting about the trip Lula said: "We're going to do the same thing in Colombia and in other countries in which integration is no longer a campaign speech but part of the way we deal with real things, day to day".

The integration of the Latin America is the politics repeatedly proposed by Lula during the meetings of the Foro de São Paulo. According to him and the others members of the Foro there must be a integration among all the left parties and governments of Latin America. The union aims to be an alternative and opposing force to the politics and influence of the richest countries, mainly the United States. Among the organizations which are usually participants of the Foro de São Paulo are: Communist Party of Cuba, Colombian Communist Party, Communist Party of Bolivia, Communist Party of Brazil, Workers' Party, Paraguayan Communist Party, Peruvian Communist Party, Socialist Party of Peru, National Liberation Army, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, Tupamaros.

On December 4, 2001 during the 10th edition of the Foro de São Paulo in Havana Lula said:"A shoal of small fish may mean the finishing of the hungry in our countries, in out continent. We should not think as the History ended on our journey by the Earth. Even it happens just once, or with one gesture, let's effectively  contribute to the improve the life of millions of human beings who live socially excluded by  this neoliberal model."

In Venezuela, once again, he brought out the integration wish: "This is the biggest dream I am carrying, that we can negotiate collectively, not like one country, but like a set of countries so we can do that our people may have the chance to conquer the full citizenship."

Economic cooperation
Brazil and Venezuela signed agreements of cooperation in the sectors of electric energy, mining, exploration of oil and gas, science and technology, fishing and agrarian development, military, communication and Defense of the Amazon. They discussed about the creation of the South Development Bank and collaboration in the audio-visual diffusion.

PDVSA (Venezuelan Petroleum S.A.) and Petrobrás (Brazilian Petroleum S.A.) signed a intention protocol for the building of an oil refinery in Brazil. The investiment will be worth of U$ 2 billion and the expected production is 150 thousand to 200 thousand barrels. Another four agreements were signed covering petroleum exploration and production in Venezuela.

The National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) will liberate U$ 900 million to finance infrastructure projects in Venezuela.

Contracts worth of U$ 235 million were ratified. According to the superintendent of the BNDES's Area of Foreign Trade  Luiz Antônio Araújo Dantas these U$ 235 million funds will be for the third line of the Caracas subway, the purchase of harvestors and other agricultural machinery and for the La Vueltosa Hydroelectric Plant.

Military cooperation
Venezuela will support Brazilian candidacy to the United Nations Security Council. Brazil and Venezuela signed agreements of technological and industrial cooperation for aerospace development and  Amazonia monitoring.

Brazil will sell to Venezuela 26 attack airplanes type Super Tucano and 12 airplanes type AMX-T manufactured by EMBRAER (Brazil's Aircraft Company). According to the representant of EMBRAER in Venezuela Joany Kings the program will cost USS 300 million in two years.

The Venezuelan Air Force is using 20 old model Tucanos. The new model Super Tucano is equipped with last generation technology and can carry up to 1.15 ton of bombs. The AMX-T model is a two-seat advanced trainer AMX variant which can do strategical attacks from long distance using guided bombs.

Brazil will transfer technology knowledge to Venezuela with the goal to stimulate Venezuelan development in the military field and other areas.


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Thorpe to miss 2005 World Swimming Championships

Olympic and World Record holder, Ian Thorpe, has decided not to swim at this year's World Championships in Montreal, Canada. The 22 year old Australian has designated 2005 as a training year and has no intentions to compete this year in order to focus on preparations for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

His decision not to swim will leave the 400m Freestyle event open to other swimmers for the first time in seven years. The 400m has been his event since 1998 when at just 15 he took the World 400m title in Perth, Australia. He went on to win the world title again at Fukuoka, Japan in 2001 and in Barcelona, Spain in 2003.


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Microsoft announces new security software, new version of Internet Explorer

February 16, 2005 announced in a conference that Microsoft will release major security changes to  and will release a new version prior to the release of, the replacement for Windows XP expected any time after 2005.

Microsoft plans to include many features to increase security. These features are to protect against threats such as, , and.

Release of a test copy of the new version is expected some time in the middle of this year. Also in the works is a Microsoft developed program. This move puts pressure on other major players such as and. The anti-spyware product is currently planned for release to Windows users for free.

Analysts contend that these plans to rework Internet Explorer are likely due to increased competition from smaller browsers such as. AOL plans to release a new version of with protection against phishing as well.

To further compete, more content related services may be incorporated into the browser. Martin Reynolds, a vice president of technology forecasting firm Gartner Inc., said, "I don't think we will see a whole bunch of new features. We will see the existing features of the browser tightened up so the security becomes more manageable."


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My Internet identity is Macai in all places. If you stumble across the username Macai anywhere on the Internet, it is probably me. Macai is pronounced Mah-k-aye.

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Talk:Brazilian President Lula met Chavez, military and economic cooperation

Carlosar, before you publish another of your rather good articles, can I just suggest that you add some indication of the geographical location to the headline? Perhaps "Brazilian President Lula met Chavez, military and economic cooperation" Dan100 (Talk) 22:19, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you --Carlosar 01:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Nice first article on MS. I fixed a few typos and published it for you. I also altered the headline a little. Dan100 (Talk) 22:26, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Israeli parliament approves final step before implementation of Gaza disengagement plan can begin

February 16, 2005 Israel's Knesset has voted to approve the compensation package for Israeli settlers who will be impacted by the proposed disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Eight thousand Israelis will be evacuated from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank removed.

MKs voted 59–40 to approve a series of measures that will compensate the settlers who face relocation under the plan, with five abstentions from Arab MKs. Prime Minister Sharon's Likud party was split, with 18 MKs voting for it and 17 against.

The $1bn plan will now go before Sharon's cabinet on Sunday, where it is expected to be passed. After that, the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip could begin this summer.

However Sharon's government faces collapse if his budget is not passed by the Knesset by the end of March. If that deadline is not met, elections will be called and the plan may well be stopped.

Last week, Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed a ceasefire after four years of violence.


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Credit Card piece
I totally agree the headline should be changed. As I am new to this, I don't know how to do it myself, and did recommend at the time a different headline, but alas it went unnoticed...

I stand by the veracity of the information contained in the article and offer this headline as a revision Senate hands Credit Card campanies an assist

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NHL season canceled amid player pay cap dispute

February 16, 2005

Gary Bettman, the NHL commissioner, today announced that the 2004/2005 season of the National Hockey League has been canceled. The announcement served only as official comfirmation of what was generally expected as wild speculation had raged during the past few days. The dispute centered around player pay caps, which where staunchly opposed by the players. The majority of NHL clubs have lost money over the last five years and as a result the clubs wanted to cap pay at a set amount. The club owners would not go above $42.5 million for any one club, whilst the players refused to go below $49 million. Speaking about the cancellation, Gary Bettman said "The shame of this is that our fans deserve better."

This will be the first year since 1919 that the Stanley Cup - the top prize in the NHL - will not be awarded. That year, a flu epidemic forced the finals to be called off.


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Oldest human fossils dated as 200,000yrs old

February 17, 2005 Two sets of remains, one a near complete set, the other just a skull, found in Ethiopia forty years ago, have been dated using potassium-argon dating, as the oldest human remains yet discovered at 195,000 years old. Remains from Herto, Ethiopia held the previous record of 160,000 years.

The findings, published in the February 17 issue of the journal Nature, show the remains Omo I and II, approach what geneticists believe is the age of the human race — 200,000 years. Due to geological activity in the region, this number may not be accurate; it is feasible that the fossils are as young as 104,000.

The uncertainty is due to the method by which they were dated from the known geological age of surrounding rock. The exact dig location where the fossil remains had been excavated in 1967 needed to be relocated.

It was determined that Omo I and II were buried in the lowest sedimentary layer, dubbed Member 1, of the 100-meter-thick Kibish rock formation, near the Omo River. By searching for datable material in that layer, and then dating it using the potassium-argon method, a research team was able to estimate an age for the fossils by association.

The date found agrees with findings from genetic studies on modern human populations, which use extrapolation to determine a date for the earliest modern humans.

In the same Member 1 sediment layers, were found additional Omo I bones, animal fossils, and stone tools.

"Those who believe that there is widely scattered evidence of 'modern' behavior going back 200,000 years in Africa will be delighted that modern human anatomy also goes back that far," according to study co-author John Fleagle, a physical anthropologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

When comparing the two sets of fossils, there is an anatomical difference between them. Omo II is much more primitive in appearance, while Omo I more resembles modern anatomy. Their existence in the same location in the same geological timeframe, may change the way scientists believe humans evolved.

Chris Stringer, director of the Human Origins Group at the Natural History Museum in London: "Given what we see in larger fossil samples from other regions, we may need to accept that African populations showed large [physical-form] variation at this time."


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I renamed this article "remains" -> "fossils" since it has a humorous double meaning... similar to the infamous "Urologist in trouble with peers." -- Davodd | Talk 03:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Funeral held for the former Lebanese Prime Minister

February 16, 2005

A funeral procession several kilometers long wound its way through the Lebanese capital of Beirut for the former Prime Minister yesterday. Mr Hariri was assassinated three days ago, on the 14th of February, when explosives equivalent to approximately 300 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St George Hotel in the Lebanese capital. The hundreds of thousands of mourners in the funeral procession were convinced that the assassination was carried out by the Syrian government and used the opportunity to voice their anger at the Syrians.

The funeral united the many Lebanese factions, with Christians, Druze, and Shia and Sunni Muslims marching side by side in the procession, accompanied by the tolling of church bells.

French President Jacques Chirac, a friend to Mr Hariri, was in Beirut yesterday and praised the work that Mr Hariri had done in his fight for Lebanese democracy and independence. He also offered his condolences to Mr Hariri's family.

The US House of Representatives has paid tribute to the former Lebanese Prime Minister and also called for Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon. Mr Hariri was described as a philanthropist who chose to put the future of Lebanon above political interests and used his own funds to assist the country's economic reconstruction after years of civil war.

Darrell Issa, a California, said demonstrations by Lebanese calling for Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon underscore the key issue facing the country, "There is no proof that Syria was directly responsible for this assassination,” he said. “But there is no doubt that Syria has remained in Lebanon far longer either than their mandate, or than in the agreements under the Taif Accords of 1989."

, a West Virginia, also took to the floor of the House to denounce the killing. "It was a criminal act, it was a heinous act of terrorism, of those who don't have the courage to work through the political system or differences. I do not know who is to blame, certainly there are enough outside forces in the region that once again are looking to Lebanon to play their ugly, deadly games," he said.

The United States withdrew its ambassador from Damascus following the bomb attack, and has again demanded that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon.


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User talk:Paulrevere2005/Afghanistan opium production keeps skyrocketing while the administration says

An editorial masquerading as a news story. TimShell 03:35, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Agreed, especially just looking at the non-quote in the title. --Comics 04:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

not sure what you mean re; "non-quote"..do you mean there should be quotation marks in the title? if so, you are correct,but that was an oversight and nothing more.paulrevere2005

 * What I mean is that I'm not quite sure the administration has been quoted as saying that, so therefore you're showing your personal bias in including that in the title. I'm not exactly pro-Bush myself, but we have to try and remain NPOV here on WikiNews, and I think this article is much closer to an editorial, as Tim said.  Certainly some things news-worth about this article, but not in its current state.--Comics 16:07, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, the white house ran super bowl ads in 2002 with the headline"drugs fund terrorists"and depicting al-queda training camps. I think our citizenry is divided into 3 groups; the "joe public" Bush talks about who care about nothing but making ends meet, the john dean nice guy types who shy away from confronting orwellian logic simply because its hard to confront, and the michael moores who confront the nonsense and lay it out for people to think about. we need more of type 3, in my opinionpaulrevere2005


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Chubu International Airport opens

Chubu International Airport, Japan's third major international gateway, has opened near Nagoya. Also known as Centrair, the 24-hour airport is on an artificial island 30 minutes south from the center of town and opens on time to serve Expo 2005, kicking off in March. The new airport replaces the existing Nagoya airport and also takes over its IATA code NGO.

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Portal talk:North American Weather

That's not North American weather, that's United States weather. Mexico and all of Latin America north of Panama, as well as Canada and Alaska, are all in North America. Call if for what it is. Grendelkhan 04:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The North American map shows a number of cities in both Canada and Mexico, so it's not strictly showing the United States.

 * But rather than get bogged down arguing over the borders, I'm planning to add a weather report for the "Central America" region that will extend from mid-Mexico down to the upper edge of South America in a few days, so Central America will be well represented at that time.

 * As for northern Canada, there aren't that many reliable weather reporting stations in that area, due to its remoteness, beyond the ones which already appear on the World map. I didn't zoom out to show more of northern Canada in the North America map as it would have only showed empty space with the same cities that appear on the World map.

 * The edges of the maps are not defined using any strict set of borders, rather they're designed to try and fit the largest number of cities possible from the available set of weather reporting stations we have to work with.

 * Please be patient while I work on adding more regions, which will represent a much larger selection of cities overall.

 * — DV 05:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User:Schmiddy~enwikinews

I'm a wikipedia regular. I wish they would make it so that log-ins were universal across all the wikimedia projects. User Page

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Here. You can find all the archives from the box on the right of the header of the Water cooler. Dan100 (Talk) 9 July 2005 09:36 (UTC)

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Crosswords/2005/February/18

February 18, 2005

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 * 13. Tennis exchange (5)
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 * 8. Child caretaker (5)
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Talk:Study claims to show difference between male and female brains

According to Legato, women are born with X chromosomes, and men are born with both X and Y chromosomes. - I'm not a copy-writer, but this sounds a little silly to me.

Hey, I'm not Dr. Legato, am I? I'm just giving you guys some information on this new study.

If you think she's wrong, take it up with her. ;)

Macai 23:42, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

He's not saying it's wrong, he's saying that making it sound like she is the only one saying that women are XX and men are XY is silly. Any basic textbook on biology will tell you that, it is not "according to her." --Fastfission 07:14, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Colombia-Venezuela meeting in Caracas to end crisis

February 15, 2005 After five hours of meeting, the presidents Hugo Chávez from Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe from Colombia put a end to the diplomatic tension that had completed two months. The crisis started with the alleged irregular arrest (according to Venezuela) of the FARC guerrilla Rodrigo Granda by Colombian authorities.

President Chavez said: "We have decided to turn the page so we can fix the things that were misadjusted, clarify the things that could be clouded and work together in the construction for the common people".

The meeting was scheduled for early this month, however it was postponed due to a disease of the Colombian president.

The encounter served both to finish the harshness between the two countries and  to resume  bilateral agreements and  the activity in the border which were paralyzed as a result of the crisis.

Moreover Chávez insisted on Venezuela is not a santuary of guerrillas. Uribe admitted that the Colombian armed conflict is a problem which must be solved by his country despite the disturbances caused by subversive groups  in the neighboring countries to Colombia.

As a result of the meeting, the presidents will organize a binational high level commission  in the next weeks. The commission will evaluate the crisis's consequences, reinforce the integration between both countries and coordinate the future of the antiterrorist fight. The fight against terrorism will be done by security organisms of both countries by means of a rigorous legal adjustment in the actions which implies to cooperate so that the sovereignty is not affected and the sovereignty  is  respected, according to Uribe.

Related news

 * Uribe-Chavez meeting postponed February 4, 2005
 * Venezuela-Colombia crisis:Castro intervenes, Chavez and Uribe scheduled to meet February 1, 2005.
 * Venezuela-Colombia crisis continues January 24, 2005.
 * Brazilian President meets President of Colombia January 20, 2005.
 * Colombia releases official notice in response to Venezuela January 17, 2005.
 * Marxist intellectuals support arrested FARC leader January 15, 2005.
 * Capture of FARC member creates crisis between Venezuela and Colombia, January 15, 2005.


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Five hundred cattle die of neglect on West Australia property

February 17, 2005 RSPCA inspectors found about 500 cattle dead on a remote station in Western Australia. Water is being trucked in to care for another 2500 cattle on Windidda station, east of Wilun, which is leased to an Aboriginal corporation.

State Agriculture Minister Kim Chance says the propery was found abandoned and only two of the property's 13 watering stations were working.

"The lease is owned by an aboriginal corporation (but) the precise of identity of the corporation is somewhat obscure," Mr Chance said.

WA RSPCA spokesperson Kelly Oversby said they made the shocking discovery after an anonymous tip-off.

"Experienced inspectors have told us it is the worst case of animal cruelty they have ever seen," Ms Overby said.

"As well as the cattle, brumbies, camels, dogs and kangaroos have all perished."


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Brazil: occupied area conflict, 2 deaths

Yesterday the Brazilian police removed families who have illegally occupied an area in Goiânia, Goiás state, Brazil. The occupiers resisted and there was a conflict which resulted in 2 deaths, with at least another 45 injured and a further 800 arrested according to recent reports in Brazilian newspapers.

The occupation was coordinated by the regional branch of the Movement of Workers Without a Roof. The occupied area was in Parque Oeste Industrial, in Goiânia. There were 2,862 families (men, women and infants) living there according to the government of Goiás and 4,000 according to the movement's leaders. The area had been under occupation since May 2004. The expanse is 891,000 m² as stated by the newspaper Diário da Manhã. They named the area Condomínio Sonho Real (Real Dream condominium).

Failure by the occupiers to obey a court determination to leave the area resulted in the use of the police force to enforce the Law.

The serious conflict began yesterday (February 16, 2005) at around 9:20 AM when about 500 policemen from the Battalion of Shock entered the area to remove the families. The Battalion of Shock is a specialized Military Police unit set up to deal with activist conflicts.

The trespassers were expecting a frontal attack, however the police demolished a wall at the rear with the help of a front-end loader and surprised them. The resistance didn't last long and by 11:00 AM all occupiers had been removed.

Guerrilla tactics were used by the occupiers. They dug 70 cm deep trenches, prepared hidden traps with props of wooden and metal, built barricades with stacks of tires, stones and other materials. Some dwellings were incinerated and they used molotov cocktails and other self-made bombs. Scythes, hoes, machetes and guns were also used.

The police commander, Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Elias, said that lethal weapons were not used by the police. The shots which were heard during the conflict originated from the members of the movement gun's.

Pedro Nascimento, aged 22, and  Wagner da Silva Moreira, aged 20, both died during the conflict. Police claim they were victims of friendly fire. The injured were transported to hospitals. Four of those hospitalized required intensive care.

The Secretary of Public Security of Goiás, Jônathas Silva, considered the operation a success. "We would not like that it had victims, but unfortunately the occupiers were armed," he said.

The police arrested two leaders of the occupation: Américo Rodrigues and Agildo Wagner Jaime. Another 21 leaders escaped and they are being pursued by the police.


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Are you aware of Davodd's interest in collecting non-english-speaking Western Hemisphere into a single block/category "Latin America"? I don't know if this will have an effect on what you're doing, but thought you might want to be aware. - Amgine 15:44, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Second U.S. anti-missile defence system test fails

February 17, 2005 The United States' second attempt to test a ballistic missile defence system ended in failure on Monday when the interceptor missile did not leave the launch pad.

An unarmed ballistic missile was fired from Kodiak Island, Alaska, which was supposed to have been shot down by the interceptor missile. However the missile remained in its silo in the Ronald Reagan test site on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The test is the second straight failure of the system; in a test two months ago, the missile also failed to fire, that time due to a software fault. Initial investigations into Monday's failure blamed a malfunction in ground support equipment, rather than a fault with the missile itself.

The tests are the first in two years; in an earlier series of tests, the system intercepted five of eight target missiles launched.

The project, known as the 'son of Star Wars' (the cancelled 1980s Strategic Defence Initiative was known as the Star Wars program), was announced by President George W. Bush in 2002. The system was supposed to have been operationally deployed last autumn.

This year, $9.1 billion is to be spent on the development of the system. But in his budget for 2006, Bush has cut the spending to $7.8bn.


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Armstrong will compete in 2005 Tour de France

February 17, 2005 Lance Armstrong has announced that he will attempt to win a seventh Tour de France crown in 2005.

The 34-year-old Texan announced his intentions in a statement on Wednesday, ending months of speculation.

Armstrong, who suffered from testicular cancer from 1996 to 1998, has won six straight Tour de France titles; a feat no-one else has achieved.

This season, Armstrong will be riding with the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, after US Postal Service ended their sponsorship of his team last year.

Five times Tour runner-up and 1997 winner Jan Ulrich said in response to the news, "It's good that he is there. The best should be at the Tour."

Armstrong will also be racing in two other road cycling stage races in France and the U.S. this spring, and will be in a one-day race in Belgium in April. There is the possibility of Armstrong competing in more races this season if he and his team manager believe he is fit enough.


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Boeing unveils long-range 777

February 17, 2005

Boeing has unveiled a new ultra-long range version of its 777 airliner, capable of flying from London to Sydney non-stop.

The 777-200LR can fly for 9,420 nautical miles (17,446 kilometers) with 301 passengers onboard, giving it a range greater than any other airliner in the world.

The aircraft can fly from New York to Singapore and from Los Angeles to Dubai with a full passenger and luggage load non-stop, and has been named the Worldliner by Boeing to mark the fact it can connect almost any two cities on Earth.

Although it can fly from London to Sydney non-stop, the 777-200LR will have to break its return journey to refuel due to direction of the prevailing winds in the upper atmosphere.

So far, Boeing has received five orders from two customers for the 777-200LR since it was announced in February 2000. The first of the new airliner will be delivered to Pakistan International Airlines in January 2006. EVA Airways is the other launch customer.

First flight is scheduled in early March.

The 777-200LR will be the basis for an all-freight version of the 777, announced last November.

Boeing's European rival Airbus, which has out-sold Boeing since 2003, believes that the future of passenger flight is in very large aircraft like its new twin-deck A380 airliner flying up to 840 people between a relatively small number of large hub airports world-wide. Passengers would then take connecting flights to reach their final destinations.

Boeing, by contrast, believes passengers will want to fly direct between more local airports too small to handle aircraft like the A380.

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China overtakes U.S. as world's largest consumer

February 17, 2005 China is now the world's largest consumer of resources, passing the United States.

China's consumption exceeds the U.S.'s in grain and meat, coal, and steel, with the U.S. only still using more oil a year.

China uses more wheat and rice than the U.S. every year, with the U.S. only taking more corn. In total, China consumed 382 million tons of grain in 2004 while the U.S. used 278 million tons.

The world's most populous country also eats more meat, consuming 64 million tons a year compared to the U.S.'s 38 million, despite the average Chinese person eating 49 kg a year (the U.S. average is 127 kg).

However the U.S. still uses three times as much oil, consuming 20.4 million barrels a day in 2004 while China uses only 6.5 million. But China's oil consumption doubled between 1994 and 2004, while the U.S.'s only increased by 15%. Japan is the world's third largest oil consumer. Car sales doubled in China over the last two years.

China is rapidly heading to being the largest producer of carbon dioxide, the gas responsible for the greenhouse effect. Two-thirds of China's electricity is generated by burning coal, using 800 million tons a year.

China has a population of 1.3 billion people and its increases in consumption are being driven by a booming economy. However, the country only had an average per-capita income of $5,300 in 2004, one-seventh of the U.S.'s $38,000. The U.S., with its population of around 295 million being about four times less than China's, still consumes considerably more per person than does China, despite the differences in raw values.

The country now imports large amounts grain, soybeans, iron ore, aluminum, copper, platinum, phosphates, potash, oil and natural gas, forest products for lumber and paper, and cotton. In order to feed its demand for raw materials, the country has formed economic relationships for long term imports from major exporters such as Russia, Brazil and Australia.

The country is also growing rapidly in economic strength; along with Japan, it buys most of the U.S. Treasury's securities that allows the US to run its huge financial deficit.


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Cricket: Australia defeats NZ in Twenty20 international

February 18, 2005 Australia has defeated New Zealand by 44 runs in the one off Twenty20 international match at Eden Park.

This victory, in the first full international Twenty20 match, gave Australia a unique treble having won the first ever test match and then the first ever limited overs international.

Batting first, Australia set a total of 214, with Australian captain Ricky Ponting top scoring with 98 runs from 55 balls, including 8 fours and 5 sixes. New Zealand's Kyle Mills led the bowling attack with 3 for 44.

In reply New Zealand were all out for 170. Scott Styris top scored for New Zealand with 66 runs from 39 balls. Australian paceman Michael Kasprowicz finished the match with figures of 4 for 29 from his 4 overs.

The New Zealand team had dressed in the 1980s beige uniform for the occasion. Many had also grown facial hair suiting the 1980s for the match.

The teams now go on to play a one-day series followed by a test match series.


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Greenspan's testimony suggests "more of the same"

February 17, 2005 Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve has suggested that there will be more of the same in coming months from the Fed. In his speech during testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday, Mr. Greenspan noted that the economic fundamentals of the U.S. appeared to be stable. On Thursday, Greenspan spoke before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services and when faced with questions regarding Social Security reform issues, he hinted that he was in favour of partial privatization of Social Security - but the general consensus on Wall Street is to expect more of the same.

However, economic advisors were somewhat disappointed that most of the testimony in both speechs was focused on the upcoming Social Security reform and did not address monetary policy as broadly as they'd hoped. Mike Moran, chief economist at Daiwa Securities America Inc, is quoted in the Investors Business Daily as saying "Chairman Greenspan provided few explicit insights into his plans for monetary policy."

Greenspan reiterated his concerns about market reactions to the burgeoning federal deficit. "We are not sure to what extent and how much the market will respond," he said.

Parsing Greenspan's reports to Congress is a Wall Street obsession, but the general consensus from his recent testimony is to expect little change in the current Fed policy. Economists expect "measured" hikes to the central bank's short-term interest rates from the next few meetings of Fed policy-makers.

"In my view the bottom line is that we are in for more of the same," said Steve Stanley, chief economist at RBS Greenwich Capital to the Associated Press.


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Foreigners buy record number of Canadian securities

Foreign investors invested a record CA$53.2 billion into Candian securities in 2004, Statistics Canada says.

This was almost double the CA$18.5 billion recorded in 2003 and just beat the previous record of CA$52.8 billion in 1993.

Of the 53.2 billion, about 35 billion was put into stocks and 20 billion into various bonds.

"For the year as a whole, foreign investors picked up $20.2 billion in Canadian bonds; a substantial increase over the $7.0 billion purchased in 2003 but just half the high of 2001," the agency said.

Roughly half of the purchases were directly influenced by the acquisition of John Hancock Financial services in April which has created the largest North American insurer.

Canadians themselves were also buying foreign securities in record amounts.

"Overall for 2004, Canadian investors purchased $16.2 billion in foreign securities. Of this, outlays of $15.1 billion were made in foreign bonds - almost double the amount from the year before and by far the largest ever yearly investment by Canadian investors in the foreign bond market,"


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United Iraqi Alliance win slight majority

February 17, 2005 Final figures from Baghdad today showed that the Shia United Iraqi Alliance has won a slight majority in the new Iraqi National Assembly. The party took 140 out of the 275 seats in the Assembly.

The major opposition party will be the Kurdish Alliance, which took 75 seats. The third largest party will be that of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party, which won 40 seats.

Reports in U.S. media say that many Sunni voters stayed away from the polls either because of a fear of violence or to support the call by some radical clerics to boycott the elections. As a result, the Sunni-led Iraqis Party won only five seats in parliament. The results are summarized in the following table:

Chief UN election adviser, Carlos Valenzuela, congratulated those involved with the election. He commented that "The elections were not perfect, they were never meant to be, but they were extremely successful."

There were fears before the election in international circles that a low turnout could jepordise the legitimacy of the new assembly. However, nearly 8.5 million Iraqis voted - 58% of the registered electorate. As noted previously, the turnout percentage did vary significantly among the various population groups. By combining the two different Shiite parties and comparing to estimated population groups in Iraq we find:

The Shiite and Kurdish groups had more than 80% turnout whereas the Sunni group had a turnout under 4%. The low turnout by Sunni voters resulted in much higher representative success for both the Shiite and Kurdish groups in the parliament.


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G'day, nice to have a Kiwi on the site, there's a few aussies around so i guess you can help us put some balance into stories about the wallabies kicking the arses of the all blacks and what not :P Anyway as davodd said, welcome. ~The bellman | Smile 10:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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nearly forgot, I am in Australia and it is now quarter to five in the evening and try as I may, I still keep getting it back, it really is distracting regards Richnbear, [ my wiki name ] (moved from UserPage --GregStephens 00:40, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC))

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Former Paraguayan President's daughter found dead

Paraguayan authorities have confirmed the discovery of the body of Cecilia Cubas Gusinky, aged 31, daughter of the former Paraguayan President Raul Cubas. She was kidnapped on September 21, 2004 in the outskirts of Asuncion.

The body was found inside a tunnel under a house which is located in Ñemby, 29 km from Asuncion. Members of the leftist party Patria Libre (Free Country) were believed to live there.

This kidnapping shocked Paraguayan public opinion because Cecilia was the daughter of a former President and because two days ago it was discovered that the kidnappers would have been advised by the Colombian Communist insurgent armed group FARC.

The authorities claim the kidnappers were led by the Patria Libre member Osmar Martínez. He was exchanging emails with Trotador505 who according to Colombian police is Rodrigo Granda, FARC chancellor. Martínez was arrested in January in Caaguazú, 200 km from Asunción. "We don't deny our fraternal relationship with this brotherlike organization", Martínez said in relation to FARC. He also told how he had photographs of himself with Fidel Castro, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, politicians of the People's Republic of China, Libya and Iraq and added: "I am proud of relating to the great men of universal history".

People are speculating on the possible participation in the crime by members of the Paraguayan police.

The advanced state of decomposure indicates Ms Gusinsky had been dead for more than a month.


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 * Actor Jerry Orbach dies
 * 'Fockers' set to meet another weekend title With no new wide releases, last weekend's films are set to rule U.S. and Canadian box office receipts once again.
 * Exeem Annonunced To Be Successor Of Suprnova Announced yesterday on Novastream, there will be a Suprnova successor "apparently".
 * NASA: Hope's Raised For Shuttle Flight Again Soon NASA plans to spend $612 million repairing the space shuttle system.
 * Kenyans win International Race of São Silvestre

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 * BitTorrent tracker site sued by movie studios, will mount defense
 * Linux fifth most searched tech word on Google in 2004 SCO number one most searched company name.
 * Double car bombing attack in Mosul kills 26 Twenty-five insurgents and 1 U.S. soldier dead, 15 U.S. troops injured in frontal assault.
 * India issued tsunami warning, nothing happened Citizens flee.
 * Gregoire wins Washington state's closest ever governor's race Republican candidate asks for new election.
 * Democrats ask GAO for election review House of Representatives seeks to investigate the facts behind widespread reports of voting irregularities.
 * South American Community of Nations announced at Third South American Summit South American nations have begun the creation of an international economic and legislative bloc.

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 * MN4 2004 asteroid now considered safe
 * Time Warner, Sprint close to mobile pact Company would be able to offer voice, video, Internet and mobile services.
 * Tsunami toll passes 80,000 people as relief effort continues Relief agencies expect number to rise further.
 * Republicans Subpoenaed in Ohio Recount Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell refused to appear for the deposition.

title: Wikinews:2004/December/29