Playing terror games in Las Vegas BBC -- US homeland security officials and technology specialists have been staging a mock terrorist exercise, snappily titled Terrorex 04.

Feds seek wiretap access via VoIP
CNet -- The FBI and the Justice Department have renewed their efforts to wiretap voice conversations carried across the Internet.

Hysteria: Mom's inquiry over 10-Yr-Old's Flight Simulator Program Promts Visit from State Trooper
The Register -- A mother's enquiry about buying Microsoft Flight Simulator for her ten-year-old son prompted a night-time visit to her home from a state trooper.

U.S. Reasserts Right to Declare Citizens to Be Enemy Combatants
NYT -- The Bush administration on Wednesday reasserted its broad authority to declare American citizens to be enemy combatants, and it suggested that the Supreme Court consider two prominent cases at the same time.

Home a safe haven for Mexican suspects
Washington Times -- Hundreds of Mexican citizens suspected of committing violent crimes in the United States have escaped justice by slipping across America's porous southern border into Mexico, which refuses to extradite suspects facing the death penalty or life imprisonment.

Catch-22 Seen in Immigration Plan
LA Times -- A limited supply of green cards may keep illegal migrants from applying for legal status under the White House's guest worker proposal.

Tell Your Representative To Oppose President Bush's Guestworker and Amnesty Proposal
FAIR -- January 7, 2004, President Bush announceed a sweeping guestworker and amnesty proposal designed, in his words, "to match any willing worker with any willing employer." He might as well have said, "American workers need not apply."

Bush: Let illegal aliens work in U.S.
Chicago Sun-Times -- Promoting a plan that could brighten his election year prospects with Hispanic voters, President Bush on Wednesday proposed legal status -- at least temporarily -- for millions of illegal immigrants working in the United States.

Bush Would Give Illegal Workers Broad New Rights
NYT -- 6 President Bush will propose a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws on Wednesday that could give legal status to millions of undocumented workers in the United States

China demands Taiwan president 'stop playing with Fire
AFP -- China cranked up the pressure on Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian demanding he "stop playing with fire" by pushing for independence and warning the peace and stability of the region were at stake.

PENTAGON PRESSES FOR U.S. OPERATION IN LEBANON
MENL -- The U.S. Defense Department is said to be mulling a proposal to expand special operations forces and send them to destroy insurgency strongholds along the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Bush Plans Major Space Announcement
Reuters -- Buoyed by a successful landing on Mars by a robot explorer, President Bush plans a major announcement on space policy next week that may lead to sending Americans back to the moon

Bush to Announce Missions to Mars, Moon
AP -- President Bush will announce plans next week to send Americans to Mars and establish a permanent human presence on the moon

Pentagon Cannot Track $2.3 trillion in transactions
CBS -- $2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

Bizarre: Cleaners are called in to clear court of 'voodoo dust'
london Telegraph -- An American lawyer has been convicted of money laundering after a trial disrupted by allegations that voodoo magic was being used to influence the outcome.

Personal, farm bankruptcies soar in 2003
Idaho Statesman -- Personal and farm bankruptcies shot up in 2003 while the number of business filings actually dropped, according to statistics provided by Idaho´s U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

U.S. Lowers National Terror Threat Level
Reuters -- The U.S. government Friday lowered the national terror threat level to "elevated" from "high" risk of attack, Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said.

Drinking Water Pathogens and Their Indicators: A Reference Resource

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Cryptosporidium : A Drinking Water Supply Problem 

University of North Carolina

Several waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis have occurred over the past ten years in the United States and a great deal of concern has been raised about this organism and drinking water supplies.

E. coli 0157:H7 in drinking water -- US EPA

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Fecal coliforms are bacteria that are associated with human or animal wastes.  They usually live in human or animal intestinal tracts, and their presence in drinking water is a strong indication of recent sewage or animal waste contamination. 

Prozac, other drugs detected in streams and their inhabitants

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number of aquatic and amphibian species are being exposed to small amounts of everything from Prozac to perfume to birth control pills that make their way into U.S. rivers and streams.

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USA to "devour" unique Russian "UFOs
Pravda -- Earlier this week, western media released information that Russian Aviation Concern "EKIP", a subsidiary of "Saratov Aviation Factory," will become the main construction center for manufacturing robotic self-piloted flying objects "EKIP".

Court to FBI: No spying on in-car computers
CNet -- The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems, a federal appeals court ruled.

RFID: 'You know you want it'
Silicon.com -- While 2003 was the year that saw the emergence of RFID, with household names such as WalMart jumping on the bandwagon, several retailers got cold feet and ditched the technology. Not so this year, say analysts – big business is crying out for the technology and, more importantly, the tide of public opinion is set to turn – as companies lure consumers with cold, hard cash.

Casino chips may pave way for tagged bank notes
ABC News online -- A radio frequency identification tag (RFID) in the chips will enable casinos to spot counterfeits and monitor the behaviour of gamblers, allowing them to check that big winners are not cheating the house

UN and Guatemala sign landmark agreement -- UN Given Prosecutorial Powers to Work within the Justice System of the Member States
UN -- The United Nations and Guatemala signed a landmark agreement today to set up an investigative panel on illegal groups and secret security organizations in the country, giving the UN - for the first time - prosecutorial powers to work within the justice system of one of its Member States.

White House Wants U.N. to Return to Iraq
Washington Post -- The Bush administration is launching an effort to persuade the United Nations to return to Iraq in coming months and to support the U.S. plan for transferring governing power to Iraqis by June 30.

IMF Researchers: US Budget Gaps Endanger Global Economy
Yahoo -- Economists at the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday expressed alarm at growing U.S. budget deficits, saying continued deficits could hurt the global economy by roiling currency markets and driving up interest rates. Economists at the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday expressed alarm at growing U.S. budget deficits, saying continued deficits could hurt the global economy by roiling currency markets and driving up interest rates.

Blair: I'll take Britain into euro by 2007
London Independent -- Tony Blair has set a target of 2007 to take Britain into the euro, and wants the Government to agree to a public pledge to secure membership by that date.

Libya Signs $170M Jet Bombing Settlement
ABC News -- Libya Signs $170 Million Compensation Accord With Families of 1989 France Jet Bombing Victims

Africa HIV rates 'overestimated'
BBC -- Fewer Africans may be infected with HIV/Aids than previously thought.

U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Approach 500
AP -- The number of American troops who have died in Iraq since the war began last March is nearing 500, more than U.S. losses in many regional conflicts of the past several decades: the Gulf War, Lebanon, Somalia, Panama, Grenada, Kosovo and Afghanistan

US begins huge Iraq forces switch
BBC -- The US has begun rotating its forces in Iraq in one of the largest movements of American troops since World War II.

Powell: No Smoking Gun Showing Terrorist Ties
Newsmax -- Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged Thursday that he had seen no "smoking gun, concrete evidence" of ties between Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida terror network, but insisted that Iraq had had dangerous weapons and needed to be disarmed by force.

The domination effect
London Guardian -- Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, the US has sought not just to influence but to control all information, from both friend and foe

Chances of WMD find slipping: Hill
ABC News Online -- Defence Minister Robert Hill says the longer the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq goes on, the less chance there is of finding them.

The weapons that weren't
St. Louis Today -- U.S. investigators have closed their files on Iraq's chemical and nuclear program. Military forces assigned to the Iraq Survey Group are being diverted to other tasks. And David Kay, head of the Survey Group, is reportedly considering resigning.

White House 'distorted' Iraq threat
Financial Times -- Bush administration officials "systematically misrepresented" the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to war, according to a new report to be published on Thursday by a respected Washington think-tank.

Scientists Seek To Clone 'Mad Cow' Resistant Cattle
Local 6 -- Scientists at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech are trying to clone cattle that are genetically incapable of developing mad cow disease, according to a report.TARGETED SMART DUST --HOW IT WORKS:
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Virtual cash exchange goes live
BBC -- Online games now have their own foreign exchange that lets players buy and sell different virtual currencies just like in the real world.

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