From SLATE's on-line summary of today's headlines:
>The [Washington POST] fronts a report by Molly Moore on a sick twist in
>the abuse of women in Turkey. The story says not only were a number of
>women beaten, tortured and raped by police there, but now, after they told
>of their ordeals last summer at Turkey's first public conference about
>police abuse of women, they have been charged with insulting and raising
>suspicions about Turkish security forces, an offense punishable by more
>prison time. The story reminds that Turkey has applied for membership in
>the European Union.
another item from SLATE:
>The [Washington POST] fronts the backstory to a tale recently widely
>whispered, Webbed, published and cartooned (by Doonesbury) about a U.S.
>government map maker fired by the Interior Dept. for posting a map on the
>U.S. Geological Survey's Web site that showed the caribou migration routes
>imperiled by the Bush administration proposal to drill for oil in the Artic
>National Wildlife Refuge. The Post says "it's not quite a true story." Its
>findings: The map maker, Ian Thomas, a contract worker, not a regular
>federal employee, had been in trouble with the USGS before, once for
>posting sensitive Defense Dept. data on the Web. The decision not to renew
>his contract was made not by Norton or any other Bush appointee, but by
>the liberal Democrat (and drilling opponent) honcho where Thomas worked.
>The story says the caribou map was pulled because it was inaccurate, and
>adds that USGS officials say the oil industry would in fact have loved it
>because it understated the caribou activity in the area. OK then, but the
>story doesn't say when we'll see that accurate caribou map up there.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
